- Loyal and consistent readers of this column know two
things: I reside in the state of New Jersey, which qualifies me to observe,
as I have frequently, that New Jersey is the most corrupt and legally backward
state in the nation. And now, our illustrious governor, Jon Corzine, who
spent $62 million of the $400 million fortune he made with Goldman Sachs
on Wall Street to buy his New Jersey U.S. Senate seat, and another $40
million to buy the governorship, has passed gas legislation. That's right
folks! The government of the most corrupt state is now concerned that
God messed up when He constructed the universe, and towering scientific
geniuses such as the "Zeen" and Gore have to join forces to plug
the gas genie's bottle.
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- And of course, the way to accomplish this is to use the
threat of government force and violence to "persuade" businesses,
energy providers, and ordinary Dick and Jane American homeowners that they
better shape up and comply with American dictatorial government force and
obey THE LAW! And if businesses, energy providers, and innocent homeowners
do not comply with THE LAW, well then, they will have to be penalized and
TAXED! And if all do comply with THE LAW, well then, they will be penalized
and TAXED anyway! Heads, the government wins; tails, you and I lose.
Now we know why it is the tax-and-spend Democrats that are pushing so hard
for universal acceptance of their new religion: global warming and greenhouse
gasses. There's money in them there gases!
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- As I have often articulated in this space, New Jersey's
corruption and backwards laws exceed that of all other states in America.
And because of this, New Jersey has the highest income taxes, sales taxes,
real estate property taxes, auto insurance premiums, highest medical malpractice
insurance, highway tolls, and the greediest tax-grabbing government in
the nation. And of course, it is the most crime-ridden state as well,
due to the fact that it has the toughest law-abiding citizen-targeting
gun control in the nation.
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- The list of corrupt and law-breaking New Jersey politicians
is virtually endless: Senator Robert Torricelli; State Senator Donald DiFrancesco;
Governor and EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman; Chief Justice Deborah
Poritz; Attorney General Zulima Farber; State Senator, John Lynch; State
Senator, Wayne Bryant; Newark Mayor Sharpe James; Essex County Executive,
James Treffinger; Hudson County Executive, Robert Janiszewski; Governor
James McGreevey and his high rolling funder Charles Kushner, as well as
an endless list of other high rollers comprising the money power behind
these politicians.
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- Corruption built upon partisan politics cronyism: New
Jersey is the showcase example of the destructive force the Founding Fathers
recognized so early on during the very birth of our former republic thought
to be so cleverly engineered via our failed Constitution. New Jersey is
the showcase of legislation and government dedicated to cash pay-offs and
bribes perfumed over as campaign "contributions." The state
exemplifies government of, by and for the minority interests of lobbyists.
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- And with all this in mind, isn't it fitting that the
Governor's office should be purchased as well by Wall Street multi-millionaire
Jon Corzine? And the Zeen promised to fix the Garden of Evil State and
keep it politically clean. So why shouldn't he buy his way into our "Garden
State" and its new religion of Green?
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- Honest scientists, that is, scientists who aren't on
the government dole in colleges and universities and cashing in on state
and federal grants, can therefore afford to tell the truth, acknowledge
that Earth is in a warming trend, but then also offer that this is a natural
phenomenon over which we have no control. It is becoming increasingly
clear that "global warming" is merely the fraudulent foundation
for a globally oriented political solution that will require the little
people, mostly those in the United States, to fork over yet more money
to the tax swindlers and extortionists in government.
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- Timothy Gardner, writing for Reuters and assisted by
Lisa Lee, posted an article entitled, "New Jersey governor signs toughest
U.S. carbon law," on July 7th, and carried also on the Drudge Report
Sunday, July 8th :[http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN0619342520070707]
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- Reporting from East Rutherford [Giants Stadium] Gardner
writes: "New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S. state to mandate
sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 to help fight climate change.
