9/11/2003
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT
A Great Need
Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.
From The Federalist:
"...I've called for whatever it takes to be so strong that no other nation will dare violate the peace. If that means superiority, so be it. ... You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. [I]s it worth dying for...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools...." -- Ronald Reaganand (from two years ago):
"Nothing would please the terrorists more than if we willingly gave up some of our cherished liberties because of their actions." --Rep. Ron Paul
R.K. Campbell at Gunweek - New Breed Colt Commander Becomes Favorite Carry Gun - 1911s are everywhere! Remember, if it's not a Colt, it's a copy. Hehe. [gunweek]
The more we shoot our guns the more we enjoy the soft and gentle shooting characteristics of the full-length Colt 1911. I am never more pleased than when firing a full-length Government Model loaded with a mild 200-grain SWC loading. Practical considerations and reality dictate other choices for concealed carry and personal defense. I load full-power loads in the 1911 and sometimes carry a short, light 1911 variant when self-defense is the mission.
My situation has changed dramatically in the past few years. After 23 years as a peace officer, I am now a private citizen. During my police career, I most often carried a full-size 1911 on duty and off. The acclimation period can be daunting and is not to be made light of. I had good reason to desire to carry the same pistol on a 24-hour basis. Quality arms are not inexpensive, and I did not desire to invest time, money and training in a second quality handgun. Times changed, but I maintained this philosophy throughout my career.
I understand those who carry a smaller gun off duty. The difference between hanging a gun on a well-designed harness and actually wearing one on the body, concealed, is profound, but I did so for many years. Episodes such as finding myself on the "hit list" of a Neo-Nazi group did little to make me wish to carry anything lighter. I discovered the Commander early in my career.
By Amy Worthington at The Idaho Observer via Rense.com - Airport Travelers To Get Ionizing X-Ray Radiation - the new Taking Scissors Away X-Ray scanners will likely cause cancer. X-Rays are to be avoided whenever possible. [whatreallyhappened]
Meantime, TSA claims concern that Americans may feel humiliated at being viewed naked by X-ray screeners. But whatever airport nuke-nazis see through our clothing is nothing that the undertaker won't see after excessive, state-mandated radiation puts us "down" for good. Mandatory airport surveillance radiation delivered to an already grossly ill population would afford our financially strapped government an ingenious "final solution" to numerous political and economic problems. No muss, no fuss, this cull in the Cuckoos' nest. Each useless eater lines up for his deferred-lethal dose. The weak will die soonest, the strong will eventually become the weak--no questions asked and nothing proven. It's hard for a Prozac nation to imagine such sinister motives behind the terror industry, but the documented truth is, our amoral leadership has been brazenly murdering Americans for decades.38 Genocide specialists have been especially fond of unleashing various forms of deadly radiation on the unwitting masses, as documented by the federal Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.39 Now here we go again!
Consumers could derail TSA's sinister surveillance projects in a heartbeat. It's called boycott: We simply refuse to get nuked to naked. If we stop booking flights, the airline industry must grind to a halt. TSA would have little choice but to scrap its plans to endanger the national health with unnecessary radiation.
Lewis J. Goldberg at Sierra Times - No Gun Laws - Period - Mr. Goldberg reminds us of what the second amendment means. [kaba]
Our glorious, dead-letter Constitution states that the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Is the definition of 'uninfringed' equal to 'up to 20,000 laws, but no more than?' I know this will infuriate the nanny-statist heathens in Washington, DC, but 'not infringed' means if you're tall enough to put your money on the counter, you can have a gun. That also means convicted felons can and should be able to own firearms.
Goldberg...you've gone nuts! No, let us examine this issue [and I did this before, a few years ago, but it bears repeating.] Our nation was built on private ownership of firearms. You may hate guns, but were it not for them, you would not be here today to whine about them. Being that it is the right of every free man to own weapons, if a man cannot be trusted with a weapon upon release from prison, he should not be let out. This fundamentally simple concept speaks volumes about the failure of our judicial system to hand out punishments consistent with the crimes committed.
Gary North at LewRockwell.com - Eminent Remains: The Buried Legacy of the Original Ground Zero - if it was the intention of the 9/11 terrorists to destroy a symbol of American capitalism, they failed. The World Trade Center was no such thing. If it was their intention to destroy our way of life, they were too late. The people who built the Twin Towers, and their ilk, beat them to it. [smith2004]
The Twin Towers project was a combination of four crucial factors: (1) David Rockefeller's desire to raise property values in lower Manhattan; (2) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's appointees, who controlled the Board of the Port Authority; (3) taxpayers' credit, which was used to underwrite bonds to build the Twin Towers; (4) exemption from all New York City building codes and taxes.
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Ground zero has therefore appeared twice. The Port Authority, backed by the states of New York and New Jersey, leveled the buildings occupied by small capitalists. This was all legal. The civil government's power of eminent domain was used to create a pair of uneconomic technological marvels. Burn's documentary reports that it was two decades before the project began turning a subsidized, tax-free profit.
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What we do not hear in all of the media-covered discussions regarding what to do with Ground Zero is a discussion of who owns the property. All talk about parks, shrines, monuments, large towers, no towers, and all the rest of it leaves out the fundamental issue: Who owns the land?
The Twin Towers were conceived in the sin of eminent domain and leased in the iniquity of state ownership. They became symbols of state capitalism, towering emblems of technology and tax exemption. They were targets of hatred by terrorists, and they became retroactive towers of American power after they were destroyed.
Until Burns' documentary, no one gave a thought to the careers and dreams toppled by the Port Authority in the 1960's. No one shed tears on behalf of the original victims.
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The best use of Ground Zero was not the Twin Towers. The best use was those little stores run by nobodies. Nobody mourned the nobodies on 9/11, for by then, the collective acts of legalized terrorism that had driven them off their land were long forgotten.
