Trolling for Bacon

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:00:00 GMT

From samizdata:

"If you're determined to be altruistic about it, the only way you can be of any good to others is for you to be self-sufficient. The biggest burdens in a crisis are those who were so concerned about the welfare of everyone else that they never provided for themselves." -- Harry Browne

# hugh2you - The Late Edward Abbey - Beloved Desert Anarchist - a page of quotes. Here's a good one from before the fall of the U.S.S.R. [root]

"Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff."

Another good one:

"The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."

and (LOL):

"There has got to be a God; the world could not have become so fucked up by chance alone."

# Claire Wolfe - My year of silence -- but not disappearance! - Claire has begun her year of personal silence. She's getting rid of her home phone, and will no longer respond to personal emails except strictly business. She assures us here, though, that her "public" presence won't really change that much. She'll blog less frequently, but will still do it. And she'll continue to write. She didn't say it here, but I think that means that her regular Backwoods Home Magazine and S.W.A.T. will continue. Don't know why I suddenly thought of her, but has anybody heard anything recently from or about Patricia Neill? [claire]

# Paul Craig Roberts at LewRockwell.com - Guilty When Charged - about the psychological torture chamber that is the Amerikan "Justice" System. [lew]

In America, defendants are no longer innocent until they are proven guilty. They are guilty the minute they are charged, and the system works to process the guilty, not to determine innocence or guilt.

Americans in their ignorance and gullibility think that only the guilty would enter a guilty plea. This is the uninformed opinion of the naïve who have never experienced the terror and psychological torture of the US criminal justice (sic) system.

# Steve Connor at The Independent - Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey - England, once a mostly-free country, will begin next March to record in a huge database the time and location of every car that passes every surveillance camera along every road. Sounds to me like time for the camera failure rate to skyrocket. An early "retirement" for Frank Whiteley and his fellow goons would also be nice. A better solution would be for the British to quietly remove the number plates from their cars. But that takes lots of people. The other solutions can be done by a small number of dedicated freedom fighters. [root]

"Every time you make a car journey already, you'll be on CCTV somewhere. The difference is that, in future, the car's index plates will be read as well," said Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire and chairman of the Acpo steering committee on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR).

"What the data centre should be able to tell you is where a vehicle was in the past and where it is now, whether it was or wasn't at a particular location, and the routes taken to and from those crime scenes. Particularly important are associated vehicles," Mr Whiteley said.

# Mark Morford at SF Gate - Fun Bits About American Torture - the American goverment tortures people, every day. "In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime." [root]

Because here's the sad kicker: Torture works. It gets results. It might very well save some lives. But it also requires a moral and spiritual sacrifice the likes of which would make Bush's own Jesus recoil in absolute horror. Yet this is what's happening, right now. And our current position demands a reply to one bitter, overarching question: What sort of nation are we, really?

# amalgamate2000.com - Jamming Enforcement Doppler radar - tells why it's hard to build a good jammer. Good information about how police radar works, though. And why radar detectors can always detect radar before it can detect you. [clairefiles]

Now I make this plain as day ,to use one of these devices is totally illegal and would land you in a heap of crap when you get caught. It would be a double whammy cos two government departments would come down on you like a ( metric) tonne of bricks , the law enforcement division and the radio regulatory people as well . So don't say you have not been warned!

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-- 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

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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.

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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

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"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