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TEA Parties and “End the Fed” Protests
Cannot Win Back the Republic Without this Information.
Compiled by the American Policy Center
After reading this enlightening article you will begin to see the connection between all that is going wrong in America and the United Nations’ Agenda 21.
- Open borders
- Illegal immigration
- Refusal to drill for oil in America
- The gay agenda
- Gender neutral education
- Hate crimes
- Attacks on Christians and Christianity
- NAFTA and CAFTA
- Communist and Socialist organization coming out of the closet and growing in numbers
- And the entire myriad other seemingly unconnected manifestations of the liberal mind.
Once the election dust settles, not this, but next November, the real job will first begin. The need to make dramatic cuts to federal spending will force us to choose which discretionary and entitlement programs to trim and which agencies and departments to terminate. And the public will have to embrace the service cuts & dislocations to come (for come they must, one way or another). The hour is late, and we can’t afford to let election politics distract us from the hard thinking we must do. Wanted: a plan that will help us pass through the painful adjustment period and put us on a path to long-lived recovery. Anyone have a Big Idea?
Has this country gone mad or are we being inhabited? Just relax and reflect on this for a moment. An individual was elected as President of the United States who is not even qualified by the bare essentials to even run for president much less be elected. This has been proven by expert witnesses as well as even an admission by the individual who forged the birth certificate document. While this story is even wilder than the strangest Hollywood intrigue, the press has nothing to say. Instead, the press tries to discredit the most Patriotic of American representation, the Tea Party! This is an equal part evil and another equal party pure lunacy. It appears the American press is working for America's enemies.
And when sane Americans who love their country speak the truth, we are slandered, libeled, and otherwise intimidated into going along with the coverup. It is absolutely bizarre that neither the press, the FBI, nor the CIA vetted Obama prior or during the election. Just as bad, the press continues to protect and cover for his constant and shameless lying. When the administration is confronted as they should be in a free country, such as Rick Perry recently did by suggesting that Ben Bernanke is committing treason by continuing to devalue the dollar, Perry is threatened by Obama. Even the country club Republicans such as Karl Rove, say that Perry was wrong in calling a spade a spade. Furthermore, at least two military officers have now refused to take orders from the Commander in Chief because the president has been proven not to be a natural born citizen, therefore cannot legally be the president. But everyday, this bizarre truth is ignored! This represents a vicious hostility to America!
The current administration's empty rhetoric complete with constant (Freudian) "projection" of blame on everybody but the perpetrator clearly indicates the smell of pure Marxist-Leninism. While their communist agenda is being covertly implemented, Vladamir Putin and his sidekick are being seen more and more in playboy poses presented by the willing communist propaganda "press" corps. Today, for example, the two were fishing together just as if they were two American insurance salesmen taking off early to go fishing on a Friday afternoon. Most would not know they are actually looking at murderous KGB Agents, not businessmen. Before that, Putin had pictured a dozen young women in bikinis washing cars in Moscow square. Before that, Putin was seen riding a horse without a shirt on as if he was some kind of Prince looking to attract a new Princess. All these instances indicate the Soviet plan of "merging" Soviet Communism and American Capitalism. Indeed, that is their real agenda. That, in short, is the real story that is being covered up every day by the so-called "press".
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed suit against Boeing to stop Boeing from moving to So. Carolina. If successful this will kill new jobs. The suit is a classic example of BULLYING. No wonder large companies have moved and are now moving overseas. What would The Gov. do if the big companies like Boeing, MSN,Apple and Facebook would say "we are sick and tired of the Government bullying us. Let's move to India." New jobs are NOT the problem. It's excessive Government intervention, no leaders, Gov. waste and stupid spending
America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World.
Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!
"After America, There is No Place to Go"
Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!
"After America, There is No Place to Go"
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.
The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.
We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.
We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.
After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.
Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education.
Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.
My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.
Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.
We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
"Mercy Killing" Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
The Final Steps - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.
