POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY WAR: GUN CONTROL: Quotes from the founding fathers

One needs only to look at the viewpoints of various founding fathers to see what the proper interpretation is:

“The Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. . . (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison

“[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens.”
Alexander Hamilton

“[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
Thomas Paine

“… of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trail by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms…. If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.”
James Monroe

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people’s liberty teeth keystone… the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable… more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour.”
George Washington

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
Thomas Jefferson

Quotes originally compiled via this slashdot comment, which I liked.

 

links for 2010-05-27

• TV SHOWS: 24, A Retrospective – a Film & TV video
  A 10-minute film summarizing all 8 seasons of 24. Basically, the whole series in 1/840th the time it takes to actually watch it.
  (tags: media video TV shows Fox 24 Retrospective summary DailyMotion videos fromCarolyn synopsis)
• TECHNOLOGY WAR: Senate proposing banning prepaid cellphones – because of course all anonymous communication is terrorism!
  Nevermind that anonymous communication is CRUCIAL to the survival of free speech. Let’s stomp it out in the name of terrorists. That way, they win by taking away our freedoms. Fucking unamerican cowardly idiots.
  (tags: politics TechnologyWar technology phones cellPhones prepaid prepaidPhones burners WarOnTerror terrorism cowards cowardice freedom anonymous FreedomOfSpeech speech privacy Senate legal legislation government ComputerWorld news articles)
• ISRAEL: Israel to stop Gaza aid ships
  Yup. They’re never going to stop. If I was in an impoverished nation and being held siege my entire life — I’d probably fire some rockets randomly your way too. Especially if you literally stole my country. This is never going to stop.

  Human rights violations: Always okay in the name of national security.

  (tags: politics Israel Gaza GazaStrip ships aid humanitarianAid Jews Judaism Muslims Arabs Islam Al-Jazeera news articless)
• TV SHOWS: 24 – Dave Barry’s last comedy post, about the 24 finale
  “Will someone ever notice there is a corpse rotting away in interrogation room two??”
  You will be missed, 24!
  (tags: media video TV shows Fox 24 DaveBarry synoposis comedy blog posts)
• COMEDY: The 10 Worst Sex Stories We’ve Ever Heard
  GUYS SKIP #2! oh jesus god no … and #9 while you’re at it… oh fuckity fuck no no god no ahhh no no no nonononononono

  oh my god. these are horrible.

  (tags: comedy lists sex worst stories anecdotes Jezebel gross disturbing funny)
• MUSIC: Garbage Dump by Charles Manson
  Really, if you’ve never heard this… This is probably Charles Manson’s greatest contribution to society :D
  (tags: media audio music CharlesManson GarbageDump garbage trash dump dumpsters food communism killers serialKillers ILike songs)
• PROGRAMMING: PERL: Strawberry Perl for Windows
  I heard some people say this is way better than the ActiveState distribution. Not that I can ever get away from that with my home setup — I’m 10 yrs engrained into ActiveState — but it’s still good to know this exists. Apparently this is the Perl Larry Wall uses. Damn I wish this existed 10 yrs ago.
  (tags: programming software Perl StrawberryPerl Windows opensource win32 cpan development scripting)
• ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: School threatens hearing-impaired girl with suspension if she doesn’t stop using sign language on the bus
  I’d like to see ANYBODY justify this establishment-initiated student discrimination bullshit. Really!

  Mr. Frank Altmire, Principal – give him a piece of your mind on this issue. I already sent this to my deaf friend who is circulating it around in her community:

  136 Cedar Grove Rd.
  Branchburg, NJ 08876
  Phone: (908) 722-2400
  Fax: (908) 722-4201
  faltmire@branchburg.k12.nj.us

  Safety and security: The last refuge of power-mongers.

  (tags: politics AbuseOfAuthority signLanguage bus students threats suspensions DanicaLesko disabilities discrimination assholes AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct BranchburgBoardOfEducation Branchburg StonybrookSchool NewJersey safety DeafVillage news articles MaryAnnLesko rights FrankAltmire)
• WAR ON DRUGS: Georgia bans K2 synthetic marijuana
  That’s 2 states now…

  Gee, if it’s so dangerous, why not legalize marijuana? People wouldn’t be using this then. DUH.

  Meanwhile, alcohol & tobacco remain legal. Such hypocrisy. Make it all illegal, or make it all legal.

