Reinke Faces Life

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/
tle409-20070311-03.html

http://tinyurl.com/32yvo7

Overreach, Shmoverreach: A Special Note From The White House
by Jonathan David Morris

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“Close the CIA Prisons”: Now there’s a good idea. Here we have special prisons set up in secret places to hold the enemies we catch on the field of war. What would you rather us do, New York Times? Put all those prisoners in American prisons back home? There’s no room for them. Those prisons are overflowing with pot-smoking black people. You can’t fit a round peg through a square hole!

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Best think we can do for and to these pompous asses masquerading as “political leaders” is laugh at them. And, get others to as well.

“Prisons overflowing with pot smoking black people” is a GREAT line.

Because it’s sadly true. The pot smoking part. And the black part. And, there’s a few white people sprinkled in. And, a few non-pot people as well. (Like 80 years old tax protestors.) Everything these days is a “federal offense”. I think the “federal” is pretty offensive. “State” ain’t much better.

Note: The gooferment is the only think that can give you a bad service that you don’t want and make you pay for it. It’s worse than the Mafia.

End the war on drugs. Separate the Gooferment from Medicine, Drugs, and all that stuff.

If I was President, not bloody likely, OK, if I was King, I’d pardon all non-violent drug offenders. I’d end the various “Wars” (i.e., drugs, poverty, Iraq, Iran, illiteracy, teen pregnancy, smoking, did I miss any?).

Yup, under the rule of King Ferd the Last, there’d be some interesting changes. WASHINGTONDC would be restricted to making diktats for the Fifty States, who would be capable of accepting or rejecting. Oh, an federal employees? They’d be dying breed, since there’s be no taxes to keep them in the style they’ve become accustomed to. The USA would protect people from force or fraud. ALL people. That’s it!

Yup, the land of Ferd the Last would be a very happy place unless you were a gooferment leader, an ex-dole recipient, or a Socialist.

Note I said Ferd the Last, because after I empowered the people, there would be no need for, nor any possibility of, another King. George Washington set the standard and lately everyone’s been lacking.

Power to the people. Restricted by the principle of “No initiation of force”. And free of the gooferment!

Network World’s Unified Communications Newsletter, 03/22/07
Spying on your e-mail
By Michael Osterman

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About two weeks ago, the Swedish government announced a proposal that would allow its National Defense Radio Establishment to search for content in international e-mail that entered or exited the country. The proposal, if enacted, would also allow the Swedish government to search through telephone communications, as well.

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Encryption anyone?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/
Mar-18-Sun-2007/opinion/12913879.html

http://tinyurl.com/34rvnx

Mar. 18, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ:
How will collectivists enforce this new ‘right’ to housing?

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Ms. Unzueta likely means to loot even more money from my paycheck and yours — extending our slavery in violation of the 13th Amendment for that one-third to one-half of the year that we now sharecrop just to “pay our taxes” — thus forcing you and me to fund nice homes for these lazy drunks and drug addicts.

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Vin nails it. When some one has a “right” to something, who pays for that right?

I would assert that we are now virtual slaves to the government. One can’t even guess at the “taxes” we pay. Inflation is a heavy tax on our savings. Unfunded mandates are a tax. The increase cost of things due to diktats from the gooferment are a tax. Every tax a corporation pays is passed along to us disguised in the price. And, everything we buy has lots of gas taxes buried in the price. So, I can NOT even guess at how much tax we are paying.

As far as the “homeless”, when I was working in NYC and when I’d get panhandled, I’d offer food or the “business card” for a local Church (Saint Francis) where they helped the “homeless”. Once or twice my offer was accepted. I even saw a “legless” panhandler on the NYC subway who I later saw on standing on the Path going home to NJ after a hard day at work. I wish I had my camera.

No, there are very few “rights”. And, those rights we have, we have to be prepared to fight for mightly against the gooferment and the fuzzy thinkers of the left and right.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54697

Now let me tell you what I really think
Robert Ringer
Posted: March 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

>(Based on the historical evidence, an outrageous person might suggest that we are but two nukes away from making close allies out of Iran and North Korea.)

