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Gun Control In The
NJ Garden Of Evildoers

By Ted Lang
4-4-6

The "Garden State" of New Jersey is at it again! When the elected politicians on both sides of the aisle aren't taking payoffs, bribes, and other "campaign contributions" furthering both their interests and the interests and wealth of their respective political parties, they continue to be AWOL as regards eradicating bad, unjust and unworkable legislation. The oratoryangutans see, hear and speak no good, but instead, promote and cause much evil.
 
The state legislature rolled over and played dead when the New Jersey Supreme Court decided to write "legislation" concerning the best and most appropriate means to fund New Jersey's schools. The result? One thousand failed Marxist schemes, and two thousand more in their place. And those will fail as well. New Jersey property taxes are the highest in the nation precisely because laws are being written by those not elected to represent us.
 
And coupled with the "Highlands Preservation Act," another horrendously bad law in the Marxist tradition, one passed by the Legislature, and enacted and pushed by former Governor James McGreevey who was disgraced out of office, the Garden of Evil State attempts purportedly to save, well, its gardens and greenery. Yet nowhere else in the nation but in this hideously corrupt state, is eminent domain being pursued more aggressively than in New Jersey, the primary driver being the theft of private property for the purpose of - you guessed it! - turning it over to developers to develop the gardens and greenery of the "Highlands!"
 
You would think, what with all the bass ackwards laws and corrupt politicians, realtors, developers and lobbyists, the number one element of New Jersey's MSM, when not provoking Assemblyman Peter J. Biondi into writing legislation against the entire Internet and alternate media [AM] for the "hate crimes" being peddled on their NJ.com website, "Si" Newhouse's The Star-Ledger would have many things to write about other than the severely-kicked dead horse of gun control.
 
But after actively campaigning for this wacko state's "smart-gun" legislation, and launching a national assault on the Boy Scouts of America, The Star-Ledger has decided that in spite of the losing number of supporters in America for fascist and communist gun control, the Newhouse gang would, well, like the revolver-brandishing "Yosemite Sam" advises on the mud flap, "Back off!"
 
The Star-Ledger's former number one Marxist gun grabber and pitcher was lefty "Commie John" McLaughlin - must be sick or near retirement - he don't get around much anymore. But not to worry - the gun fascists and comrades have a new loudmouth propagandist: Fran Wood. Totally ignoring the most prominent and internationally renowned failures of gun control in the world, specifically in Great Britain and Australia, Franny and her ilk keep blasting away for yet more gun control in New Jersey, the most gun-controlled state in the union.
 
And if England and Australia are totally out of her intellectual reach, why doesn't she merely consider New York City and Washington D.C.? Look at all the productive gun control in these cities, where the effect on crime is precisely the same as in those nations overseas: it's spiraling through the heavens! But does Fran Wood grasp these anomalies created by either a lack of, or a trashing of the Second Amendment? No, of course not! Check it out!
 
In her propaganda column of Sunday, March 19th entitled "A law shot full of holes," Wood starts out: "According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, New Jersey's gun control laws are among the best in the country. The campaign's annual grades give us an A-minus, putting us in the company of just six other states (Connecticut, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois and Hawaii) and well ahead of the other 43, which rate a handful of B's and C's with the shocking majority in the D and F range.
 
My goodness! We're up there in the eyes of the greatest patriot that ever lived, Sarah Brady, with only six other states! Thank G-d we have Sarah and Fran to provide rating standards as regards the abolition of the Second Amendment - the more unconstitutional the law, the better the rating! Perhaps this also explains why New Jersey is rated an A-plus as the most corrupt state in the nation. Perhaps it is this corruption that forces us to pay the highest property taxes in the United States, and the highest car insurance premiums as well. And by now, I'm sure New Jersey has the highest eminent domain property confiscations as well. Now these are things Franny and her socialist propaganda rag, The Star-Ledger, could not only hold up as national achievements, but might also give the "Garden of Evil State" straight A-plus ratings on all those counts on as well.
 
Here's Franny again: "But having good laws is only a first step because guns are an interstate industry. A 2002 analysis of 55 U.S. cities by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found that in Newark alone, 14.6 percent of gun-related crimes were committed with weapons originating in New Jersey. The remaining 85.4 percent involved weapons from elsewhere like Pennsylvania, where lax gun control laws earned a D-plus from the Brady commission." What?! Whoa, hold up right there Franny!
 