  (tags: politics WarOnDrugs drugs freedom syntheticMarijuana K2 Spice fakeWeed JWH-018 Georgia prohibition legal laws Examiner news articles)
• 911: Top Construction Firm: WTC Destroyed By Controlled Demolition
  Let’s beat this dead horse again, because the official story IS kind of hard to believe. But so is the conspiracy version…. The thing is, there are tons of credible people who think it was a conspiracy.
  (tags: politics 911 PrisonPlanet news articles AlanHart controlledDemolition)
• TECHNOLOGY WAR: Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls
  Is there an Apple app for this? Just curious. We’ll see if Apple approves these. My guess is no, but not as strong of a no as usual.

  How long til the government insists on having a backdoor to these apps? You know it will happen.

  (tags: politics TechnologyWar Technology phones cellPhones Android apps NSA FBI CIA wiretapping eavesdropping privacy security encryption MoxieMarlinspike WhisperSystems Redphone TextSecure open-source free software CALEA CommunicationsAssistanceForLawEnforcementAct Forbes news articles)
• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Crackdown on leaks leads to 3rd ever conviction of whistleblower – 2nd was under G.W. Bush of course
  But it’s quite funny to have a democratic president bitching about bush, promising govt transparency, then being the 3rd time ever at convciting someone on something like this. The 2nd was Bush. Obama following Bush’s tactics yet again. Sad.

  Of course, if you are an agent of Israel, charges get dropped… Interesting article.

  (tags: politics ObamaAdministrion FreedomOfPress press freedom 1stAmendment FirstAmendment whistleblowers leaks FBI linguists ShamaiLeibowitz BarackObama JusticeDepartment DOJ DepartmentOfJustice NationalSecurity NewYorkTimes FederationOfAmericanScientists HudsonInstitute JamesRisen ThomasDrake NSA AmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee Israel politico news articles)

 

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Read on for today’s interesting stories.

 

links for 2008-06-18

• FRIENDS: Introducing Christian D’s blog
  No posts yet, but he started it due to not being able to keep up with updating people on him & Shannon’s current trip to Tokyo….
  (tags: friends blogs ChristianD WordPress)
• FRIENDS: Introducing Jon B’s blog: Veal’s Pix
  Jon B started a blog awhile back to do movie reviews… Though he hasn’t posted in awhile, there are still a lot of good movie reviews worth checking out here.
  (tags: friends blogs JonB WordPress media video movies reviews)
• OLD MEDIA VS NEW MEDIA/COPYRIGHT: Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations! Fair Use doesn’t exist in a society where people are scared to assert their rights. NOBODY SHOULD PAY THIS. Another industry spastically flailing.
  The funny thing is that AP was original a grassroots “open source” kind of movement to fight the competition of big business. Now, AP *IS* big business, and is making threats against bloggers: the new threat. $12.50 for 5 words? Fuck you, AP!
  (tags: politics copyright OldMedia NewMedia AP AssociatedPress bloggers FairUse GeekPolitics bullshit licensing legal threats BoingBoing news articles blogging blogs finance intellectualProperty)
• SOFTWARE: Free Undelete Utility for NTFS and FAT16/FAT32 filesystems (WinXP, Win2K, WinNT)
  [[[ insert “less freeware/software is available to macintosh/apple users” gloat here ]]]
• [UPDATE, 7/31/2008] Greg Z tried this out, and it wouldn’t undelete his files. But he found another utility called Undelete Plus, which worked for him. It can be found at http://www.undelete-plus.com/, and seems to be free in every way.
• (tags: software free freeware undelete files NTFS FAT16 FAT32 Windows)
• COMEDY: Guitar Hero for the Mac
  It’s an image. Open and laugh.
  (tags: geek comedy music games computers Macintosh GuitarHero guitars parody)
• WAR ON TERROR/VETERANS/CORPORATIONS: Mentally Distressed Veterans Used to Test Suicide-Linked Drugs – “Disposable Heroes” is not just a Metallicrap song anymore
  Good ol’ Pfizer of course says nothing’s really wrong here. How many people unnecessarily died over Vioxx again? (some estimates say 100,000) The problem with capitalist health care is that making money is NOT the most important thing with health care.
  (tags: politics corporations medical pharmaceuticals Pfizer veterans DisposableHeroes government drugs WarOnTerror Chantix VeteransAdministration doctors guineaPigs PostTraumaticStressDisorder PTSD police arrests FDA JamesElliott suicides violence negligence ethics FAA pilots capitalism)
• POLICE STATE: Philadelphia sets up cameras in neighborhood; residents protest via flyers; cops raid home, detain all for 12 hours without charges, rummage through possessions, seize their laptop, and legally prevent them from living there anymore.
  And people wonder why I am hesitant to criticize my local police department. Don’t exercise your right to free speech — you’ll be fucked. This is how I’d expect soviet russia or china to behave. It’s sad that America has no more freedom than our enemies.
  (tags: politics AbuseOfAuthority police harassment intimidation warranteless searches warrantelessSearches rights ConstitutionalRights FreedomOfSpeech FreedomOfPress FreedomOfCriticism criticism Philadelphila detained seizure seized hardware laptop condemned homeowners disgustingComments disgusting comments NoHopeForAmerica critcism cameras surveillance privacy)
• MOVIES: Teeth: The Banned Teeth Poster
  I saw “Teeth” recently, and it was quite good! Rarely do horror movies have nerves knotted up as much. Though it’s not a “scary” horror. There’s no monsters. The main character is one that can be sympathized with.
  (tags: media video movies Teeth banned posters bannedPosters EmpireOnline articles)
• TOYS: WANT!!!!! (WHAT COULD GO WRONG?): Flaming footbag toy banned in South Australia
  Holy CRAP i want one of these!!!!!!!!!!! You douse it in gasoline, light it, and kick it around while it’s on fire! I’m sure this could be safely used on a beach (near the water in case you catch on fire)! muahahaha
  (tags: toys fire balls fireBalls FlamingFootbag bans banned Australia SouthAustralia TheAge news articles)

