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I just sent this note to my Senators (SC-1 is currently without a rep)
I encourage you to share this widely and to send a similar/same note to our politicians.
For their email addresses.........
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
Now, the Note
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Senators Scott and Graham , SC.
… and to any other Senators or Congressmen who might receive this note………….
( because I will attempt to SHARE this Widely on the Net)
RE: DHS Hollow Point Ammo
Dear Senators,
It has come to my attention, and you need to know if you do not already, that DHS has ordered over a BILLION rounds of Hollow Point Ammo.
(IF you are unaware of this reported action, SHAME ON YOU)
To my knowledge, please instruct me if I am wrong….
- Hollow Point bullets are outlawed for International use.
- The US Department of Homeland Security is NOT authorized for “extra-National “, meaning International, activity
- In my simple world, DHS is restricted to actions and activities WITHIN the USA
- SO, the ONLY possible authorized(?) use of Hollow Point ammo would be WITHIN the USA.
- Please join me, and many other Citizens, to extract an explicit admission from Obama; not ANY of his henchmen, but Obama personally, that the US Government will NOT use Hollow Point ammo on ANY citizens.
- IF we need another Filibuster, I’m available to “stand” and help.
- We do not want ANY wishy/washy, qualified, ambiguous, comments about combatants, terrorists, or whatever, from any Obama operative of any kind. Illegal to use internationally includes within the USA where I come from.
- REGARDLESS of any International Law loop holes, we want a clear, unequivocal, simple , irrefutable commitment that HOLLOW POINT AMMO will NOT be used by ANY US Government Department, Agency, Branch or other part of the Federal Government on US Citizens; either Internationally or on US Soil.
- In case I haven’t covered any of the many slippery, bi-bifurcated, weasel-worded, pronouncements that politicians can invent, the simplest, most complete, unambiguous statement we want is………
- NO PART of the US Government will EVER use HOLLOW POINT AMMO on US SOIL….
- IF the above mentioned language needs to be refined or strengthened, I welcome your suggestions
Finally, GIVEN such a statement, Obama personally needs to instruct DHS to distribute any and all such purchased ammo to Citizens on application from them.
THAT should warm the cockles of Bureaucracy…. The need to administer distribution/sharing of over 1 BILLION rounds of Hollow Point ammo to the Citizens; hopefully NOT to terrorists or illegal aliens.
Please provide a specific reply, not a “template reply” , about your agreement or DIS-agreement to support the issues/actions in this note.
I am awaiting your specific (versus general, one size fits all, Thank You template letter) and pointed reply to this request.
Regards…………….
This is what can happen when mistakes are made and this took place in 2000 just outside Nashville.
A 61-year-old man was shot to death by
police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug
raid on the wrong house.
Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door.
The two officers, 25-year-old Kyle Shedran and 24-year-old Greg Day, were placed on administrative leave with pay.
“They need to get rid of those men, boys with toys,” said Adams’ 70-year-old widow, Loraine.
John Adams was watching television when his wife heard pounding on the door. Police claim they identified themselves and wore police jackets. Loraine Adams said she had no indication the men were police.
“I thought it was a home invasion. I said ‘Baby, get your gun!,” she said, sitting amid friends and relatives gathered at her home to cook and prepare for Sunday’s funeral.
Resident Fired First
Police say her husband fired first with a sawed-off shotgun and they responded. He was shot at least three times and died later at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Loraine Adams said she was handcuffed and thrown to her knees in another room when the shooting began.
“I said, ‘Y’all have got the wrong person, you’ve got the wrong place. What are you looking for?“‘
“We did the best surveillance we could do, and a mistake was made,” Lebanon Police Chief Billy Weeks said. “It’s a very severe mistake, a costly mistake. It makes us look at our own policies and procedures to make sure this never occurs again.” He said, however, the two policemen were not at fault.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating. NAACP officials said they are monitoring the case. Adams was black. The two policemen are white.
Family members did not consider race a factor and Weeks agreed, but said the shooting will be “a major setback” for police relations with the black community.
“We know that, we hope to do everything we can to heal it,” Weeks said.
Johnny Crudup, a local NAACP official, said the organization wanted to make sure and would investigate on its own.
