Local Survey Results: Who Should the GOP Run vs. Obama and Cantwell?

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Survey Results – Who Should the GOP Run vs. Obama and Cantwell?

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MOSTLY REPUBLICAN, MOSTLY CONSERVATIVE

The overwhelming majority of survey participants described themselves as conservative, and as Republicans. Although this was an unscientific…

The Taxpayers Voted…We Won…Evidently Not!

The taxpayers voted for $30 car tabs that could not be raised without approval by a vote from the people.  So why has the King County Council decided to be the King County Council Tyrants and ignore the people once again?

King County’s $20 car tab tax: Liars, Sell-Out, & Switzerland

http://www.voterswantmorechoices.com/Liar.pdf

Local Man Fulfilling Promise In Big Way

Committed to a promise that he made to a buddy, who later fell in combat, led to the organizing of the Team Jesse Foundation and a grueling ride across America to help the families of our brave heroes who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom!

ABOUT THE RIDE
SUPPORT THE CAUSE
To provide education and help for families of fallen soldiers and to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of September 11, 2001, US Army Veteran Kevin Mincio and Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Matt Sauri will cycle across America. This 95-day, 4,200 mile journey will begin at the gravesite of SSG Jesse Williams in Santa Rosa, CA and end at Ground Zero in Manhattan, NY where Team Jesse Foundation co-founder Kevin Mincio stood on 9.11.01 as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs before enlisting in the Army to defend our freedom. All donations that are received during this event will provide education and support to families of fallen soldiers.

A Strong Message

Palin Bus Tour sends the right message about America.

Beren Survey Poll For WA Federal Candidates

In 2012, who should the GOP run against President Barack Obama?

And who should the GOP run against Senator Maria Cantwell?

Click here to participate in the survey: Who Should the GOP Run?

Tom Trento Calls For Investigation of Incident & WH Leaks on Seal Team 6

Wrong Way Government Removes Our Consent

It used to be when neighbors were building their communities, they got together to decide what they needed and then decided how they would accomplish their objective. Often they all chipped in labor and materials and when it was finished nothing was owed. These days a council sits around and decides what they want and build or implement it whether or not it is affordable or really needed for our community. Often the “plan” is encumbered with strings attached for funding from higher bureaucracies too that we become liable for. They may even get some input about their idea from the community along the way. Often these attached strings change our communities in drastic ways we did not bargain for. Is this an exaggeration? In some cases probably, but yes it’s true in general. Our government is functioning backwards, at all levels, more often than not.

Tea Party Movement Unity

E * Pluribus * Unum~ “Out of Many,  One”

Freedom!

UPDATE:Post 9/12 March on DC

Incredible numbers of patriots traveled to DC to send the message Washington needs to hear;

DC Listen!  You work for us!

Incredibly, many of the elitist’s pretended not to notice, and continue to try to minimize the significant and historic occasion!

As many as 2 million may have traveled to be there.  Chances are we will not know for sure, yet the numbers visible and apparent show that we are significant, and we are coming together to form a strong voice.

The “Pay to Play” DC bureaucrats are in for a rude awakening ,  there are millions more at home who wished to be there also.

Getting organized locally, and finding strong candidates within our ranks, is the general step all groups should be working on now.

UPDATE: Post July 4th, 2009

July 4th weekend brought in a very encouraging new wave of tea party events, with numbers that matched or exceed in all probability the April 15th Tax Day attendance figures!

Membership in groups organized at all levels is still rising, and the planning for and operation of events is very organized compared to earlier.  Most events are seeing a mixture of tea party members from various groups such as Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Nation, and Smart Girl Politics for example.  Petition drives, counter protests, writing and calling campaigns, “Galt strikes”, and circle of five groups are having an effect though the msm media is trying it’s hardest to ignore it all!

The grand plans of the socialist schemes of  “Cap and Tax” and Socialized Health Care have run into a solid wall of resistance that was practically non existent 6 months ago!

The coalitions of tea party allies is working itself out as the common purposes of limiting government, stopping insane spending and taxation, and restoring state sovereignty are primary focuses in all these groups.

Both the political left and the “status-quo right” are struggling to understand the upstart grass root movement which seeks to remove both groups from the power they have abused- and to restore a representative government to a right of center populous that believes in the constitutional principles of a free republic!

Recent efforts by groups of Acorn members, union bosses,  and the move-on crowd to protest for socialized medicine were flops that were met by even larger numbers of tea party counter protesters!

I look to see more and more of this unity as in the July 17th protest to occur simultaneously at every single congressional office across the nation by most of the major groups of tea party members!

e pluribus unum!

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From silent voices to a thunderous roar!

Our tea party movement is growing from a general angst and anger at government’s out of control spending, with people showing up to  hastily arranged rallies unsure about what to do once they got there, to multitudes of new organizational entities all over the spectrum of communications, but especially online.

We call it the “Tea Party Movement” inspired by the historical revolt in colonial times that manifested with actions such as the famous disposal of crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.

By now everyone is aware that 100′s of thousands showed up in every state on April 15th for a tax day revolt.

Since that time there have been dozens of small and sporadic events for various reasons all over- but nothing huge yet since Tax Day.  It gives an outsider,  many of them who can not see the validity behind the movement, (and still don’t “get it”), the impression  that the movement has lost steam.