After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned.. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians.
This is an eye witness account. It's true...those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World.
Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!
"After America, There is No Place to Go"
I am a Texan and would love to be able to say Rick Perry was a true Patriot, but I can't. There are just too many questions that raise red flags. Let me share some of them with you and briefly. We must have answers to the following:
- Rick Perry was a democrat until 1989. He worked for Al Gore of all people! Why would he do that in the first place and why did he change parties? Can he criticize Gore and all that he stands for? Could it be that he is just infiltrating the Republican Tea Party to divert America yet again?
- Why did Perry wait until the Iowa caucus to declare and why was it in South Carolina instead of his home state of Texas? Could it be that he, like Comrade B.O. was trying to divert attention away from the influence of the Tea Party and the Republican Caucus in Iowa the day that the straw poll was to be announced? Now we know that Bachmann, the Tea Party front runner, was the straw poll favorite. It seems like Perry is either manipulating or a coward since he would not debate in Iowa.
- Why did Perry attend and participate in the pagan Bilderberg Group meeting in 2007? Obama also was invited and attended that secretive society of pagan globalists at one time. What was Perry's paper, which reportedly was about the relationship of state to federal governments really about?
- When Perry declared his candidacy in South Carolina, he did not say he wanted a smaller federal government. He said he wanted more jobs. That is not the role of a constitution republic. Only private individuals create jobs when they need help because their business is either starting up or growing. That rhetoric is no different than Obama's. Obama mistakenly thinks a bigger federal government will create more jobs. Does Perry also think that government creates jobs?
- Word has it that Perry has advocated free, or at least in-state, college tuition for illegal aliens. Is that true? That would suggest he does not believe in national sovereignty any more than Obama.
- Why is Perry in favor of the super highway that would divide the nation and destroy our national sovereignty?
- Is Perry a true Tea Party Republican who will reduce the size of government, reduce taxes, and regulatory burdens or is he just another wolf in sheep's clothing? Be suspicious! Ask the hard questions!
Just think of that a bit, just who can get upset with a bunch of people who tend to come to a common understanding of the world because they started paying attention, just how dangerous is that?
One large reason we have a representative democracy is the difficulty we use to have in gaining access to information. Not so long ago it was difficult for organizations public or private, to gain access to detailed information in making decisions. As a matter of practicality we chose to elect individuals we initially believe we can trust, to do the analysis on our behalf, make sound judgments and actions. Obamacare, broke that trust. With no Republican votes, and against 87% of the citizenry, this legislation signed because we had to "pass the bill so that we can see what is in the bill"; this is not what we signed up for. The hubris of the Democratic party inflicted its own fatal wound.
The Tea Party isn't an adoration as many would like to believe, it is the product of a much improved access to information by a population quite prepared to understand it and come to reasonable conclusions.
Today we have citizens paying attention, who unlike before, also have access to original source information (not just newspapers) from which to participate directly in the decision making process. The only defense the Democrats have is to try to create an emergency (they wrongly label as a crisis) so they don't have to answer questions. After all, during a true emergency, who has time for Q&A? The artificial crisis created by the Obama administration over the budget ceiling is a great example of the Democratic strategy at work. Create an emergency then we don't have to answer questions, avoiding the one thing Democrats can not tolerate. In this case, the false-crisis didn't work.
Crises are not emergencies where by all discussion is halted, they are simply urgent events that require attention, and the Tea Party is well prepared to provide all the attention any crisis requires.
Your fellow Citizen Paying Attention,
Thomas A. Coss
Orange County, California
WE HAVE A PROBLEM : A-LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY DO NOT KNOW ANY THING ABOUT
IT'S HISTORY. DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO THE WORLD, AND DO NOT CARE. THIS GENERATION
SPECIALLY. THEY WERE WORKING VERY HARD TO MAKE A BUCK. NOT LOOKING OUT, ONLY IN WORD.