Weeks said he has turned the search warrant and all other evidence over to the bureau of investigation and District Attorney General Tommy Thompson. A command officer must now review all search warrants.
Deadly mistake because someone did not do their job. The homeowner was afraid for his own safety and his wife's too. How are we supposed to defend ourselves from mistakes like this kind without being labeled criminals?
It seems to me, if I remember correctly that obama is supposed to be a CONSTITIONAL LAWYER?????
Courageous Tea Party Senator Rand Paul confirmed my statement that no one can foresee the future well enough to be totally fatalistic. Since the presidential election, discouraged patriots have been saying we have lost the country. Obama holds all the cards. All hope of restoring our country back to the vision of our Founding Fathers is gone. Game over.
As a Christian, I have encouraged patriots to keep the faith, stay on the battle field defending what is right. Situations can turn on a dime. Who could have foreseen that Rand Paul would challenge Goliath and win? Senator Rand Paul's successful Filibuster resulting in the White House backing down from their unconstitutional claim that Obama has a right to kill Americans without due process is huge.
I wonder if this latest Obama Administration attack on the Constitution (wanting the right to kill Americans on American soil without a trial) was their jump-the-shark-moment? This extremely scary attempt by the Administration really exposes Obama's Imperial President mindset and arrogance.
And quite frankly, why shouldn't Obama feel emboldened to do whatever he pleases including deciding who lives and who dies? Low info voters have sent Obama the message that as long as he keeps his vow to take care of them and punish the rich, they do not care about losing freedom or him shredding the Constitution. Along with the mainstream media firmly in his back pocket, it is understandable that Obama would think himself invincible – a supreme dictator – a king.
By attempting to secure unprecedented unconstitutional authority to kill Americans at will, Obama may have pushed the envelope a bit too far in the minds of the American people.
Also, I have noticed that a few in the mainstream media are criticizing Obama for closing down the White House tours to hype his bogus pain of sequestration.
And here is another breath of fresh air confirming that the country has not gone totally reprobate. The Bible miniseries is enjoying huge numbers, even beating the zombies.
So, to all you hopeless gloom and doomers in the Tea Party, stop it! There is always hope. You do not know what is going to happen tomorrow.
“So you gotta hang on til tomorrow, come what may. Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya tomorrow! You're always a day a-wayyyyyyyyy!!!”
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
LloydMarcus.com
Question: What is the Cloward-Piven Strategy and is it covertly being employed by President Obama and his allies as a means of destroying this great country of ours?
There is sufficient evidence to prove that President Obama is in fact employing this strategy to destroy the USA as we know it today-You Decide:
“The Cloward-Piven Strategy is a deliberate series of tactics designed to bring a system down in collapse so that a preferred system can be erected in its place. Named after two Columbia University professors, it was actually employed in the early 1970s. I want to repeat that: it was actually employed.
This is not your ordinary conspiracy theory. In this case, we know that the strategy was employed and had some effect. Namely, by deliberately burdening New York city’s welfare system, they managed to bankrupt the city, which so declared in 1975.
Cloward and Piven, therefore, have made it impossible to take at face value measures which are put forward as being ‘for the poor,’ especially when those plans emerge from people associated with them or their organizations.
Cloward taught at Columbia University for almost five decades. During his tenure, a certain Obama attended. Did Obama and Cloward ever interact? Did Obama ever take any of Cloward’s courses? No one can prove he didn’t because Obama refuses to allow Columbia to release his transcripts. In 1982, Piven returned to New York. Did Obama interact with these two individuals?
In light of the current push for nationalized health care and the nationalization of numerous sectors of American society we have to consider the real possibility that the point of these measures is actually to bring about a national collapse.
I know there is a real horror among some to be associated with anything that smacks of a ‘conspiracy.’ Also, the American people tend to want to give people the benefit of the doubt and operate on the view that people have sincere intentions even when they are sincerely wrong. What does one do, though, when you are talking about people who have embraced conspiracy, surprise, and manipulation as their actual method?
“If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.”
Obama’s connections to organizations like Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation are well known. The circles he has been running in for the last three decades ensure that he is at least conversant on the topic of the Cloward-Piven strategy (which was inspired by Alinsky, itself). How do we know that Obama doesn’t have the same goals? Piven, for example, was a board member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The IAF, founded by atheist Saul Alinsky, spun off the Gamaliel Foundation (which Obama worked for), an organization that deliberately works through churches to achieve their agenda. These are people who rely on sleight of hand and deception to operate. How do we know that Obama isn’t the same?
