From Alex Mattila:
President George W. Bush signed the bill H.R. 4040 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act into law on Aug. 14, 2008.
The law is supposed to protect our children from lead which was recently found in products from China; however, this law affects all American made products even though they had nothing to do with the problem. It will now be illegal to sell (including yard sales) or give away new & used children’s clothes, shoes, books, educational materials, toys, bicycles, ATV’s, cribs, cradles, playpens, bath seats, play equipment(slides & swings), high chairs, car seats, strollers, school supplies (including homeschool), bedding, mattresses, furniture etc. for all children under the age of 12 after February 10, 2009 unless they are tested for lead by a third party testing agency approved by the government. This includes products used by child care services including day care, health care (dentists, doctors) and public safety providers. Congress has already appropriated $632,524,000.00 and 500 employees to enforce this law. Violators will be subject to a $100,000.00 fine for the first violation and $15,000,000.00 fine for multiple violations, up to 5 years in prison, and seizures of vehicles, homes, stores, businesses, and all assets associated with the violation(s). The thrift stores and businesses that families are turning to in these tough economic times to provide for their own needs are being shut down by our government! The handwriting is on the wall. If this ridiculous law is not repealed, it could very likely lead to parents being accused of “endangering” their children and being fined, arrested, imprisoned, and/or the loss of their children if they are caught clothing them with ”untested” clothing, letting them play with “untested” toys, or letting them read “untested” books. This law will effect the cost of children’s’ items to skyrocket. Our government has turned China’s problem into bankrupting sanctions against the American family. Ronald Reagan clearly articulated what is happening here when he said, “Government is not the solution, and it is the problem”.
You can check out this law on www.govtrack.us to read the 62 page bill for yourself.
What can you do about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA)?
President-Elect Barack Obama has provided a means for citizens to elevate important issues. An official website has been established to allow citizens to rank the importance of various issues by voting on the questions listed on the website. Everyone is encouraged to access this official website to help elevate the importance of stopping the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). The deadline for voting on this website is January 15, so circulate this alert as widely as possible ASAP!
Here is how you can register your concerns about CPSIA with the new Administration:
Step 1: Go to: http://www.change.gov/page/content/openforquestions20081229/
Step 2: Click on “Sign In” on right side of screen.
Step 3: Fill in the Sign in information in the boxes provided & type in both obscured words & or set of numbers in the “word verification” box
Step 4: Click on the “sign up” box
Step 5: Type in “CPSIA” in the box next to “search questions”
Step 6: Click on the “search questions” box
Step 7: View the questions about CPSIA and click on the check box next to the question if you agree with the question and if you would like the new Administration to answer the question. If you don’t agree with the question, click on the “X” instead.
Step 8: When you are done, click on “Sign out” on the right side of screen
Step 9: Go to: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia, sign up, and vote on the left side of the screen
Step 10: Forward this to all your family and friends & ask them to oppose this before it is too late!
Step 11: Forward this to all your government representatives and tell them to stop this reprehensible law before it is too late!
This is all there is to it. This is a simple, efficient way for people to demonstrate their opposition to CPSIA. Thank You for taking the time to show your support for the present and future of the American family.
All those people, just wanting to resell kids stuff, or make simple toys, or just raise their kids without Chinese junk.
Those sweet loveable people who would run from the M Word (Militia) as those of us who know tell them their country is gone and banners over a highway won’t bring it back.
“nooo. I’m not some nut!. What are you, a tin foil hatter?”
“Out of control government eventually gets to you or somebody or something you care about”. I try to tell them.
To all those who are about to go out of business, who on the stroke of a pen become criminals overnight, those who lived a life of adult-sized childhood and compromise and are about to be shafted by more agents sent forth to eat out their substance, I say:
Welcome to the party.
I suppose I should not care one iota because I don’t have kids.
How many will be caring about this but did not care one iota in the past because they didn’t have or do the same things I do?
Laws do not stop crime, they increase it !
Just force stops crime and restores the peace !
Sharp pens are defeated by sharp minds with swords, only wisdom defeats them all.
Do you have the wisdom to defeat the sharper minds with swords ?
quote ; Luke 16-8 “And the lord applauds the unjust administrator, for he does prudently, for the sons of this eon are more prudent, above the sons of light in their own generation.
The sons of darkness are sharper of mind than the Sons of light concerning worldly things, the sons of darkness are bringing extermination upon the Sons of light, it is time to face the reality and do your duty, the war is on.
“Do you have the wisdom to defeat the sharper minds with swords ?”
Sadly, I do not. The scope of my knowledge and experience in life is limited thus. I can wield a sword, but not in a void whereopon there is no (spiritual) command for the proper (rightious) ends.
Where are the sharper minds on the side of Light who can first defeat the enemies swords with wisdom? Or have they not yet won the spiritual battle in themselves and can stand in rightious command of the sword that I offer?
If I will not be deceived by the forces of darkness to, as usual, wield the sword for the beast’s earthly system, wear its badges, and seek it’s earthly rewards in the form of the honors it bestows (rank, priviledge, rewards), where then are the men who will raise the banner of truth?