THEN THERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THERE OWN LITTLE WORLD " ZOMBIE'S " WHO DO NOT KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS, RELIGION, OUR OTHER PEOPLE IN THE AREA , STATE AND THE WORLD !
DO NOT CARE, ONLY IF IT AFFECTS THEM OR WHAT THEY ARE EATING AT THE TIME.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WE NEED TO REACH ~ WITH THE TRUTH, ON WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR
COUNTRY RIGHT NOW ~ THAT IS THE TEA PARTY'S GOAL FOR 2011 AND 2012, AND FROM NOW ON !
The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The 1st Amendment is primarily an enumeration of the "negative rights" imposed upon government by the Constitution. In other words, we have the right to speak, report and comment, assemble, and worship without the interference of the government. We do not have the "right" to impose speech, opinions, or religion on another, nor they, upon us. So the right to speak one's mind is not the right to have another listen, if they choose not to.
I'm not quite sure how I would argue in defense of my 1st Amendment right to "political speech," if I had to sue FaceBook for infringing my constitutional rights. Facebook is a privately-run, free and public forum for socializing and information-sharing. But its anonymous administrators have a history of discrimination against those who exercise political speech as a function of their social network.
In Schenck v. United States (1919), Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that freedom of speech could be restricted if the speech represented a "clear and present danger." He gave the example of one shouting "fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire, in which the resulting panic could cause a lethal stampede as people ran to the exits.
It is largely understood that the 1st Amendment protects, primarily, political speech, since it is political speech that is most apt to be shut down by those who disagree. Facebook and other social networking sites add an interesting dynamic to the free exercise of political speech. Depending on how you set up your Facebook "wall," and depending on how many "friends" you have, your remarks can potentially be read by many thousands of people. Facebook has features where one can "hide" certain posts or individual, or where you can "block" certain people entirely. The other feature is a form of quickie police monitoring, of which I don't disapprove, but anyone can report any post as being "spam, harassment, hate speech, offensive content, pornography, or threatening comments." Apparently the anonymous administrators at Facebook are more interested in the "seriousness of the charges", than they are in any evidence that something untoward has actually occurred.
I was scrubbed from Facebook a couple of days ago apparently for making "threatening comments." I am known for debating other users on political and social topics, but I don't use profanity, I'm always polite and truthful, and the only thing I might threaten is to "fight" the enemies of freedom in purely rhetorical form. Someone, somewhere in my vast network of friends, and friends of friends, found my political speech to be a threat and so I was reported and essentially censored.
If I took this to court, one of my arguments would be that Facebook regularly allows profanity, questionable photographs and music, and highly offensive conversations on the site without interference from its faceless administrators. There is a logical gulf in Facebook's selective use of standards. The only sensible conclusion that one can use to bridge that gulf is that Facebook finds political speech either pornographic, threatening, harassing, hateful, offensive, or all of the above.
I am not the first Conservative activist to whom this has happened. My friend who is on the GOP board of directors for Racine County, Wisconsin got shut down just this morning. Another friend who is a representative for the conservative "Winning With Women" organization has been shut down on 4 separate occasions.
The Left is sending out a warning shot. Social media is a powerful tool for political activism, and the Right is using it in a big way. My advice: Don't back down! If Facebook shuts you down, flank them through a different account, or create a new page using a different email address. Draw attention to their efforts to shut down political speech and information sharing. Don't shut up, shout it from the roof tops. If this is an effort by Facebook to impede the tsunami of Tea Party Conservatism sweeping America, it will surely backfire. We're pissed off now. You mess with our Constitutional rights we'll be even more pissed off. Oh, sorry, did that offend you? Well, too Freaking bad!
Yes, Obama - Campaigner in Subsidy is using our tax dollars to subsidize his Campaign. Despite coffers with about $1 billion for his re-election bid this Administration takes from the poor and gives to itself. Not surprising he builds his message of class warfare, caring little about his abuse of power and wasting our taxes. Check it out.
