End the War on Freedom

"The M16 is to rifles as a banjo is to a guitar." -- Jeff Cooper

The AWB. I'm not having any good vibes on this now. While the Democrats are the Minority across the board, the majority of the Republicans are complete Limp Dicks and wont be able to stand up for letting the AWB sunset. Indeed they are a congress full of pussies... they couldn't even get Estrada approved and that man was pure gold. Something as inflammatory as the AWB? Watch them roll over and die like a bunch of overheated, cowardly, Frenchmen. Or more aptly, like a bunch of UN bureaucrats in Iraq. "Oh no! We have Democrat Opposition! Oh No! We better surrender now because we can't get our f***ing act together or grow any dicks because we are all too busy choking on Tom Daschle's!" -- Mad Ogre

Quotes by Mr. Lizard:

All men have the right to dig their own graves, and I have the right to sell them the shovels.

Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.

The chief distinction between liberals and conservatives is that liberals believe their own propaganda.

I would rather live in a world which treated children as adults than one which treated adults as children.

Just because you hate the government and own a gun doesn't mean you're a libertarian.

Saying that man is too dependant on technology is like saying sharks are too dependant on teeth.

"Misanthropology -- the study of why so many people are so stupid, and why most of them should die, soon." -- Anonymous

"There shall not be peace on Earth until the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Denis Diderot

The text of H.R. 3193, the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act", is now available from Thomas. I don't understand all the changes to the D.C. code, but seeing that Ron Paul is a cosponsor is enough for me. I sent the following letter to John Sweeney:

I urge you to cosponsor H.R. 3193, the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act". It's time to restore the right of D.C. residents to protect themselves from criminals.

Walter E. Davis at Information Clearing House - September 11th And The Bush Administration: Compelling Evidence for Complicity - Was the Bush administration involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Dr. Davis believes so. [grabbe]

Newspapers across the country call for an investigation into Bush's lies about the reasons for war on Iraq. Many people may accept the fact of Bush's false pretext for a war on Arab people in a distant place, especially after the fact. However, few people will be as accepting if it is shown that this Administration was complicit in acts of atrocities against its own people.

The magnitude of the crisis is readily apparent by noting that 9/11 serves as a pretext for a never-ending war against the world, including preemptive strikes against defenseless, but resource rich countries. It also serves as a pretext for draconian measures of repression at home, including the cabinet level Department of Homeland Security and Patriot Act I, and its sequel. September 11th has become the cause for numerous other acts from massive increases in military spending and to a Fast Track Trade Agreement for the President.

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In this article, I outline twenty-two items of evidence and questions, each one sufficient reason to demand an investigation into why September 11th was not prevented. Together, these items suggest that the most plausible explanation of events is that the Bush Administration was complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a national and international scandal. What is being discovered will shock many people, which is one of the reasons for deliberate corporate media coverup. But a significant number of people within the U.S. see (or will see) the consistencies in the events surrounding 9/11 as described below, and what they know about U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless, the degree to which this Administration is pursuing a course of world domination at any cost is unprecedented. One of the best ways of putting a halt to this destructive course is to expose the Bush Administration and insist on their accountability to the American people. Thus, the intent of this article is to help fill the void in the media on the issue of the Bush Administration's complicity in 9/11.

Dave Duffy at Backwoods Home Magazine - Mousers and cat loonies - Mr. Duffy needed to replenish his supply of mousing cats recently. He ran into some loony tunes before he finally got his new cats.

I must really be old fashioned. I live in the country and have plenty of rodents running around, just like many of you, so I need a few mousers to keep things under control. It's a great life for a cat. They've got so many things to hunt they hardly bother with their cat food. But the cats themselves sometimes get picked off by a bobcat, owl, or mountain lion, so you have to replace them now and then.

That's the situation I was in recently, so I looked around for a cat at an obvious place--the nearest animal shelter. After picking out a couple of nice kitties that I knew would love my barn and its inhabitants, the smiling lady cat attendant handed me a piece of paper and said I had to read and sign it. It was a contract promising not to abuse the cats. No problem; I like cats. But above where I was to sign was a statement giving them permission for one year to come into my house any time, without warning, so they could inspect it to make sure the cats had a good environment.

