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Pat Schwind Presents: Strategic Edge Thursday, 12/18/2008
Libertarian Congressional Candidate, Powell Gammill re: Bio-Terrorism: Relevant Threat or Outright Hoax?
Minutes of 12/04/2008
- Attended 12/04/2008 : Ted Goldberg, Frank Rickey, Mark Sorhdal, Brandon Mullan, Olga Strickland,
Russ Wittenberg, Ernie & Donna Hancock, Geri Seckinger, Pat Schwind,
Powell Gammill, Brian Mackey, Bill Blewster, Chris Braughton, Dan
Gutenkauf, Jim Shahbazian, Howard Crowe, Rick Kolowinski, Vicki Allison,
Dave Petersen, Tim Gufstafson, Jim Soudrette, Andy Vincent, Renee Houlihan,
& our speakers, Dave 'DT' Arneson, & Corey Holmes, of CameraFraud.Com.
- I saw some folks from CameraFraud.Com, speak on the topic of "Photo Enforcement"
of traffic laws, & "PHOTO RADAR" in particular, months ago at the
'Az. Breakfast Club'; (first Saturday of each month). They gladly
honored my request to come out to the S/E. The white "Photo Radar"
vans & fixed cameras you see all over 'The Valley', are operated by a
couple private firms, (one's Australian). The law re: this type of
enforcement is quite new, & some attorneys have told me it is
clearly not "accused friendly". My personal experience convinced me
that this aspect of "the system", is just "stacked against you".
On 12/4, we heard lots of opinions about how to avoid receipt of the
resulting tickets; most involved some form of vehicle registration in
another county, or use of a 'straw owner', firm, 'trust' or 'PO Box'
to avoid a 'process server'. I often prefer 'low tech solutions to
high tech problems'; friends recommend Halloween Masks, but I advocate
driving around wearing some form of widow's 'morning net'. But to me,
there are two much bigger issues here, than avoiding an occasional ticket:
1. This is just another step toward the "Surveillance Society", where
we'll eventually be under scrutiny most of the time when outside our
homes or workplace; & then eventually inside. It's not for 'security';
it's about CONTROLLING the masses. They eventually want to "chip" all
of us at birth, like we now do our dogs. The chips won't just be for
"location & identification"; they'll be part of systems used to affect
our bodies' chemical balance & neural functions. Farfetched? Didn't
Galileo draw prototypes of helicopters & submarines? Hmmmm?
2. Municipalities everywhere are drunk on the idea of revenue bonanzas
from Photo Enforcement. Reminds me of the excitement the bureaucrats
had about valley-wide recycling programs, that turned into failed
experiments in socialism. Why do gov'ts swoon over the potential
'money grab'? Simple! America's just flat broke, after almost 3
decades of "Reaganism Gone Wild"! We sold our souls to RED CHINA,
as we borrowed & spent ourselves into oblivion, at virtually every
level of society. The GOP was so successful at "starving the beast",
while throwing tax cuts & 'welfare to the rich', in classic "Reverse
Robin Hood" class warfare. Most Dems stood by, "playin' with their
puds"; they had good ideas, but were too gutless to defend them. The
GOP convinced so many Hockey Moms, Nascar Dads, & most stupid 'crackers'
in the 'Greater Confederacy', that shifting gov't resources away from
the stuff that made America great for so many years, (e.g. public
education, maintaining our infrastructure, & "avoiding foreign
entanglements"), while funding way more WAR, prisons & persecution
of Gays & Brown folks, was a 'good idea'! Subsidizing bad ideas is
very expensive; nefarious dirty deeds don't get 'done dirt cheap'.
So the next time it takes an extra hour for a cop or the fire dept.
to show up, or your parents or kids can't get the social services they
need, thank the GOP!
- Our next meeting is this
Thursday, 12/18/2008
Please arrive before 7:30 AM
at “JIM’s CONEY ISLAND CAFE”,
1750 No. Scottsdale Rd., Tempe,
at the southwest corner of Scottsdale & Cavalier,
Click Here for a map,
1 block south of McKellips, ~ 1 mile north of the 202 Freeway.
Our speaker will be Libertarian Congressional Candidate, Powell Gammill re: Bio-Terrorism: Relevant Threat or Outright Hoax?
Bring Guests!
- Future Speakers
- 1/15/9- Professional Coach, Motivator, Speaker & Cartoonist, Don Robinson: Even You Can Learn to Draw Cartoons!
- 1/29- Financial Survival; Anita Leafty, Steve Alonge & other “Pro’s” Discuss the Economy & How to Protect Your Assets & Future.
- 2/12- Get “HEART SMART” with Naturopathic Cardiologist, Dr. Decker Weiss.
- 2/26- Economist, Dr. Stephen Happel: Economic Update & Critique of the FED.
- 3/12- Marriage Survival 101: Lessons from the front lines of marriage longevity, with my good friends Bill & Barb Blewster (45 years, Dr. Paul & Cybil Eppinger (50 yrs), and Steve & Sanda Alonge (50 yrs).
- 3/26- Phoenix NORML: What's Up with that wonderful WAR ON DRUGS?
- 4/9- John Chester Stuart: One Man's Struggle Against an Unjust System.
- TBA'd- Do Gay & Lesbian folks "choose" to be Homosexual, or are they JUST BORN THAT WAY?
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Sincerely, Pat Schwind, MBA
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