Reinke Faces Life

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/
tle419-20070527-03.html

http://tinyurl.com/33fdze

Gun Control = The Final Solution = Back to the Bronze Age
by Andrew G. Eggleston Sr.

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Gun control laws are akin to welcoming us all to the Bronze Age of survival, where the biggest, strongest, and most aggressive, take control and keep control. Without Sam Colt’s equalizer women again become property, men again have to carry large swords and knives to protect themselves. Sweat and blood-soaked battles like occurred inside the Roman Coliseum would become the only means of protecting ourselves, and would eventually encompass our children. Communities would be forced again to form militia to protect themselves from roving bands of looters. All of this would of course be in vain because the criminals who outnumber the finger-men (police) more than ten-to-one would be just as well or better armed than the “peacekeepers”. Only the private citizen suffers under such legislation, becoming disarmed victims. Once that happens the only thing left to the citizen, is to choose a side, police or criminal, to protect and defend their persons and chattels. But that discussion is a whole ‘nother subject, we call it “Civil War”.

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Yup, Sam Colt was right. The handgun makes the weakest women stronger than the most powerful man. Just as the cross bow polished off the Knights of the Roundtable, so to the “girlie gun” put the bad guys in their place … … with a new appreciation of the Second Amendment, in jail, or six feet under. Any of the three is equally fine with me.

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http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=384

Government Divides, Families Unite – Pope Leo XIII saw it coming
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Economics

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This brings us to Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s masterful document that kicked off modern Catholic social teaching. Americans are inclined to read this document simply as a defense of private property and the right to form independent trade unions. But thinking carefully about the family reveals a deeper meaning. Rerum Novarum is a protest against the tendency of the state to absorb all functions and institutions of society into itself. “It is not right,” Leo insists, “for either the citizens or the family to be absorbed by the State; it is proper that the individual and the family should be permitted to retain their freedom of action.”

Beginning with the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth, revolutionary social movements have attempted to give the state complete jurisdiction over every aspect of society. Part of the statist strategy has been to redefine social institutions as mere collections of individuals. Rerum Novarum objects: “Although private societies exist within the State and are, as it were, so many parts of it, still it is not within the authority of the State universally and per se to forbid them to exist as such. For man is permitted by a right of nature to form private societies.”

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In the days of the Kings, the Church was roughly equal and sometimes protected the the People. Now there is no effective counter balance to the Gooferment. It’s has destroyed education dumbing down the people, destroyed the Church with the help of pedophiles, and spent the country into poverty. So who will be the People’s champion? Where will the opposition to the new tyrants come from?

New Hampshire?

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http://pacpub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18352663&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425716&rfi=6

http://tinyurl.com/ys7pne

05/17/2007
South Brunswick to target under-age drinkers
By: Paul Koepp , Staff Writer

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Ordinances would make it easier to punish teens and those who supply them with alcohol.

Trouble could be brewing for underage drinkers due to two proposed ordinances soon to be considered by the Township Council.

One of the measures would require registration for keg purchases, while the other would allow municipal judges to suspend or postpone for up to six months the driver’s license of any underage drinker caught on private property.

The ordinances are part of the township’s effort, led by South Brunswick Stop Underage Drinking Zone, to raise awareness about alcohol use by minors as graduation and prom celebrations approach. However, the ordinances will not be introduced until after a public hearing at 7 p.m. on June 18 at the Municipal Building, meaning they will not be approved and take effect before mid-summer.

Steve Liga, executive director of the Middlesex County branch of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said his group is working with SUDZ to promote the ordinances because they would hold accountable both underage drinkers and those who provide them with alcohol.

The private property ordinance would close a “huge loophole” that allows young people to drink on private property without fear of getting more than a slap on the wrist, he said.

“This is the first really significant initiative that could have an impact on underage drinking,” Mr. Liga said. Eight towns in the county have already adopted the measure.

“If you take away a kid’s driver’s license, that’s a huge deal,” he said. “The date they get their license is probably even more important than the date of their graduation. All it will take is for a couple of these parties to get busted and a couple licenses suspended, and the word will get out.”
The other ordinance would require every keg sold in the township to be labeled with its point of sale and an identification number, so that any keg found when police bust a party can be traced back to the purchaser.

SUDZ, a partnership of community members and agencies whose mission is to prevent alcohol use by anyone younger than 21, aims to keep youth safe by alerting them to the emotional and physical consequences of drinking alcohol.

Sue Nissenblatt, the township’s teen health coordinator, said that SUDZ hopes to raise awareness about underage drinking by promoting the ordinances.

“Kids are going to be celebrating (at the end of the school year) and some parents may have a tendency to look away,” she said. “But it’s illegal and dangerous, and a lot of people aren’t aware of all of the consequences.”

Cleo Lowinger, the advisor for Students Against Destructive Decisions at South Brunswick High School and a member of SUDZ, said SADD is taking steps to address teenage drinking.

“We’ve had meetings with prom chaperones and a series of speakers” on drug and alcohol issues, she said. As in past years, the group also put a crashed car on display on the high school’s front lawn to combat what she called the “it can’t happen to me mentality” among young people.

“It puts the reality in their face of what can happen and reminds them to make safe and healthy decisions,” Ms. Lowinger said.

The next SUDZ meeting, where parents can get statistics about underage drinking and help the group brainstorm ways to address the issue, will be May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Building.

For additional information, or if you plan to attend the meeting, e-mail sbsudz@aol.com or call 732-329-4000 ext. 7237.

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I tried to prune this piece but it is tightly written. Full of statist unconstitutional trash, but tightly written. I can’t excerpt it without destroying the flow. There’s not a line in the story that I don’t want to comment about. It really is a load of “barbara streisand”! Argh!