How did we get from the shady Brady campaign to the full blown error of a "commission?" Obviously, Franny's commissar proclivities have slipped out! And of course, we all know just what's coming next. Just as the most corrupt city in America's politicians and commissar's whined about evil guns getting into Washington, D.C. from the evil state of Virginia, and just like total gun control Canada whined about guns getting into their pristine gun ban dictatorship, Franny is going to find another state or geographic entity she and her propaganda rag can't control to lay blame on. I'll just bet she picks all those evil 43 states in the majority as the cause for New Jersey being out of step.
 
"If you have a problem, it's often easier to blame someone else rather than deal with it," says Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., in his piece entitled "Canada Blames U.S. For Gun Control Folly." His article appeared in America's 1st Freedom magazine in its November 2005 issue. The magazine is a publication of the National Rifle Association, and Lott's article appeared in the "Parting Shot" column that features guest writers.
 
Lott continues: "And with Canada's murder rate rising 12 percent last year and a recent rash of murders by gangs in Toronto and other cities, it's understandable that Canadian politicians want a scapegoat. That at least was the strategy Canada's premiers took when they met recently with the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins, and spent much of their time blaming their crime problems on guns smuggled from the United States." Lott goes on to explain that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other Canadian law enforcement agencies admitted to having no capability in tracing firearms, as well as having no evidence whatsoever that guns came from the United States. But since when do gun control fascists need facts or evidence?
 
Lott then employs the most readily available and powerful evidence as concerns the relationship between legitimate gun ownership and crime. He cites the facts behind the total gun bans in Great Britain and Australia. "The experiences in the U.K. and Australia, two island nations whose borders are much easier to monitor, should also give Canadian gun controllers some pause. The British government banned handguns in 1997, but recently reported the gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the four years from 1998-99 to 2002-03."
 
Lott continues: "Crime was not supposed to rise after handguns were banned. Yet, since 1996 the serious violent crime rate has soared by 69 percent - robbery is up 45 percent, and murders up 54 percent. Before the law, armed robberies had fallen 50 percent from 1993 to 1997, but as soon as handguns were banned, the robbery rate shot back up, almost to the 1993 level. The 2000 International Crime Victimization Survey, the last survey completed, shows the violent crime rate in England and Wales was twice the rate of that in the U.S."
 
So how does Fran Wood square her anti-gun baloney with these facts offered by a statistician with a doctorate offering rock-solid facts where total gun control is fully installed and operational? Simple - she totally ignores them!
 
So here it comes: "I can't find any group or study that ranks states according to stiffness of penalties imposed for violating gun laws," laments Wood. "But in one particular glaring recent case, the A-minus apparently didn't do much good." We will now read about that one, an isolated, legal anomaly so dear to gun controllers - the use of an isolated, anecdotal incident chosen to serve incorrectly as an ongoing, repetitive standard and stereotype.
 
But before we explore Franny's tearjerker, let us once again revisit the two foundations upon which all political philosophy is based. One offers that Man is basically good, which favors ultimate freedom for the individual, while the other is that Man is basically evil, and must be heavily regulated and fiercely controlled by groups and organizations, the latter more commonly referred to as government. All political philosophies are merely variations upon these two basic, underlying premises.
 
The classical liberal/libertarian philosophy supporting maximum individual freedom is the philosophy I go by. This philosophy is the correct one, since its opposite requires groups and collections of individuals. Membership in groups and collections of individuals, namely government, tend to diminish individual responsibility, morality and accountability. Government operations lean towards what can best be described as a "mob" mentality, a mentality where the state can easily be incited in the wrong direction as concerns the general well-being of humanity.
 
That said, and with the geographical blame-game gun grabbers ceaselessly employ, here's Fran's "glaring" case: "On Feb.17, 2005, two men - Michael Mayes, a Newark social studies teacher, and his brother-in-law, Jed Smurda, of Breinigsville, Pa. - were arrested in Irvington after a sting operation that targeted illegal firearms. Also arrested was Mayes' wife, Cynthia, an Irvington policewoman." Hold it right here!
 
A school teacher? A police woman? Didn't we just reflect upon the moral deterioration of individuals who operate under the unaccountable banner of state authority? Here is a precise example! But do you really think Fran Wood can see this considering the intense intellectual myopia generating her desire for socialist and collectivist statism?
 
Wood chose this isolated incident to point out what she believes was a slap-on-the-wrist for the gun smugglers. They were prosecuted under federal laws as unlicensed firearms dealers, and Fran would rather have seen them penalized under New Jersey's unconstitutional "assault" weapons ban, which under New Jersey laws, would have provided much "stiffer" jail terms.
 
But Franny shouldn't fret. She and her gun fascist buddies, Bryan Miller of Ceasefire New Jersey, and "smart-gun" Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg, can take heart and relish the treatment of another gun nut and potential criminal.
 
