Roadblocks for Freedom?

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:00:00 GMT

From Doing Freedom!:

"Bullets whizzing in the general direction of uppity politicians are the most eloquent of citizen protests." -- Carl Bussjaeger

From The Federalist:

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat." -- Woodrow Wilson

and:

"The Kurds in the north are a superstitious people who believe that Saddam will die on a holiday. To them, any day that Saddam dies will be a holiday." -- Mark Russell

and:

"The FBI accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of incompetence. The ATF's law enforcement mission is ambiguous at best. After all, the Founding Fathers considered alcohol, tobacco and firearms three of the four basic food groups." -- Argus Hamilton

John de Rosier at the Albany (NY) Times Union - Roadblock - my title. Cartoon commentary on changes coming from the new Department of Fatherland, er... Homeland Security. Not funny.

Doing Freedom! - November, 2002: "Relationships" - Haven't read it yet.

Atlantic Body Armor "produces soft body armor in various ballistic fabrics such as Kevlar™, Twaron™, SpectraShield™, Dyneema™ ,GoldFlex™ and Turtleskin™. We also hybrid some of these products together in order to combine the best features within one vest." Added to my Arms Manufacturers page at the request of Richard Talbot, their VP of Sales & Marketing.

I sent the following message to my Congress Critter, John Sweeney:

I noticed you voted for H.R. 5710, the Fatherland, er... Homeland Security Act of 2002. The Senate last night sent back their version of it as H.R. 5005. The House has to approve their changes before it goes to Mr. Bush'es desk. You have another chance to kill this sick puppy.

Yes, there are a few good things in this bill: arming pilots, defending Posse Comitatus, killing TIPS, denying a National ID, splitting the INS in two. But the bads way out-weigh the goods.

Moving the BATF to Justice and giving their jack-booted thugs arrest authority is a really bad move. You need to shut down that agency and replace it with nothing.

You may not force me to be immunized. Ever. Especially with a vaccine as dangerous as the Smallpox vaccine. Authorizing HHS to do this is NOT OK.

But the biggest problem with this monstrosity is Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" system, skewered by William Safire in last Thursday's New York Times. I will not have my life catalogued in his store-everything-about-everyone-for-always database.

Do you really think that reorganizing the federal behemoth is going to make it more efficient? HAH! To do that you need to slash it by a factor of at least a hundred.

If you want real homeland security, pass a National Vermont Carry bill. Rescind the Assault Weapons Ban, the Brady Bill, the 1968 Gun Control Act, and the National Firearms Act. Encourage everyone to be armed always and everywhere, no permit required. We'll do just fine.

But in the short term, change your vote. Vote NO on H.R. 5005 when it comes before you later this week.

Libertarian Party Press Releases - Pentagon database is step toward police state, Libertarians say - what the US needs to combat terrorism is "Total Constitutional Awareness", not "Total Information Awareness".

"This project sends a message that every American should find repugnant," Getz said. "Namely, that politicians and bureaucrats view America as a sea of criminal suspects whose private behavior must be tracked, catalogued and analyzed, just in case they commit a crime.

"So much for the presumption of innocence and the right to privacy. Just as in totalitarian states, your rights disappear at the whim of a shadowy government employee intent on spawning another database.

"Unless this Orwellian project is dismantled, innocent Americans will suffer under the kind of high-tech, 24-hour surveillance that the Stasi and the KGB would have envied."

Loretta Nall at The Alabama Marijuana Party - Cops Raid Marijuana Party Founder in Politically Motivated Raid - Probable motive for the raid: Ms. Nall is the founder of the Alabama Marijuana Party. [cures-not-wars]

In my home they found one stem and approximately 3 marijuana seeds. I had cleaned my home thoroughly before becoming a public activist and I know there was nothing here. They came inside my home while I was away and as far as I am concerned it could have been planted as a way to get back at me for two failed raids since September of this year. I was arrested and jailed until 1 am this morning. My husband was told to call the sheriffs office at 5 pm and that it was a misdemeanor charge and I would be allowed out on a signature bond. He called at 5 pm and was told it was a felony but that I wasn't there yet when actually I was. He called back at 5:30 pm and was told it was a misdemeanor charge but that a property bond would be required to get me out.

Elizabeth Bernard at LewRockwell.com - Meet Loretta Nall - another telling of Ms. Nall's tale.

Patrick K. Kroupa - The Addiction Series: Part I - snarfed from Dana Beal's Million Marijuana March email newsletter. More wisdom from Mr. Kroupa.

The entire "disease" model of addiction is wrong.

People create theories in an attempt to understand various phenomena, as time passes, many of these theories are proven to be incorrect, or merely inadequate and slapped together by persons who lack the knowledge and experience to assimilate and articulate a more cohesive understanding of the events in question.

Fire . . . pretty, wow, neato... oh no, it burns, damn, the house is on fire... ohmygawd fire is awful, bad, terrible, stay away from it because it destroys things. I will never do fire again! In fact I will gather together groups of other people who have all done fire, and sit around talking about why fire is awful, to make myself feel better.

Yeah, well, okay. If that works for you, fabulous. But ya know what? It's not the "correct" solution. The entire disease concept of addiction, could be applied to just about anything and be equally wrong - or more specifically, incomplete. Because when you come down to it, your "disease" is being a human being, and your life is just a relapse from death.

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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