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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT

# Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com - Should Your Personal Life Be an Affair of State? - don't be fooled into sacrificing freedom for security, says Mr. Reese. You'll end up with neither. [smith2004]

As a true conservative with a strong libertarian streak, I fear government more than terrorists and criminals. Random acts by random individuals with no army and no air force can be dealt with much more easily than actions by a government backed up by military and police power. In recent years, federal law enforcement has expanded to the point where there is now an equivalent of five military divisions armed and invested with the power to make arrests.

# DraftResistance.org lists 7 reasons that you should not register with the Selective Slavery System: Life Ownership, Slippery Slope, It's Patriotic, It's Easy, You Don't Have To, Anti-Intervention, and The "X" Factor. Bravo! Remember gentlemen (ladies are not required to register, yet), failure to register may subject you to kidnapping by the fedgoons. If you choose to resist, and I hope you do, be prepared to defend yourself.

This site is a crime against the Military Selective Service Act. It advocates. We are specifically encouraging resistance to the registration laws of the United States, seeing registration as the necessary step toward conscription (the draft). We are what the Selective Service calls 'anti-war intellectuals.' We see the direct link between registration, the draft, and aggressive war. Remember, non- registration is the strategy to beat the draft. If enough of us refuse, there is nothing they can do!
-- Scott A Kohlhaas

# Perry de Havilland at Samizdata.net - The appropriate use of force - a post last Friday on the killing in England of a man who ran from the police. I posted yesterday morning: [samizdata]

I wasn't there, so I can't tell whether the shooting was justified. Judging from the stories I've read, though, the only justification I can see is a credible belief that the perp was wearing a bomb. "Suspected terrorist" doesn't cut it as a reason. We are all suspected terrorists now. The champion terrorists, of course, are the pilots of the airplanes dropping bombs on innocent Iraqis.

This drew some flack, so I responded with:

Beck: "Did you ever hear of the concrete non-explosive bomb-shapes GPS-guided to fall on things like SAM radars in crowded urban zones in order to just squash 'em without ruining everyone else's day?"

Actually, no. If that were the only kind of munition that were dropped in populated areas, thereby completely avoiding the murder of innocents, I would have fewer complaints. But the "shock and awe" I saw on the telly included considerable light and sound, which implies explosives to my mind. Dropping explosives on populated areas is guaranteed to kill lots of non-combatants, no matter how "precision guided" they happen to be. That's not OK with me.

I find it interesting to be branded as a "leftist" because I refuse to recognize war as valid human behavior. I'm as ancap as they come, folks. And ZAP libertarian to boot. War violates ZAP. Dropping bombs on cities is mass murder. It cannot be justified.

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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