Believe me, it hasn’t! We are in a quiet phase though,  as people have begun working in earnest to develop websites, social networks, broadcasting alternatives, blogs and other tools of communication for the tea party movement or “counter insurgency” against redistribution and ever increasing burdens thrust upon the taxpayer- by a very determined, and leaning socialist,  government.

Our new organizations are comprised of people that are conservative, and traditional family oriented individuals for the most part.

Our groups are often working separately at the same time on the very same issues- nothing wrong with that at all in my opinion.

The colonists did the same, they worked on their own issues, but they recognized that they too had mutual interests,  and found ways to work together in unity on those issues!

So,  I propose that the time has come- for our diverse, and different groups, to  decide to initiate a “Minuteman alert system“, or “e pluribus unum coalition” if you will,  that we can go to and see,  direct our members to see,  and be able to really accomplish huge results!

I have seen many of the same comments on the various sites…imagine what we could do if we were all working with each other?  We can still have our competitive nature while having a coalition for action too.

The greatest symbol of freedom and strength  of unity is our American flag.  We see still our thirteen stripes together, yet sovereign. We see our states equal, separate, yet united on the flag!

This is the tradition of America and should and can happen with our Tea Party movement !

If we can agree this is needed-

Than we must find a way to make it work,

like our forefathers, we will not have an easy task.

First we agree to the principle, than we agree how to do it, and than we pledge to stay within the guidelines we establish for it.

Finally, the  last step is turning that silence… into a thunderous roar!

If you happen to read this post, and wish to pass this along to your group or organization-

we may see what can happen!

Seattle Counter protest ROCKS!

I will never forget the look of shock on their faces as they marched into Westlake and saw us across the street. They couldn’t believe it because we’ve never stood up to them before. It was the most joyous sight I could ever hope to see. Their guest speakers referred to us over and over again, “Don’t listen to those people over there..” “… like those people over there…” “be louder than those people over there…” Please. They made us the stars of their event. Gracias. We interrupted their mojo and everyone could feel it. It was palpable.

Read Liberty Belle’s account of the Funeral for Health Care!

UPDATES:

1. Check out the total blackout coverage from KOMO. Seems as though they only covered the start of opposition’s rally at the Pratt Park end and then a little bit of their march. Curious as we sent them press releases about our activities at the Westlake Park end, and they didn’t even bother to send one reporter. If you have pictures or video of the event, please send them with an email or letter to our local news media, T.V. and print!

2. Just a few pics to whet your appetites!

Photos via Redistributing Knowledge blogspot

More photos to follow!

An Open letter to KOMO

We predicted your behavior, and sure enough you acted true to form.

We are sure you have your reasons, and excuses, and frankly- I do not need to hear them at all!

You failed at reporting! That’s not news to us!

It wasn’t like you were not notified in advance, because, of course, you were.

It’s OKAY if you  exercise your prerogative and select the news to report.

What’s so big about 400+ people there as counter protesters, whom are truly the grass roots enthusiastic, and committed group of the two crowds gathered yesterday?

The ‘astroturf’ crowd sure noticed our Funeral for Health Care, they were distracted to the point of frustration.

They, the artificial astroturfers held their mass produced union signs, and almost no American flags- while the real grassroots crowd had very creative homemade signs, and were the ones waving all the American flags!

Your story conveniently omits any mention of our crowd while misrepresenting their crowd as attracting people from all over the Northwest.

Excuse me…they were bussed in as planned! Here is an example from one union the Washington Federation of State Employees.

It did not ‘draw’ participants from all over the NW, it was a staged event to project a public image; that most of the people now want socialized medicine .

We had the counter message that you refused to show.  We do not want a government managing our health care, and think such a step is a one way stride into socialism!

We had plenty of alternative solutions and flyers to hand out to those wanting information!

You see, we were not hiding information, we were providing it…like News organizations used to do!

Please see Patients United Now website for alternatives in the Health Care reform debate!

See more photos of event here

A new term has emerged from this type of news coverage;  “Obama Compliant News”

it could be a logo of endearment for the left, while a warning logo to us!

Cartoon Link for IBD Editorials

The reality is not funny, but the cartoons are!

Sometimes we just need to laugh-

You can get these cartoons and/or great editorials e-mailed to you at

Investors Business Daily~ link has been added to EastsideTeaParty blogroll!

Fighting Liberal Distortions & Deceptions

“What Liberals Say” was developed by Accuracy in Media as a unique and comprehensive resource for statements made by liberals. The objective is to showcase hundreds — and eventually thousands — of statements by high-profile liberals on controversial subjects like gun control, multiculturalism and global warming.

What Liberals Say

Unless you are very naive about life, chances are that you already  know that the ‘sound bite’ information, and popular culture “quicky” news,  may not be the most reliable sources to draw any substance,  nor to form an objective opinion on the issues.

The Issues/Experts tab on this site will lead you to excellent and professional analysis of the issues we are facing in America today.  One of the best ways you know you are getting good information is to do the research for yourself!

Health Care Reform Debate Must Occur!

By all indications so far, in this administration, real debate about any issue has been dismissed and policy is being imposed as if  “time for debate is over”.

