It Talks!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
From The Federalist:
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H.L. Mencken
and:
"President Clinton...said after his heart surgery, he tries to walk an hour a day faithfully. He says the walking thing is easy, but trying to stay faithful, that's the killer." -- Jay Leno
and:
"One of the biggest problems in Iraq right now is agreeing on a Constitution. They should just do what Washington does -- have a Constitution, you just don't use it." -- Jay Leno

# Steward Carlson at Marc Brands Liberty - Flag Burning - cartoon commentary on the hypocricy inherent in the Flag Burning amendment. Hehe. [smith2004]

# Don Nash at Unknown News - Bill St. Clair and some sincere pleading - in response to Don Nash'es What to expect after receiving your draft notice, which I linked to on June 17, I wrote an angry letter, which I chose not to print here. In his response, Mr. Nash pleads with me not to kill anyone should they attempt to draft my son. Well, my actions will be tempered by my son's desires at the time. If he decides to report, or to run, I will honor his decision. If he decides to fight, he will have my 100% support. And I won't fight by waiting at home until the gendarmes come to pick him up. I will declare war on the entire machinery of the draft. Maybe Mr. Nash thinks that talking to congress critters or running away is a good idea, but I don't. These rats have got to be shown the consequences of their actions, up close, and deadly personal. It's the only thing they understand. I don't expect to survive very long once I begin my attack, but I'm damn sure gonna take as many of them with me as I can. Mr. Nash may not have any lines in the sand, but I do, and kidnapping and enslaving a member of my family is one of them, in spades. [unknown]

# Thomas E. Woods, Jr. at LewRockwell.com - The States' Rights Tradition Nobody Knows - the "Principles of '98". [lrtdiscuss]

In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky approved resolutions that affirmed the states' right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow -- regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. The Virginia Resolutions spoke of the states' right to "interpose" between the federal government and the people of the state; the Kentucky Resolutions (in a 1799 follow-up to the original resolutions) used the term "nullification" -- the states, they said, could nullify unconstitutional federal laws.

# Paul Meincke at abc7 Chicago - Man files lawsuit against U.S. government - Akif Rahman is a U.S. citizen who travels internationally for his business. He claims he has been wrongfully detained by border agents on four separate occasions. Hey, he's got an Arabic name and looks the part. Must be a bad guy, right? Of course not. I wish him luck in his lawsuit against the gummint goons. He deserves to win millions, and tha nazis who detained hiim deserve jail time for assault. I won't hold my breath. [smith2004]

Early last month, not long after he received the letter, Rahman and his family were detained again in Detroit -- on a return trip home from a family visit in Tornoto. He was held for six hours.

"I was put up against the wall and separated from my family with guards posted on me at all time. It was as if I was being detained in a jail and held against my will," said Rahman.

Rahman says he was handcuffed to a chair for three hours, was asked if he knew the 9-11 hijackers or is sympathetic to terrorist causes. His wife and children were kept from him. The kids were given animal crackers and Gatorade.

"20 minutes is what it should have taken, not two hours, not four hours, not six hours," said Harvey Grossman, ACLU.

# Brian Currie at The Evening Times - New laws unveiled in crackdown on blades - more hophlophobia from across the pond. Licensing for "non-domestic" knives. Sheesh. [scopeny]

The consultation defines a non-domestic knife as a knife which has a blade or sharp point and which is not designed only for domestic use, or only for use in the processing, preparation or consumption of food.

Ms Jamieson said: "Nobody living in a normal house or flat needs a sword as part of day-to-day life...."

# Garry Reed, the Loose Cannon Libertarian - Bushwacked by the Patriot Act - notes on Bushnev's desire to renew the U.S.A. T.R.A.I.T.O.R. Act.

The Patriot Act, as all good libertarians know, is a grab-bag of anti-terror tactics passed in a panic, largely unread, by our DC "Run-It's-a-Cessna!" scaredy-crats after the 9-11 attacks. Some law-nonreaders, almost uncharacteristically exhibiting second thoughts, inserted sunset clauses.

Sunset is now nigh. The House recently tossed us a couple of crumbs by voting to void provisions that permitted spying on library cards and bookstore receipts. As of this date, other odious articles like holding suspects Incommunicado and warrantless sneak-and-peek searches still stand.

Our President, who thus far has never met a law he didn't like, threatens his first veto if the entire Patriot package isn't made permanent. "The Patriot Act," proclaimed Our President, "closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities."

Someone ought to inform Our President that those "dangerous gaps" also go by the name "Bill of Rights."

# George W. Bush via The Los Angeles Times - Text of President Bush's Speech at Fort Bragg, N.C. - given Tuesday, June 29. I was struck that his third paragraph, below, perfectly describes what Bush himself is doing in the Middle East. [google]

The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror. This war reached our shores on September 11 2001. The terrorists who attacked us and the terrorists we face murder in the name of a totalitarian ideology that hatesfreedom, rejects tolerance and despises all dissent. Their aim is to remake the Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny and oppression by toppling governments, driving us out of the region and exporting terror.
Then Bush said:
The commander in charge of coalition operations in Iraq, who is also senior commander at this base, General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said, "We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us."
Mr. Bush should realize that the extremism abroad is the least of his problems. When enough Americans realize what he's up to, he'll be fighting us. But we won't go around killing ourselves and innocent bystanders. We'll directly attack those in Washington responsible for our loss of liberty.

He ends with an advertisement and a prediction:
I thank those of you who have re-enlisted in an hour when your country needs you. And to those watching tonight who are considering a military career, there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces. We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform. When the history of this period is written, the liberation of Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq will be remembered as great turning points in the story of freedom.
I fear that he's right in his prediction, but not in the way that he intended for us to understand. The "liberation" of Afghanistan and Iraq may well be a great turning point in the story of freedom. It may be remembered as the time when freedom died, at the hands of Bushnev's neocon goons. Fortunately, freedom cannot be killed, but it can be driven underground for entire ages. And if Mr. Bush and his cronies have their way, we've got one of those ages before us.

# Pascal Riché - Pourquoi la guerre en Irak valait la peine (par George W.Bush) (why the War in Iraq was worth the sacrifice) - a French blogger distills Bushnev's speech into its essential elements. He noted that he couldn't find the words "weapons of mass destruction". Guess Bush has finally given up on that lie. [grabbe]

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