Taxpayers Will Pay for Obama Bus Tour of Battleground States, Says White House
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 
President Barack Obama (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s upcoming bus tour through the Midwest states typically viewed as swing states during presidential election years will be paid for by the taxpayers, the White House says.
Obama will start the tour on Aug. 15 and will talk about strengthening jobs and the economy, the White House announced on Tuesday.
“He is very happily getting out into the country again after a very sustained period here in Washington and he looks forward to talking to folks about growing the economy, creating jobs," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. "We will have more details, as I said, about the specifics of the trip."
Carney indicated he did not know now precisely where the president would go or what he might be announcing.
CNSNews.com asked Carney, “Is that a campaign event or a presidential event?
Carney answered, “Negative. That is an official event.”
CNSNews.com followed, “So it is being funded by taxpayers in battleground states?”
Carney responded, “He’s the president of the United States.”
Another reporter followed up about whether there was a political nature to the trip.
“The air of cynicism is quite thick,” Carney shot back. “The idea that the president of the United States should not venture forth into the country is ridiculous.”
The reporter said, “I didn’t say that.”
Carney said, “No, but you implied it in your question. It is absolutely important for the president – whoever that person is, in the past or in the future – to get out and hear from people in different communities."
The national unemployment rate was 9.2 percent for the month of June, according to the Department of Labor.
A USA Today story published on July 17 asserted that half of the travels Obama made to 40 states (over the last 2.5 years) were to swing states, also called battleground states, or because they are not predictably red (Republican heavy) or blue (Democrat heavy), or purple states. Those swing states likely will determine the winner of the 2012 presidential race.
Ohio, with 20 electoral votes, topped the list for Obama visits, according the newspaper’s analysis. Republican George W. Bush carried this state in 2000 and 2004, but Obama carried the state in 2008.
One of Obama’s narrowest victories in 2008 came in the Midwestern state of Indiana, with 11 electoral votes. Indiana has typically gone to Republican presidential candidates.
In other cases, the state of Michigan, with 17 electoral votes, has gone Democrat in the last five presidential elections. But Michigan is facing a 10.5 percent unemployment rate, which could present problems for an incumbent president. Meanwhile, Iowa has been volatile in recent cycles, as its seven electoral votes went for Democrat Al Gore in 2000, swung to Republican Bush in 2004 then swung back to Democrat Obama in 2008.
The generally accepted policies in place since the Reagan administration for incumbent presidents running for re-election are based on legal opinions from the Department of Justice and Federal Elections Commission (FEC), which say that taxpayers should cover the cost of official presidential travel while travel relating to the campaign will be reimbursed to the government through campaign funds.
According to the FEC, when a presidential or vice presidential candidate travels on the taxpayer’s dime for political purposes, they “pay the pro rata share of the fair market value of non-commercial flights.” Reimbursement guidelines include payment of the “lowest unrestricted and non-discounted first-class airfare in the case of travel between cities served by regularly scheduled first-class commercial airline service.”
This forum will always be open to varying points of view. There is a big difference from debating points of views and making personal attacks. I've raised my children to be tolerant and use reason when dealing with idiots (radicals). I've encouraged them to take the attack or issue and flip it (i.e. make it funny). If the individual pursued the attacks then this issue is not a misunderstanding but malicious intent to harm.
We are not here to do harm to our message or our nation. We are here to gain insight and add value to another to ensure our country is preserved. I pray that this is the intent of all that support the Tea Party. However, there are individuals that have an agenda contrary to this movement and the will be removed.
Sincerely,
Tea Party
Rep. Allen West makes it clear the Tea Party needs a plan. The True Tax is a plan to get our nation on track. Do yourself a favor and learn about. Otherwise we are left with poor plans rammed down our throat. Check out Rep. West video:
http://truetax.ning.com/video/tea-party-needs-a-plan
Solutions are like the old adage, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Let's us not be foolish that hapless rantings will change our nation. We need solutions that will stop the growth of government and mandate that leaders follow our directions. Without a plan, then plan to failure. Our Country deserves better. Click on the copy below and read for yourself:
Is It 1787 Again?
