May 2003 | End the War on Freedom

May 2003

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 11:30:30 GMT

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Thursday, 1 May: Sheet Head

Ron Paul in the House of Representatives - America National Sovereignty vs. UN "International Law"- Time for Congress to Vote
Mad Ogre - Myths and Molotovs
Jason Halperin at AlterNet - Patriot Raid
NRA Institute for Legislative Action - "The Bias Against Guns" newest book

Friday, 2 May: Welcome Back, Wolf!

Kevin Tuma at KeepAndBearArms.com - Liberty Control
Bogon II - Hitler Deeply Embarrassed By Repeated Comparisons To Bush
Lisa Lascody at Liberty Belles - The New Book Laws: Adventures in Absurdity
The Wolf DeVoon Reader
L. Neil Smith at Rational Review - If you want peace, free the slaves
Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - The Brief of Baghdad
Roderick T. Beaman at Liberty for All - Abolish the United States Military
ACLU - Stop the New Patriot Act
Geov Parrish - Privilege Revoked
PGP 8.02

Saturday, 3 May: Support Your Local Libertarian: Buy a Bumper Sticker

The "Next Time, I'm Voting Libertarian" Resistance to Tyranny
J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - A Real American for President in 2004?
Gun Owners of America - Activism
Jennifer Fishbein at The New York Sun - Tickets Fly as City Snuffs Out Smoking
Paula Francis at KLAS TV, Las Vegas - Small Town, Big Guns
Michael Marks at KeepAndBearArms.com - Descent into Madness: 48 Hours in the California Legislative System

Sunday, 4 May: Zeppelin Rocks!

Honda (UK) - The Cog
Ed Driscoll at Blogcritics.org - New Led Zeppelin Live DVDs and CDs Coming in May! two-DVD set How the West Was Won
Time - Food Fight
Mike Straw at The Libertarian Enterprise - Consider The Poor Citizen

Monday, 5 May: Mars Thundered

Yesterday, I read Wolf DeVoon's Mars Shall Thunder Mars Is My Planet The Good Walk Alone
New York City Independent Media Center - Large Turnout for NY Pot Rally - by Police here
Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - Making the world safe for mob rule
Missouri Concealed Carry - US Map of CCW Laws

Wednesday, 7 May: Benchmark for 444 Marlin

I usually load my Marlin 444p Hodgdon chart
Brad Spangler at Rational Review - Libertarians vs. Pavlov's Dogs of War
The Straights Times - Chinese villagers attack Sars quarantine centres
The Virginian-Pilot at Rense.com - Using Cash Can Trigger 'Suspicious Activities Report'
KeepAndBearArms.com - Silveira v. Lockyer is Going to the Supreme Court!
Roger Boyes at Times Online - Envoy dubs US a police state
Joseph E. Olson and David B. Kopel at The Libertarian Alliance - All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America Sean Gabb
Greg, Jeff & Boge Quinn at GunBlast - 1911 Shoot-Off

Thursday, 8 May: Reloading Again

I loaded last night with my daughter some .30-06 rounds for my Savage 111 Hodgdon says
Russmo.com - Weekly posting ended
George Paine at Warblogging - Anger
Alex Jones - Police State 3: Total Enslavement
Al Lorentz at Prison Planet - Police State: The Patriots Code of Silence
Paul Craig Roberts at vdare.com - "The Rights Of Englishmen" -- The Wrongs Of American Prosecutors
Walter Williams at townhall.com - The morality of markets
Ilana Mercer at World Net Daily - Unnatural lawlessness
Cat Farmer at Strike the Root - Cops and Attitudes and Control, Oh My
Akira Web

Friday, 9 May: Remember Your Mother on Sunday

Trever - U.N. Human Rights Commission
Kim du Toit's Gratuitous Gun Pic - NAA Black Widow (.22 LR / .22 Magnum)

Saturday, 10 May: The Bradys Bunch Their Panties Again

Creditwrench
AP via Fox News - Bush Gives Qualified Support to Assault Weapons Ban Extension S. 1034 bill text
Claire Wolfe - With the New HIPAA Anti-Privacy Regulations in Effect form

Monday, 12 May: Coming Soon to America: Thomas Paine II

James G. Lakely at The Washington Times - Bush, NRA at odds on weapons ban S. 1034 H.R. 2038 bill text
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - Keelhaul Enterprise!
Jay P Hailey at The Libertarian Enterprise - Why I Took Down "Old Glory"
Jim Davidson at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Morpheus Proposal The Matrix
George F. Smith at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - Thomas Paine, Revolutionary
Elizabeth Bromstein at The Globe and Mail - A long, strange trip

Tuesday, 13 May: Wanna See My Pride and Joy?

