Reinke Faces Life

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55246

The grave danger of ‘gun-free zones’
Posted: April 18, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Charl van Wyk

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With lives lost in Germany and the United States in schools that are gun-free zones, and no attacks by armed gunmen in Israel since teachers and parents serving as school aids have been armed, why would we want any area declared a gun-free zone?

History and common sense prove that gun-free zones are dangerous.

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Why can’t we hold politicians that create the Petri dish for these tragedies responsible?

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Aftermath Of Tragedy: GOA Defending Freedom

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Our hearts and prayers truly go out to all of those affected by Cho Seung-Hui’s evil actions. But not even senseless, brutal murder justifies taking away the God-given rights of the law-abiding.

It is also worthwhile to note that Virginia Tech is — because of deliberate policies set by its administration — a victim disarmament zone, where even those with a state-issued concealed carry permit are denied their right of self-defense.

In fact, pro-gun forces just last year tried to get the Virginia legislature to address the problem. The bill to allow permit holders to carry on state-supported college campuses died, due in no small part to rabid opposition from Virginia Tech itself.

VT spokesman Larry Hincker put it this way after it became obvious that the bill would not pass: “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”

The unfortunate irony continues when one recalls that not long ago, two students at nearby Appalachian School of Law managed to stop a gunman at that institution. Happily, they were able to dash off-campus to retrieve their guns from their vehicles.

Four GOA spokesmen (one based in downtown D.C. and three at our Springfield, VA office just outside the Beltway) are working non-stop
— doing literally interview after interview — making certain that the above points reach the public.

GOA has appeared on Fox News, ABC, CNN, BBC — lots of alphabet soup networks — as well as countless talk shows like Michael Reagan and Lars Larson. GOA spokesmen have been heard in every major radio market around the country and have done interviews with large print media outlets, such as the Associated Press and U.S. News & World Report.

The overall message that GOA is delivering is that gun prohibitions are part of the problem, not the solution.

We can expect some forms of new gun control to be pushed in the U.S.
Congress. The Democrats control Congress, but more importantly, anti-gun politicians control the Democrat party. If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — certainly no friend of gun owners — gives free rein to virulently anti-gun House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), literally anything can make it to the floor of the full House.

Conyers’ counterpart in the Senate is Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), whose GOA rating of “F” is well-deserved. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has also earned an F. Gun owners will have to be especially vigilant in the coming weeks to block any new attempts to infringe upon the Second Amendment.

And whereas the predictable media stampede to give voice to the possibility of such new gun control is certainly there, it does not seem to have the same “this simply must happen now” tone that it did after the Columbine tragedy in 1999. Indeed, the idea of firearms for self-defense in schools is gaining serious traction. Which should not be all that surprising, given a Research 2000 poll which showed that 85% of Americans find it appropriate for a principal or teacher to use “a gun at school to defend the lives of students” in stopping a massacre.

ACTION: For now, stay tuned for future alerts. (If any anti-gun bills start moving on Capitol Hill, GOA will be counting on you to contact your legislators in record numbers.) And pray for all of those whose loved ones were injured or killed at Virginia Tech.

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Problems, questions or comments? The main GOA e-mail address goamail@gunowners.org is at your disposal. Please do not add that address to distribution lists sending more than ten messages per week or lists associated with issues other than gun rights.

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Is it right to bear arms?
from Jonathan in NYC by Jonathan Morales

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CNN”s Jim Cafferty was just speaking to Wolf Blitzer about the Virginia Tech shooting. He said that he’s noticed that this seems to be a genuinely American phenomenon (mass shootings) and can’t recall many times it is happened in other countries. He then said he couldn’t figure out what that was.

Really, Jim? Maybe it’s because we’re one of the only Western countries to still allow ordinary citizens to carry weapons, and the NRA and Republicans continue to block any legislation to prevent semi-automatic and automatic weapons from being obtained by people who plan to go out and kill 32 people in one morning.