No “crisis” can be wasted!

The word has been put out to Nanny Pelosi, and the rest of the “Obama-compliant” Congress and his media,

“Obamacare” (universal health care) will be voted into law before the summer break!

We will be bombarded with a lot of twisted rhetoric, pro-nationalization anecdotal evidence, that “this is the time and now is the time”, and heavy propaganda by the left about the success of national health care programs elsewhere, and the “right” of everyone in America to have access to affordable health care via such a system.

Never mind that socialized medicine is actually bankrupting other countries, eating up budgets and delivering inferior care… pay no attention to that!

Like the “Man-made Global Warming”  hoax- the facts will not matter, only peoples perception of the facts really matter to the politicians, and the left- has a monopoly in manipulating this aspect of the “debate”.

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy’s “blueprint for health care” is being toted by the Left as the prime example we should  follow for reforms, but the “Massachusetts Model” is not exactly a success.

See Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable…by CATO’s Michael D. Tanner

An actual debate would need to ask this question-

Is healthy competition even being allowed to take place in the US health care system?

In a different article Mr. Tanners states:

Other countries are loosening government controls and injecting market mechanisms, particularly cost-sharing by patients, market pricing of goods and services, and increased competition among insurers and providers. Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, said in a report to the European Commission, “[W]e should start to explore the power of the market as a way of achieving much better value for money.”

There is even evidence of a growing shift from public to private provision of health care. If many of the proposals in Congress would push us toward more of a European-style system, the trend in Europe is toward a system that looks more like the U.S.

The politicians created an impression in the public’s mind about both the causes and effects of so-called environmental catastrophes awaiting mankind,  if we failed to act.  Once they became certain enough people believed the “evidence”, ( that they had largely fabricated ) they declared that “the debate was over”, and that the time for solutions (theirs) was here!

That method is about to saddle us with the biggest tax increase in the history of the world, and it is based solely on people believing a lie!

We must continue to expose that lie for what it is, before it destroys us, and also have actual debate on health care reform before it to becomes an excuse to plunge into the “no return world” of government control, collectivism, and socialism!

The power brokers are actually reforming our country, this is not even really about health care, or energy  problems.

This is about the ability to control massive amounts of people by having control over what they do or do not get, or are allowed to keep for themselves.

This is ultimately a  debate  about transferring our own self-determination as individuals,  over to an all powerful government.

This is a debate we must have, and that we must win to stay free!

“ObamaCare” Poster Contest- Driving Message Home!

All hail Obamacare…………….Not!

Yesterday on Michelle Malkin’s blog,  she announced a contest

— spearheaded by Scott G. at Ah, Shoot for the photoshoppers out there to

use their creative talents to help spread the word against the huge push the leftist have orchestrated to impose ‘socialized medicine” upon us.

The new results(Rx) coming in with the WWII theme are exactly what the doctor ordered!

What is Bioethics? Why Should You Care?

What is Bioethics?

Why should you care?

It’s a matter of life or death!

Bioethics is the discipline that looks at life and the decisions involving it.

As we enter into the intense debate over Health Care Reform it becomes critical to understand that our lives, health, science,  law, and politics are all on a collision course!

Abortion, cloning, stem cell research, ‘right to die’, medical decisions,  new drugs,  lifestyles, informed consent, organ procurement,  children’s rights, and many  more,  are all affected.

Bio means life,  and ethics is what society decides is right.

Our government is exercising more and more authority over the autonomy of the individual.

Auto meaning self and nomos meaning law…in other words -”self-determination”,  based on ones morals and values.

Politically, we have been losing more autonomy of our lives daily it seems.  We have elected and unelected officials directing what we can or can not do,  say,  or even think!

It is worse than just troubling to think about what decisions they will claim away from us next, it is actually frightening!

When it comes to our health care decisions it is a nightmare, we cannot awake from!

We are in this predicament for one reason, our Constitution has been ignored and stretched beyond its actual meaning,  allowing government to seize power over people they were never allowed,  nor ever intended to have!

Their  power is than used to leverage behavior over people, to act or not act a certain way.

Those in power now, are not at all satisfied with the excessive power they have seized, and wish to seize even more!

Health care control is one of the biggest levers they have always dreamed of having.  This power tool gives them unprecedented (in this country) control over any remnants of autonomy the people hope to retain.

Should America be foolish enough to accept any form of socialized medicine (that isn’t already in place), they will have will have forfeited that most important “self” part out of autonomy!

Family members will be leveraged to use the new ethics of ‘doing what is best for the family‘ in letting their loved one expire.

Social needs not to pay for “unneeded” and expensive medical procedures will be the “new patriotic thing” they promote as normal.

There is almost no limit to the deception, and unethical games,  played in politics these days, and those political decisions for your life, and your loved ones lives, are speeding our way.

Soon we will be hearing ‘experts’ from The Hasting Center,  Harvard Medical School,  and others, that will be talking heads to let us know they have already figured out all these complex ethical questions—for us!

I don’t know about you but I think I’ll pass~

I still consider the “self ” part of autonomy…the most important part!

For more on Bioethics see-

Legal Trends in Bioethics

American Society for Bioethics + Humanities

When Will President Obama Make the Case for Freedom?

