September 28, 2009
Smell That? Ahh… Now That’s What Barack’s Been Cooking…
Do we need to say “We told ya so?” No, because you all know that life brakes down this way;
Big Government = Bad for America
Less Government Control of your money = More money for you.
Now the inherant reason that we, as rich elitist’s do not use the Government as our Concerge service that we outsource all of our life to just to make it easy on ourselves is because we fought a bitter battle to end slavery. Putting our neighbor into Governmental slavery is What? A very bad thing to do…
Lets take a look at how well the Concierge srvice did for us with their very first multi Billion dollar deal:
Most Notables: Individual Vehicles
- 1987 Buick ASC GNX
- 1997 Aston Martin DB7 Volante (A quarter panel either exterior or interior is worth $4500)
- 1997 Bentley Continental R (A quarter panel either exterior or interior is worth $4500)
- 1989 20th Anniversary Pontiac Trans Am
- 1992 GMC Typhoon (no!)
- 1985 Audi Quattro
- 1992 BMW 850i
- 2006 Audi A4 Convertible
- 2006 Cadillac STS
- 2008 Foose F-150 (2)
- 2007 GMC Acadias (3)
- 2008 Hyundai Accent (see above)
- 2006 Nissan 350Z Roadster
- 2006 Roush Stage 3 F-150 (2)
- 2006 Toyota Corolla
- 2005 Mazda RX-8
- 2002 Kia Spectra
- 1988 Aurora Cobra kit car
- 1996 Buick Funeral Coaches/Hearses
- 1987 Duntov GT
- 1987 Excalibur Autos Phaeton
- 1990 Honda CRX (Less than 18 mpg?)
- 1985 Maserati Quattroporte
- 1999 Mercedes C43 AMG
- 1985 TVR 280i convertible
Groupings:
- (18) Audi S4 and S6
- (31) AM General postal vehicles
- (24) Alfa Romeo 164
- (60) AMC Eagle
- (53) Audi A8
- (3,500+) BMWs including an M3, M5, Z3, 850i and (3) 740il Protection
- (52) Cadillac Allante
- (15) Cadillac Commercial Chassis/Limousines
- (1,007) Chevy Camaro
- (97) Chevy Corvette
- (5) AWD Chrysler 300
- (17) Chrysler Conquest
- (39) Chrysler TC by Maserati
- (3) Dodge Conquest
- (6) Dodge Daytona
- (210) Dodge Stealth
- (16) Eagle Talon
- (2) Federal Coach Lincoln Limo
- (2) Ford Aspire (didn’t these things get like 30 mpg?)
- (855) Ford Crown Victoria CNG
- (917) Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor
- (14) USPS Ford Explorer
- (24) Ford F-150 SVT Lightning
- (1,611) Ford Mustang (so Mustang beats Camaro here)
- (107) Ford Taurus SHO (don’t tell Neff)
- (15) Isuzu Vehicross
- (1,047) Jaguars including (9) XJR, (2) XK8 and (96) XJS
- (3) Laforza SUV
- (6) Maseratis including a Biturbo and the 1985 Quattroporte
- (373) Mazda RX-7
- (5,000+) Mercedes-Benz including (142) SL, (3) S600, a 1994 E500, a 1992 500E, 1995 C36 and 1999 C43
- (26) Merkur Scorpio and (21) XR4Ti
- (187) Mitsubishi 3000GT
- (3) Mitsubishi Eclipse and (4) Starion
- (2) 1984 Nissan 200SX, (2) 1994 240SX and (381) 300ZX
- (1,935) Oldsmobile Aurora
- (22) Peugeot
- (87) Pontiac Aztek (more please), (61) Fiero and (569) Firebird/Trans Am/Formula
- (6) Porsche 928 including (2) S4
- (6) Porsche 944
- (597) Saab
- (3) Saturn
- (20) Sterling
- (173) Subaru including (123) SVX
- (327) Toyota Supra, including (4) final generation
September 23, 2009
The All-New Conservative Liberal Party; We tell you yes to everything
Legislative Alert
Uncollected Tax Dollars
January 15, 2008
We thought you would be interested in the following letter that has been sent to the members of the Legislature by Mr. Arthur H. Katz, Executive Director of the NYS Wholesale Marketers and Distributors.