Let’s start with the jurisdiction of the Township Council. Where do they get off “punishing” other people’s children? AND, I think it is a well established principle that any type of “drug regulation” is doomed to failure. Didn’t we learn from alcohol prohibition that if people want something the marketplace will supply it. Nothing that the Township Council can do will reverse this. And, I’ll drop back on my favorite line:

If it’s such a good idea, why do people have to be forced to do it?

Now about registration for kegs. Yet another diktat. Where does anyone get the right, authority, or force to insert themselves into the transaction between consenting individuals. Only the gooferment thinks that it, like the movie tyrant Kings of England, can issue Royal Orders to be followed across the realm. It’s egotisitical at best and stupid at worst. Where do the local komisars get off telling a local business that they have been dragooned into being the “keg police”. It has to be violation of the Fifth Amendment. And, probably the Third, Fourteenth, the right of privacy, and a ton of principles in common law. Of course, since the Township’s jurisdiction ends at the township boundary, so this dank is a tax imposed on the “booze barns” inside the township. Of course, if the law breaker, shops across the street in a different Township or a different County, well then the local business just loses business.

And, don’t get me started about “private property”.

William Pitt the Elder once expressed a British freedom ideal: “The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!”

So why does the gooferment seek to go by law, regulation, and enforcement where the Crown’s officers can not go.

On to “the township’s effort, led by South Brunswick Stop Underage Drinking Zone”. Who empowered the Township to get involved in this effort? And, are we mixing public, private, and “religious” efforts. I know SBTwp is funded with the Gooferment’s stealing for people, “SBSUDZ”, with a private aol email, appears not to be SBTwp. And, animosity to “drinking” is a characteristic of the Salvation Army, Southern Baptists, or AA. All in the “religious” business. So, I have real objections to this one.

Now some evidence of why gooferment can NOT do anything right. The objective is alcohol and proms, but it won’t be in place until late summer. Please. So the komisars are passing diktats that won’t be ready in time. Hilarious.

Now we have a “middlesex county branch of ncoaadd”. Why do I smell my taxes being burned doing social work? And, it just generates all sorts of questions about the proper demarcation between public law and private purpose.

Private property is not a “huge loophole”! It is the Constitutionally recognized right.

Great, another a dank, adopted by lots of towns. That must make it right! And, it “could have an impact”. Great, who’s measuring? And, when it doesn’t work, like all gooferment diktats, how do I get my rights back. Diktats never get repealed, just added to.

And a mixture of agencies and groups muddles what is law and what is “religion”!

Are we serious?

Argh!

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FROM AN EMAIL TO THE GUYS AT http://www.freetalklive.com

http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm

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Laughter activates the chemistry of the will to live and increases our capacity to fight disease. Laughing relaxes the body and reduces problems associated with high blood pressure, strokes, arthritis, and ulcers. Some research suggests that laughter may also reduce the risk of heart disease.

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Laughter can reduce the risk of gooferment too.

I listen to the podcast and was listening to the fellow, just beginning his media career, who didn’t know where to start. I think he need to “do” liberty comedy.

Make people laugh at the stupidity of gooferment.

I have a piece of evidence and a rationale why it’s the silver bullet.

The evidence is look at how FAST the “Spanish American War Tax” on cell phones was repealed after everyone, even the liberal media, started calling it that.

The rationale is that humor, especially truthful, obviously true, enters the target’s mind through an “undefended gate”. If I say the “cell phone tax is unjust”, then you look for proof. When I laughingly ask you “Did you pay your Spanish American War tax on your cell phone bill this month?”, you don’t ask for anything. But, like a burr under your saddle, every time you think, see, or pay a phone bill, you’ll think of that “joke”. Every time you hear it from another source, it gets reinforced and irritates even more. Becomes more “true”. More irritating. And begins a cycle of reinforcement. At the height of hilarity about it, in three days, I heard it three times on Leno, twice on Letterman, and every other day on the the morning radio wake up show.

The gang in “power” can’t afford to be laughed at. It makes them look stupid. It punctures their balloon of legitimacy. And, it gets people focused on them and their stupidity.

So, if the fellow is listening, then I’d suggest “Liberty Comedy”.

Get people laughing at the gooferment, and like Ghost Busters, they’ll shrink back to human being size.

IMHO
fjohn
stuck behind the lines in the
Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee

A FACEBOOK message to Comcaster Lynn Doyle

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RE: Favorite Books

May I suggest Mary Ruwart’s book “healing our world” http://www.ruwart.com/Pages/Healing/ an older edition is a free download.

I think you take a “big government” approach or perspective on your TV show. As a Libertarian, I believe, based on a ton of evidence, that people are best left alone to find their own solutions.

When the “gooferment” gets involved with it’s heavy handed one-size fits all “help”, it hurts us. It’s stuck it’s nose in so many facets of American life, that people can’t conceive of anything being done without the gooferment.

My favorite rejoinder, stolen from who knows where is:

If it’s such a good idea, why do people have to be forced to do it?

Seat belts, education, taxes, charity / welfare, … the list just goes on and on.

You’re in the cat bird’s seat to empower people by challenging their thinking. Look at John Stossel! Even Rosie O’D. Jay Leno. All have a way of getting people to change their thinking. You have a great challenge and I think you could be the next John Stossel or Barbara Walters.

I’ll be rooting for you.

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Let’s see if that FACEBOOK entry is real or not? ;-)

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It’s Memorial Day weekend. Unlike many, I am thinking of all the “boys and girls” who have died thru the decades. I won’t demean their sacrifice by political speech. I despise the politicians who use this time for their venial purposes. I’ll just say a prayer for all their souls, wonder what wonders they could have created, and wish for peace. I’d like to support the troops by bringing them all home today. In the alternative all I can say is “Donna Nobis Pacem”! But on Tuesday, I’ll “poison pen” the “leaders” for peace in my time.

