Joe dishonest?
Dow Scott
It kind of makes me nervous; I mean you are probably the best engineer I know. What’s to stop them from firing any one? It doesn’t make any sense… You are one of the most ethical people I know.
Anonymous co-worker at PNNL to Joe Huffman upon hearing Huffman had been fired.
Computers and the internet are a far bigger problem for the government than they are for the individual.
Eric Engstrom
October 2003
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government.
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 2, No. 5
May 1994
“Free trade” is actually a misnomer, Grieshaber-Otto contends; the new global rules are actually aimed primarily at restricting government regulations, which is bad news for advocates.
Jim Grieshaber-Otto, Ph.D.
An international trade expert with the government of British Columbia.
From: http://www.jointogether.org/gv/default.jtml?O=264057
August 12, 2000
If all mankind minus one were of one opinon, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
H.L. Mencken
MicroNews
[This doesn’t mean that all aberration is a form of human progress. Just as in DNA mutations–most of the mutants are not viable. -Joe-]
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress the power to disarm the people.
William Rawle
1825
He was offered the position of the first U.S. Attorney General, by President Washington.
I heard a story the other day from a long time cop in New York City. The cops don’t give first aid to anybody when they arrive at the aftermath of a crime scene anymore. They roll up their windows and yell at the victims to sit down on the curb and wait for the paramedics to arrive.
Well, this cop and a rookie went to the scene and several young blacks came out of an alley all cut up and shot up, one had blood squirting out of his chest. The cops rolled up their windows as the victims approached the car and the victims said, “Hey! There was some niggers in there that was try’n to kill us”. This being almost entirely black area of town the cops yelled back, “You’ll have to be more specific. Which niggers were trying to kill you?” The victims described them as best they could, standing there, blood dripping and squirting. All but one of them finally sat down on the curb to wait for the paramedics. The long time cop finally asked the one still standing if he was feeling a little short of breath. The victim took a couple breaths and said, “Yeah! I guess I am.” “How about dizziness? Nausea? Anything like that?”, the cop asked. The guy, looked off in the distance and thought for a couple seconds. “Yeah, I suppose. Why you asking me all this?” “Well”, said the cop, “Most people shot up as bad as you are, are already dead.” The victims eyes rolled back to complete whites and he toppled straight backwards on the concrete. The rookie cop turned to his partner and said, “Jesus! I ain’t even HEARD of anybody killing someone that way.”
The point of the story is that you don’t stop fighting until the fight is over. You don’t need to go down just because you have taken a few hits. As long as you believe you can keep going you will. If you do go down, you are still going to win because you are going to gnaw through his Achilles’ tendon and bring him down to where you can rip his head off.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
Cryptography is an enormously powerful tool that needs to be controlled, just as we control bombs and rockets.
David A. Lytel
Co-founder and managing partner Democrats.com
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
Henry Kissinger
[Although he said this decades before on another topic it could have been said about the Kelo decision.
Update on December 3, 2023: Citation for the quote.]
If a law containing the word “gun” or “firearm”, etc…. would still describe an illegal act regardless of that word, the word should be removed as being unnecessary. Furthermore, laws that describe mere possession of an item (that can be safely controlled and maintained by the possessor) as the punishable “act” are not “reasonable” …
Paul Smith
Email Sept 3, 2001, 7:13 PM
You should be able to put the second bullet in the same hole as the first bullet. That’s gun control.
Ted Nugent
July 2005
From http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/statesman/2005/07/11nugent.html
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
John Locke
Family member Dr. Werner Weissenhofer reports from Vienna. It seems that a felon armed with a 357 revolver robbed a bank. As he left the bank, he was accosted by a policeman whom he murdered with one shot. Great excitement ensued, with the felon taking hostages and racing madly around from one store to another. When the forces of law and order had been mobilized and surrounded the goblin, a policeman volunteered to trade himself to the goblin for two hostages. This offer was accepted, at which time the felon fired at the policeman and seriously wounded him. The forces of law and order opened up with everything they had, which was mostly AUG and Glock fire. Shortly, the goblin killed himself with one round. He had fired three times and achieved three hits. The police, according to their official report, fired 1,261 rounds without drawing blood.
At one time, we used to refer to an event of this sort as a “Chinese Fire Drill.” Later we came to call if “Father’s Day in Harlem.” After the interment of the Ayatollah Khomeini, we began to call it “An Iranian Funeral.” Now, I guess we can call it “A Viennese Bank Robbery.”
As I have often stated, if someone wants to shoot at me, I sure hope he does it on full-auto.
Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 1, No. 9
October 1993
We have reached an age in which entrepreneurial capitalism is no longer relevant. It’s an end to the myth that the little guy who works hard and believes in himself can succeed in America. We have entered an age of collective entrepreneurialism. Where resources and investment must be directed for the good of society.
Robert B. Reich
Secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton
Quoted by Jack Kemp at the CPAC, 2/12/94
[For those of you who think nothing has improved under the Bush administration. –Joe]
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
(1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader.
Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 162 (1949).
Whoever uses force without Right… puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
John Locke
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but with tyrants, I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
The alteration of those rules … constitutes a gross deviation from constitutional principles and a wholly unwarranted return to a lawless and arbitrary wild West school of law enforcement. Any reasonable law enforcement officer should have known the rules were illegal.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt
September 26, 1997
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
On the rules of engagement that lead to the shooting of Kevin Harris and the death of Vickie Weaver.