I prefer a small government which may permit some evil to a large government that promotes evil at my expense.

Michael Lee
[This basic point is lost on most people--evil exists and will always exist. It's just a matter of limiting it such a way that the least damage is done. And the history of the 20th centry reveals that evil governments unjustly kill more of the citizens than all other sources of evil combined.--Joe]

As pointed out by Say Uncle we have the media and a prosecutor demonizing an ordinary revolver as an "assault handgun":

Maryland Assistant Attorney General Clarence E. Goetz had recommended Vaisman serve five years in the Maryland Division of Correction.

...

Seized from Vaisman's residence were a broad range of weapons including assault handguns. Among the weapons were at least one Colt Cobra and at least one Colt Diamondback.

Don't think for a single nanosecond that the bigots will stop with "Saturday Night Specials", "Assault Weapons", or "50 caliber Sniper rifles". They didn't stop with short barreled shotguns or machine guns. The didn't stop when convicted felons were prohibited from firearms possession. They didn't stop when they prohibited mail order of firearms. They didn't stop with the Brady Act or the assault weapon ban.

They won't stop until WE stop them. They must be politically exterminated. The way we do that is to have the proper state of mind when we advocate for gun owner rights. We have to make membership in organizations like the VPC, the Brady Bunch, and The Gun Guys look like membership in the KKK--because it is.

Via Wayne LaPierre:

Montana's Castle Doctrine bill also contains a provision stating that if companies forbid employees from legally and lawfully carrying a firearm, and an employee is a victim of a crime, then the employee can sue his or her employer for failing to protect him (or refusing to allow him to protect himself).

This is wonderful! We need more of this.

One of my first firearms students was a lawyer and suggested something I have never had the courage to try. His suggestion was that employees who are otherwise legally able to carry a concealed firearm but are prohibited by company policy should have their lawyer send the employer a letter. This letter would state the employee would obey the company policy. But should a situation arise where the lawful possession and use of a firearm in the work environment could have saved the life or prevented serious injury to the employee or others that the company was on notice that it would be held liable because of the company policy.

If I was ever in a position where the job just didn't matter that much I might try that as a means to change company policy. But in most situations I figure it would just result in the company putting you at the top of the list to get rid of should there be a real or imagined downturn in business.

In my list of BHAGs with the PNNL lawsuit is to make it such that having a "no guns" policy is direct evidence of an anti-gun bias. Hence if a gun owner gets fired the no guns policy lends credence to the claim it was his gun ownership that was the real reason. Just as separate bathrooms or drinking fountains for blacks would be evidence that a company had a bias against non-whites. We need to make the cost of anti-gun bigotry as high as we can and I am going to do my best to enable others to inflict a cost on other bigots.

Yesterday I was chatting with friend Sean, discussing this situation in regards to PNNL. I told him PNNL is probably trying to find the source of the leak. Sean, almost never at a loss for just the right thing to say said, "I, personally, would lay it all at the feet of Wen Ho Lee."

I would like to remind my PNNL visitors that there are laws against retaliation against whistle blowers and that I will gladly discuss my sources with law enforcement officials investigating the crimes of PNNL employees. But PNNL efforts to use me to retaliate against people who cooperate with me and/or law enforcement will be vigorously opposed.

Women in the Seattle area, you could probably do a lot of good for the gun rights movement in Washington State by attending this meeting tonight:

Directions and parking information is here.

Men in camouflage or "Vote from the rooftop" t-shirts with beer bellies would not be productive.

I received a couple more hits from PNNL yesterday. Both were direct hits on Funny Stuff. This was the post where I told about two different people who just recently gave me exceedingly useful information about PNNL. Not that I didn't already have direct evidence of felonies by PNNL people, but this was further evidence of their crimes and other crimes as yet unreported. One has to wonder how the DOE is going to view it when these criminals, most of whom have security clearances, are not reported to law enforcement and dealt with appropriately.

From the nature of the hits it appears they are either typing in the URL directly or clicking on a link in email--whatever.

I laughed so hard my stomach hurt.

2007 is getting off to a great start:

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But the problem is that you don’t want anyone carrying concealed weapons around. Even in the hands of retired police officers, firearms are a threat.

Gun Guys
Ocean City, MD Reluctantly Changes Concealed Weapons Law
January 5, 2006
[Just so you realize how warped these bigots are. The very existence of firearms are threats, apparently not just to predatory criminals, but to all life.--Joe]

I hate guns. In today's society there is no need for the average citizen to own or carry a gun except to protect yourself from those who do carry guns and intend to use them in a crime. Oh, wait! I just contradicted myself. No. I just pointed out the vicious circle created by gun advocates. They say, "Guns don't kill, people kill." I'd say you're correct. But the government and law enforcement have done a lousy job of keeping guns out of the hands of those who kill, and longer jail sentences are not the answer because that occurs after a crime has been committed.