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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/
national/schoolgirl-hero-acted-on-common-
sense/2007/03/31/1174761806572.html

http://tinyurl.com/2jbeuw

Schoolgirl hero ‘acted on common sense’
March 31, 2007

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Laura, who was returning to her Longreach home from St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School in Brisbane, managed to revive the driver, who lifted his foot off the accelerator and pulled the bus to a halt.

If the bus had failed to stop, it could have ended up in a river.

Laura then found a torch and evacuated the passengers from the bus before ringing an ambulance and coach operators, Greyhound.

Roma police will nominate Laura, who does not yet have her driver’s licence, for a bravery award, but she says she was just following common sense.

Roma police Inspector Graham Coleman yesterday described Laura’s actions as heroic, saying: “She’s obviously saved injury, if not the lives of people on the bus.”

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And, excatly why do we, they, anyone have “driver’s licenses”?

Good people can do it fine without the Gooferment’s involvement.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul388.html

Patriotism
by Ron Paul
Before the U.S. House of Representatives, May 22, 2007

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It is conveniently ignored that the only authentic way to best support the troops is to keep them out of dangerous undeclared no-win wars that are politically inspired. Sending troops off to war for reasons that are not truly related to national security and, for that matter, may even damage our security, is hardly a way to patriotically support the troops.

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I agree 100%. Sound recall! (It’s a bugle call in the old cavalry movies.) Out troops should spike anything to heavy to move, and take the first thing heading home (i.e., plane, train, bike) or shank’s mare.

No excuses, no apologies, no plan to plan the plan.

Now!!!

p.s., And, I still think every politician should attend the funeral of every GI in their “district”! Maybe then it would sink in that this is NOT some kid’s game with the objective to fill your pockets and be popular. No, it’s deadly serious.

http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=73

FROM DOWNSIZEDC

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D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h
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Please share with concerned friends . . .

Subject: Super urgent REAL ID Trojan horse needs to be slain

DISCLAIMER: If you think the claims we make below are exaggerated or unfounded, you are free, as always, to sit this one out. But we hope you will remember our warnings. We won’t say “we told you so” when the things we predict below actually happen, but we do hope you will remember, when the time comes, that we did in fact warn you in advance.

Here’s what’s at stake . . .

The immigration controversy, and the legislation it has spawned, has become a Trojan Horse for imposing the REAL ID Act on all Americans, and entangling all of us in a bureaucratic nightmare of apocalyptic proportions.

Think for a moment about all the problems there have been with the terrorist watch list. Think about all the innocent Americans who have been placed on this list for no discernible reason, and the trouble people have had getting off this list. Now . . .

Imagine this same kind of bureaucratic nightmare expanding to entangle every job and business in America. This is what the REAL ID provisions of the new Senate Immigration Bill (S. 2611) will bring about.

The offending section is Title III which will require . . .

Every employer in America to pre-screen every worker for every job they’re ever offered for the rest of their lives, regardless of the size of the business, or the job.

The cost to the federal government ALONE is estimated by the feds themselves (so you know it’s low) at $11.7 billion per year.

The costs to businesses may be even higher. This will raise the cost of hiring new people and foster unemployment. But that’s only the beginning of the trouble.

Every American will have to produce a Real ID license to get a job – no exceptions. I think we can see where this is going . . .

Proving our identity, and proving that we are innocent, is about to become a requirement for living.

Taking this approach could certainly solve the problem of prison over-crowding, because under REAL ID deadbeat Moms and Dads, drunk drivers, jaywalkers, and anybody else who does anything wrong at any time, can all be punished simply and quickly, without prison, and perhaps without trial, simply by turning them into a non-person in terms of the required employment background check.

But let’s say you don’t ever do anything wrong, but you still end up with a black mark next to your name anyway, just like what has happened to people with the terrorist watch list? How long will it take, and how much will it cost, to get your name cleared?

And what if you can’t get your name cleared, simply because of bureaucratic inefficiency, like with the terrorist watch list?

Will you starve because you can’t get a job? And what about your family? Your kids?

Meanwhile, under these provisions, the black market gets a further government “price support” for fake IDs. Anything can be faked. If a thing can be made by government it can be forged by criminals. This includes birth certificates and other documents required to obtain a so-called REAL ID.

Politicians who talk about tamper proof ID cards are idiots babbling nonsense.

But it gets worse. The federal government is trying to box in the states that have rejected the REAL ID program by making all of the citizens of those states effectively illegal persons!

Plus, new federal funding for state programs will only be given to states that comply with REAL ID. The Feds are trying to both bribe and coerce the states into complying.

What’s worse, most of the Senate may not even realize these provisions are in the immigration bill, or what their impact would be. The bill is huge, and complicated. As of this writing it hasn’t even been printed yet, and it’s very unlikely the Senators will even read the bill before they pass it into law.

You’ve been warned. If you want to heed the warning please send a message to both the House and Senate telling them to strip out all REAL ID related provisions from any immigration bill they are considering. You can do so here.

Thank you for being a DC Downsizer.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

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I sent mine in.

With a “love note”.

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Please remove all provisions supporting the REAL ID Act from all pending immigration legislation.

My personal comment to you:

I’m against the the Real Id as an unconstitutional intrusion into our rights as outlined in the First, Fourth, and Tenth Amendments. It’s a monumentally bad idea. I’m also against the immigration “reform” which is nothing more than a gift to Democrat party, institutionalizing the “bad” immigration policy to date, and rewarding bad behavior.

Now some genius wants to use two bad ideas to sneak both of them by us. Don’t plan for my vote if either or both of these things come to pass.

Let’s end the dole, separate government from education, and, since there will be no more “free rides” for citizen or immigrants, you can repeal all those unconstituional immigration laws.