There are hundreds of thousands of progressives, liberals, and Democrats who sincerely want to help people, and that is why they advocate for programs such as nationalized health care, welfare, etc. I know some of them, and I know that they would be repulsed by the notion that these programs be used as a means for transforming the United States to reflect Piven’s socialistic vision for it. I am calling upon these very people to rise up and demand that Obama release records that would help us understand what his values really are. Obviously, no one will listen to conservatives. They are too easy to dismiss as ‘birthers.’ But if liberals shout loud enough… well that might be something else.
Indeed, this essay has been written to just those people, for conservatives already know the truth about ACORN, the IAF, the Gamaliel Foundation, and Cloward and Piven and their National Welfare Rights Organization under George Wiley. These connections are easily documented by basic searches online. I think you are dead wrong-headed in your attempt to solve the nation’s ills through the government but in the main I think you are right-hearted. I know you would be disgusted to discover that you’ve been played as dupes if the real goal of those actually implementing these programs is to bring the country down to its knees. Even many liberals have noted that the practical effect of all of these government intrusion is national bankruptcy unless something dramatic happens.
Normally, one can look back on a politician’s career in order to ascertain what they really believe in contrast to that which they say they believe. Actions speak louder than words. In the case of Obama, there are a scant two years as a United States senator to look at and his time as a state rep generated very little insight into his true beliefs, as well. If Obama actually intends to employ the Cloward and Piven strategy, however, ‘looking back’ might be too late.
Call upon Obama to release all requested records, immediately (especially the Columbia University records in this case). If we wake up in ruins because you didn’t demand these records and they proved pertinent, it will be on your head. If we see the records and they yield no new insight, then we will have harmed nothing, having only viewed what just about any president has eventually had exposed.
But we all have the right to know… but only you can bring it about.
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Anthony Horvath
It is obvious that the liberals and the shadow government would not allow an honest God fearing person to get near to a point where he/she could run for office. Americans do not realize what a strangle hold these misguided people have on the process that would allow a good, honest, God-fearing and patriotic American to run for office with the idea of putting God and patriotism back into our country. Conservatives and other groups that do not like what the liberals have sowed in America do not realize what tremendous power these people have over the low-information voters (a term Rush Limbaugh uses). They have their people in every administration whether Republican or Democrat. They own or control every candidate. Just about every person in high office is controlled by these people some how or other (my guess is about 80%). It is up to the American public to get off of their duffs and to put forth, to support and to elect a person who is not controlled by the shadow government. Americans are asleep at the steering wheel of freedom. Wake up before the Freedom Van goes over the cliff. Even the well meaning conservative media, of which there are not many, are afraid to talk about the organizations which make up the shadow government. Write to any of them and ask them why they do not talk about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission (TLC), the Bilderberg organization, the Masons, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Federal Reserve (Congress cannot get the Fed to do a public audit; or is Congress afraid to demand it?), the Club of Rome, the Illuminati, the One World Government, the Globalists who have sold out America for a handful of coins, and all the organizations and corporations which they control to include the (controled) media. Oh, it is not secret, that is, you can read about them or watch videos on you-tube about what they are up to. You cannot even classify it as a conspiracy since they are so vocal and in your face about what they are doing. It has gotten to the point of high arrogance that they do not try to hide what they are doing except for their private conspiratoral meetings. They have got a lot of people fooled. And then there are the Communists and the Socialists who also want to control the population, that is, to destroy the U.S. internally, and remake it into a socialist/communist UTOPIA, since they know that they cannot defeat us militarily. They foolishly believe that this time they can absolutely make communism/socialism succeed even though 80 years of it in Russia resulted in a profound failure. They believe that the Russians were stupid and did not know how to make it succeed. Can you believe this kind of thinking. It would help them if the government played into their hands and took away all the weapons that the