Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.
Today the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal set forth without comment the principles of “gun-toter” Jeffrey Jordan’s group Liberty Round Table. (Cited by Russell.)
U.S. immigration authorities are detaining foreign correspondents on grounds they have not obtained special visas
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True, there is a law stipulating a special visa for journalists, but few have ever heard of it and it is seldom enforced. No more. No one ever told the visiting journalists it had suddenly been revived.
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Peter Krobath, chief editor for the Austrian movie magazine Skip, was seized and held overnight in a cold room with 45 others who landed without visas.
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Six French journalists were marched across a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in handcuffs
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The International Press Institute, based in Vienna, along with the International Federation of Journalists, headquartered in Brussels, is protesting this treatment. The U.S. response? An embassy official in Vienna insisted that the government was only acting in accordance with the letter of the law.
Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor of California in 1998, has just been denied asylum in Canada. He will appeal. (Cited by Rational Review News Digest)
September 2005: Not deported yet!
According to the BBC,
More than 50 other gun control bills have come before [Brazil’s] Congress over the years and failed to be passed.
In other words, they were defeated. You don’t suppose the Beeb has some ulterior motive in using the longer phrase?
Riverbend posted in August on the Iraqi populace’s response to chaos:
For a while, the men in certain areas began arranging ‘lookouts’. They would gather, every 6 or 7 guys, in a street, armed with Klashnikovs, and watch out for the whole area. They would stop strange cars and ask them what family they were there to visit. Hundreds of looters were caught that way- we actually felt safe for a brief period. Then the American armored cars started patrolling the safer residential areas, ordering the men off the streets- telling them that if they were seen carrying a weapon, they would be treated as criminals.
Leonard Dickins (Unruled) comments:
This quote is almost too good to be true for an anarchist. Anarchy [initially] releases criminal elements (the unorganized political means). This is opposed by the armed people, which works: “we actually felt safe”. But the state interposes; it will not permit any challenge to its monopoly, regardless of the price that the peons pay.
The war on terror is, in one sense, a Saudi civil war that the royal family has successfully exported to the rest of the world. The rest of the world should see that it’s repatriated.