The law, signed by Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, makes New Jersey the latest
state to bypass the Bush administration by setting mandatory regulations
to fight emissions of gases that scientists link to global warming."
Of course, Gardner postures politically correct by not mentioning the
many scientists who have an opposing view that human activity is not the
cause for either global warming or climate change.
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- But the rapid adoption of this scientific fraud, both
being accepted and first acted upon by the most corrupt state government
in the nation, should not only send up a red flag as to what this global
hooey is really all about, but also as to the dire need for this "massive
problem" to be addressed by the all encompassing beneficence of American
government. Gardner quotes the Zeen: "'We want to send a message
to Washington. Wake up, get with the program and start doing something
about greenhouse gases,' Corzine told reporters at Giants Stadium on the
eve of former Vice President Al Gore's international Live Earth concerts."
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- The article continues: "The Global Warming Response
Act mandates cuts of greenhouse gas emissions throughout New Jersey's economy
by about 16 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050 in the country's most
densely populated state. Scientists say heat-trapping emissions need to
be cut by that much to prevent the worst effects of global warming including
deadly storms, flooding and droughts." Obviously, our highly technological
society along with our advanced education and its resultant intellectual
enlightenment is now returning our collective intellects and sense of empirical
inquiry back to the level of enlightenment typical of the Dark Ages. We
are now passing legislation to abolish hobgoblins, witches and trolls.
And our brilliant politicians and lawgivers cannot restrain themselves
in assuring that we collectively achieve this highly desirable level of
ignorance and arrogance.
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- Gardner informs US, "California, the world's eighth
largest economy, recently enacted a tough greenhouse gas law. Like New
Jersey's, it also mandates an emissions cut by 2020. But its long term
goal of cutting emissions 80 percent by 2050 is a target, not a hard mandate.
Environmentalists said the New Jersey law is tougher than California's
because its 2050 target is enforceable." Gardner, of course,
failed to point out the real reason for Tony Soprano's 'Joisey" having
a tougher law than soon-to-be-bankrupt California: we have more corrupt,
criminal politicians in this state! New Jersey is for sale, as Corzine
pointed out by buying his way into the Governor's mansion!
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- Now the punch line: "New Jersey, which has a hub
of oil refineries and chemical plants in its northern region, aims to fight
emissions by promoting renewable energy like solar and wind power and by
helping consumers to conserve power. Public Service Enterprise Group,
owner of New Jersey's largest utility, said PSEG supports the law but that
it would lead to higher power prices."
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- Oh-oh!
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- $$$Chi-ching! $$$Chi-ching! There it is folks! Hold
on to your wallets; the TAXMAN commeth yet again, led by The Zeen and The
Algore! Think I'm kidding? Check it out!
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- Again Gardner: "'I believe custom[er]s are willing
to pay for the higher costs associated with the environmental benefits,'
the company's Chief Executive Ralph Izzo told Reuters at the ceremony where
Corzine sighed the bill. The New Jersey Business and Industry Association
opposes the law, saying it would raise fees and give sweeping powers to
state agencies. The law also seeks to deal with emissions from vehicles,
the largest source of the emissions in New Jersey, by enhancing public
transportation, car-pooling and the shipping of goods by rail instead of
truck."
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- The real target of New Jersey's Global Warming Response
Act will once again be the hapless, overtaxed, overregulated New Jersey
motorist. For countless years I have written scores of letters to politicians
and other government criminals trying desperately to utilize the unused
zillions of miles of unused and abandoned railroad tracks; all to no avail.
There was always an excuse from township officials, county transportation
executives, state assemblymen and senators, and even my spineless congressman,
to such an extent I gave up on all of this more than ten years ago. So
the bunk of increased rail usage is just that: so much more bunk! It will
be the New Jersey motorist who will again get screwed!
