NEW MEXICO LIBERTY

“Let Freedom Ring”

Editor / Publisher Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@zianet.com ]
Print Distribution Ron Bjornstad [ rbjornstad@earthlink.net ]
October 2005 The Official Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of New Mexico www.lpnm.org
groups.yahoo.com/group/nmliberty
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 1
• Internet Resources
• 1774 in Boston, 2005 in New Orleans
• Want to Really Support the Troops?
Page 2
• Field Reports
• Calendar
• A Slip on the Part of the Media?
Page 3 – Voice of the Chair
Page 4
• Trek for Trash
• George Bush is My Shepherd
• The Phoenix Rises From The Ashes
• Recent Activties?
Page 5
• The Simon Jester Project
• Gun Confiscation in New Mexico?
Page 6 / Page 7
Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out
Page 8 – Contacts / Internet Resources
Page 9
Debit / Credit Account Donations
Page 10
• NM Liberty Admin Notes
• LPNM Enrollment / Renewal
By Scott Bieser [ www.scottbieser.com ]
INTERNET RESOURCES Originally posted to Scott's blog site, The Time Sink.
[ thetimesink.blogspot.com / www.bigheadpress.com/thetimesink ]
www.lpnm.org
Yahoo groups WANT TO REALLY SUPPORT THE TROOPS?
By Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
LPNM Discussion
groups.yahoo.com/lpnm-discuss
New Mexico Liberty
groups.yahoo.com/group/nmliberty
LPNM Activists
groups.yahoo.com/group/
lpnm-activists
LPNM Business List
groups.yahoo.com/group/lpnm-biz
(LPNM membership required) I found this on The Libertarian Enterprise's site – the company that made the
Myspace.com original bumper sticker has since gone bankrupt. Check out
groups.myspace.com/lpnm www.unknownnews.org for more information.
 FIELD REPORTS CALENDAR
From County / Campus Chairs
See groups.myspace.com/lpnm for details, updates, etc.
Bernalillo – New Mexico's Consumer Advocate has
Sunday, 9 October – Executive Committee meeting –
replaced The Weekly Sedition for the fourth quarter of Roper's in Albuquerque (Wyoming & Central) Lunch
2005 (October / November / December) on Albuquerque 12PM, Meeting 1 PM
Comcast Ch.27. Show times are Wednesdays at 8PM.
The Weekly Sedition will return in January. REGULAR EVENTS
Jay Vandersloot has been the Libertarian representative Thursday, 6 October – Bernalillo County Liberty Forum
for political forums on A Need to Know, sponsored by meets in Albuquerque, 5:30 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's
Patty Gladstone on ABQ Ch.27. Restaurant & Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE).
Contact Mike Blessing, 505-453-4532, for details.
Mike Blessing, among others, has started speaking at
the Albuquerque City Council meetings using the public Saturday, 8 October – San Juan County LP meeting.
commentary portion of the meeting. Council meetings Contact Bob Ziesmer, 505-327-6681 for details.
are on the first and third Mondays of each month.
Thursday, 19 October – Bernalillo County Liberty Forum
Transcripts of Mike's speeches will be posted to
meets in Albuquerque, 5:30 to 7:00 PM at Fiesta's
groups.myspace.com/lpnmbernco.
Restaurant & Lounge (Carlisle & Montogomery NE).
Chaves – D.J. Glenn has been hosting monthly Contact Mike Blessing, 505-453-4532, for details.
meetings on the third Friday of the month.
Friday, 21 October – Chaves County meets 6:30 PM.
The Libertarian Party of Chaves County will have a booth Contact D. Glenn, 505-625-0175, for details.
at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair, 3 thru 9 October
Monday, 24 October – August Meetup at J.B's on
2005. They are raffling a Ruger model 10/22T (target
Eubank just north of I-40. Contact Jay Vandersloot, 505-
rifle) carbine. With all tickets sold, the drawing will be
362-1733, for details.
held Sunday afternoon, 9 October.
