Reinke Faces Life

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070724144415.2esww75r&show_article=1

On patrol with Iran’s fashion police
Jul 24 10:44 AM US/Eastern

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Many conservatives have applauded the drive, but moderates have publicly questioned whether Iran would be better off tackling poverty and crime rather than slack dressing.

Just before the new crackdown started, popular television host Farzad Hasani grilled Tehran’s police chief Ahmad Reza Radan about the drive on his talk show, accusing the police of “not differentiating between people and thugs.”

An old woman in a black chador in Vanak Qquare echoed the sentiment.

“Our youth have no peace of mind. They are afraid to go out, they are afraid that if they go out they will be taken to the police. Aren’t they saying that there is freedom?”

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Ahh, you just have to laff. When a society is more worried about the length of a headscarf, that’s good for us. They impoverish themselves when they bar more than half their population from productive pursuits and spend some fraction of the rest worrying about trivial matters. That’s great. We should take a lesson. We want every person being productive. The easiest way is to give everyone the freedom to do as they see fit bounded only by their relationship with their neighbors. My rights and your rights constitute the boundary of our respective freedoms. Live and let live. The golden rule. And, in doing this, people will drive themselves to THEIR goals harder than anyone else could possibly herd them. The secret of the American prosperity is liberty. One only becomes rich by satisfying the needs and wants of your fellow man. What a great paradigm!

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/07/18/economists_on_the_loose

Economists on the Loose
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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Free markets are simply millions upon millions of individual decision-makers, engaged in peaceable, voluntary exchange pursuing what they see in their best interests. People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What’s more, they believe they’ve been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.

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Professor Williams really nails this one single point. Ordained by whom to enforce their wisdom? Love it. You might be right that I “should” do X, Y, or Z. But under what system of morality do you get the right to force me? Ahh yes, you have to love them elites.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/
ci_6380600?source=sb-digg

Best states for retirees seeking low taxes, costs
By Shannon Buggs
McClatchy-Tribune Services
Article Launched: 07/15/2007 01:47:06 AM PDT

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Or join the Free State Project, the Libertarian-influenced movement to recruit 20,000 people to move to New Hampshire because of its low taxes and loose regulations.

Go to www.freestateproject.org to learn more about New Hampshire, which has no general income tax, no general sales tax and the lowest taxes as a percentage of gross income nationwide, according to the project’s analysis.

Finally, to avoid paying state income taxes on retirement fund withdrawals, move to or remain in the seven states without a state income tax: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. Two others – New Hampshire and Tennessee – tax only dividend and interest income.

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FSP making inroards in the public’s mind?

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http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/014120.html

Ron Paul’s Google Interview
Posted by David Griffus at July 14, 2007 08:41 PM

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One of Ron’s best yet!

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I agree that he came off as an exciting knowledgeable great guy!

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Latest DownsizeDC missive

http://www.downsizedc.org/index.shtml

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Please take immediate action to repeal S. 3930, the detainee, torture, tribunal law. It’s un-American.

My personal comment to you:

This is so un-American, I am at a loss as to understand how it got past in the first place. As big “D” democrats, I’d have thought you’d be more sensitive to the civil rights of people. The limitations of the Constitution were placed on Government not just for citizens of the USA. No, those limitations were on the Government on the USA regardless of citizenship. I am shocked and appalled that this abuse continues for a minute longer that it takes for you all to get together and correct it. There’s no excuse for it. Being abusive doesn’t make you tough or safe. It makes you look like a bully. And, bullies always get taken down by the mob of little people. Get to work and fix this now. Or we’ll send people to Washington who can get it fixed.

Mr. Ferdinand Reinke
Kendall park, NJ 08824-1424

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This should be used on the congress critters. Wonder how long it would take before that was repealed? No campaign contributions required to get that moved forward quickly.

Argh!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north546.html

Cartels: Economists and Central Bankers
by Gary North

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You will search in vain for a chapter on education as an oligopoly within the context of tax-funding, laws mandating education up to age 16, and government licensing of college-accreditation agencies. Somehow, economics textbook authors skip over any analytical discussion of this, the largest sector of the American economy.

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This skewers the blindspot of economists. And, politicians depend upon people to overlook the essential question.

