Fifth Amendment Denies Drug Tests

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:00:00 GMT

Frodo has failed: [smith2004]

Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its Laws. -- Anselm Meyer Rothschild

and:

[Here is] what you should do and tell Officer Friendly when he wants you to perform a field sobriety test. First, be very polite and respectful at all times, and ask Officer Friendly if his shoulder microphone is voice activated and on. If he says it is not, ask him to turn it on. He may refuse. Either way, this is what you tell Officer Friendly:

"Sir, I respectfully decline to perform a field sobriety or any other test, because as you know, or should know, a citizen cannot be compelled to be a witness against himself." If Officer Friendly reminds you that you agreed to take such a test in return for your "privilege" to receive a driver's license, simply state that you were being unlawfully compelled to be a witness against yourself before the fact, and that is also prohibited under those same Supreme Court and lower federal court rulings.

I called Kel-Tec about the new SU-16 Sport Utility Rifle about which I reported last Friday. A woman in sales told me the following:

It uses standard M-16/AR-15 magazines and will ship with one ten-round mag.
It will be introduced at the SHOT Show in Orlando in February. The Guns & Ammo ad was premature. They expect it to be available to consumers in April.
The suggested retail price is $640. She didn't know (or wouldn't tell me) the dealer cost.

This HighRoad thread contains an email response from Kel-Tec saying that the SU-16 will ship in May.

Cryptome - Cryptome Log Subpoenaed - A Middlesex County Grand Jury subpoenaed the logs of visits one week in November to a page at Cryptome. John Young sent them an affidavit swearing that the logs are destroyed daily and that he neither owns nor knows the location of the servers for his site. [grabbe]

Anthony Gancarski at CounterPunch - If 9/11 was a Joke, TSA was the Punchline - reflections on airport "security". [grabbe]

Thomas L. Knapp at Rational Review - Attention, Clone-Mart shoppers - Mr. Knapp attempts to shine some light on the very hot issue of human cloning. [smith2004]

Christoph Buettner and Martin I. Surks at JAMA - Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine - There are now radiation detectors in New York subway stations. People who set off the detection alarms, i.e. folks who have ingested or been injected with radioactive isotopes for medical reasons, are detained. [smith2004]

We called the Terrorism Task Force of the New York City Police Department to determine how to prevent detainment of this group of patients. They recommended that treating physicians provide such patients with letters describing the isotope used and its dose, its biological half-life, and the date and time of treatment. The letters should also provide the physician's 24-hour telephone numbers to allow the police to verify the content of the letters. If a person who has been detected as emitting radiation provides such a letter, the police would then verify the letter's authenticity. Even in the best-case scenario, however, the patient would have to wait during this verification process. Patients should be informed about this potential problem after treatment with radioactive isotopes; they may choose not to use public transportation to avoid this inconvenience.

Penn Gillette of Penn & Teller - Working Class Hero Penn - the followup to Penn's report of being groped by airport "security". He's not filing a suit, and they treated him better the next trip, though apparently not due to his V.I.P status. He just drew a better nazi for this trip's wand rape. [picks]

Fred on Everything - America Builds A Dream World, And Moves Into It - when given a chance, people will naturally desegregate. Fred explores a fact of life that the PC crowd has been trying to ignore for a very long time. [birdman]

Rory Carroll at Guardian Unlimited - Self-defence killings divide S Africa - it seems that South Africa has joined England in banning self defense. Phooey. [smith2004]

Declan McCullagh at News.Com - George Orwell, here we come - Mr. McCullagh imagines the future if we allow Poindexter to get away with his Total Information Awareness abomination. [kaba]

Imagine a world where every street corner is dotted with disposable microcameras, equipped with face-recognition software that identifies pedestrians and constantly updates their individual files with up-to-the-minute location information. (Wearing masks won't help: Many states already have antimask laws, and the rest would follow suit if masks became sufficiently popular.) The microcameras are linked through a network modeled on existing 802.11 wireless technology. The wireless mesh also includes cameras devoted to spotting and recording license plates and a third type that identifies people by the way they walk.

It's not that far from reality. Poindexter's office has an entire project area called Human ID at a Distance that's spending millions on researching biometric technologies, including face recognition and "gait performance" detection. Facecams already are in use in airports, city centers and casinos. And license plate recognition, by comparison, is a snap.

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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