Wednesday, 26 October. – Sandoval County meets at
Eddy – Bob Thompson is getting started in organizing JB’s restaurant on 528 near Intel. Contact Ron
the LPEC. Bjornstad, 505-891-4541, for details.
Lincoln – Tony Seno has recently resigned as county TV Shows – Channel 27 in ABQ
chair. Richard Obergfell will be the acting county chair (not necessarily endorsed by LPNM)
pending an organizational meeting with Dorsey Glenn.
New Mexico's Consumer Advocate
Otero – Kathleen Hodgkinson is getting started in Wednesdays at 8PM
organizing the LPOC.
San Juan – The previously-announced rifle raffle is still Hemp TV – Tuesdays at 7PM
going on, and is due to be raffled off on 15 December groups.yahoo.com/group/hemptv
2005, for the LPSJC's Bill of Rights Day event. Contact
Bob Ziesmer for details. A Need to Know – Alternating Tuesdays at 9 PM
Reeferhead – Saturdays at 6PM
The LPSJC recently had a reorganizational meeting, and
has posted some new officers to its roster – see page 4 A SLIP ON THE PART OF THE MEDIA?
for details. By Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
Sandoval – The LPSC is having its monthly meetings at
the J.B.'s on 528, north of Intel.
Santa Fe – Susan Ruch has been assisting Dorsey
Glenn in sending out mailings for the membership drive
and organizational effort.
Socorro – Shawn Price has recently resigned from the
County Chair position, leaving the spot open.
University of New Mexico – John Pfersich will also be
assisting with the start-up of a college libertarian group at
the UNM Main Campus. A print advertisement in support
of the UNM group was placed in UNM Daily Lobo by
Bruce Bush.
This picture of Bush with caption was screen-captured and
posted around the internet by parties unknown. While I don't
want to underestimate our Comrade President, his
administration has me feeling somewhat nostalgic for the reign
of Waco Willie Clinton.
Voice of the Chair
Jay Vandersloot
jayvandersloot@yahoo.com
Candidates Needed to Run for Public Office
Elections are coming up again next year, and I’m sure
there are a number of us who have thought about the
possibility of running for office, but then sloughed it off
thinking, “I’d never have a chance of winning.”
While it may not be easy, it is possible. There are over
500 Libertarians around the country who are in public
office. They did it, and so can you!
Look for local races, where there is a candidate running
unopposed. Look for offices you feel the incumbent is
doing a bad job and needs to be replaced, at all costs
(not hard to find). You feel someone needs to run
against those people. Well, why not you!
While you’re at it, let’s take a look at a group of positions
where one might be able to make an even greater
difference if elected – some State-wide races. Think of
the effect it would have, if we could get a Libertarian
elected as Secretary of State, or to the State Supreme
Court! Or, what about running for some of the other
State-wide offices? Consider the following.
Secretary of State State Supreme Court
State Auditor Land Commissioner
State Attorney General U.S. Senator
State Treasurer (have you been following the news?)
If you’re planning to run for office, or have even just been
toying in your mind with the possibility, let me know about
it. Send an email (jayvandersloot@yahoo.com), or if you
don’t have email, call me (505-362-1733), and tell me
about it.
If you know Libertarians who would be good for any
public office, talk to and encourage them to run.
Let’s not wait until the last moment to start things rolling.
Let’s get this going NOW!
State Central Committee Decides to Move
LPNM 2006 State Convention Date
At the Sept. meeting the LPNM CenCom decided to re-
schedule the 2006 State Convention from June to the
weekend of March 10-12, 2006, to better facilitate timely
nominations of candidates, and to allow time for
preparations for the potential court case next Spring.
Please plan on being there.
Now, let’s educate ourselves on one of the planks
from our LP National Platform, so we will be better
able to present the principles to others.
