Time to Buy KI?

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:00:00 GMT

A Divine Invitation

You have been invited to meet
The Friend.

No one can resist a Divine Invitation.

That narrows down all our choices
To just two:

We can come to God
Dressed for Dancing,

Or

Be carried on a stretcher
To God's Ward

(I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

George Carlin - Yes, I'm A Bad American - received a while back via email. Don't know if Mr. Carlin really authored it, but it's good.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - Bill of Rights Day - December 15 is Bill of Rights Day. That's this coming Sunday. I plan to celebrate with a hundred or more small explosions. At the shooting range, that is.

Received via email:

From the only-a-rumor-but-just-in-case department: Ran into someone today who said that a friend of his, a fed-employee, received a communique addressed to all fed-employees, saying something about anti-radiation pills for all of them. Rather not much to go on, but given the increasingly intense saber rattling, I'm passing it on to a few folks.

Google finds a number of companies that sell Potassium Iodide (KI) pills, including this FAQ and Plan B, where to find Potassium Iodide other than people who sell it specifically for this purpose (likely a lot cheaper, too). Note that nothing will protect you from direct radiation exposure, but these pills can keep your thyroid gland from absorbing it from airborne fallout, making you less likely to get thyroid cancer. From the FAQ:

Radioactive Iodine (Radioiodine) is a major radioisotope constituent of both nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear bomb explosions and can travel hundreds of miles on the winds. Thyroid cancer attributable to Chernobyl "...has been documented up to 500 km from the accident site."
Even very small amounts of inhaled or ingested radioiodine can do grave damage as it will always concentrate, and be retained, in the small space of the thyroid gland. Eventually giving such a large radiation dose to thyroid cells there that abnormalities are likely to result, such as loss of thyroid function, nodules in the thyroid, or thyroid cancer. (Each year 12,000 Americans discover they have thyroid cancer, though from various assorted causes, and about 1000 die from it.)
Chernobyl has shown, and continues to reveal, that the greatest danger from radioiodine is to the tiny thyroid glands of children. Researchers have found that in certain parts of Belarus, for example, 36.4 per cent of children, who were under the age of four at the time of the accident, can expect to develop thyroid cancer.

Repeal PATRIOT Act - National Repeal Coalition born in NYC - Eighty political activists met in New York City on November 30 to create a grassroots movement to completely repeal the USA PATRIOT Act. Cities around the country have repealed or are in the process of local repeals. [trt-ny]

Hector Carreon at La Voz de Aztlan - Campesinos Attack the Mexican Congress - revolution coming in Mexico? [smith2004]

Dan Janison at Newsday - Putting 'Em Out: Amended law to ban smoking unites mayor, city council - Smoking will be banned in New York City workplaces, including restaurants and bars, in late March or early April. There are a few exceptions, including the seven existing cigar bars and "private clubs". Expect all New York City bars to become "private clubs". Even if Bloomberg's quote below is correct, it ain't none of his business. People who work where there's smoking do so of their own free will. Smoking and drinking are what bars are for. If you don't like it, don't go there and don't work there. [villagechoice]

"People keep saying this is my favorite piece of legislation, or it's just me, or I'm a zealot on it," Bloomberg said. "No more so than on anything else. Just look at the facts. There is no reputable scientist that wouldn't tell you if you work in a place with smoking you might as well smoke yourself."

He noted how other jurisdictions have been enacting similar legislation.

As for enforcement, Bloomberg said: "To some extent enforcement in the world of all laws depends on the good faith of people. The police can't be, and you don't want them, everyplace. That's true of every single law we have. But we will enforce the law to the extent we can."

Kenneth Lovett at The New York Post - N.Y. Cig Sales Could Be Stubbed Out - New York state will require by next July that all cigarettes sold in the state be self-extinguishing. The cigarette manufacturers don't think they'll make the deadline, meaning that there will be a period of time when you can't legally buy cigarettes in the state. Stock up, New York smokers. Better yet, move out. [villagechoice]

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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