 

LINKS: 45 days in jail for selling bacon-wrapped hotdogs, Jessica Rabbit as a real hot chick, hilarious stoner arrest, and other ridiculous stories

It’s a crazy day today! Check it out… The Jessica Rabbit picture is a realization of many childhood fantasies!

 

LINKS: free Nine Inch Nails single, FOUR cool FlickR links, Muslim appeasement, murdering cops want shotguns, technology war

I stayed up late last night and poured the net for cool flickr links… And if anyone is wondering, the NIN single is encoded VBR.

 

LINKS: Infocom, Blockbuster, water wars, fake shows, real drug addiction stats from the govt, UN pro-Islam censorship, what constitutes child porn?, Dollar Store tips

• WATER WARS: UN rejects access to water as basic human right — You have no right to live; you are a slave. “A hungry man is never free.” – Even truer for a thirsty man. They actually removed all references that recognized access to water as a human right from their resolution! Bottled water buyers have increased the potential profit so much that there are now likely corporate influences on global politics. The privatization of water has been one of the most important events to happen to us as a species in decades, is a much bigger deal than fighting over oil and energy, and is generally under-focused in the media. It’s only going to get worse. (tags: water rights UN)
• Read on for more stories.. Lots more today———>

 

LINKS: Federal marijuana decriminalization bill, Dubai bans Twitter, rape, RIAA, photographers’ rights, Darwin, wiretapping, and being firstborn sucks

WAR ON DRUGS: Federal marijuana decriminalization bill introduced — tell your congressman to support it here. Surveys tend to show that around half of Americans support decriminalization of marijuana. Since this is not a direct democracy, and you don’t get a vote, letting your congressman know what to do is the only way you will be represented. So speak up. Of course this wont make a real difference, as only 1% of marijuana arrests occur at the federal level. But federal penalties are draconian and extreme. (tags: marijuana Democrats BarneyFrank)

More stories past the jump —>

 

WAR ON DRUGS: federal marijuana decriminalization bill introduced (also: DNA, MyPlaylist, p2p surveillance)

Federal marijuana decriminalization bill introduced — tell your congressman to support it here Surveys tend to show that around half of Americans support decriminalization of marijuana. Since this is not a direct democracy, and you don’t get a vote, letting your congressman know what to do is the only way your opinion will be represented. So speak the fuck up. I did. (tags: marijuana )

MUSIC + PICTURES: MyPlaylist.com – enter any bandname, and it plays random music by them, while slideshowing FlickR pictures tagged with the band name . This was awesome! !! It also works with “Futurama”! (tags: music pictures flickr )

 

LINKS: Tim And Eric album, Pirate Bay anonymous blogging, Facebook disses the dead, Twitter saves someone, and more

I gotta figure out how to get this Tim And Eric album.  Anyway, read on for the list. I think I’m slowly learning what not to do to mess up the formatting with the new version of wordpress.

 

LINKS: D.C. idiocy, Chinese police censor American protestors in America, censorship, censorship, censorship, porn, technology

Today was kind of a gross day for the news. D.C. going after people for parking tickets that they gave to stolen cars, pornographers being charged for daring to sell porn over the internet (something that is commonplace for 15 years!), cities changing their yellow lights to be shorter than legally required in order to make more money on red light cameras, and other gross news.

