Reinke Faces Life

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=
sa003&articleID=A4F4DED6-E7F2-99DF-32E46B0AC1FDE0FE

http://tinyurl.com/39nzo7

SCIENCE NEWS
March 30, 2007
Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II
Government documents show that the agency handed over names and addresses to the Secret Service
By JR Minkel

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Despite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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What the government lied! I’m shocked.

It’s like the “social security number” will never be used for identification. That’s “barbara streisand”!

Fast forward to today. “Real Id”! We don’t know what it will have on us; “trust us” say the congress critters. We don’t know how it will be collected or protected; “trust us” say the bureauRATs. We don’t know how it will be abused; “trust us” say the enFORCErs like the fbi.

Congress critters lie. BureauRATS routinely exceed their authority. And the enFORCErs, like the fbi, just brake the law when it suits them.

And, you want to “trust them”.

Fool me once, share on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/blackstock5.html

Dirty Deeds Are No Longer Dirt Cheap
by Rob Blackstock

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According to Eric Peters (1996. “Who’s Behind the Freon Ban?” The Free Market 14, December: 6–7), DuPont changed their stance due to the fact that the company’s patent on Freon terminated in 1992. This opened the door to not only domestic competition, but cheaper Freon from South American producers. Seeing that Freon was, “the only refrigerant used by the auto industry since the first AC [Air Conditioning] systems were installed in the 1950s” (ibid., p 6), DuPont stood to lose millions. However, by encouraging regulators to make Freon illegal, DuPont closed the door to competition. Simultaneously, DuPont introduced a patented substitute (HFC-134a). DuPont “owns exclusive rights to HFC-134a – the only refrigerant authorized for use in new car air-conditioning systems” (ibid., p 7).

On April 27, 1992, DuPont placed a full page add in the New York Times (p. A7) which stated, “In the US alone, more than $135 billion worth of equipment – used in about 3,500 different applications – depend on CFCs…. All of this equipment must use recycled refrigerants, or be retrofitted or replaced before it can use any of the substitutes for CFCs.” DuPont’s Freon Division Director, Joseph Glass summed it up nicely; “When you have $3 billion of CFCs sold worldwide and 70 percent of that is about to be regulated out of existence, there is a tremendous market potential.”

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Well that explains why we got taken to the woodshed on that one. Facism! Where the gooferment and bigbiz get into bed with each other. Except the people get screwed!

I thought there was an interesting juxtapose of two stories. I find anyone’s death very important. A young person, full of potential, even more so. Perhaps, the nanny state can’t substitute for parenting. AND, by that nanny state interfering with people parenting, children and young adults are put at risk.

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http://www.nbc4.tv/news/11469409/detail.html?subid=10101581

Long Beach Teen Dies in N.J. Frat Drinking Incident
POSTED: 6:41 am PDT March 31, 2007

LONG BEACH, Calif. — An autopsy is expected to be done Saturday on an 18-year- old Long Beach man who died after drinking a large of amount of vodka at a fraternity party at his New Jersey university. Gary DeVercelly, a freshman at Rider University, died Friday at a hospital in Trenton, N.J.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora33.html

Let Kids Buy Vodka!
by Manuel Lora

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Let’s share an anecdote. A few years ago I was at a bar with my wife’s family. It was a large group with several adults and some “underage” children. We all sat at the bar and ordered drinks. The bar tender saw my wife’s underage cousin (who had ordered a soft drink) and said that she could not sit there because of some law. So far so good right? This is something that we’re used to by now. Truth is: this kid’s mother was there. The law has replaced parental guidance.

So let’s see. Instead of parenting, we have laws and regulations, and greedy and faraway politicians. When kids break the law, however, the parents get blamed, not the politicians! How in the world does this make sense? Those in government want to have it both ways. They impose norms on society but they are almost legally untouchable when things go wrong.

How, then, do anti-vice laws strengthen communities? They do not. Instead of letting families set standards, these kinds of law break communities apart. What’s worse is that families that don’t even “get in trouble” still have to pay for the enforcement of others’ problems with the government in the form of taxes. One would wish that it stopped here but when the police begin to enforce vice laws (part of that eternal “victimless crime” category) they have to devote less time dealing with real crime like murders. Of course, the police department could hire more police, but this means more taxation and more enforcement of the same laws.

Parental responsibility involves having both the right and responsibility to set rules. This right belongs exclusively with the parents. The state has nothing to do with parenting at all.

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So as I see it. the vice laws enforced by the gooferment caused this problem.

(1) The gooferment intrudes into parenting. Gives parents a false sense of security. Creates a “prison” (i.e., Rider University is a gooferment school) with “drug” problems.

(2) The gooferment diktats precludes people from learning about “drinking” from their parents in a safe environment where mistakes wouldn’t be fatal.

(3) Then the gooferment wants more diktats and budget to “solve” the very problem it creates.

When I first visited Vegas on a family trip, there was no speed limits, no drinking age, and no gambling age. I didn’t see any kids drinking, gambling, or hot rodding. And, I looked ’cause I was convinced I was in paradise. They even had legal prostitution. But, the family set a few rules of its own. And, I escaped sin city, virtue in tact.

We don’t need Mommy Government smothering us with “what’s good for us”. Nor do we need Father State throwing millions of us in jail for “our sins”. We need to just leave everyone alone to respect the rights of others.