Our First President-George Washington

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796

The case for freedom is America.

Millions seek to come here for that reason alone!

Appreciative Americans realize that and thank God that they were fortunate enough to be either born here, or become a citizen here.

Millions more around the world live without freedom, but hope to experience it someday.

It does not take a whole lot of education to understand that we are blessed, while others are not so fortunate.

Obama is exploiting the difference for his own political purposes.

Past presidents have shown the world what freedom  offers, and encouraged people from around the globe to not only consider freedom, but to strive for it.

America is not a selfish nation.  We have never felt that freedom and liberty was solely our domain to jealously guard without sharing.

So why now is our president acting as if that is the case?  Why does he travel  to places devoid of any true freedom- and state we are standing on common ground?

Just when exactly is he going to start to speak the truth about the way things really are?

People that live under freedom live the best, period.  They have the most, need the least as far as basic survival and in quality of life.

People that live under powerful thugs or where an elite political class controls everything have the least, and need the most.

Our freedom grew out of our economic freedom, that is how we became the superpower we are compared to other nations. That superpower status does not just refer to military might, it applies across the categories of human endeavors.

Innovation, generosity, justice, compassion, and economic might.

Our freedom enabled us to become who we are.  We are free to speak, to worship, to own property and to have a representative government.

Our freedom has created such a powerful momentum that we have been propelled along by this even as many have worked tirelessly against our rights and freedom.

Now though, all those chips and cracks against our principles, by so many, for so long, are really taking a toll on our Charters of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution.

I do not see  or hear our president making the case for freedom at all.

In fact, I am not alone in believing,  that the president has actually been making the case against freedom everywhere he goes,  with both words and deeds.

We can easily find apologists and defenders alike that insist that we, whom cherish our freedom, have judged the president all wrong.

They call us “extremists” as they work feverishly to deny all religious worship as the work of “zealots” if it does not conform to their worship of the State.

They call us “fringed elements” while they work ingeniously to disguise their attempts to stifle and suppress speech that does not conform to their views.

As they seize control over private industries right and left, they claim free enterprise is the evil in our country.

They openly admit to plans to further deprive of us our freedoms and how they will spend a lot more money we do not have, to make energy unavailable for use, to punish those with special sentences for daring to think for themselves about social issues, and to openly flood our society with workers they know will vote for entitlements over freedom.

Not only is our free economic system being dismantled without regard to freedom, our personal freedom is also under attack.

Our Constitution guarantees the right to own and bear arms an essential right in a free society, yet Obama has not been straight with America, and does seek to disarm us.

Nothing can be more personal than seeking and having control over your own health care decisions, and also maintaining your privacy as an individual, so why than is Obama pushing so hard to to seize these personal rights and personal freedoms away too?

How can society be free if they have no say in their lives?

I do not know exactly why our media threw in so completely with the anti-freedom, pro-control left.  It is bad for us all (that love freedom) that they have chosen this.

Most of us can appreciate and understand the special role and rights afforded a free press by our Founding Fathers.  They recognized that our freedom would come under attack, they saw the press as having a vital role in warning of an overreaching and abusive government.

Few spectacles are more chilling these days than to watch as our press is virtually silent during press conferences with the President, or even his press Secretary, on issues across the board that are having long term impacts to Americans freedoms.

Some of the media remarks are so absurd and beyond belief in unadulterated adulation for a president that has barely taken office, yet has done considerable damage to Americas image and to freedoms image as well thus far, that you find yourself double checking the sources to make sure they are true!

I have come to the conclusion that this president has no intention of making the case for freedom, this president intends to make a case of government control over freedom, and the press has decided to aid and abet him in that effort.

So I would make this case.  We are not the “extremists” here. We who love freedom, we love liberty and we want our children and grandchildren to also have freedom and liberty are not any of the names or labels used to distort what we stand for.

We are doing what so many others have done throughout our great history.  We are following tradition, celebrating freedom,  and always doing our part to both preserve and protect it.

We have lost so many good men and women fighting for our country.  They vowed to protect and preserve our Constitution, the doctrine of freedom,  from all enemies foreign and domestic.

When will President Obama make the case for freedom?

I do not believe he ever will, or ever wanted to.

So everyday we must do it for ourselves!

Obama Fired IG Who Was Exposing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Inspector Generals have the duty to fight against waste, fraud, and abuse in Federal programs.

Evidently Obama feels his Federal programs, and his cronies are “hands off”.

This President has much to explain about his political firing of an IG,

who had the temerity to buck the presidents wishes, and be diligent

in performing his functions.

It is our money that is being wasted fraudulently, so how is a president that speaks of openness, and transparency,  going to reconcile this contradictory action with the American public?

Obama Fired IG Who Investigated Friend | Sweetness & Light

Michelle Malkin has more on this here!

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Health Reform: Debate over “How?”

The Health Care reform debate is shaping up to be a contentious one, again.  On one side you have the Obama administration and his push to bring some form of a socialized national health care,  on the other you have the people that believe free enterprise will provide needed reforms if given a chance to do so.

While Washington fights over philosophies we take  a look at the local debate.

The debate over whether or not reform is even needed seems to be stipulated…it is widely agreed upon  reforms are needed,  due to the increasingly high cost of care and also many other factors.

