End the War on Freedom

We went to MASS MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams on Friday afternoon. A museum in an old factory. Some interesting stuff, some just plain wierd. One Kidspace interactive piece was the most fun. It was a large projection screen with a camera in the middle of it. The projector displayed, in red and green squares, changes seen by the camera. So if you stood still in front of it, you saw nothing, but as soon as you moved, you saw red and green shadows of yourself flitting across the screen. All of us kids had a great time with it.

Mexico was also target for 9-11 is a funny story I received via email. What if terrorists had attempted to fly an airplane into a tall bulding in Mexico City? Hehe. [brad]

John Bergstrom's Attack Cartoons - Straw Security - cartoon commentary on Amerika's gestapo. [smith2004]

SharpShooters Supply: Varmint Rifles - advertises services for varmint rifles and a stock and replacement trigger for Savage rifles. No price on the trigger. I sent email asking for the price. I love my Savage 111, but hate its trigger.

The Shin-Tao Church of Holy Brutality (CHB) is an unusual site, hosted by Mad Ogre. [madogre]

1. In the quest for Holy Brutality, man has seldom been more fruitful than in his invention of the pump-action 12guage shotgun.
2. Excellent both in power and versatility, it is limited only by the operators' unwillingness to practice with it. This weapon is neglected most of all for two main reasons. The first is this: It isn't glamorous in any way. Secondly, it simply isn't an AR-15 variant of any kind so can never be Ultimately Tactical.
3. These reasons are the result of massive thinking errors.
4. Few other weapons have been in constant use for so long and still are widely misunderstood. It is the official word of the CHB that all worthy operators ponder the 12 gauge and go through at least 100 shells worth of rites.
5. The Church of Holy Brutality sanctions and blesses the following loads for the 12 gauge pump action.
6. The one ounce slug: Most are good, the Brenneke is infallible and glorious. Use of the Brenneke slug adds to one's charm and faith.
7. 000 buck: A load which offers a broad spectrum of utility in handing out judgment to the unworthy and profane.
8. Beanbag: It is well known that there are some who must be judged, but regrettably, not slain. This load is a worthy method to subdue these questionable souls who must be shown the true path.
9. The CHB must warn against those who would in good faith take up the 12 Gauge yet seek to make it Ultimately Tactical. Make no mistake in this, such actions are heresy and not to be tolerated. Slinging multiple lights, redundant optics and lasers, on a 12 gauge will surely lead to damnation and condemnation by the CHB.

L. Neil Smith - Speech to the Libertarian Party of Colorado: May 18, 2002, Leadville, Colorado - L. Neil introduces Ceres, his sequel, as-yet-without-a-publisher, to Pallas.

There are hopeful signs. It took a century and a half to break the mystique of Abraham Lincoln and expose him as the fascist monster that he was. By comparison, it only took a single lifetime to prove that Franklin Roosevelt was willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives at Pearl Harbor, simply to stay in power. And now, after only eight months, the facade of the Bush regime is beginning to crumble as the American military rains terror from the sky down on innocent women and ten-year-old goatherds, as immigrants, some of whom lived here for decades, are abducted and "disappeared" by a government that looks more and more like that of Argentina every day, and 70-year-old women are groped by perverted and corrupt "security" thugs at America's airports.

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In closing following the example of the ancient Roman senator Cato, who ended every speech he made, no matter what it had been about, with the words "Carthago Delenda est" -- "Carthage must be destroyed" -- let me remind you of your 1000-yard-old right and duty as a juror to judge the law, as well as the so-called facts of the case.

Vin Suprynowicz at Sierra Times - 'If you don't show up, you get a letter, believe me' - Vin relates showing up for a jury summons. [sierra]

I was also going to ask my gatekeeper what all the bailiffs and cops on the other side of the metal detectors were doing with guns on their hips, if no "persons" with firearms were allowed beyond this point. Weren't they persons? But no one seemed interested in talking with me, what with the huge rush of lawyers and clerks crowding through the cattle chutes, laughing and setting off the alarms and going back to try again.

Ted Lang at Sierra Times - Why We the People still need the Second Amendment - a little history lesson from New Jersey. [kaba]

The first principle of American politics is acquisition of power; the second is retaining it. Service to the people is never a consideration. Public service is a myth -- it's always about money and power. Expanding government power is to the politician's advantage, so cutting taxes is anathema to his or her success.

Increasing spending expands the government's power base, and deferring payment to the piper can be accomplished by cutting taxes, raiding other government funds, and then handing the bill to future generations and politicians by floating government bonds. Hence, government debt and its attendant interest -- the philosophy and political expediency employed by another New Jersey left-wing Republican, Christie Todd Whitman.

Larry Neumeister of AP via Newsday.com - Ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to face questioning in case by artist - a victim of Herr Rudy's "zero-tolerance" sues him. Hope Rudy has to pay through the nose.

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will answer legal questions in a lawsuit brought by an artist who says he was repeatedly arrested after depicting Giuliani as Adolph Hitler in a painting, the city says.

Giuliani was one of 11 former city officials artist Robert Lederman, of Rutherford, N.J., wanted questioned by lawyers in the case in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Lederman said he was falsely arrested more than 40 times while Giuliani was mayor and was never convicted of a crime.

Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - Sand Dollars - American companies are moving off-shore to avoid the theft of their hard-earned cash by government. The solution? Reduce government to its constitutionally authorized size. Then taxes could be cut to almost nothing.

But Ms Arianna sees an even darker horror. Not only do these companies escape taxes, they escape (gasp!) dictatorial political control. These "sleazy" corporations are "immune to judgments against them in US courts, less accountable to their shareholders, who are unable to file class action suits, and freed from a whole host of annoying government regulations."

But she seems not to have a similar concern for the fatted pig that is government. If she had even the slimmest concept of freedom, she might have written something like this: "These sleazy tax-grabbing politicians are immune to judgments against them in US courts, virtually unaccountable to their constituents, who are unable to file class action suits when they're lied to, and freed from a whole host of annoying Constitutional regulations."

Kevin Ellul Bonici at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - Freedom's Coup de Grace: State Tyranny, Mass Oblivion, and the Loss of Telecommunications Privacy - a long piece on Europe's recent complete loss of privacy. [grabbe]

So if you happen to be way out of the regulated herd's mode of living -- or perhaps you're an annoying dissenter, or just plain disorganised in your financial accounting -- you might arouse Big Brother's databased suspicions. Your thoughts and associations (apart from your financial sources and movements) might have to be scrutinised and analysed. The next step is for your State scrutinisers to decide on what to do with your body: whether to seize it and search it together with its material possessions, or place it and its thoughts under further scrutiny. And upon finding enough evidence of wrongful dissent and dealings -- or associations of a dubious nature (depending on which 'War' the State is waging at the time) -- your persecutors might want to have your thoughts and dealings further analysed by a sham criminal justice panel. If your State persecutors convince the judging panel that your thoughts, communications, associations, transactions and dealings go contrary to what's laid down in the Book of a Million Laws, concocted by the tyrannical State itself (which it continuously "updates" with new financial and social criminal legislation according to its own requisites of self-empowerment), then the State may steal all your material possessions and send your still- living, but depressed body to a caging institution for ostensible correctional purposes.

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