For those of you who don't frequent SC, here's a summary of interesting quotes from Michael Badnarik, LP candidate for president, nutcase extraordinaire.
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About his personal guns:
I caution people that should they stand in front of my apartment door when the police decide to come to take my weapons, they will quickly discover that MY interpretation of the Second Amendment is the only one they will have to worry about.
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About the Supreme Court:
People, please think. Please use your heads. Just because it is in print does not make it true ... just because the Supreme Court says so does not make it law. We interpret the Constitution... I don’t care what nine clowns in bathrobes say
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About a friend's police-inflicted arm & toenail injuries:
I, Michael Badnarik, have personal knowledge of this situation, and you have my word that the story is true, and very frightening. My friend, Rhett Pease, was arrested several years ago for trespassing on his own property. (That is not a rational statement, of course, but we are dealing with the American InJustice System, here.) When he opened the door, several Sheriff's deputies violently subdued him, injuring his arm, and tearing off one of his toenails in the process.
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About Julia Roberts, the civil war, and Abraham Lincoln:
Perhaps it would help to use personal relationships as an example. Do you remember the movie SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY? Julia Roberts is married to an abusive husband so she fakes her own death in a complicated plot to leave him. He discovers the ruse and becomes obsessed with tracking her down in order to bring her back. Why? Because he loves her? No. He tracks her down because he simply will not allow her to leave him. No sane person would support the husband in this scenario. Now imagine Abraham Lincoln as the jilted President who aggressively and savagely attacks his estranged southern states, and drags their representatives back to Washington at the point of a gun. I contend that no sane person would support the President in this scenario. In spite of all the lofty stories about Honest Abe, it is Lincoln who is most responsible for destroying the principles of the United States by forcibly holding them together under the same government.
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About Hawaii declaring independece:
Last Saturday I became very excited when I received an eMail entitled “Hawaii Declares Independence?” that included a July 15th press release from the Kingdom of Hawai'i. I was, of course, somewhat skeptical so I did some preliminary research on the web and discovered www.hawaii-nation.org and several other references. My curiosity piqued, I decided to call Hawaii even though it was very early in the morning in the islands. I spoke to a man identified in the press release as the new Prime Minister and was told that a Declaration of (Hawaiian) Independence HAD been presented to the White House and United Nations recently. I was amazed and excited. Admittedly a little TOO excited, because I subsequently dispatched an eMail entitled “HAWAII DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE!”. Declaring your independence and having other agencies acknowledge that independence are two different things, and my enthusiasm caused me to blur that distinction. I realize now that it was only a small group of Hawaiian natives who made this declaration.
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About property:
The purpose (and ONLY purpose) of our Constitution is to create a government that will protect our PROPERTY.
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About Timothy McVeigh:
How could Timothy McVeigh's Ryder truck knock down so much of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, while doing no damage to the building across the street except for a few broken windows? Doesn't that violate the laws of physics? How could the explosion of McVeigh's truck throw bricks and debris out into the street, once again, violating the laws of physics? What ever happened to all of the evidence from the Waco disaster that was being kept for “safe keeping” in the FBI offices in the Murrah Federal Building? THINK dammit! We may not know who blew up the building, or what their motivation was, but the government's version of the truth is completely implausible.
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About blowing up the U.N.
The day I enter the Oval Office, I will give notice to the United Nations. Member nations would have one week to evacuate their offices in the UN building in New York. They would have seven days to box up their computers, their paper work, and family photos. At noon on the eighth day, after ensuring that the building was empty, I would personally detonate the explosive charges that would reduce the building to rubble. The same type of rubble we had to clean up after September 11th.
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About his new job:
Feb 17, 2003
I am very excited to report that I start a new job on Monday! After 13 months of being unemployed, followed by another 11 months of dialing the phone as a telemarketer, I have finally worked my way back into the hightech market in Austin.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030318234730/www.badnarik.org/news/009.htm
The infamous right-to-bear-nukes and first-day-in-office articles are too long; you can find them here.