So once again the real debate is over the “how“  to achieve reform that works.

Nearly half of the industry is already controlled by government, and it is certainly not the efficient half of the system  of the two!

Personally, I am on the side of  vigorous “free market competition“, and some common sense tort reforms to allow doctors some protection against the constant lawsuit threat due to astronomical awards given (even in settling baseless claims) for malpractice.

Of course the “entitlement side” that Obama represents is adamantly opposed to both these concepts.

The ever present “fairness” label is being applied once again as the left tries to assert that equal care for one and all is “a right“,  which of course it isn’t!

A fellow tea party member of several local and national groups,  Tawnya recently brought to my attention a good debate being waged in the “letters to the editor” pages of the Monroe Monitor over the last couple of weeks.

Obama is using his alliance with a  compliant media to help push his vision for us on this debate-his vision is clear-he wants national government control.

Meanwhile the regular folks are fighting back, as they realize if they don’t nobody else will, and this is too important to the welfare and well-being of ourselves and families!

We want our freedom, and individual control over our decisions, especially our health!

Two of my children were delivered by a doctor that no longer delivers babies after government controls at the state level drove out the insurance companies and drove up malpractice insurance rates.  Many of those government control decisions had to be altered and reversed,  insurance “reform” had created a crisis–the  shortage of OB/GYN doctors!

Tawnya noticed how the media was using “heart touching stories” to promote Obamas vision, she had one of her own,  so when a similar story appeared in her local paper she wrote in response.  I think the editor of this paper is getting slammed with letters at this pont, but Tawnya was still able to get  her letter in response published.  Tawnya’s  story is as heart touching as the original with a much different perspective on a similar story.

Reading the various responses to the editor is actually very educational, and one thing is very clear to me.  There is no consensus, and this debate is very far from over!

Original article (pdf) and responses (pdf)- here Tawnya’s  letter here and  here

They seemed to get away with the “debate is over” and “there is consensus” about the global warming hoax but that will not happen with the health care reform debate- if we step up and be heard, like Tawnya has done!

Excerpt from Tawnya’s letter–

I too have had a friend with cancer fly from Alaska to Seattle to have treatments. I’ve had my heart break watching what she was going through as she struggles to survive and raise her little girl on her own.  Unfortunately she could not afford to make many trips from Alaska. My friend ended up having to swallow her pride, which was not an easy thing to do, and ask for assistance. It is what she chose to do to survive. I don’t feel the need to give a blow by blow of her daily life and struggles to pull at your heartstrings to sway your opinion, but I would like to give some food for thought. I’m sure we all have stories that would touch each other on an emotional level that we could pass back and forth for days.  It all comes down to individual choice.  The one thing in this world that is truly mine is my body.  My body, My choice, I would like to keep it that way. One size doesn’t fit all. I don’t want rationed healthcare where government dictates what medical service I can or can’t have. That should be left between my doctor and me.

First work session on Senate health care bill

Are they out of their minds?
Check out the estimates on costs of Obama care(Kennedy) plan!
Just where would this money come from again?
The attempted dismantling of our economy continues, I guess this is Obamas idea of reducing the deficit!

Democrats in power = America -$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$’s
First work session on Senate health care bill

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Independence Day tea party tally explodes

They thought we would just fade away….

They thought wrong!
Independence Day tea party tally explodes

We are organized and stronger than ever, they haven’t seen nothing yet!

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EastsideTeaparty Blog Salutes Janet Contreras

EastsideTeaparty Blog salutes Arizona resident Janet Contreras for her letter to our leaders that is so profound and strikes a chord with all of us.

It is quickly going viral across the internet and has become known as the name “the Letter”

In case you missed it here is the link-

Glenn Beck – Current Events & Politics – Glenn Beck: The Letter

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Seattle Action Network Events update

Liberty Belle has updated the upcoming events with the email update below-

In case you do not get the email I posted it below-

To sign up visit her blog (link below) and look for -

The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty:
A Seattle Action Network

Upcoming Events* June 27th: Olympia Tea Party Picnic at Heritage Park
Bring your family, friends, and a picnic to show your resistance to tax-and-spend policies at Heritage Park in Olympia, WA, just steps from the Capitol. Speakers, games and music are on the agenda. This venue holds 20,000 people, imagine our impact if we fill it.
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Where: 330 5th Ave. SW, Olympia, WA
Contact: olympiateaparty@gmail.com
Look for an email about t-shirts in the next couple of days!!!

July 4th: Independence Day Tea Parties
There is no better way to honor and celebrate our freedoms than to attend a Tea Party on this, our Day of Independence. Please make an effort to attend one of the tea parties scheduled for this day. The list is below, but for details of each event you will need to visit the official Washington State Tea Party Website at www.teapartywa.org or click on the links below.
Bellingham
North Seattle/Everett
Seattle/Bellevue/Mercer Island
Olympia
Tri-Cities
Clarkston
Monroe (July 3rd)
Prosser (July 3rd)

July 17th: Mini Health Care Rallies
On Jul 17, Tea Party Patriots across the nation will rise up and gather for one hour in front of the US Senate and House offices in their districts to protest government-run health care. These Mini-Tea Parties will begin at 9:00 a.m. (PST). There will be no speakers or formal program. This will simply be patriotic citizens showing up at the offices of their elected representatives and saying NO to their destructive plans with signs and peaceful protest. Holding simultaneous events across the country will maximize the impact and the media coverage. More details to come, but start thinking about this now!