Why do we have the gooferment funding, operating, and regulating so many things best left to the free market?

Education, banking, medicine, drugs, farming, … .. the gooferment has it’s nose in everything!

That needs some debate!

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http://educationconversation.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/dear-dr-walter-williams

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I can’t help but wonder if the problem may be our own years of state schooling. We lack the vision and the courage to take back our children and our future and to enable the less fortunate to do the same, to put the state in its place (which is not in our children’s minds and consciences), and to fly into the future. We yell, but not too loudly. We act, but not too boldly.

Free choice is staring us in the face. We still have the liberty to embrace it. My fear is that if we travel much farther down the road of all-state-schooling, we will all end up with no safety net. Our private education community will exist no longer – it will be part of the state system. Eventually, we will not even have the memory of freedom.

Respectfully yours,
Tammy Drennan

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Another Blogger takes on Williams. (As I did!) Since taxes are theft, why are vouchers OK? Even if they are a step on the road to liberty, why is it moral to make me pay for someone else’s choices? And, the blogger makes the excellent point “golden rule”. When the Gooferment provides the gold, it will make the rules. Why exchange one bad system for another bad system?

Unfortunately, the answer is to not pay for services you don’t want. Of course, that means, that the “nice men with guns” will come a steal from you, hurt you, imprison you, or even kill you.

But then we are not kidding anyone about the slaves that we are.

Argh!

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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/librarians-desc.html

Librarians Describe Life Under An FBI Gag Order
By Luke O’Brien EmailJune 24, 2007 | 2:22:57 PM

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Life in an FBI muzzle is no fun. Two Connecticut librarians on Sunday described what it was like to be slapped with an FBI national security letter and accompanying gag order. It sounded like a spy movie or, gulp, something that happens under a repressive foreign government. Peter Chase and Barbara Bailey, librarians in Plainville, Connecticut, received an NSL to turn over computer records in their library on July 13, 2005. Unlike a suspected thousands of other people around the country, Chase, Bailey and two of their colleagues stood up to the Man and refused to comply, convinced that the feds had no right to intrude on anyone’s privacy without a court order (NSLs don’t require a judge’s approval). That’s when things turned ugly.

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America is supposed to be a free speech zone!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood15.html

OSHA Visits Wonderland
by David Calderwood

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Published to cricket-chirping silence in the Federal Register on April 13, 2007 was a rule proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to govern the manufacture, transport, and distribution of explosives.

The Alice-in-Wonderland aspect is that the rule includes small arms ammunition and reloading components like smokeless propellant and small arms primers in its definition of “explosives.” If the rule were implemented as written, it would effectively eliminate the manufacture, transport, wholesaling and retailing of ammunition in the United States.

You read that correctly.

For years anti-private-gun-ownership zealots have wished that another head of the federal regulatory hydra, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, would “ban guns” as articles too dangerous for mere civilian mortals to handle or own. Apparently they are getting their wish, instead, from OSHA under the notion that firearm ammunition cartridges are so unstable and explosive that anyone storing or selling them would have to insure (by search if necessary) that no one carrying matches, a lighter, or any other source of flame or sparks approached within 50 feet in all directions. This is but one of several requirements that would make it impossible to make or sell ammunition.

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http://www.nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?PRloc=common/PR/&PR=BP070207.cfm

has a letter to submit.

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Friday, July 06, 2007

OSHA Docket Office
Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032
U.S. Department of Labor
Room N-2625 200
Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20210

RE: Docket No. OSHA-2007-0032
Request to Extend Public Comment Period and Request for Hearing on
“Significant Regulatory Action” as Defined in Executive Order 12866

Dear Secretary Chao:

I am writing to request an extension for public comment set to expire on July 12, 2007 for Preliminary & Initial General Observations on OSHA Explosives Proposed Rule (29 CFR Part 1910) – Published at Federal Register Vo. 72, No. 71, at P. 18792 (April 13, 2007).

After reviewing the proposed regulations it is my belief that the proposed rule is a “significant regulatory action” as defined in Executive Order 12866 (1993) Sec. 1(f)(1) in that it will clearly “adversely affect in a material way” the retail sector of the firearms and ammunition industry, productivity, competition and jobs and that the annual compliance cost for all retailers of ammunition will far exceed $100 million dollars.

