Drunk Pumpkin

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:00:00 GMT

Ever seen a drunk pumpkin? [brianf]

"Never confuse movement with action." -- Ernest Hemingway

From kaba:

"The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson... defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household." -- Rich Galen

and:

"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent." -- H.L. Mencken

My son, Christopher, had an asthma attack last night. Karla had a harrowing drive to the hospital with a freaked-out boy. I arrived home about the time they got to the emergency room. By the time I got there, he was relaxed and doing fine. The doctor said that his lungs sounded good and that there was nothing to see on the chest X-Ray. We went home with an inhaler. Hopefully he won't need to use it. He had one other minor attack eight years ago. I hope it doesn't become chronic.

Rokon has made two-wheel all terrain vehicles since 1963. Both wheels are powered. Wide tractor type tires. Weight: 208 pounds. Ground clearance: 15 inches. Lots of accessories for hunting and farming. You can even drive one over a fallen tree! Three models, $4800 to $5200.

Billy Beck at No Treason Blog - How I Love My Gun - an ode to a fine machine. [notreasonblog]

I keep a pistol on my desk. I keep a magazine loaded with dry-fire pads, and, at odd moments of the day, I'll reach over and pick it up, drop the mag, clear the chamber, put that round back on top of the magazine, and put it back in place, all just to feel the action of that slide: just in order to work the machine. It's the sound and feel of it. The measured tension of the return-spring, the simple orderly coordination of the magazine spring introducing the new round to the chamber... now & then, I'll just strip off the chambered round with a hard rack of the slide, in order to marvel at the precise grip of the extractor at the edge of the brass rim.

"Look how that thing works. What a cool little chunk of engineering."

I do this the way some people reach over and tap the little swinging balls that knock into each other when they're bemused or bored. Me? I play with a little machine. It just happens to be a pistol.

Abilene (TX) Reporter-News - San Angelo man convicted of criminal charges in Second Amendment case - Timothy Emerson was convicted in his retrial. A Texas jury, enabled by the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case, has once again allowed the Congress to piss on the Constitution. Hang 'em all: legislators, cops, judge, jury, everyone involved in robbing this man of his liberty. [firearmnews]

Joseph Farah at World Net Daily - Low-intensity terrorism - the reason that terrorists use suicide bombs in Israel is because the Israeli's are heavily armed, always and everywhere. The reason they use sniper fire in the U.S. is because the American sheeple are largely disarmed. [firearmnews]

The terrorists began looking for other methods. The suicide bombing attack is a method that works in a country where armed citizens are everywhere. There are no undefended schools in Israel. There are no undefended synagogues. There are no undefended buses or plazas or cafes or discotheques. Armed civilians are everywhere.

This has not been true in America for a long time. America long ago caved in to the political pressure to disarm. Now there are entire cities -- including the nation's capital -- where it is illegal to carry a firearm. This was supposedly a plan to make people safer. Of course, it has not. Crime -- especially violent crime -- is rampant in the very cities and states that have the most restrictive gun-control policies.

Sherman H. Skolnick at Rense.com - The Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 18: Secret Transcripts Expose Bush - If true, makes Watergate look like petty burglary. Alleges that GW has to kill Saddam to prevent big-time blackmail. Take with a grain of salt. [grabbe]

Washington Times Editorial - Big Brother's national ID card - oppose H.R.4633, the "Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002". It creates a national ID card with a 20 year felony for forging one or providing false information to the "authorities" who issue one. Only two cosponsors, Tom Davis and Adam Smith. [grabbe]

As Eric Skrum of the National Motorists Association put it recently: "Ultimately, anybody in any state with a card reader would be able to look up your personal driving record, credit rating, Social Security number, health information, personal address, and anything else the government would force you to divulge in order to 'voluntarily' obtain a driver's license."

They can call it whatever they want, but the end result will be the same. This bill should be rejected as being incompatible with a free society.

David Aaronovitch at The Independent - I'm amazed that random killers are so rare - I agree. [kaba]

I do not willingly ride pillion with any of these three horsepersons of the modern Apocalypse. But, perversely, whenever a "gunman goes on the rampage" or a "swordsman runs amok", the thought that passes through my head is not how often this kind of thing happens, but how seldom.

Paul Craig Roberts at TownHall.com - What are we doing? - we'd better think through the ramifications of starting a war with Iraq. Taking out Saddam might be a good idea, but it ain't that simple. [grabbe]

The United States has adopted the posture of the French Revolution without thought or debate. As the United States prepares to invade and conquer Iraq, only one U.S. senator, the 84-year-old Robert Byrd, D-W.V., insists that the Constitution be followed and a declaration of war be issued. Only Byrd demands that the new homeland security czar, who has the power to set aside constitutional protections, be accountable to Senate confirmation like all other important executive branch and federal judicial appointments.

For insisting that the U.S. Constitution be followed, Byrd is denounced as an "obstructionist."

We may as well be clear about it: The U.S. Constitution is an obstruction to the United States remaking the world by might and not by example.

Michael Naimark - How to ZAP a Camera: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors - Shine a laser pointer at it. Aim at far-away cameras by connecting the laster to a rifle scope or monocular. Mount the rifle scope on a tripod for stable zapping. Includes example photos. Works good. NY Times article by John Markoff here . [picks]

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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