Sabrin calls for Pennacchio to drop out

[MRoCkEd]

http://www.politickernj.com/sabrin-calls-pennacchio-drop-out

Seventeen years after it was written, a booklet authored by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Pennacchio has reemerged as a campaign issue.

Pennacchio’s Republican rival, Murray Sabrin, has begun distributing copies of the book, calling it a “fascist manifesto” and demanding that Pennacchio not only drop his Senate candidacy, but resign from his state Senate seat as well. Sabrin plans to hold a press conference on the topic this afternoon.

"These kinds of things are completely unacceptable. They’re disturbing and they’re hurtful," said Sabrin spokesman George Ajjan, noting that Sabrin's parents were holocaust survivors. "When you come from a background like Murray’s and you have an opponent who’s talking about camps of any kind, it’s extremely disturbing and unacceptable.”

This is not the first time that work has been raised in a political campaign. In 1994, when Pennacchio challenged Dean Gallo in the Republican congressional primary, excerpts were taken and distributed by Gallo’s campaign.

But Pennacchio argues that the book was a series of policy papers he wrote years ago filled with some ideas that he still holds true to, along with some ideas that he has “evolved” beyond.

The book, entitled The Nationalist Agenda: A Blueprint for the 21st Century and written under the pen name “Joseph Penn,” advocates setting up an organization called “The Nationalist Party” to challenge the conventional wisdom of Democrats and Republicans.

Below are some of the more controversial ideas from the book:

*Putting homeless people into different domestic military camps as a temporary solution, where non drug or alcohol addicted people will be given vocational training. Those with chemical dependencies would be separated into other camps where they would be provided with treatment.

“Why not put many of existing domestic military basis to good use?... Our national defense should not be limited to defense of foreign invaders. The enemy within, consisting of poverty and despair can be a far more immediate and destructive force.”

*Freezing Social Security and Medicare benefit rates for one year in order to make room for the needs of other citizens.

“We cannot keep feeding our seniors 72% of the entitlement pie while the rest of the citizenship looks on in hunger,” he wrote.



* Distribution of RU-486, an abortion drug that was not on the American market at the time in order to eliminate the need for surgical abortions in early pregnancy.

"The Nationalist Party is dedicated to the education and encouragement of family planning through contraception,” wrote Pennacchio."



*Changing the color of currency every few years so as to thwart the black market. Americans would periodically exchange old money for new money at banks, who would have to report any exchange of $1,000 or more to the Internal Revenue Service.

“The easiest way to stop this cash economy is to exchange all present money for new “colored money,” wrote Pennacchio. “In the future do this periodically ever number of years. Coloring the money from green to blue, for instance, would cause fits for this illegal black market.”



*Cutting the military’s budget, including the “Star Wars” programs that had previously been touted by the Reagan administration if the Soviet Union behaved responsibly.



*An Equal Rights Amendment that guarantees equal pay for both sexes for equal work, but acknowledges physical differences.



"This would allow them equal pay for equal work but would prevent women from taking on jobs for which they are not physically able.”



*Pennacchio writes that the government was not able to bring “swift and direct retribution” for the assassination of political figures like John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr – leading people to speculate about conspiracy theories.

“Criminals saw that you could kill the President of the United States and get away with it. What fear of law and order should any criminal have?” wrote Pennacchio. “As new revelations are made about John Kennedy’s assassination, it becomes very difficult to believe that there wasn’t a conspiracy involved. This insured a continued erosion in the American peoples’ faith in their government’s system or law and order.”

 

[sophocles07]

Most of that stuff doesn't seem to me to be too extreme, but I agree with none of it.

 

[SabrinForSenate]

Most of that stuff doesn't seem to me to be too extreme, but I agree with none of it.

Yeah, but politics is perception. You cannot publish something called a "nationalist agenda" and be considered a viable, sane candidate.

 

[nate895]

Yeah, but politics is perception. You cannot publish something called a "nationalist agenda" and be considered a viable, sane candidate.

Unless you happen to live in certain portions of Idaho and the state I live in of Washington.

 

[yongrel]

The Nationalist Party is within striking distance of Godwin's Law.

 

[boggie08]

Those plans are tyrannical. No government has the authority to do those things. I hope the people of New Jersey have enough sense to vote against Pennacchio.

 

[stepupnj]

Well I read a good part of the document and actually thought it contained some good ideas..in fact, Ron Paul-like ideas.

But the whole approach of attacking a candidate on something written 18 years ago, when he was not even in public service, is kind of lame, IMO. It smacks of the dirt-digging Hillary style. Remember the attack on Ron for his newsletter? As was that, this is pretty much baseless and gets away from focusing on the issues. I doubt that Ron would ever use a tactic like this, and frankly its not the kind of thing the public would pay attention to. If anything, the impact would tend toward the negative side.

 

[0zzy]

Well I read a good part of the document and actually thought it contained some good ideas..in fact, Ron Paul-like ideas.

But the whole approach of attacking a candidate on something written 18 years ago, when he was not even in public service, is kind of lame, IMO. It smacks of the dirt-digging Hillary style. Remember the attack on Ron for his newsletter? As was that, this is pretty much baseless and gets away from focusing on the issues. I doubt that Ron would ever use a tactic like this, and frankly its not the kind of thing the public would pay attention to. If anything, the impact would tend toward the negative side.

What were the "good ideas"?

-- federally standardized eduction
-- more entitlements
-- expanding the IRS
-- strong compromises on the 2nd amendment
-- socialized healthcare

 

[acptulsa]

And how is a political document penned by the candidate irrelevant to a campaign?

 

[stilltrying]

Its outright socialism

Pennachios old ideas are an outright lead to socialism. The govt should not provide war jobs mandatorily to homeless people or drug addicts. Thats why it is a free army currently. Pennachios ideas are pure socialism.

The whole money thing. Not bad but until the fed is pulled out and money is based on something besides paper then it makes no difference. As long as we pay interest to a made up bank that the govt has no need for you could change the money everyday and it still makes no difference.

 

[Naraku]

Pennacchio said that his rival for the GOP nomination, Murray Sabrin, is not one to talk, considering he once ran for governor as a Libertarian.

“Murray Sabrin was part of a third party himself that promulgates legalized drug use and prostitution,” he said.

Source: http://www.politickernj.com/penhacchio-what-it

Haha! Is he serious? He honestly thinks he can make the two seem similar?

Here's the complete agenda:

http://www.politickernj.com/files/2008-03-17_NationalistAgenda.pdf

Some things I noticed:

* He proposed giving the President a six-year term.

* anti-racist amendment to say we do not tolerate racism

* eliminate restrictions on the admittance of evidence obtained in "good faith"

* A National Health Organization which appears to be a government system that pays doctors. Also includes government purchasing drugs and then having them sold at lower prices.

* He says the union must use their organizational skills to help us "retake the country"

* temporary tagging of criminal offenders to draw attentions to their criminal past so as to "warn the community"

* advocates a system for "house arrest" with "home officers" in the case of some crimes

* promotes private prisons and having prisoners work for businesses

* requiring some non-violent criminals to join the military.

Some of it is quite disconcerting no doubt.

 

[skyorbit]

Apparently There's a Murray Sabrin/Ron Paul Republican running for Assemblyman in the 12th district. Jason Scheurer Hopefully that will help bring out the Sabrin Vote in the Republican Primery.

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