Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:52:07 -0700
From: deeegeee@earthlink.net ("David Green")
Subject: [lpaz-Pima] Fw: NLT; " ALERT: ONE-TERM GEORGE, TAKE TWO!, " by L. Neil Smith
To: lpaz-Pima@yahoogroups.com
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From the following, I conclude that some kind veteranarian should find L. N
eil Smith and give him an anti-rabies shot.
David
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Subject: NLT; " ALERT: ONE-TERM GEORGE, TAKE TWO!, " by L. Neil Smith
NEW LIBERTARIAN TIMES
Pocatello, Idaho May 24,2001
Subscribers,
Warning, the following article is not for the faint-of-heart. L. Neil Smit
h is of the
"blood of the lamb" and "take no prisoners" school of libertarianism. He i
s a purist
that gives no lack to socialists, Republicans, leftist, or conservatives.
Indeed, he
felt that last year's Libertarian candidate for President, Harry Browne, wa
s a complete
sell-out and wimp. He was the Arizona Libertarian Party's candidate for Pr
esident. For
those not used to reading Smith I suggest that you be both calm and seated
before reading
this piece (especially for over fifty conservatives and Republicans).
Ben
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ALERT: ONE-TERM GEORGE, TAKE TWO!, by L. Neil Smith
Exclusive to _The Libertarian Enterprise_
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/
I got a message the other day with the subject, "W. Wimps
Out". It seems that despite election results and other events
that would push a brighter individual the opposite way,
Republican President George Bush is about to give the victim
disarmament industry several things they want.
I don't know why this should come as a surprise to anybody.
When Bush visited my home state, Colorado, during the recent
campaign, he stood beside Socialist ... er, Republican Bill
Owens, a particularly odious specimen dubbed "Governor
Gungrabber" by anyone who cares about the Second Amendment
in this state, declaring that he supports Owens' antigun
legislative agenda, which includes shutting down gun shows,
registering (maybe even banning) private sales between
individuals, and forcing gun owners to lock their weapons
up where they won't pose a threat to his moal and spiritual
kin, the muggers, rapists, and burglars.
Even that wasn't much of a surprise. Bush had pushed
nearly the same agenda in his home state, although certain
gun activists -- those who've lost the point of the Second
Amendment and thrown their lot in with the National Rifle
Association and its openly illegal bonnet-bees Project Exile
and instant background checks -- didn't want to discuss it.
They preferred to crow about the Texas governor's enthusiasm
for licensed concealed cary, believing (or at least claiming)
that it's a pro-gun measure. It is not. It's precisely the same
idea as New York's infamous Sullivan Act, one of the first
victim disarmament laws in US history.
Not only does such a law create a public registry of gun
owners -- and often their guns -- it collects photographs,
fingerprints, and Social Security numbers, and forces gun
owners to undergo intolerable physical and psychiatric probing,
not to mention hours of expensive statist inoctrination at
their own expense, a point hardly lost on certain bloodsucking
mercantilists wetting their camouflaged pants in anticipation
of being able to furnish said indoctrination for a hefty fee.
"Ah," said Huey Long, "but we will call it _anti_ fascism."
Almost 30 years ago, the great libertarian writer and
lecturer Robert LeFevre showed me the real nature and function
of Republicans. They're Socialist Party "B". Whenever you get
turned off by the vomitous cannibalism of the Democrats, and
determined to resist, in charges the second string to finish
their work for them, calming you down, helping you adjust,
making you feel grateful you're about to be mugged, raped,
and robbed by "goodguys" instead of those despicable "badguys".
Governor Gungrabber, for instance, recently held a special
session of the legislature because it "failed", during the
regular gangbang, to pass acceptable measures to "responsibly
manage growth", a phrase Lenin would have been proud of. In
other words, for whatever reason, they acted in a moral and
legal manner (show me where the Constitution lets them to tell
me what I can do with my own property) and the vile wad of
Republican phlegm in the governor's office reacted by having
them arrested and confined until they consented to do the evil
bidding of whatever masters he serves. Happily, they never
could agree on how to ravage the property rights of Coloradoans,
and the special session ended T.S. Eliotly, not witha bang but
with a petulant collectivist whimper.
