Gang Colors

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:00:00 GMT

# Ron Paul in The U.S. House of Representatives - What If (It was all a Big Mistake)? - a host of questions that need to be answered, and acted upon, if America is to once again be a beacon of liberty. Great speech, given in the House on January 26.

16. What if democracy is deeply flawed, and instead we should be talking about liberty, property rights, free markets, the rule of law, localized government, weak centralized government, and self-determination promoted through persuasion, not force?

# L. Reichard White at America in Denial - A Terrorist by Any Other Name ... - The Star Tribune doesn't allow government groups to be labelled as "terrorists". Whyever not? The death toll of innocent civilians at the hands of governments dwarfs the killing by other "terrorists".

# L. Reichard White at America in Denial - The BIG Picture - why we'll never fix the government. We either have to overthrow it, or wait for it to collapse under its own weight.

Sam Steiger is a former six-term US Congressman from Arizona. This means he served in the US House of Representatives for some 12 years. He ran for governor of Arizona on the Libertarian ticket in 1984. He's a genuine gentleman rancher and has the "people's touch." At a talk given July 31, 1982, at The Nevada Libertarian Party "CANDIDATE'S CONVENTION" in Las Vegas, Nevada, he suggested what he modestly called "Steiger's Law." He stated it as:
"People involved in a structure spend more time and energy maintaining that structure than in working toward its goals."
During a question period, I asked him "How much more?" After a moment or two of thought, he suggested about 85% was spent maintaining and about 15% working. He added with a twinkle, "But that's only if it's a very good organization." Thus for me, Steiger's Law became:
"People in a very good structure spend 85% of their time and energy maintaining the structure and only about 15% working towards its stated goals."
This clearly applies to government organizations in particular, and is the basis of one of the main problems we have with them.

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Kamin's 4th Law: Governments will grow until destroyed by war or revolution.

# Michele Morgan Bolton at The Albany (NY) Times Union - Colorful beads lead to court - A Mont Pleasant middle school student's patriotic red, white, and blue necklace was banned because it might be gang colors. I wrote the following letter to the editor:

Gang Colors

The February 17 edition of the TU reported on Raven Fubert's federal lawsuit over the banning of her patriotic red, white, and blue necklace. That Mont Pleasant Middle School "officials" consider her beads to be "gang colors" is absurd. Or maybe not. After all, the U.S. government is the world's most dangerous gang of thugs, killing innocent women and children every day. But hey, they're Iraqis, not Americans, so it's OK. Not!

Bill St. Clair

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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