NIPR.MIL: St. Clair vs United States

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT
I received my copy of Innocents Betrayed, and watched it twice last night. Very well done, and graphic, review of the government mass murders of the twentieth century. Credible connection of those murders with the prior disarming of the people. Will it convince any of the victim disarmament crowd? Don't know.

Jeff Snyder at The Federal Observer - Walter Mitty's Second Amendment - a fictional tale of a gun-owning people who repeatedly do nothing about infringements on their liberties. After all, they own guns, so they can defend themselves. But they don't. So of what use are the guns? I read this in Mr. Snyder's book, Nation of Cowards, which I highly recommend.

Claire Wolfe - Some Good Views and Some Bad Views on the New Novel Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Claire mostly like Matt Bracken's new novel. But she had some problems with the second half of the book. [claire]

Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - The ever-expanding Patriot Act - the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act was purportedly drafted to help capture terrorists. Well, as always happens, the JBTs (Jack-Booted Thugs) are stretching that purpose as far as they possibly can.

Found this in my log file. Is this a message from someone in the government browsing via nipr.mil (apparently the domain name of routers/firewalls that protect government computers from the internet), or was someone actually looking for a past case? My site does come in the first page of this search, so that's probably where it came from. And I get lots of other nipr.mil hits that look like random search engine links. Anyway, if you see me miss more than a day or two of blogging without warning...

bu-wcs2-kelly.nipr.mil - - [22/Sep/2003:09:06:37 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 7491 "http://search.msn.com/preview.aspx?&q=st+clair+vs+united+states" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

John Ross - Missouri Concealed Carry Training Greater St. Louis Area - if you live near St. Louis, and would like to get the CCW training required by Missouri's new CCW law, John Ross is offering an eight-hour course for $100.

Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Reject UN Gun Control - a speech Dr. Paul gave on the House floor on September 18, introducing (I believe) H.R.3125, the text of which is not yet available from Thomas.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act." This legislation prohibits US taxpayer dollars from being used to support or promote any United Nations actions that could infringe on the Second Amendment. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act also expresses the sense of Congress that proposals to tax, or otherwise limit, the right to keep and bear arms are "reprehensible and deserving of condemnation."

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Contrary to the UN propaganda, the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right and, according to the drafters of the Constitution, the guardian of every other right. Scholar John Lott has shown that respecting the right to keep and bear arms is one of the best ways governments can reduce crime. Conversely, cities where the government imposes gun control have higher crime rates. Far from making people safer, gun control endangers innocent people by increasing the odds that they will be victimized!

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Reject UN Gun Control - same title, but different content. An essay with a little more about why Dr. Paul introducted the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act" (though it doesn't mention any legislation).

Perhaps the biggest threat to gun rights in America today comes not from domestic lawmakers, but from abroad. Even as support for gun control wanes at home, globalist bureaucrats are working to override national sovereignty and craft international gun laws.

Larken Rose at KeepAndBearArms.com - Why Fear an Armed Public? - unless you're a tyrant who routinely does things that would make the average Joe want to shoot you. Like the i.r.s. agents who raided Mr. Larken's home last May.

At some point the same agent asked me if my guns were "registered." I wasn't sure what he meant, so I answered that they were all purchased legally. He asked again if they were "registered." When I told him that we don't register guns in Pennsylvania, he arrogantly mocked my claim. His arrogance faded, however, after the local cop confirmed that we don't register firearms here. (That convinced me that this agent was another import from the left coast.)

But the agents conveyed more to me than what their words literally said. They were quite visibly disturbed at the idea of a mere peasant like me being armed. Why? I have never threatened them (or anyone else) with violence. I walked away from my firearms to get to the door to let them in. So what was the problem? The answer is quite simple: they were doing things that they thought were likely to result in someone shooting them. The local cop wasn't scared of my firearms. (He even asked where I got my nifty little combination safe for my handguns.) He wasn't the one whose idea it was to pull a Gestapo stunt on me. He wasn't doing anything which might make him fear my guns.

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