End the War on Freedom

From madogre:

Words to live by... If asked why you have a gun, or why you have an "Evil Black Rifle" or some such Anti-Gun bullshit: Just answer simply that you have them for the same reasons police do. Leave it at that.

From Quotes of the Day:

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. -- Laurence J. Peter

and:

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler

From kaba:

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

Kevin Tuma - War on Fat - Cartoon commentary on the next step in the war on obesity. Hmhmhmhmhm.

Ed Stein - Redevelopment Plans - cartoon commentary on the budget for our new Gestapo. Hehe. [sierra]

BuyMeAHooker.com - an overweight, out-of-work, Java programmer requests donations so he can get laid. His email is savemyhand@yahoo.com. Hahahahaha. [madogre]

L. Neil Smith at Sierra Times - The Five-Minute Reich - Let's nip Amerika's Fourth Reich in the bud. [sierra]

As an aside, I'd say that's reason enough, right there, for those Americans who still care about survival, let alone liberty, to demand the abolition of all forms of compulsory ID -- yes, including drivers' licenses -- rather than inventing new kinds of sorting systems for the sake of the New World Order, the War on Practically Everything, and the President's glorious new Department of Heimatsicherheitdienst. Any problems generated by nobody having any ID are vastly exceeded by the major inconvenience of someday being rounded up and shoved into a giant microwave oven provided by some corporation owned by one of W's pals.

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And now, not to be outdone by the Nazis' Gestapo, or by similar accomplishments by Stalin's Soviet Union, East Germany's Stasi, or Mao's China, Silverfoot Junior's orcish minions have a "Citizen's Corps" decreed, which would enlist Americans to rat each other out like good Germans. This is all being done in the name of the War on Practically Everything, which is actually a war to drive a pipeline through a nation that had to be destroyed to make it safe for Bush's petrocratic buddies.

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If this administration were sincere about preventing all future atrocities of this nature, then they'd abolish the State Department altogether, and bring everybody -- soldiers, sailors, airmen, diplomats, spies, everybody who works for the government -- home for good.

If they were sincere, then they'd make sure that the unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right of every man, woman, and responsible child -- to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon, rifle, shotgun, handgun, machine-gun, anything, any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission -- remained sacred and inviolate, even -- or especially -- aboard commercial airliners.

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It's time to tell the bastards no. It's time to take America back and restore the Bill of Rights to its proper legal and political supremacy. That's the only genuine way to make the country safe from terrorism.

As a first step, I suggest an experiment. That's all it is. That's all the significance it has. It's just an experiment. Write to your congressthing today, and your senator, as well. Throw in some state legislators and a couple of judges. Tell him, her, or it that there will be no "Citizens' Corps" or anything even remotely like it, if he, she, or it plans to keep his, her, or its phony-baloney job. Make it clear that you're fed up, and that you're joining a new movement to vote for no incumbent until the Bill of Rights is stringently and energetically enforced and the government is back inside its cage, the Constitution.

Tell them you don't want George Busch's Reich to last another five minutes.

Following L. Neil's advice, I wrote the following letter, and sent it via snail mail to my Congress critters: Schumer, Clinton, and Sweeney:

I'm sick of you guys turning America into the Fourth Reich. The House has already voted to create an American Gestapo, otherwise known as the Department of Homeland Security, and the news tells me that the Senate will likely complete the atrocity this fall.

We've already got a homeland security department. It's called the citizens' militia, guaranteed by the second amendment and codified by 10 USC 311. All Congress needs to do is remind Americans that they are already part of the militia and encourage them to gather together for training to make themselves "well-regulated". Of course you'll have to get rid of the laws that make it difficult and expensive to acquire magazines that are large enough for the purpose and rifles that are suitable.

And kill the TIPS idea. We don't need no steenking Citizens' Corps or any other fancy name for a reborn East German Stasi. Only Communist countries need children to rat out their parents for expressing anti-government sentiments. We'll do just fine in reporting or stopping, with our .44 magnums that you're going to encourage us to carry always and everywhere (especially on commercial airlines), any real crime.

