IDiotic Design and Disgusting "Law"

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:00:00 GMT

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# Associated Press via Newsday - Albany gun-law compromise - New York RINO governor George Pataki called the legislature back into emergency session to strengthen penalties for certain "crimes" in the light of a couple of recent cop shootings in the Big Apple. They passed two bills. A40001 increases penalties for possessing or "illegally" selling certain firearms. Blatantly unconstitutional in its entirety, along with the existing "laws" that it modifies. Which part of "shall not be infringed" do these ying-yangs not understand? A40003 "enacts the crimes against police act; establishes certain offenses including menacing a police or peace officer, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, and aggravated manslaughter in the first and second degrees, and aggravated murder." From the bill text: [codrea]

S 120.18 MENACING A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF MENACING A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER WHEN HE OR SHE INTENTIONALLY PLACES OR ATTEMPTS TO PLACE A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER IN REASONABLE FEAR OF PHYSICAL INJURY, SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY OR DEATH BY DISPLAYING A DEADLY WEAPON, KNIFE, PISTOL, REVOLVER, RIFLE, SHOTGUN, MACHINE GUN OR OTHER FIREARM, WHETHER OPERABLE OR NOT, WHERE SUCH OFFICER WAS IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING HIS OR HER OFFICIAL DUTIES AND THE DEFENDANT KNEW OR REASONABLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SUCH VICTIM WAS A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER. MENACING A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER IS A CLASS D FELONY.

This legislation is disgusting. Show a cop a weapon, and you go to jail for at least two years and up to eight. Gag me with a spoon.

As George Orwell reminded us in Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In particular, the pigs.

L. Neil Smith's Atlanta Declaration eloquently proclaims, "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."

Any cop who enforces any so-called "law" that infringes on this right should fear for his life, for the short time that he continues to breathe.

# Associated Press via Sierra Times - Senate passes Patriot Act extension - for six months. I believe this is S.2167, "To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to July 1, 2006." Slime incarnate, but at least it's short and intelligible. Here's the entire text: [sierra]

Section 224(a) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (18 U.S.C. 2510 note) is amended by striking `December 31, 2005' and inserting `July 1, 2006'.

# Butler Shaffer at LewRockwell.com - The Religion of the State - commentary on a recent Pennsylvania court ruling denying the teaching of intelligent design because it isn't scientific. Butler reminds us that science isn't scientific either, and warns us that the state is just another religion. [sunni]

As I stated earlier, I do not believe in the notion of "intelligent design." But my dispute is not over the comparative merits of this doctrine versus evolution. There is a far deeper issue going to the separation of religion and state that is rarely mentioned: the secular religious faith that government should be involved in education; in indoctrinating the minds of people to accept a politically-centered society. State education is no less grounded in religious faith than are churches; replacing a crucifix or Star-of-David atop a building with a flag does not change the fundamental nature of what is taking place.

# Eric S. Raymond - Utter IDiots - commentary on a "conservative" posting about Intelligent Design.

The ID [Intelligent Design] movement's claim that it's not about end-running the First Amendment and turning schools into instruments for the propagation of Christian dogma is just as transparently specious as most gun-grabbers' claims that they don't aim to render the Second Amendment a dead letter. Both gangs are enemies of liberty and the U.S. Constitution, and for precisely the same reasons. It's hardly startling for anyone, conservative or otherwise, to want to avoid being associated with any movement that lies wholesale about its objectives.

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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