As Attorney General, I will not prosecute people for owning, possessing, nor carrying any type of knife.

This came in my email 10/25/17. What's wrong with our criminal Governor Cuomo?

In a shocking move, Governor Andrew Cuomo has vetoed A.5667-A, a bill that would have dramatically reformed the laws on knives in New York.

The current statutes are so murky and unclear that the New York City Police Department has interpreted it to mean an effective ban on almost all knives.

Thousands of people have been prosecuted for basic folding knives that can be bought in any hardware or sporting goods store. And most of those arrested have come from minority and low income backgrounds.

This legislation was passed by a 136-1 majority in the New York State Assembly and a 61-1 majority in the New York State Senate.

It was supported by a broad coalition of groups including the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the New York Times, Knife Rights, and FPC.

Governor Cuomo vetoed it anyway, citing concerns over a recent rise in knife attacks in New York City.

Why he didn’t consider the fact that current NY law leaves victims defenseless to these attacks is unknown to us.

Unfortunately, the insanity remains in New York.

Minority and low-income residents in New York City still face harassment, arrest, and prosecution for the simple crime of owning a common knife.

But we are still fighting in New York!

firearmspolicy.org

Greg Blass: The fix is in: Party bosses, not voters, decide who will be Suffolk County’s next district attorney and sheriff

"Suffolk County’s political party bosses are busy at work selecting our next sheriff and district attorney. Their diabolical goal: these two county-wide races will again be uncontested – meaning no choice for the voters, only for the bosses. Nothing new – we haven’t had a choice in a DA or county sheriff election for 14 years. Why is that?
First of all, in the DA’s office, over 400 assistant district attorneys and other staff are hired at the DA’s discretion. They prosecute all criminal cases in all the courts of Suffolk, including in our justice courts on the East End. No doubt these jobs will be divided among Democratic and Republican leaders, with handouts as well to the Conservative and Independence Party leaders, as with chips in a cynical game of cards."
See the link to his article:
https://riverheadlocal.com/2017/05/22/greg-blass-fix-party-bosses-not-voters-decide-will-suffolk-countys-next-district-attorney-sheriff/

Greg Blass How the Suffolk DA came to be the highest-paid elected official in the county — and what you can do about it

By Greg Blass - Sep 11, 2017, 9:31 am
"The Suffolk County District Attorney is our highest-compensated, elected county official, fully paid by us as county taxpayers. Yet huge raises for that job keep on coming. It now pays $195,000. Add benefits and health coverage, and we’re in the range of $230,000. This will again increase next year by about $10,000, in base salary alone, with another $2,000, in 2019."  ...
See the link:
https://riverheadlocal.com/2017/09/11/greg-blass-suffolk-da-came-highest-paid-elected-official-county-can/

2017 Libertarians nominate Chris Garvey for Suffolk DA again

Sat. 6/17/2017 The Annual Convention of the Libertarian Party of Suffolk County, in NY again nominated Chris Garvey for Suffolk District Attorney, as it did in 2013 and 2009.

Platform - 2017

The District Attorney is not a mere adversary. His first task is to NOT prosecute the innocent. If a prosecutor has reasonable doubts, he should not prosecute.
As a Libertarian, my priorities would be to prosecute crimes where force, threat of force, or fraud were used against persons or property. That would include such crimes by government officials.
  
Poisoning of your air or water is an initiation of force which I would prosecute.

