Norah Jones

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:00:00 GMT

From survivalarts:

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... so let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." -- Richard Phillips Feynman

45th Grammy Awards - Norah Jones Comes Away With 5 GRAMMYs - and does she sing a sweet tune! NPR has Real Audio/Video and Windows Media audio versions of her song, "Don't Know Why", written by Jesse Harris, which she and her band performed on the program. There are Real Audio versions of more of her songs at Ms. Jones' web site. I enjoyed most of the performances on last night's show. John Mayer's guitar playing was a joy to listen to, and he sang pretty well, too.

Sherman H. Skolnick at Rense.com - The Bush/Blair Bribery Affair - more on the "American CIA/Bush Crime Family" and their financial dealings. This time Tony Blair and Hilary Clinton are involved. As usual with Mr. Skolnick's pieces, read with a grain of salt. I actually hope all this is true, so all of these folk can swing for treason. [birdman]

Cheryl Barnes at CPS Watch - Parent's Guide to the "System" - some advice on fighting (legally) the child "protective" services goons.

Pierre Lemieux at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - The Gun Protest Ban Against Dr. Edward Hudson - Dr. Edward Hudson and Jim Turnbull, Canadian patriots, will not be released unless they sign a paper promising not to participate in future protests against Canada's gun owner licensing law. Dr. Hudson, I salute you. [grabbe]

The gun control "law" (so-called) is immoral and contrary to Canadian traditions. It forces any individual who only wants to keep a hunting gun at home to apply for a personal licence every five years, and tell the police about his depressions and his love life. It forces ten percent of the Canadian adult population (i.e., registered gun owners) to notify the police when they change addresses. It grants the police arbitrary powers to seize guns, and to deny or revoke licences. In certain circumstances, it allows searches (re-christened "inspections") without warrants. It also forces the registration of all individual firearms, and prepares the sort of confiscation that the British and the Australians have recently suffered (like, before them, subjects of all totalitarian countries). It is one of the last nails in the coffin of the right of individuals to defend their lives if the police cannot (or will not) intervene. It discriminates against honest citizens in favour of criminals.

This so-called "law" has created from a few hundreds of thousands (according to government estimates) to a few millions of instant, peaceful, paper criminals. Canada will soon be like the United Kingdom, where only criminals (and, in Canada, powerfully armed policemen) have guns.

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At one o'clock in the morning, while Dr. Hudson was trying to sleep in his freezing cell, and again one hour later, a praetorian came and offered to release him immediately if he signed an agreement never to own firearms. The hero refused.

Troy Industries - Rock SOPMOD M-14 - an M-14 action reconfigured in a carbine package even smaller than an M-4. Cool. Also expensive. $2500. [survivalarts]

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-- 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