Let’s shine up the Statue of Liberty and get ready to receive guests. Working guests because Uncle Sap will have been retired. There’s no free lunch. For me, for you, or for any immigrant.

I will be watching what DC does very carefully and telling anyone who will listen.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance110.html

The Anti-Federalists on Standing Armies
by Laurence M. Vance

Laurence M. Vance is a freelance writer and an adjunct instructor in accounting at Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL.

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There are over 700 U.S. military bases on foreign soil. There are U.S. troops stationed in 159 different regions of the world in every corner of the globe. Foreign military bases and the stationing of troops abroad are for offensive military actions, not defensive ones. U.S. troops need to come home and then go home. But only a change in U.S. foreign policy can stop the evil that is America’s standing army.

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You have to admire how the dead old white guys very accurately predicted the mischief that the gooferment could get into if they had an army to play with. We should take away their toys.

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FROM A LETTER TO THE LOCAL PRAVDA

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It’s no secret that I think gooferment skoolz are a bad idea. This, and all the other school bus accidents, are just one symptom of the consequences. It’s a bad idea that is why the gooferment has to FORCE us to do it!

(If it was a good idea, it could be voluntary and everyone would agree to do it.)

(Note: Gooferment is used because no one can name a government program that works, at all, in any way. Let alone one that is effective or efficient.)

Why is the gooferment running schools? Why does a parent hand over the most precious thing they have to the custody of the state for a majority of their waking hours? Why do I have to pay to educate your child in subjects and a manner that neither of us agrees with?

Anyone care to guess why American “education” is heading to the bottom on the international scale? Anyone care to guess why costs head for the moon while results set new lows? Anyone care to guess why the children think they are in prison, bored to tears, and learn nada that’s important? Anyone care to guess why the gooferment can’t keep drugs out of their prisons … oh I meant skoolz? (You can see the similarity!)

No, when you’re in LA with a map of New York, you have to recognize that the 415 doesn’t go by the Empire State Building. So to, when you’re in an Education Mess, you have to see the exit.

Separation of Gooferment from Education!

Please ignore the self serving anguished cry from the Teacher’s Union, Politicians, Bureaucrats, and all that make their living from the dole that we call “public education”. (It’s neither “public”; nor “education”.)

Let’s do the right thing. Free the taxpayer slaves. Open the school doors and let the children go!

Does anyone think that children will NOT get an education if the State doesn’t mandate it? Maybe they might even learn something that their parents want them to learn, if the State wasn’t in the way.

Hopefully, we can throw away a “wrong map” before we hurt ourselves.

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http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/18/
after-tornado-fema-disarms-town-turns-away-help/

http://tinyurl.com/2trjfw

After tornado, FEMA disarms town, turns away help
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 18, 2007 4:34 pm

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On Friday, May 4, an F5 tornado wiped the town of Greensburg, Kan., almost entirely off the map. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with the National Guard and local police from all over Kansas, then systematically kept out relief workers while they went house to house disarming the residents.

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FEMA’s top priority going in was clear. It was not to help people, but to establish control and cow the population. These, of course, are the same things they did during Hurricane Katrina, with much more disastrous results.

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Still think that Katrina was an abberation?

Sorry, no.

The gooferment is “practicing”. If they get a big enough disaster, then we are going to get never ending martial law and tyranny. Followed by the camps.

So when do we stand up and fight?

I’m a fat old guy. No much I can do, but it’s coming.

Economic crash, bird flu, terrorist incident, or who knows what the excuse will be. As soon as they get the chance, they will.

We need to stop them now.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070516-113137-9942r.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3yug9y

Clinton Aide Forfeits Law License In Justice Probe
– Washington Times

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Samuel R. Berger, the Clinton White House national security adviser who was caught taking highly classified documents from the National Archives, has agreed to forfeit his license to practice law.

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If I was the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, then I’d want to interrogate all sorts of people about this.

Why?

What did Berger do?

I, of course, suspect that he was covering for Bill Clinton. (Disclaimer: I don’t like politicians of EITHER of the duplicitous duopoly!) Or worse.

Could there have been something in the ORIGINAL documents that would not be pleasant for Bill or Hillary?

Maybe we’ll never know. Maybe there will be something in the future that Berger has to “buy” his way out of by coming clean. Maybe a “copy” will show up from some one’s file somewhere. Maybe it will come out some how some where.

Argh!

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http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20070516/APN/705161813

http://tinyurl.com/3ao4jx

Carry Permit Holder Praised For Helping Stop Gunman
– Times Daily

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Chris Chappell was in a Bessemer, Ala., bank getting change on the way to his job when gunshots rang out. He drew a gun for which he has a Right-to-Carry permit, took cover by his sport utility vehicle and alerted deputies who came up. “It`s obvious he played a key role in keeping the guy there until we could get there,” said Jefferson County Sheriff`s Sgt. Randy Christian. “It`s a great testament of someone willing to take action.”

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Why can’t we all be “carry permit holders”? Isn’t that the essence of the Second Amendment?

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070518/D8P6PHL80.html

Sen. Kennedy Defends Immigration Bill
May 18, 8:13 AM (ET)
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

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The bill, which conservatives immediately attacked as an “amnesty” program, would provide a pathway to citizenship for some 12 million immigrants now in the United States illegally. It also would mandate tougher border security and workplace enforcement and provide for a guest worker program.

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Of course, Senator kennedy would defend this nonsense. The Democrats win big. California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida become permanent “Democratic” states. And, the Republicans and hugely unpopular Administration will also hail it as a great victory.

For who?

Why the advocates for big government! That’s who, silly peon.

They’ll need more forms, more checkers, more government powers, of course.

