Posted by WinstonSmith1984 on 12/17/09
Last updated 12/17/09

What a disappointment this is!  Peter Schiff is caught in an interview advocating a neo-con policy in direct contrast with Ron Paul's Jeffersonian foreign policy, as an onlooker in the video points out.

Watch for yourself and become disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vVEY8zNCE

Peter: admit that was a mistake, please do not perpetuate wars under the guise of "better intelligence".

Posted by WinstonSmith1984 on 12/08/09

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

What about the classic example of doing something that is acceptable and legal today, but unacceptable or illegal tomorrow?  With Google's paramount set of logs, it will be hard to ever get that privacy back.

Posted 12/08/09 Remember Gadsden Stillwater, NJ

That's fixable at the moment, I use http://www.scroogle.org/ instead

Posted by WinstonSmith1984 on 10/16/09

This is the problem, when we have governments in the world that don't know what the word "right" means ... Finland has declared it a legal "right", as in comparable to our precious Bill of Rights of free speech, bearing arms, etc., that all Finish citizens must have at least 1 MB Internet connections because nobody in a modern society can live without it.

Somebody wake up Maslow and let him know that Internet Access should be in his hierarchy of needs.

Posted 10/16/09 ArickStall Arlington, VA

Wow. We must stamp out the net neutrality regulation now before it gains more momentum!

Posted 10/17/09 Planning4aCrash London, United Kingdom

Learn the difference between legal and lawful. Under common law, it is lawful for two parties to contract with each other and provide goods and services. To get in the way of contracts is unlawful, so, if you buy broadband, you have a contractual right to it. Legal is to do with statutes. When government assumes your rights, it claims the right to take away those rights. For example, the UN's Treaty on childrens rights, the did not give rights to children, because those are naturally gained via their parents or guardians. What the UN did, was to assume parental rights so as to take them away, to justify the family courts which don't conform to normal due process. Its the same with the UN's declaration of Human Rights. Your rights are from natural law, or from God, depending on your perspective. From that point of view, government can't give, nor take your rights. But the UN's declaration states that government can take rights to protect the whole. So its all fraud, whenever you hear anything about rights having anything to do with legal anything or legislation, because that's just a fraud. For more on that, check out the John Harris talks at tpuc.org

Posted 10/23/09 Case Kingman, AZ

@Planning4aCrash: Great comment. Michael Badnarik's Constitution Class and book (video links on my profile) also have a good section on Rights vs. Privileges and Common Law. These are very basic concepts everyone should know.

Posted by WinstonSmith1984 on 08/18/09

"An armed society is a polite society." ~ Robert Heinlein.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=alVrSXUswebs

Posted by WinstonSmith1984 on 06/22/09

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062201766.
html?hpid=topnews

"People named on the government's terrorist watch list have successfully purchased firearms hundreds of times since 2004, [anti-gun liberty Congressmen] reported today."

"The study found that people on the list purchased guns 865 times -- out of 963 attempts -- over a five-year period ending in February."

Last I heard, there were 1.1 Million citizens of these united States on that terror watch list, most of which don't even know and are about as risky as accidentally choking on food (which is more likely to cause harm than accidental firearm discharge), not to mention they have no way of properly appealing to get themselves off the list-- unless, of course, they are a powerful Senator.  So, if only 865 firearm purchases occurred from a list of 1.1 Million citizens, I'd say we're not selling enough guns. 

I'd also like to say that "statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics," and that there's nothing more eggregious than trampling on the Second Amendment, except for trampling the 2nd Amendment by first trampling the 5th and 6th Amendments.