Tao Te Ching
Asay via marcbrands.com - Strict Islamic Law
Radical Software Group - RSG-X10-1
Pride and Joy card
60 Minutes - Firing Back feedback form
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - The Phony Tax Cut Debate
Michael Gilson de Lemos at anti-state.com - The Joy of Drugs
PBS Independent Lens - Guns & Mothers
Karl Murphy at Petition Online - Let the Assault Weapons and high capacity magazine ban Sunset

Wednesday, 14 May: More on the Proposed New "Assault Weapons" Ban

Ted Rall - Heroes of the War on Iraq
Kim du Toit - Opening Salvo H.R. 2038 longer piece by publicola NRA-ILA summary
Charley Reese - No Big Difference
James Ostrowski at The Ludwig von Mises Institute - The Why of Gun Ownership
Carl F. Worden at Sierra Times - Good Cop/Bad Cop
What Really Happened - The United States Is In Deep Doodoo!
Richard Wallace at The Mirror - What Did Happen to Flight 93?

Thursday, 15 May: Ides of May, 2003

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Columba at Doing Freedom! - Buying Guns Off-Paper BATFE Taylor Firearms R&D Gun Shop Cylinders 460 foot pounds 1858 clones large selection Traditions Connecticut Valley Arms Pieta Revolvers here here *
www.stanley2002.org
Edgar J. Steele - You Get What You Need

Friday, 16 May: Lunar Eclipse

CNN - Lunar eclipse offers celestial treat
Garry Reed, The Loose Cannon Libertarian - The Coffee War
John Horgan at MSNBC - Timothy Leary revisited

Saturday, 17 May: Reloading the Matrix

Kevin Tuma - Press
Ted Rall - How Your Two-Party System Works
Christian Stories - Atheist In The Woods
A Woman's Guide on How to Pee Standing www.travelmateinfo.com
Sunni Maravillosa at free-market.net - "I'm In" -- Mostly The Matrix Reloaded
Rachel Lucas - Babwa and the Hildebeast interview
James Bovard at The American Conservative - Surveillance State Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
Downsize DC
Robert C. Martin at Artima Weblogs - One per Pixel
UICompiler for Java

Sunday, 18 May: Your Webmaster, Reloaded

Pamela Gaston - How to Respond to Contempt in the Courtroom
The Libertarian Enterprise - Letter from Jeff Fisher
Tim Condon at The Libertarian Enterprise - Statists To Libertarians: "You Can't Win!"
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - Noises
Manuel Miles, aka Kapt Kanada at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Lessons To Be Learnt From Switzerland
Vin Suprynowicz at The Libertarian Enterprise - Making It Up As They Go Along ... Privacy Alert
Dana Larsen and Reverend Damuziat Cannabis News - Marijuana Legal in Ontario
dipnut at isntapundit.com - Ooh! Ooh! Pick Me, Professor!

Monday, 19 May: The Fountain of Truth

Muzzle Energy Computer
PatriotPetitions.com - Reject Renewal of Feinstein-Schumer Gun-Control Act
Jonas Conti at gooff.com - I am Fearless
Gerard Holmgren at 911-strike.com - Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Sept. 11
The Fountain of Truth links page page of his own one-liners articles for Strike the Root Things I Wish I Had Said
Barton Gellman at The Boston Globe - Looters ransack seven facilities; US fears loss of data, materials

Wednesday, 21 May: You Are a Nigger, and So Am I

john-ross.net Unintended Consequences Ross in Range
Alan R. Weiss at smith2004-disuss - I Am a Nigger - An Assay of Truth