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Well, of course, I had to put my two cents in.

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Perhaps you might wonder why no one on the VT campus had an appropriate tool to stop the situation. I know it is easy to blame the tool. Shooter has his; victims didn’t. And, we all wish that peace and happiness would reign. But, it’s a dangerous world out there and wishing it wasn’t won’t make it so. The dead old white guys recognized the RIGHT of every individual to defend themselves. Except the VT-ers wanted to live in a fairy tale land. One of their admins the year before vigorously opposed recognizing that right on the VT campus. He won. And this is the result. Anyone interviewing him today? One concealed carry permit holder — a student, a faculty member, a custodian — could have probably ended this in seconds. One shooter can’t watch all 31 people simultaneously. It’s a tragedy. But, not unexpected. And, unfortunately not the last.

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I didn’t pick up on the tired old “automatic” weapon argument. Automatic weapons are for the most part effectively outlawed. Besides which they are what I call “movie weapons”. They come from the misimpression fostered by the movies that you “spray and pray”.

I’d suggest that you have to be more afraid of someone with a long gun than a pistol. Most people can’t hit what they aim at with a pistol unless they are practiced marksmen. The joke around the range is “if you can’t spit on it, then most can’t hit it”. Look at the infamous police shootings 50 shots to get one or two hits.

You have an ABSOLUTE right to your life. That translates to an absolute right to defend yourself.

The police are nice long after the action. They are for the most part report writers, traffic directors, and on rare occasions actual catch a bad guy.

No fault of theirs. They can possibly be at the scene unless there is an incredible coincidence.

Each of us has to defend each other. An armed society is a polite society. We all have to be allowed to have our “pocket knives”. If we choose to pack “heat”. Sprinkle a few Conceal Carry Permits around on that campus and you would have had a completely different outcome. Even a madman, who wants to “get” certain people, has to fear that some non-descript girl or janitor or teacher or nerd will prevent it.

When will we wake up to life as it is. Not as we want it to be.

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risks.txt

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As has been reported elsewhere,http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/rip/index.html the NFRTR has been in deplorable condition for some time. Many registration documents have been lost by ATFE, and some were even willfully destroyed by ATFE contract employees in a well documented case. Furthermore, the electronic database that serves as the authoritative Registry is known to have serious flaws and inconsistencies. Due to various political and financial issues, the ATFE has been slow to rectify these problems with the NFRTR (although the pace seems to have picked up since a recent wholesale relocation and restaffing of the NFA Branch). Thomas Busey, who was the Chief of the NFA Branch for a period in the 1990s, admitted in a videotaped training session in 1995 that the NFRTR had a 49-50% error rate. Mr. Busey also stated in this session, “Let me say when we testify in court, we testify that the data base is 100 percent accurate. That’s what we testify to, and we will always testify to that. As you probably well know, that may not be 100 percent true.”

In a 1998 letter to Chairman Dan Burton of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/rip/leasure_letter_re_nfa_destruction.txt pursuant to a conviction based on flawed NFRTR information, David Montague, an attorney for the defendant (whose convictions were previously overturned) wrote: “To make matters worse, Mr. Busey was summarily fired and the transcript of his remarks hushed up. His remarks did not become known to the world until obtained on an FOIA request from attorney James Jeffries, III, of Greensboro, N.C.”

Given the steep penalties for mere possession of an unregistered firearm regulated under the NFA (minimum sentence: up to 10 years’ imprisonment and/or a fine of $10,000 for each violation), there is a high RISK to lawful transferees associated with the poor condition of the NFRTR brought about by neglect and/or willful violation of the law by the government agency charged with upholding this law.

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Did I read this correctly? Did the fellow just admit that the BATF routinely commits perjury in ALL trials of gun law violations? That’s going some even for the Gooferment.

