End the War on Freedom

"The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- John Marshall

From jomama:

"Everything that should be against the law, was against the law by 1912. Virtually every enactment since then has been part of the scaffolding of the welfare-police state." -- Vin Suprynowicz

From smith2004:

"Someone gets foolish enough to challenge you, just give a crazy little smile, shift your weight like you're ready to leap for their throat, and they'll back off." -- Ron

From trt-ny:

"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." -- Ronald Reagan

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." -- Mark Twain

# Newsmax - Wayne LaPierre: Remember New Orleans - a partial transcript of Mr. LaPierre's speech earlier this week to the New York chapter of the Sportsmen's Association for Firearms Education. Why do you need a firearm? Remember New Orleans. Good speech. If only the NRA would really defend our right to keep and bear arms. They could start by telling their members to shoot dead any cop who attempts to enforce any blatantly unconstitutional so-called "law" that infringes on our absolute right to obtain, own, and carry, always and everywhere, effective tools to defend our lives. [kaba]

# The Hue and Cry at TPM Cafe - Rights for Sale - whining about the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. I posted the following comment: [kaba]

So, if I run over somebody in my car, the victim's survivors, or the city where he lives, should be able to sue the car manufacturer? And if I kill my wife with a kitchen knife, the knife manufacturer should be held responsible? I don't think so.

You're right about one thing, though. Guns are designed to kill people. The honest and law-abiding, most of us, kill only in self defense. Criminals kill so they can steal stuff, or just for fun. Take our guns away by sueing the gun manufacturers out of existence, and the criminals will still kill people. They'll just use clubs and knives and screwdrivers instead of guns. We the honest, however, will lose one of the best known tools for defense of ourselves and our families.

It's sad commentary on the idiocy of some of our so-called leaders that this law was necessary. Any lawsuit that attempts to hold the manufacturer or seller of a tool responsible for its abuse should be laughed out of court, with prejudice, and the person bringing the suit should be liable for twice the manufacturer's or seller's defense costs.

# Joel Wilcox at the Project for a New Anarchist Century - Why I Am Now In Favor of the War in Iraq - the more money the U.S. gummint spends on warmaking, the sooner it will collapse. From anti-state.com's new blog, which may finally make their home page change regularly. [anti-state]

# Vin Suprynowicz at the Las Vegas Review-Journal - Nature cult's devious tactics exposed - one rancher struck back, in court, against the envirowhackos, and won, big time. Far out. [root]

Mr. Chilton said he would have been happy with the vindication of a $1 damage award.

But the Tucson jury was not so forgiving, awarding $600,000, including $500,000 in punitive damages against the lying anti-human green extremists, whose co-founder now says the jury award could financially devastate the group.

Let's hope so. The real goal of these fruitcakes is to remove all human activity from vast swatches of the rural West (turning most of it back into an untended desert), whereupon they seem to imagine only they and their closest friends will be handed picnic permits.

And the Center for Biological Diversity is actually among the more litigious of these gangs; a third of its $3 million income in 2003 came from court awards and settlements, according to the Journal.

Live by the sword, die by the sword?

# Michael Kanellos at News.com - Here come the nanocars - kule. [root]

Although the cars contain several atoms each that move in different directions, they actually consist of one single molecule. The nanocars typically contain four wheels attached to two axles. Each wheel is a buckyball, a spherical molecule made up of 60 carbon atoms. The axles are made of carbon as well. Although the bond between the wheels and the axles is strong, the wheels rotate like regular wheels on the axle.

# Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - Background checks to double this week - when Nevada's shall-issue concealed carry permits were invented, one inducement they gave gun owners to get one is that they wouldn't need to go through the National Instant Check when purchasing a firearm. No more. My advice? Don't apply for a permit. Carry anyway. Shoot anybody who hassles you about it, no matter which fancy uniform, funny hat, or shiny badge the perp happens to be wearing.

The practical impact? All firearm purchases will now be more time-consuming, more expensive, and less convenient. Overall, gun sales and gun ownership levels will drop yet again. A few more gun shops will give up their licenses and disappear, as has been the stated goal of the ATF for decades.

The long-term goal? Our complete disarmament.