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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:00:00 GMT

From NoGov4me.Net:

"Anarchy is not chaos. It is not destruction. It is simply the absence of 'government'. The agency most people erroneously identify as 'government' today is in reality a gang of lawyers, armed thugs, and con artists backed by an army of bureaucrats, which operates an immense array of protection and other rackets financed through extortion and fraud." -- Bill Malloy

I have added HaloScan comments. Click on the "Comment (n)" link below the title bar of each day to pop up a comments window. As long as you "own" your comment, with your real name and email address, I will almost certainly let it stand. If you post anonymously, and your post offends me, I may delete it. Of course, I reserve the right to delete any post for any reason. This weblog is my property. I control it. But I encourage reasoned debate, no matter how much your opinion disagrees with mine. [geekwitha.45]

Joyce Lee Malcolm at Reason - Gun Control's Twisted Outcome - forbidding the use of defensive weapons, including firearms, has caused England's violent crime rate to soar above the United States. [scopeny]

The illusion that the English government had protected its citizens by disarming them seemed credible because few realized the country had an astonishingly low level of armed crime even before guns were restricted. A government study for the years 1890-92, for example, found only three handgun homicides, an average of one a year, in a population of 30 million. In 1904 there were only four armed robberies in London, then the largest city in the world. A hundred years and many gun laws later, the BBC reported that England's firearms restrictions "seem to have had little impact in the criminal underworld." Guns are virtually outlawed, and, as the old slogan predicted, only outlaws have guns. Worse, they are increasingly ready to use them.

Bob Wallace at LewRockwell.com - Guns and the Dumb - why safety training works better than prohibition when it comes to firearms. Mostly because safety training works and prohibition doesn't. [trt-ny]

I will, guaranteed, trust a 13-year-old raised with firearms over a 40-year-old who wasn't.

George W. Bush at Whitehall Palace via The Federalist - President Bush Discusses Iraq Policy at Whitehall Palace in London - a 39 minute speech given on Wednesday. Good speech. If only I weren't convinced that the whole thing was a lie. [trt-ny]

Jim Duensing at The Libertarian Enterprise - Homosexual Marriage - why we should oppose state recognition of homosexual marriage. There is nothing wrong with people having lifelong, committed relationships with other people of the same sex. The problem is that it expands the domain of government power. Instead, we should get government's tentacles out of the marriage contract. [tle]

The Libertarian Enterprise - Letters to the Editor - some conversation, mostly from smith2004, between Scott Bieser, Lehr Duquesne, and Alan R. Weiss. [tle]

Patrick K Martin at The Libertarian Enterprise - The Murder of a President; and the death of a constitution - reflections on the murder of John F. Kennedy and the ensuing government coverup. [tle]

Well, I could go on trying to be funny about it, but I won't. The fact of the matter is that we, the American people have been lied to for forty years, and we all know it. It doesn't matter who pulled that trigger or triggers in Dallas, because the important part is that members of the US government and it's agents and agencies have participated in a conspiracy to cover it up. The FBI, the CIA, the US Military, or at least the higher ups in these organizations at the time, helped to carry out a coup in this country, and we all know it. The downfall of our constitution happened on the day that the president died. The welfare/warfare state created by LBJ and the others who assisted in this crime persists to this day and drags us all ever closer to total slavery, and America knows it.

For forty years we have been dragged through Vietnam, the war on (some) drugs, radical environmentalism, the oil crises, welfare, inflation, the loss of our constitutional rights at all levels and we have done nothing. We have not rioted, we have not risen up, we have not hanged any congress-critters, refused to pay taxes, refused to sit on juries, refused to keep feeding the juggernaut that is grinding away the ideals that are America. Oh sure, a few people have acted, and too many of us applauded as these malcontents were dealt with by the minions of law-enforcement. Most of us however have sat on our butts, whining about the injustice of it all as we watch our money being stolen from us, our kids indoctrinated and our rights ignored. Why, because we all know that no matter how much we believe in the power of the individual, no matter how dedicated we are to freedom, we also know that raw physical force is one thing that is cumulative and it's on their side, not ours.

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Government doesn't work. Never did. Never will. Can't. But there are lots of good people. Love them.

-- Bill St. Clair

The Atlanta Declaration

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.

-- L. Neil Smith

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

A Penalty Clause for the Bill of Rights

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.

-- L. Neil Smith

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.

Who is a libertarian?

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."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

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.

-- L. Neil Smith

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.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- 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.

-- Bill St. Clair