Nasty Letter Day

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:00:00 GMT

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." -- Segal's Law

Orange County Shooters - Safe Room - more guns in one room than in most stores. And this is a personal collection. Wow!

I sent the following email to Rush Limbaugh yesterday afternoon. I chose Rush because his show has a large audience. I listen to him sometimes while driving to lunch, mostly for comic relief.

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:20:35 -0400
To: rush@eibnet.com
From: "Bill St. Clair" <bill@billstclair.com>
Subject: Can you say "Bounty"?
Cc: bill@billstclair.com

Rush,

How come no one is talking about the obvious solution to the DC killer? Put a bounty on his head. Suspend local laws forbidding open carry of rifles, and let the market work its magic. The bounty doesn't even have to come out of our stolen tax dollars. Collect donations.

-Bill St. Clair
bill@billstclair.com

International A.N.S.W.E.R. - National March on Washington! (and San Francisco), this Saturday, October 26. Buses from all over. A.N.S.W.E.R. = Act Now to Stop War & End Racism. I do not plan to go, though I know some people who do. D.C. is too dangerous, and not because of the "sniper", because law-abiding citizens are disarmed.

CBS News - Anthrax Vaccine Scares Off Top Troops - too many bad side effects. [brianf]

Military members who have left represent some of the most experienced and highly trained individuals in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve "and are people not easily replaced," the GAO said.

"While many factors can and do influence an individual's decision to participate in the military, a significant number of pilot and air crew members cited the required mandatory anthrax immunization as a key reason for reducing their participation or leaving the military altogether in 2000," the GAO said.

I got a message from The Brady Bunch asking me to send an email to Bushnev urging him to create a national ballistic database. I'm on their mailing list so that I can keep abreast of their insanity of the moment. I used their capwiz section, to send him a letter with the opposite message:

The Brady Bunch is attempting to convince you to create a national gun ballistics database. If you do your homework, you'll discover that this is a complete waste of money. It can't work. Their real goal, as we all know, is registration of every gun followed by confiscation. They want to disarm us so that we will be helpless to defend ourselves against criminals and tyrants. Don't do it. No more legal restrictions on firearms. Ever.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - The Failure of the Government Protection Hoax - not only can the government not protect you against criminals, they don't even have a legal responsibility to do so. A Bill of Rights culture is the only thing that can protect you. Then you will be protected by yourself and your fellow citizens, armed and alert. [jpfo]

In a Bill of Rights culture, you'll be free to carry the weapons you need to defend yourself, your family, and your community. Potential criminals are going to have to weigh the risk to themselves any time they think about doing their evil deeds. In a Bill of Rights culture, people will understand that they are responsible for themselves, that they are free adults, not passive children huddling under a nanny-government's skirts.

Until we have a culture that understands, respects, and lives by the entire Bill of Rights, you can count on more of this craziness. And more of the horrible helplessness that goes with it.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS THE ULTIMATE SELF-DEFENSE TOOL.

I sent the following email to Charles Schumer, New York's senior senator, via his web form:

We don't need a national ballistics database. It will do no good in fighting crime and will cost a bundle. Another feel-good boondoggle.

Let me give you a little lesson in the second amendment, Mr. Schumer. It begins with "A well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state." The militia is all of us, well-armed with our own military weapons (see 10 USC 311). The militia is still necessary for the security of our United States. Hence, anything that interferes with the militia interferes with our security. There's a name for interfering with state security. It's called treason. It's one of the few federal crimes actually mentioned in the Constitution. The penalty for treason is death.

Tread softly on the second amendment, Mr. Schumer. It may take a while, but there WILL be trials. The life you save could be your own.

Tina Gasperson at NewsForge - Xandros Linux: "It just works," even with Windows stuff - $99 for painless Linux.

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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