I would not enforce a law that violates the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment is an important part of the  US Constitution. Some NY Laws violate the Second Amendment. GarveyFacts

Voluntary drug use by adults generally does not harm others.
Cannabis has been used mostly harmlessly for thousands of years. It can suppress pain, seizures, and brain damage from trauma or stroke.*  There is no link between cannabis use and motor vehicle trauma.** 

The main problem with opioid drugs is they are illegal. So users must rely on criminals to obtain drugs. Criminals tend to use fraud and force as business tactics. So users can't rely on consistent product.  Hence, the opioid overdoses.  I would prosecute dealers who use fraud or force.
Endogenous opioids = Opioid-peptides that are produced in the body include:
    Endorphins
    Enkephalins
    Dynorphins
    Endomorphins   (Wikipedia)
Although pain is important for sensing injury and avoiding further injury, you don’t need to be distracted by pain for the entire healing duration.
So your body makes Endogenous opioids as natural pain suppressors, that make less noticeable many of the day’s routine discomforts.
If you bash your thumb with a hammer, and your opioid production is good, you can feel the opioid warmth of pain killer infusing your entire arm. Enough pain might also make you drunk, as the endogenous opioids spread to other nerves and brain cells, causing slurred speech. But the pain has done its job of discouraging another hit with the hammer.

Alcohol irritates your nerves, and thereby triggers your opioid production. There is no shortage of  endogenous opioids, so there are no physical withdrawal pains.***  Spicy-hot foods similarly trigger opioid production.
 
When a person takes outside opioids (opiates, drugs derived from opium, Laudanum,  morphine and  semi-synthetic and synthetic drugs such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl), his body senses that he has more opioids than needed for normal pain suppression. Endogenous opioid production is reduced to compensate for the opiates taken, reducing the opiate effect of the outside drug and its high. Hence the increasing dependence on taking opiates. If you keep increasing your dosage to compensate for lower endorphin production,  all your opiates come from outside drugs.
When the outside opiate supply is interrupted, the body takes 24-48 hours to ramp up endogenous opioid production to normal levels. Pain becomes more noticeable. “The withdrawal symptoms for opiates may include severe dysphoria, craving for another opiate dose, irritability, sweating, nausea, rhinorrea, tremor, vomiting and myalgia.” Wikipedia 
An important therapy for opioid addiction is ibogaine. Make Ibogaine legal for opiate addicts
I would not prosecute ibogaine use or treatment.
Copr. 2016 Chris Garvey 

* United States Patent 6,630,507 Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Hampson , et al. issued  October 7, 2003 claims benefit of No. 60/082,589 filed Apr. 21, 1998
Assignee:  The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)
Abstract
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Non-psychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##ST

**"No increased risk for road trauma was found for drivers exposed to cannabis."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094417?dopt=Abstractcid Anal Prev. 2004 Jul;36(4):631-6.
Psychoactive substance use and the risk of motor vehicle accidents.
Movig KL, Mathijssen MP, Nagel PH, van Egmond T, de Gier JJ, Leufkens HG, Egberts AC.
Source
SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
R1## 

***A hangover results from different mechanisms than opiate dependence and withdrawal pains.
If your drunken binge is long enough to suppress dream sleep, you will eventually dream while awake - - the D.T.s.  

Platform - 2017 edited from a 2013 post.

The District Attorney is not a mere adversary. His first task is to NOT prosecute the innocent. If a prosecutor has reasonable doubts, he should not prosecute.
As a Libertarian, my priorities would be to prosecute crimes where force, threat of force, or fraud were used against persons or property. That would include such crimes by government officials.
  
Poisoning of your air or water is an initiation of force which I would prosecute.

I would not enforce a law that violates the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment is an important part of the  US Constitution. Some NY Laws violate the Second Amendment. GarveyFacts

Voluntary drug use by adults generally does not harm others.
Cannabis has been used mostly harmlessly for thousands of years. It can suppress pain, seizures, and brain damage from trauma or stroke.*  There is no link between cannabis use and motor vehicle trauma.** 

The main problem with opioid drugs is they are illegal. So users must rely on criminals to obtain drugs. Criminals tend to use fraud and force as business tactics. So users can't rely on consistent product.  Hence, the opioid overdoses.  I would prosecute dealers who use fraud or force.
Endogenous opioids = Opioid-peptides that are produced in the body include:
    Endorphins
    Enkephalins
    Dynorphins
    Endomorphins   (Wikipedia)
Although pain is important for sensing injury and avoiding further injury, you don’t need to be distracted by pain for the entire healing duration.
So your body makes Endogenous opioids as natural pain suppressors, that make less noticeable many of the day’s routine discomforts.
If you bash your thumb with a hammer, and your opioid production is good, you can feel the opioid warmth of pain killer infusing your entire arm. Enough pain might also make you drunk, as the endogenous opioids spread to other nerves and brain cells, causing slurred speech. But the pain has done its job of discouraging another hit with the hammer.