citizenry owned. They would love that. These people are more secretive and conspiratorial. Then you have the radical Muslims who want every American to be converted to ISLAM and to submit to Shariah Law or off with your heads. We are surrounded by jackasses in every direction. They all have one thing in common and that is exactly what Wild Bill stated in a previous blog: Get rid of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and, of course, Patriotism because it gets in the way of their hidden agendae. Especially belief in Almighty God is a severe problem to them. If the population believes in a high level of morality as displayed in the 10 Commandments given to Moses, by God, they won't be able to control the SHEEPLE (sheep people) and won't be able to lead them around by the nose, that is, tell them what is right and what is wrong...what to believe and what not to believe...what to think or not to think...what to love and what to dislike....what to accept and what to reject...what to read and what not to read...what to allow to be shown on the news and what to keep off of the news...what TV programs to be funded and made so as to brainwash the public and what TV programs to defund (even if it makes a profit) because it will not brainwash the public in the direction of their hidden agendae. God is the secret to a victory over these unbelieveably misguided groups. A profound belief in God is their enemy and they know that this deep Faith will destroy all of their efforts. That is why they were so agressive in eliminating God and prayer from the school systems. People who believe in Jesus and the Holy Spirit cannot be led by the nose and they know that so very well. That is why the Russian communists worked so very hard to shut down the Churches especially the Catholic Churches. They knew that if the Churches remained open and the people practiced their devotion to God in public they would eventually be driven out of office. They understood that their demise lay in Freedom of Religious practice. Let's not forget about Patriotism and how it unifies the people....of course they do not want that .... if the people are united what chance do they have in implementing their evil designs and their misguided utopia....not a chance. They are profoundly aware that their opportunities lie in dividing the people... the old Roman strategy of "divide and conquer."
Americans need to wake up to what is happening to them. As the saying goes: "You snooze...you lose!"
Constipated?.... Here’s a cure.
Recently I stumbled upon THE scariest blog of the decade.
And I posted this reply
Reading both might take a few seconds, but WORTH IT!
WHY all this armor for DHS?
Do we have enough “dedicated- to- America” Military to prevent an Obama holocaust?
Do we?
Issue : bill-by-florida-democrat-would-require-anger-management-for-ammo-buyers
Disgusting Treasonous FLORIDA Representative AUDREY GIBSON,
This is in response to the article http://www.examiner.com/article/bill-by-florida-democrat-would-requ...
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You are one of the most disgusting people on this planet. You took an Oath of Office to Defend the Constitution from all attacks, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, But now YOU ARE THE ATTACKER on our liberty.
What makes YOU think you have any right to make a law abiding citizen go thru hoops to procure ammunition to protect our freedoms?
You and EVERY OTHER SOCIALIST/FASCIST/COMMUNIST/ISLAMIC supporter should be hung for your actions against the US Citizens. You were 'supposedly' voted into office to make this a better country, NOT PASS LAWS TO MAKE LEGAL CITIZENS CRIMINALS.
I am placing this letter on all the social media systems I am involved in and also sending this response to friends of mine who will gladly share the facts of you low acts with others in the communities.
Resign you Representatives seat as you do not represent people in our communities, you represent IGNORANCE and are another tool of the ILLEGAL INDONESIAN IMMIGRANT FROM KENYA THAT HAS COMMITTED FRAUD TO OBTAIN (STEAL) our Presidency.
LYING DEMOCRATS-PROGRESSIVES ARE RENAMED COMMUNIST/FASCIST/SOCIALISM/ISLAMIC TERRORISTS Supporters
I can only hope that the Criminal that stole the Oval office is arrested for treason and the applicable punishment for the crime is given to him and every other traitorous Representative that has allowed the Constitution of this United States to be raped and pillaged by groups like your.
Do you have no shame supporting fascist/socialist/communist/Islamic doctrines that the criminal is trying to pass as ILLEGAL executive orders?
You do know that the 'Progressives' is the new name of the Socialist/Communist party and Obama and Nancy Pelosi were members ? Research that fact yourself and look at the members of our supposedly Representatives that have infiltrated by lies to the US CITIZENS.
How can your group support COMMUNIST IDEALS to destroy this country.
Your group and others like you disgust the US Citizens of this country and every one of your criminals will lose in the next election EVERYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY.
Tell your Muslim Master to leave our highest office that he has NO LEGAL RIGHT TO HOLD AS DEFINED IN OUR US CONSTITUTION.
