== THE 1994 ELECTIONS ==

It's difficult for Libertarians not to rejoice in the way that the
Democrats were broken and humiliated on November 8th.  Their party,
and the phosphorescently putrescent garbage that serves it for ideas,
have oppressed the legitimate sons and daughters of the American
Revolution for longer than most of us have been alive.

At the same time, especially after the way the Bill of Rights was
betrayed by Republicans over the Brady Bill and the Feinstein
Amendment, it's impossible not to be cynical about the ultimate
value of a sweeping GOP victory.

Libertarians are far from alone in this reaction.  An e-mail
correspondent informs me that our new Prime Minister, Newt Gingrich,
has been saying that Republicans will really have to change things and
keep their promises or next time the winner will be a _third party_.
I myself heard Rush Limbaugh -- to whom, I shall believe for as long
as I live, the country owes this long overdue moment of laughter and
relief -- warning Republicans that if they screw this one up, "they're
not taking me down with them!"

Over the next two years, before the House of Representatives is up for
grabs again, it must be the concentrated and unswerving purpose of
Libertarians everywhere to impose and maintain an unrelenting pressure
on Republicans to "really change things and keep their promises",
exactly the way our brave and clever comrades did in Michigan and
Arizona during the recent campaign.

Including a promise they never quite got around to making, but which
many voters somehow seem to have heard anyway, to repeal every gun law
-- not even one of which is Constitutional -- passed in this country
over the last 60 years.

I assure you -- and I assure every Republican within the sound of my
"voice" -- that this will be my concentrated and unswerving purpose,
just as it will be the concentrated and unswerving purpose of the
Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus.

For if the matter falls into LSAC hands, it will go beyond repealing
a handful of illegal statutes or abolishing the agencies responsible
for enforcing them.  It is our established policy (the only policy
consistent with the intentions of the Founding Fathers) that every
man, woman, and responsible child has a natural, fundamental, and
inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right to
obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- handgun,
shotgun, rifle, machinegun, _anything_ -- any time, anywhere, without
asking anyone's permission.

Not only will we decriminalize concealed weapons carry and the act of
self-defense, and pardon and provide full restitution to anyone ever
harmed, or even inconvenienced, by victim-disarmament laws, we will
arrest, convict, fine, and imprison any official who ever enacted or
enforced victim-disarmament laws, and where a violation of individual
or Constitutional rights has resulted in a fatality, impose the
maximum penalty on all such officials.

There can be no mercy -- or statute of limitations -- for crimes
against the Constitution. If you think that harsh, remember how you
felt, watching the Waco bonfire, knowing there were a dozen babies
in there who'd served as an excuse for the illegal raid in the first
place.  Under the law of my state, it wouldn't matter if the victims
set the fire or that some fatalities occurred among the criminals
themselves, just that somene died during the commission of a felony --
in this case a government-approved felony -- and that the felons were
therefore guilty of murder.  If there is such a thing as a good law,
surely that must be one.

I don't wish to advise them -- I _want_ Libertarians to take power
in my lifetime -- but the GOP could begin as a demonstration of good
faith by busting Janet Reno, abolishing BATF, and purging the Clinton
Republicans from their ranks like Bob "Brady Bill" Dole, Kay "Brady"
Hutchinson, Jon "Feinstein" Kyl, Hank "Feinstein" Brown, and Spence
"Chicken" Abraham. Otherwise -- as the establishment continues to lose
control of the media -- we're going to hang these criminals around the
neck of the Republican Party like albatrosses.  Nobody has forgotten
what they did and they're never going to -- any more than Simon
Wiesenthal forgot.

In general, Libertarians will use power -- if Republicans are unwise
enough to hand it to them -- to eradicate every trace of socialism (an
"idea" which violates the Ninth Amendment as surely as Brady violates
the Second) from America and turn every square inch of it into private
property.  Since even a superficial examination of Republican policy
reveals as much socialism -- in public schools, for instance, or the
creation and handling of public lands -- as anything the Democrats
ever imposed on an unwilling populace, the GOP had better be on its
best behavior from now on.

For us, for Libertarians, the election is _NEVER_ over.