Tighter gun control? I'll go so far as to say ban guns. That's the only way.

Carol Solnom
There's no need for most to carry a gun
January 9, 2007
The Enquirer
[<sarcasm> Putting prostitutes in jail after they commit the crime is not the answer. We need to put chastity belts on all women except when under strict police supervision. </sarcasm>

At least Ms. Solnom admits her hate. Such an admission is the first step to recovery.

Banning guns didn't make people in the U.K., Canada, or Australia safer. It didn't make people in Washington D.C. or Chicago safer. I have Just One Question for Ms. Solnom.--Joe]

It's possible we won't have to liberate the U.K. after all. They may be in the process of liberating themselves if this report via Kevin is true and the trend continues.

Socialism is for the good of the people, right? It's not right for the rich industrialists to own the means to production. So the enlightened thing to do is for the people to own it. At least that is the way I understand it is supposed to work. So now we get this from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who is nationalizing the oil, banking, communications, and electricity:

In his speech, he said he will ask the Venezuelan congress to allow him to rule by decree, a power he enjoyed for a year in 2000-2001. Last month, the 52-year-old president said he would seek to change the constitution to end presidential term limits.

So in this case it's for the good of Chavez instead of "the people".

Socialism--The Road to Serfdom. In this case they are becoming the serfs of Hugo Chavez.

I had contact with a couple people yesterday about certain "legal problems" Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has. The first person told me they had in their possession a message that, in part, said, "I hope they don't subpoena this."

The other person told me:

I can definitely atest to a pattern of illegal and unethical activities at the lab. It's my firm belief that their practices are also detrimental to national security.

There are so many illegal things happening, I'm not sure where to start.

...

I do think it is my obligation as a citizen to see justice prevail.

This is so funny to me. It's going to be fun fighting this battle. I'm reminded of a Winston Churchill quote:

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I wonder if the PNNL felons and their lawyers will like me as I grin during this fight.

This demonstration today shows that the Negro in the South cannot expect justice in the courts. He must convict his attackers on the spot. He must meet violence with violence, lynching with lynching.

Robert F. Williams
Page 26; Negros With Guns
[There is some amazing stuff in this book. The city of Monroe North Carolina refused to allow blacks to use the swimming pool. The black leaders asked for one day a week hence bypassing the issue of whites and blacks being in the pool at the same time. The city said it would be too expensive because they would have to drain and clean the pool after the blacks had used it (page 15).

The above quote occurred after a white rapist went to the home of a black woman who was eight months pregnant, drove her from her house, and then beat her. He caught her while she was trying to escape down the main highway and knocked her to the ground. Her six-year-old boy was running along the side and when the white rapist beat his mother the boy picked up a stick and started hitting the man over the head with it while his mother escaped. A white neighbor testified in court she saw the incident and that the mother came to her for help with her clothes torn from her. The white man was found not guilty (page 25).

When the blacks armed themselves, and without firing a shot, defended themselves an old white man in the crowd that was previously chanting, "Kill the niggers!" started screaming and crying like a baby (page 10). He then said, "God damn, God damn, what is this God damn country coming to that the niggers have got guns, the niggers are armed and the police can't even arrest them!"--Joe]

On Friday the Seattle PI whined about new gun control laws were unlikely in Washington State anytime soon. Today they added more to the drumbeat for their bigoted agenda with this article and picture:

He was much larger than me and had a beefy football-player build and short dark hair -- the bouncer type. He was going to get physical if I objected. He was ready to push as we walked quickly past the long row of tables covered with guns and ammunition, past the woman collecting money for admission. Talk to him, I said to myself. Talk to him. I kept telling him I didn't work for the newspapers as he herded me to the exit.

"No pictures," he kept repeating.

"No pictures," he insisted one last time as he opened the heavy door and gently pushed me out. Then he closed the door and left me standing outside with my camera dangling from my hand. A hand-lettered sign appeared outside the entrance: NO CAMERAS ALLOWED.

Thirty minutes earlier I had walked into the public fairgrounds to attend a local gun show in Moscow, Idaho.

...

Wives were threats. Girlfriends were threats. They are the new scourges of secular life, hunting down unsuspecting men to get bucks and tear out their hearts. Women who talked too much were threats. And women who held public office and wouldn't shut up were the scourge of the land. I also have picked up bumper stickers at gun shows that said: "I just got a gun for my wife. It's the best trade I ever made." Or handouts detailing the "Top 10 Reasons Handguns Are Better than Women," ending with the No. 1 reason, "You can buy a silencer for a handgun." I also had seen some pretty vicious materials on Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno. A new fear floated above some of the gun exhibits: judges, lawyers and voters were giving women too much power, and the women were using that power to take guns away from their husbands, their boyfriends and their constituents. A gun-grabber lurked in the heart of the liberated woman.

