Liz to George: Bring It On!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

# Russmo.com - American Democracy - cartoon commentary on bringing America-style democracy to Iraq. Not funny.

# Liquid Generation - Homeless or Jesus? - Flash game. can you tell the difference? [picks]

# Liz Michael - Shoot 'em 2: The Bird Is The Word - a response to Bushnev's proposal of using the military to enforce a quarantine in the case of a flu epidemic. Six more reasons to shoot the bastards and "an advisory to police officers and federal agents." [lizmichael]

"If any agent of the government comes to destroy any of your family pets, kill them..."
"If any agent attempts to obstruct essential travel, shoot them or otherwise eliminate them..."
"Anyone who forces you or your family to be so chipped, or anyone who does it against your will and without your prior knowledge, kill these people..."
"If any agent of any organization attempt to by duress force a vaccination upon you, shoot them..."
"If any agent of any organization attempts to confiscate or sabotage your food sources, kill them..."
"Never let them, or other common street thugs, separate you from your vehicles. Your lives may depend upon this. So you need to be willing to shoot to kill over this essential item..."
"Oh, yeah. Mr. President, if it is a revolution you want, then it is a revolution I propose to give you. If you begin to use troops to subdue American civilians at home, as if they were revolutionaries, I intend, personally, to legitimize any such deployment of troops by actually giving your stooges a revolution to fight. To quote, well, YOU, Mr. President: "Bring It On!". And when it's all over, I have a noose prepared with your name on it. After a fair trial, of course, unlike the one you propose through the Patriot Act to deny me."

# William Bowles - Sleepwalking into Slavery? - commentary on British Home Secretary Clark's proposal to implement 90-day detention without trial. Can't have people exposing the gummint's lies now can we? [smith2004]

# Gavin Brown at CircleID - Breaking the Internet HOWTO - a satirical look at the EU's desire to "share" control of the internet's domain names. [wes]

# J. H. Huebert at LewRockwell.com - One Sure Thing in Life - Mr. Huebert recommends that you avoid trying to beat the gummint at their own game by pretending that there is some legal way to not pay the federal income tax. There isn't. [alisvoice]

I don't enjoy saying any of that. That close to 50% of a person's labor each year is slave labor for the government is disgusting and obscene, and no one is less happy about it than I am. And just so we're clear, I would find it obscene if it were even 1%, or 1/2%, or even one penny, because taxation is slavery, and slavery is wrong, no exceptions.

And that's what makes the tax protester situation so sad. Here we have people who have figured out something of which most of the mindless masses remain ignorant their entire lives: that taxation is theft and slavery, and that an individual is under no moral obligation to pay it. What a tremendous breakthrough, to realize that! And what a waste when they go to jail, because they naïvely believed the U.S. Constitution would protect their rights.

# Norm Stamper at the Los Angeles Times - Let those dopers be - a former chief of the Seattle Police Department explains why drugs, all drugs, should be legalized. He doesn't go as far as I do, believing that all drugs should be completed deregulated, but his proposal would be a damn sight better than caging peaceful people for smoking vegetables. [root]

Regulated legalization would soon dry up most stockpiles of currently illicit drugs -- substances of uneven, often questionable quality (including "bunk," i.e., fakes such as oregano, gypsum, baking powder or even poisons passed off as the genuine article). It would extract from today's drug dealing the obscene profits that attract the needy and the greedy and fuel armed violence. And it would put most of those certifiably frightening crystal meth labs out of business once and for all.

Combined with treatment, education and other public health programs for drug abusers, regulated legalization would make your city or town an infinitely healthier place to live and raise a family.

It would make being a cop a much safer occupation, and it would lead to greater police accountability and improved morale and job satisfaction.

But wouldn't regulated legalization lead to more users and, more to the point, drug abusers? Probably, though no one knows for sure -- our leaders are too timid even to broach the subject in polite circles, much less to experiment with new policy models. My own prediction? We'd see modest increases in use, negligible increases in abuse.

# Ron Paul - Who Opposes Simpler, Lower Taxes? - everyone on the president's advisory panel on tax reform, that's who. "The real issue is total spending by government, not tax reform."

# Murray N. Rothbard at LewRockwell.com - War Collectivism in World War I - how the first world war brought the new mercantilism to America. The second world war cemented the relationship. Long. I only skimmed part of it. [clairefiles]

With the return of the railroads to private operation in March, 1920, war collectivism finally and at long last seemed to pass from the American scene. But pass it never really did; for the inspiration and the model that it furnished for a corporate state in America continued to guide Herbert Hoover and other leaders in the 1920s, and was to return full-blown in the New Deal, and in the World War II economy. In fact, it supplied the broad outlines for the Corporate Monopoly State that the New Deal was to establish, seemingly permanently, in the United States of America.

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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.

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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.

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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