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But The Railroads Are Running On Time! L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise - commentary on the MySpace gun photos teenager, who was found guilty of breaking a non-existent law. [clairefiles]
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Contrary to what the Founders intended, law, to cops, politicians, and other parasites these days, is whatever they make up as they go along.
But there's a longer-term object here that the enemies of liberty are pursuing. If we can't put guns in our children's hands, if we can't teach them to use them safely and effectively, then what the media delight in calling the "gun culture" meaning those who think the Bill of Rights is important is doomed to extinction. Several years ago, I coined an appropriate phrase for the phenomenon: cultural genocide.
Around about the same time, I also said that those who would outlaw weapons must begin by outlawing knowledge of weapons, and those who would outlaw knowledge of weapons must finally outlaw knowledge itself.
Whistle a Happy Tune I was whistling to Sunshine, our Cockatiel, and liked the tune so much I decided to record it. The .wav was too big, and compressing with MP3 sounded terrible, so I'm posting an .ogg file. There are plenty of .ogg players out there. Enjoy!
happytune.ogg (25 seconds, 147K)
Tennessee Supreme Court Overturns ID Roadblocks TheNewspaper.com - every now and then , the courts do the right thing. In Tennessee v. Hayes, the Tennessee Supreme Court did the right thing. Knowing pigs, however, the state will probably ask the Supremes to rule on it. [picks]
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days Zeitgeist Films has created a film about the girl who created The White Rose Society, and distributed anti-nazi leaflets in WWII Germany. She was executed for her patriotism. Looks good. German with English subtitles. Places and times of limited showings are here. [root]
An armed society is a ... Claire Wolfe - experience of a friend of Claire's proving Heinlein's dictum, "An armed society is a polite society." [claire]
.308 Day (The Geek's Report) GeekWithA.45 - the geek went shooting with Egregious Charles to compare Charles' PTR-91 with the Geek's M1A Scout Squad rifle. Both preferred the M1A, but at half the price, the PTR-91 is still a good choice for a battle rifle. Egregious Charles' post is here.
Security Myths and Passwords Eugene Spafford at Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security - periodic password changes not only do not increase security, they may actually decrease it because they cause users to write down their passwords. One commentor stated the one case where periodic changes can be beneficial. They provide a time limit for access by someone who has discovered a password without anyone knowing about it. Slashdot discussion. [/.]
Don't Blame Mexico Fred Reed at LewRockwell.com - an American living in Mexico clears up a few misconceptions about Mexico's immigration laws. [lew]
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Bear in mind that the United States is far more powerful than Mexico, and far richer, and that America and Americans are by nature meddlesome. At the national level the US tries to impose democracy, change regimes, and dictate social policy in all sorts of countries. At the level of the individual, Americans, certainly those in Mexico, try to pass leash laws, make horses wear diapers, regulate smoking, and set closing hours for bars. Neither the US nor most of its people grasp that some things are simply not their business.
Protecting Mexico from such intrusiveness is a concern of the government here.
Politics? No, you may not engage in politics. I am not sure why Americans think they should be permitted to, but I know why Mexicans think that they should not. In the Yankee enclaves, they would take over and run things as they wanted, not as Mexicans want. They would want rules, regulations, correct attitudes, laws, laws, laws. They would want to instruct Mexico. There would be encampments of activists demonstrating in Chiapas. (When the US has solved its own ethnic problems, then perhaps it might make polite suggestions to others. Day after tomorrow, you think?) And a naturalized American is just an American with a different piece of paper in his pocket: Same attitudes, culture, and lack of respect for other countries.
The Mexican approach is, You are free to live here, but we will make our own laws, thank you. Which makes perfect sense to me. I came here in large part to escape the micromanagement of everything by the damned government up north.
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If you want to live here, it s easy. You get a tourist visa for 90 days when you land (try that in the US), and with no hassle you can then get FM-3 residence status (try that in the US), provided you can demonstrate an income of $1000 a month. (You are welcome, but Mexico isn t going to support you. Why should it?) Driver s licenses are easy. You can bring your car and belongings, and no, the police aren t going to give you a hard time. The government hassles you far here less than does the government up north. But also no, you are not going into politics and, if you do something adequately undesirable, you will be chucked unceremoniously out. And why not?
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Note that the immigration problem is entirely of America s making. Laws, decisions in the courts, amnesties, interpretation of the Constitution, and policy all encourage illegal immigration. What the US does is to say to impoverished and desperate people, See this river? Don t cross it. If you do, we ll give you all sorts of privileges, and jobs, and a chance to advance in life and give your kids a good future. Now, don t cross it, you hear?