Much has been said lately about the current direction of our great American country. Our National debt must be acknowledged by any faction to be ridiculously, obscenely out of control. The Federal Government has usurped authority and control of our freedoms that was not allowed to them by our Constitution and we seem to have no voice in the matter. In these times, I feel moved to repeat the following lines:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” (The various emphases have been added by this writer.)
Many of you, perhaps most of you, and maybe all of you will recognize these words as from the text of the Declaration of Independence, which preceded the Revolutionary War that liberated our Nation’s founders from the bonds of tyranny and the intolerable weight of despotism. Then in 1787 some Plain, Honest Men [title of the book about the making of the Constitution written by Richard Beeman] concluded that the government created by the Articles of Confederation was fatally flawed and set out to replace it and to institute new government. On September 15, 1787, these “plain, honest” men delivered our current form of government through the Constitution. The flaws they saw to be fatal and in need of correction were; 1) the National Government’s inability to levy taxes to support the rightful duties of the national government (the National Government was too week), 2) it required unanimous approval of the state legislatures to amend the document (making it extremely difficult if not impossible to change and adjust when needed), and 3) there was no provision for an executive office (one person to represent the country).
Some today say that the Constitution needs to be INTERPRETED in the light of present day conditions. However, the founding fathers intended that the constitution be strictly construed. They provided for changing when times seem to require it; it’s by the amendment process. Our present day elected officials betray their oaths of office when they pretend that the Constitution can just be ignored when it’s inconvenient to follow its requirements.
But now, in the face of years and to my mind egregious violations of the Constitution and actions by our Government that threaten our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and general safety and well being, we may well have come to a point where we should no longer suffer these evils. It seems like it is 1787 again. There seem to me, given the circumstances of the present day, to be some fatal flaws in our current form of government that we should no longer suffer. Granted that government form should not be changed on a whim and that is the strongest argument for a representative form of government and I would not suggest that we should go so far as to depart from that safeguard against gyrations caused by the whimsy of the day.
One fatal flaw that I see is the unjustified lack of adequate check on the power of Executive Branch. In 1787, those who wrote the Constitution perceived that the Federal Government needed to be strengthened for the good of the whole. From the circumstances they saw, they were undoubtedly correct but today it is evident that they went too far in that direction. It’s time to swing the pendulum a little back toward controlling the powers of the Executive Branch. The President should not be able to unilaterally establish non-elected government agencies and Czars with authorization by him to perform tasks of GOVERNING with powers not allowed to them by the Congress. The rewritten Constitution (or by amendment) should specifically prohibit the creation of such entities, without Congressional approval.
Also the President wields too much power with the current form of the veto process. The Constitution requires that the President give the house of the Legislature, which originated the bill, his objections to a bill when he sends it back. I believe he/she should also be required to give a Constitutional analysis of the bill and his/her objections to the bill. If the President fails to do this within 7 days of sending the bill back, the bill should automatically become law, as it was approved by the two houses of the Legislature. Much like the requirement for a unanimous approval of an amendment, under the Articles of Confederation, was considered a fatal flaw by those “plain, honest” men, the need for a two-thirds vote by the Congress to override a veto is too onerous. A veto should be able to be overridden by a 60% + 1 affirmative vote by Congress. A simple majority would be too lax in a representative form of government. Likewise, an Amendment to the Constitution should continue as it is. This process was intended to not be taken too lightly, so much that the ‘whim du jour’ could cause radical fluctuations in the rules of the land. This would be chaotic.
