Bush Lied, and People Died
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT
From whatreallyhappened:
From kaba:
"Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well." -- Ralph Waldo Emersonand:
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve." -- Henry George
From smith2004:
"After all the recent stupidity with 'Freedom Fries' etc, it made me chuckle tonight when I ate at the Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz to see that their fries are now called 'Impeach Bush Fries'." -- Paul Russell
From The Federalist:
"It was so cold in Montana that the lawyers had their hands in their own pockets." --David Crombieand:
"I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her." --Woody Allenand:
"Miss Hillary's new book surely will make it on The New York Times' bestseller list. The only suspense left is whether it will be placed on the fiction or nonfiction list." --Tony Blankleyand:
"Yesterday 14 members of the House of Representatives got stuck on an elevator together. The situation ended badly: They got out. But we saved a ton of money while they were in there." -- Jay Leno
From brad:
"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead." -- Leo Rostenand:
"The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal." -- Mark Twainand:
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
Kurt Amesbury at KeepAndBearArms.com - Independence Day - a rousing (fictional) account of the second American Revolution. Mirrored here. [stanleyscoop]
... Word of our daring spread quickly, and we soon found our ranks swelling with other citizens who believed in the cause of liberty and wanted to fight along side of us." "We came damned close to losing. The government of course had professional troops - not only the military, but foreign troops imported just to fight us. Mercenaries. We almost missed our last chance to remove the boot of tyranny from our necks, to throw off the heavy yoke of unconscionable taxation. We almost lost our last chance to be free." "But then the militia began to catch up with the politicians who were behind the heavy taxation and the attempt to disarm the citizens. In one night, all four senators from California and New York - all of whom had worked so hard to disarm the people - were caught and executed - by firing squad. In rapid succession, more than 27 congressmen, and another 13 senators were tried for treason and executed." "And that's when things got really interesting...
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Stirring from deep thoughts, the man's wife looked with respect and affection at the grizzled old man who was her husband and her hero. "Of course, they rewrote the Second Amendment", she said, "It wasn't the same back then. They added a line. Before the war for independence started, the Second Amendment said, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It wasn't until 2011 that they added, "Any person who questions this right in a legislative body may be shot without consequences."
Eric Raymond at Armed and Dangerous - Hacking and Refactoring - makes the case that Agile Software Development is what we used to call hacking, but stated better and made palatable to the suits in large corporations. [eric]
With these as main points, it's hardly surprising that so many of the Principles behind the Agile Manifesto read like Unix-tradition and hacker gospel. "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale. Well, yeah--we pioneered this. Or "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential." That's Unix-tradition holy writ, there. Or "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams."Nigel Bunyan at The Telegraph - Too much brushing can damage your teeth - as with everything, moderation works best. [lew]
This is stone-obvious stuff to any hacker, and exactly the sort of subversive thinking that most panics managers attached to big plans, big budgets, big up-front design, and big rigid command-and-control structures. Which may, in fact, be a key part of its appeal to hackers and agile developers--because at least one thing that points agile-movement and open-source people in the same direction is a drive to take control of our art back from the suits and get out from under big dumb management.
The most important difference I see between the hackers and the agile-movement crowd is this: the hackers are the people who never surrendered to big dumb management -- they either bailed out of the system or forted up in academia or industrial R&D labs or technical-specialty areas where pointy-haired bosses weren't permitted to do as much damage. The agile crowd, on the other hand, seems to be composed largely of people who were swallowed into the belly of the beast (waterfall-model projects, Windows, the entire conventional corporate-development hell so vividly described in David Yourdon's books) and have been smart enough not just to claw their way out but to formulate an ideology to justify not getting sucked back in.
James Leroy Wilson at LewRockwell.com - Freedom Is Honesty, and Honesty Is Freedom - Speak truth to power! [lew]
Democracy is genocide, mass bombings, mass murder. Democracy is the principle that the individual doesn't count. Democracy is resentment and envy; it is venomous hatred of foreign peoples and anyone not like "us," especially, not like "me." Democracy is the principle that all people should suffer equally.
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Isabel Paterson, in The God of the Machine laments that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states at the very beginning. (But she wrote in 1943 before the Supreme Court went completely insane). And I have never read a bigger cheerleader for American government than Rose Wilder Lane, in her Give Me Liberty and The Discovery of Freedom. And certainly Garet Garrett was no libertarian, having, in The American Story even called Prohibition a "noble experiment." Nevertheless, these three writers, like Mises, "get it." They knew what made America work, and that was free people encumbered only by small and limited government, which existed only by their own consent.
In comparison, Albert Jay Nock and H.L. Mencken, who were also contemporaries of the above, were anarchists. America worked best, not where there was small or limited government, but precisely in those places where government -- more precisely, The State -- didn't exist at all. Yet all of these defenders, anarchists or not, were part of what Murray Rothbard called the "Old Right," mainly because they had something truthful to say. Not because they were all in agreement. Not because everything they said was actually truthful, but that it was at least honestly truthful in the eyes of the writer. They believed in what they said, even at the expense of fame and fortune. It is in such people and such people alone -- those who spoke as honestly as they saw it even at personal cost -- that truth may be found. It might be found elsewhere, by accident. And it's never found among some kinds of conscientious dissenters, especially communists and other advocates of Statism. But where we see, more or less, a commitment to leave the individual alone, there will we also a commitment to truth and a strong suspicion of government. Lane, Paterson, and Garrett, and Ayn Rand afterward, may have been cheerleaders for American-style government as they understood it. But they never wrote in the hope of gaining power. They wrote instead on behalf of freedom; they supported America and American government because of how it protected American freedoms. Not because of how it took away those freedoms.
David Ashenfelter and Ben Schmitt at CentreDaily.com - 17 officers named as rogues in indictment - kaba titled this "Cops who deserve killing". Indeed. [kaba]
DETROIT - (KRT) - They dangled one man by his legs from a second-story window.From kaba comments on this story:
They threatened to kill a woman if she told anyone about the way they were treating her.
They stepped on the face of another woman with such force that they dislodged a tooth.
Prosecutors say these were not the acts of neighborhood gang members, but of 17 rogue Detroit police officers charged in a federal indictment Thursday. The officers allegedly stole drugs, firearms and money from drug dealers during a two-year reign of terror on the city's southwest side.
This is absolutly despicable. The cops shouldn't die though, they deserve to be in the general population of a penitentary, where their acts can be truly redressed!
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