Useful Websites:
www.teapartypatriots.org (National site)
www.teapartywa.org (State site)
www.renewliberty.com
www.seedsofliberty.net
www.surgeusa.org
www.kclibc.com
www.olympiateaparty.com
www.eastsideteaparty.wordpress.com
www.consenthus.hypermart.net/id5.html
http://northwestteaparty.org/

In this email:
June 27th Tea Party
July 4th Tea Parties
July 17th Mini Rallies
Useful Websites
Contact Information

The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty:

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News Highlights

When you go to bed at night, and when you awake in the morning, news from the domestic front has been pretty consistent, bailouts, government takeovers, deficit spending, and every socialist solution ever thought of, is hurriedly being foist upon the American people.

They are in a hurry to push all these programs, and push them fast because they know if people get a chance to actually look at them …we will not accept them!

When you are in a hole- “stop digging” the saying goes, yet the Democrats not only won’t stop digging, they keep digging faster.

The personal charm of the president is starting to lose its sheen as people look at staggering numbers and realize we will never recover, or leave a free society for our children if we cannot stop the relentless irresponsibility of excessive spending, and huge tax increases looming for present and future generations.

Getting the real truth from the media these days would be like getting an actual photo of Sasquatch or Loch Ness”s “Nelly”, and it isn’t likely to happen.  They are all propagandists now at the three networks having sold out integrity for access and leaving the rest of us with story of Obama as a master fly swatter to be in awe of!

So I really appreciate the News highlights at Surgeusa.org and the comments associated with the stories.

I can go there and get a real assessment of what those headlines actually will mean to the American people.

The hurried push for Cap and Trade, Health care, increased Financial regulation of the free markets, and health care reform are just a few of the attacks we face on all fronts.

The VAT or Value added Tax will be another hurry up and get this passed because ‘we can’t afford to wait‘ socialist plan.

Action Alert: There is talk in Congress again about creating a value-added tax (VAT), and perhaps trying to sell it by offering some other tax breaks at first.  This could be a huge tax burden on everyone, raising the cost of almost everything we buy, while hiding the cost in the prices and making businesses responsible for the collection of it, somewhat like a sales tax system (but different – because the consumer doesn’t see the added tax cost, somewhat like the way that excise and other taxes are buried in the prices of gasoline, utilities, cigarettes, etc.  That maintains the fiction that income taxes are not being raised while dramatically increasing the actual tax burden on everyone.

You can read more about this at the link below

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Fight the Socialists Plan for Mega Taxes

Face it, the Democrats of today are now socialists!

The mega tax they are trying to enact in the name of the environment in the Cap and Trade scheme

will be devestating to America.

Scientists on both sides of the issue know that solar cycles warm the the Earth(and all the other planets in our system) and climate is a direct result of those cycles. They know man is of little if any consequence to the climate on Earth.

The whole plan is about controlling people, and it is largely a Democrat party scam!

The estimates of the effects on the American people by their regulations to control our behavior in the name of preserving our living environment are ugly!

For one it will devastate the economy as millions will not have money to buy food or power much less anything else!

It will cost lives , as people are forced to sacrifice safety for mobility in smaller unsafe vehicles.

It will result in the loss of millions more jobs.

It will cost an estimated $7 trillion loss  to our economy-

“Economic Unilateral Disarmament”

You can take action-

Dear Supporter of American Energy,

While the American economy continues to struggle, the Obama Administration is attempting to raise energy prices by forcing Americans to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. The only way to do this is by regulating and reducing the energy we get from natural gas, coal, and oil—the sources of 85 percent of our energy.

We must fight back. The Administration will only accept comments until June 23rd. Please join us and tell the Administration that we should be free to use the energy sources that work the best and cost the least.

If the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves forward with their plan, bureaucrats will regulate your lawnmower’s gas mileage, your car, the light bulbs in your house, the heating and cooling system in your children’s school, and even your electricity use. These are just a few of the likely outcomes if the Administration decides to regulate greenhouse gases using the Clean Air Act.

The Administration must hear your voice. Send a comment to EPA today.

AEA believes the Clean Air Act is not the appropriate tool to regulate greenhouse gases. If Congress wants to regulate greenhouse gases, it should explicitly authorize such regulations instead of allowing a bunch of unelected bureaucrats at EPA to do so.

EPA is currently soliciting public comments on their proposed plan to regulate greenhouse gases using the Clean Air Act. Let your voice be heard! Time is of the essence! We can only stop this harmful plan if you weigh in today.

Sincerely,

Thomas Pyle
American Energy Alliance

Trust Them: They Are Doing This For Your Own Good!

Actually it is for their own good and to our detriment.

The two plans the liberals want to permanently control you and I, and the rest of America, are Socialized Medicine and the Cap & Trade Energy Seizing  Mega Tax.

By controlling our energy they have the reins on all our economic endeavors, and by meddling in our health care they have direct control over our lives.