I looked at the attendant with more than a little surprise on my face and read that part of the contract to her and said, "That's just a joke right?"

"No it's not," she said firmly. "We need to know that these cats are going to a good home."

Mr. Lizard - In Praise Of The Shattered Society - a wonderfully optimistic view of the end of society as we know it. LibertyForum mirror and discussion here. Mr. Lizard calls himself the "Global Village Grouch." Check out his Political FAQ. [libertyforum]

The illusion which we called 'society' is coming to an end. I'd say the inevitability factor here is so high that we might as well admit it has ended already, and get on with the new twenty cents...er...paradigm. What is coming now, what is effectively here already, is the next phase in human societal evolution -- beyond family, beyond tribe, beyond nation -- we are forming societies based on common interest, communities based not on where we live but on who we are. These societies have their own customs, their own rules, their own ambassadors to other such societies. These are not societies formed to fight the sabretooth tiger or pave the streets. These are societies formed to fulfill the actual needs of the individuals who compose them. In these societies, the needs of the individual and the good of society are one, because the society exists solely as a consensual entity. You aren't born into these societies, you join them.

Why does this scare the sort of people who write for Atlantic and have letters printed in the New York Times? Because it means the end of their power. It means the end of artificial consensus, it means the end of leaders who set the pace and followers who follow. It means the end of the sanctioning of art, literature, or opinion as 'mainstream' or 'fringe'. It means that everyone is creator and critic, where every individual decides whose opinions matter to him and whose do not. The movie critic is replaced by the rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup, and ten thousand threads in a hundred thousand forums replace the editorial pages. When it is as easy to reach one page on the Web as it is to reach another, when every opinion is an equal click away, then there is no creation of 'proper' and 'improper' opinions. It will no longer be the case that the 'mainstream' opinions get slick coverage in TIME and the 'fringe' gets mimeographed handouts. There will be no way to zone ideas where they will not be seen by the rank-and-file, no way to proclaim the 'correct' range of opinions.

No more consensus. And with it, no more of the sick joke we call Democracy. How much longer can the government continue to claim legitimacy when it represents an ever dwindling percentage of the population? How can the government even function, when decisions cannot be reduced to a binary 'yes/no', but instead must account for a thousand variations of opinion? Even the 'mass' media is no longer so massive....from three networks to a hundred cable channels, to a million Webcasts. What would once have been isolated incidents or local outrages become national, even international, outcries. The Church of Scientology is fighting a hydra distributing its 'secret' documents, and it is draining itself in lawsuits faster than it can drain its foes. Cybersitters' fascism, which would once have been unrevealed for fear of losing an advertiser, is now front-page news -- because the net never lets a story die. There is no sweeping a scandal, real or imagined, under the rug, because there will always be someone with a gripe and a modem to keep it alive.

Mr. Lizard - The Enemies List - over five years old, so some of it is no longer relevant, but entertaining anyway. Mr. Lizard picks a list of notorious censors, links to their web sites, and rates them with one to three burning books.

What kind of criminal doesn't hide their crimes? The kind who is so depraved, so immoral, so twisted, disgusting, and souldead as to not even realize what they are doing is wrong. There aren't many of them in human history, even given the basic nature of man. Coverups and the like are endemic to our elected officials, but, at least, they realize, like a cat, that they have done something which should be covered up, something they should be ashamed of. It takes a special kind of ethical insolvency to not even seek to hide the evidence of your wrongdoing.

And there's another reason to link to them, and I'm going to quote myself (Though I've heard you can go blind doing that)

Remembers, boils and ghouls -- the point of free speech isn't to permit speech we agree with. It's to permit speech we don't agree with, ideas and concepts we find vile, repulsive, and wrong. And there's no point in having a free society, where all views can be aired openly and freely, if we only read 'our side' of things. I regularly read the Religious Right web pages, and Radical Left web pages, and Aryan web pages and JDL web pages and all sorts of things. I'm not going to be 'corrupted' or 'contaminated' by being exposed to the ideas of those who disagree with me -- at worst, I'll have a good chuckle, and, at best, I'll learn to understand my enemy that much better.

Mr. Lizard's Journal of Applied Misanthropology - Visions of Hell - Dante meets Mickey. Hahahahaha.

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