Dangerous Drugs
by Sam Aurelius Milam III
On
December 2, 1995, I waited at the pharmacy counter of Long's Drugs (3074
Story Road, San Jose, California 95127), while a friend transacted some
business. He and the lady behind the counter were discussing Arm-a-Vial,
a product consisting of 0.9% sodium chloride (salt) and 99.1% sterile water,
for inhalation. The thing that got my attention was when the lady
assured my friend that the product is available only by prescription.
Wait a minute, I interrupted, you mean I need a prescription to get salt
water? You do to get this kind, she said. But there are several
hundred million cubic miles of salt water just over those mountains, I
said, waving my arm vaguely toward the Pacific. But that isn't pure,
she said. You mean, I asked, it's alright for me to get all I want
of the bad stuff but I need a prescription to get the good kind?
That isn't my problem, she said. But, I asked, if I go home and dump
table salt into a bottle of distilled water, will I be arrested for possession
of a controlled substance? She shrugged her lovely shoulders.
I
don't know which is more dangerous, the FDA or the nitwits behind the counter
who eagerly enforce its decrees. I do know, however, that with salt
water as a controlled substance, the do-gooders who regulate our lives
have defined entirely new boundaries of arrogance and intrusion.
I also know that these arrogant people are far more dangerous than the
controlled substances from which they pretend to protect us.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
What Is Liberty?
from The Law (June,
1850), by Frederic Bastiat
"Actually,
what is the political struggle that we witness? It is the instinctive
struggle of all people toward liberty. And what is this liberty,
whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?
Is it not the union of all liberties liberty of conscience, of education,
of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade? In short,
is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties,
so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not
liberty the destruction of all despotism including, of course, legal
despotism? Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only
to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful
self-defense; of punishing injustice?
"It
must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is
largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a
fatal desire learned from the teachings of antiquity that our writers
on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above
mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their
fancy."![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Almost 150 years, and nothing has changed.
editor
She Says
....
by Sam Aurelius Milam III
Have
you noticed on the news how a disputed child is "rescued" by its mother
but "abducted" by its father? More feminist brainwashing and hypocrisy
....
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Suggestion
by Sam Aurelius Milam III
When you receive junk mail containing
a reply card that doesn't require a signature, fill out the name and address
portion of the card with the name and address of your county tax collector
and mail the reply card. Don't include the title tax collector, just
the name and address. This will direct future junk mail to the tax
collector. Every time the company sending the junk mail sells its
mailing list to another company the effect will be multiplied. Even
if the junk mail causes only a minor nuisance for the tax collector, that's
a step in the right direction, and who knows maybe the tax collector
will have to hire an extra Kelly Girl just to dispose of all that junk
mail. If we're persistent, the tax collector might receive so much
junk mail that the functioning of the office will be impaired. It
might not work, but the effort involves little cost and no risk, so why
not try it?![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
The Final Frontier
by Sam Aurelius Milam III
The road to freedom
isn't smooth or straight.
It's lined with lures, and traps, and
tempting bait.
To follow it can be a rugged fate,
But that's the way that leads to freedom's
gate.
You contemplate the freedom that you lack.
You count the risk, and chills run down
your back.
Pursuit of freedom risks a fierce attack.
There's no free train to ride on freedom's
track.
There freedom lies, across the last frontier.
There danger lurks, and hazards linger
near.
Security's a stranger there, that's clear,
But freedom's there, across the fear frontier.
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Fear is a good companion, warning you
of danger, keeping you from stupidity, but he is a poor master. Keep
him with you, but rule him.
from Wartide, by
John Barnes
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