You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
Your move.
-- Mike
III
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Leave us alone!
We're all done backing up!
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October 12, 2009  Libertarian Commentary on The News 06 - 10 October By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 Our Right to Self-Defense
Gun groups file lawsuit to validate Montana Firearms Freedom Act Liberty For All "The Second Amendment Foundation today joined with the Montana Shooting Sports Association in a federal lawsuit filed in Missoula to validate the principles and terms of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act (MFFA), which takes effect today, Oct. 1, 2009. Lead attorney for the plaintiffs' litigation team is Quentin Rhoades of the Missoula firm of Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, PC. The MFFA litigation team also includes other attorneys located in Montana, New York, Florida, Arizona and Washington." (10/04/09) Sadly, we know that regardless of the outcome - the lawyers win. We just hope and pray that it is the RIGHT set of lawyers that win. It is really a shame that I CAN'T visit MT in the next few weeks and buy a gun without a federal case being made of it - in fact, it would be tempting to buy one even if I had to bury it on the border between Alzada and Colony... State Secession: Who Will Be The Enemies Of Secession? Russell D. Longcore © 2009 There is nothing whatsoever in the US
Constitution that either
authorizes or prevents any state of the Union from secession. It
doesn’t have to. Under the 10th Amendment, powers not specifically
delegated to the United States are reserved to the states and to the
people. That includes secession.
But in today’s America, there will be stiff resistance to state secession. Right now, secessionist movements are actively spreading the word about the reasons secession is a viable solution for liberty. The “powers that be” are not threatened quite yet. “Tea Parties” and grass-roots political movements today are a dime a dozen. The threat level, in a nod to the Homeland Security bunch, is Yellow. So, once the movement gains undeniable traction in one particular state, who will begin to resist? Who will actively fight secession? Here is the short list. (Read the rest here)
The Truth About Somalia And Anarchy by Alex R. Knight III No, there is no “anarchy” in Somalia – not as
that word is properly used; to denote an absence of rulers. While there
may be many ways in which Somalis under such conditions are not
hampered by the institution of taxation, and are thus free to trade
what goods and services there are to be made or had on a voluntary,
consensual basis, such conditions are not precisely conducive to
optimum commerce. With a constant barrage of different warring factions
running amok, each competing fiercely to be the one, uncontestable
ruling force, there is only an atmosphere of impending statism with no
current group of guerilla fighters able to muster enough firepower to
snuff or drive away all of the others. (Read
the rest here) (Read
the entire article at the source
website.
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Many Gun
Owners, the State and Media Agree; 2a Is No Longer Relevant
by Michael Gaddy When I decided to write this article, I did not
contact the government, submit to a background check, submit
fingerprints, take a government endorsed writing class and pay for
permission. What is the difference in the exercise of my inalienable
right to free speech and my inalienable right to keep and bear arms?
The difference is: the state currently fears my ability to resist
tyranny with a firearm more than with words, but as we can see from the
reaction of the government and its media lackeys to the spoken
objections to the tyranny of socialized medicine, that is about to
change.
In today’s political climate, if one dares to speak out about the intrusion of the state into every crevice of liberty and freedom, they are compared by the socialist mouth organ to Nazis, Hamas and Hezbollah. If the First Amendment rights follow the pattern of the Second Amendment, only those who have been vetted by the state will be allowed to speak or write publicly, and then only after passing the prerequisite courses, state scrutiny, and of course, pay the required amount for the privilege. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) There appears to be reluctance on the part of
many fine libertarian writers, however, to pursue their line of
reasoning to its logical and final conclusion. They elaborate current
failures of government in a most convincing and articulate fashion,
enumerating any number of government failures, abuses, and outrages and
pointing out even worse catastrophes as a result of further government
mismanagement, negligence, ignorance, wrong-headedness, and even
outright hostility. The "solutions" often proposed are the familiar
nostrums of "limiting" government to its "rightful" functions, respect
for the Constitution, reducing taxation to a bare minimum, eliminating
a great deal of the current legal code, secession of one or a number of
states, or even more drastic solutions.
In many articles, though certainly not all, there is the unstated position that there is something wrong with our government, or with some other affiliated state. Rarely are we exposed to the proposition that government by its very nature is an illegitimate institution, that governments arise by conquest and confiscation and no other way, and that they represent the institutionalized form of violence and coercion. In the words of Murray Rothbard, they are a criminal gang writ large. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) "In the most profound financial change in
recent
Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China,
Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving
instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and
Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for
nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu
Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar."
As Fisk pointed out in a follow-up report, the "de-dollarization" of the oil market -- a process Iran has already begun, which helps explain Washington's bellicosity toward Tehran -- "reflects a growing resentment in the Middle East, Europe and China at America's decades-long political as well as economic world dominance." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) National Gun Rights Examiner Forgive some of us if we suspect all the pots
and pans Bloomberg is
banging over out-of-state gun shows is more a matter of generating tons
of free publicity, stoking his insufferable ego and imposing his will
on all American gun owners, and less about combating violent crime in
the Big Apple.
That major news outlets aren't questioning his motives, but instead seem happy and eager to amplify his "findings," demonstrates the shameful degradation of an independent press that once took pride in being government watchdogs, as opposed to cheerleaders sharing a statist agenda. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Check
out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners
Albuquerque Libertarian
Examiner I think that how you react to others whose
beliefs, habits, or lives may differ from your own goes a long ways
toward showing how willing you are to leave people alone to live their
own lives as they see fit as long as they are harming no innocent
person.
Anchorage
Libertarian Examiner
By Kevin Wilmeth Human beings can be just that kind of
remarkable. If they are capable of forgetting that "none of us us
as dumb as all of us", they are also capable of music, of art, of
courtesy and smiles and mutual respect, and of perfectly anarchic
interaction beyond the scope of any sort of oversight. They are
capable of understanding that rules and regulations limit the creative
impulse, and if they may not see (yet) the wisdom of doing away with
the rules entirely (because decent people do not need them and indecent
people are nowise restrained by them), they do understand that flouting
them when necessary is perfectly legitimate in the name of...being
human. (Read
the rest here) (Read the entire article
at the source
website. Use the back button to return.)
U R served in 140 characters or less By Garry Reed No more knocking on a door, asking people their
names and then slapping them on the chest with a sheath of papers and
growling "You've been served."
Like, that's so old black & white 1940s movie, dude. Process serving has gone high tech. Or high tweet. At least in the UK. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return
Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News (October 05/09) By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 External Article It’s Not the People, It’s the Machine by Michael Gaddy Unanimous Consent and the
Utopian Vision or
I
Dreamed I Was a Signatory In My Maidenform Braby L. Neil Smith National Gun Rights Examiner Cheyenne Gun Rights Examiner
Gun-control
and women, Part IIBy Anthony Bouchard Partner Abuse Industry Flirts with a Hateful Agenda By Carey Roberts Albuquerque Libertarian
Examiner Anchorage
Libertarian Examiner
By Kevin Wilmeth Libertarianism 101: What's the libertarian position on Gun Rights? By Garry Reed
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