Obama is an INDONESIAN CITIZEN born in KENYA.
Obama's birth record has been found IN KENYA and in the records of England from the previous colony.
Obama used a proven fraudulent birth certificate.
Obama used a proven fraudulent Selective Service document.
In my own opinion, YOU ARE ALL SICK PATHETIC CRIMINALS.
I am making these items very public in many areas on every social media to inform the lied to voters about your history and name change AND ALL OF YOUR CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS THAT HAVE INFILTRATED OUR GOVERNMENT..
YOU ARE Disgusting Communists/fascists/socialists/Islamic terrorist supporters and the facts are being told everywhere, in Churches, on the Propaganda Media Services of NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and others, on your different facebook pages, on your different supporters pages, to your financial supporters....TO THE WORLD YOU COMMIE PIECES OF CRAP.
Look for this identical post in many areas...the truth will not be kept from the citizens any longer.
Robert Gamble - 82nd Airborne Artillery 1977
--- On Sat, 3/9/13, Chaplain Thomas G. Cole <charityisgreat@yahoo.com> wrote:Subject: "{WE THE PEOPLE}" must arrest and try the Communist Muslim!
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Disgraceful anti-American propagandist with the audacity to call their self a teacher are actually brainwashing school children. Jesus said, it would be better to have a huge rock tied around your neck and cast into the sea than to harm a child.
Mark Tapson wrote: …that we actually now need school counselors to deal with students “troubled” by gun-shaped pastry? The truth of the matter is that children are not troubled by such incidents at all; it’s progressive adults who, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting and the subsequent opportunism of the Obama administration, have whipped themselves into an irrational state of pacifist horror unmatched in the history of humankind. How America’s enemies must be exulting over the extent to which the most powerful nation on earth has been emasculated by cultural Marxism’s political correctness.
As Mark Tapson wrote in his previous piece about the brainwashing of our children, the left does not want American citizens to own guns. They want to mold future generations into a helpless citizenry that entrusts its protection to the well-armed State. The radical left is hell-bent on subverting our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, because that right stands in the way of their tyrannical ambitions.
Continue Reading: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/brainwashing-kids-about-guns-the-sequel/
Do you know who Juval Aviv is? He was Golda Meir's bodyguard and the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. Golda Meir appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, Aviv shared information that EVERY American needs to know, but that our government has not yet shared with us.
A little background: Aviv predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News, stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed and mocked him, saying that in a week he wanted Aviv back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred. Juval Aviv also gave intelligence to the Bush Administration about 9/11 a month before it occurred. His report specifically said that they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments... I think we all know what happened, right? Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Aviv predicts that the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months. Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try hijacking a plane again as they know the people on board will never go down quietly again. Aviv says that our airport security is a joke – that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example, because an idiot tried to light his shoe on fire, now everyone has to take off their shoes. Example 2: a group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives, and now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; government security will then have us all traveling naked! Last but not least, our airport security looks for metal, but the new explosives are made of plastic!
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U.S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world, however, is soon going to become 'a different place', Aviv says, where issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will have become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, Aviv says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. He says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. Instead, they like to use suicide, as it's cheap, it's easy, and it's effective – and they have an infinite abundance of young, ignorant, fanatic militants more than willing to 'go see Allah'.
Aviv also says the next level of terrorists over which America should be most concerned will not be coming from abroad. They will instead be 'home grown' – meaning they will have attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves. But, unfortunately, America hasn't been 'hurt enough' yet by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's the citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? Aviv says that the U.S. Government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrorist attack, will immediately cut-off EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated. How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot use phones, internet? Bottom line, you need to have a plan!
If you believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send it to every concerned parent or guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whatever and whomever. Nothing will happen if you choose not to do so, but in the event it does happen, I promise this particular email will haunt you. "I should have sent this to...", but I didn't believe it and just deleted it as so much trash.