Alcohol irritates your nerves, and thereby triggers your opioid production. There is no shortage of  endogenous opioids, so there are no physical withdrawal pains.***  Spicy-hot foods similarly trigger opioid production.
 
When a person takes outside opioids (opiates, drugs derived from opium, Laudanum,  morphine and  semi-synthetic and synthetic drugs such as hydrocodone, oxycodone and fentanyl), his body senses that he has more opioids than needed for normal pain suppression. Endogenous opioid production is reduced to compensate for the opiates taken, reducing the opiate effect of the outside drug and its high. Hence the increasing dependence on taking opiates. If you keep increasing your dosage to compensate for lower endorphin production,  all your opiates come from outside drugs.
When the outside opiate supply is interrupted, the body takes 24-48 hours to ramp up endogenous opioid production to normal levels. Pain becomes more noticeable. “The withdrawal symptoms for opiates may include severe dysphoria, craving for another opiate dose, irritability, sweating, nausea, rhinorrea, tremor, vomiting and myalgia.” Wikipedia 
An important therapy for opioid addiction is ibogaine. Make Ibogaine legal for opiate addicts
I would not prosecute ibogaine use or treatment.
Copr. 2016 Chris Garvey 

* United States Patent 6,630,507 Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Hampson , et al. issued  October 7, 2003 claims benefit of No. 60/082,589 filed Apr. 21, 1998
Assignee:  The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC)
Abstract
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Non-psychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##ST

**"No increased risk for road trauma was found for drivers exposed to cannabis."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094417?dopt=Abstractcid Anal Prev. 2004 Jul;36(4):631-6.
Psychoactive substance use and the risk of motor vehicle accidents.
Movig KL, Mathijssen MP, Nagel PH, van Egmond T, de Gier JJ, Leufkens HG, Egberts AC.
Source
SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
R1## 

***A hangover results from different mechanisms than opiate dependence and withdrawal pains.
If your drunken binge is long enough to suppress dream sleep, you will eventually dream while awake - - the D.T.s.  

Writing-In Candidates in a One-Candidate Election

In 2013, the Bi-Partisan (Republican & Democrat) Suffolk Board of Elections threw the Libertarian Candidates, off the Ballot.  (for 2017 info go to ChrisGarvey4DA.blogspot.com  )

You had to write-in the Libertarian Candidates on the paper ballots:

1. Gene Farmer for Treasurer; 
2. Christopher B. Garvey for District Attorney; 
3. Michael R. Houze for Sheriff. 

Look for the Write-in space in the column under that office,  and 
write-in the name of your choice.
In fact, you can write-in anyone you want. It's not as though the ballot presents you with a lesser-of-two-evils. All five of the major parties have placed the same incumbents on the ballot, in this Stalinist Election.

There were There were 648 write-in votes, .38%, for District Attorney.

District Attorney (Vote for 1)

SUFFOLK: reported:	1,052 of 1,052	100.00%
Ballots:	207,343
Thomas J Spota III (DEM, REP, CON, IND)	181,082	99.64%
DEM	77,859	42.84%
REP	68,521	37.70%
CON	23,902	13.15%
IND	10,800	5.94%
Write-in	648	0.36%
Total	181,730	100.00%

blank, void, or missing:                                     25,613
http://apps.suffolkcountyny.gov/boe/eleres/13ge/unofficialsummary.html#1003

The NY Ballot Access Laws are designed to protect the Party Bosses from competition.