I wait. Yet they run from me. I wait.
So open doors where once was nothing.
For one has displayed within him the evidence of things not seen.
So unfurl bold banners like fireworks in the mind.
“And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.”
They speak a different language beyond these walls
In the Circus.
Giant, sleek Byzantine SUV Powerglides past rows of
Cruel, spectacled, Communist monks.
Skull white emporer flaunts demented obscenities
for swarming locust hordes
who press like cogs
in a blind machine
their looting, foe-less war.
The parks are burning.
In shadows, invisible to the enemy and the indifferent, the agents walk.
Practical, immaculate, ready to die… perfect in their time.
Come on inside, out of the Dark.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place;
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will bum,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
What the F..? You guys are depressing!
This link http://www.king5.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=321361
Is a video of Seattle’s mayor pushing the tunnel plan through despite the people voting against it by a margin of 70%.
Same with the stadiums, the people voted against them over and over, even got a initiative passed but was overturned by a criminal judiciary.
Fact is people, the state has become organized crime and will only be stopped by force of arms.
Oh yes the country can degenerate into feudalism and tribalism over time as the state collapses but that does not sound like much fun to me.
quote ;”[My educators] did not pretend to believe that everyone is educable, for they knew, on the contrary, that very few are educable, very few indeed. They saw this as a fact of nature, like the fact that few are six feet tall. [...] They accepted the fact that there are practicable ranges of intellectual and spiritual experience which nature has opened to some and closed to others.” Albert J Nock our enemy the state.
This is certainly a bad law, but its effects are over-blown and over-hyped.
As the Consumer Products Safety Commission indicated a week ago, “Sellers of used children’s products, such as thrift stores and consignment stores, are not required to certify that those products meet the new lead limits, phthalates standard or new toy standards.”
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09086.html
World Net Daily has already pointed this out as well.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85638
Regards,
Matthew F. Pfefer
Attorney at Law
Spokane, WA
For the sake of completeness, I should also mention the other side of the issue.
As the Consumer Products Safety Commission indicated a week ago, “However, resellers cannot sell children’s products that exceed the lead limit . . . . Those resellers that do sell products in violation of the new limits could face civil and/or criminal penalties.”
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09086.html
World Net Daily has already pointed this out as well.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85638
Regards,
Matthew F. Pfefer
Attorney at Law
Spokane, WA
Ahh both sides you say.
You see, this is what’s wrong with “law” these days. It’s Lawfare. It’s not meant to protect anybody. It’s meant to set up a gotcha game.
This is why we can watch government break it’s own laws yet the family of an organic farmer gets machine guns pointed at their kids.
“Law” is nothing more than an excuse by the state to plunder. They call it law, but it’s really robbery.
So the connected retailers who donate a lot of money to the politicians will never fall under much scrutiny and if they did, it would be in letters and perhaps a small fine.
But the mom and pop store on the grandfathered piece of land that the developers, drooling over, will pressure the city council to “find a way”, and these new laws will be yet one more “way” to shut them down to get the land.
But where will the lawyers and legal eagle be to fight this?
Or is the entire legal profession complicit and facing a future perhaps comparable to those of Nazi judges who ended up in Nueremburg?
The remedy is simple.
The legislature can repeal the statute.
Or, a constitutional amendment can occur that reinforces the 9th and 10th amendments.
There is no legal remedy in the court system.
Regards,
Matthew F. Pfefer
Matthew F. Pfefer SAID;
“The remedy is simple.
The legislature can”
No they can not, I am very fortunate to live in the 39th leg. district with Val Kirk and Dan all very good reps in my opinion but they are hopelessly out numbered by Marxists in the legislature and why I post the link above of the Marxists ramming a project through the people voted by over 70% against.
Whether state or federal the legislature does not care what the people want.
”Oderint dum metuant” translates, roughly, as ”let them hate as long as they fear.” It was a favorite saying of the emperor Caligula.
Matthew F. Pfefer wrote:
“This is certainly a bad law, but its effects are over-blown and over-hyped.”
Don’t know what you are referring to as “over-blown” and “over-hyped”. Have you read the law? Please explain.
As for CPSC “clarification”
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09086.html,
this is a spin attempt to downplay the effects of this reprehensible law that the American people are justifiably”up in arms” about. The law still stands and consequences remain the same. It would be much like the highway patrol saying,” Don’t worry yourself with the speed limit, however, if we catch you speeding, you will be fined”.
The “clarification” is double talk which is the signature verbage of forked tongue politicians. If the “lead free certification” was truly not required, then there would be no enforcement. The law was not rewritten. CPSC simply restated the law in a different way so people don’t feel so “uncomfortable” about being forced into bankruptcy. Whether you feel less uncomfortable or not, you will still be subject to horrendous fines, bankruptcy, prison, and/or seizure of all assets associated with the violation(s) if you are found in violation of this law. The law gives the authority for enforcement. Without the law, there is no authority for enforcement. In order to truly eliminate the testing requirement, the law must be repealed.
