Thursday, January 30, 2003

Groove 2.5 is out. Paresh Suthar report the release of Groove 2.5 . Just upgraded my main acount and experienced no problems. Finally i can start playing around with some of the exiting stuff Tim has been working on using Groove Web Services. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] I'll give this version a try. Hopefully it will be more reliable than the previous version. comment () trackback ()  3:28:57 PM     I came across a weblog titled Where is Raed?, run by an Iraqi named Salam. It's very informative to read the viewpoint of someone who actually lives in Baghdad and compare it to the propaganda (both for and against war) in the US media. comment () trackback ()  2:52:04 PM     The Next Detainee?. Meet Megan McRee, an American kicked out of Russia for allegedly contacting Islamic extremists via the Net. McRee is now... [Hit & Run] There was some video footage of McRee on the local news last night. She's a white woman with blond hair, which probably gives her a much better chance of escaping "disappearance" than Jose Padilla had. comment () trackback ()  10:56:56 AM     Sorry, Mr. Franklin, "We're All Democrats Now". Ron Paul in The House of Representatives - Sorry, Mr. Franklin, "We're All Democrats Now" - a special order speech given yesterday. I couldn't find it in the Congressional Record for yesterday. Long. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but it looks worth the time. At the close of the Constitutional Conventional in 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquisitive citizen that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gave the people "a Republic, if you can keep it." We should apologize to Mr. Franklin. It is obvious that the Republic is gone, for we are wallowing in a pure democracy against which the Founders had strongly warned. ... But today, the American people accept drug prohibition, a policy as damaging to liberty as alcohol prohibition. A majority vote in Congress has been enough to impose this very expensive and failed program on the American people, without even bothering to amend the Constitution. It has been met with only minimal but, fortunately, growing dissent. For the first 150 years of our history, when we were much closer to being a true republic, there were no federal laws dealing with this serious medical problem of addiction. The ideas of democracy, not the principles of liberty, were responsible for passage of the 16th Amendment. It imposed the income tax on the American people and helped to usher in the modern age of the welfare/warfare state. Unfortunately, the 16th Amendment has not been repealed, as was the 18th. As long as the 16th Amendment is in place, the odds are slim that we can restore a constitutional republic dedicated to liberty. The personal income tax is more than symbolic of a democracy; it is a predictable consequence. ... Today the concepts of rights and property ownership are completely arbitrary. Congress, the courts, presidents and bureaucrats arbitrarily "legislate" on a daily basis, seeking only the endorsement of the majority. Although the republic was designed to protect the minority against the dictates of the majority, today we find the reverse. The republic is no longer recognizable. [End the War on Freedom] comment () trackback ()  10:38:11 AM

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