I. Individual Rights and Civil Order
3. Victimless Crimes
The Issue: Activities which do not affect anyone but the
actor have been criminalized by government on the basis
of encoding a particular morality into law.
The Principle: Only actions that infringe on the rights or
damage the property of others can properly be termed
crimes.
"Every idea you present must be something you could
get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers."
— Jack Welch, GE Executive
Solutions: We favor the repeal of all federal, state and
local laws creating "crimes" without victims.
Transitional Action: In particular, we advocate:
A. the repeal of all laws prohibiting the production, sale,
possession, or use of drugs, and of all medicinal
prescription requirements for the purchase of vitamins,
drugs, and similar substances; the repeal of all laws
restricting or prohibiting the use or sale of alcohol,
requiring health warning labels and signs, making
bartenders or hosts responsible for the behavior of
customers and guests, making liquor companies liable
for birth defects, and making gambling houses liable for
the losses of intoxicated gamblers; the repeal of all laws
or policies authorizing stopping drivers without probable
cause to test for alcohol or drug use; the repeal of all
laws regarding consensual sexual relations, including
prostitution and solicitation, and the cessation of state
oppression and harassment of homosexual men and
women, that they, at last, be accorded their full rights as
individuals; the repeal of all laws regulating or prohibiting
the possession, use, sale, production, or distribution of
sexually explicit material, independent of "socially
redeeming value" or compliance with "community
standards";
B. the repeal of all laws regulating or prohibiting
gambling;
C. the repeal of anti-racketeering statutes such as the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
(RICO), which punish peaceful behavior – including
insider trading in securities, sale of sexually explicit
material, and nonviolent anti-abortion protests – by
freezing and/or seizing assets of the accused or
convicted; and
D. the repeal of all laws interfering with the right to
commit suicide as infringements of the ultimate right of
an individual to his or her own life.
We demand the use of executive pardon to free and
exonerate all those presently incarcerated or ever
convicted solely for the commission of these "crimes."
We condemn the wholesale confiscation of property prior
to conviction by the state that all too often accompanies
police raids, searches, and prosecutions for victimless
crimes. Further, we recognize that, often, the Federal
Government blackmails states which refuse to comply
with these laws by withholding funds and we applaud
those states which refuse to be so coerced.
 TREK FOR TRASH
By D.J. Glenn [ djglenn@plateautel.net ]
Several members of the Libertarian Party of Chaves
County Central Committee participated in the "Trek for
Trash" on Saturday, 16 September 2005 by cleaning up
our adopted two-mile stretch of East 19th Street.
Participants received a nice "Tee Shirt", and started the
day with coffee and donuts at Pioneer Plaza in Roswell.
Perhaps the greatest benefit to the party lies in the
advertising and to us individually – well maybe trim
waistlines.
GEORGE BUSH IS MY SHEPHERD
By Bill Koehler [ bkoehler8@comcast.net ]
George Bush is my Shepherd, I am f*cked.
He maketh me to war at his pleasure.
He leadeth an army from a safe distance.
He urge me on.
He leadeth me in the path of treachery and deceipt.
Yea! I can still walk.
Fear no evil? You must be joking.
The pr*ck will court martial me if I try to leave.
Thy tanks and thy helicopters are small comfort amidst
suicide bombers.
Thou hast served me as a sacrificial lamb.
Thou tradest my life for oil.
My guts are spilt all over the desert.
Surely I will now leave in a body bag.
For I have serve my purpose
and filled your slaughter house.
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“The success of a party can be determined by the
number of gatecrashers. And we do have friends who've
been knocking away on the virtual doors of the cartel.
MadMan is devising a logical test of libertarianism. Get
ready to jump through the hoop and clear the hurdles!
“Any more wanting to join us in the battle against the evil
forces of socialism, illogic, and unfreedom? Drop me a
line.”
– Yazad Jal,
www.yazadjal.com/2004/06/04/and-what-is-the-cartel
"You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you
don't get caught exercising them."
