End the War on Freedom

Aaron Zelman at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership - An Open Letter to President George.W. Bush and Key Members of the Bush Administration - Encourages GW, in strong language, to use the citizen militia for homeland defense. It's free, more effective than any possible federal force, and it doesn't destroy our civil liberties. [geneice]

Mr. Bush, if you are truly want to be a truly effective defender of your nation, then you will:

• Explicitly recognize and encourage Americans' unlimited right to self-defense and defense of their own communities.
• Encourage citizens to be aware of their rights and responsibilities, particularly their second- amendment rights.
• Immediately instruct the ATF, FBI, and any other federal enforcement agencies to cease prosecuting non-violent Americans for technical violations of firearms laws or regulations.
• Permit and encourage Americans to bear arms on federal lands and in federal buildings.
• Considering that courts have repeatedly declared that government law enforcement has no obligation to protect any individual, encourage states to enable citizens to defend themselves or their communities
• Encourage those with military or police experience to share their expertise with fellow citizens in the form of firearm- training courses and other defense skills.

Vin Suprynowicz - Hey Mustafa, try this - part of The Libertarian series. The u.s.d.a. is now putting prune meal in hamburgers given to kids. This all reminds Vin of a program that was proposed by a little-known socialist in 1932.

Under our U.S. Constitution, schooling and the nutrition of children remain local concerns. Article I, Section 8, which lists all the powers of the U.S. Congress, empowers that body to spend no federal money whatsoever meddling in the feeding or education of schoolkids.

Nor is any power granted to meddle in agriculture, either supporting the prices of farm products, or telling American farmers what or how much to grow, or what to do with it.

Then, just to make sure everyone "got it" when the Founders talked about "a government of powers sharply limited, and specifically enumerated," they went ahead and added the 10th Amendment, which specifies "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

So where on earth did anyone get the idea that the U.S. Department of Agriculture can appropriately busy itself slipping prunes into schoolkids' hamburgers?

Vin Suprynowicz - Henderson Thirteenth Grade - part of The Libertarian series. Concerning the non-existant hole in the ground into which Nevada tax-payers are throwing their money at the promise of a new state college.

Vin Suprynowicz - 'Fish protection' debunked as motive for bankrupting Oregon farmers - part of The Libertarian series. Now that the scientific studies have been done, it turns out that there were no endangered Sucker Fish above the Klamath Basin Dam. I wish the folks who destroyed all those farms were an endangered species. That's one extinction about which I could cheer.

The Klamath Valley abomination has never been about saving fish -- it's been about the antigrowth agenda of radical environmental groups like the Oregon Natural Resources Council, whose spokesmen hate the region's very lushness because it's artificial. Such groups forthrightly state their goal is to force farmers off the land. In this case, the Oregon "greens" drafted a plan which calls for the federal government to buy much of the basin's farmland, turning a lush and verdant valley which feeds hundreds of thousands of Americans back into as a "desert preserve."

"Rural Cleansing," the local farmers call it.

Vin Suprynowicz - Airline security and my 'attack on free enterprise' - a response to some email correspondence that Vin received about airport "security".

The events of Sept. 11 would have been impossible if there were NO AIRPORT SECURITY SYSTEM AT ALL. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft (as they were up through the 1960s -- any restrictions being prohibited by the Second and 14th Amendments), the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed -- and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits --- would have been quite substantial. Just as school shootings are facilitated by turning the schools into "self-defense-free zones," so the same thing has been done to our airports and aircraft.