_________________________
About his personal guns:
I caution people that should they stand in front of my apartment door when the police decide to come to take my weapons, they will quickly discover that MY interpretation of the Second Amendment is the only one they will have to worry about.
article
About the Supreme Court:
People, please think. Please use your heads. Just because it is in print does not make it true ... just because the Supreme Court says so does not make it law. We interpret the Constitution... I don’t care what nine clowns in bathrobes say
article
About a friend's police-inflicted arm & toenail injuries:
I, Michael Badnarik, have personal knowledge of this situation, and you have my word that the story is true, and very frightening. My friend, Rhett Pease, was arrested several years ago for trespassing on his own property. (That is not a rational statement, of course, but we are dealing with the American InJustice System, here.) When he opened the door, several Sheriff's deputies violently subdued him, injuring his arm, and tearing off one of his toenails in the process.
article
About Julia Roberts, the civil war, and Abraham Lincoln:
Perhaps it would help to use personal relationships as an example. Do you remember the movie SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY? Julia Roberts is married to an abusive husband so she fakes her own death in a complicated plot to leave him. He discovers the ruse and becomes obsessed with tracking her down in order to bring her back. Why? Because he loves her? No. He tracks her down because he simply will not allow her to leave him. No sane person would support the husband in this scenario. Now imagine Abraham Lincoln as the jilted President who aggressively and savagely attacks his estranged southern states, and drags their representatives back to Washington at the point of a gun. I contend that no sane person would support the President in this scenario. In spite of all the lofty stories about Honest Abe, it is Lincoln who is most responsible for destroying the principles of the United States by forcibly holding them together under the same government.
article
About Hawaii declaring independece:
Last Saturday I became very excited when I received an eMail entitled “Hawaii Declares Independence?” that included a July 15th press release from the Kingdom of Hawai'i. I was, of course, somewhat skeptical so I did some preliminary research on the web and discovered www.hawaii-nation.org and several other references. My curiosity piqued, I decided to call Hawaii even though it was very early in the morning in the islands. I spoke to a man identified in the press release as the new Prime Minister and was told that a Declaration of (Hawaiian) Independence HAD been presented to the White House and United Nations recently. I was amazed and excited. Admittedly a little TOO excited, because I subsequently dispatched an eMail entitled “HAWAII DECLARES ITS INDEPENDENCE!”. Declaring your independence and having other agencies acknowledge that independence are two different things, and my enthusiasm caused me to blur that distinction. I realize now that it was only a small group of Hawaiian natives who made this declaration.
article
About property:
The purpose (and ONLY purpose) of our Constitution is to create a government that will protect our PROPERTY.
article
About Timothy McVeigh:
How could Timothy McVeigh's Ryder truck knock down so much of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, while doing no damage to the building across the street except for a few broken windows? Doesn't that violate the laws of physics? How could the explosion of McVeigh's truck throw bricks and debris out into the street, once again, violating the laws of physics? What ever happened to all of the evidence from the Waco disaster that was being kept for “safe keeping” in the FBI offices in the Murrah Federal Building? THINK dammit! We may not know who blew up the building, or what their motivation was, but the government's version of the truth is completely implausible.
article
About blowing up the U.N.
The day I enter the Oval Office, I will give notice to the United Nations. Member nations would have one week to evacuate their offices in the UN building in New York. They would have seven days to box up their computers, their paper work, and family photos. At noon on the eighth day, after ensuring that the building was empty, I would personally detonate the explosive charges that would reduce the building to rubble. The same type of rubble we had to clean up after September 11th.
article
About his new job:
Feb 17, 2003
I am very excited to report that I start a new job on Monday! After 13 months of being unemployed, followed by another 11 months of dialing the phone as a telemarketer, I have finally worked my way back into the hightech market in Austin.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030318234730/www.badnarik.org/news/009.htm
The infamous right-to-bear-nukes and first-day-in-office articles are too long; you can find them here.