The President's no different. He's spent most of his term,
so far, working on proposals that would bring Gus Hall and
Norman Thomas back to life and set the Founding Fathers spinning
in theirgraves. The idea, for example, that the government is
about to become a drugstore for the poisonously parasitic New
Deal generation is just plain putrid.
Now I assume, because George III (after his wimpy old man
and the guy with wooden teeth) has no discernable principles
and stands for no uniquely American value he's ever bothered
to tell us about, that he's doing all this stuff because he
wants to get reelected in 2004 and he wants his party to fare
better than it looks like they're about to in 2002.
If so, his handlers should keep three things in mind for
him:
First, his extremely narrow (if not actually negative)
margin in 2000;
Second, the fact that Waco Willie Clinton himself attributed
the defeat of his own flaulent handpuppet (as well as the 1994
Republican "revolution", although not many observers seemed to
notice it) to gun owners;
Third, another demonstrated fact, that libertarians,
although they can't ever win elections themselves, can easily
determine in close campaigns like his own, whether the winner
will be a Republican or a Democrat.
To summarize: George III and his minions won because --
and only because -- of gun owners and libertarians. Are you
lstening George? Then imagine what will happen if libertarians
work together _against_ you. It can be arranged. And there's
only one way in which it can be prevented.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
To begin with, if you want to survive politically, stop
listening to the Second Amendment quislings and fifth-columnists
you seem to think represent gun owners, the ones your party
bought and paid for and that Democrats like to use as punching
bags in the leftist mass media.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
The National Rifle Association no longer speaks for me. Nor
did it _ever_ have my leave to bargain away my 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 -- now, not even in exchange for
the benevolent government providing us with glorious utopian
Xanadulike shooting ranges or other socialist sops.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
The same goes for the state rifle and pistol association
and all the rest of the NRA's various tentacles out across
Flyover Country. In my experience, you could exchange Wayne
LaPierre for Sarah Brady in the middle of the night and nobody
would ever notice the difference. I support Jews for the
Preservation of Firearms Ownership -- and to give you an idea
of who you're dealing with here, Gun Owners of America is on
probation with me just now, until they prove to me that they're
not planning to bend over and grab their ankles in the time-
honored NRA tradition.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
Now, before you ask me just who the hell I think I am --
are you listening, George? -- I'm one of the individuals who
decided last year that, for its cowardice and treachery in
signing Waco Willie's Second Amendment suicide pact, Smith
and Wesson had to be punished. A year later, its retail sales
cut in half by our boycott, S&W has been sold for about 15%
of its former value to an Arizona company with only five
employees.
What if gun owners boycotted Republicans while libertarians
ran against them? Yes, I hear you blubbering. I know that would
put the Democrats back in office. It's up to you, George, to
prove to me that it makes any difference where my rights are
concerned. From where I've stood for the past 40 years, it's
six of one and half a dozen of the other.
There's an easy way out.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
Before the 2002 election, simply repeal, nullify, or
otherwise dispose of every gun law passed, promulgated, or
shoved up our kazoos -- mostly by Republicans like Brady
Bill-Bob Dole -- during your father's term or that of Waco
Willie, especially the assault on semiautomatic weapons and
the insane magazine limit. Good faith tries don't count. Your
party of crooks, cretins, and cowards used up any good faith
I might have had long ago. Get it done or get an honest job.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
Before the 2004 election, the 1968 Gun Control Act has
to go.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
And if you care about your party, then before 2006, the gun
laws passed under false pretenses in the 1930s have to be gotten
rid of, too.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
If you're not up to it, then I'll happily separate gun
owners from the Republican Party and help the Libertarian Party
make sure that you and yours never violate your oath to uphold
the Constitution ever again.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
No bargaining, no negotiation.
Enforce the Bill of Rights.
Or let the GOP join S&W.
L. Neil Smith
e-mail: lneil@ezlink.com
http://www.webleyweb.com/lneil/