OUTRAGEOUS!!!
The Promise Of America Is. . . Socialism? That’s exactly what is being taught in many American public schools.
Under the guise of teaching children to read, the seeds of Socialism are being planted within the minds of young children. Do you believe that the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States mandates the following?
The People’s basic needs must be met in a country. Needs for housing, education, transportation, and health care overseen by our government system.
Those are the words being chanted over and over and over by school children around the country. They are part of an educational program called Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance. This section is called ‘The Promise of America’ and it breaks down the fifty-two word single sentence that is the Preamble. Here is the original:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Disguised as a reading exercise, the Preamble has been turned into a five page choral project with commentary planted inside this very simple sentence. Here is an example. Make note of what the children (R5, R6, & R7) are being asked to read after the words ‘promote the general welfare’:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/socialist-mantra-hidden-in-grade-school-chants/
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Patriot Program Kick-off Gala
March 4, 2011, 7:00 pm: The Patriot Program Kick-off Gala, Discovery Auditorium Jacksonville, NC. Guests of Honor: Camp Lejeune Wounded Warriors Purple Heart Veterans. Featured Presenter: Brigitte Gabriel, Author and Founder & President of ACT for America. Also featured: The Conductors; Shelby Taylor Trio and Young Marines. Admission: ages 5-16--$5.00; 16 & Up--$10.00, IN UNIFORM--FREE! More information email: NCPatriotRadio@CenturyLink.net.
ACTION ALERT: H.B. 65, the North Carolina Farmer's Freedom Protection Act
From Campain for Liberty:
Dear NC Friend of Liberty,
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been keeping you informed about a bill recently introduced by Representative Glen Bradley to nullify S. 510, the Federal War on Food. S. 510 uses a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food "industry" to throw America's heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local and community producers of healthy food.
Representative Bradley's Bill is H.B. 65, the North Carolina Farmer's Freedom Protection Act. It nullifies S. 510 by making it a Class 1A misdemeanor to enforce S. 510 within the borders of North Carolina. Thanks to your support in contacting your legislators, H.B. 65 has passed its first reading and now has over 20 cosponsors.
Unfortunately, H.B. 65 is now stuck in the Agriculture Committee.
You see, even though the newly elected Republican majorities in the NC House and Senate quickly passed a bill to nullify ObamaCare in North Carolina, they're afraid of the Farmer's Freedom Protection Act.
Why?
H.B. 2, the Patient Protection Act, says that ObamaCare is null and void in NC, gives North Carolinians standing to sue Washington, DC over it, and instructs NC Attorney General Roy Cooper to join the 26-state lawsuit against ObamaCare in federal court. It does not, however, specify that enforcement of ObamaCare in NC is a crime.
H.B. 65, the Farmer's Freedom Protection Act, goes a step further. It says that not only is S. 510, the War on Food, null and void in NC, but that any attempt to enforce it is a Class 1A misdemeanor. This interpositional language gives it teeth that H.B. 2 simply doesn't have. That's what has the members of the Agriculture Committee are scared.
It seems that the new majority in the General Assembly is eager to pass symbolic bills, but they're not quite ready to pick a real fight with Washington to protect our food freedom. You and I know that when it comes to facing down the Obama Machine, that's just not good enough.
Please call and/or email the below listed legislators on the House Agriculture Committee to tell them to support H.B. 65, the NC Farmer's Freedom Protection Act! Tell them to pass it out of committee with a favorable reading as soon as possible and to bring it to the floor for a roll call vote!
AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
1. Rep. James H. Langdon, Jr. (Chair) – 919-733–5849, james.Langdon@ncleg.net
2. Rep. Efton M. Sager (Chair) – 919-733-5755, Efton.Sager@ncleg.net
3. Rep. Jimmy Dixon (Vice Chair) – 919-715-3021, Jimmy.Dixon@ncleg.net
4. Rep. Dewey L. Hill (Vice Chair) – 919-733-5830, Dewey.Hill@ncleg.net
5. Rep. David R. Lewis (Vice Chair) – 919-715-3019, David.Lewis@ncleg.net
6. Rep. Kelly M. Alexander, Jr. – 919-733-5778, Kelly.Alexander@ncleg.net
7. Rep. Larry M. Bell – 919-733-5863, Larry.Bell@ncleg.net
8. Rep. Alice L. Bordsen – 919-733-5820, Alice.Bordsen@ncleg.net
9. Rep. Marcus Brandon – 919-733-5825, Marcus.Brandon@ncleg.net
10. Rep. William D. Brisson – 919-733-5772, William.Brisson@ncleg.net
11. Rep. George G. Cleveland – 919-715-6707, George.Cleveland@ncleg.net
12. Rep. Bill Cook – 919-733-5906, Bill.Cook@ncleg.net
13. Rep. N. Leo Daughtry – 919-733-5605, Leo.Daughtry@ncleg.net
14. Rep. Phillip Frye - 919-733-5661, Phillip.Frye@ncleg.net
15. Rep. Charles Graham - 919-715-0875, Charles.Graham@ncleg.net
16. Rep. W. David Guice - 919-715-4466, David.Guice@ncleg.net
17. Rep. R. Phillip Haire - 919-715-3005, Phillip.Haire@ncleg.net
18. Rep. Bryan R. Holloway - 919-733-5609, Bryan.Holloway@ncleg.net
19. Rep. D. Craig Horn - 919-733-2406, Craig.Horn@ncleg.net
20. Rep. Dan W. Ingle - 919-733-5905, Dan.Ingle@ncleg.net
21. Rep. Bert Jones - 919-733-5779, Bert.Jones@ncleg.net
22. Rep. Jonathan C. Jordan - 919-733-7727, Jonathan.Jordan@ncleg.net
23. Rep. Patsy Keever - 919-733-5746, Patsy.Keever@ncleg.net
24. Rep. Paul Luebke - 919-733-7663, Paul.Luebke@ncleg.net
25. Rep. Darrell G. McCormick 919-733-5654, Darrell.McCormick@ncleg.net
26. Rep. Chuck McGrady - 919-733-5956, Chuck.McGrady@ncleg.net
27. Rep. Annie W. Mobley - 919-733-5780, Annie.Mobley@ncleg.net
28. Rep. G. L. Pridgen - 919-733-5821, Gaston.Pridgen@ncleg.net
29. Rep. Shirley B. Randleman - 919-733-5935, Shirley.Randleman@ncleg.net
30. Rep. Norman W. Sanderson - 919-733-5853, Norman.Sanderson@ncleg.net
31. Rep. Timothy L. Spear - 919-715-3029, Tim.Spear@ncleg.net
32. Rep. Joe P. Tolson - 919-715-3024, Joe.Tolson@ncleg.net
33. Rep. John A. Torbett - 919-733-5862, John.Torbett@ncleg.net
34. Rep. Edith D. Warren - 919-715-3023, Edith.Warren@ncleg.net
35. Rep. Jennifer Weiss - 919-715-3010, Jennifer.Weiss@ncleg.net
36. Rep. Roger West - 919-733-5859, Roger.West@ncleg.net
To help more, sign Campaign for Liberty's petition to nullify the Food Takeover here. Then find your NC House and Senate representation here and tell them to cosponsor the NC Farmer's Freedom Act.
For Liberty,
Adam Love
NC State Coordinator
Campaign for Liberty
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
adam.love@campaignforliberty.com
P.S. Please sign Campaign for Liberty's petition to Nullify the Food Takeover here and be sure to forward this to your email list and other like-minded groups! You can help Campaign for Liberty keep the heat on for this bill and others by donating here.
Dear NC Friend of Liberty,
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been keeping you informed about a bill recently introduced by Representative Glen Bradley to nullify S. 510, the Federal War on Food. S. 510 uses a patchwork of rules and regulations on the food "industry" to throw America's heartland under the government-subsidized corporatist bus as it crushes local and community producers of healthy food.
Representative Bradley's Bill is H.B. 65, the North Carolina Farmer's Freedom Protection Act. It nullifies S. 510 by making it a Class 1A misdemeanor to enforce S. 510 within the borders of North Carolina. Thanks to your support in contacting your legislators, H.B. 65 has passed its first reading and now has over 20 cosponsors.
Unfortunately, H.B. 65 is now stuck in the Agriculture Committee.
You see, even though the newly elected Republican majorities in the NC House and Senate quickly passed a bill to nullify ObamaCare in North Carolina, they're afraid of the Farmer's Freedom Protection Act.
Why?
H.B. 2, the Patient Protection Act, says that ObamaCare is null and void in NC, gives North Carolinians standing to sue Washington, DC over it, and instructs NC Attorney General Roy Cooper to join the 26-state lawsuit against ObamaCare in federal court. It does not, however, specify that enforcement of ObamaCare in NC is a crime.
