Annheuser-Busch Rocks

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMT

From libertyforum:

"Do you pay your taxes because of altruistic compassion and concern for those less fortunate in society or because Uncle Sam is going to bust a cap upside your head if you don't?" -- Doug Newman

Ann Schrader at The Denver Post - Official advises jurors on God's law - Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall has been handing out copies of the Citizen's Rule Book. Bravo, Mr. Paschall! [kaba]

Carmen J. Lee at the (Pittsburgh, PA) Post-Gazette - Hidden blades in schools point to growing concern - Ballpoint pens containing knives. Oh, my! Lions and tigers and bears. Oh, my! I sent the following letter to the editor: [kaba]

Carmen J. Lee made a big deal about students of the Duquesne City School District carrying knives disguised as pens. What's the problem here?

It wasn't long ago when every kid carried a pocket knife, always and everywhere, and lots of them, from the age of 12, brought their .22 rifles to school so they could use them to hunt squirrels on the way home. That's the America I want to live in.

If there are too many violent kids in the schools, it's a problem with the kids or their parents. No metal detector can solve it. No zero tolerance rule can solve it. Teach them morals (absolute, not relative, morals) and make sure that bad behavior (actual, not potential, bad behavior) has severe and immediate consequences. The good kids will then keep the bad kids in line.

By Jo Mannies at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch - A-B drops support of Holden over guns - Anheuser-Busch, brewer of Buddweiser, Michelog, Busch, and other beer brands, and the largest corporate player in Missouri politics, has dropped its support of governor Holden over his anti-gun stance. Bravo! [trt-ny smith2004]

Republican and Democratic sources say the brewery's decision not to support the governor's re-election next year is highly unusual in light of its long-standing reputation as a donor which gives generously to both parties and their candidates, regardless of their views.

Before Holden vetoed the [concealed carry] bill last summer, sources say, a brewery lobbyist showed up at the governor's office to tell him that such action would end the long-standing support he'd enjoyed from Anheuser-Busch and its executives. Holden confirmed that position later in phone conversations with Anheuser-Busch Cos. Chairman August A. Busch III and corporate group vice president Stephen K. Lambright, sources said.

CNN - Discovery may spur cheap solar power - they think they can get twenty cents a watt, vs four dollars a watt for current solar cells. Hope it's true. [smith2004]

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Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

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Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

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Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

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Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

(Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP")

Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

Concise

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

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Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

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This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

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-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

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