– Terry Mitchell
THE PHOENIX RISES FROM THE ASHES
By Bob Ziesmer [ nm_bob@hotmail.com ]
The LP of San Juan County held its annual picnic last
Saturday. A special meeting was held before the picnic,
and at that meeting the call for a special convention was
rescinded.
Also, stepping forward to fill some empty slots were:
Joseph Knight – Committee Member at Large
Margaret Mathers – Secretary
Ann Ziesmer – Treasurer
Also, the turnout at the picnic was quite good, and some
non-Libertarian guests took part and seemed to enjoy
the discussion and related to our views.
After the negative report at last week's State Cencom
meeting, I felt I should convey this positive message as
well.
RECENT ACTIVITIES?
By Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
Every time I put NML together, I'm scrounging for
material to put in. What I'm really looking for is stuff from
the LPNM's county affiliates on their recent activities,
such as meetings, fairs, members' speeches or media
events, those sorts of things. I'd like to know that there
are more of you active than the Bernalillo, San Juan and
Chaves County LPs.
What can you do to get things moving? Some
suggestions:
•Write a letter to the editor, and sign it as an LP
member.
•Hold a meeting at the local restaurant, and advertise
that meeting with a sign or two on the roadside, or
flyers at the Quik-Mart's bulletin board.
•Talk to your friends and family about the LP.
All of these action items are very low-cost, nor do they
require any special skills. The highest skill level you
would need is some sort of computer literacy, mostly
using a word processor such as MS Office. (I'm using
Open Office here, which does the same job, only the
Open Office developers don't charge you the Ø200 that
Microsoft does for their product.
What's required is some amount of initiative. What ever
happened to the libertarian ethos that free individuals get
things done without government support, or
government's boot up their rear end for not doing? Yeah,
sometimes I'm late on a project or two, but then again, in
addition to the 20+ hours a month I donate to the LPNM,
I'm working two jobs, and trying to have some sort of
social life as well. Those 20+ hours are hours that I could
be out and about chasing skirts, practicing my shooting,
reading my skiffy books, etc. Get the picture?

THE SIMON JESTER PROJECT
A Liberty Round Table Project
[ www.libertyroundtable.org ]
If you haven't read the classic SF novel, The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein, the whole Simon
Jester thing may be confusing you. Simon Jester was the
"imaginary" creation of a group of Loonies fomenting
rebellion. He was a little devil who tormented the Lunar
government with catchy little jokes, ditties, poems,
slogans, and cartoons. Later, Simon expanded into the
poltergeist business by playing practical jokes on gov-
goons and bureaucrats. He always signed his work with
a little cartoon image of a grinning devil.
"Simon" was a game everyone could play, anyone who
wanted to bug the ruling authoritarians, that is. Any
pissed-off miner could scribble a bit of seditious graffiti
on a wall and attribute it to "Simon" with the easily
scrawled logo. To the Authority, it seemed that Simon
Jester was everywhere, all the time.
We need Simon Jester now.
A "meme" is an idea, a thought; hopefully a seed that will
germinate in the recipient's mind and grow into a whole
garden of worthwhile ideas. In theory, one exposes
people to short, memorable phrases or images which
stick with them; rather like the tune you can't get out of
your head. In this case, the "tune" is akin to Yankee
Doodle Dandy and is meant to generate thoughts on
liberty.
Planting those mental seeds is what the Simon Jester
Project is all about. To get you started, we've provided a
few basic files.
Surely this is enough to get us started.
Enough plotting; let's get out and do something!
See The Simon Jester Project's website:
www.simonjester.org
GUN CONFISCATION IN NEW MEXICO?
By Mike Blessing [ gunssavelives@comcast.net ]
I came across the following discussion from the NM
Shooting Sports Association's email list:
Mike O. wrote on 23 Sept 2005:
The local authorities in New Orleans ordered the
confiscation of guns. Federal marshals assisted in that
effort.