This is about becoming a dictating government- a tyranny, not a representative or freedom promoting one.

Reasons to Distrust Your Government

By Alan Caruba

Dallas Tea Party billed as~”America’s Tea Party”

Obama and his minions have a problem!

Seems they forgot America is filled with good old fashioned freedom loving patriotic souls called Americans!

Across the land this Fourth of July our Independence celebrations are going to mean a little more than in years past.

Our heritage and our traditions and even our very freedom have come under a relentless attack by an elitist crowd of leftists intent on transforming America into a drab and dreary society with no hope of getting out from under their controlling thumbs!

Seems like they forgot freedom loving people do not shrink or fall at their feet just because they demand it!  We are Americans  after all, born of revolution and fierce defenders of freedom and liberty with a very long history of fighting to preserve it!

This Independence Day is going to be special all over the country!

Dallas has a grand extravaganza planned for their event billed as America’s Tea Party

to be held on the world-famous  Southfork Ranch of Dallas fame.

Nationally-known speakers – World-famous musicians – Fantastic fireworks extravaganza – Food, fun and more!Tens of thousands of citizens from Texas and around the region are expected to turn out on July 4, 2009 for America’s Tea Party, a FREE rally and fireworks show to be held at the famous Southfork Ranch near Dallas, TX. Southfork is internationally known as the film location for the legendary “Dallas” television series.

Meanwhile Nashville is not to be out done, with it’s own all-star lineups of speakers entertainers, and more in the July 2,2009 Nashville Patriotic Revival Rally

sponsored and organized by Tea Party Nation members

Come kick off your July 4th weekend with a family friendly event in Downtown Nashville! We will have a pre-Tea Party mixer/meet and greet from 4 – 6 with music, information booths and more. At 6 the Tea Party begins with Blue Collar Muse Ken Marrerro hosting, Ralph Bristol of Talk 99.7, Laurie Cardozo Moore from Proclaiming Justice to the Nations and our Special Keynote Speaker, the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of Bond.org. Rev. Peterson will speak to us about the dangers of Socialism in America. You won’t want to miss this, so mark your calendars! This event is going to be BIG!!!!!

Of course in our own area there are dozens of events listed and you can use the new coalition of organizations for Washington State WA Tea Party Movement to find one you wish to attend.

All across the land the “second wave” has begun, the “surge” if you will.

The Independence Day surge and beyond

We are organized now, we have numbers, we have economic power, and we are coming on strong!

The “statists” are unprepared for the backlash they have caused.  Like the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII caused Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to utter the words “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant”, so too will these socialist liberal Democrats who have run amok with their excessive power find  out they have also awakened the heart and soul of America!

“Change” by Our New Anti Freedom Government

Our president has demonstrated he is Anti-Freedom.

For the first time in my adult life I feel that we have been infiltrated by enemies of freedom.

I know other feel this too.  It is an almost surreal situation where the popular culture and media ignore the most obvious facts of the times.

Look at Iran today where millions look for any acknowledgment from a newly silent US Government that they are right to stand for freedom for themselves!  It is a travesty to whom we are as a people, and what we represent, to let these people be crushed by a brutal regime, and by the deathly refusal of this anti-freedom president to speak up!

I don’t know why Michelle Obama could not ever see any good about my country before, but since her husband was elected I can honestly say his policies have made me ashamed of who we are being now.

His buddies around the world are all  the worst enemies of freedom, and I have not heard him promote freedom at all in his travels.  I have only heard apologies for having played a role in the spread of democracy and his pledge to end such practices.

In fact everything is so anti-American and anti-freedom with this administration and his ideological and obedient cousins in Congress that one wonders if we are missing something?

You are not missing a thing, this is what it is, our “change” is a systematic dismantling of all things that makes America strong.

Our prestige, our economic might, our military might, our free society, our moral standing, and our liberty are all being dismantled deliberately.

When one believes as Barack Obama does- in an ideology that demands a completely level field and equality amongst all peoples, than what other choice would one choose if one were in the position to make those directional choices?

Some of the people we have known for a great deal of our lives are seemingly blissfully unaware that this is exactly the “change” Obama has brought.  They seem unconcerned and locked into the identity they long ago chose for themselves.

They see themselves as JFK Democrats, or sympathetic to the cause of the little guy or working class.

Little do they realize that JFK would fall into their class of “right wing extremist” as issued by the left as a dirisive term applying to any and all that oppose them.  Given JFKs positions on cutting taxes and strong defense he would probably be to the right of every Democrat in Congress today!

And Martin Luther King was a Republican people!  He believed in God too, by the way! Today he would be targeted for legal takedown by the anti-American ACLU!

Our problem of having the major news outlets editors presenting a distorted perspective to every single story is enabling this anti-freedom “change” Obama has brought.

The little guy and the underdog?  Ask yourself this, where did all our manufacturing capacity go and why is it gone?  The unions are now in the only industries left, (the service and construction sectors) having forced businesses to seek labor where it makes economic sense.

Meanwhile thousands of the “little guys” that trusted the unions no longer have any job much less a good paying job.

The Democrats pander to special interests groups of every ilk for one reason only to garner votes, yet they show their true colors by embracing tyrants where gays,women, and the working class are brutally repressed.