The Bi-partisan Board of Elections is:

1.  a person appointed by the Republican Party Boss, and
2.  a person appointed by the Democrat Party Boss.

No one represents any smaller parties.
 
If you sue the Board, the Judge who will decide your case is nominated & cross-endorsed every 7 years by the same Party Bosses.
To get on the ballot, you must collect as many as 15,000 valid signatures for some offices.
Thousands of signatures must be collected in just six weeks.
To better your odds of surviving an objection, you should try to double the number of signatures. 
In  Nassau, the local board refused, for weeks of the brief petition period,  to advise candidates what the minimum number was.
Signatures are subject to disqualification for any of many picayune "problems", that have nothing to do with forgery.
Signatures are invalidated by, among other things: 

1. an overwrite, 
2. a crossout,
3. a correction not initialed,
4. a correction not dated,
5. poor penmanship, 
6. a thick line in a letter or number,  
7. "invalid" adddress
8. incomplete address, 
9. printed name,
10. signature variations that occur when signing on a clipboard,
11. using your village, hamlet, or post office in your address, instead of the required naming of:
1. your town in some places, or 
2. your city in other places, or 
3. your county in New York City,
12. a correction in a witness statement, 
13. an overwrite in a witness statement, 
14. a crossout in a witness statement,
15. a thick line in a letter or number in a witness statement,
16. not tallying the number of signatures on the page,  
17. a petition page not sequentially page numbered,
18. volume cover doesn't meet with format preferred by local board (which is not posted on the local Board's website),
19. not meeting local guidelines  (which are not posted on the local Board's website),
20. Witnesses have been disqualified for errors and oversights.

I've spoken to candidates, who have been intimidated into withdrawing, by threats of vote fraud charges relating to witness errors. Most innocent people fear the hazard and expense of criminal charges, despite their actual innocence.

In two elections,  local government  officials have declared the long-existing apartments of Libertarian candidates to be illegal, within days of petitions being filed.

Any voter in your election can object your petitions, so you don't know who is really behind the objection.
If the Board of Elections decides on Tuesday that the Objection is valid, they advise you with a one-page letter, mailed first-class Tuesday night. Details of their decision are not included.
You have till Friday (that's 3 days from when they make that decision, which might be days before you actually receive the decision) to:

1. obtain copies of their work sheets, which they won't let you copy,
2. determine where they are wrong,
3. write a lawsuit called a Petition, specifying "with particularity" the hundreds of errors the Board made,
4. File the Petition with the County Clerk, with a $305 fee,
5. go to Supreme Court, find a judge, and obtain a signed show cause order,
6. Serve that order:
1. on all the possibly many objectors (who often deliberately make themselves scarce), and 
2. on the Board of Elections, who won't open their doors after 5 PM. 

Your Supreme Court Judge is nominated & cross-endorsed every 7 years by said Party Bosses. If the Party Bosses don't nominate the Judge at the end of his current term, he becomes unemployed.

If your Judge can find a procedural  reason to dismiss your case, he doesn't need to review the hundreds or thousands of signatures in question.

NY Election Law wastes more court time, on  election cases, than does any other state.

NJ only requires payment of a small fee to get on the ballot. NJ doesn't have a "crowded" or  "confusing" ballot. But, the NY Boards of Election often design deliberately confusing ballots to disadvantage opponents of the incumbents.

When a system often results in one-candidate elections, it has overshot it's stated goal of avoiding "confusing" ballots, and is being used to effectively eliminate democracy.
As a result of NY’s Ballot Access laws, in 2013, as in 2009, there are three County elections in Suffolk that have only one candidate on the ballot.
NY Election Law is really designed to eliminate the voters’ choices, and to thereby protect the Party Bosses, and their anointed candidates, from competition by better candidates.  Eliminating voter choice is the real purpose of NY Election Laws, and is the actual result.