January 10, 2008
Dear Legislative Member:
SHAME
Why do we continue to permit annual sales of 400 million packs of untaxed cigarettes to Indian sellers when it is known that illicit reselling is funding terrorism?
In America, our greatest triumph is adherence to the rule of law. Where laws end, terrorism begins. In 1994, the United States Supreme Court ruled (in Attea v. New York State) that New York was within its right to tax all cigarette sales to non-tribal members. Yet in the twelve years since that ruling the Pataki administration did not attempt to apply the law to a single Native American sale. Therefore, lacking accountability, these untaxed sales have reached an astounding 40 million cartons annually with lost revenue to New York State of $20 million per week or one billion dollars per year.
*It should be noted, since our first letter dated August 6, 2007, New York State has lost an additional $440 million in revenue, why?
Shame:Major illegal profits from these sales are funding terrorism while the New York State treasury is robbed!
The connection between Native American untaxed cigarette distribution and the funding of terrorism is well established and documented by New York and Federal agencies, public officials and numerous criminal court cases. Among some recent examples:
New York City 11/03/2007, Rep. Anthony Weiner and state senator Jeff Klein, in calling for a congressional investigation and putting additional teeth in existing federal laws , issued a press release that documented several recent government cases which uncovered the funding of Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. They also quoted public officials who have stated that illegal cigarette profits have become one of the leading sources of domestic terrorist funding. ATF agent Patrick Awe, who testified before the US Senate, stated “… the link to terrorism has been established”.
v Cattaraugus Indian Reservation 09/20/2006, Karim H. Nassar from Canada pleads guilty to smuggling $500,000 of cigarettes off the reservation for general market consumption and sending profits to Hezbollah guerillas.
v Dearborn, 05/29/05, nineteen men are federally indicted for a smuggling operation that evaded “tens of millions in state cigarette taxes” by purchasing truck loads of untaxed product from a Western New York State Indian Reservation and reselling in New York and Michigan. The profits were funneled to Hezbollah.
v The New York State Tax Enforcement Group arrested a couple in Brooklyn who were part of a group of 200 terrorists smuggling and reselling into New York City.
v Police commissioner, Ray Kelly in a speech before the United Nations, states that the smuggling of cigarettes is the leading means of funding forterrorist organizations.
v New York Post 10/16/07 State Senator Martin Golden who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, states that “ATF has opened hundreds of illicit cigarette trafficking cases; … [having] links to extremist groups such as al Qaeda … He adds that ATF senior intelligence analyst William Billingslea wrote in the Police Chief Magazine that, “Because of the immense profit, illicit cigarette trafficking now rivals drugs as the method of choice to fill the bank accounts of terrorist groups.” Golden goes on to say, “The solution is simple. Both federal and state laws are already in place, and the courts have reaffirmed their constitutionality. What we need now is a governor with the guts to enforce them. The result of not enforcing the law has transcended the issue of Native American sovereignty into an issue of national security.”
Shame: Why has leadership not acted to enforce the law and protect public safety?
v Newsday 11/06/2007, “Trial of smoke-shop millionaire set to begin”. In a criminal case heard before the Eastern District Court, RodneyMorrison a Costa Rican, who is an “Indian” through marriage, has offered to put up $56 million cash for bail. This criminal case involves massive amounts of cigarettes that were sold tax free to and from an Indian reservation.It certainly should not surprise anyone that the purchase of tens of thousands of cartons of cigarettes from just one of these Indian stores is not for personal consumption. The Distributor who supplies the “store” should know that those cartons cannot be consumed legally without taxation. The manufacturers who supply the distributors receive a mandatory report each week that states how many cartons go towhom, and yet continue to allocate and sell this product. These outlets are the major source of counterfeit and untaxed cigarettes sold in high taxed localities (NY) to complicit stores and street merchants.