Another flaw is the ability / allowance for Congress to incur debt. If it is believed to be necessary to spend in excess of revenue, from time to time, there should be an absolute limit on the amount by which spending can exceed revenue. It should be something modest. Either a fixed 5% or tied to current Government Bond interest. This should be an amendment to the Constitution so Congress cannot simply LEGISLATE an increase in the debt ceiling. This ceiling should be an absolute and not an amount that can be added each year. Once the Federal Government has reached this limit, it can incur no more debt; not in the current year, not in the next year not ever. The idea is to pay down that debt before incurring more.
On a related but different subject, Congress should be responsible for doing an annual, or causing that there be an annual actuarial analysis of the Social Security funding, as was originally required by the bill that became the law creating the Social Security System. And to make adjustment as necessary each year to avoid a collection of deficits that when finally addressed seem insurmountable. And the actual assets of the Social Security Fund should be required to be funded just as ERISA requires private defined benefit plans to be funded. They should not be allowed to decimate the fund by using ‘funny money’ on the balance sheet.
I call for some Plain, Honest Men with the influence to do so to call for a Constitutional Convention and change our form of Government to better protect our unalienable rights to freedom, safety, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and to free us from the overly burdensome interference from a Federal Government.
Entitlements my ass, I paid cash for my Social Security Insurance! Just because they borrowed my money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits like free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days: now that's welfare; and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements!
Someone please tell me what the Hell is wrong with all the people that run this country!
We're broke and can't help our Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.?
In recent months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile, Pakistan...home to bin Laden...literally BILLIONS of DOLLARS!
Our retired seniors living on a fixed incomes receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government gives Hundreds of Billions to Foreign Countries!
They call Social Security and Medicare entitlements even though most of us have been paying for them all our working lives. And now, when its time for us to collect, the Government is running out of money. Why did the Government borrow from our Social Security in the first place?
We have many adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without needed medication, mentally ill going without treatment, etc.
Imagine if our Government gave us the same support they give the people who hate us.
Sad, isn't it?
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 By John W. Lillpop Rather than toning down his job-killing, anti-business, and higher taxes rhetoric in order to help America’s battered economy create jobs, President Obama has decided to take his “message” directly to the people, via a bus tour through Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. “The president will discuss ways to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class and accelerate hiring in communities and towns across the nation and hear directly from Americans, including local families and small business owners,” the White House said in a statement. Translated into honest English, the White House statement reads, “The president will advise Americans to abandon the old-school ‘Hope and Change’ loose talk from 2008, and accept reality. Its called ‘Get Used to It’ and involves coming to terms with 9% or greater unemployment forever, ungodly deficits that will take generations to retire, and a credit rating which proves that American Exceptionalism is a relic from the past.” “The president will also advise the electorate to blame the putrid economy and lack of jobs on Republicans, S&P, and most especially, Tea Party terrorists.” Predictably, the Obama administration will send the bills for this partisan malarkey to we the people. That is so because this sight-seeing gala is being touted as an “official” rather than “campaign” event by word weasels with accounting and law degrees operating out of offices occupied by tyrants and ne’er do well bag men in the Czar Wing of the White House. Still, there is great hope that the Obama bus will stall in the driveway of the White House and never invade Minnesota, Illinois, or Iowa. Should that blessed stall come to pass, Obama might want to check the under-belly of his bus for those whom have ‘Shoved Under the Bus’ in order to advance the career and ambitions of Barack Hussein Obama. A partial list of those whom the president has made into Obama Road Kill include: Pastor Jeremiah Wright Tony Rezko Louis Farrakhan Jim Johnson Wesley Clark Rod Blagojveich Van Jones State of Alabama State of Arizona A more complete list is available at http://www.johntreed.com/Obamabus.html |
We've all become acquainted with the legal definition of insanity...here it is in spades;
Penned by Anthony Martin, Conservative Examiner
Posted: 08/09/2011 12:20 PM
In a shocking display of violent rhetoric given that Leftists routinely plea for 'civil discourse' and decry the 'tone' of conservatives, Progressives are increasingly issuing death threats to Patriots who are dedicated to the primacy of the Constitution in U.S. law. One such propitious champion of 'kinder, gentler' dialogue called for the systematic roundup of what he calls 'Tea Baggers'--the derogatory term coined by Progressives to smear members of the Tea Party--in order to subject them to a year's worth of 're-education' at so-called 'green' internment camps.
