It Better End Soon

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:00:00 GMT

From jomama:

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." -- Mark Twain

# Kim du Toit - Hotties With Guns (3) - Wow! Dig that holstered Serbu Shorty. Yum-mee! Girl's nice, too. [kimdutoit]

# I played Chicago II on my drive to work yesterday morning. I was a big Chicago fan in high school. Played trombone in a 10-piece band that did lots of their songs. During It Better End Soon, I started sobbing, realizing that the bastards are doing now exactly what they did 30 years ago during the Vietnam war. I became angry and imagined being in a large room with the neoslime. I yelled, "GO TO HELL! NOW!! BANG!!!". I meant it. It better end soon. We've gotta make it end. Soon.

Can't stand it no more
The people dying
Crying for help for so many years
But nobody hears
Better end soon my friend
It better end soon my friend

Can't take it no more
The people hating
Hurting their brothers
They don't understand
They can't understand
Better end soon my friend
It better end soon

Hey, everybody
Won't you just look around
Can't anybody see?
Just what's going down
Can't you take the time?
Just to feel
Just to feel what is real
If you do
Then you'll see that we got a raw deal
They're killing everybody
I wish it weren't true
They say we got to make war
Or the economy will fall
But if we don't stop
We won't be around no more
They're ruining this world
For you and me
The big heads of state
Won't let us be free
They made the rules once
But it didn't work out
Now we must try again
Before they kill us off
No more dying!
No more killing
No more dying
No more fighting
We don't want to die
No, we don't want to die
Please let's change it all
Please let's make it all
Good for the present
And better for the future
Let's just love one another
Let's show peace for each other
We can make it happen
Let's just make it happen
We can change this world
Please let's change this world
Please let's make it happen for our children
For our women
Change the world
Please make it happen
Come on
Come on
Please
Come on
It's up to me
It's up to you
So let's do it now
Yeah
Do it now

Can't stand it no more
The people cheating
Burning each other
They know it ain't right
How can it be right
Better end soon my friend
It better end soon my friend

# Claire Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine - Twelve Tips for Toppling Tyrants - unfortunately, one of them ain't shooting the bastards, mostly because that won't work unless lots of us do it simultaneously. More's the shame. "Don't panic... Don't allow your enemies to push your buttons... Stay focused on what you want to achieve in the long run... Pick your battles... Play to your own strengths... Practice creative chaos... Recognize and take advantage of opportunities... Hone your own free-living skills... Strengthen your community... Be the leader you're looking for... Accept that things are going to get worse before they get better... Turn burnout into an opportunity for renewal."

We must wear tyrants down without wearing ourselves out! And we must also remember that every tyranny, every empire, every top-heavy government will eventually defeat itself with its own excesses. Our greatest roles will be first to give tyranny a push when it's starting to wobble and second to be ready to restore freedom in its place. Act too soon, act randomly, or act foolishly -- and we defeat ourselves rather than our enemies.

We are small, so we must be very, very, very wise.

# Stevie Wonder's new single, So What the Fuss, continues to please. I'm playing it right now, and dancing in my seat. iTunes says this is my 35th play since I got it on Monday afternoon. The nearest competitor (Joe Walsh'es Funk #49) has only 18 plays.

# Opera - P2P Revolution: Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology - an April Fool's day press release. Hehe. [brad]

Opera is spearheading the development to let people communicate without using a keyboard, and the new SoundWave technology was accidently discovered during an R&D study to speech-enable Opera's e-mail client. One of Opera's desktop developers needed to find an alternative way to relay a message to his colleague at a time when the e-mail server was down, and was startled to notice that his verbal outcry was intercepted and understood immediately.

# Google Gulp looks like another April Fool's joke. Hehe. [google]

At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.

# David Codrea - Feinstein Arrested After Gun Mishap - too good to be true, unfortunately. [codrea]

'If this can happen to an experienced gun handler like Senator Feinstein,' an unidentified aide told the crowd, 'it shows the need for heightened legislation.'

# Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFFector, Vol. 18, No. 11a, April 1, 2005 - an April Fool's Day edition. Hehe. [eff]

# Josie Roberts at The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Me & my AK-47 - Ms. Roberts is upset at how easily she could get a WASR-10 at her local gun store. Somebody should give her a clue, buy her some ammo, and take her shooting. I'll bet she'd have a blast. [codrea]

Except for a possible stray bullet in the chamber, I shouldn't have been worried. In America, it's legal to buy guns.

Even this one, a semiautomatic rifle developed for Soviets tank crews to kill from a mile away. Joe Dominick, Allegheny County's chief deputy coroner, said shots from an AK-47 inflict trauma all over the body. The bullet can blow through several body parts, cutting through a hand to the torso through the other hand. And rarely is an AK-47 fired just once. At least eight shots were fired at Watts' Geo Tracker.

# John Ross - Wal-Mart vs Small Businesses Revisited, or A Real-Life Example of What to Do in a Free Economy. Why Wal-Mart is not a threat to small business. Exactly the opposite.

# Edgar J. Steele - Steele's Twenty Commandments for New Lawyers - Never having been a lawyer, or considered going to law school, I have no informed opinion on the practicality of this list, but it's interesting nonetheless.

# Tom Krazit, at Inforworld - Transmeta cashes in its chips, eyes services, licensing - too bad, but it's hard to win against Intel and AMD. [wes]

# Google - What's new on Gmail? - 2 gigabytes of storage and rich text formatting. Guess I'll have to work harder. I only have 150 megs of saved Gmail. I still have 50 invitations. If you'd like one, just tell me where to email it.

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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