http://www.meetup.com/drugreformny/

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I just took action on this issue and thought you might find it worthy of
your time and action too.

Click on this URL to take action now 
http://capwiz.com/norml2/utr/2/?a=13568661&i=5229341&c=

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ok  yes, c u then.  thanks gary.

yes  penduluum has swung too somewhat in academia  when i started at new school  i was really only one
interested in austrian econ   now there are several.

Just recently got into the FB myself. Yes, you could have someone troll other
lists, join targeted issue groups (guns, taxes, drugs, etc.) and mention the BLP
site. Best way might be to post a news item or article on the site, then mention
it on the FB wall (and provide the link).

---Peace & Freedom, John---

--- In ManhattanLibertarians@yahoogroups.com, gary popkin <garypopkin@...>
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send notes to each other on it. How would someone drum up business? Do we have
to assign a Social Director to troll other lists and invite people to ours?
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The Famous 'Kelo House' Property Is Now A Vacant Lot
John Carney | Nov. 10, 2009, 9:20 AM

What you are looking at to the right is a monument to government folly.

It is the vacant lot where the home of Susette Kelo once stood.

A decade ago, the town of New London, Connecticut claimed Kelo's house 
by right of eminent domain. The plan was to demolish the residential 
neighborhood so that Pfizer could built a massive research and 
development plant on the adjacent land. Pfizer got the land for next to 
nothing.  Five Supreme Court justices upheld the taking, ruling that 
although the primary beneficiary was a corporation, it met the 
constitutional requirement of "public use."

Now Pfizer has announced that it is shutting down the plant.

The Hartford Courant reports:

Pfizer Inc. will shut down its massive New London research and 
development headquarters and transfer most of the 1,400 people working 
there to Groton, the pharmaceutical giant said Monday....

Pfizer is now deciding what to do with its giant New London offices, and 
will consider selling it, leasing it and other options, a company 
spokeswoman said.

Scott Bullock, Kelo's co-counsel in the case, told the Examiner's Tim 
Carney: "This shows the folly of these redevelopment projects that use 
massive taxpayer subsidies and other forms of corporate welfare and 
abuse eminent domain."

Here's how the Associated Press describes the vacant lot:

Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced 
the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation's most notorious 
eminent domain project.

There are a few signs of life: Feral cats glare at visitors from a 
miniature jungle of Queen Anne's lace, thistle and goldenrod. Gulls 
swoop between the lot's towering trees and the adjacent sewage treatment 
plant.

The promised 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues 
vanished when the housing bubble popped and brought on the recession.

Vacant lot photo credit:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-famous-kelo-house-property-is-now-a-vacant-lot-2009-11



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Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:38:18 -0500
From: Julian Heicklen <jph13@...>
To: Julian Heicklen <jph13@...>
Cc: The Staff <ransom4all@...>, Iloilo Jones
<aji@...>,        John deLaubenfels
<jdelaubenfels@...>,        Garry Reed <greededitor@...>
Subject: Reminder


Hi Freedom Fighters

	 This note is to remind you that I will be passing out FIJA
	 literature in front of the U. S. District Court for the
	 Southern District of New York at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan
	 on Monday, November 16, 2009 from 11:45 am until 1:15 pm.  The
	 Department of Homeland Security is now arresting us for
	 distributing literature and taking pictures on federal property
	 without a permit.  The U. S. Constitution does not qualify as a
	 permit.

	 I would be delighted if some of you would be present to see if
standing on federal property without a permit will get you cited.  If
approached by a police officer and told to leave, ask for the  citation
code number with which you are being charged and for the officers name
and ID.  If you do not want the ticket, then leave.  If you are willing
to be ticketed, then remain.  The fine will be $100, if you pay it.

	 There are now 76 names on the Freedom Fighters list  These
	 include contributors to:

1. Liberty works Radio Network
2.  Free Talk Live
3. Libertarian News Examiner
4. Energy Round Table
5. NJ Libertarian

	 Contacts with several relevant organizations are on the list.
	 These include:

1. NJ ACLU
2. NJ & NY Libertarians
3. FIJA national office

	 There may be other groups or news outlets of which I am not
	 aware.  If you represent or are affiliated with one of them,
	 please notify me.

	 Today, November 14, 2009, I received a certified letter from
	 Bellevue Hospital.  A copy of my response appears at the bottom
	 of this E-mail.

	 An interesting development has occurred.  On the front page of
	 the Saturday, November 14, 2009, issue of the New York Times,
	 it is reported that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of being
	 the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, will be tried
	 in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New
	 York.  This is the court where I am distributing jury
	 nullification literature.  Also I have an active case in this
	 court, where I am suing the NY City police for kidnapping me on
	 April 17, 2007, across the street from the UN building.  Thus
	 simultaneously there will be two trials.  One of these is about
	 destroying the country, and the other is about improving it.
	 It is not clear which is which.  That depends  on your
	 political views.

	 Undoubtedly, security will tighten considerably.  I wonder if
	 either of us will be allowed to attend our own trials.  Keeping
	 us out will be a problem.  In my case, I am counsel pro se, so
	 who will try the case if I am barred?  In Khalid's case, he is
	 the Defendant, who must be present according to current court
	 rules.

			 THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE

			 THE PRICE OF JUSTICE IS ETERNAL PUBLICITY

	 Yours in freedom—Julian




734 Rutland Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666
November 16, 2009



MD Faruque
Department of Finance(Patient acct.)
Bellevue Hospital Center
First Avenue and 27th Street
New York, NY 19916
Telephone: 212–562–4141

Re: Your undated and unsigned letter

	 On November 14, 2009, I received your letter stating that you
	 would like to help me settle my hospital bill. You asked me to
	 provide identifying and medical insurance information.  I
	 suspect that this is your idea of a Halloween joke.  Bad taste!

	 I was brought to your hospital on both October 26, 2009, and
	 November 2,  2009, as a prisoner of the Department of Homeland
	 Security.  I was brought against my volition and did not
	 request any medication or medical advice.  In fact I was given
	 a shot against my loud objections and was forcibly held by 4
	 men while the injection was administered.

	  I sought no treatment and requested release.  On the first
	  visit, I was released on the same day that I arrived.  On the
	  second visit, I was held captive overnight.

	 It is disgraceful that you are using your hospital as a federal
	 prison holding pen. You have been an accessory to a kidnapping.
	 You have committed assault. Your credentials as a hospital
	 should be revoked.

	 Of course, I will not provide you with any information or
	 medical records, or to pay any expenses.  You should arrange
	 with the Department of Homeland Security to reimburse you for
	 expenses.

	 I intend to file both criminal and civil suits against your
	 hospital and some of your staff for kidnapping and assault.
	 If you contact me again, I will add harassment charges.

	 Shame on you!  Have you no decency?

Sincerely yours,



Julian Heicklen




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Yup. http://fija.org

I hope to be there again to record though I will try not to get
arrested this time. It all depends on work.


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> Subject: Re: [ManhattanLibertarians] Fw: Reminder
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> This note is to remind you that I will be passing out FIJA
> literature in front of the U. S. District Court for the
> Southern District of New York at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan
> on Monday, November 16, 2009 from 11:45 am until 1:15 pm. The
> Department of Homeland Security is now arresting us for
> distributing literature and taking pictures on federal property
> without a permit. The U. S. Constitution does not qualify as a
> permit.
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