Please explain to me the difference between this sort of propaganda and the bigoted material that implies black men like to rape white women.

Several months ago Say Uncle (I think it was him, if it was someone else and I got them mixed up my apologies for not giving the right person credit) suggested I see how the Southern Law Poverty Center was able to take private action against people that deprived others of their rights without going through Federal prosecutors. In my case against PNNL even though I have very strong evidence some people committed felonies against me the prosecutors aren't interested in even investigating the case. Say Uncle pointed out that in what appears on the surface to be an analogous situation the SLPC took the bigots to court and got large settlements. Great point! How did they do that? Well, I found out. They utilized a different law. I had been looking at 18 USC § 241. SLPC used 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) which says:

If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal protection of the laws; or if two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy; in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.

The lead-in to today’s Seattle P-I story about the future of proposed gun control laws in Olympia sounds good for gun rights advocates. But is it?

The true intent of the P-I is to build pressure on legislators to pass gun control legislation during the upcoming session DESPITE the fact that none of the proposals would have prevents Wednesday’s shooting at Foss High School or earlier high visibility shootings in King and Pierce counties.

We can expect to see more news articles and editorials in the coming weeks calling for passage of Seattle Mayor Nickels’ "reasonable gun control" agenda, an agenda that was first announced last May and was broadcast again the same day of the Foss HS shooting. Of course the interesting this is that while the mayor’s four point program has nothing to do with recent shooting incidents, it is identical to Washington Ceasefire’s gun control agenda.

Joe Waldron
GOAL Alert 1-2007 5 January 2007
[Mayor Nickels is aligning himself with the equivalent of the KKK and should be held accountable for this.--Joe]

Have you ever noticed that in winter driving conditions there appears to be a disproportionate number of four wheel drive vehicles in the ditch?

I'm pretty sure there's a lesson there.

Now there's a technical issue that I never considered until I got a 4WD pickup and experienced it myself.  When the old-fashioned 4WD is engaged, the front and rear drive lines are locked together-- they cannot rotate at different rates.  That's pretty much common knowledge (you can't turn a corner without one or more tires slipping) but it has another implication:  When you hit the brakes it is impossible for only one wheel to lock up.  Since the two drivelines cannot rotate differently, you either lock up one wheel on each axle or you lock up all four, i.e. your braking ability on ice is better with 4WD than it is with 2WD and no ABS.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton
Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton
1887

Say Uncle has an interesting suggestion:

I think I’m going to start mailing highlighted copies of the fourth amendment to addresses in Tehran.

At GRPC 2000 I hinted at an alternative to this general idea in terms of email instead of snail mail. Now I present this idea with a little more detail.

You can send 1000 encrypted emails a day for less money than one letter to Tehran per week. And you probably don't need to send it to Tehran to get the attention of the spooks. Just sending encrypted email to Europe with interesting subject lines would probably be sufficient. From your own home here in the states you can set up a computer account in Europe pretty easily. You install program on that computer which automatically accepts email messages and replies back a few random minutes later with another encrypted email. You do the same with a few computers at home and the homes of your friends (or perhaps your enemies). Basically you have a bunch of bots talking about "interesting subjects" to each other with the contents encrypted.

There are some twists on this such as doing it in such a way you can find out if the snoops were successful in decrypting the mail and reading it. Another twist is to make it impossible for them to read it. Yes, there are unbreakable encryption methods--in general you have a terrible key distribution problem but in this case you don't have to actually open the email on the receiving side. Your bot just replies with another unbreakable email message with an interesting subject line. Hence the decryption key doesn't have to actually be delivered to the bot that receives it.

Of course this might result in you becoming acquainted with your local FBI agents on a first name basis no matter how innocuous the decrypted messages and no matter how much effort you put into hiding your identity. It just depends on the number of hours of laughter required to compensate you for the hours of laying naked on a concrete floor in the dark with buckets of cold water being thrown at you every few minutes.

Say Uncle says:

That said, the NRA should use the internet more effectively. It’s good to see that Wayne LaPierre has a blog. There is a very active gun-blogging community and the NRA should openly support those folks. Link to good blog articles from your news page, mention us in your magazine articles, offer discounted membership in NRA through our websites, and other things. Hell, I’ll even give you guys free ads.

I'm up for the free ads too. And not just for the NRA and NRA-ILA. I'll give free ads to the CCRKA, Firearms Coalition, GOA, JPFO, Mothers Arms, SAF, Second Amendment Sisters, and probably several others I forgot about or didn't know about.