Bottom line, this does nothing to end the incentives for immigrants and “citizens” to be on the dole. Business, citizen, and immigrant alike are feasting on the backs of fewer and fewer workers.

This doesn’t do anything but accelerate the careening out-of-control gooferment over the proverbial cliff. When we hit the canyon floor below, there’s going to be a lot of breakage.

What we need, is a President Ron Paul, to stop the trip.

Baring that, we need: an end to the dole for EVERYONE; honest money; separation of Gooferment form Education; open borders; end the war on drugs; and reduce the Gooferment to a much smaller Constitutional government again.

Until that happens, this deal will solve nothing but how to get more Democrats elected.

By the way, where does an illegal immigrant get the 5k$ to pay the “tax” to get a z visa?

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With apologies to my fellow jurors, upon whom I inflicted my awful sense of humor, Mary K, Barbara A, Michael M, Anna H, Maryln P, Paul S and some one I forgot.

Zenger!

No matter how many times in the courthouse that the lie was repeated “You must decide based on the law as the Judge gives it to you”, it doesn’t make it so. The jury is sovereign. We have Freedom of the Press because a colonial jury in Boston refused to convict a newspaper editor regardless of the law. We ended Prohibition because juries refused to convict on an absurd law. So, of course, the Gooferment has to dumb down the people so it can have it’s way with us.

If EVERY jury was fully informed, they could end the drug war in an instant. I’d suggest that every juror, when presented with a non-violent drug case, merely vote “not guilty”. Steadfastly, without discussing why, with the courage of Gandhi & Martin Luther King, and that lone fellow in Tiananmen Square (i.e., The Unknown Rebel from the famous photo, taken on 5 June 1989 by Jeff Widener), vote your conscience. When the Gooferment can’t get the convictions, then maybe they will get the message.

I resent being made a slave to the State, wither by them stealing two days of my time and attention, or in the huge percentage that they make me a slave by taxes, fees, inflation, and form filling out. Sorry, but didn’t Lincoln free the slaves.

And, for the benefit of two insurances companies quibbling about who was going to pay how much. Sorry, not my business.

And, the way some, not all, of the staff and sheriff’s deputies, treated the folks being herded like cattle. I’d have fired at least tow of them. But then I only pay their salaries.

OK, now, on to my petty gripes.

Most jurors drive, park in the garage next to the court house, BUT have to walk around the block to use the “juror entrance”. Of course, the lawyers, bureaucrats, and the rest of the “anointed” can use the entrance closest to the garage. Argh! What disrespect.

Metal detectors. Sorry that’s unreasonable search and seizure. Every juror should be allowed to carry anything that they want into the building. The Second Amendment was to make the Gooferment afraid of the people. And, tread lightly around their Rights. We now have it backward. I heard MANY jurors express that they didn’t want to be there but were afraid of the Gooferment and the consequences.

It would be interesting, if one had time to challenge them, to confront their “summons”. Just ignore it. Non-cooperation. Peaceful. But complete non-cooperation. Spirit of G, MLK, & and that chap. Just lay down.

Wonder what they would do?

They start at 8AM supposedly. But, why that time? We spend an hour listening to gooferment propaganda about the wonderful system. I’d like to see a Libertarian dissect the thing for truthfulness, self-serving statements, and errors.

Some fellow had a tiny pen knife. That they made a big deal over. And, if he didn’t take it back to his car, then they’d seize it and he couldn’t get it back. Thieves.

Their vocabulary was insulting: “We’ll release you”, “Dismiss you as a group”, and “check in”.

Pity the poor smokers.

They paid for the parking, but if you took your car for lunch, they’d only pay once. And, if you lost your ticket, your problem. Just like when you visit any business? They need to take lessons from the casinos, or Disney.

And the five bucks for the first two days. Breakfast and Lunch? So, is that an added tax?

And, since I pay taxes to the county, I think they are (a) over staffed; (b) have too many deputies; and (c) too many deputies cars parked around the building.

It’s a mugging. For your time, attention, and money. For what? Some vague illusion of duty? Like I am a valued member of this fiction. No, it’s a gang, that maintains control by the illusion of legitimacy.

At least now, I won’t be “summoned” again for three years.

How insulting!

http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007705150371

Bill Zapcic
It’s time for long-dead towns to find a buddy and reincorporate
Home News Tribune Online 05/15/07

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So how many municipal units should New Jersey have? We cram 8,724,560 people onto 7,417.34 square miles. (That’s about a half-acre for each of us, as long as you don’t mind being the person standing in the meadowlands or on the white stripe near Interchange 11 of the Turnpike.) Take out the biggest cities’ combined 700,000 people, and that leaves 8 million. Some of our more efficient municipalities, and those with lower property taxes than the state average, have 80,000 people. That’s a nice number.

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Oh yeah, “big” municipalities have worked out so well for the taxpayers of Nu Jerzee. Try and vote out some one in Newark or Camden. It ain’t gonna happen in your lifetime. Smaller is better. I’d like to break everything down into smaller granules. Even South Brunswick is too big to influence.

If we had smaller administrative units, then we could be “heard”. Certainly my neighbors are better served by a block representative than the South Brunswick – Middlesex County – Trenton -WashingtonDC paradigm.

When the revolution comes, it will be small units that will win because the politicians won’t be able to “escape” from their neighbors.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer155.html

Memorial Day Alternative
by Butler Shaffer

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Paths of Glory – A Kirk Douglas film. A general sends his men on a suicide mission. When the mission fails, a few soldiers are arbitrarily selected to be tried – and executed – for cowardice.

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In my younger days, I loved war movies. I think it was Paths of Glory or perhaps it was The Execution of Private Slovik that killed that illusion.

Now I see and regret the error of my ways.

