Secure the Homeland: Buy a Gun
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:00:00 GMT
From survivalarts:
"As long as gun owners argue for property rights, the tyrants will say it's dangerous property. If you say the guns are for self defense the tyrants will call for more police. The only way to keep your guns is make clear that the guns exist to resist tyrany and dare the tyrants to come get them." -- Michael Wagner
Metroland - O Big Brother, Where Art Thou? - a special report on the dangers of "Homeland Security". Will likely move here tomorrow or Friday. Metroland is a free, i.e. advertising supported, liberal-leaning rag that is distributed around the Albany, NY area. The last in this series of articles is entitled "Gun Store to the World". I sent the following letter to the editor:
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:34:34 -0500
To: metroland@metroland.net
From: "Bill St. Clair" <bill@billstclair.com>
Subject: Letter to the Editor
Secure the Homeland: Buy a Gun
Your "O Big Brother, Where Art Thou?" issue was right to warn about Poindexter's Total Information Awareness system and no-fly lists. But when you discussed guns, you missed the boat. If we want to be safer against terrorists, we need more, not fewer, guns, and it needs to be easier for people to arm themselves, not harder. Had only a couple of passengers on each of the 9/11 flights been properly armed, the Twin Towers would still be standing and three thousand victims would be celebrating with their loved ones this holiday season.
The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, the law of the land, does not allow you to implement any system to close any imagined "loopholes" in the existing blatantly-unconstitutional gun laws. The second amendment is very simple, very clear: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." You can argue all you want, but what this means, in the words of L. Neil Smith, is that "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."
And why may you not close those loopholes? Mr. Smith again, "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 bears 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."
The reason our Constitution has a second amendment is not well known, any more. Yes, it affirms our right to hunt. Yes, it affirms our right and duty to defend ourselves, our families, and our communities against criminals and terrorists. But the major reason for the existence of the second amendment is to guarantee that we always have at our disposal the tools to overthrow the government, should it become necessary. With the recent passage of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Fatherland, er... Homeland Security Act, it's getting mighty close to necessary.
There, that should get ME on the no-fly list.
Bill St. Clair
bill@billstclair.com
Charley Reese - Permanent War State - some reminders of how the U.S. empire keeps the world in a permanent state of war.
The American republic died at Appomattox in 1865, replaced by a national government that has gradually evolved into an empire in a permanent state of war.
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Unless we find a way to reverse course and return to our republican ways, our imperial government will collapse under the weight of its own profligate spending and corruption. A government that lies, keeps secrets, spies on its own people and tries to control every aspect of their lives is a far cry from the American republic that existed from 1787 to 1865.