Shame: Manufacturers who are allocating and their distributors who are selling should have knowledge of the laws requirements.
On April 12, 2005 legislation was passed that required the collection of taxes on all Indian sales of cigarettes, motor fuel and other products to non-Indian New Yorkers starting 3/1/06 (without exception) and was signed into law the next day. It was with both courage and conviction that Sheldon Silver and Joseph Bruno led the legislature to overturn Pataki’s ill-advised veto, demonstrating their understanding of the urgency for stopping this outflow. The methodology of tax stamping of all cigarettes and the issuance of “exemption coupons” to tribal members was conceived 12 years ago and favorably ruled upon by the US Supreme Court.
Shame: NYS State government still continues to invent ingeniousexcuses for non-enforcement.
During his final year in office, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, in various correspondences, made it crystal clear that current law prohibited the shipping of untaxed cigarettes within New York. And further, that manufacturers, truckers, distributors and Indian traders who aided and abetted or criminally facilitated these shipments would be guilty of crimes against the State. Recently, Attorney General Cuomo, under an order from the Federal Eastern District Court, testified that the state’s policy of forbearance (i.e. non-enforcement) was not a valid defense for the causing to be sold or the causing to be shipped of untaxed cigarettes for resale to non-tribal members. In another criminal case heard before the Eastern District Court; Judge Hurley ruled that there was knowledge of the illegal use and therefore criminal aiding and abetting.
Shame: As yet, there is no State enforcement and criminals and terrorists continue to grow rich.
The Math:
From 1996 – 2006 there was a recorded twenty percent reduction in the national
cigarettes sales (excluding New York State).
In 1996 New York State Taxes were paid on 127 Million Cartons Sold.
In 2006 New York True Consumption should have fallen to 102 Million Cartons
Actual 2006 New York State Legal cartons sold amounted to only 62 million!
That equals a loss of 40 million cartons sold in 2006!!
Shame:
A $Billion give away of our taxes!
It is patently absurd to argue that Native American sovereignty can only be preserved by allowing them unregulated access to FORTY MILLION cartons of untaxed cigarettes annually. This would amount to a staggering EIGHT BILLION cigarettes smoked per year by 2,500 adult Native American smokers in New York.
Shame: Let us not fall asleep at the switch again! Solution: Tax Stamp all cigarettes!
Summary of some Applicable Laws that may be violated are:
The Jenkins Act; The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act 18 U.S.C.Sec.2342; New York Public Health Law1399II; NYS Tax Law, Article 20, Sec. 471E; Criminal Facilitation, Article 115 NYS Penal Law; provisions under The National Security Act.
Whyhave we suffered 12 years of non compliance and the feeding of terrorists? Why have the cigarette manufactures continued to allocate millions of cartons of cigarettes to Indian sellers knowing exactly what is being shipped to each Indian store? Why has Albany not exercised its duty to protect its citizens by simply upholding the law?Why have these complicit venders been permitted to become the leading source of untaxed cigarettes sold in the 50 states? It certainly cannot be up to Native Americans, manufactures, or recalcitrant Public Officials to dictate the terms of our safety. Our Supreme Court has already spoken. Now our elected officials must act by recognizing that where law dies, terrorism lives.
Shame: The failure of Government and manufacturers to act in these past twelve years is a classic case of politics and greed vs. country!
Sincerely,
Arthur H. Katz
Executive Director
September 20, 2009
Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis…
Although Republican politicians should be trusted just about as much lately as hiring a pedafile to watch your child… The basis of Conservitivsm is such that it does not lend itself to allowing for whosale theft of an entire system. That is best left up to the Government pro’s in Socialism – Liberalism.