I've been told that New Mexico state disaster plans also
have provisions for gun confiscations? Did they before,
or is that a post 9-11 / Patriot Act / Dept Homeland
Security new thing?
Anybody know if it's true, have the details? Did the feds
require them in the state plans if we wanted fed money
the way they link other stuff to federal funds?
Carol wrote on 24 Sept 2005:
I looked at the Dept. of Public Safety and found the 2004
disaster plan and the 1999 plan. I did not find any
mention of weapons, guns, ETC. except for weapons of
mass destruction. Whether or not this is the real plan is
anyone's guess.
Mike O. wrote on 25 Sept 2005:
Not going to find what I'm talking about in those; it's
going to be in the action / implementation plans, the
actual action steps or tasks assignments needed to
implement those plans. Those are separate documents. I
couldn't find those on line.
My take here: those action plans drawn up by the State
Police, New Mexico's Homeland Security office, and
others, are often deemed “confidential” and held close to
the vest, as we rank-and-file citizenry aren't meant for
such information. As such, the only place they would be
online is on law-enforcement websites restricted to
police-use only.
Am I condoning this? Hell, NO! Governments keeping
secrets is one of the cornerstones of tyranny. They say
that the reason they keep this documents confidential is
that “terrorists” might get ahold of them and find ways to
foil those plans. I might add that the difference between
“terrorist” and “freedom fighter” can often be a subjective
one, and that with the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, the
possibility exists for anyone to be declared a “terrorist,”
just as the USA PATRIOT Act was supposed to be used
against “terrorists.” Why is it that they have no problems
using its provisions against people not at all connected to
“terrorist” activities and groups.
The libertarian solution to this is to call for the end of
allowing government agencies to keep secrets and lie to
us about anything. Once you allow it for “national
security” or “law enforcement,” the door will be open for
just about anything else, just as civil asset forfeiture was
originally supposed to be limited to the “Drug War,” and
now just about any agency that exists can seize your
stuff with the slightest of reasons.
If ever there was a reason to keep up with sites like
copwatch.com, the New Orleans situation was it.
 THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
www.ncc-1776.com
Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out
by L. Neil Smith [ lneil@lneilsmith.com ]
I have been accused – and I didn't like it much – of saying that
the people of the United States are sleeping. All that we
libertarians (or Marxists or Georgists or Monarchists or Nudists
or Flat-Earthists or Anti-Darwinists) need to do to achieve
victory over the Forces of Evil (whoever they happen to be at
the moment) is to awaken our fellow countrymen (and our
countrywomen, too) from their deep and dangerous slumber.
Now in fact, I've never said anything even remotely like that.
It's just part of the argumentative style of the guy who made
the accusation (he's a novelist, and he'd want me to mention
his name) to invent positions for you on various issues and
then try to bamboozle you into defending them, a technique I
don't think I ever fell for, even in grade school. I dismissed him
and I haven't heard from him since.
The other day, however, I had an experience that made me
wonder if that view wasn't right, after all, about one subculture
of Americans in particular, those who continue, despite the
dictates of history – not to mention good taste – to label
themselves "conservative". And since conservatives have
shown over the past several years that they have no real
interest in individual liberty, but merely represent a right-wing
variety of socialism, I think it's appropriate to call them
"connies."
What happened is that I heard from a friend that he had
posted an essay of mine "on an ostensibly pro-RKBA, heavily
Republican gun forum". For those unfamiliar with the acronym,
"RKBA" stands for the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms",
referring to the Second Amendment. I greatly prefer to
modernize a hackneyed phrase that otherwise seems to fall on
cliche-deafened ears, by saying "the right to own and carry
weapons".
He continued, "Thought I'd forward a couple of the responses."
The particular essay in question, "Why Did It Have To Be
Guns?", has been a favorite feature of my personal website,
"The Webley Page" for years. I've asked editor Ken Holder to
run it in this week's Enterprise so you can see what started the
flap.