NOTE: This information was taken from an email which has been circulating the Internet....I cannot verify the validity of this information but it does lend itself to common sense which, in my humble opinion, we should diliberate about the advice given.
http://www.newspressnow.com/news/politics/ap/article_825c3e2a-9a31-570e-9917-9b4c5f12e314.html
The situation in our nation today takes me back many years to the early days of a sit-com called “The Beverly Hillbillies”. I remember the Clampetts hooking up with “Honest John” Shafer, played by long time comedian Phil Silvers. “Honest John” sold them every monument in Washington, D C (De Cesspool). Those “dumb ole’ Clampetts” just kept giving Honest John” Shafer checks made out to “C.A.S.H.” If you grew up with the Clampetts, Milburn Drysdale, and Jane Hathaway you will understand. Congress and the ruling elite are “Honest John” Shafer and We the People are the Clampetts. We are being conned by experts who make it their lifelong career to scam us into giving them everything we have while thinking they are taking care of us and “looking out for our best interests”.
Read More:
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2013/03/sequester-cuts-scam-an-oldie-but-a-goodie/
Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning
Rand Paul, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Kentucky.
If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor Wednesday, I would’ve worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I can no longer speak” — and I meant it.
I wanted to sound an alarm bell from coast to coast. I wanted everybody to know that our Constitution is precious and that no American should be killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime. As Americans, we have fought long and hard for the Bill of Rights. The idea that no person shall be held without due process, and that no person shall be held for a capital offense without being indicted, is a founding American principle and a basic right.
My official starting time was 11:47 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013.
I had a large binder of materials to help me get through my points, but although I sometimes read an op-ed or prepared remarks in between my thoughts, most of my filibuster was off the top of my head and straight from my heart. From 1 to 2 p.m., I barely looked at my notes. I wanted to make sure that I touched every point and fully explained why I was demanding more information from the White House.
Just before 3 p.m., Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) came to the Senate floor to help out. Under Senate rules, I could not yield the floor or my filibuster would end, and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could have shut me down. The only way for me to continue and allow Sens. Lee and Cruz to speak was to yield the floor for questions.
Their presence gave me strength and inspiration. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) also arrived to help. Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the only Democrat who came to my defense, explained how we have worked together to demand more information from the White House about the rules for drone strikes. At about 4:30 p.m., Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joined. I was flagging for a while, but these senators kept me going.
Sen. Reid came to the Senate floor to ask me when I would be done so he could schedule a vote. But I wasn’t ready to yield. I felt I had a lot more explaining to do.
At about 6:30 p.m., something extraordinary happened. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who has been recovering from a stroke, came to the floor to give me something. I was not allowed to drink anything but water or eat anything but the candy left in our Senate desks. But he brought me an apple and a thermos full of tea — the same sustenance Jimmy Stewart brought to the Senate floor in the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” That was a moment I will never forget.
Sen. Cruz came to the floor again just before 7:30 p.m. and said, “Given that the Senate rules do not allow for the use of cellular phones on the floor of the Senate, I feel quite confident that the senator from Kentucky is not aware of the Twitter-verse that has been exploding.”
I had little idea of what was going on. I was allowed only to talk and listen to questions. As I started to walk around the Senate chamber to loosen up my legs, I was energized by the responses on Twitter. Sen. Cruz really lifted my spirits when he read the tweets.
The question was recently asked by the mass media if the Texas Nationalist Movement is becoming a political force.
On March 7, 2013, State Representative James White filed House Concurrent Resolution 77. The text of the bill is as follows:
WHEREAS, The Republic of Texas existed as an independent nation for nine years, and when it accepted admission to the Union in 1845, it remained a free and independent state subject only to the United States Constitution; and
WHEREAS, The United States Congress has passed laws requiring Texas to make expenditures that are unfunded by the federal government, which is a violation of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; moreover, the federal government has caused the intentional devaluation of its currency through its reckless spending and borrowing, and this threatens the economic stability of Texas; and
WHEREAS, The United States government has allowed the use of its authority, credit, and goodwill for the benefit of private and foreign concerns in violation of its own constitution; in addition, its repeated failure to guard the border between Texas and Mexico has forced the state to spend vast sums in order to protect its citizens; and
WHEREAS, The federal government has further implemented thousands of laws, mandates, and agencies in violation of the United States Constitution and of the sovereignty of the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, Section 1, Article I, Texas Constitution, states that "the perpetuity of the Union depend[s] upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States"; Section 2, Article I, declares, "All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient"; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas hereby reaffirm the state's sovereignty under the Texas Constitution and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
Members of the Texas Nationalist Movement and the general public will recognize the text of this legislation as a virtual duplicate of the legislation proposed by the TNM to the 82nd Legislature and hand delivered to members of the Texas House of Representatives, the Texas Senate and the Lieutenant Governor on the opening day of the 83rd session of the Legislature. An exact PDF copy of our delivered proposal is available at this link: http://www.texnat.org/independence-referendum-bill.pdf
After TNM's extensive meetings with members of both houses, State Representative James White filed HCR 77 containing all of the components of our proposed legislation with one exception. This legislation does not call for a referendum on the issue of independence.
