The Second Amendment Anarcho-Libertarian Web
24 February, 2002
Wolf DeVoon asked me to write a guide to the second amendment anarcho-libertarian web (2a-anlib web). I've included the tip of the iceberg below. I've left out lots of people and lots of sites, but this is a good start. Most of the sites are available from my links page.
People
These are the shining stars in the 2a-anlib web from my perspective. There are plenty of other people who I've read and admire, but these folks have earned a special place. I haven't met any of these folks in the flesh. Don't know if we'd even get along, though I'll bet if we met at a shooting range, we'd have a jolly good time.
Peter McWilliams provided my introduction to libertarian thought. I found a link to the drugs section of his book, Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country, and I was on my way. As you probably know, Peter died in his bathtub, choking on his own vomit, because a judge in California denied him the use of his medicine. He had successfully fought off AIDS with a drug cocktail that he kept down with the help of cannabis (aka marijuana), the best anti-nausea medicine known to man. But when he put up his mother's house to get bail when illegally arrested for doing what California's proposition 215 said he could legally do, the judge told him that if he was caught even once with his medicine in his pee, his mother's house would be forfeit. He thought he had figured out how to keep his AIDS cocktail down, but apparently he was wrong. The judge should be hanged for murder. I don't know who's paying to keep his web site up, but I'm glad they are.
I dedicate this article to Peter McWilliams.
L. Neil Smith defined what it means to be a libertarian:
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.This is really the only law we need. Non-initiation of force has far-reaching consequences. If you haven't done so already, think about it.
L. Neil is not really a one issue guy, but the reason he focuses the right to keep and bear arms is explained in his essay, 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.The Atlanta Declaration, a speech L. Neil gave at WeaponsCon I in Atlanta in 1987, lays it on the line: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.
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....
Before I'm lying in a hospital bed with green tubes up my nose, before arthritis sets in and I have to do it on crutches, I intend to walk the length of Manhattan with a handgun on my hip, unmolested by parasites.
I will not settle for less.
Come along with me.
L. Neil is the publisher of The Libertarian Enterprise (TLE), and he writes an article for almost every issue. More about TLE below.
L. Neil writes books for a living. Great books. They're listed on his home page at lneilsmith.com. I especially liked Lever Action and Hope (co-authored with Aaron Zelman), but I like his sci-fi novels, too. Pallas is a great one that isn't listed here. But if you've never read one of his books, start with The Probability Broach.
L. Neil has been hanging out recently in the Project: Safe Skies mailing list, and the smith2004-discuss Yahoo mailing list (free membership required).
Ken Holder is the webmaster for L. Neil Smith, The Libertarian Enterprise, JPFO, CCOPS, and other web sites listed at Webley Web Works. I don't see many of his personal writings these days, but his home page (the first link in this paragraph) and his H.E.A.P. (Holocaust Education and Prevention) site are worth a read.
William Stone, III runs the machines that host, via William Stone and Associates, many (all?) of the web sites for which Ken Holder is webmaster. Maybe I'll move my web site to his servers. He's written some good artlces for The Libertarian Enterprise.
Claire Wolfe is probably most famous for the opening lines of her
book,
101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution:
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
She's most famous for that line, but she's written lots and lots of
really good stuff. Much of it is on her website. She wrote a great
series of "Hardyville" columns for
World Net Daily. I couldn't find an index there, but
there's one here at
The Claire Files, Debra Ricketts' extensive collection of links and
archived stories. The Hardyville columns continue in Claire's
Inside Hardyville section at
Roadhouse Sierra, the members only section of
Sierra Times. She also writes a series entitled
Living the Outlaw Life for
Backwoods Home Magazine. Lots of the articles are on-line, but
you've got to subscribe to the dead tree version to get all of
them.
Claire quoted L. Neil in her initial installment of Living the outlaw life: Freeing your inner outlaw at Backwoods Home Magazine:
In the science fiction novel Pallas, one of L. Neil Smith's characters says, "People—pardon me, journalists and politicians—have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? ... The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable criminals, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you."
Amen, bruthah Neil.
On September 12, Sierra Times printed her article entitled Who did this?:
May there be a true hell for those who engineered this, and may they suffer through an eternity for each and every victim who was so much as scratched today. May they feel every broken bone, every torn limb, every screaming pain of every burn, every desperate smoke-filled breath, every spike of panic -- and every wail of grief within everyone who loves the wounded or dead. May they feel every drop of sweat, every ache of exhaustion, every bit of wrenching nausea felt by every rescue worker. Forever.