Maybe it was the anti-war folk songs of the Sixties. Maybe it was reading about countless kids coming home to their parents in body bags over the decades. Maybe it was the anti-war Socialist Left harping on the issue (to advance their own agenda). Maybe it was the MASH tv series.

Maybe it was just growing up.

I’ve since “learned” of the horror. The Japanese Internment, Dresden bombing, and A bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I “learned” it in school, but I was too stupid to really “learn” it.

I’ve since learned that venial leaders like Lincoln were pursuing their own agenda (i.e., that of the Northern mercantilists). Some were just lying like Wilson who campaigned on an anti-war platform and proceeded immediately to get us into WW1. Some were seeking to get out of economic trouble like FDR staging Pearl Harbor (see Stennent’s book). Some were silver-spoon sex-crazed drugged egotists like Kennedy, who knows what their motivation was (I’d have expected better of a vet who was almost killed). It seems we the people only find out the truth long after the bodies are buried. Our friends and family members bodies that is. We are led by a political class that has a positive motivation to put us more under their thumb. Hitler was an amateur. He should have had the income tax and inflation. That makes everyone a slave. Then you can kill them at your leisure.

“For the people, wars do not pay. The only cause of armed conflict is the greed of autocrats.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” ~ Jeannette Rankin
“War is the health of the State” Randolph Bourne

All drive home the point. We all lose in ANY war.

You can talk to me about war, when someone is landing troops on the Jersey shore.

Dona nobis pacem.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/biometric

National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards
Ryan Singel Email 05.15.07 | 2:00 AM

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The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID.

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Great, then when the gooferment loses the data, we can have REAL identity theft. How long before you’ll be able to buy a “biometric national id”. Or the whole kit to go into business with on ebay? Can I get “one week” in the pool. If it’s such a great idea, why does it have to be “mandated”?

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Dear Mr. Reinke:

Thank you for your thoughts on A3701. The Assemblywoman will keep them in mind should the legislation come up before the full Assembly. In the interim, please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance on this or any other matter.

Sincerely
Scott Crass
Constituent Services Director
ASW Greenstein

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From: reinkefj
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 7:07 AM
To: Baroni, Asm. D.O.; Greenstein, Asw. D.O.; Inverso, Sen. D.O.
Subject: Proposed Gun Legislation

Dear Assemblyman Bill, Assemblywoman Linda, and Senator Peter:

Please impress on your colleagues that this anti-gun bills are: (a) un Constitutional; (b) immoral; (c) ineffective; and (d) inefficient. And, vote that way.

Clearly, the Second Amendment precludes Government from regulating guns. Slice it and dice it any way you want the Dead Old White Guys were right on. When you take guns away from the People, or at least try to, that sets the stage for tyranny. Just remember Nazi Germany. Disarm the citizens; death camps in the 30’s and 40’s. Governments kill people in massive quantities. I can repeat all the bumper stickers, because they are all true. But let’s stick to the one most on point. When you outlaw, guns, only outlaws will have guns. Look to England with home invasions on the rise and they still have gun killings. Criminal don’t obey laws.

It is immoral to remove the People’s Right to Self-defense. I know you’d all love to live in a world where nothing bad ever happens. But, that’s not real life. The murders on the VT campus were a DIRECT result of creating a “gun free zone”. Guess it wasn’t do “gun free”? While we can’t ever know that there would have been an armed person there if that diktat was not in effect, we KNOW positively that there wasn’t even a possibility of one with it in effect. Even a young girl or an old teacher might have been able to stop the slaughter when the nut had to reload. But the politicians and bureaucrats ensured that the shooter would have no worries about armed resistance. John Lott’s studies show the power of guns in the hands of law abiding people. It’s immoral to deny the People the protection of “sprinkling a few sheepdogs among the sheep”. Recognize that good law abiding people will defend themselves, their families, their neighbors, and even complete strangers if give a fighting chance. Only the very bravest, or the foolish, will attempt to take on a shooter unarmed. But, given a weapon, how many of those VT dead an injured would have be able to defend themselves.

Gun Laws are ineffective. The NJ Legislature has passed how many gun laws. And, taxes on guns. And, restrictions. And, and, and. Still criminals shoot people. Do you think that all the laws in the world aren’t going to help? So for example, see any 50’s being used in crimes? Oh but let’s pass a law. What’s next, “if it saves one child”? You can’t legislate a solution. Go ahead and continue to try, but it’s futile. Good people will still be good; bad bad. When you pass a gun law, you shift the balance. Less good people with guns; more bad people with guns. When the law is exceptionally stupid, you might even turn “good people” into “criminals”. Stop the insanity. Every time you pass “gun laws”, you make the People less safe. Let’s take a Rutgers co-ed. Bright young girl. You have effectively made it impossible for her to defend herself. She get raped. Who’s fault? YOURS! You didn’t trust her to know when and how to defend herself. I do. Do I think that she will suddenly lose her mind and begin blowing people away. Not likely. Might some amorous young man get threatened. Could be. One thing is for sure that young girl will be in control. And, it’s a self-nominating thing. No one says she has to carry; she can choose to. With out you legislators playing God with her life. I trust women to know when they need to use deadly force. Don’t you? I trust all my fellow citizens to know when to use deadly force. Don’t you?

The gun laws are inefficient. The costs of ownership are artificially increased by legislation. Economics teaches us that when you raise the cost, the supply demand curve shifts. Raise the taxes and fees and you deprive the poor of the good. They can’t afford it. Now I know the political elite, the rich, and the celebrities all have all the armed security they need. I’m sure that the politicians and bureaucrats get all the gun permits that they could want. How about the poor minority woman who has to walk from the bus stop to her home at night? She doesn’t deserve to be able to protect herself. She doesn’t even show up on anyone’s radar. When you eliminate cheap guns or raise their cost, exactly whose hands are you taking them out of? Not the criminal’s. Not the elite’s. Yup, that poor person is at risk.