I'm joining a new movement to vote for no incumbent until the Bill of Rights is stringently and energetically enforced (18 USC 242) and the government is back inside its cage, the Constitution.

Joe Wilson at The Washington Times - Passenger protection as needed - Arming pilots is being blocked by two senators: Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina. If you live in one of those state, give these guys hell. [firearmnews]

Dan Verton at InfoWorld - IT Pros May Face Background Checks - the Amerikan sekurity state marches on. [smith2004]

Ben Shapiro at townhall.com- There oughta be a law - on the absurdity of knee-jerk legislation. [picks]

From corporate regulation to FAA regulation to air-show regulation, leftists constantly promote restrictions that destroy essential freedoms. Is it time we banned leftists?

Jessie Grimond at The Independent - Italian police planted petrol bombs on G8 summit protesters - figures. [unknown]

A policeman has confessed that he planted the explosives following a year of acrimony over the handling of security at the summit where a protester was shot dead by the police.

"I brought the Molotov cocktail to the Diaz school. I obeyed the order of one of my superiors," the 25-year- old unnamed officer told prosecutors investigating the summit. The Molotov cocktails were planted in the school to justify the police raids on the school, he said.

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries - Independence 2002 - Note the new location for the commentaries, users2.ev1.net/~mkreynolds/jeff/. Johnny Pate's site, www.dvc.org.uk/~johnny/jeff/, isn't reliably available for me, though he's the one who provides the HTML. I've made all three places I know of that carry the commentaries available on my links page. www.molonlabe.net/Commentaries/ isn't up-to-date at present.

Ollie Coltman & Alesandro Cirla & George Olmsted & Charles the Cat RIP, a "lack of combat spirit" in pistol class applicants, Wiley Clapp disses the Beretta pistol, killers of Vince Foster, Nicole Simpson, and Vicki Weaver still on the loose, paucity of education, get two Steyr Scouts while you still can, "never try to sell what you prize", cougars considered un-scary, the decline of the Swiss confederation, Pernicious Pronoun Perversion, the decline of reading for pleasure, Jeff's "re-reading" list, airline security.

But ours is not to complain. Life is essentially tragic, and while we suffer at God's dispensation, we are appropriately grateful for His continued blessings. And just remember that the Left almost won the last election - but didn't. For this we may praise the Lord!

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"To ride, shoot straight and speak the truth" were the classical personal attributes of a man. To ride is no longer a measure. To shoot straight ought to be, but seldom is. However, those who care can still make a maximum effort both to speak, and seek, the truth. Hardly anything else really matters.

Jeff Cooper's Commentaries - Fire and Water - Bill Ruger RIP, "Buy low! Sell high!", .45 > 9mm, Garand > M16, "war on terror" a misnomer, pocket pistols, Barrett Tillman's Above and Beyond, the defensive utility of the .22 rifle, CDNN has Scouts, Remington 600 & 660 carbines, Indian leopard put to sleep by television, "girls just do not seem to want to drive fast", a preponderance of bears, Jack O'Connor and the variable telescope, Africana, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be!", "A nation without God does not have a prayer."

We hear via the Garand Stand Report that when Michael Kalashnikov was told that he had invented far more individual weapon types than John Garand, he is said to have responded as follows: "When you get it right the first time you don't spend your time designing weapons for a museum."

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I do not know how you feel about it but this first-name business gravels me considerably when used by people I do not know. It has got to where various sorts of attendants and servitors, upon whom I have never set eyes before, ask me for my first name. My preferred response is to address such people as Wally or Mabel, but somehow this seems to hurt their feelings. Still I cannot even imagine what would happen if I presumed to respond to Colonel Cates, my first CO, as "Cliff." I suppose my high school teachers and my father's friends had first names, but I certainly never learned what they were. Bill Buckley's classic response is, "Do I know you?"

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