For informational purposes, readers should recognize that the terms 'Leftist' and 'Progressive' are interchangeable. They refer to the same thing--those who wish to 'change' America into a totalitarian system where government dominates and regulates all of human life, and where the economic system of capitalism is junked in favor of a Marxist-Socialist model.
To those who have followed the Left ever since the 1960s, such vitriol is no surprise. From Saul Alinksy to Cloward and Piven, from Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn to Ward Churchill and the Symbionese Liberation Army , Progressives have consistently called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Constitution and the murder of persons they identify as the stalwart defenders of American freedom and capitalism.
It should never be forgotten that confirmed domestic terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, launched the political career of Barack Obama in their living room in Chicago in the 1990s.
Thus, the current bombast coming from Progressives is no surprise. The thing that raises eyebrows, however, is the vehement attempt to portray the Tea Party as a dangerous group that is responsible for everything from the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords to Standard and Poor's downgrade of America's credit rating--all while the Left continues its tendency toward violence, death threats, and its periodic calls for a roundup of those who disagree with its extremist views.
Here is a sample of such rhetoric from extremist enviornmentalist Derrick Jensen, via The Blaze , as reported in Sipsy Street Irregulars :
One of the activists, Derrick Jensen, allegedly even believes those who destroy the environment should be summarily executed: “If it were up to me, all the people associated with the Gulf oil spill, which is murdering the Gulf, would be executed. That would be part of the function of a state,” said Jensen.
In addition to Jensen, the two other environmentalists interviewed in the article – Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay — have spearheaded a fringe movement called the “Deep Green Resistance” (with a book of the same name) that calls for “direct attacks on infrastructure” and an annihilation of civilization as we know it.
According to the far-left triumvirate, humanity must devolve into living primitive, “indigenous” lifestyles. To this end, Keith targeted a litany of ills that must be stopped, declaring: “We need a culture that is self-consciously oppositional to things like corporate power, capitalism, industrialization and ultimately civilization, because that is the arrangement of power on this planet right now.”
Another Progressive, Jeffrey Wells, had this to say on his website, in his own words :
Many times I've riffed on a dark, delicious fantasy about rounding up Tea Bagger types and sentencing them to green re-educat... for minimum one-year terms. Not to punish per se but to expose these contemptible morons to facts, to truth, to the way things really are and how they're being played by the rich, and the fact that Boomers have taken almost everything and that diminished lifestyles and economic security are being bequeathed to Genx and GenY for decades to come, and that the best is definitely over. The infra-structure that once provided decent, fair-minded quality of life to middle-class people in this country isdisintegrating . The game is rigged. This is the fall of the Roman Empire.
All largely because of impediments to logical, intelligent governing put up by the knee-jerk, mule-like, corporate-kowtowing mentality of Tea-Bagger types and their 60 or so looney-tunes Congresspersons now in office. We've truly become a South American society of rightist oligarchs, angry lefties, disillusioned wage-earners, retirement-age fuddies and struggling, debt-smothered have-nots, and the rightist boobs will never understand that they're primarily the problem .
Wells has also called for violent, London-type riots in the streets of America.
Further, last evening on Twitter an intriguing exchange occurred between several Patriots and a team member of Fox News Radio's token Progressive, Alan Colmes. The team member had hinted that Progressives may wish to engage in violence in order to stop Tea Party activists from achieving their goals. Attempts to pin down the team member for clarification were largely unsuccessful, but the genie was already out of the bottle.
