Reinke Faces Life

http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_14.22.html

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[2] Groups Urge Zero Funding for REAL ID System
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A number of organizations have joined to urge Congress against funding
the REAL ID national identification system. Congress passed REAL ID
without a hearing even though legislators in both parties urged debate.
Sen. Daniel Akaka and Sen. John Sununu have both said that they believe
REAL ID “places an unrealistic and unfunded burden on state governments
and erodes Americans’ civil liberties and privacy rights.”

In a letter, the groups said, “$50 million for REAL ID was appropriated
in the House. In the Senate, however, an amendment offered by Sen.
Alexander to add an additional $300 million was defeated by a bipartisan
majority. Earlier efforts to expand REAL ID as part of the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform bill were also rejected. We strongly urge the
Conference Committee to accept the Senate’s approach not to fund REAL
ID.” The groups also explained, “Furthermore, of the $40 million that
has been appropriated for REAL ID implementation so far, $34 million
remains unspent. [. . .] This year, New Hampshire returned its grant and
passed a law barring REAL ID participation by the state. If an
additional $50 million is appropriated, it is similarly likely to
languish in Washington rather than going to states that need it to
implement other desirable programs.”

There has been widespread public opposition to REAL ID. Seventeen states
have passed legislation rejecting the national identification system. In
May, 54 organizations representing trans-partisan, nonpartisan, privacy,
consumer, civil liberty, civil rights, and immigrant organizations
joined to launch a national campaign to solicit public comments to stop
REAL ID. The Department of Homeland Security received more than 12,000
comments on its draft implementation regulations for the REAL ID Act,
even though the comment process was marked with problems.

EPIC and 24 other privacy and technology experts jointly submitted
comments in May warning the federal agency not to go forward with the
REAL ID proposal. The group urged DHS to recommend to Congress that REAL
ID is unworkable and must be repealed. “The REAL ID Act creates an
illegal de facto national identification system filled with threats to
privacy, security and civil liberties that cannot be solved, no matter
what the implementation plan set out by the regulations,” the group
said.

Information on the Group Letter to Congress:

http://realnightmare.org/

Text of the REAL ID Act (pdf):

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/real_id_act.pdf

Comments of EPIC and 24 Experts in Privacy and Technology (pdf):

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/epic_realid_comments.pdf

Stop REAL ID Campaign site:

http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid

EPIC’s Page on National ID Cards and REAL ID Act:

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/

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When I look through my pocket Constitution, I fail to find anywhere where the Federal gooferment is authorized to do this. Hence, I suggest that we all tell them “no”.

Sigh!

Remember Fascist Germany, Communist Russia, and all the dictatorships where “papers are required”.

It’s another step on the road to the camps. Think it can’t happen here? What about the Japanese Internment? What about all the “experiments” on unwitting victims? What about out present state of “airports”? America has no magic “immunity” token like on Survivor that prevents the gooferment from doing bad things to us.

You are already a partial slave. (taxes, fees, and inflation) This just moves along to finishing the job!

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Can’t say if it’s “fun”. I think imho you are playing for the bonus. You’d have to be incredibly lucky to beat the house at this game. I’m focusing on how to exploit a “positive lucky streak” and stop an “unlucky streak”. We know from probability that there can be streaks. We’re not going to hang around for a long time and get ground up by the house edge. So we need to sense the streak, exploit, and exit.

(I watched carefully the big winner at the 60$ table. He was pushing in more when he was winning and less when he lost. I should have charted his play; not mine!)

At a twenty dollar table, can you play 30$? Assume not! But if you can, that might be a way to play more after a win. So, at a twenty dollar table, I’d suggest that you want to play $40! And 5$ for the bonus. Ignore for the moment pushes.

Start with two basic stakes — one for the game and one for the bonus. Let’s say 300$. Five losing hands?

So we start by setting up five “soldiers” at 40$ each and five for the bonus (45*5=225). The last soldier is a “double” of $80 and ten for the bonus ($90). And a stack of fives ($100) for the bonus replacement’s on pushes. ($415 total) That’s the exit indicator, soldiers gone, we leave.

So here’s how it operates:

Area#1 is for the “soldiers” playing the game. Area#2 is for the bonus play stack. Area#3 is the “bank” — once money moves in there, it’s going home.

Bonus wins, restack the 20 chip bonus stack; excess to the bank.

Bonus stack depleted? A soldier is sent to reinforce. (We’re playing for the big hit.)

Game wins:

If you win, you get $38 (if.eat., 40 minus the two commission). You should add 20, going to 60. Put 18 in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40.

If you win the 60, you get 57. And add 20 going to 80. From the 37, put back a 25$ soldier and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18=-22.

If you win the 80, you get 76. Add 20 going to 100. From the 56, put back two 25$ soldiers and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18+37=+15

If you win the 100, you get 95. Add 20 got to 120. From the 75, put back three 25$ soldiers and the rest back in your kitty.
If you lose, you’re out -40+18+37+56=+81

If you win the 125$, call and quit your job cause the world is going to end.