Then may they suffer another eternity of hell for every victim who, in the name of "protection" from sadistic, senseless monsters, loses the rights that make life worth living.
In the end, those victims will far outnumber the dead.
Charles Curley shares curleywolfe.net with Claire Wolfe. I don't know what their relationship is in meat space. Mr. Curley hasn't written anything in a while that I've seen, but his web site is an interesting read. He has a good version of the inveterate Bureaucracy Encounter Form.
It throws more sand into the system than you'd think. There is the obvious grain of sand that no bureaucrat expects the Spanish Inquisition, or any other, for that matter. It gives them a bit of what they are doing to other people.
Mr. Curley is the webmaster for the Wyoming Libertarian Party and he works for the Casper (Wyoming) Star Tribune, likely also as their webmaster, though I don't see his name there anywhere.
Charles wrote a letter to the 9/17/2001 issue of TLE including:
Has anyone had the testicles (or ovaries) to observe that maybe we'll all be better off without half the damn Pentagon?
His Musings page says:
What's the difference between the IRS and the KGB? The KGB doesn't expect you to provide the evidence against you.
Patricia Neill At LewRockwell.com and Wolfe's Lodge
Vin Suprynowicz
Aaron Zelman
Charley Reese
Ron Paul
Jeff Cooper
News & Opinion
The Libertarian Enterprise
LewRockwell.com
anti-state.com
Laissez Faire City Times
Laissez Faire Electronic Times
Rational Review T.L. Knapp Scott Bieser
Loose Cannon Libertarian
Sierra Times
J. Orlin Grabbe
Liberty Now
KeepAndBearArms.com
Cryptome
Reason Online
FirearmNews.com
The Federalist
GOP News & Views
DrugSense
The Week Online with DRCNet
RKBA
JPFO
GOA
Women Against Gun Control
Second Amendment Sisters
NRA-ILA State Gun Laws
Packing.org
Less Frequently Updated
Doing Freedom!
Backwoods Magazine
Crypto-Gram
Loompanics
No Treason
Weblogs
Daves Picks
Cowlix
Samizdata
Geeks with Guns
Unknown News
End the War on Freedom is my weblog: "Links and Commentary from my Crypto-Anarcho-Libertarian Perspective". I spend an hour or so almost every day reading stuff on the web and linking to the stories I like with excerpts and "sometimes seething commentary". I produce it with BlogMax, an Emacs package I wrote.
My Arms Manufacturers and Distributers page is a small start on a very large project. Contributions welcome.
Of the handful of articles I've written, my favorites are The Lie of Cannabis Prohibition:
Even if cannabis were a potent poison, adults have the absolute right to put anything into their bodies that they please. Doing so is not a crime. It has never been a crime. It will never be a crime. Crimes have victims. Smoking and selling cannabis has no victim. Only the initiation of force against another person or their property is a crime. Crime may not be legislated into being.and Waco Justice:So who are the criminals here?
Criminals: the legislators who make the prohibition laws. Criminals: the lie enforcement officers who arrest people for possessing vegetables. Criminals: the judges who disallow medical evidence and jury nullification. Criminals: the juries who convict these peaceful people. Criminals: the jailors who lock them up. They are all guilty of assault and kidnapping or conspiracy to commit assault and kidnapping. Serious felonies. Kidnapping is a capital offense...
I had an idea a while back that I almost wrote down, but couldn't bring myself to share, but it's back with a vengeance, so I've gotta get it off my chest. I doubt I can let Waco rest until every federal agent on the ground on April 19, 1993, and everyone in each chain of command, including Janet Reno and William Jefferson Clinton, is tried for crimes against humanity, and until those who are found guilty by a jury of twelve are executed for their crimes. I'm not going to hold my breath for this to happen, but there's no statute of limitations on murder, so we've got 20 or 30 years before the vermin die of natural causes. I can wait.Once we manage to bring them to trial and convict a good number, say one or two hundred, we've got to come up with a suitable method of execution. No needle in the arm in the privacy of a penitentiary for these mass murderers. It's gotta be good.
There are links at billstclair.com to some nice pictures I've taken, including my kids to make the grandmothers happy, but not just them.
Cartoons
Mike Shelton
John Bergstrom
Kevin Tuma
russmo.com
Stores
Laissez Faire Books
KnifeCenter.com
Cheaper Than Dirt
Botach Tactical
