Gifts for Outlaws

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:00:00 GMT

Scott Bieser at The Libertarian Enterprise - New Iron Curtain - cartoon commentary on the ironic curtain that has been created on America's borders. Hehe. [tle]

cockeyed.com - Sacramento Airport Booty contains photos at a Goodwill store of boxes of stuff stolen from travelers by airport "security". [smith2004]

Claire Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine - What Santa's Bringing Good Little Outlaws This Year - an ID making kit, RKBA T-Shirts, Dan Starr's I Will Live Free songs, JPFO's online store, the TracFone, a voice encryption system, the 2003 Ladies of Liberty Calendar, a transmitter detector, Vin's books, Claire's books, Carl Bussjaeger's book, Loompanics & Paladin Press, Backwoods Home Magazine.

There you have it. Lucky thirteen freedom-oriented gift ideas. Santa says Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Gud Yule, have a terrific Kwanzaa, or whatever else you celebrate. May you and yours enjoy freedom Outlawry as long as Outlawry must be the lot of those who wish to live free. And someday, may an entire coal mine be dumped by Freedom Santas onto those pseudo Santas on the Potomac.

Kim du Toit - Dept. Of Righteous Shootings - good advice for dealing with mountain lions: carry a large-caliber lever or wheel gun. Use it.

Man gets attacked by mountain lion, shoots it dead. Good thing he had a rifle handy, huh?

Ordinarily, this article wouldn't attract my attention -- hey, I grew up in Africa. But this wonderful piece of advice did get me giggling:

"Experts advise people who encounter mountain lions to stand and face the animals, wave their arms slowly and speak firmly in a loud voice, and fight back if attacked."
... and when the lion stops laughing, it'll eat your ass.

The Libertarian Enterprise - Letter from Gene Strong with reply by John Taylor - Mr. Taylor attempts to give Mr. Strong a clue. [tle]

Carl Bussjaeger at The Libertarian Enterprise - "Close" Enough is Good Enough? - Time to Get a Rope! - with a recent ruling on the constitutionality of the warrantless searches in the USA PATRIOT act, the final nail has been driven into the coffin of the fourth amendment. [tle]

At this point, I can only see two options for Constitutionalists:

You can keep your heads in the sand and pretend this isn't happening.
Or you can get your cojones from the back of the bottom drawer where you hid them, grab your guns and plenty of rope, and start stringing up these weasels.

Rodney Harris at The Libertarian Enterprise - The BIG Tax Form - instead of making the US income tax form shorter, make it longer. Have each tax payer allocate his taxes paid to the programs he wants to support. Wait. Isn't this essentially the free market? Why not eliminate the income tax and use the free market instead? Hehe.

Wendy McElroy at The Libertarian Enterprise - Rights and Responsibilities - in matters of reproduction under current law, women have all the rights and men have all the responsibilities. This is not right.

James J Odle at The Libertarian Enterprise - Pour Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry! - Mr. Odle uses The Pirates of Penzance to skewer government schools. [tle]

John MacMullin at The Libertarian Enterprise - Repeal the 17th Amendment - a proposal to replace the seventeenth amendment, returning election of U.S. senators to state legislatures. Likely a good idea, IMHO. [tle]

Don Phillips at The Washington Post - Wronged Side of the Tracks? 'Railfans' Complain of Police Scrutiny in Terror Era - in Police State Amerika, watching trains is cause for a visit by the FBI. [tle]

On a balmy Sunday afternoon late last month, Richard Whitenight did what he often does on his days off: He went to a busy railroad junction in Fort Worth to watch the trains roll by.

But as he sat making notes about passing freight trains, two police cruisers approached. Over the next five hours, Whitenight -- who works for the police department in nearby Arlington, Tex. -- identified himself to the officers. Then he identified himself to the officers' supervisor, then a detective from a terrorism task force, then the FBI. They seized his trainspotter's notebook and grilled him about every mark and note in it. They searched his car and took photos of it, inside and out. Finally, he had to sign a form agreeing never to return to the location known as Tower 55.

Whitenight is one of thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world who spend much of their time observing and photographing railroad operations out of a love for trains...

...

Satterwhite said in an interview that as a 20-year Air Force veteran who now works in the railroad industry, he understands the need for safety and security. But "when do we become prisoners in our own homes?" he asked.

Leonard G. Horowitz at Rense.com - Vaccine Injury, Homeland Security And Culpability - a rant on the inclusion in the Fatherland Security Act of a section limiting liability for poisoning the public with the Smallpox vaccine. [grabbe]

Incredulously you asked, "You can't possibly believe that all vaccines are bad, do you? They eradicated illnesses didn't they?"

I replied honestly and affirmatively, "No they didn't, hygiene and nutritional improvements did." But you could not accept my rationale.

You heard me tell of my family's miraculous escape from the Nazis. "They lined millions of 'sheeple' up and marched them, with few protesting, to their early demise in the concentration camp gas chambers for allegedly 'showers.' Showers fo what? 'Public health' and 'disinfection,'" I recalled and continued. "Today's physicians' offices, hospitals, and public health units are much like the 'concentration camps' of yesteryear, and today's vaccines are the 'gas.' Don't you get the similarity?"

Randolph T. Holhut at The American Reporter - The American Police State Is Now Complete - with the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act and The Homeland Security Act of 2002, Amerika now has its own Gestapo. Heil Bushnev! Sieg Heil! [grabbe]

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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