>Subject: VA-ALERT: Not mad enough about VT? Read this!
>
> From January 31, 2006:
>
>”House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia,
>Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage,
>the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
>
>…
>
>Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was
>defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the
>General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students,
>faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
>
>–
>
>Well, Mr. Hincker – are you still happy? Militia, Police, and Public
>Safety Committee – still think you did the right thing?
>
>–
>
>http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658
>
>Gun bill gets shot down by panel
>HB 1572, which would have allowed handguns on college campuses, died
>in subcommittee.
>
>By Greg Esposito
> 381-1675
>
>A bill that would have given college students and employees the right
>to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the
>General Assembly.
>
>House Bill 1572 didn’t get through the House Committee on Militia,
>Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage,
>the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
>
>The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on
>behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was
>unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the
>bill’s defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General
>Assembly session.
>
>Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was
>defeated. “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the
>General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students,
>faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
>
>Del. Dave Nutter, R-Christiansburg, would not comment Monday because
>he was not part of the subcommittee that discussed the bill.
>
>Most universities in Virginia require students and employees, other
>than police, to check their guns with police or campus security upon
>entering campus. The legislation was designed to prohibit public
>universities from making “rules or regulations limiting or abridging
>the ability of a student who possesses a valid concealed handgun
>permit … from lawfully carrying a concealed handgun.”
>
>The legislation allowed for exceptions for participants in athletic
>events, storage of guns in residence halls and military training
>programs.
>
>Last spring a Virginia Tech student was disciplined for bringing a
>handgun to class, despite having a concealed handgun permit. Some gun
>owners questioned the university’s authority, while the Virginia
>Association of Chiefs of Police came out against the presence of guns
>on campus.
>
>In June, Tech’s governing board approved a violence prevention policy
>reiterating its ban on students or employees carrying guns and
>prohibiting visitors from bringing them into campus facilities.
>
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>VA-ALERT is a project of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL).
>VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to
>defending the human rights of all Virginians. The membership considers the
>Right to Keep and Bear Arms to be an essential human right.
>
> VCDL web page: http://www.vcdl.org
>***************************************************************************

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-04-16_D8OHUVH00&show_article=1&cat=breaking

http://tinyurl.com/2hoqbs

Gunman, 32 Others Killed in Va. Shooting
Apr 16 05:49 PM US/Eastern
By SUE LINDSEY
Associated Press Writer

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

Students bitterly complained that there were no public-address announcements on campus after the first burst of gunfire. Many said the first word they received from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage—around the time the gunman struck again.

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How many people have to die before we realize that the problem is large concentrations of unarmed victims just waiting to be slaughtered?

The lack of any meaningful self-defense response is stunning.

You can’t tell me that we can’t trust young people to know when their lives are at risk. What about the campus security, teachers, and the janitors.

Like Columbine, one concealed carry permit could have made this a better ending.

Maybe when the Final Judgment comes, then the lions will lie down with the lambs. But for now, I’d like to sprinkle a goodly number of sheep dogs in amongst all the sheep.

http://www.nj.gov/roads.shtml

NEW JERSEY ROAD CLOSURE REPORT

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Rt. 1 & 9 N&S MP 58.35, N. Bergen Twp., Hudson Co., All lanes closed

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Roads are often described as the “third rail” of Libertarians because people can’t conceive of private roads. As if no one has ever been to DisneyWorld, DisneyLand, or other amusement parks. Or, as if no one has ever been in a gated community.

I think that roads are a great example of the gooferment at work. As an injineer, it amuses me that the Gooferment would build a road and not take into account weather in the design.

Amazing as is sounds, Disney World doesn’t have flooded roads into their park. How did they do that? I bet they grabbed the design engineer by the throat (or any other suitable part of the body) and said “we want the turnstiles turning regardless of weather”. To which the design engineer said “No Problem, Mister Disney, sir. We have this novel concept of “drainage”. We just guesstimate the average rainfall, move the decimal one position to right, and allow for that amount of water. If you want, we can move two places but that would cost you Big Bucks and is twice the amount of rain in a monsoon. OK?”.