So in summary, I urge you to vote against ALL gun regulations everywhere anytime. The criminals won’t obey. And, the law abiding, who would, aren’t the problem.

Now, would you like to talk about the “drug war”? Would you believe it too is (a) un Constitutional; (b) immoral; (c) ineffective; and (d) inefficient.

If you have to make laws, make them limiting government. You guys don’t even fasten your own seat belts, but make us.

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New Jersey Update On Gun Ban Legislation!

On Thursday, May 10, the New Jersey Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee decided to take no action on Assembly Bill 3494, sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (D-6) and Assemblyman Peter Barnes (D-18). A3494 would drastically raises all firearm license and permit fees and would allow the Superintendent of State Police the discretion to annually reconsider fees for a manufacturer or dealer license, a carry permit, the firearms purchase I.D. (FID), and the pistol purchase permits.The committee also voted 4 to 2 to amend Assembly Bill 3998, sponsored by Assemblymen Reed Gusciora (D-15), Michael Panter (D-12), and Robert Gordon (D-38), which would ban the possession of all .50 BMG rifles by declaring such items to be a destructive device.

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We’ll see if it makes a difference. I’m not hopeful.

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http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/13/
you-are-the-homegrown-terrorist-threat/

http://tinyurl.com/25aoc7

You are the homegrown terrorist threat
By Michael Hampton on Virginia

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Ogre also put together a nice interactive quiz which you can use to determine if you are a domestic terrorist. I scored a 70, which apparently means there’s a cell with my name on it in Guantanamo Bay.

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The test is at:

http://www.quizilla.com/score/display.php?item_id=4833864

and I scored a 65%.

I guess I’ll be picked up right after Senor Hampton. I’m reminded of the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller.

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First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

Speak up now or forever hold your piece.

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From: Reinke’s Jasper (mc68alum) Persona
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:16 PM
To: ManhattanCollegeAlumni
Subject: [ManhattanCollegeAlumni] MNEWS:6 MC students busted for drugs

MNEWS:6 MC students busted for drugs

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/05/09/
2007-05-09_6_college_students_busted_for_drugs.html

http://tinyurl.com/2erpuq

6 college students busted for drugs
Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 4:00 AM

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Six students were hauled off Manhattan College’s Bronx campus in handcuffs
early yesterday to face drug charges, officials said. A month-long NYPD
investigation culminated in several search warrants being executed at the
Catholic school in Riverdale between 6 and 7 a.m., cops said. The students
“were placed on involuntary leave,” a school spokesman said.

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Even before this, I was against the pseudo “war on drugs”. Sad that these
people’s lives are now ruined. For what. For the gooferment’s ability to
tell people what they can put in their body?

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From: An Alum
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:02 PM
To: ‘Reinke’s Jasper (mc68alum) Persona’
Subject: RE: [ManhattanCollegeAlumni] MNEWS:6 MC students busted for drugs

John,

What if they are dealing and contributing to a society of addiction?

Which leads to broken hearts, families, lives —

I’d like to see anybody argue, that “gooferment” and society has no vested
interest in preventing.

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From: Reinke’s Jasper (mc68alum) Persona
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:06 PM
To: An Alum
Subject: RE: [ManhattanCollegeAlumni] MNEWS:6 MC students busted for drugs

Well, let me take a stab at my argument and see if you buy it.

:-)

Let me try to make three arguments: from principles, from effectiveness, and from efficiency. (Just like I was taught in Theology class!)

The individual is sovereign. No one — not Prince, not Priest, nor Politician — has the right to tell any one what to do with their own body.
You, as does anyone, have the Intelligent Designer endowed right to make mistakes. Your mistakes. Further, no one has the right to force you to do anything. For any reason. In any manner. So drug use, and all the issues around it are none of our business. Bad things happen to people from their bad choices. The sooner people learn to not make bad mistakes, the better off they are. By babying them we prevent learning.

The prohibition on drugs is ineffective. Look around, drug use isn’t going down The laws of economics still work. Supply must meet demand at the clearing price. So, as long as addicts desire drug, the market will supply it. As an example, look at the gooferment’s prisons or schools! They can’t keep drugs out of there. What chance do we have in “regular society”.

The prohibition is inefficient. To get the full impact of drug prohibition is a staggering calculation. I think there are two calculations (a) the drug war AND (b) the drug regulations.

Just considering the drug war, you have to add all costs associated with it.
The cost of police, prisons, and the lost productivity of all those people jailed, and all the people around them. And, all the innocent collateral damage. I can’t add that high.

Just considering the gooferment’s regulation of drugs, the incestuous relation with the drug companies, the grand tacit conspiracy of docs, drug stores, drug company executives, regulators, and politicians is a fantastic cost. You have to get a permission slip on government stationary from a government agent (doctor), to take to the government approved store (drugstore), where a government approved agent (druggist) will dispense it, is paid for by a government agent (insurance company), and made by government approve makers. Subtract out all that gooferment and drugs would be cheap! Lest you say people will die and get sick from moonshine. “barbara streisand” Think Underwriter’s Laboratory for drugs. Nobody gets electrocuted but there’s no gooferment “protecting” you. And speaking of “gooferment protection”, don’t forget that the FDA approved Vioxx.

So, the gooferment’s force is wrong, the war on drugs is bogus, and the costs are absurd.

Does drug addiction cost society something? Sure! But, just put a tenth of the money spent on “prohibition” into research, treatment, and education.
Leave people to freely do “their thing” and the “drug problem” will be minuscule. Let the drug dealers compete with WalMart! Envision all the overdoses and poisonings are eliminated. What will all the Colombian drug lords do when WalMart moves in?