While we in the Texas Nationalist Movement are disappointed that the legislators have declined at this time to give the people of Texas a measurable voice on the issue of independence in accordance with Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution, we are pleased that this legislation was filed.
Although this seems to be merely another resolution, this legislation is quite different than any filed before on this particular issue.
In addition to the usual citations of Federal government overreach, this is the first sovereignty legislation that contains an explicit mention of the Article 1 Section 1 of the Texas Constitution which contains the phrase "(the) perpetuity of the Union depend(s) upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States."
This is also the first piece of sovereignty legislation that contains an acknowledgement of the right of the people to "reform, alter or abolish their form of government" as stated in Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution.
The inclusion of these two provisions is extremely important to the Texas Nationalist Movement as we move forward and represents an interim victory for the people of Texas.
We encourage everyone to contact their respective State Representatives and State Senators to demand that they support HCR 77 beginning on March 12, 2013. Further, we encourage the Governor and the Lt. Governor to publicly support the passage of this piece of legislation. Not only does it make sense for Texas, it is required by their oath of office.
In addition, we call on all Texans who believe and want to work for the independence of Texas to join with us at http://www.texasnationalist.com/join.
Senator John McCain (R, AZ) continues his criticism of fellow Republicans for filibustering confirmation of CIA Director John O. Brennan over the White House’s drone policy.
While interviewing with the Huffington Post, McCain used the term “wackos” to describe Senator Rand Paul (R, KY), Senator Ted Cruz (R, TX) and Representative Justin Amash (R, MI).
“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else…But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone,” said McCain.
When pressed for clarification on who the wackos are, McCain responded “Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever.”
It seems like just yesterday that McCain was relishing his role as maverick, while using the megaphone provided him by the media to gain the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.
Some Republicans, led by McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham (R, SC), worry that the filibuster, which focused lots of positive attention on Paul, might end up reflecting poorly on the party.
Might these be the same Republicans who nominated Gerald Ford in 1976, sought to nominate John Connally or George H.W. Bush while opposing Ronald Reagan in 1980, nominated Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney?
Clearly, the most successful nominee in that bunch was the most Conservative: Reagan. That the GOP continues to cling to the notion that presidential electoral success hinges on nominating the most moderate candidate largely explains their lack of recent success.
To his credit, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who may prove to fit into the Conservative new blood category, described the filibuster as “completely awesome.”
Meanwhile, in a radio interview with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, Paul responded to McCain: “You know, I think he’s just on the wrong side of history, and on the wrong side of this argument, really.”
Paul continued by saying he respects both McCain’s military service and his legislative record, but stressed that McCain’s experience does not mean he is always right: “I treat Senator McCain with respect. I don’t think I always get the same in return.”
Americans on both sides of the aisle honor McCain for his service. However, McCain must realize that it is time to pass the torch of leadership to a new generation of Conservative leaders demonstrably capable of filling his seemingly vacated role as maverick while leading Republicans to electoral victory.
http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/time-for-old-soldier-mccain-to-fade-away/
I am having difficulty understanding why impeachment procedures have not yet begun. It has been proven through Mr. Obama's own statements as well as his actions that he has outright lied to the American people and along with lying his actions show that he is intentionally causing pain to the the people.
I believe I read one time, years ago, that both of these actions was an impeachable offense if done by the POTUS. Does anyone know, or can explain to me, why impeachment procedures haven't been implemented? I mean besides the obvious.......our Congress has no backbone, save for a few.
Richard Nixon lied to the American people............Impeached, Bill Clinton lied to the American people..........impeached, Barack Obama lied, and is deliberately causing pain to the American people.........let's get on with it!











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