[ See www.lneilsmith.com/whyguns.html – MWB ]
Back already?
Okay, keep in mind the gist of the essay: my contention that
you can learn practically anything you need to know about a
politician from his respect – or lack thereof – for your right to
own and carry weapons.
"What has been working," read the first so-called response to
my essay, "is the Conservative strategy of wearing down and
defeating the Liberal establishment through a continuous
campaign on all fronts against their ideology, performance,
and political and news media dominance."
Aside from the fact that this wasn't really a response to my
essay at all (it seemed a lot more to me like a defensive knee-
jerk reaction to the myriad and conspicuous failures of
Republican politicians to stand up properly for the Second
Amendment over the past few decades), do you see what I
mean about connies being sound asleep? Either that, or
they're all higher than ... higher than ... an appropriate
metaphor appears to be escaping me, here ... I've got it:
higher than Rush Limbaugh.
What this writer is attempting to describe, in any case, is not a
conservative strategy, not at all, but one developed during the
19th century by English Fabian socialists, including H.G.
including H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Sydney and
Beatrice Webb, and a great many illustrious others.
Even if that didn't happen to be true, what is it that these
connnies are wearing down and defeating, exactly? Thanks to
the likes of Richard "I Am Not A Crook" Nixon (who considered
private ownership of firearms "an abomination") and the
inappropriately sainted Ronald Reagan, the all-consuming
State today is bigger, more powerful, and more voracious than
ever. And one way or another, every bit of it is the work of the
cowards, cretins, and crazies who call themselves
conservatives, whose self-congratulatory campaign against
the liberal establishment seems to consist of little besides
becoming liberals, themselves.
Let's stick with the fundamental right to own and carry
weapons, since it was on a gun forum that this antilibertarian
flatulence was posted. Who made the Brady Bill and the late,
unlamented Ugly Gun ban possible? None other than the
Republican Party, under the viagratic leadership of Senator
Brady Bill-Bob Dole, who gave the Clintonistas a pass on rules
of procedure that would have otherwise stopped them cold.
For ten years, as a consequence, liberty hung in limbo – and
hangs in limbo even yet – thanks specifically to the connies
who now have the baldfaced temerity to claim it was all part of
some grand strategy.
Sure: the "strategy" of betraying principle, toadying to
creatures like Bill Clinton, who would be powerless without
enthusiastic connie help.
"It's a slow process," our correspondent declares pontifically,
somehow failing to notice (or acknowledge) that it's also a
process presently running in reverse, away from the individual
freedom that connies used to claim they desired. "But the only
alternative is listening to the Libertarians yapping while the
Liberals control the USA."
So that's the problem! The poor connies don't like our
"yapping". They don't appreciate any individual impolite and
impolitic enough to remind them that they're lying phonies who
have now managed to inflict more catastrophic damage on
what the Founding Fathers accomplished than any left-winger
ever dreamed of in his wildest McGovernistic imagination.
They probably hate our mentioning the way their foreign policy,
driven by mercantilist lust for somebody else's property,
brought on the attack on the World Trade Center, or their so-
called Patriot Act, which would make Adolf Hitler green with
envy, or their thousands of spy cameras on the streets, twice
as thick as in the old movie 1984, or their midnight arrests and
abductions – following the Abe Lincoln playbook, line by
jackbooted line of American citizens and others never properly
accused, let alone convicted of any crime, or their
concentration camps and torture dungeons hidden in friendly
foreign dictatorships.
They don't want us "yapping" while what they're really "wearing
down and defeating" is the Bill of Rights, through their
"continuous campaign on all fronts" against freedom of
communication, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion,
sexual and reproductive freedom, the right to travel freely
without being molested by hired thugs, personal and financial
privacy, and, yes, the individual right to own and carry
weapons.