Yup, private roads might be the “third rail”, but the Gooferment’s performance is up to its usual standard — down right terrible.

I had to laugh at the State Road Guy on the radio saying that “they just had to allow the roads to drain naturally”. Argh! It’s not his fault that the road designer made every exit ramp dip below sea level.

And, no one takes a spear for it.

On Wall Street, Disney World, or any organization seeking to make a profit, there would be some one held to account. With the Gooferment’s roads, it’s just the taxpayer who gets stuck.

Stuck, and stuck, and stuck!

http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=66

2007-Apr-04
Repeal the Patriot Act

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Politicians excel at “the fine art of crisis creation.” Time and again they create policies that fail. Then they exploit those failures to grab more power, and then, almost inevitably, fail again.

It’s a vicious cycle and a cancerous death-spiral to our liberty.

9-11 and its aftermath provide a perfect example.

In truth, the federal government already had all the power and resources it needed to prevent the 9-11 attack. It knew who the terrorists were and what they were doing in advance, but Big Government still failed to protect us.

The follow-up was predictable. Government officials exploited their own failure to…

* Launch a fraudulent invasion of Iraq
* Erect a huge new bureaucracy in the form of the Department of Homeland Security
* Saddle the American people with the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act

Notice the pattern? Failure leads to new powers that lead to new failures…

* Iraq is a disaster
* The Department of Homeland Security is a mess
* The REAL ID Act is a nightmare
* And the Patriot Act is being abused

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SOOOOOOO, I took out my poison pen and added a blistering postscript.

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I am stunned to hear the FBI honcho admit that, even with the reduced requirements, the process is abused. I urge you to repeal the so called Patriot Act, as well as the Real Id, and “nuke” the Homeland Security organization. Pink slips for the leadership! With prejudice, they should all be “blacklisted” for other government jobs. Let them go live in the “real world” for a while. The labor can certainly seek other jobs, but the “leaders” that created this disaster are beyond reclamation. We have to send a message that there are penalties for incompetence and poor results. In this case, the results border on “criminal”. Clearly, this has been a disaster for liberty in the USA. Congress should get out the old “eraser on the ends of its collective pencils” and start repealing all the “stuff” done as a result of 9/11. It was a mistake and an over-reaction. No excuses. If you want my vote in the next election, then this is the single issue that will make me move the lever. If you can’t fix it by the next time I vote, then I’m going to vote for someone who can.

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Which I also forwarded to all the usual suspects!

One thing to remember is that poem “first they came for the Muslims, and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a Muslim”. I think it’s a comical (but dangerous) that we have a “homeland security”, which reminds me of Nazi Germany. All we need now are some Hollywood extras with snazzy black uniforms, heel clicking salutes, “vere isss your PAPERS!” and the comparison is complete.

Am I the only one who sees this a disaster of epic proportions?

I had the luxury of spending time with an old man who lost almost all of his family to the Nazi death camps. He was a Jewish intellectual — a specialist in international law. He saw what was coming. Every chance he had, he pushed someone out. While it was still loose, he was able to get his children out. His son was sent to England to learn “beer making” despite being a master chemist. His daughter went to learn to be an English Nanny despite being only fourteen. His wife went to England on a round trip ticket to visit the daughter and never went home. At the same time, he went on a business trip and never went back. His best friend shipped him some of his stuff and sold the rest. But, the friend could NOT get his family out. He waited too long. The friend’s wife was Jewish. Her, her family, and his children went to the camps. He dealt with it by committing suicide. You could not listen to these stories without being moved. When you would ask him how could it happen there, the answer was gradually in response to “threats”.

Any reason the hair on the back of my neck should NOT be standing up?

The Japanese Internment, “private” Census records used to round up “Japs”, The Northwood Document, The War on Drugs, The militarization of police, the Income Tax, the Inflation Tax, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzalez, Extraordinary Rendition, Gitmo, Jose Padilla, requiring passports in and out of our peaceful neighbors, eliminating Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the Military Commissions Act, building a “Berlin Wall” on the Mexican Border, rounding up “illegals”?