And hope you catch a streak or a big bonus.

Now that’s gambling.

Do you agree with my numerology?

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I heard from an old military buddy from a long time ago. (He found me.) But it points out how bad the inet is for establishing identities and finding people. Any suggestions? I ran into the same problem with old high school chums. Unless they are looking for you, it’s nearly impossible to look for them. So where are you — David Robles, Robert Bob Wotring, and Bill Chrin? Also in the class was Army Captain Profitt, the “old” Army Major, and the “young” Marine Major, and the CID guy. teaches me how stupid i was not to keep better notes, pictures, and such. Sigh!

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http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=36

The Government Hoax Print
Monday, 29 October 2007
Written by Marc Stevens
Tuesday, 21 November 2006

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The government hoax is probably the oldest, most pervasive and stubborn of hoaxes. It’s the belief in non-existent “states” and “nations” and that “government” is both legitimate and necessary. In the geographic area of the North American continent commonly referred to as the “United States,” it’s claimed only “government” can provide the service of protecting “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This is nonsense if only for the reason “government” has no duty to protect anyone and their property.

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One has to question the doubt of a meme that is not questioned by anyone else?

Or, at least no one that matters.

It’s not as if our questioning is going to give any of the politicians, bureaucrat, or sheeple a reason to lose any sleep. But for our own sanity, let’s just admit that it’s a fiction. A fiction that can kill all that oppose it. Think of that lone protester Tiananmen Square.

That guy had stones!

Do you?

Gooferment may not exist, but those tanks do!

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http://freelaurencanario.com/

TRYING TO HELP A NH PROTESTER

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29 October 2007

Mark Kappelhoff
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Criminal Section, PHB
Washington, D.C. 20530
By fax (202) 616-0372 –

Re: Lauren Canario #42103
Hillsborough Co. Corrections
445 Willow Street
Manchester, NH 03103

Dear Mr. Kappelhoff:

As I understand your responsibilities, you handle:
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Official Misconduct (18 U.S.C.§ § 241, 242) — Intentional acts by law enforcement officials who misuse their positions to unlawfully deprive individuals of constitutional rights, such as the right to be free from unwarranted assaults, illegal arrests and searches, and theft of property.
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May I call your attention to what I believe is a Federal civil rights violation. As usual, a protestor has fallen afoul of some judge’s sense of “the law”. As a citizen, may I ask you to inquire as to the circumstances of Lauren Canario being imprisoned? To speed your inquiry, you might want to address the question directly to: Judge Martha Crocker c/o MCrocker@Courts.State.NH.US.

An injustice to one citizen is an injustice to all. After all we have the warning of Pastor Martin Niemöller which I take very seriously. I regard myself as a member of the “new media”. Blogs are the newspapers of the Twenty First Century. So I am looking forward to your response, which I can post on my blog.

Thanks.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
3 Tyne Court
Kendall Park, NJ 08824
Webform that creates an urgent email => http://2idi.com/contact/=reinkefj
Web page => http://www.reinke.cc/
My blog => http://www.reinkefaceslife.com/
LinkedIn url => http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj

c.c.:

Frank Lautenberg
United States Senate
324 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-3003
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/

Robert Menendez
United States Senate
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-3002
http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Rush Holt
United States House of Representatives
1019 Longworth House Office Building
Washington DC 20515-3012
http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml

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Let’s see if this accomplishes anything.

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_us_attitudes_about_intern_1.php

Poll: US Attitudes About Internet Are Insane
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 25, 2007 / 22 comments

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Zogby International and 463 Communications released the results last night of an interesting and well executed poll about the attitudes US adults have about the internet.

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Tracking chips, brain implants, and the whole inet in one’s head.

I agree some folks have taken leave of their common sense.

Imagine the porn industry then?

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A nonviolent civil disobedience superactivist Lauren Canario has been held for more than 20 days. How can “they ” do that?

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From: Representative Rush Holt [mailto:representative.rush.holt@mail.house.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Email from Rep. Rush Holt

Dear Mr. Reinke :

Thank you for writing me regarding our government’s policy on so-called “military tribunals” and the related Hamdan v. Rumsfeld court case on this subject. I appreciate learning your views, and I apologize for the delay in my response.

After the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration’s use of so-called “military tribunals” in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case in 2006, the administration and the Congress had an opportunity to craft a detainee policy that both protected our country and the principles it stands for. Instead, the Congress passed a deeply flawed piece of legislation-the Military Commissions Act (MCA)- which I opposed.

How true we are to our ideals affects the clarity and decisiveness with which our soldiers can act, the safety of our troops, the motivation of our potential enemies, and the behavior of our actual enemies. The MCA provides protections that are vague, slippery and imprecise. It is subject to interpretation by the President, by the Secretary of Defense, by our commanders in the theaters of operation, by our troops in the field, and by our friends and enemies around the world.