September 14, 2009
“A Little Rebellion Now and Then Is A Good Thing”
A Little Rebellion Now and Then Is A Good Thing
A Letter From Thomas Jefferson To James Madison
Shays’ Rebellion — a sometimes-violent uprising of farmers angry over conditions in Massachusetts in 1786 — prompted Thomas Jefferson to express the view that “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing” for America. Unlike other leaders of The Republic, Jefferson felt that the people had a right to express their grievances against the government, even if those grievances might take the form of violent action.
Jefferson airs his sentiments in a letter to James Madison on January 30, 1787, expressing justification for the series of protests led by Daniel Shay and a group of 1,200 farmers.
Jefferson also writes of his concern over John Jay’s impending negotiations with Spain. Under consideration would be proposals to extend privileges in Spanish ports to American ships, while providing navigation rights on the Mississippi River to Spain.
In his letter to Madison, Jefferson expresses his belief that the agreement might be interpreted as opening up the Mississippi to Spanish rule, thus provoking a war between settlers in the west and Spain, and eventually, dividing the nation.
Paris, January 30th, 1787
Thomas Jefferson
Dear Sir,
My last to you was of the 16th of December; since which, I have received yours of November 25 and December 4, which afforded me, as your letters always do, a treat on matters public, individual, and economical. I am impatient to learn your sentiments on the late troubles in the Eastern states. So far as I have yet seen, they do not appear to threaten serious consequences. Those states have suffered by the stoppage of the channels of their commerce, which have not yet found other issues. This must render money scarce and make the people uneasy. This uneasiness has produced acts absolutely unjustifiable; but I hope they will provoke no severities from their governments. A consciousness of those in power that their administration of the public affairs has been honest may, perhaps, produce too great a degree of indignation; and those characters, wherein fear predominates over hope, may apprehend too much from these instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth or experience.
Societies exist under three forms, sufficiently distinguishable: (1) without government, as among our Indians; (2) under governments, wherein the will of everyone has a just influence, as is the case in England, in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one; (3) under governments of force, as is the case in all other monarchies, and in most of the other republics.
To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that the first condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it. The mass of mankind under that enjoys a precious degree of liberty and happiness. It has its evils, too, the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
If these transactions give me no uneasiness, I feel very differently at another piece of intelligence, to wit, the possibility that the navigation of the Mississippi may be abandoned to Spain. I never had any interest westward of the Allegheny; and I will never have any. But I have had great opportunities of knowing the character of the people who inhabit that country; and I will venture to say that the act which abandons the navigation of the Mississippi is an act of separation between the Eastern and Western country. It is a relinquishment of five parts out of eight of the territory of the United States; an abandonment of the fairest subject for the payment of our public debts, and the chaining those debts on our own necks, in perpetuum.
I have the utmost confidence in the honest intentions of those who concur in this measure; but I lament their want of acquaintance with the character and physical advantages of the people, who, right or wrong, will suppose their interests sacrificed on this occasion to the contrary interests of that part of the confederacy in possession of present power. If they declare themselves a separate people, we are incapable of a single effort to retain them. Our citizens can never be induced, either as militia or as soldiers, to go there to cut the throats of their own brothers and sons, or rather, to be themselves the subjects instead of the perpetrators of the parricide.
Nor would that country quit the cost of being retained against the will of its inhabitants, could it be done. But it cannot be done. They are able already to rescue the navigation of the Mississippi out of the hands of Spain, and to add New Orleans to their own territory. They will be joined by the inhabitants of Louisiana. This will bring on a war between them and Spain; and that will produce the question with us, whether it will not be worth our while to become parties with them in the war in order to reunite them with us and thus correct our error. And were I to permit my forebodings to go one step further, I should predict that the inhabitants of the United States would force their rulers to take the affirmative of that question. I wish I may be mistaken in all these opinions.
Yours affectionately,
Th. Jefferson