Thursday, 22 May: Liberty Book Shop

Tom Toles - End of the Assault Rifle Ban
Liberty Book Shop Privacy Alert Let Us Prey Never Be Sick Again A Lodging of Wayfaring Men
Alan R. Weiss - I am a Nigger - An Assay of Truth
John Ross - Abortion, Mole Removal, Helmet Laws, and Waiting Periods, or Doesn't Anyone Have Principles Anymore?
Jeff Cooper's Commentaries - May 2003, Sumer Is Icumen In Herman Hanneken

Friday, 23 May: Byrd on Iraq

Tom Toles - Top Gun, Part 2
Hermes Press - Police State USA?
Senator Robert Byrd - IRAQ
Ian McCollum at a-human-right.com - An Inquiry into the General Lack of Violent Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
Bill Whittle - Magic
Libertarian Party Press Releases - Plan to confiscate Iraqi weapons may victimize innocent civilians, Libertarians say

Saturday, 24 May: Are You a Subject, or a Citizen?

Bjørn-Magne Stuestøl and Dana Lyons at www.shagrat.net - Cows with Guns
Carter Laren at Capitalism Magazine - American Gestapo: A Primer
Aaron Zelman at JPFO - An Open Letter to Our Fathers and Grandfathers here
Robert Matthews at The Telegraph - Warning: the health police can seriously addle your brain other people's cigarette smoke will not kill you
Marni Soupcoff at The American Enterprise - I am a Subject, Not a Citizen (But You Should See Me With a Gun)
Thomas L. Knapp at Rational Review - Should we shut down Rational Review? donate subscribe pay for premium content

Sunday, 25 May: Feinstein and Schumer Wish You Were Dead

Kevin Tuma at KeepAndBearArms.com - A Gift from Caesar
Cornet Joyce II at Sierra Times - "I Really Wish You Were Dead"
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Prime Directive
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Total Information Awareness

Monday, 26 May: Memorial Day, 2003

U.S. Memorial Day History and Information on U.S. War Memorials How to Observe Memorial Day Help Restore the Traditional Day of Observance for Memorial Day
Real Guns External Ballistics Calculator links page
Justin at The High Road - Analysis of the new ban in the house- 2nd draft H.R. 2038
Bushmaster
New Scientist - Inkjet alert over forged banknotes
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - The Federal Government Bully in State and Local Elections
Steven Yates at LewRockwell.com - World Order 2021 here

Wednesday, 28 May: Death Camp Planned at Guantanamo Bay

Chris Hedges at LewRockwell.com - War and Empire
Marc J. Victor at LewRockwell.com - My Contribution to Science Pro Tem Recusal Minute Entry An Article by Dary Matera
Voltairine de Cleyre - Anarchism and American Traditions
J. Zane Walley at Siera Times - To Return To a Constitutional Society: The Five Vital Elements
news.com.au - US plans death camp
J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - Whack'em & Stack'em: A Tactical Guide for the Young Officer
Warblogging - US Violates Laws of War reporting

Thursday, 29 May: Canada to Decriminalize Pot

Randall Palmer at Reuters - Canada to decriminalize pot over U.S. objections
J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - Whack'em & Stack'em - Kill the Unarmed; No Questions Asked
George Paine at Warblogging - Free Speech Zones and John Ashcroft said
Kim du Toit - 12:00am: Range Report -- CZ 550 (6.5x55mm Swedish)

Friday, 30 May: Just Say "YES!" to Drugs

Jeff Quinn at GunBlast - The Heavy-Barreled AR-15 Varmint / Target Rifle rifles Match Target HBAR
Jacob Sullum - Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use donate here http://www.cannabisconsumers.org
Wally Conger at Strike the Root - Discovering Equilibrium Equilibrium

Saturday, 31 May: Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis Cargo Inspection System

I updated my Muzzle Energy Computer
My books arrived from Liberty Book Shop same day I ordered them A Lodging of Wayfaring Men
Too Stupid to Be President - Flight of the Chickenhawks
Bloody battle for Qantas jet
Lew Rockwell at the Ludwig von Mises Institute - The Blessings of Deflation
Beth Quinn at The Times Herald-Record - A sad obituary for a dearly departed friend: Freedom
Federal Register via Cryptome - Notice of Availability for Public Viewing of the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis Cargo Inspection System Test Facility at the Ysleta Port of Entry Commercial Cargo Facility, El Paso, TX
Rick Stanley now has a blog at rickstanley.blogspot.com Doug Kenline

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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

"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