Big Brother in Every Bullet

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT
Musings of The GeekWithA.45 - Not Fit For Power - tears to bits the "gun control" portion of the 2000 Democrat Party National Platform. What the geek forgot to say is that though their rhetoric is better, the actions of the Republicans have shown time and again that they too are unfit to lead a free people. A free people lead themselves, or choose their individual leaders individually. I have added GeekWithA.45 to my links page, underneath Kim du Toit's link in the "Weblogs" column of the "News" section. I also commented out the Survival Arts link, which has unfortunately been dead for a few months now.
All in all, not one line of the Democrats platform shows any knowledge of facts, wisdom of judgement, or bias towards the Liberty of the People on gun issues.

To blatantly steal a line from Kim DuToit, "The Democrats Must Never Ever Be Granted Access To The Levers of Power".

They are not fit to lead a free people.
I found the geek's page via a Google search for the Hi-Point Carbine. I met a guy at the range yesterday with one of these (and an AK and a FAL and a 7mm Mauser and a 7mm Magnum). Christopher and I fired 10 shots each. Christopher loved it because it's light enough for him to shoot off-hand. Retail: $200, street: $160. It's ugly and cheap looking, but the guy said that it goes bang every time and has never failed to feed.

JPFO Alerts - Big Brother In Your Holster: Your Help Needed in Chicago (and Everywhere) - the control freaks want to tag your guns and bullets (and clothes and money) so they can identify you and your stuff wherever you and they go. CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) is planning a protest a week from tomorrow (9/16) at McCormick Place is Chicago at 10am. [jpfo]

Two companies, NEC and Hitachi, have announced radio-frequency ID chips (RFID) the size of the period in this sentence. These chips broadcast a "unique identifying number" to nearby scanners - numbers that can be read through your clothes, your holster, or your fanny pack. The RFID industry has already said it wants every, single product manufactured anywhere in the world to carry these chips. And NEC quickly announced one of its first intended uses--to track bullets. Every bullet ever manufactured on the planet.

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A message from Katherine Albrecht:

On Sept 15-17 the nasty men at the Auto-ID Center are officially launching their EPC (RFID) "spy chip" network at a convention at McCormick Place in Chicago. You may be familiar with their plans to use tiny speck-of-dust sized computer chips to number every item on the planet and track it (and us) all via the Internet.

Claire Wolfe - URGENT! CAN YOU HELP CASPIAN HELP PRIVACY AND GUN RIGHTS? - more on the protest. [claire]

George F. Smith at Laissez Faire Electronic Times - Alan Greenspan, Come Home - the chairman of the Fed used to be one of its biggest opponents. Come back, Mr. Greenspan. [grabbe]

To make money, banks loan out more than the amount of their gold deposits. This works until banks expand credit too rapidly and hit the limit they can loan based on their gold reserves. Then banks raise interest rates, restricting borrowing on new ventures and business expansion. Prior to World War I, this happened occasionally and sent the economy into short-lived recessions.

But economic interventionists had an idea. If limited bank reserves were the cause of recessions, "why not find a way of supplying increased reserves to the banks so they never need be short!" This way, expansion could go on indefinitely and render slumps a thing of the past.

In your eloquent words, "the process of cure was misdiagnosed as the disease" and served as an excuse for creating a central bank, the Federal Reserve System, in 1913.

The Memory Hole - White House Alters Webpages About Iraq Combat - the White House page giving text and photos of GW's speech on the aircraft carrier changed recently from "President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended" to President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended" (emphasis added). A little rewrite to make history more compatible with reality, eh? [grabbe]

CNN - Bush's address to the nation - GW talked for 15 minutes last night. No mention of Iran. He wants $86 billion, that's $344 for every man, woman, and child in the country, almost $1400 out of my pocket.

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