Letter to Congressman Chris Gibson Re Immigration Reform

Mike Marnell forwarded Betsy McCaughey's video about the gang of eight's immigration reform proposal. 

PO Box 130

West Shokan, NY 12494

June 22, 2013

The Honorable Chris Gibson

1708 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Congressman Gibson:

The proposed immigration law being put forward by the gang of eight is flawed and should be scotched.  Betsy McCaughey makes several points.  First, community organizations should have no role in the processing of citizenship applications, including those of immigrants seeking asylum.  Community organizations are partisan.  Marco Rubio and John McCain are committing direct partisan suicide by supporting this bill; I was skeptical of Mr. Rubio's conservative credentials before, and they have been discredited now.  

Second, the bill's proposed US Citizenship Foundation is a Trojan horse. It is outrageous that potentially partisan groups like this are being proposed to receive government funding.  Community organizations are fine as long as they are privately funded. They should not receive sanctions of law.  

Third, the Office of Civil Rights should not be involved in border security and enforcement.   

The America I once knew and that you defended is gone.  This is no longer the land of the free.  A government that regulates what you eat, forces you buy insurance, and, like this bill, uses soviets or community organizations to perform government functions is not the government of a free people.   Washington has failed America.  America's can no longer be called a great government.   

Have you thought about transforming the federal government into a defense-and-tariff treaty and downloading all other federal responsibilities to the states?   In its current form, from the Fed's garish monetary policy to social security to immigration regulation to the crackpot environmental proposals being put forth to federal gun control, the federal government is a failure.  I see massive net losses to the public from Washington. The federal government's only useful responsibilities are defense and tariff coordination. 

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert

How to Unravel Social Security

PO Box 130

West Shokan, NY 12494

August 27, 2012

Mr. Chris Gibson, congressman

House of Representatives

502 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Gibson:

Here's an idea to help solve the federal government's Social Security conundrum.  Why not allow those who have been (and whose employers have been) compelled to contribute to it to request a refund of employee and employer contributions without interest?  The result may be a win-win: those who would rather put the money in financial markets than trust the federal government could do so, while the federal government would be off the hook for future liabilities that likely would exceed the lump sum payment because of inflation.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert

Cc: Mr. Barack Obama, president of the United States

A Magic Bullet that Ends Agenda 21

I just wrote the following to Congressman Chris Gibson's campaign staff:

Dear Messrs. Westcott, Quigley, and Czajka:

I’m sorry that you had to miss Ms. Rosa Koire, the speaker in Olive tonight (please note that the speaker was tonight, not last night).   The information provided in Ms. Koire’s lecture was consistent with what I had heard in previous talks by Tom Deweese and others.  I am still interested in Congressman Gibson’s position on Agenda 21.

(1) As you know, Article Four, section four of the Constitution delegates the authority of guaranteeing a republican form of government in each state to Congress. This process has been adjudicated in at least two Supreme Court decisions, both of which held that Congress bears responsibility for ensuring that states retain republican forms of government.
(2) The claim that Agenda 21 is irrelevant to state governance does not change Congress’s responsibility to ensure a republican form of government.  If Agenda 21 does what Ms. Koire and Mr. Deweese claim or not, Congress still must ensure that the states have republican forms of government.
(3) Delegation of state power to private corporations is inconsistent with a republican form of government.  Whether or not Agenda 21 has coordinated this kind of delegation, it is still desirable for Congress to prohibit it.
(4) Therefore, whether or not Congressman Gibson agrees that Agenda 21 poses a threat to republican government, he should have no trouble supporting a law that (a) prohibits states from allocating governmental authority to non-governmental organizations and (b) prohibits federal funding of any locality or state that allocates governmental authority to a non-governmental organization.

I would appreciate a statement from Congressman Gibson on two points:

(1) His position on Agenda 21 and its congressional abrogation
(2) Whether he will be willing to propose a law that would prohibit states from being governed by NGOs and would prohibit federal funding of any governmental organization that so delegates.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert