December, 2002
When is the last time you heard of a living government official saying something such as, "We must repeal all unconstitutional laws. We must limit the government exactly as defined by the Constitution for the United States of America.
Or, we must restore courts to the Article III courts of common law and remove all judges, prosecutors, legislators, and other Bar attorneys from the courts of the America people unless they renounce their Bar association and re-pledge to uphold only the inherent and unalienable rights of the American people.
When is the last time you heard or read of a live government official telling the truth on national TV about the war on drugs, that it is a revenue creator for the federal, state, and local levels with profits to all enforcers who are involved?
When is the last time you heard or read of a government official demanding that all our people - the Militia according to our founders- be allowed and now encouraged in this "war against terrorism" to be armed at all times and that no body politic may interfere?
When is the last time a government official demanded that there would be no enforcement of man made laws except those necessary for enforcing the de facto laws on artificial entities as intended. Who of them has told the American people administrative laws are just that - regulations meant only to control the administrators and/or their creations?
Who of the thousands of public figures attempts to re-establish "peace officers" that never interfere in people's lives unless a man or woman has made a bona fide complaint against another with an indictment issued by the people's Grand Jury?
Or, to demand no less than "equality in the eyes of the law", that there is in fact no such thing as "official immunity". Officials represent the people; they represent the common law of the people; and they must represent it as people paid to do just that. If not, then they must be punished "to the maximum extent of the law", which for treason is death.
MadOgre.com Library - on-line copies of many books, mostly taken from www.lib.ru. [madogre]
Tricia Romano at The Village Voice - The Safety Dance - in NYC, you need a cabaret license to allow dancing in a "public" establishment. Mayor Bloomberg is folliwing in Herr Rudy's footsteps in enforcing this prohibition era edict. [market]
"Look," says Baxley. "The cabaret law itself is absurd. It's totalitarian. Two years ago the only places it was illegal to dance were Manhattan and Afghanistan. And now you can dance in Afghanistan," he says.
Jim Peron at The Foundation for Economic Equality - Why the Poor Need Property Rights - how the tragedy of the commons destroyed a booming economy of street traders in on area of Johannesberg. How private property solved the problem in another. Property works. [market]
One solution for the conflict that arises when competing interests attempt to grab a commons is privatization. As I have pointed out before, the only alternative is the use of authoritarian measures, such as police enforcement, fines, and confiscations.
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Street traders represent the beginning of what de Soto calls "a long march" to capitalism. When hampered and harassed by government, the natural evolution of property rights is prevented. The result is decline and decay. But when, instead of controlling, government acts as a protector of property rights, then street trading is the first step toward prosperity.
Joel Simon at The Libertarian Enterprise - Unintended Evangelism - one northern California resident who works in a terminally politically correct office discovers that he has some unexpected support, office-mates who ask him to take them to the shooting range. Yay! [tle]
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - Revenge of the Nerds - The Russian for KGB is, essentially, Homeland Security Department, so Mr. Stone will henceforth call the new, blatantly unconstitutional, abomination by the Russian name. The new Total Information Awareness system will not spring full-formed from the ground. It must be constructed, by nerds. Mr. Stone asks the nerds to refuse, and outlines the likely consequences of this refusal. This is no idle request. He's a nerd, too. I included below, his paragraph saying that the KGB, er... Homeland Security Act requires a license to purchase reloading components. Not true, according to my reading. The permits for explosives that section 1122 of H.R. 5005 amend into U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 40, appear to me to be excluded for small arms ammunitions and components by 18 USC 845. I wrote a letter about this which will likely appear in next week's TLE. [tle]
Under the KGB, Americans no longer have any Constitutional guarantees. NONE. Not that this comes as a surprise to anyone who's been paying even the slightest bit of attention to American political discourse over the last century. Federal officials have been in the process of murdering the Constitutional Republic since the Lincoln Administration. The American KGB simply pounds the final nail into its coffin, creating the de facto police state about which politicians have always dreamed.
What the American KGB proves -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- is that we can no longer depend on government to safeguard our liberties. With the passage of this Act, it becomes clear that government is the primary violator of our liberties.
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Particular attention will be focused on your defense choices, making the TIA program a de facto Federal gun registration database. The hobby of reloading is essentially over, as the American KGB establishes new rules for "explosive" purchases that will make it illegal for reloaders to obtain the necessary chemicals without a Federal license.
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My friends, my brother and sister nerds, my comrades-in-arms: we are called. This is our time. We must step forward to the challenge, to do our part to see that our children are not burdened with the chains of slavery our governments wish to place on them. We must stand together, united in our cause, and refuse to be the spineless lackeys that the FedGov believes us to be.
We are our nation's, our children's, our entire way of life's best hope. If we fail now, the only recourse our children will have is bloody revolution.
Dennis Kabaczy at The Libertarian Enterprise - Fifth Amendment? - more commentary on the Bushnev administration's desire to end Miranda. Hopefully the Supremes will see the light on this one. [tle]
Another chapter in the ongoing saga of Amerika's transformation into a police state.
Carl Bussjaeger at The Libertarian Enterprise - Lists - Mr. Bussjaeger wonders if his political mewlings have gotten him on one of the recently publicized lists that deny some non-criminals bank accounts, jobs, and unmolested airplane travel. Me, too. [tle]
Someone has noticed me; dot-gov hits on my websites have gone way up as I've become more vocal. For now, I can only hope it's benign attention.
But I'm starting job hunting again. (I'm apparently widely read, popular; but this doesn't pay worth a darn.) Am I still employable? Or have I ticked off the wrong person and made the wrong list? Is this honorably discharged veteran, ex-cop, past DOD-contractor with security clearances and no arrests now going to fail a background check?
