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Manifesto to an Obama SupporterSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2008-09-18 07:55.
A friend of mine sent out an email urging a large list of recipients to vote for Barack Obama. I replied that I could not support either major party, and that I intended to stay home in November. She pressed the issue, so I wrote the following: Palin is the only one of the major party presidential and vice-presidential candidates that does not completely disgust me. But she's a war-monger, so I can't support her. I'm an agorist/anarcho-capitalist. I want the state to end. I will not participate in the madness. I'm also a libertarian. I do my best to uphold the Zero Aggression Principle (ZAP): "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." Initiation of force is never OK by anybody, no matter how many people vote for it, no matter which fancy uniform, funny hat, or shiny badge the initiator happens to be wearing. If you don't have the right to do it yourself, you don't have the right to delegate it to somebody else by voting. Taxation is theft. It must end. Any kind of prohibition of anything between consenting adults is initiation of force. It must stop. That means the end to drug prohibition and drug prescription mandates. That means the end to the prohibition of gambling and prostitution. Do I want to take recreational drugs, or gamble, or engage a prostitute? Of course not. But the unintended consequences of prohibition are much worse. ZAP means the end of driving licenses and automobile registration, except for competence certificates to lower your insurance rates, and private registries, to help find your car if it's stolen. ZAP means the end of any kind of gun control. Being a libertarian does not mean you don't believe in self defense. Exactly the opposite. Initiation of force is not OK. Not by you or me or a cop or an army. Stopping an attacker, with whatever force is necessary, is encouraged. 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. Those weapons may be used for self defense, or for hunting, but the reason the Second Amendment of the US Bill of Rights says that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is so that we the people are always prepared to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government, should it become necessary. That should give you some idea of where I'm coming from. I have arrived where I am through many years of hard thought. You're not likely to change my mind any time soon. add new comment | quote | 289 reads
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BlogrollLewRockwell.comQuotesEvery 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. -- L. Neil Smith Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. -- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report (PDF) on gun control laws Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap") "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." -- L. Neil Smith Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP" 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. 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. What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him? -- L. Neil Smith "Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." -- Mike Vanderboegh The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war. -- Bill St. Clair TTLB |
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