Never forget Ronald Reagan's support for the Brady Bill,
named to honor his old flunky, or George Senior's campaign
diatribe against a tiny .22 revolver, or George Junior's promise
to sign a renewal of the Adequate Magazine ban if his left wing
allies ever managed to get it passed.
Connies want us libertarians to stop "yapping". And I
suppose if I were heavily invested in the relentless
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Nazification of what was once the freest civilization in the
world, I'd want exactly the same thing, myself.
Wouldn't you?
I seem to recall somebody saying, "When the enemy screams
"Foul!" the loudest, you know you're doing him the most
damage." Now who could that possibly have been? Oh yeah, it
was me! In my essay, "Tactical Reflections" in my book Lever
Action. And to that, I'll add now that the more conservatives
whimper, the more we libertarians know we're right.
So I guess we'll just keep yapping until the connies wake up.
According to a television show I saw this week, Winston
Churchill once said, "The further backward you can look, the
further forward you can see."
I know history pretty well, and what I see conservatives – let's
call 'em connies – shoveling today is the same old bullshit
used by Republicans in the 1950s, Democrats in the 1940s
(not to mention World War I), Republicans in the 1860s, and
politicians in general, probably as far back as the Sumerians
six thousand years ago, as an excuse to relieve their subjects
of their lives, their liberty, and their property.
I'm sure back even then there were plenty of "useful idiots" to
justify – in cuneiform – what the bigwigs were actually doing to
people. Today our civilization is plagued by the same kind of
"useful idiots".
"Libertarians believe in Magic," a Republican connie bloviated,
recently, in what was supposed to have been a response to
"Why Did It Have To Be Guns?", an essay of mine observing
that no matter what a politicians says, what he does with
regard to your right to own and carry weapons tells you what
he really thinks of you and your rights. (A friend of mine had
posted the essay on a mostly right wing Second Amendment
forum. "A Democratic Republic such as ours," the connie
announced as if it were a new discovery, "doesn't operate on
magic."
I've no idea what I said in my essay to make this specimen
think libertarians believe in magic. Mostly we're hard-nosed
atheists, materialists, and anti-mystics. Indeed it's the connies
who have an all-powerful Imaginary Playmate and see fairies
at the bottom of their garden.
What I suspect – you may recall that I've written about this
syndrome before – is that the writer thought that slogan up
some time ago (possibly it was the only original thought he
ever had) and he was desperate to use it, however
inappropriately, at some time before he died.
A lot of nonsense gets written that way. His illusion that
America is a democratic republic is another perfect example.
In one sense, it was never intended to be – the Founders
expended lots of effort to keep it from becoming one – and in
another, it never has been. Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed,
famous for saying, "I don't give a damn who does the voting,
as long as I do the nominating," there hasn't been an honest
election in the USA since sometime around the War Between
the States.
"There are no easy ways," this pampered darling of the two-
headed Boot On Your Neck Party eructated, "to win political
battles or rights."
He was telling this to libertarians, who, unlike privileged and
protected BOYN Party candidates, have had to petition or sue
to get into every election they've run in since 1971? Who end
up getting fined for running against Republican and
Democratic candidates? Who find ballot boxes thrown off the
back of a truck in the desert rather than allow a libertarian to
occupy the seat she won fair and square in the Nevada State
senate? Who are grandly informed by old men in black
dresses that the plain language of the Bill of Rights somehow
fails to apply inside Arizona public parks, or within the City and
County of Denver?
"You've got to fight every day, slug it out in the court of public
opinion."
How true – mostly against wasters of oxygen like him, it would
appear.
"If the opinion of the Elites is against us," he went on, "as it
surely is concerning [the right to own and carry weapons],
unremitting effort is required to provide our fellow citizens with
the reasons why gun ownership is a positive, personal good
for them, as well as [for] us."
This would have been a useful observation fifty years ago.
