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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT

From The Federalist:

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot." -- Horace Greeley

and:

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves." -- D. H. Lawrence

and:

"President Bush woke up this morning, saw his shadow and now--six more weeks of vacation!" -- Jay Leno

# John de Rosier at The Albany (NY) Times Union - Found on President Bush'es Ranch - cartoon commentary on Bush'es opinion of "Camp Casey". Hehe.

# Walter Williams at Human Events - Security or Hysteria? Don't Cower to the Enemy, Kill Him - on the destruction of liberty in Amerika in the name of sekurity. Americans didn't used to respond to threats this way. We shouldn't now. Any cop who demands to search your person or your bag or your car without a proper warrant deserves to be shot dead on the spot (my words, not Mr. Williams'). [nicki]

# John Innes at The Scotsman - See-through 'freedom bags' offered to Tube commuters - you just can't make this stuff up. London subway riders are being encouraged to carry their possessions in transparent bags so that other riders and the sekurity goons can more easily tell that nothing they're carrying is potentially dangerous. I don't know any curse words loud enough. [codrea]

# Gary G. Kohls at LewRockwell.com - The Hidden Costs of War - turning people into ruthless killers does not a peaceful society make. [lew]

# Helen & Harry Highwater at Unknown News - Fuck you, George W. Bush - up the ass. With a chain saw. Thup thup thup thup thup. Ooh, that's gotta hurt... [unknown]

So yeah, I mutter obscenities and scream obscenities. Fuck you, George W. Bush. I hope this so-called President is arrested, and forced to face justice for his crimes against humanity. But assuming that's impossible, I sincerely hope he lives a long life, cursed by burning, painful penile and testicular cancer, constant diarrhea and rectal itch, and ceaseless nightmares of the last screams of American and Iraqi children and adults he brought to their deaths.

Yes indeed -- Fuck you, George W. Bush, and fuck the pig-farm you pretend is a "ranch." Fuck your bosses Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice, fuck your staff, fuck your family, and fuck your sagebrush and fuck your chauffeur.

# Thomas Sowell at TownHall.com - An oil 'crisis'? and part II - is the world headed for an oil crisis? Not at all, unless governments try to control the situation and cause it, as they always do, to get worse. [trt-ny]

The last time we had price controls on gasoline, we had long lines of cars at filling stations, these lines sometimes stretching around the block, with motorists sitting in those lines for hours.

That nonsense ended almost overnight when President Ronald Reagan, ignoring the cries of liberal politicians and the liberal media, got rid of price controls with a stroke of the pen.

What happened is what usually happens when government restrictions are ended: There was more production of oil. In fact the 1980s became known as the era of an "oil glut" and gasoline prices declined.

Today production is being held back, not by price controls, but by political hysteria whenever anyone suggests actually producing more oil ourselves. Organized nature cults go ballistic at the thought that we might drill for oil in some remote part of Alaska that 99 percent of Americans will never see, including 99 percent of the nature cultists.

# Butler Shaffer at LewRockwell.com - To What Is Cindy a Threat? - has she perhaps reminded the war mongers that they already know what they are doing is wrong, badly wrong? Is that perhaps why they rant so hard against one woman asking, simply, "Why did my son die?" [smith2004]

As we better understand the nature of complexity and the decentralized systems implicit therein, we may finally bring an end to the soulless and destructive machinery of state violence, and rediscover the humane sentiments that may allow us to walk away from war, torture, genocide, and other acts of repression. The world of politics divides us into groups with allegedly conflicting interests. But, as Pastor Niemoller's words remind us, the way of peace and liberty lies in breaking down these contrived barriers and discovering what the statists hope we never learn, namely, the common interests we have in protecting one another from the state. Let us retain such thoughts as we contemplate -- and join in -- Cindy Sheehan's stand on behalf of all humanity.

# Wiki News - Dance party broken up by police in Utah, USA - lots of info and links about the nazi attack on Saturday on attendees of an outdoor party outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The county sheriff's office released a statement.

# Joel on Software - Wiki for Joel on Software translations? - Joel asked for recommendations on which wiki to use. He got lots of them. It's an incredibly large space these days, with lots of good choices. [joel]

# Apache Friends - XAMPP - Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, & Perl, in an easy-to-install package for Linux, Windows, MacOSX, or Solaris. Worked great on my Windows laptop, except I forgot that I already had a MySQL installation with a non-default root password, so I had to reconfigure a few PHP scripts. I installed MediaWiki and DokuWiki in no time flat.

# JHotDraw "is a Java GUI framework for technical and structured Graphics." I probably still need a paint program, and I'll need to add save/restore to this one, and translation to GIF or JPEG, but there are users of it who have possibly done bits of that. And I can probably use wiki server-side code for uploads. It comes with a couple of example Applets and applications.

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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