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Police to be armed with stun guns Blunkett acts after spate of killings Special report: policing crime Kamal Ahmed and Tony Thompson Sunday July 15, 2001 The Observer Tranquilliser guns similar to those used to bring down wild animals are to be issued to police in an attempt to halt the number of fatal shootings by armed officers. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has told associates he was horrified by the case of Andrew Kernan, a 37-year-old schizophrenic, who was shot dead by police marksmen in Liverpool last Thursday. Kernan, who was waving a samurai sword and wearing pyjamas, was ...

Editor: I must agree with xxxxxxxx of xxxxxxxx about that hysterical left-wing idiot on your editorial page, Thomas Elias. What a cartoon cliche. SUVs are the latest thing in liberal hysteria, and the left won't be satisfied until they're taxed and regulated out of the reach of ordinary Americans--excluding, of course, well-to-do liberal elitists. Elias and his ilk won't be satisfied until we're all driving tin cans that run on a D battery, or herded like cattle into another mass-transit boondoggle. Actually, I fear for the man's health. I thought he'd have a coronary when California voters decided to retain ...

Haider chased out of restaurant by protesters Updated 5:22 PM ET February 19, 2000 VIENNA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider was forced to leave a restaurant in Vienna under police guard on Saturday after he was spotted having dinner by a small group of protesters returning from an anti-government rally. Dozens of demonstrators surrounded the restaurant chanting "Foreigners stay, drive Haider out," after coming across the Freedom Party leader by chance, a Reuters photographer said. Windows were broken at a bank nearby and police stopped several people for body searches and to check identification documents but ...

So, you think McCain is a liberal? Click HERE [Free Republic] FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" [ Last | Latest Posts | Latest Articles | Self Search | Add Bookmark | Post | Abuse | Help! ] Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. So, you think McCain is a liberal? Click HERE Politics/Elections News Keywords: MCCAIN 2000 Source: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R) ...

Low-born and needy people were being given these jobs as anyone better would not take them. Their necessities make them rapacious, their offices make them proud and insolent, their insolence and rapacity make them odious, and being conscious they are hated they become malicious; their malice urges them to a continual abuse of the inhabitants in their letters of administration, presenting them as disaffected and rebellious, and (to encourage the use of severity) as weak, divided, timid, and cowardly. Government believes all; thinks it necessary to support and countenance its officers; their quarrelling with the people is deemed a mark ...

Note: This article was inspired by XXXX and XXXX's argument on Usenet over GHB and illegal drugs. It is in NO WAY intended to discourage the torrent of vulgar insults between them (I'm saving those to disk). Besides, I'm no do-gooder. ;-) On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:22:31 GMT,XXXX XXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I had no idea GHB was called "the date rape drug." Interesting stuff. I wonder how many unsuspecting young women have been raped by the use of this drug? XXXXXXXXXXX I really do sympathize with this [pro-Drug War] position because I know where he's coming from. It took me ...

THE SCORNED LAW PROFESSOR BY NAT HENTOFF 'Freedom to Speak Is Not Freedom to Kill' Rod Smolla, a professor at the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law, was a widely respected First Amendment scholar and litigator until he joined the legal team suing Paladin Press. It had published a book, 'Hit Man,' that was charged with having given an alleged murderer extensive, detailed instructions that helped him to kill three people, including an eight-year-old paraplegic. I had read Smolla's books and came to know him while he was teaching at William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, ...

SUNDAY JANUARY 23 2000 ARMED AND DANGEROUS Ranch-coveting officials settle for killing owner Five police agencies staged bogus drug raid on rich eccentric to acquire 200-acre spread By Paul Ciotti © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Recent revelations about rampant police perjury have made Los Angeles juries so mistrustful of law enforcement that attorneys for Los Angeles County are in some cases offering plaintiffs multi-million dollar settlements, rather than risking the possibility of far larger damage awards should the cases ever go to trial. In one of the more infamous instances of alleged law enforcement misconduct -- the killing of the reclusive Malibu ...

From the author's note to the compilation of H L Mencken's three autobiograpical books, Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days: All [three books] have been published since I reached the perhaps indelicate age of sixty, and I am naturally glad to be able to report that they have sold very well, and brought me a great many agreeable letters from readers. Indeed, they have sold better than any of my other books save "The American Language" and its supplement, and the letters that have come in have been far more friendly than those that the others have produced. Nearly ...

Excerpts from Ralph Raico's introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of this important and forgotten work: Albert Jay Nock, distinguished man of letters and philosophical anarchist, was an inspiration to thinkers as diverse as Murray Rothbard and Robert Nisbet, Frank Chodorov and Russell Kirk. In April, 1945, Nock wrote a cheery letter to two of his friends, describing the death of Franklin Roosevelt as "the biggest public improvement that America has experienced since the passage of the Bill of Rights," and suggesting a celebration luncheon at Luchow's. Today Nock's unabashed glee would be regarded as obscene, a sacrilege against the ...

The Collectivist Wolf Pack 0;} function CSIEStyl(s) { return document.all.tags("div")[s].style; } function CSNSStyl(s) { return CSFindElement(s,0); } function CSFindElement(n,ly) { if (CSBVers Publisher's Christmas Message: To a Very Special Group of Lucky Readers This is Christmas. Thoughtful readers use this time to reflect on the year. Questions: Do you feel good about the country in which you live? Are you proud of this past year's words and deeds? Were they largely compatible with your most cherished principles and highest values? On a personal level, if you were a witness to specific cruelty, arrogance, corruption, injustice or shame, did you ...

Christopher Beamon, a 13-year-old seventh-grader in the Texas town of Ponder, got a 100 score from his teacher for a Halloween horror-story writing assignment. Authorities detained him on suspicion of making terroristic threats and held him in juvenile detention from Thursday until Tuesday, the DALLAS MORNING NEWS reported on Tuesday. In fresh editions, the paper reprints the story as Christopher wrote it: My flashlight went out and I heard someone right behind me and I turned in a very slowly scared way and boom the lights came on and the door bell rang. I walked very slowly and creepy and ...

I found this article on the Laissez Faire City Times, a libertarian-style e-magazine that publishes every Monday. For Current Issue, goto http://www.zolatimes.com and click on "Current Issue." A Problem With Guns?, by Robert L. Kocher Link. The much longer article provides an historical overview and incorporates crime statistics. Excerpts: The two arrogant spoiled brats who killed their classmates in the Columbine, Colorado incident had long been defiant walking advertisements for their attitude and intentions in a local and national psychotically permissive social environment. Everyone in the school had been absorbing their escalating levels of arrogant guff for far too ...