Mass-Printed Plastic Electronics

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

# hiredhand at Free Republic - Drug Zone House Security - my title. How a friend of the writer secured his low-rent house in Watts, CA. [jomama]

# Marc Emery and Jodie Giesz-Ramsay at Cannabis Culture - Tommy Chong: We Meet Again - An account of Marc Emery meeting Tommy Chong and his wife Shelby after the International Film Festival screening of A/K/A Tommy Chong. [cannabisculture]

Tommy Chong's personal experience was both ridiculous and terrifying at once, and it made me happy to know he survived his time in prison. However, it also reminds me that in our own case, if Marc goes to jail, he won't be coming home once his sentence is complete.

We cannot let that happen.

# Jodie Giesz-Ramsay at Cannabis Culture - What you can buy to help the BC3 - some purchases that will help Marc Emery, Greg Williams, and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek with their fight against extradition to the United States for selling seeds. "No Extradition" T-shirts, "Legalize" wrist-bands, gourd bongs and art, hemp plastics. [cannabisculture]

# G. Monty at Liberation Matrix - Martial Law stops at the NH border: An SOF soldier visits the Free State Project - Mr. Monty attended an FSP barbecue in New Hampshire in early August. He asked people there how they thought NH would respond to a martial law declaration by the feds. They responded unanimously that, "New Hampshire will tell the Federal Government to go pound sand." Mr. Monty intends to move to NH soon. He's been working for the gummint in Washington, DC, which, by his account, is now a full-blown police state. Sounds like his experiece is limited, however, as he characterizes everywhere outside of New Hampshire as police state. This was also printed in this week's Libertarian Enterprise, but their web site is down at present. [tle]

# Free Market News Network - United Nations Drafts New Gun Treaty - the commU.N.ists are still trying to disarm us peasants. Bush'es U.N. diplomat, John Bolton, defended us well: "The United States will not join consensus on a final document that contains measures contrary to our constitutional right to keep and bear arms." David Codrea commented with somewhat, er, stronger language: [codrea]

LaPierre makes great noises about the U.N. threat to scare the membership into further donations. A real gun rights leader would fold up the NRA's NGO and lead his millions of members under the unified compact of "Molon Labe." It's time we razed the U.N. building, pulled down their obscene twisted gun barrel sculpture (and melted it into something useful--like personal defensive arms) and pried off all those "World Heritage Site" placards desecrating revered locales like Independence Hall.

# Garry Reed, the Loose Cannon Libertarian - Beating the PC Name Game - a bunch of political correctness nannies are complaining these days about schools who use American Indian names for their sports teams. Mr. Reed has an idea to educate them either out of that practice or into a true reflection of American Indian culture.

The Political Correctness crazies are slinging their PC feces again. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has branded as "hostile" and "abusive" any school that sports an American Indian nickname.

Surveys supposedly show that most tribal types detest Indian mascots and monikers, although many don't complain because, to their credit, they don't like being complainers. Not so with organizations run by people who make their living as professional complainers. (Such as the NCAA?) By self-proclaiming the PC position as morally superior, all opposing opinions, including sanity, are automatically wrong.

But there is a way out of this perpetual PC idiocy. Quoting libertarian science fiction writer L. Neil Smith, "If you can, within principle, take over and adopt whatever name your enemy calls you, do so. It shuts them up very handily."

# gizmag - Breakthrough in printed electronics - volume-printed electronic circuits were demonstrated at the recent Plastic Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany. It doesn't make circuits with features nearly as small as the chips in your computer, but they'll be dirt cheap. [smith2004]

The circuits were printed at a printing speed of up to 0.8 metres per second which although slow for printing, is a new dimension of production speed for electronics. Millionfold print runs will become possible. The polymer printing method is based on especially developed printing methods i.e. polymer molecules that are either conductive, semiconductive or isolating are accurately printed in ultrathin layers, one above the other. These polymers can be processed similar to ink. Compared to traditional printing, however, the demands on precision as well as on the chemical characteristics of the printing inks are considerably higher. A single mistake in printing will immediately lead to malfunctions of the printed circuit.

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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