Wednesday, October 16, 2002

N. Korea Acknowledges Nukes Program [AP World News] Of course it was obvious at the time that the North Koreans were lying in the 1994 agreement, but it is a little surprising that they openly announced that their program succeeded. Well, the agreement did serve its intended purpose, which was to get the issue out of the news until Clinton was safely out of office. Maybe the North Koreans also donated to his campaigns. comment () trackback ()  9:49:57 PM     ACLU Acts Against Patriot Act. The American Civil Liberties Union has had enough of some aspects of the Bush administration's Patriot Act, and it's launching a visible, nationwide campaign against it. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News] Wired seems to be fond of summaries which misrepresent the article. In this case, the ACLU is indeed paying for ads to attack the "Patriot Act," but in the article nobody tries to blame it on the Bush administration. That's good, since doing so would harm their cause--the Act was passed almost unanimously by Congress, and is made up of various things that the Clinton administration tried to pass but couldn't. comment () trackback ()  3:46:52 PM     Fisher asks debate to bar third-party candidates. After being upstaged in a televised debate by a Libertarian who ripped up money and a Green Party member who declared that a Democrat would be Pennsylvania's next governor, Republican Mike Fisher asked yesterday that third-party candidates be barred from the next gubernatorial debate. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] The real news here is not Fisher being a sore loser, but the remarkable fact that third party candidates were allowed into a debate in the first place. That hardly ever happens, and I suspect something must have gone wrong in the system for them to have gotten in. The last thing the Republocrats want is for voters to find out they have a real choice! comment () trackback ()  10:48:52 AM     Police suppress terrorism angle. Several witnesses to the Beltway sniper shootings over the past two weeks have described suspects resembling Middle-Eastern men, but authorities have played down the Islamic terrorism angle to avoid mass "panic" in the area, an ATF official told WorldNetDaily. "That angle is actually being looked at, and the FBI has the lead on it," said the official, who is working with the sniper-murders task force based in Maryland's Montgomery County, where the first five shootings took place. [WorldNetDaily] At least they're investigating the obvious, even if they won't tell people the truth about it. On the other hand, a BATF employee doesn't make the most credible source. comment () trackback ()  9:35:11 AM     Bush Admin. to Study 'Fingerprinting' Guns. Reacting to a deadly series of sniper killings in the Washington area, the White House on Tuesday asked federal law enforcement officials to determine whether 'ballistic fingerprinting' technology would be an effective crime fighting tool. The White House appeared to have a change of heart about the issue after hours earlier expressing doubts about the reliability of such technology and saying it could undermine rights of law abiding gun owners. [FirearmNews.com] This is really about creating national gun registration system, with the "ballistic fingerprinting" nonsense as a cover. I expect the Bush administration to give lip service to the idea of freedom and the rule of law for a while longer, and then quietly implement the proposed registry when nobody is paying attention. comment () trackback ()  8:58:07 AM     Arrest in East End sex assaults: Man shot Thursday morning identified by 6 female victims. Jonathan D. Silver at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Arrest in East End sex assaults: Man shot Thursday morning identified by 6 female victims - Why women should be armed, always and everywhere. [rachel] [End the War on Freedom] The thug attacked six women before his seventh intended victim shot him. It's fortunate that this happened in Pennsylvania--in California, women aren't allowed to carry pistols (unless they're named Dianne Feinstein) and the criminal would still be on the loose. comment () trackback ()  8:50:34 AM

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