To me, the essence of liberty is giving people the free will and choices that I want for myself.

My wife’s a diabetic with severe medical problems and the drug nonsense really is insulting. She can’t buy syringes without government permission.
It’s insulting to be treated like a stupid little child.

That’s why gooferment, and “society”, has NO role in my, or anyone’s, drug use. Bad things happen; force makes it worse.

Convinced?

:-)

imho,
fjohn

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods66.html

Why Do They Love the Fed?
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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The Fed doesn’t just benefit the well connected; it also harms those who aren’t so well connected. We know inflation hurts people on fixed incomes (since their incomes stay the same while the prices for the goods they buy go up), but what people usually overlook are the distribution effects of inflation. More money in the economy normally means higher prices. But when the government spends billions of dollars created out of thin air (yes, the Fed can do this) on the defense industry, for example, defense firms get the money at the very beginning of this process, before prices have commensurately risen. In effect the economy doesn’t yet know how much the money supply has increased, and prices have not yet adjusted accordingly. By the time the new money makes its way through the whole economy, prices will have risen throughout most if not all sectors. But while this process is taking place, the privileged firms that are lucky enough to get the new money early benefit from being able to make their purchases at the previously existing price level – thereby silently looting those from whom they buy. By the time the new money finally makes its way to the average Joe, prices have already been rising for quite a while, and he’s been paying those prices all this time on his existing income.

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The Federal Reserve Bank ain’t.

It ain’t “federal”; it’s as “federal” as FedEx. It ain’t a “reserve” of anything; except maybe paper. It ain’t a “bank”; try and transacts some business there.

So what is it? It’s is a tool of the banking industry and the old money elite to allow inflation to erode the value of money. It also destroys savings, the savings ethic, and out moral fiber.

Good for Ron Paul to point this out.

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle415-20070429-03.html

What Else is there to Say?
by L. Neil Smith

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4. Government employees, including elected and unelected officials—previously granted immunities to the contrary notwithstanding—accused of violating or evading these measures, shall be removed summarily from office, and upon conviction, fined, imprisoned for no fewer than twenty-five years at hard labor, and forbidden to occupy any position, at any level of government, for the remainder of their lives.

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He correctly identifies ONE of the mistakes the Dead Old White Guys made in drafting the Constitution. They didn’t penalize the specific person in the Gooferment who violates a citizen’s rights. That’s a flaw. But then, the DOWGs never foresaw the IRS, BATF, DEA, TSA, and the countless other private armies created by the Gooferment. Sigh!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/war-govt-nowin.html

The War the Government Cannot Win
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Ludwig von Mises said that the great accomplishment of economists was to draw attention to the extreme limits on the power of government. His point was not merely that government should be limited, but that it is limited by the very structure of reality. It cannot make all people rich by its own initiative. It cannot provide universal housing, literacy, and health. It cannot raise wages across the board. It cannot ban products. Those who seek to accomplish economic ends such as these are choosing the wrong means. That is because there is something more powerful than government: namely economic law.

And what is economic law? It is a force that operates within the structure of all societies everywhere that governs the production and allocation of material resources and time according to strict bounds of what is possible. Some things are just not possible. It just so happens that this includes most of the demands that are made by the public and pressure groups on the government. This was the great discovery of the modern science of economics. This was not known by the ancients. It was not known by the fathers of the early church. It was the discovery of the medieval schoolmen, and the insight was gradually elaborated upon and systematized over the centuries, culminating in the classical and Austrian traditions of thought.

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The worst lie is the big one: that government can accomplish wonderful things if we give it enough power, money, and discretion. No matter how many times we hear it, or in what context, it is always and everywhere a lie. A leader who says this is the equivalent of the snake in the garden who promises that glorious knowledge comes with just one bite of fruit. And yet we as a people keep being lured into accepting it.

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We should not ask government to win a war on terror, end poverty, make everyone healthy and literate, provide for us when we are old, or anything else. Nothing the government does takes place without a greater cost than benefit to society.

Knowing this, we can still be good citizens. We can be good parents, teachers, workers, entrepreneurs, church members, students, and contributors to society in a million different ways. This is far more important to the future of liberty than anything else we do. We must regain our confidence in our capacity for self-governance. I believe this is happening already. The government’s wars will continue to fail, and I do not think that we should regret this. Even if the public sector cannot and will not prepare for a future of liberty, we can. Let us look for and work toward the triumph of liberty unencumbered by leviathan and its wars.

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Lew really hit the ball out of the park on this one.

Eloquently, we need to start disassembling the Gooferment. One program at a time. We need to do it as quickly or as slowly as needed. Our decades long binge is going to leave a heck of a hangover. Some of us won’t survive it. We can’t realize that all the death, sorrow, pain, and treasure has been for naught. We left the path of liberty and have wound up in the brambles of socialism, fascism, and totalitarianism.

We should really that Presidents Clinton and Bush for showing us that power corrupts. And, as Acton said: absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Like the Law of Gravity, economics is going to bring down this house of cards.

http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE5NQ==

May 03, 2007, 6:30 a.m.
Oxford’s Preposterous Proposition
Justifying America to a doubtful audience
By Jonah Goldberg

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Yes, anti-Americanism fashions itself a form of anti-globalization. But this is most often a ruse. Do keep in mind that my opponents represent a truly tyrannical form of globalization. Whether it’s “Workers of the World Unite” or the World Caliphate, the choice they are presenting is globalization for losers, while America, to the extent it represents globalization at all, offers the globalization of liberty.

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Well said. America stands for liberty. The Gooferment, aka the USA, is having its identity problems.

He missed one argument.

“If wasn’t for the Americans, then this discussion would be being held in German, And, I wonder who’d be around to debate anything?”

But, it was well said.