H.B. 65, the Farmer's Freedom Protection Act, goes a step further. It says that not only is S. 510, the War on Food, null and void in NC, but that any attempt to enforce it is a Class 1A misdemeanor. This interpositional language gives it teeth that H.B. 2 simply doesn't have. That's what has the members of the Agriculture Committee are scared.
It seems that the new majority in the General Assembly is eager to pass symbolic bills, but they're not quite ready to pick a real fight with Washington to protect our food freedom. You and I know that when it comes to facing down the Obama Machine, that's just not good enough.
Please call and/or email the below listed legislators on the House Agriculture Committee to tell them to support H.B. 65, the NC Farmer's Freedom Protection Act! Tell them to pass it out of committee with a favorable reading as soon as possible and to bring it to the floor for a roll call vote!
AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
1. Rep. James H. Langdon, Jr. (Chair) – 919-733–5849, james.Langdon@ncleg.net
2. Rep. Efton M. Sager (Chair) – 919-733-5755, Efton.Sager@ncleg.net
3. Rep. Jimmy Dixon (Vice Chair) – 919-715-3021, Jimmy.Dixon@ncleg.net
4. Rep. Dewey L. Hill (Vice Chair) – 919-733-5830, Dewey.Hill@ncleg.net
5. Rep. David R. Lewis (Vice Chair) – 919-715-3019, David.Lewis@ncleg.net
6. Rep. Kelly M. Alexander, Jr. – 919-733-5778, Kelly.Alexander@ncleg.net
7. Rep. Larry M. Bell – 919-733-5863, Larry.Bell@ncleg.net
8. Rep. Alice L. Bordsen – 919-733-5820, Alice.Bordsen@ncleg.net
9. Rep. Marcus Brandon – 919-733-5825, Marcus.Brandon@ncleg.net
10. Rep. William D. Brisson – 919-733-5772, William.Brisson@ncleg.net
11. Rep. George G. Cleveland – 919-715-6707, George.Cleveland@ncleg.net
12. Rep. Bill Cook – 919-733-5906, Bill.Cook@ncleg.net
13. Rep. N. Leo Daughtry – 919-733-5605, Leo.Daughtry@ncleg.net
14. Rep. Phillip Frye - 919-733-5661, Phillip.Frye@ncleg.net
15. Rep. Charles Graham - 919-715-0875, Charles.Graham@ncleg.net
16. Rep. W. David Guice - 919-715-4466, David.Guice@ncleg.net
17. Rep. R. Phillip Haire - 919-715-3005, Phillip.Haire@ncleg.net
18. Rep. Bryan R. Holloway - 919-733-5609, Bryan.Holloway@ncleg.net
19. Rep. D. Craig Horn - 919-733-2406, Craig.Horn@ncleg.net
20. Rep. Dan W. Ingle - 919-733-5905, Dan.Ingle@ncleg.net
21. Rep. Bert Jones - 919-733-5779, Bert.Jones@ncleg.net
22. Rep. Jonathan C. Jordan - 919-733-7727, Jonathan.Jordan@ncleg.net
23. Rep. Patsy Keever - 919-733-5746, Patsy.Keever@ncleg.net
24. Rep. Paul Luebke - 919-733-7663, Paul.Luebke@ncleg.net
25. Rep. Darrell G. McCormick 919-733-5654, Darrell.McCormick@ncleg.net
26. Rep. Chuck McGrady - 919-733-5956, Chuck.McGrady@ncleg.net
27. Rep. Annie W. Mobley - 919-733-5780, Annie.Mobley@ncleg.net
28. Rep. G. L. Pridgen - 919-733-5821, Gaston.Pridgen@ncleg.net
29. Rep. Shirley B. Randleman - 919-733-5935, Shirley.Randleman@ncleg.net
30. Rep. Norman W. Sanderson - 919-733-5853, Norman.Sanderson@ncleg.net
31. Rep. Timothy L. Spear - 919-715-3029, Tim.Spear@ncleg.net
32. Rep. Joe P. Tolson - 919-715-3024, Joe.Tolson@ncleg.net
33. Rep. John A. Torbett - 919-733-5862, John.Torbett@ncleg.net
34. Rep. Edith D. Warren - 919-715-3023, Edith.Warren@ncleg.net
35. Rep. Jennifer Weiss - 919-715-3010, Jennifer.Weiss@ncleg.net
36. Rep. Roger West - 919-733-5859, Roger.West@ncleg.net
To help more, sign Campaign for Liberty's petition to nullify the Food Takeover here. Then find your NC House and Senate representation here and tell them to cosponsor the NC Farmer's Freedom Act.
