Reinke Faces Life

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle419-20070527-05.html

http://tinyurl.com/2wyw6p

Why Is Democracy Such A Bad Thing?
by Doug Newman

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It has often been said that, in a democracy two wolves and a sheep take a majority vote on what’s for supper, while in a constitutional republic the wolves are forbidden on voting on what’s for supper and the sheep are well armed.

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Love it!

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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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