We need a law on detainee treatment that does at least two things. First, i t should provide a clear set of guidelines consistent with American principles-such as in our revised Army Field Manual-that applies to all U.S. Government personnel (including contractors and intelligence agents ) on how to treat prisoners in ways that preserve our principles. That is why I have become a co-sponsor of the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 (H.R. 1415) and the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 (H.R. 1416). If enacted, these bills would undo the most pernicious and c onstitutionally offensive provisions of the MCA, including the denial of habeus corpus rights to detainees.

Second, any changes to our laws on detainee treatment should include verification mechanisms to monitor how prisoners and detainees are treated. One of those mechanisms is already in use by law enforcement organizations across the country: the videotaping of interrogations.

Videotaping has proven to be extremely effective at preventing not just abuse of detainees but also false allegations of abuse by detainees against their interrogators. The practice aids in interrogation (by allowing linguists and others to review the record) , and it protects all of us-the enforcers, the prosecutors, and the defendants. By not including such a provision in the MCA , the drafters missed a real opportunity to ensure that we prevent serious problems in the future.

In May 2007, I offered an amendment to the FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act that would have mandated the videotaping of detainee interrogations after the detainee had been held for seven days or had been transferred to a permanent detention facility. While my amendment did not pass, it garnered 199 bipartisan votes and demonstrated that a near-majority of my colleagues recognize the value of videorecording of interrogations.

Indeed, it may interest you to know that the day after the House voted down my amendment, the Defense Department released a previously classified Inspector General report on detainee treatment in Iraq that was originally sent to the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in August 2006. While portions of this 131 page report remain classified, the conclusions are not:

“(U) Allegations of detainee abuse were not consistently reported, investigated, or managed in an effective, systematic, and timely manner..no single entity within any level of command was aware of the scope and breadth of detainee abuse. policy for and oversight of interrogation procedures were ineffective. As a result, interrogation techniques and procedures used exceeded the limits established in the Army Field Manual 34-52, “Intelligence Interrogation,” September 28, 1992.” ( Report No. 06-INTEL-10 , Review of DoD -Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse (U), August 25, 2006, p. ii.)

You can view the full report at the following URL:

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/abus e .pdf , or ask me to mail you a copy.

I will continue to press for mandated video recording of detainee interrogations because I believe doing so would provide critical safeguards for all involved in the process.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

RUSH HOLT

Member of Congress

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Sigh!

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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_instant_housing?slide=2&slideView=3

Slideshow: Instant Housing and Designing for Disaster
By Jenna Wortham
10.22.07 | 12:00 AM

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One of the biggest obstacles to emergency-shelter design is finding the right balance between providing a temporary shelter like a tent and working to rebuild permanent homes.

“You can’t design for disaster after the fact,” notes Kate Stohr, co-founder of the nonprofit humanitarian design firm Architecture for Humanity. “Unless it’s strategically thought about in advance of disaster, these ideas don’t work.” Often, what’s needed most is a central station where basic necessities — water, food, medical supplies and information — can be doled out. The trick is to design a transportable, sustainable structure that can support a sizable community and requires little maintenance.

Enter the Clean Hub, a self-sustained, portable machine built into a recycled shipping container. It rolls a power station and water-purification plant into one unit, making it ideal for deployment to any disaster-stricken area lacking basic facilities. Intended more as a base from which to distribute necessities rather than a residential unit, the Clean Hub can provide enough energy, water and sanitation for up to 150 people.

The Hub can be fabricated and shipped anywhere in the world in a few days — and once at its destination, takes less than an hour to erect. Design perks: a V-shaped roof collects rainwater, 16 solar panels generate electricity, and an underground reverse-osmosis filtration system recycles and stores water. When in use, the Hub produces enough compost to sustain a small vegetable garden. Designed by John Dwyer, founder of Shelter Architecture, a Minneapolis-based design studio, the first prototype was built in June 2007 and delivered to New Orleans, where it is currently in use as part of an urban agriculture project.

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If I was a survivalist and I had my retreat land, I’d be interested in this one since it could be folded up into something that could be locked up and concealed. And, it appears that you could site it without a lot of local help. imho.

There are twelve photos and stories. Each looks “interesting”. Some are easier than others. Looks like you could do “something” for under a thousand dollars. It wouldn’t be the Ritz, but “good enough”.

Certainly a better solution than putting a mobile home on the back of your hummer and pulling it through rioting indigenous sheeple as you good to your “plan b” fallback retreat location.

:-)

from behind the lines in
occupied socialist Nu Jerzee

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101522_pf.html

From Casinos to Counterterrorism
Las Vegas Surveillance, U.S. Security Efforts Involve Similar Tactics
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 22, 2007; A01

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LAS VEGAS — This city, famous for being America’s playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the twin trends of data mining and high-tech surveillance, with arguably more cameras per square foot than any airport or sports arena in the country. Even the city’s cabs and monorail have cameras. As the U.S. government ramps up its efforts to forestall terrorist attacks, some privacy advocates view the city as a harbinger of things to come.

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Seems like the gooferment could learn a lot from the casinos. Maybe the casinos should be in charge of the gooferment. At least tyranny would be pleasant?

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