For Liberty,
Adam Love
NC State Coordinator
Campaign for Liberty
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
adam.love@campaignforliberty.com
P.S. Please sign Campaign for Liberty's petition to Nullify the Food Takeover here and be sure to forward this to your email list and other like-minded groups! You can help Campaign for Liberty keep the heat on for this bill and others by donating here.
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Is the Tea Party Weakening? Slowing Down? Backing Off?
As you all know from the news, we are living in very scary times. Things haven’t been this bad in a very long time, and perhaps 2012 is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
■People are rioting in the streets in nations all over the world, calling for their governments to step down. Some are responding peacefully and others are being gunned down in the streets as if they are nothing more than pestilent rats.
■Our sworn enemy, even as identified in the Bible, not only has barbarically slaughtered over 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11 but they have officially arrived at our shores to stay. Despite an ideology that despises our rules and culture and ultimately cannot exist peacefully in a Christian-based nation, Islamic communities have taken hold all over this country, are challenging our laws, and using our very tolerance and multiculturalism against us. And now our finest lawyers are taking up their cause. Our President has announced worldwide that the United States is the largest Muslim nation. We are at the verge of building a magnificent mosque at Ground Zero as a symbol of Islam’s conquest of the US.
■The Department of Homeland Security, through Janet Napolitano, has identified domestic rightwing groups (such as the Tea Party groups), as being potential sources of violence. In fact, in her report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Radicalization and Recruitment,” she cites domestic rightwing groups as likely to engage in acts of violence because of the various emerging social and political issues, including:
(a) The prolonged economic downturn (including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, an inability to obtain credit, the outsourcing of jobs)
(b) The election of the first African-American president
(c) Resentment over immigration
(d) The passage of the healthcare reform bill
(e) Opposition to a large central government
(f) Opposition to the current rate of taxation
---- Do these issues sound familiar ?? Groups who legitimately have such concerns, and which intimately concern their lives, are on a Homeland Security watch list as potential sources of domestic violence. I suppose that leftwing groups do nothing to warrant such government scrutiny. This is our very government engaging in “View point” discrimination. This is our very own government attempting to shut the conservative message down by issuing a report claiming that we pose a serious enough threat to internal security to be monitored. How long before Tea Party groups will no longer be able to even associate with one another? How long before the government tries to make that a crime?
■The federal government refuses to do its job to keep Americans safe and secure, which not only means safe from the violence that illegal immigrants bring but also the insecurity that comes from a national debt so gargantuan that our very existence becomes precarious. We have a government that completely disregards the pleas of the American people to close our borders and to give assimilation a fighting chance. But no, the borders are open and violent criminals are pouring in. How many reports must we hear about rapes and violent murders and repeat offenses at the hands of illegals? How many are being swept under the carpet so we don’t have to hear about them and complain? We have no meaningful system to track murderous criminals and in fact, the government simply releases them back onto the streets after briefly detaining them and asking them to “please return for a deportation hearing.” I guess it is only the government who believes criminals have personal integrity because it would rather hire more IRS agents to persecute those not paying healthcare insurance than ICE agents to deport criminal illegal aliens in order to make sure our streets and neighborhoods are safe.
■We have more than half the country that loves this country for all the wrong reasons - for the hand-outs and the freedom to disregard education, work, responsibility, and service to their country. “At some point you run out of other people’s money.”
■Aol.com bought out Huffington Post to bring liberal media more into the mainstream where feeble minds can latch on to its message of a government nanny state.
■Democrats in government still don’t understand the gravity of our debt problem. We are losing stature in the world’s eyes. We are mortgaging our children’s future. We are putting the integrity of our entire system on the line.
■Americans still don’t understand what it means to be blessed with Liberty and the responsibilities that come from that. They still don’t understand that with liberty comes a great cost and that cost is eternal vigilance.
■Americans still don’t understand that the US Constitution is everyone’s personal charter of freedom. In defending the Constitution and its design for a limited federal government, we ensure our own liberties. If we fail to stand up for violations of this document, we chip away steadily at our very freedoms. Apparently not everyone values robust freedom; Apparently not everyone knows what to do with it. But unbridled freedom is the very core of what America stands for and it’s the very reason millions left their homeland in the 1700’s, 1800’s, and 1900’s to come to her shores.