Click on "Advertise here" to create the ad and then send me an email to get a code that will give you the free ad.

From our friend in Israel:

Friends:
The terrorists have begun killing each other.  The U.S. is racing to infuse millions of dollars into the Fatah terrorist group.  So whats new?
 
Have a good weekend.
Howard

The U.S. has been supporting Jihadist organizations in the name of "Middle East Peace" for decades, as has Israel, by the way.  Can there be any doubt as to why this problem goes on and on, with no end in sight?  What would have been the result if the Allies had adopted this same policy toward the Nazis, or the Imperial Japs?  Does anyone doubt what needs to be done to secure peace over there, or are we still trying as hard as we can to convince ourselves that the Jihadists just want to get along?

You must ambush, mine, raid and (carry out) martyrdom campaigns so that you can wipe them out. As happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the world’s strongest power was defeated by the campaigns of the mujahideen, troops going to heaven, so its slaves shall be defeated on the Muslim lands of Somalia.

Ayman al-Zawahiri
Osama bin Laden's deputy in Al Qaeda
Islamists dig in by the sea as Somalia requests world's help
January 5, 2006
[The Muslim consider any land which they have ever controlled to be "their" land. Even if they took it from someone else. For example they believe Spain and at least a large share of India is rightfully theirs as well as Somalia. Now these Islamic extremists have been pushed up against the sea by Ethiopian troops. American warships are patrolling the coastline preventing them from escaping via the water. I hope they start dropping artillery shells on them. Let them carry out their martyrdom campaigns against incoming high explosives.--Joe]

Every time we seize an illegal gun, we reduce the probability that someone will be killed, injured or unfortunately robbed at gunpoint.

Mayor Richard Daley
Daley: Democratic control could lead to stricter gun laws
January 4, 2007
Northwest Herald
[I am nearly certain Mayor Daley doesn't have a clue about probability or statistics. If he did then he would know his statement is false and that would make him a liar. Of course being a politician is frequently synonymous with being a liar so I have to acknowledge the possibility that Daley does know something about probability and/or statistics. Furthermore he can't even make sense in a prepared sound-bite. The guns he and his goons are seizing aren't illegal. It's the possession of those guns by certain classes of people that is illegal under Chicago law. Never mind those particular Chicago laws are illegal. The article in which he was quoted was about Daley's desire to make possession of even more guns illegal. His statistical basis for this objective was not addressed and for a good reason--it would not support his desires. Because of this one has to wonder what his real objective is. Daley needs to answer Just One Question.--Joe]

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) came about because of Hanford--the nuclear facility where we got the nuclear components for the worlds first atomic bombs. Those scientists and engineers at Hanford were gradually put to work on other projects. The scope increased to where today there is virtually no scientific or engineering task that is off limits for the people there. Although when I was there I worked, literally, a stone's throw from the Hanford reservation I wasn't part of Hanford. The name Hanford still persists in the vocabulary of the people as a synonym for more that what is, technically, not Hanford.

With that as background I now present you with Hanford News where the top story of today (and probably for several days but I just noticed it today) is the story of my lawsuit against Battelle who has the contract to manage the laboratory.

What is just as interesting to me is how I happen to run across the story. It was all because someone at another national laboratory, Los Alamos, happen to come visiting:

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They came from my PNNL.INFO site. That's interesting! So I looked at the log files form that site and I watched, in real time, as five different people (well, five different computers anyway) from Los Alamos poked around. They found my site via a Google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=pnnl+wrongful+termination ). I did the same search and found the Hanford New story. One person did the search and the other four soon started hitting my site directly and some of them eventually visited my blog. How interesting.

I was chatting on line with my friend Sean (Sean, I told you 10 different IP addresses but there was a bug in the script that I used to count them) as I watched in real time as one person looked at my performance reviews at PNNL. Sean suggested, "Maybe he's a hiring manager." What a kick! I took Sean out to dinner after that.

What bugs me though is that the web browsing security at Los Alamos is no better than at PNNL. I was able to determine the exact computer name of each of the participants in their visit to my website. I can't do that with visits from any other company that I notice visiting me. Microsoft, for example, has proxies in place that prevent that. Even visits from private homes, such as from my family in Moscow, Idaho are impossible to resolve to a specific computer name. What is it with these, supposedly, high security facilities that they have such gaping holes in their security?

Beating Lyle to the punch line: They are government facilities. Do you expect competence?

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard Nixon
As a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal)
[Last respects were given to Gerald Ford today. Ford, of course, gave Nixon a pardon for one of the biggest American political scandals of the last 100 years. Politicians... you can't live with them and you can't shoot them.--Joe]