End the War on Freedom

My daughter, Victoria, is six years old today. We're having a party this afternoon. Happy Birthday, Victoria!

From The Federalist:

"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own." -- Frank Dane

and:

"Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life." -- Will Rogers

and:

"Socialism has long sought to create a heaven on earth but an even older philosophy pointed out that the road to hell is paved with good intentions." -- Thomas Sowell

From office email:

"My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers." -- James Earl Carter, 39th President, 1977-1981

From sierra:

"We'll show them! When our and our childrens hands are tied behind our backs and our legs are fettered with chains ... then we'll rise up and beat them to death with our tongues." -- Arundel

Ammoman - Sudden Impact! - high-speed photography captures various caliber bullets impacting various targets. Cool. [survivalarts]

Hit & Run is a new weblog by from the staff of Reason magazine. [survivalarts]

AAPS & Don Harkins via Sierra Times - Mandatory smallpox vaccination on the way - some evidence that smallpox vaccination, when it comes, will not be voluntary, and some fear-mongering about problems with the vaccine. This vaccine is probably dangerous, but most of us survived smallpox vaccination when we were kids. Most of us will survive this time, too. Still, I won't allow them to vaccinate my kids.

Shot worse than disease

For the October, 2002 edition of The IO we frontpaged photos of children who contracted smallpox from the vaccine. In its natural state, ordinary quarantine procedures and sanitation are sufficient to stop the spread of smallpox. The vaccine, however, produces a pustule at the site of injection that is extremely contagious and spreads on contact. Eyes, ears and noses "secondarily inoculated" with fluid from the pustule that erupts at the injection site become hideously disfigured

There is no credible science that justifies the planned smallpox vaccination campaign. Previous editions of The IO (May, June, July, August, Sept., Oct., 2002), available at http://www.idaho-observer.com have covered the high points of the science that indicates mass vaccination will spread an extremely virulent form of the disease. Copies of The Smallpox Alert will be available by December 18, 2002--just in time for Christmas --for ten cents apiece for 100 copies. If you wish to help us defeat this potentially devastating campaign by circulating the facts, or receive pervious editions of The IO that contain smallpox info, contact The IO at (208) 255-2307.

CBS News - Bush to Announce Smallpox Plan - this was on 60 Minutes II last night. They said that the first responders would be vaccinated right away, and then the vaccine would be made available to others who want it.

"We know if we immunize a million people, that there will be 15 people that will suffer severe, permanent adverse outcomes and one person who may die from the vaccine," says Dr. Paul Offit, one of the country's top infectious disease specialists, and he knows all about vaccines that prevent those diseases. In his lab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he studies and creates new vaccines. There's nothing new about the smallpox vaccine.

The vaccine was created in 1796. The vaccine used today is essentially the same, Offit says. "We tend to think of vaccines as being very safe and every effective, which they are. But all the vaccines that we use today are the result of modern technology. That's not true of the smallpox vaccine. It has a side effect profile that we, we would not accept for vaccines today," he says.

The smallpox vaccine is made from a weak biological cousin of the smallpox virus. When you get vaccinated with the weaker virus, you become immune to the smallpox virus.

But once in a while, the vaccine does more harm than good. If you scratch where the smallpox is at the surface, and you put it to the eye, you can transfer the smallpox to your eye. That occurs in about 500 people for every million that get the vaccine. If you get "progressive vaccinia," your immune system is compromised. The virus just continues to grow and grow, and is often the cause of death.

No one is certain how many people will be hurt by the vaccine. A 1969 study found that, out of every one million people vaccinated, 74 will suffer serious complications, and at least one will die.

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So why is the government recommending a dangerous vaccine that could kill people?

Because the disease it prevents is worse.

"It is the worst human disease. It probably killed more people in history than any other infectious agent, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages," says Richard Preston, who writes about deadly diseases like Ebola and anthrax. Nothing scares him like smallpox. He's just written a book called "The Demon in the Freezer," about how the smallpox virus has been turned into a weapon of mass-destruction.

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More than six million people were vaccinated in three weeks in New York City in 1947. There were 12 cases of smallpox. "There were two deaths associated with smallpox, and there were, I'm sorry to say, three deaths associated with the vaccine," he [Dr. Thomas Frieden, the NYC health commissioner] says.

"(But) if they hadn't vaccinated, they might've had thousands upon thousands of deaths from smallpox," he adds.

Balint Vazsonyi at The Washington Times - Gunning for the courts - good commentary on Judge Stephen Reinhardt's recent legal fantasy (he wrote the Ninth District Court decision calling the right to keep and bear arms a collective, not individual, right).

Please write the following over your bed, desk, and dining table: "All rights under the U.S. Constitution are vested in individuals." There are no collective or group rights, except in the afflicted minds of the 60s people.

But now we come to the heart of the matter. All of us are appalled by the increased wanton violence in our society. All of us wish for some remedy, or at least relief from the terrible scenesweare served up on television.

The reason we cannot look to a repeal of the Second Amendment, or even to a rewrite of some sort, is simple. This republic was born out of the conviction "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."

The first act of this new republic was to abolish the existing government with the extensive use of arms.

Nations in their moments of the most dire needs have looked across the waters to the fortunate Americans, wishing they had the arms to become masters of their fate.

Very little in the U.S. Constitution grows as directly out of the core statements of the Declaration of Independence as does the Second Amendment. Repeal it, subdue it, and you have undone what the people to whom we owe everything died for.

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