■Our President has announced that we are no longer a Christian nation and with every official action and with every official word and government action on his behalf, he announces that this is indeed true.
■Our President just announced that he will REFUSE to enforce a national law which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. (I didn’t know he had that option to refuse to do his job). He declared that the law is unconstitutional. (Not the Supreme Court, mind you, but Obama himself made this enlightened decision). We are not a government of men; we are a government of laws. It would serve Obama, apparently a lawyer, to go back and read the Constitution (or read it for the first time, whatever the case may be).
■These are just to name a few of the current problems...
WE ARE QUICKLY LOSING OUR VERY HERITAGE AND MEANINGFUL INSTITUTIONS
So please let us not forget or neglect the words of the very document which declared our independence from another government that oppressed the American people – the Declaration of Independence:
“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 of 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 shewn 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.”
Isn’t that why we have all joined the Tea Party? To recognize that our government has indeed become destructive of the ends for which it was created. And to alter it…peacefully.
To me it seems the Tea Party movement has been losing steam in our area of Pitt County. Perhaps some have lost the urgency and gravity of the current climate. I hope I’m wrong. It’s a time for action and involvement but instead it seems there is inaction and non-involvement. The coming years will make or break us as a nation. A house divided cannot stand. A nation that doesn’t stand for good cannot ask for blessings. The Bible says we need those blessings or we will perish.
But please know this. In Raleigh, state representatives feel the Tea Party presence and respect its power. This is undeniable. In Washington DC, representatives feel the Tea Party presence and respect its power. I’ve been there and I found this out for myself. The Tea Party movement is historic. It is real and it is very palpable. It stands in a long line of bold attempts by free men to stand up for their inalienable rights in the face of tyranny and oppression.
More and more, the Tea Party can be compared to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. It is a revolt against an oppressive government who believes that people are ruled by powerful men rather than rules. At the height of the Stamp Act crisis, which culminated in the Boston Tea Party, William Pitt proclaimed in Parliament, "The Americans are the sons not the bastards of England." Today, just as back in the 1700’s, we the people are indeed ignored by our government, as if we too are bastards rather than sons and daughters. Our Declaration said this about King George:
“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Could this not easily be said of Barack Obama? The Declaration also cited this offense for justifying our separation from England: “…For abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.” Is that not what Obama and his Czars are trying to do?
It is said that since our feudal roots in England following the invasion by William the Conqueror (of Normandy, France), every time the people stood up and fought for their rights and freedoms, they were granted recognition and protection of those rights, and with each successful confrontation, they were granted greater rights. It would be an abomination if in our most civilized era, we were not wise enough to stand up for our rights or for the most ingeniously crafted Constitution the world has ever known.
I am not sending this out necessarily to compel you to any action, but rather to remind you to please stand resolute in your commitment to effect meaningful change in this country - for our children and grandchildren. If you can find the time, please continue to be active in the Tea Party, please help recruit, please become involved locally, become visible, become vocal, become active, and continue to educate yourselves on the issues.
Please pass along –
Thank You & God Bless,
Diane Rufino
■People are rioting in the streets in nations all over the world, calling for their governments to step down. Some are responding peacefully and others are being gunned down in the streets as if they are nothing more than pestilent rats.
■Our sworn enemy, even as identified in the Bible, not only has barbarically slaughtered over 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11 but they have officially arrived at our shores to stay. Despite an ideology that despises our rules and culture and ultimately cannot exist peacefully in a Christian-based nation, Islamic communities have taken hold all over this country, are challenging our laws, and using our very tolerance and multiculturalism against us. And now our finest lawyers are taking up their cause. Our President has announced worldwide that the United States is the largest Muslim nation. We are at the verge of building a magnificent mosque at Ground Zero as a symbol of Islam’s conquest of the US.
