End the War on Freedom

I loaded last night with my daughter some .30-06 rounds for my Savage 111. She cleaned out the primer pockets, chamfered the cases after trimming, and seated the bullets. I neck-sized, trimmed, primed, and threw powder. I usually don't crimp .30-06. I used 48 grains of H4895 and 150 grain Speer boat tail soft points. This is one grain below the max listed in my Lee handbook. Hodgdon says you can use up to 51 grains. I need to buy some 200 grain bullets, just to see what they're like.

Russmo.com - Weekly posting ended - Russmo's income, mostly from small conservative newspapers, has dropped precipitously due to his anti-war stance. He is going to change his focus to his non-political art work, doing only one cartoon a month. Good luck to you, sir! [rrnd]

George Paine at Warblogging - Anger - Mr. Paine is angry. Very angry. And rightly so. [warblogging]

I can't imagine that we live in a country -- our United States! -- where people routinely e-mail me asking me if I feel safe writing what I say. I'm absolutely ashamed that members of my family have to ask me if I'm worried that the Government will come after me. I'm furious that my relatives, friends and readers ask if I'm worried of tax audits -- or worse -- as retaliation for what I write here on Warblogging.

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What does this all add up to? I see only one pattern here: fascism.

Do you in the White House and in Congress hear me? How about you guys in the Department of Defense and the FBI? In the US Courts system? In the INS and in Homeland Security? I know you read Warblogging. I know you're reading this. What do you think of what I say here? Do you dare try to defend your policies, your lies and your oppression? I invite you to post comments! You've been lurkers for too long! Come forward, show yourselves, defend yourselves!

Alex Jones - Police State 3: Total Enslavement - A new video about this final chapter in the New World Order's enslavement of humanity. $25.95. Ships in one week. [patrick]

Al Lorentz at Prison Planet - Police State: The Patriots Code of Silence - don't tell cops anything. Ever. [patrick]

In SERE school (Survive, Evade, Resist and Escape), we learned that if you started talking, instead of the enemy going lighter on you, they would come down on you much harder. Further, anything you said would not only be used against you, it would be used against your friends. If you share even the slightest bit of information, the enemy will take that information, add to it the things that they already know and then use it to break your friends down.

Many people unwisely try to talk themselves out of an arrest or a ticket. Unless you are the slickest salesman on the face of the earth, the chances of talking your way out of a ticket are slim to none. Once you are arrested, there is absolutely no need to try and talk your way out of the arrest. Once arrested, the cop has shown that he fully intends to book you or take you to the police station where charges will be preferred against you.

When you are arrested, the best thing you can do is KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Push your teeth together, seal your lips and breathe through your nose. Say nothing except the following "I want an attorney please". Answer every question, regardless of how ridiculous your answer may seem with that statement or something almost identical to it.

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NEVER trust a federal agent. I am not alone in this view, I know many veteran cops who will say exactly the same thing. My cop friends, when talking to the feds have a common answer to anything a Fed says to them, even simple things such as "hello" elicit the response of "talk to my attorney".

Paul Craig Roberts at vdare.com - "The Rights Of Englishmen" -- The Wrongs Of American Prosecutors - on the destruction of mens rea, the principle that a criminal act requires intent to do harm. [birdman]

Be warned: law, once a shield of the innocent, is now a weapon in the hands of government.

Walter Williams at townhall.com - The morality of markets - Mr. Williams doesn't go quite as far as saying, "Taxation is theft," but he gets close. Bravo! [trt-ny]

Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what's moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral -- they also violate private property.

Here's an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: "What's wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!"

If you take that position, isn't it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person's earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we'd deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people's money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it's still theft, but with an important difference: It's legal, and participants aren't jailed.

Ilana Mercer at World Net Daily - Unnatural lawlessness - somehow, the Busheviks have convinced a large part of the country that initiating a war is OK. Actually, it's a war crime, and they should all be tried and hanged. [rrnd]

This is a testament to the administration's achievements. In mere months, Washington has radically transformed the way most Americans -- including some libertarians -- think. True to their Trotskyite roots, the ideologues in this administration have been catalysts for a consciousness lowering -- not raising -- among most Americans, breaking down and even inverting certain civilizing precepts which only a short while ago united us.

Commentator Eric S. Margolis offered up a quote by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, America's senior representative at the 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials, and the tribunal's chief prosecutor. It highlights all the more the gaping moral void that has opened up in American society:

"We must make clear to the Germans," said Jackson, "that the wrong for which their leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."

Cat Farmer at Strike the Root - Cops and Attitudes and Control, Oh My - some out loud thinking on centralized control. [rrnd]

Admittedly, there's something about badges and uniforms that attract human qualities that I just don't care for: a proclivity to follow orders; a militaristic mindset that relies heavily on the threat or use of force to conjure an illusion of respect; often a sense of superiority that accompanies the possession of brute force and enough moral ambivalence to use it without much hesitation. Wouldn't it be nice, I asked myself, if cops actually allowed us to be safer, instead of being one of the chief threats a citizen encounters in everyday life? Wouldn't it be nice if the courts and judges served some genuine standard of justice, instead of making injustice appear progressively more legitimate and normal?

I know cops aren't necessarily bad people; they work for a living, and it's got to be a tough job. Problems arise because police work for the state: They follow the orders their employer gives them, or lose their jobs. The state is interested primarily in revenue and control: As a result, cops have speeding ticket quotas to meet, and civilians may be pulled over for not wearing seat belts; as if that should be anyone else's business. A cop may feel obliged to bust people for behaviors that neither he nor they consider criminal; the criminal probably won't be afraid of him, while the law-abiding citizen is likely to be intimidated. How many cops grasp the fact that there's something seriously wrong with that picture? Hopefully, some do.

As a human, I'd like to view the police with the same type of respect and appreciation as the plumber, the electrician, the ambulance driver, or anyone else who might respond to an emergency situation. The difference, of course, is that I pay the plumber when I need his services, and he treats me with respect; he's an ordinary person doing his job, and we both benefit from the arrangement. The police are paid regardless of my need or desire for their services with tax money that is taken from me involuntarily; they do not account to me for their services, most of which I didn't desire and fail to appreciate, and if I do need them someday, I can only hope they show up.

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