Today it is old news, proof that our correspondent and his
fellow connies have been off somewhere with their heads
wedged where the sun don't shine. His ignorance—which he
waves proudly, like a flag, is appalling.
Otherwise, he would be aware that, over the past quarter
century, I have written a book a year, each of them asserting,
to one degree or another, and depending on the particular
circumstances, that "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."
He would know about the works of Scott Bieser, Fran van
Cleave, Kathryn Graham, Kent Hastings, James P. Hogan.
Victor Koman, Brad Linaweaver, Rex F. May, Victor Milan,
Kenneth Royce, J. Neil Schulman, Vin Suprynowicz, Susan
Wells, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Claire Wolfe, and
Aaron Zelman, fighting every day, slugging it out in the court of
public opinion, all in support of individual liberty, and always
for the right to own and carry weapons whenever the subject
arises.
If I've left anybody out, please forgive me. You all know who
you are.
Another appalling thing about this guy is his cultural inferiority
complex. His use of the word "Elites" – capitalized, no less – to
indicate followers of the Woman with One Eyebrow, denizens
of the City of the Cockroach, bedwetting liberals, famously
fearful of every known phenomenon, is abject and
embarrassing, like watching a collared and broken cur,
cowering and nose-whistling at the feet of its abusive master.
Before he presumes to lecture libertarians again, Fido should
get himself a spine. Wayne LaPierre clearly isn't using his (he
borrowed Larry Pratt's for the New Orleans lawsuit), maybe
he'd like to rent it out.
But I digress.
"Libertarians despise the majority of voters," our connie forum
correspondent now proclaims. "They smear them as 'sheeple'
and dismiss them as beneath contempt. But as long as we
have a Democratic Republic, the majority opinion will prevail
over the Elites in the end."
Where do you start with a sentence like that? It's obvious the
guy doesn't know many real libertarians, or he wouldn't be
outgassing like this. How does he come by the knowledge that
we "despise the majority of voters'? Telepathy? I never said it,
and it wasn't in the essay he's supposedly responding to. I'll
admit I've heard libertarians use the world "sheeple", but they
certainly have no monopoly on it – I'll bet this guy uses it a lot
more than we do. The only folks I've ever heard openly
manifesting contempt for the electorate are Democrats and
Republicans, so I have to conclude that he must be
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having some kind of argument with
himself – somebody tell him that'll grow
hair on his palms.
I repeat, America is not now, nor was it
ever intended to be a "Democratic
Republic". (If he'd consult a dictionary
with derivations, he'd discover that the
term is a redundancy in any case, half
of it coming from Greek, the other half
from Latin, both meaning the same
thing.
And there's that term "Elites" again.
Grovel, grovel, grovel.
There's no way connies can get around
it, no matter what slogans they
endlessly repeat: we libertarians believe
in freedom. Period. Not magic.
Some years ago, the GOP was
pretending to lead a congressional
"revolution" for personal and economic
freedom – and getting nowhere,
because they weren't really interested in
either. Whenever critics, especially
libertarians, were rude enough to point
out their failings and deviations from
principle, they would whine, "The
perfect is the enemy of the good" –
meaning that those of us who were
capable of keeping our eyes on the
prize (as the saying went) were spoiling
their con.
I replied that if it weren't for those who
insist on the "perfect" there'd never be
any good. A while after that, they
stopped using the slogan.
Connies don't have the cojones for
freedom any more. The mere existence
of libertarians wounds their poor,
shriveled souls, because, by supporting
the right wing socialist policies of
George W. Bush, they have cravenly
surrendered to the left wing socialism of
Hillary Clinton.
Part One – www.tinyurl.com/96r66
Part Two – www.tinyurl.com/ddve7
L. Neil Smith's personal website, “The
Webley Page,” is located at
www.lneilsmith.com
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better speech."
– Jim Lesczynski,
Manhattan Libertarian Party
"Politicians are the same the world over.
They promise to build a bridge where
there is no river."
– Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953
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