■The Department of Homeland Security, through Janet Napolitano, has identified domestic rightwing groups (such as the Tea Party groups), as being potential sources of violence. In fact, in her report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Radicalization and Recruitment,” she cites domestic rightwing groups as likely to engage in acts of violence because of the various emerging social and political issues, including:
(a) The prolonged economic downturn (including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, an inability to obtain credit, the outsourcing of jobs)
(b) The election of the first African-American president
(c) Resentment over immigration
(d) The passage of the healthcare reform bill
(e) Opposition to a large central government
(f) Opposition to the current rate of taxation
---- Do these issues sound familiar ?? Groups who legitimately have such concerns, and which intimately concern their lives, are on a Homeland Security watch list as potential sources of domestic violence. I suppose that leftwing groups do nothing to warrant such government scrutiny. This is our very government engaging in “View point” discrimination. This is our very own government attempting to shut the conservative message down by issuing a report claiming that we pose a serious enough threat to internal security to be monitored. How long before Tea Party groups will no longer be able to even associate with one another? How long before the government tries to make that a crime?
■The federal government refuses to do its job to keep Americans safe and secure, which not only means safe from the violence that illegal immigrants bring but also the insecurity that comes from a national debt so gargantuan that our very existence becomes precarious. We have a government that completely disregards the pleas of the American people to close our borders and to give assimilation a fighting chance. But no, the borders are open and violent criminals are pouring in. How many reports must we hear about rapes and violent murders and repeat offenses at the hands of illegals? How many are being swept under the carpet so we don’t have to hear about them and complain? We have no meaningful system to track murderous criminals and in fact, the government simply releases them back onto the streets after briefly detaining them and asking them to “please return for a deportation hearing.” I guess it is only the government who believes criminals have personal integrity because it would rather hire more IRS agents to persecute those not paying healthcare insurance than ICE agents to deport criminal illegal aliens in order to make sure our streets and neighborhoods are safe.
■We have more than half the country that loves this country for all the wrong reasons - for the hand-outs and the freedom to disregard education, work, responsibility, and service to their country. “At some point you run out of other people’s money.”
■Aol.com bought out Huffington Post to bring liberal media more into the mainstream where feeble minds can latch on to its message of a government nanny state.
■Democrats in government still don’t understand the gravity of our debt problem. We are losing stature in the world’s eyes. We are mortgaging our children’s future. We are putting the integrity of our entire system on the line.
■Americans still don’t understand what it means to be blessed with Liberty and the responsibilities that come from that. They still don’t understand that with liberty comes a great cost and that cost is eternal vigilance.
■Americans still don’t understand that the US Constitution is everyone’s personal charter of freedom. In defending the Constitution and its design for a limited federal government, we ensure our own liberties. If we fail to stand up for violations of this document, we chip away steadily at our very freedoms. Apparently not everyone values robust freedom; Apparently not everyone knows what to do with it. But unbridled freedom is the very core of what America stands for and it’s the very reason millions left their homeland in the 1700’s, 1800’s, and 1900’s to come to her shores.
■Our President has announced that we are no longer a Christian nation and with every official action and with every official word and government action on his behalf, he announces that this is indeed true.
■Our President just announced that he will REFUSE to enforce a national law which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. (I didn’t know he had that option to refuse to do his job). He declared that the law is unconstitutional. (Not the Supreme Court, mind you, but Obama himself made this enlightened decision). We are not a government of men; we are a government of laws. It would serve Obama, apparently a lawyer, to go back and read the Constitution (or read it for the first time, whatever the case may be).
■These are just to name a few of the current problems...
WE ARE QUICKLY LOSING OUR VERY HERITAGE AND MEANINGFUL INSTITUTIONS
So please let us not forget or neglect the words of the very document which declared our independence from another government that oppressed the American people – the Declaration of Independence:
“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 of 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 shewn 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.”
Isn’t that why we have all joined the Tea Party? To recognize that our government has indeed become destructive of the ends for which it was created. And to alter it…peacefully.
To me it seems the Tea Party movement has been losing steam in our area of Pitt County. Perhaps some have lost the urgency and gravity of the current climate. I hope I’m wrong. It’s a time for action and involvement but instead it seems there is inaction and non-involvement. The coming years will make or break us as a nation. A house divided cannot stand. A nation that doesn’t stand for good cannot ask for blessings. The Bible says we need those blessings or we will perish.
But please know this. In Raleigh, state representatives feel the Tea Party presence and respect its power. This is undeniable. In Washington DC, representatives feel the Tea Party presence and respect its power. I’ve been there and I found this out for myself. The Tea Party movement is historic. It is real and it is very palpable. It stands in a long line of bold attempts by free men to stand up for their inalienable rights in the face of tyranny and oppression.