One would hope that we would recognize that we have made two BIG mistakes before and hope that we’d learn.

If we weren’t mucking about in everyone’s business, then we wouldn’t have troops in (what is that number) ~170 countries. And, irregulars (i.e., spies, bureaucrats, politicians, and such) tripping over each other.

We’re dangerous enough to bring all the troops home and be immune to attack and invasion.

The Department of Defense should be limited to doing just that “defense”. Not nation building. Not meals on wheels. Not disaster relief.

>I hope my words today were straightforward enough for everyone to understand. As they say, be careful what you wish for, or you may get it.

Sure, we did real good in a traditional Third Generation War, gooferment against gooferment. Ignoring the fact that gooferment has been manipulating people since the War of Northern Aggression. (Wilson, elected on peace pledge, steers us into WW1. FDR steers us into WW2. etc, etc, etc.)

How well a gooferment can do in a Fourth Generation War against a state-less adversary appears to be in doubt. Your Third Generation War “solution” would work against North Korea or Iran (It’s a little tough on the innocent men, women, children, and animals in those countries. But what’s a little breakage. Collateral damage.) But it’s ineffective and inefficient in dealing with a Fourth Generation adversary. And, is meaningless in a Fifth Generation War where an armed motivated people oppose the gooferment on their own turf (i.e., note the Russian’s Afghan experience).

>I’ll bet a lot of readers now wish I would stick to being facetious rather than straightforward.

No, I wish you would stick to finding us moral, effective, and efficient answers to our problems.

I’d start with the principle of self-ownership and follow it to its logical conclusions. We have no moral right to drop your “solution” on North Korea, Iran, or California.

If we stopped meddling in the affairs of others, brought our troops home, and became a neutral “porcupine” like Switzerland, then everyone would be a lot happier.

If we ended the dole in the US (i.e., welfare for everybody and every business, regulations and laws that politicians put in to reward friends and punish enemies, taxing everything), then we’d be “wealthier” beyond our wildest dreams.

If we ended the gooferment’s skoolz, then we’d have the smartest people in the world for real (i.e., one wag calls skoolz “the government’s propaganda and reeducation pre-prisons”).

If we had honest money backed by gold and silver as the Constitution specified, then we end the inflation tax and return to the gerbil wheel of impoverishing ourselves and enriching the gooferment.

As with any porcupine, I’d just like everyone to be left alone

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54711

http://tinyurl.com/ypdsba

Gen. Pace vs. Parson Warner
Posted: March 15, 2007
Pat Buchanan
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Pat Buchanan looks at ‘gay’ comment by comparing moral authorities of 2 Marines

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What this uproar tells us is that America is no longer a moral community. On the most fundamental issues – abortion, promiscuity, homosexuality, euthanasia, sterilization, cloning, and the creation of, and buying and selling of, fetuses for research – we are at war. What part of the nation sees as progress, the other sees as depravity.

And where there is no moral community, there will not long be one country. For in a religious or culture war, there is no peaceful coexistence.

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Pat certainly has the ability to hit the nail on the head.

The problem is when we allow the gooferment to be a proxy for community. There is no “nation”; it’s a figment of a group imagination. There are only people.

When the gooferment uses force on us, that’s immoral.

If we were just left alone in peace to find our way, then we’d be so much better off. The problem is when we have to pay for things we don’t want, don’t agree with, or to which we are morally opposed. And every problem he cites is either caused by or exacerbate by the gooferment’s action.

See Pat is a socialist. He want his view of morality to be imposed on everyone. I’m a Libertarian; I want everyone left alone. I don’t want to participate in Pat’s morality. Nor Hillary Clinton’s. Nor Rudy’s. Nor yours.

It’s amazing how many problems go away when we just leave people alone as the dead old white guys tried give us.