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- Writing for New Jersey's largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger,
Kate Coscarelli offers another motivational perspective proving that the
religion of Gore Globaloney is a must-do initiative. In her article for
the Ledger's "Business Sunday" section dated July 8th entitled,
"Global warming catches on in the legal field: big firms and law schools
develop climate specialty," she opens: "There has been a debate
over the existence of global warming for years. Lately, it's gained a
lot of street cred from Al Gore's Oscar-winning movie, "An Inconvenient
Truth," and a United Nations report that found global warning is an
imminent threat to human life. Now, one more group can be counted among
those sold on the idea: lawyers."
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- $$$Chi-ching! $$$Chi-ching!
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- Coscarelli elaborates: "The legal world has been
jumping on the bandwagon of those convinced the issues of global warming
and climate change are here to stay and could even prove to be a lucrative
new field. These days, it seems everyone wants to get in on the act, from
big law firms starting specialty practice groups, to solo lawyers working
on projects, to law schools adding classes devoted to the subject. Some
in the legal world predict climate change work has the potential to be
the next big wave of litigation, akin to the huge tobacco and asbestos
cases, as lawyers go after energy companies and coal mines that produce
carbon dioxide."
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- $$$Chi-ching! $$$Chi-ching!
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- Coscarelli expands on the legal ramifications which confirm
dire predictions of huge, costly lawsuits and a horrific expansion of government
bureaucracies at the state and federal levels. I found her article originally
in the newspaper, but it can be found on the web here: [http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/business-7/118386913594430.xml&coll=1]
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- New Jersey has been reputed to have the highest concentration
of lawyers within its borders than any other state. Yet with all the stifling
regulations, most of which are written by lawyer-legislators, we have amongst
the highest gun and street crimes in the nation. In spite of the hard
evidence that gun control not only doesn't work, but promotes just the
opposite, NJ legislators continue pushing for more, and more, and more
gun control. It is the same with taxes, regulations concerning the environment
and pollution, and ethics guidance for government officials. None of these
laws work; they only stifle freedom and independence from government.
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- New Jersey crime is uncontrolled, as recently elected
Newark Mayor Corey Booker of New Jersey's largest city is finding out.
A breath of fresh air relative to the criminally corrupt cronyism of the
city administration of Sharpe James, the city is drowning in crimes and
drug-related gang murders. Booker has pointed out the failure of the "War
on Drugs." Big central government-concocted laws to save humanity
and the universe invariably produce just the opposite effect. Former Governor
and Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Todd Whitman was very
big on cleaning up the environment; I met her on one of her state junkets
celebrating the donation of a large tract of land to prevent development.
The "Highlands Act" of New Jersey was passed by the same legislature
that just converted an "idea" and a "movement" into
law for Corzine. It originated with former Governor James McGreevey.
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- But McGreevey looked the other way when some of his financial
supporters were given special dispensation by him and state watchdog agencies.
His supporters abused highway billboard regulations causing a blight of
commercialized messaging that blocked out greenery and magnificent views
of the countryside for Garden State motorists. And Whitman lied about
the heavy pollution in downtown Manhattan after 9/11 thereby causing as
many as 40,000 individuals to develop lung problems and possible cancer.
And the marvelous litigation that provided windfall settlement funding
from tobacco companies for the states initiated during the Clinton administration
never found its way for application to remedy "damages" asserted
as the intended reason for the litigation: to offset state healthcare costs
for "tobacco victims." Instead, state governments used the proceeds
gained from litigation to facilitate pork barrel-spending for select politicians
and their lobby support groups.
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- And this global warming farce is no different. Coscarelli
hit the nail on the head without intending to do so; it will be yet another
windfall for lawyers and all layers of American criminal government. If
Gore and Corzine really wanted to send a message to Washington, and one
that would really help America and its people, Gore should have made a
movie called "Constitutional Crisis," and then Corzine could
have signed New Jersey's Non-Impeachment Response Act.
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- © THEODORE E. LANG 7/8/07 All rights reserved
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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