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Don't you mean shareseller value, guys?

That's some insightful stuff right there! It's so important to look at the reality, not the labels.

I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas

Probably not - does Texas specifically offer a duty to protect? The definition of a citizen is an oath of loyalty and a pledge of support in exchange for a duty to protect (classic Bastiat-style just government). At the National level, that requirement for citizenship has been abrogated by the Supreme Court since the mid-19th Century. Even serfs and vassals had that right which was enforceable in a manorial court.

To be more dispassionate, we're now somewhere between serfs, bonded laborers, helots, and chattel slaves but with enhanced personal freedoms. We can't own land directly (only holding titles subject to debt bondage, with the exception of a few grandfathered Nevadans), we can keep a portion of our labor (only if it exceeds our feudal obligation), and we can buy our emancipation, but only on the condition of leaving the manor. We also have hereditary debt bondage. The lord/master has been abstracted to a corporate form, in which any of the subjects may choose to participate, but without a change in their status. Oh, but we have songs about how we're a free people.

Who says the owner(s) of the car(s) and person(s) present at the accident won't still be the only persons liable if an accident occurs due to speeding? Just because the driver didn't break any laws in injuring someone, doesn't mean the government is "liable" for this. South v. Maryland; local law-enforcement have no duty to protect individuals, but only a general duty to enforce the laws

Only if the state has consented to this liability. The law that enables "speeding passes" could contain a liability shield for the state, Due to Sovereign immunity, the state itself cannot be held liable, unless the state has consented.

Figured I might as well post some of my information sources in case it proves helpful:

http://www.endtimesreport.com/EMP.html

Wouldn't mind discussion on this here either. Still not quite sure the effects on unplugged electronics (like radios, flashlights, walkie talkies, generators, 60's style 6V vehicles with little electronics... etc.). Guess there is the "worst case analysis" aka 1859 vs 1989 size storms.

Why is this problem and solution different from say EMP's from nuclear blasts?

How are the solutions and protection different also? Would things like Faraday cages protect critical infrastructure?

http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nuclear/empprotection.htm

http://www.endtimesreport.com/faraday_cages.html

Polce have no affirmative duty to protect us.
http://www.endtimesreport.com/NO_AFFIRMATIVE_DUTY.htm

Sorry about having to reply to my own post, but here goes. One overlooked type of possible attack is the vulnerability of modern electronic devices to a strong electromagnetic pulse (EMP). I have heard of claims of tests where a small crude electromagnetic bomb was set off and for hundreds of yards around, cars would not start and various other electromagnetic devices were ruined. The trouble is that computer chips are very delicate and easily damaged and such chips are in our cars and various electronic devices. I have heard several claims that a more powerful, more advanced EMP bomb could destroy electronic devices for hundreds of miles. Is that really true? Have we done anything at all to prepare major cities for such an attack? What effect would such an attack have on a heavily populated areas such as Southern California? Would such an attack on major cities be feasible and worthwhile for terrorists?

Perhaps each citizen should each have a rugged old fashioned vacuum tube radio stored unplugged and not connected to an antenna, at least we could still get news then. Either that or have each of us store a more modern radio and perhaps a few other inexpensive electronic devices inside a Faraday cage. Perhaps police departments, fire departments and ambulances should keep a few extra two way radios stored inside a Faraday cage ready to be used after such an attack.Hopefully, an occasional ham radio operator will do the same with one of their older radios and will still have some working type of emergency power too. Of course, that is assuming that such is scenario is really a valid threat.

• Faraday Cages
• Making Faraday Cages

Perhaps we should also have a few weeks food on hand for emergencies too. A few few inexpensive large cans of dried rice and beans and similar items, stored in a cool place, would probably not cost all that much. If our government were to discover that our food supply had been poisoned by terrorists, we could all switch to using our emergency supplies of several weeks until authorities announced that that food supply was safe once again. I have head that Mormons all keep several months of emergency food stored away, although I am not a Mormon myself. Emergency food supplies could be useful in a few other scenarios too. During a global bird flue pandemic some of us might just want to lock our doors and stay home and avoid contact with other people for a few weeks or months. Perhaps keeping some extra soap on hand for washing our hands thoroughly might help too. I suppose a gun, for self defence, might help too, since nearly everyone else out there already has one.

Perhaps we should all be using the type of envelopes that we do not need to lick to seal. On some envelops you just remove the strip of tape and seal them. At least we don't need to lick our stamps any more. Hopefully, none of these scenarios will never really happen within my lifetime.

Crapness on the part of the sources yes; have you checked yours?

There are more than three million illegal guns in Britan now. (The Guardian, September 3, 2000) I don't consider "how few" an approrpriate description for that.

It seems like the ban was implemented in 97; at least that's the first year that legally held guns dropped. That year there were 2,647 handgun crimes; in 2000 it increased to 3,685.

Exactly, and someone is dead because of it, so he's in jail now. What's the problem? Still doesn't make him innocent. Revenge is not a part of the legal system in any civilized country.

Revenge was not involved. According to Dictionary.com,

1. To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).

2. To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.

Revenge is done after the fact, not while you're defending yourself against a percieved threat to your life. I don't believe that anyone should have to kill another in self defense, but the truth is that police can't be everywhere at once, and if they could, would you be willing to tolerate that level of scrutiy?

Even if they had the capability, are not required to by law (Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. Gonzales, South v. Maryland, Warren v. District of Columbia - this last one involved several calls to 911 over the course of a half an hour to report a housebreaking (and assault and rape). "For the next fourteen hours the women were held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of Kent and Morse.") The sad fact of the matter is that many people do consider the woman found in an alley raped and strangled with her pantyhose morally superior to the woman holding a smoking 357 and standing over the body of a would-be rapist. I don't get it.