My three hot buttons remain: the dole, honest money, and skoolz. Until we tackle those, we can’t reduce gooferment to a size where it really doesn’t matter what it wants to do.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul374.html

The DC Gun Ban
by Ron Paul

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Gun control historically serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government.

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You have to like the fellow who understands the basic principle.

Governments kill unarmed citizens.

Look at Nazi Germany. Envision what would have happened when the Nazis came to collect the Jews. Even if at each apartment, the Nazis only lost ONE thug. You’d need a whole supply of new thugs. As an example look at what a handful of starving doomed people did with SIX guns and a lot of guts. The held off divisions for weeks. That’s a fifth generation war (i.e., the people against “their” government)! It’s not hard to imagine it today. Look at some of the Hollywood movies. It’ll be deadly, ugly, and bloody. But the people can never be defeated! Temporarily subjugated, maybe for decades, but never defeated.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski176.html

http://tinyurl.com/26zcg2

Do You Dubai?
by Karen Kwiatkowski

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In his second inaugural address only a few years ago, curious George asked this question: “Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?” The jury is still out on the first question, if only because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are inadvertently creating new libertarians at an unprecedented rate. However, the mainstream media’s breathless reporting from Washington and Houston confirms the answer to the second.

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One can only hope that this gives Ron Paul a fighting chance. If they are creating libertarians, that’s good for America. Not so good for all those who suckle at the government. I think there are two Americas. The American of the producers and the America of the takers. Sorry but the golden age of taking is coming to a close. The takers have killed the golden goose. This cow is tired of being milked. While I can’t go to New hampshire as part of the Free State project http://www.freestateproject.org/ … … yet. I can arrange my affairs such that I minimize the amount that can be taken. The TSA infringes rights at airports; I don’t fly. The keystone NYC cops search unreasonably; I drive in. The income tax is oppressive; I don’t strive to earn more. In sum and substance, I avoid interacting with the various criminal gangs masquerading under the guise of government. It’s a fifth generation war. The people against “their” own gooferment. It’s not mine. I do NOT consent.

http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf

The Philosophy of Liberty

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… is based on self-ownership.

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And, this little flash movie is superb at explaining it and the consequences.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2007/03/11/church_state_and_taxpayers/
?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/29346w

Church, state and taxpayers
By Cass R. Sunstein | March 11, 2007

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WHEN THE government has violated the Constitution, who is entitled to complain? The Supreme Court will soon cast new light on this question in one of the most intriguing cases in recent years, a suit challenging President Bush’s “faith-based initiatives.” The legal issue may appear somewhat technical, but the outcome of the case could have broad implications for the power of the executive branch and for the relationship between government and religion.

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Silly taxpayer, you have no “standing”. You just get to pay for the ‘leaders” excesses. Religion, abortion, war, “social services”, eddykaytion, and on and on and on.

We don’t inquire if the sheep mind contribution their wool for coats, or an occasional “sacrifice” for the “leader’s” dinner table. Do we?

So why do you think you should have a say in how your taxes are spent?

The dead old white guys revolted over essentially a 1% tax. You don’t even know exactly what you pay in taxes. We’re sorry progeny to them.

May our chains rest lightly!

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/07/
the-coming-economic-collapse-of-the-united-states/

http://tinyurl.com/37ge2e

The coming economic collapse of the United States
By Michael Hampton
Posted: March 7, 2007 11:58 pm

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In summary, the welfare state that the socialists built here from the 1930s (after they destroyed the money supply and created an artificial depression) is going to do the same thing it did when they built it in the Soviet Union. And if their example is any guide, it won’t take until 2040 for the nation’s economy to collapse utterly. It will be sudden and unexpected. It will be horrific. Millions of Americans will die, never knowing what happened. But if you’ve read this far, you will know why: In a word, socialism.

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As a nation, we are heading down the road to a financial disaster. As a people, we have forgotten what made this country great. As an economy, we’ve allowed the political class to sell us down the river.

It would seem that a sound money strategy is the only way to prepare for the rocky road ahead.

We should study the prelude to the Great Depression and the German Hyperinflation as clues to what we will face.

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