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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT

From kaba:

Massachusetts is the crash test dummy for anti-gun laws. -- Carla Howell

"You see, medical science has developed two ways of actually determining insanity. One is if the patient cuts out paper dolls, and the other is if the patient says: I will tell you what this economic business really means." -- Will Rogers

and:

"Politicians are seldom willing to solve any problem by simply stopping what they have been doing to create the problem. Instead, they come up with new programs that ignore the real cause." -- Thomas Sowell

and:

"The government is telling us in order to avoid West Nile virus that we should not play with dead infected birds -- well, there go my weekend plans!" -- Jay Leno

"Welcome to Zombo com. You can do anything at Zombo com. Anything at all! The only limit is yourself." Hehe. Requires Flash. [anodyne]

Libertarianism for Complete Idiots - Concise. Fresh! Hehe. Point at or click on the first image for the second image. [smith2004]

Remember yesterday's idea to send a postcard to GW today opposing making war on Iraq. I haven't sent mine yet, but intend to get one today and write on it:

Mr. Bush:

Please do not start a war with Iraq. Don't start a war with anybody. If someone else starts a war, join it only if Congress declares war.

Bill St. Clair

Mail it to:

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20500

www.paul2004.com is the web site of an independent effort to field Ron Paul for president. Dr. Paul has not announced his candidacy, nor did he take part in the creation of this web site. He intends to continue serving as a representative from Texas. I wouldn't mind him as president, though I think we need stronger medicine, namely L. Neil Smith. [trt-ny]

Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com - Hail Dick Armey! Retiring House GOP leader speaks out against Iraq war -- and he is far from alone - finally some sanity from at least a few members of the war party. [trt-ny]

It's a sadly telling fact of American political life that Rep. Dick Armey didn't dare tell us what he really thinks of Bush II's war plans until he decided it was time to retire: Republican politicians (and Democrats, for that matter) don't usually defy the War Party and live to tell the tale.

...

Armey, who can now afford to be honest, underscored the absurdity of the Bush-UN demand that Saddam submit to weapons inspection by asking:

"What if the French decided they wanted to inspect American military facilities? -- He has a right to hold dominion within his own national boundaries, as obnoxious as he is and as comical as he can be. He is what we in Texas know as a blowhard, he can't help himself."

Jonathan Turley at The LA Times via Common Dreams - Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision - Comrade Ashcroft is planning prison camps for "enemy combatants". Who decides who's an "enemy combatant"? Comrade Ashcroft, of course. [anti-state]

Al Greenwood at The Fayetville (NC) Observer - Woman refuses airport screening - the cops searched her after her arrest and found nothing. May she be the first of millions of travelers who refuse to be searched without a warrant. [kaba]

Sean Haugh at Liberty for All - A Letter to a Friend, who worries that our anger over the "war on terrorism" makes us look bad - With all the lies we've been told in recent history, how can we trust anything anyone in government tells us. Mr. Haugh doesn't want violence. He just wonders why it hasn't happenned yet. [kaba]

Folks, when we talk about which tax to cut, what words should be in the Pledge of Allegiance, whether pilots should be armed, etc., all we are doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Meanwhile, our self-appointed masters in Washington and Raleigh are busy trashing the Constitution and replacing it with a totalitarian system that makes 1984 seem rather quaint in comparison. Heck, even Orwell didn't imagine subcutaneous microchips or national ID cards.

Sometimes I take a step back and scratch my head at the fact that the angry mob is not busy right now burning Washington DC to the friggin' ground. It just stuns me when I stop to think about it. The authoritarians have successfully employed the boiling frog strategy of slowly turning up the heat so that we don't notice that we are getting cooked.

Wally Conger at LewRockwell.com - Remembering Randy Weaver - August 21, 2002 marks the tenth anniversary of the government siege on Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. The jack-booted murderers have not yet been properly hanged. [kaba]

As for me, I will respectfully observe the 9/11 memorials. But I also intend to take a few minutes on August 21, the tenth anniversary of the Siege at Ruby Ridge, to ponder how best to tell the Bad Guys from the Good Guys during these difficult times. And to wonder how wise it is to demand that one band of murderous thugs protect us from another.

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

-- L. Neil Smith

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

-- L. Neil Smith

Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

Who is a libertarian?

Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair

End the War on Freedom

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