 

LINKS: Asshole Officer Franklin White shoots an 8-year-old kid, Parachuting cats, recreational drugs, bad cops & censoring ISPs, 6-year-old felony sexual harassment

ABUSE OF AUTHORITY / TECHNOLOGY WAR / CENSORSHIP / CORPORATIONS: Time Warner/RoadRunner blocking web access to BadCopNews.com — but only in Southern California, where Officer Franklin White shot a mom & her 8-year-old son in an alleged road rage incident. Assuming the cause and effect are true (And they certainly seem to be), then if this does not anger every American reading it, I question whether you belong in my country. Corporate censorship is legal, but you can be damn sure it was government pressure that caused this. DON’T PAY FOR ISPs THAT WORK AGAINST YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. What the hell? You pay money to access the internet, a world of information, and you can’t even find out about a local cop that shoots 8-year-olds, because the company you paid has decided to give you the privilege of paying for your own censored ignorance? FUCK YOU, COMCAST. Someone should burn a flag in front of their headquarters. Read on for PARACHUTING KITTIES.

 

LINKS: Celebrity D&D stats! Ancient anime. ISPs spying on you. 14yo felon took apart camera.

Particularly funny are the D&D stats! Did you know George W. Bush constitution is really high? I think it should be 0. (There’s a joke that exactly 3 readers got.)

 

LINKS: Apple hypocracy, taxpayer-funded censorship, 6-year-old charged with sexual harassment, Roommates.com lawsuit

Read on for the links, and an explanation (in the comments) of why Apple’s legal action is both unnecessary and hypocritical.

 

LINKS: Use your cell phone to get away with speeding, Bush administration, 911

Bush immune to amendment. Cell phone-enabled speeding. Jesse Ventura.

 

LINKS: photographers’ rights, underly-harsh punishments, hipocracy, tire tracking, AOL 911 censorship

D.C. stadium visitor forced to delete pictures (no, it was not Glen) “We have the authority to ask them to remove the picture from the camera.” (“ask” could be the operative word in that statement) STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, people.

TECHNOLOGY WAR: All cars in the last 2 years broadcast their identity in plaintext on RF spectrums. In other words, they could, for example, create a bomb that only explodes when a specific car passes it, without any sort of camera attached. NOT GOOD. And sold to us as being “for your protection”, of course. How long until it’s illegal to disable these?

If the War On Drugs is so important that we have the highest prison population in the planet because of it — then why are the police allowed to be above the law? Cop+Wife stole pot and cocaine from evidence room. Not charged. Think you wouldn’t be charged if you stole this from an evidence room? Why do they get off free? With great power comes more responsibility, not less! Remember — this is the cop that baked the weed up into brownies with his wife, ate them, then called 911 saying, “I think we’re dying. Time is going really, really slow.” It was all over the news. Of COURSE they’re not charged! Now he can continue to be a cop elsewhere! And really, I think all drugs should be legalized — but the fact of the matter is, it is a crime that they themselves arrest people for, but somehow they themselves are exempt at the same time. It’s quite easy to to not question the validity of enforcing a bad law, when that law is not forced upon you.

UNDERLY-HARSH PUNISHEMNTS, VIDEO INCLUDED: How much jail time do you think you would get for pushing a cop down some stairs? Officer Fernando Trinidad is scum. If it’s the other way around, however, cops can push you down some stairs, and, get this–only lose 8 hours vacation time. Your tax dollars at work to abuse you.! They actually charged her w/battery on a law enforcement officer, but they were of course dropped. It’s a typical police tactic to charge someone they abuse with battery, so that they will go away and not complain about the brutality in exchange for charges being dropped. But of course, once dropped, these people usually sue (and they should — cops lie when they make deals all the time, and would like to put you in jail, if they decided their gut told them that was there you belonged).

911: AOL News site bans PrisonPlanet.com links, because this corporation doesn’t like other news sites talking about 911 conspiracies Real nice. AOL customers pay for the privilege of being censored? Or, if it’s free — the “value added” by using it is that you don’t get alternate viewpoints. Just fucking dandy. Anyway, this is old news, but PrisonPlanet just heard about it… probably because nobody uses AOL services :) ZING!

 

LINKS: Technology War (religious censorship of Fitna movie), War On Drugs vs dying child’s last wish, tasered to death over hot pockets

CENSORSHIP/RELIGION: Network Solutions takes down website for hosting anti-Islam movies — free speech online is controlled by only a few corporations, and they just want everyone to get along so that we keep buying stuff. When your domain name holder can pull your account at any time, you don’t truly have the freedom to express what you want. Avoid NetworkSolutions, and avoid GoDaddy. Go elsewhere for your needs; these guys are not YOUR friend, not even when you PAY them.  But you can still watch it on Google Video HERE.

