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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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