In pre-WWII Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis engaged in a scheme to demonize and vilify various groups of persons, falsely projecting onto them all sorts of hideous and despicable motives and acts, so as to divert attention from those very same hideous and despicable motives and acts being carried out by Hitler's SS and storm troopers.
There is a most important lesson in that, to those who are smart enough to get it.
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By John W. Lillpop
When the "Super Committee" appointed by leaders of the House and Senate convene in September to take on the task of of cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit over the next 10 years, their actions, or inactions, will help answer the question: Will America prosper or perish?
America’s economic problems are rooted in many ways in foolish, imprudent decisions with respect to spending.
An outrageous example is an expense that benefits foreign invaders, those with no legal or moral basis for being here.
I refer to perhaps as many as twenty millionillegal aliens who have ignored America’s borders and immigration laws.
As documented in Reference 1, these people cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year.
Again, illegal aliens, cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year.
As a taxpaying citizen, I wonder why politicians from both sides of the aisle refuse to target this wasteful expense?
Surely, $113 billion a year cannot be too paltry an amount to summon the attention of those responsible for eradicating wasteful spending?
Clearly, the American people would benefit enormously if the federal government would simply enforce existing laws and take action, through deportations, to return illegal aliens to their nations of origin.
In the past, skeptics have argued that mass deportations would be too costly.
However, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, recently (December 3, 2010) wrote the following:
“Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.”
See reference 2 for the complete statement.
Thus, an investment of $135 billion dollars would yield a savings of $113 billion a year.
Over a period of ten years, that would result in more than $1 trillion dollars for American citizens!
In addition, millions of jobs now filled by illegals would be available for unemployed America citizens, and homeland security would be strengthened by removing individuals about whom little or nothing is known, including possible ties to terrorists.
To help solve the deficit crsis and enhance homeland security as well, members of the Super Committee must require that illegal aliens be deported, thereby freeing America from the extreme financial, employment, and security dangers attendant with a huge population of illegals.
Reference 1:
1http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23198&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1741
Reference 2
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/dhs-confirms-cheaper-to-deport-every-illegal-alien-than-allowing-them-to-stay
When the "Super Committee" appointed by leaders of the House and Senate convene in September to take on the task of of cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit over the next 10 years, their actions, or inactions, will help answer the question: Will America prosper or perish?
America’s economic problems are rooted in many ways in foolish, imprudent decisions with respect to spending.
An outrageous example is an expense that benefits foreign invaders, those with no legal or moral basis for being here.
I refer to perhaps as many as twenty millionillegal aliens who have ignored America’s borders and immigration laws.
As documented in Reference 1, these people cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year.
Again, illegal aliens, cost American taxpayers $113 billion a year.
As a taxpaying citizen, I wonder why politicians from both sides of the aisle refuse to target this wasteful expense?
Surely, $113 billion a year cannot be too paltry an amount to summon the attention of those responsible for eradicating wasteful spending?
Clearly, the American people would benefit enormously if the federal government would simply enforce existing laws and take action, through deportations, to return illegal aliens to their nations of origin.
In the past, skeptics have argued that mass deportations would be too costly.
However, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, recently (December 3, 2010) wrote the following:
“Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.”
See reference 2 for the complete statement.
Thus, an investment of $135 billion dollars would yield a savings of $113 billion a year.
Over a period of ten years, that would result in more than $1 trillion dollars for American citizens!
In addition, millions of jobs now filled by illegals would be available for unemployed America citizens, and homeland security would be strengthened by removing individuals about whom little or nothing is known, including possible ties to terrorists.
To help solve the deficit crsis and enhance homeland security as well, members of the Super Committee must require that illegal aliens be deported, thereby freeing America from the extreme financial, employment, and security dangers attendant with a huge population of illegals.
Reference 1:
1http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23198&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1741
Reference 2
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/dhs-confirms-cheaper-to-deport-every-illegal-alien-than-allowing-them-to-stay