Speaking of religion… SCIENTOLOGY IS A DANGEROUS, CRIMINAL CULT: Read about Gareth Cales and Sean Carasov — it looks like Scientologists poisoned Sean Carasov’s cat, then had him arrested for “threats” which have not been disclosed, much like Keith Hanson. Ultimately, on the protest day, Gareth had to have the police intervene to keep them from being followed into the subway. This is scary stuff. All Scientologist leaders should contract cancer and die. The world would be a much better place. All hail ANONYMOUS and XENU! 6AUP602!

WAR ON DRUGS HURTS CHILDREN (VIDEO SEGMENT): Douchebag U.S. Prisons Deny Man Temporary Release So Dying Daughter Can Have Last Wish – To Hug Her Father. Um, what about a conjugal visit? Man is in jail on a drug conviction. Remember: Drugs are victimless crimes. It probably hurt the child a lot more to lose a father, than how much “society” was hurt by the father’s actions. Yet here, a child has become a victim to a compassionless system; the American Justice system — which imprisons the most non-violent people of any system in the planet. Laws are not Morals, and in my book, non-violent criminals are, for the most part political prisoners.

Speaking of children…Child tasered to death after Mom makes him return to store he works at to face discipline for stealing Hot Pockets …. I guess before tasers, they would’ve shot him in the head? Of course, if you shoot someone unarmed, you tend to get sued. But if you TASER them & they die from “exicited delirium”, then a cop gets to blame the victim, avert the lawsuit, AND get away with cowardly murder. This is the 3rd taser death this week, and at least the 2nd time in a week I’ve read about a mother losing her son because she called 911. This is why I propose a softer “811” manned by people who actually risk their lives by not shooting anyone they perceive as a threat. It would basically be handled like the stereotypical people in white who bring you to the insane asylum.

 

LINKS: Real Homer Simpson, Blu-Ray cracked, LSD, Cocaine, Marijuana, illegal-to-click links

What would Homer Simpson look like in real life? Like this. And it’s creepy. Blu-ray cracked! Of course BluRay movies were already being pirated. Anyway — Download “AnyDVD HD” while you still can. Netflix will send BluRay discs, y’know. Meanwhile, the FBI is creating links that will make you get raided if you click them — better not have Firefox prefetch on! Maye I should change every page on my blog to redirect to one of those links, huh? Yeah, it’s pretty fucking stupid: FBI Posts Fake Child Porn Hyperlinks. Also, related to the failed war on drugs: LSD and Psilocybin research begin again — after 35 years. First Cocaine Lab found in Brazil. Grow your own pot in the Czech Republic – they just descriminalized it.

 

TECHNOLOGY WAR: LiveJournal sexual censorship, emotion-tracking employee wristband, and a funny Twitter article

Haha – Twittering the Twitter Revolution. Funny article, written in “twitter-speak”, about a journalist who tried to wirte about how un-compelling twitter was, but ended up getting sucked in to it for over an hour. I love how the twitter t-shirt says “wearing a twitter shirt”. TECHNOLOGY WAR: Social Control: Emotion-Tracking Wearable Device Lets Your Boss Monitor Your Feelings. I covered this on my blog before, when Microsoft announced the patent for a similar device. Well, HERE IT IS. You wear this, and you think happy thoughts while wearing this, or you get fired. This is the corporate future of slavery. It is best to REFUSE AND RESIST. Better to be homeless and free, than wage-enslaved with a wristband. LIVEJOURNAL: Six Apart/SUP Erases Porn, Sex… and Fandom from LiveJournal popular interests. People are still around, but only in the shadows. This is what you get for adopting a corporate blogging platform. Had you self-hosted your blog with open-source software, nobody would have been able to censor you or make you hide. This is why people need to find solutions for themselves, instead of depending on corporate offerings for everything. Back in 1995, the only webpages were personal webpages in personal spaces. Today, almost everyone’s space — even my own — takes place under a corporate umbrella. We are trading freedom for convenience (and I have too). This is bad.

 

LINKS: U.S. wiretapping to resume, Nethack porn, cellphone tattoo, crazy Muslims, children on sex offender lists

What a crazy day. The tattoo of a cellphone that works as a blood-powered cellphone is very cool. Interesting links today. Especially the nethack porn, hahaha. Is Ricky Really a Sex Offender? NetHack Porn. Cellphone tattoo. Danish cops too scared of Muslims to do their job. White House Says Phone Wiretaps Will Resume.