Don’t forget the high taxes — the Income tax, the Inflation Tax, the Property Tax — that turn us into virtual slaves. The dead old white guys revolted over a 1% tax. Imagine what they’d say to us now?

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[3] EPIC Recommends Against Use of Universal Identifiers
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In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC warned against using
universal identifiers in authentication systems. “Any move toward
universal identifiers, while potentially deterring amateur thieves,
increases the potential for misuse once determined criminals steal that
data,” EPIC said.

EPIC also urged the restriction, rather than expansion, of the use of
Social Security numbers as identifiers. “Social Security numbers have
become a classic example of ‘mission creep,’ where a program designed
for a specific, limited purpose has been transformed for additional,
unintended purposes, sometimes with disastrous results,” EPIC said. The
pervasiveness of the SSN and its use to both identify and authenticate
individuals threatens privacy and financial security; expanding use of
the SSN, making it a universal identifier, would harm, rather than help,
security efforts, EPIC said.

EPIC recommended against the creation of a centralized identification
system and advocated an identity metasystem in which authentication is
confined to specific contexts in order to limit the scope for potential
misuse. EPIC and others have explained that it decreases security to
have a centralized system of identification with one ID card for many
purposes, as there will be a substantial amount of harm when the card is
compromised. “Using a national ID card would be as if you used one key
to open your house, your car, your safe deposit box, your office, and
more,” EPIC said. A centralized system of identification creates a
“one-stop shop” for identity thieves. “The confidence and trust of
consumers will fall when such a breach occurs; people will withdraw
because of privacy and security questions,” EPIC said.

EPIC explained that “a system of distributed identification reduces the
risks associated with security breaches and the misuse of personal
information.” For example, a banking PIN number, in conjunction with a
bank card, provides a better authentication system because it is not
coupled with a single, immutable consumer identity. If the combination
is compromised, a new bank card and PIN number can be issued and the old
combination cancelled, limiting the damage done by the compromised data.
“Distributing identity in this way allows for different profiles to be
used in different authenticating contexts. New profiles can be created
as required within a single identity metasystem,” EPIC said. Misuse is
therefore limited to the context of the information breached, whether it
is a single bank account, online merchant, or medical records.

Possibilities for data misuse can also be limited at the data collection
stage, EPIC explained. Amassing large databases of credit card numbers
creates an attractive target for potential identity thieves. “One simple
response to identity theft is to require a PIN to be used in conjunction
with all credit cards. An identity metasystem would further reduce the
value of such aggregated database targets, because authenticators would
be separate and distinct from all personally identifiable information,”
EPIC said.

The FTC will hold a workshop, “Proof Positive: New Directions for ID
Authentication,” on April 23 at the Commission’s Satellite Building
Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
The event is open to the public and attendance is free. There will not
be pre-registration.

EPIC Comments to the FTC (March 23, 2007) (pdf):

http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/epic_ftc_032307.pdf

Federal Trade Commission Notice Announcing Workshop and Requesting
Comments:

http://www.epic.org/redirect/ftc0407.html

EPIC page on Identity Theft: Causes and Solutions:

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

EPIC page on National ID Cards and the REAL ID Act:

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

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/04/07/
pharmaceutical_fraud_prescription_for_disaster.htm

http://tinyurl.com/2awuy9

April 7, 2007
Pharmaceutical Fraud? Prescription for Disaster Documentary
by Robin Good

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The following video documentary features contributions of respectful professionals, such as FDA scientist Dr. David J. Graham, who addressed the prescription of Vioxx (a very dangerous drug presently withdrawn from the market) before the US Senate Finance Committee and firmly believes the FDA is “letting people down”.

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Ahh yes, the gooferment is just looking out for … … itself. Its power to reward its friends, punish its enemies, and feather the nests of the anointed.