The CPSC double talk did one thing. It put those who didn’t see through the smokecreen “clarification”, in an off-guard position which makes them even more vulnerable to the horrendous consquequences of this terrible law.
“Just put your emotions aside and trust us..because were the goverment”. You think that’s a good idea? Go ask an Indian.
Alex
see also:
http://www.thesmartmama.com/bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203&Itemid=23
“Just put your emotions aside and trust us..because were the goverment”. You think that’s a good idea? Go ask an Indian.
“But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.”
Chief Seattle (or Sealth)
Home School School Board Member Being Persecuted
Well now we done it. All that waxing poetic, histrionics and nattering has bored Doug to death!!!
Oh oh.
Will someone go check on Doug? :-S
Thanks for your concern, Dok.
My wife shattered some of her ankle in a snow accident and I hit the wall in terms of energy expenditure.
The internal struggles of the GOP hierarchy, the Liberty faction and the inert old Reagan Republicans reached a kind of creshendo during this period, all behind the scenes.
My “Political Fusion” diagram is a bit accurate if you can picture the point of nuclear impact at the State Central Committee level. We will have partial fusion. And internal combustion.
Simultaneously, there is a story of great significance that has played out recently, all inside, between the GOPLA, CFL (Nationally), the Moores, the Delavars and a faction I won’t now name. I hope to be able to tell it, but not publicly. The Lion is on the move. The plays for 2012 are upon us. And huge metaphysical clockworks have been set in motion for the very first time.
I am exhausted. But content. We should be able to get the website functioning, again, as it should, within a week as I recover. But He’s not a tame Lion.
You shine as lights.
Doug
I was wondering where you were hiding! Sorry to hear about your wife’s accident. I am praying for her swift recovery. Also, I hope you get some well deserved R&R and shed the weight of the country off of your own shoulders by shifting them on to the only One who can carry this burden. :-) The battle is the Lord’s, even though you are a faithful servant indeed.
I don’t know how I missed that nuclear fusion diagram, but I’m glad you mentioned it. After studying it a bit, I want to ask you this:
Define that “force” represented by the two arrows that will perform as some sort of “super-collider” crashing all the divergent particles into the yellow blob of energy in the center?!
I have commented earlier on why I couldn’t stomach the Ron Paul Republicans, most of whom ARE the little red “closet leftists” :-) The pragmatists make me Ill, to the point that I descend into feeling like one of those amorphous blue particles hovering around the pinkies with the crosses in the middle. Ummmm… my little cross fades sometimes because the rest of the particles make me so furious I want to take up that sword that Christ never intended us to wield — I have to fight off the tendency to feel like Doktor Jeep and Strat. :-) No offense, guys. But its easier to start a revolution than to end one.
So…. please help me with the motive power for all this fusion, will you???
Closet leftist?
Start a revolution?
I am one of those people trying to tell the other trigger pullers that you can’t just go and shoot the bastards! You have no idea what it’s like dealing with people who have a hammer and see every problem as a nail. I have been called names, challenged to fights, called a disapator and a fed too. All because I try to tell them that a real working solution takes four elements of a successful movement, of that Force being only a quarter of it.
And this is what I have to see? Comments like that? Because I know that eat, meet, retreat for another 30 years will only get us as far as eat, meet, retreat for the last 30 years has gotten us. When people try to garner respect around me by saying they were “knocking on doors for pro life back in the 70s” I an compelled to ask them how many have been aborted since and what is it that keeps them from realizing what a failure they are.
Oh, because I know that a banner over a highway won’t save the day that means I want to start a revolution.
What I care about is not seeing the good guys, the people I have found good company with in the Ron Paul revolution, NOT spend a lifetime being competely ignored by plutocrats who laugh from their thrones knowing at any time they could find a way to silence them for good. The legal eagles, the spiritual, and the activists, WILL achieve victory if they do it right. And THAT is when the leviathan lashes out. That is when the decades of “Oh, I am into peaceful activism! Oh I don’t believe in violence! Oh I am not some militia nut with guns!” comes back to haunt you when “they” decide they heard enough of you rattling your chains. Jefferson, Franklyn, Adams, Henry, Mason – they did not “start” a revolution they beat the king using the spirit of law (not the rule of it) first, then the king sent troops. Then the founders had much use for armed men.
Thanks.
Ok Doktor, please accept my apologies. Obviously I haven’t read ENOUGH of your comments to draw an accurate picture of your overall perspective. Please forgive me.
Besides, my point was that lately I end up spending more time feeling like you do, than with the banner hangers saying “get out the vote”. Utterly, positively useless. That was really my point. I’m more on your side than you might think. I’m no pacifist peace activist, but I guess I’m just not ready to embrace the chaos yet. At least, not unless it is thrust upon me. And I just hope that if/when that happens, that the “good guys” (whoever that is) are better equipped than hunting rifles. Otherwise, it will be a turkey shoot. God help us.