"On January 27, 2006, ANJRPC [Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs] commenced a lawsuit against the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and one of its police officers, for wrongfully arresting and imprisoning, for nearly five days, a 57-year-old Utah man delayed at Newark Airport by a baggage error while traveling from Utah to Pennsylvania." So writes Scott L. Bach, president of the Association and a lawyer, in the organization's bi-monthly newsletter, News & Briefs. His article, entitled "ANJRPC Sues Port Authority," was carried in the March/April edition. ANJRPC is New Jersey's official NRA state association.
 
Newark "Liberty" Airport, huh? That's not too far from One Star-Ledger Plaza, the business address of Fran Wood and The Star-Ledger. And another gun incident involving Pennsylvania, huh? How come Franny missed this isolated, anecdotal incident?
 
This gun nut and criminal, at least in the eyes of Franny, Bryan and Loretta, was actually the victim of New Jersey police state "justice." Gregg Revell, a decent man with no outstanding warrants, arrests or convictions over 57 years of law-abiding behavior, was captured and held prisoner by New Jersey jackboot uniformed fascists for the crime of traveling through the most evil and corrupt state in America.
 
Bach relates: "The Utah man, a real estate broker and family man with no criminal record and a Utah firearms license, was flying alone on a commercial jet from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Allentown, Pennsylvania. He took the trip to drive home to Utah an automobile he had purchased in Pennsylvania." He was traveling with a firearm intending to carry it legally where allowed by the majority of states on the long trip home, through those states Fran Wood feels are out of step with New Jersey. These states have a truly liberal outlook in the classical sense of the term, and provide for maximum rights for the individual, especially in that most important right of self-defense and survival.
 
But Revell was careful not to violate either federal laws, or the laws of wacko states with fascist and communist proclivities. ANJRPC's Bach goes on: "As required by federal law, the firearm was unloaded, cased, locked and inside his luggage when he declared it at check-in in Salt Lake City on March 31, 2005. Due to an airline-caused baggage error, Mr. Revell missed his connecting flight from Newark "Liberty" Airport to Allentown and had to stay overnight in New Jersey."
 
Revell was now trapped in the corrupt, fascist, jackboot police state of New Jersey, the "Garden of Evil" State. Bach explains what happened next: "When [Revell] checked in at Newark "Liberty" Airport the next morning to complete his travels, he again declared his firearm, as is required by FAA regulations. He was then arrested for possession of a firearm without a New Jersey state license, and imprisoned in the Essex County jail for five days until his family arranged bail, which had been set unusually high at $15,000 cash -no bond."
 
I'll bet Franny is ecstatic over this one! Finally, the laws of the great state of New Jersey displaced federal law in this gun control case, a total reversal of the federal "slap-on-the-wrist" measures she lamented in the Mayes-Smurda gun smuggling caper. Now Jersey "justice" kicks in!
 
Scott Bach disagrees: "But Mr. Revell's travels were constitutionally protected by the Firearms Owners Protection Act, a federal law passed in 1986 to protect law-abiding citizens who travel with firearms. That law trumps state and local gun laws and protects interstate travel with firearms under certain circumstances, all of which were present in Mr. Revell's case."
 
Bach then gives us a peek at the kind of justice fascists, communists and The Star-Ledger crave for their victims: "Once inside the Essex County Jail, Mr. Revell was subjected to numerous atrocities. He was thrown into a holding cell with 28 inmates, many of whom were admitted murderers and rapists. He endured a repulsive vomit-covered bed and toilet, was denied his blood pressure and migraine medication, was inoculated against his will, given inedible food, strip-searched, and left only with his wits to survive."
 
Of course, once Revell and his attorney from ANJRPC got the charges dropped due to their invalidity because his firearms transport and travel are protected under federal law, Revell is now suing the Port Authority for damages. But I say, why stop there? It's time to start holding the MSM fascists and communists, as well as Fran Wood, accountable for their "oversights," "errors" of omission and commission, campaigns and out-and-out anti-constitutionalist and un-American falsehoods and propaganda which cause such statist outrages against law-abiding citizens.
 
For it is none other than the corporate establishment mainstream media that is the chief misinformer and driver of dangerous gun control. MSM propaganda rags like The Star-Ledger make the kind of police state terror suffered by Revell both possible and viable. A life-long law-abiding citizen, a father of eight children, with eight grandchildren, and married 36 years, has run afoul in the state with the nation's most despicable record of corruption and human rights violations.
 
c.2006 THEODORE E. LANG All rights reserved
 
Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.

 

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