Below is a bulleted list of what I am most concerned about:

” Massive Costs: The cost to comply with the proposed rule for the ammunition industry, including manufacturer, wholesale distributors and retailers, will be massive and easily exceed $100 million. For example, ammunition and smokeless propellant manufacturers would have to shut down and evacuate a factory when a thunderstorm approached. The proposal mistakenly states that this is an industry standard practice. A retailer would have to do likewise. Thus retailers, such as Wal-Mart, selling ammunition would have to close down and evacuate customers. This is simply not realistic.

” Unrealistic Assumptions: Portions of the proposed rule are not feasible and cannot realistically be complied with. The concept of evacuation to “a safe remote location” in case of thunderstorms or accident is untenable to manufacturers and retailers and is in disagreement with the DoD Safety Manual for Ammunition and Explosives.

” One Size Fits All Approach: The provisions in this proposal treat all explosives as if they have the same degree of hazard to employees. Retail outlets for small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants, including massive facilities such as Wal-Mart, must maintain a fifty-foot barrier and specifically authorize all customers to enter only after searching them for matches or lighters (c.3.iii.A) and determining that they are not under the influence of drugs or alcohol (c.1.vii). This is despite the fact that small arms ammunition is extremely safe even when subjected to open flame, heat and shock. A customer still wouldn’t be able to purchase the ammunition because under this rule they are not allowed to carry it from the counter to the exit (c.3.iii.C). Even more damaging, the many “mom and pop” firearm outlets located in strip malls would be forced to shutdown as they have neighbor stores fewer than 50-feet away.

” Shipping is Halted: Proposed restrictions on transportation exceed current DOT Regulations. Mandating wood-covered, non-spark-producing material in trailers for small arms ammunition shipments would bring the transportation of ammunition to a near halt. There are simply not enough trailers in existence today that would be able to substitute for traditional, metal covered surfaces. Small package carriers such as UPS and Fed-Ex would be prohibited from carrying ammunition and components which would shut down mail order houses such as Cabalas and Bass Pro shops and many business to business transactions. This section alone, with all it would entail (such as two drivers at all times), is capable of paralyzing our industry.

” National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) Rules Exceeded: Proposed restrictions exceed NFPA regulations and would, for example, reduce commercial establishment displays of smokeless propellant from 50 to 20 lbs with no commensurate increase in safety. This will only add to dramatically increasing the cost to manufacturers and consumers.

It bears noting that scientific testing and safety records clearly illustrate that small arms ammunition is inherently an extremely safe product. I cannot recall a single instance where fire, shock, heat or lightening has resulted in injury from the accidental detonation of small-caliber ammunition. Billions of rounds of ammunition are sold each year in the U.S. and records demonstrate that current production and safety requirements are working.

I urge OSHA to grant an extension to this critical regulatory process. And then kill this nonsense. It’s rule making like this that give the “tin foil hat” crowd reasons to believe that this is a backdoor attempt to ban guns. It isn’t is it? Or is it.

Sincerely,
Ferdinand J. Reinke
3 Tyne Court
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

c.c.: My Federal Senators and Representative

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/gutzman4.html

Myths of the 4th of July
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

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2. The 4th of July was the day that the 13 states established their independence.

No, it was not. In fact, Virginia established its independence on May 15, 1776, when its revolutionary Convention adopted resolutions for a declaration of rights, a permanent republican constitution, and federal and treaty relationships with other states and foreign countries. It was because the Old Dominion had already established its independence – had, in fact, already sworn in the first governor under its permanent republican constitution of 1776, Patrick Henry, on June 29 – that Virginia’s congressmen, uniquely, had been given categorical instructions from their state legislature to declare independence. Virginia was not the only state whose independence was not established by the Declaration on the 4th, as New York’s congressional delegation did not then join in the Declaration. In short, the states became independent in their own good time – some on July 4, some before, some after.

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Yup, the DOWGs made a lot of mistakes that over time have proved to be fatal to the American experiment. The only question is “can it be made right without bloodshed?”. Watch The Browns in New Hampshire. Watch the Vermont Succession movement. Watch the incipient tax revolts like the “redress of grievances” folks. If they get killed, then you’ll have your answer.

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