One Size Fits All? Cramming everyone into one "bright idea" of what's good for us By Eric Oppen The Santa Claus Complex Who do Our Beloved Leaders think they are? By Eric Oppen Militia: Y2K Nuke Test Successful Satire by J.J. Johnson Why No One Wins when the Government Can Freely Loot Private Property By Leon Felkins The Rudder is On Backwards Just where is our ship of state headed, anyway? By Dan Jordan The Trouble with Boys The folly of suppressing teenage male energies By Kate Jimenez The 10 Commandments of Washington Politicians By Ed Lewis E.M. Forster and the Politics of Betrayal By Patrick O'Hannigan The Servile States By Tsun Sarah Brady and Carry A. Nation By Eric Oppen The Stalking Horse By Ernest Partisan Screwing Up Dr. Spook's Data By Julia Cochrane Thank You, Al Gore! Ain't it wonderful that old Al invented the Internet? By Duncan Waring Liberty Bucks: Have fun & make a statement while improving your very own American currency By "Alan Greenpants" A Pair of Honest Letters 1. An Honest Letter to Congress By J.J. Johnson 2. Refusing to be a Social Security victim or thief By Sean T. Casey The PooPoo and the Propeller What are you going to do about the next round of gun control? By William Michael Kemp Deus Ex B52 The Balkan conflict completely explained. Really. Honest. By Craig Goodrich Hidden in Plain Sight: When Encryption Isn't Enough By Emily Salinger Some Thoughts on Television and Guns By Charles Curley Innocent of What, the Reichstag Fire? An essay about children By Eric Oppen Bank On My Account, Old Chap A charming manifesto on treating bankers as they treat you. Author Unknown My Transformation from Anti-Gun Feminist to Armed Feminist By Katherine von Tour 100 Days of Gory By Steffan Bertsch Partly by accident, partly by design, the following articles, all posted February 28, 1999, have a theme: confrontation. What do you do if the day arrives when tyrants are bold enough to come to your door to take away your freedom? The fifth article, "Comments on Confrontation," will be updated as people e-mail comments on this question. Reality Check By Peregrine Cognitive Dissonance By Duncan Waring From a Man Who Knows By Mike Kemp Honest Highwaymen (The Lighter Side of a Heavy Subject) By Michael Voth Comments on Confrontation By Wolfe's Lodge Visitors Washington to Kill Tens of Thousands...of Americans By L. Reichard White "I will most probably die here sometime this year..." By Peregrine On Philosophizing: How Dogs Refute Descartes By Patrick O'Hannigan Know Your Customer? By Mark Pettifor Teaching the Economics of Patriotic Snitching By Leon Felkins An Interview with Hitler By Jeff Penrod Beaned by the Sales Pitch By Patrick O'Hannigan The Devil is Not Mocked By Eric Oppen Better a Customer than a Beggar By Eric Oppen What Sound Does a Bomb Make If There's No One to Hear It Go Off? By Vanessa McGrady A Dialog on Principle An E-Mail Exchange between Mike Kemp and Jeff Randall A Letter to Ban Dogs By Tina Terry Lessons from a Yaqui, a Nazi, and a Libertarian By Patrick O'Hannigan The Loneliest Mile in Town By Sam Smith The Unknown Citizen By Wystan Hugh Auden Extremist Manifesto By "noumenon" Presbyterian Propaganda By Mark & Tina Terry I'm Tired By L. Neil Smith Solemn Declaration By Jeff Head Seven Ways to Make Your Neighborhood Safer By Harry Browne The Thin Blue Hood: Police as Gang Members By Michael Haggard Only One Church By Timothy Lee, Richardson Jefferson: Against Religious Monopoly By Steffan Bertsch Databases and Personal Privacy By "Alexei Kurupatin" Nationwide Gun Registration to Begin November 30 By Alan Korwin The Company You Keep By "noumenon" House Arrest By Leon Felkins Privacy on the Internet By David B. King Mr. Peabody and Sherman: A Militia Story By Ed Parker How the Republicans Implemented the Democrats' National ID Plan By Scott McDonald You Didn't Raise Your Hand By Wayne D. Holt (What if Norman Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms today?) Have a Little Freedom with Your Religion By Thomas Ingersoll More Newland Can't Get Arrested Real-life Humor by Bob Newland Kill Them All Now By Mustapha Gormsby If you are looking for the anonymous essay, "Citizen Soldiers," that I quoted in my article, "After the Fall of Justice," look in the Sound-Off archive. If you are looking for something that used to be in the Friends archive but isn't here anymore, click here for the older archive.