I think that Gary DeVercelly is a casualty of gooferment. End the Drug War now!

http://www.resourceshelf.com

ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

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—–Original Message—–
From: Gary Price
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

ResourceShelf Newsletter
Number 303 March 22, 2007
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Resource of the Week: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped

By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

National Library Week isn’t until next month (April 15-21), but an
interesting press release from the Library of Congress (LoC) crossed our
radar screen this week describing the extensive services of LoC’s National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). We felt that
this outstanding free program — now in its 75th year of operation (who
knew?) deserved some attention. In an era of large-scale government waste,
fraud and abuse, Resource of the Week: National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped

By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

National Library Week isn’t until next month (April 15-21), but an
interesting press release from the Library of Congress (LoC) crossed our
radar screen this week describing the extensive services of LoC’s National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). We felt that
this outstanding free program — now in its 75th year of operation (who
knew?) deserved some attention. In an era of large-scale government waste,
fraud and abuse, this service is truly an excellent use of your tax
dollars..

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—–Original Message—–
From: r at reinke dot cc
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:01 PM
To: Shirl Kennedy
Cc: Gary Price
Subject: RE: ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

> this service is truly an excellent use of your tax dollars.

Dear Ms. Shirl,

At risk of being considered a grinch, hateful, or a loon, permit me to object to an “excellent use”.

Taxes are theft. AND, when you have to use force to fund something, then that to me is the hallmark of a bad idea.

You have to take into account the “hidden costs” view as first expressed by Frederic Bastiat, 1850 http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html and think about what is precluded by this “excellent use”.

Taxes, and their “excellent uses”, are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

They are immoral because you are initiating force on another human being.
You have no right, authority, or justification to do that. By benefiting from that force, one becomes complicit it the brutality of it.

They are ineffective because while this may be an “excellent use”, you can’t tell what better “excellent uses” were precluded from being created. When the government gives a “free good”, it is impossible to compete with it. If a service is provided by a marketplace, it is “molded” by competitive pressures. It has to deliver value for what it charges. It is also necessary to attract paying users or it shuts down. When do gooferment programs “close down”? Never.

They are inefficient because you are paying a tremendous overhead. The gooferment makes it impossible to measure precisely how inefficient, but in the USA the federal “handling fee” is guesstimated between 50 and 75%. So, if the Federal Government does something, anything, it is by definition more expensive than if has to be. For example, the Salvation Army has an overhead of about 15% and the 911 Fund (gooferment run) was in the 80% range.

So, let’s talk about the “excellent use” that you cited.

If there was a real need and no gooferment program occupying the “space”, then there would be a business or charity to fulfill that demand. I don’t think, even with the tax load USA-ites are under, they would have any trouble raising funds. Look at the 911 fund, the Tsunami, or Katrina.

Add in the fact, that the gooferment denies us the opportunity to be charitable, and deny us the ability to properly “choose” and supervise our donations.

So, I would urge you to reconsider your cavalier attitude to basically what is “loot”. There are NO “excellent uses” for taxes except refunds to the payers!

IMHO,
fjohn

{Note: Challenge “socialist” thinking at every opportunity. Good people are deluded by the gooferment’s propaganda into thinking that gooferment can do anything that we could not do better, cheaper, or faster if left on our own. The Intelligent Designer gave us brains. Let’s use them. From time immemorial, us weak hairless monkeys have taken over the planet by VOLUNTARY cooperation towards mutual goals. Only recently, have some of use been infected with this mental virus of “socialism”. The meme of “government” has hurt us worse than any other idea in our history. Perhaps, “religion” but that’s another topic for another day.}

http://keenefreepress.com/kfp040107.pdf

The Free State Project is having an impact. All the “trouble makers” are moving there.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w10.html

http://tinyurl.com/2uwsx8

Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine
by William Norman Grigg

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According to the lawsuit, Lt. Brown, Derek’s murderer, “has violated the constitutional rights of others in the past through the improper use of deadly force and has coached other WPD officers on how to lie about and/or justify the improper use of deadly force.” Rather than being cashiered, Brown was promoted – just as one would expect of any other dishonest, cowardly thug in the service of any other Third World death squad. Derek J. Hale survived two tours of duty in Iraq, a country teeming with Pentagon-trained death squads, only to be murdered by their home-grown equivalent.

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Yup, the police are “our friends” and they are just here to “protect and serve us”.

http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/poor_richard.html

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

– Ben Franklin

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/174948

http://tinyurl.com/ywjg5r

Tucson Region
Wanted: A little time with soldier dad
School balks at excusing absences for GI’s kids
By Carol Ann Alaimo
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.23.2007

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When her husband comes home to Tucson on leave from Iraq, Keila Rios could face a dilemma she finds infuriating. She plans to take their children out of school for a week to spend time with their Army dad. But when she asked for makeup work they could do at home, she initially was told they’d receive zeroes if they didn’t go to class.

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Here’s a good example of why the gooferment should be separated from the skoolz!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods63.html

The Revolutionary Candidate
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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Think of how much less interesting, indeed how downright intolerable, this election cycle would be without Ron Paul: a bunch of hacks and drones, not one of whom would make a single substantial change to Washington, D.C., if elected. Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani may as well drop the pretense and just run on the same ticket, for heaven’s sake. And since they’re part of the same racket, they both despise Ron Paul much more than they dislike each other – another excellent endorsement of Dr. Paul, of course.

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It’s hard to imagine what the “mainstream” candidates will make of him. I can see Hillary shooting flames about the “children will die without the village”. And, Rudy will say “guns kill people”. Ron Paul will have to be as deft as Harry Browne to get the sound bite message that “freedom is our birth right”!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/
suprynowicz63.html

http://tinyurl.com/3demfy

Interested Defenders of ‘the Peculiar Institution’
by Vin Suprynowicz

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What did the state or local government do to earn the thousands of dollars in “property taxes” they seized from you last year, other than warehouse other people’s children in their mandatory homogeneity camps while whining that they can’t possibly be expected to help bring them all to a state of complex literacy (in one language, not three or four like the Europeans) in a mere 12 years unless we start giving them a lot more than the current $10,000 per child per year?

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I’m doing taxes this week end. Another example of how I am enslaved!