And everybody awaiting “official” release of the anti-snitch book: Thanks to a helpful volunteer, I’ve just uploaded a Nook (epub) version of Rats! to the book’s site. Would you Nook owners kindly download and take a look at it? Once you tell me it looks okay, we’ll be ready to go live! Oh, and with a little help from another volunteer, the site now contains two HTML versions. One is “live” and lets you read the book online in a really nicely laid out web page. The other is a zip file you can download to host on your own…
Category: Resistance
Sometimes you need to say “no” to Big Brother
Thanks to the efforts of a better geek than I, Rats!, the anti-snitch book is now online. But not quite ready to spread around. For one thing, we still need an epub version. Any volunteers? Anybody want to create that? I can send the .doc file or whatever else you need to work from. I don’t want to officially go live until we have all formats. UPDATE: an epub volunteer emailed me within minutes of this post going up. 🙂 People are good. I’d be grateful if you guys would go to the site and make sure everything looks and…
Snitching: This is how it works. This is a classic case of how cops twist people into doing their will. Naive young kid in trouble with the law. Scared. He’s maybe not the brightest bulb (though he may think he is). Cops “befriend” him and magically make his “crime” go away. Cops pay him — quite a lot for a part-time job for a kid. He’s so eager to “earn” the money and please his handlers that he persuades himself that he’s a “hero.” SO eager to please that he starts twisting and exaggerating the “evidence.” Classic. Absolutely. Except that…
The “Preparedness Priorities” series will resume before Monday (already have two more in the works). But I’d like your opinion on something else, please. ADDED: Wow. Got some really good reader submissions! So I’ve removed the original two covers and my own first revision (since all have been thoroughly trounced by the Commentariat). I think the mockup by Keith Perkins and the sketch by Travis (below) are better than the best I did. The anti-snitch book is roaring along, thanks to Anonymous Layout Guy’s speedy work. These are the two potential cover designs (one inspired by a photo MJR sent,…
Obama staffer: vote early and often. (H/T O) Those prescription drugs in your emergency kit might last longer than you think. Maybe decades longer. (I’d be cautious, though, especially with antibiotics.) Why is the Taliban so scared of little girls? And why are Muslim leaders always so quiet about monstrous acts like this? So, Barack, you wanna debate civil liberties? Why do Ashkenazi Jews tend to have such high IQs? Interesting speculations. I’ve been having trouble getting around to several things, including a review of Wendy McElroy’s new book, The Art of Living Free. So just let me say a…
The snitch book (make that anti-snitch book) just came back from the Helpful Volunteer Proofreader. I just need to input his changes, send the doc back for one more eagle-eyeballing, then it’s off to layout. Now I’ve got a question for those who contributed. I originally intended to have an acknowledgment page crediting everybody (by nym, not name) who helped with the book. But virtually every person I’ve asked has said, “Don’t mention me!!!” So my plan is to make a general acknowledgement to the helpful Living Freedom Commentariat — and as a matter of fact, the commentariat is listed…
From the BBC (and C^2): Apps that protect against police brutality. Money quote: “The cops aren’t protecting us [understatement] so we have to figure out ways to protect ourselves.” We’ve touched on this before. But in light of this morning’s first post, here’s something we can do that’s not difficult, but that goes well beyond a saucy gesture or angry keyboard pounding.
“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?” — Abbie Hoffman —– In comments yesterday, a reader noted that he had the habit of lifting the digitus impudicus every time he saw a cop car. Not meaning to pick on you, faithful commenter, but you raise something else along with that middle finger — the issue of useful (and non useful) actions on behalf of liberty. Raise a finger and what do you get? A cop who thinks you’re an ass***e and who’ll remember that should you ever run afoul of him. Are you more free…
Funny how we’ve been assured for the last century or so that fingerprints are infallible evidence. (Tip o’ hat to Jim Bovard) Do bike helmet laws indirectly do more harm than good? Handy Helpful Hints … on growing cannabis. (Via Brad Spangler’s Twitter feed) Are you doing your bit to be sufficiently “suspicious” to the homeland (achtung!) security state? C’mon, it isn’t that difficult (as John Silveira predicted years ago). (H/T O) Hm. Wonder if this’ll worry that pack of paranoids? Slave ants rebel and destroy the young of their oppressors. (Via the very nice and mild-mannered JG) Hey, at…
By the magnificent Maggie McNeill, via fabulous Fred. Damn, I wish I’d written this! Given these facts, how is a moral person to act? The answer is, by one’s own conscience. Any resemblance between the laws and moral behavior is now purely coincidental; this is not a problem for those of us who have always relied upon our own moral compasses rather than guidance from authority figures, but those whose personal senses of right and wrong have been stunted through reliance upon external dictates will be much slower to adapt. It’s true that, as Voltaire said, “It’s dangerous to be…