More and more, the Tea Party can be compared to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. It is a revolt against an oppressive government who believes that people are ruled by powerful men rather than rules. At the height of the Stamp Act crisis, which culminated in the Boston Tea Party, William Pitt proclaimed in Parliament, "The Americans are the sons not the bastards of England." Today, just as back in the 1700’s, we the people are indeed ignored by our government, as if we too are bastards rather than sons and daughters. Our Declaration said this about King George:
“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” Could this not easily be said of Barack Obama? The Declaration also cited this offense for justifying our separation from England: “…For abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.” Is that not what Obama and his Czars are trying to do?
It is said that since our feudal roots in England following the invasion by William the Conqueror (of Normandy, France), every time the people stood up and fought for their rights and freedoms, they were granted recognition and protection of those rights, and with each successful confrontation, they were granted greater rights. It would be an abomination if in our most civilized era, we were not wise enough to stand up for our rights or for the most ingeniously crafted Constitution the world has ever known.
I am not sending this out necessarily to compel you to any action, but rather to remind you to please stand resolute in your commitment to effect meaningful change in this country - for our children and grandchildren. If you can find the time, please continue to be active in the Tea Party, please help recruit, please become involved locally, become visible, become vocal, become active, and continue to educate yourselves on the issues.
Please pass along –
Thank You & God Bless,
Diane Rufino
Member's Corner: LOU CALLING!
IMMIGRATION IS STILL ON THE FRONT BURNER!
With all that's going on in Wisconsin, the immigration issue is alive and well. After reading the following I hope you will contact Congressman Walter Jones at: https://jones.house.gov/ContactForm/default.aspx and urge him to support these bills. Thank you.
Lou
While these bills, when taken together, would not completely fix our nation's immigration ills, they would go a remarkably long way to secure our borders, reduce both legal and illegal immigration, and prevent illegal aliens from living and working in our nation. These bills are:
-- H.R. 692: The Nuclear Family Priority Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Phil Gingrey and would reform the chain migration system so that only spouses and minor children are automatically given Green Cards when family members immigrate and provides non-work visas for parents.
-- H.R. 800: The E-LAW Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. John Carter and would permanently reauthorize the E-Verify system and oblige all employers to use it on their current and new employees.
-- H.R. 704: The SAFE Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Bob Goodlatte and would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 50,000 Green Cards each year to would-be immigrants from nations that don't produce a lot of immigrants.
-- H.R. 140: The Birthright Citizenship Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Steve King and would prevent the children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens at birth.
-- H.R. 100: The CLEAR Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Marsha Blackburn and would allow state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws and oblige the federal government to help localities in this area.
Louis Call
Chairman, Legislative/Research Committee
CCTA (Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association)
With all that's going on in Wisconsin, the immigration issue is alive and well. After reading the following I hope you will contact Congressman Walter Jones at: https://jones.house.gov/ContactForm/default.aspx and urge him to support these bills. Thank you.
Lou
While these bills, when taken together, would not completely fix our nation's immigration ills, they would go a remarkably long way to secure our borders, reduce both legal and illegal immigration, and prevent illegal aliens from living and working in our nation. These bills are:
-- H.R. 692: The Nuclear Family Priority Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Phil Gingrey and would reform the chain migration system so that only spouses and minor children are automatically given Green Cards when family members immigrate and provides non-work visas for parents.
-- H.R. 800: The E-LAW Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. John Carter and would permanently reauthorize the E-Verify system and oblige all employers to use it on their current and new employees.
-- H.R. 704: The SAFE Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Bob Goodlatte and would eliminate the visa lottery, which raffles off 50,000 Green Cards each year to would-be immigrants from nations that don't produce a lot of immigrants.
-- H.R. 140: The Birthright Citizenship Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Steve King and would prevent the children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens at birth.
-- H.R. 100: The CLEAR Act. This legislation's main sponsor is Rep. Marsha Blackburn and would allow state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws and oblige the federal government to help localities in this area.
Louis Call
Chairman, Legislative/Research Committee
CCTA (Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association)
Does Obama’s New-Found Flexibility Open Door for State Single-Payer Systems?
While half the country is fighting to rescind President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul, the president offered a “concession” Monday to let unhappy states design their own alternative plans under the scope of the ObamaCare law. This new flexibility may mark the “most significant change” since the law was enacted, but what might these changes mean in a practical sense?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-obamas-new-found-flexibility-open-door-for-state-single-payer-systems/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-obamas-new-found-flexibility-open-door-for-state-single-payer-systems/
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Healthcare,
President Obama,
single-payer,
socialism
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