Reinke Faces Life

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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.

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/05/02/
katrina-housing-aid-extended-through-2009/

http://tinyurl.com/2vnl7o

Katrina housing aid extended through 2009
By Michael Hampton
Posted: May 2, 2007 3:51 am

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About 110,000 households displaced due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 will continue to receive housing assistance through March 1, 2009, under a plan the Bush administration announced last week.

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Nope, sorry, dumb.

I’m not cruel or heartless. The gooferment is.

How does it get into such open ended commitments?

We let it make them in our name. The politicians get the photo op; we get the bill; the poor get shafted.

I suggest that we mandate the Head of Homeland Security and all his direct reports live there until the last “real person” moves out.

How fast do you think it would be until that “problem” was solved?

Can I have 23½ hours in the pool please; here’s my five bucks!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

The official publication of the Center For Small Government
http://www.CenterForSmallGovernment.com
Publisher: Carla Howell
Editor: Michael Cloud

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Will you help us? Will you take these simple steps?

1. Take the survey yourself. Read the brief discussion that follows.

2. Forward the survey link to 4 of your friends who are advocates of freedom and small government. Ask them to take the “What’s Your REAL Opinion of Big Government?” survey and look over the discussion that follows.

3. Forward the survey link to 4 of your NON-POLITICAL friends, family members, or co-workers, and ask them to do the same thing.

4. Ask each of them to let you know their score and their reaction to the survey. If they say anything interesting, please let us know!
(Just reply to this email.)

You’re in for some fun.

“What’s Your REAL Opinion of Big Government?”

http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/survey.cfm

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I got a 100%! You?

http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm

The Alliance for the Separation of School & State

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We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children’s education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture.

If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We’re not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling.

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Sounds like a good idea to me.

It’s not going to happen over night. I took decades to get into this mess. It’ll take decades to get out.

I think that the idea that I wrote up back in the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt days is still the way to go. That was split the problem into: (1) Separate who does the educating. (2) How much money is stolen to pay for this. People need time to adapt.