So it can be very discouraging to see friends falling for all the games being played by the liberals who’s only actual purpose is to secure permanent “ruling” powers for themselves, while acting as if they are the new gods and saviors of mankind.

Fortunately the patriotic “teaparty movement” came about and a second wave of powerful and now organized protests to the insanity of todays governments actions is underway.  Try as they might, the media that sold their integrity to retain access, will not be able to dismiss us as a passing fad.  we are here now,  and we are a force in place to take a stand for our principles once again!

Many people have expressed frustration, so deflating have been the unrelenting assaults on our principles cherished by our people, but now is not the time to be discouraged!

Read  Give Up? Are you Kidding?

Get yourself and family out to an Independence Day rally they will be going on across the nation and the numbers will exceed those we saw on April 15th , so it will be huge.

Encourage people to read the Constitution and understand the limits of power on government, and how the out of control spending and growth of big government, and the assault on liberty- must be stopped!

Obama as “Leader of the Free World”

The Presidency of the United States had become analogous with the realistic title of the “Leader of the Free World”, that is until now.

With Obama it now reads “Leader of the Free World”,  evidently.

He has shown us this week just what lengths he will go to in avoiding promoting freedom anywhere, as the people of Iran bravely and defiantly attempt to stand up against tyranny, our leader defers,  not wanting to be seen as interfering.

Yet Obama is not doing anything new, he has not really spoken of freedom since he became the president.

I believe it is because he is an anti-freedom ideologue and proves it more every day he has had power.

While searching for speeches on freedom given by Obama, I stumbled upon this article by Christine Smith

Socialist Obama Speaks

From Christine’s list of recommended sites, I found the site Downsize DC which I really like-

This article about the proposed Health Care reforms was especially insightful as the author boils it down into a

simple set of questions we can ask!

Complexity, Simplified

So though the search for speeches given by Obama on freedom proved fruitless,never-the-less I was able to locate a couple of great sites and add them to the links available for you here at Eastsideteaparty!

Over The Cliff: “Stimulus” No Chute!

On a site named Innocent Bystanders they have charted the effects of the “emergency stimulus” money as it has related to joblessness rate using the Obama projections for a backdrop.

The illustration clearly shows the “stimulus” has failed miserably, that  this administration has no clue as to what it is doing with regard to the economy.

If the chart were to be inverted in its presentation, it would accurately depict jobs falling straight over the cliff without any change in trajectory!

Walpin-gate opens wider – Washington Times

Can we call this a cover-up now?  It is now reported the FBI is on the case at St. Hope!

Americorp?  St Hope?

How many more of these federally infused grant programs are fraudulent in their use of our taxpayers money?

Is this  the Chicago way of political graft?

The “audacity of hope” is turning out to be that one hoped he could continue the Chicago style politics as SOP, without everyone in the entire world noticing what he was doing!  Illegally firing Walpin was ill advised, to say the least.

I keep imagining the feeding frenzy of the blood smelling leftist media that would be occurring over this if President Bush had done this!

The “audacity of hope” is also ignoring and advocating ones responsibility as the “Leader of the Free World” while the largest upheaval against tyranny, and for freedom,  plays out in a crucial region of the world!

If this FBI investigation somehow gets squashed, this country is in very serious trouble!

It is well know that forensics can recover “erased emails” so this should lead to some interesting information at the very least, with people going to jail for obstruction of justice!
EDITORIAL: Walpin-gate opens wider – Washington Times

It also was learned last week that the White House is involved in major disputes with two other inspectors general who were poking around the administration’s business, including Neil M. Barofsky, whose job is to serve as watchdog for spending the $787 billion in controversial economic bailout funds.

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Some Votes are Unforgivable

Some votes are unforgivable.

Eastside Tea Party is of the opinion that any and all support for a candidate holding office and voting for the hoax that is represented today by the Cap & Trade scheme is wholly unqualified, and unfit to deserve any future support either monetarily,  or by your  votes.

UPDATE:6/27/09

Photoshop: Leo Alberti

Cap and Tax sets off angry taxpayers impromtu protests across nation

Will Small Business Sponsor Those Fighting for Them?

There are hundreds of tea party groups now ready and able to make a difference!  These groups are digging into their own pockets to put on events and voluntarily contributing hundreds of hours of their time.  They are busy doing all they are doing in between doing what they normally do,  working and taking care of families.

While the opposition is flush with money diverted to a web of  “community groups” and unions- from out of the pockets of taxpaying working people and small businesses.

The large corporations may agree with the principles of the movement, but they are not going to do a thing to sponsor any of us in these politically correct  times.

Large corporations are not the ones that will be hurt  the most by these big tax, big spend, big government policies taking place, it is the small business and middle class that are about to have the hammer slam down upon them!

We are not recovering or even leveling out economically, and just think of the further damage next year as those tax cuts expire and these new energy taxes and regulations are beginning to be implemented.

Small businesses are going to have to cut their workforces even more, and may even limit the amount of business they can  do as they try to find the magic point that still yields profit without being consumed by new taxes and costly regulations.

They may not have any money left over to contribute to a candidate much less sponsor a group of  tea partiers,  yet I would submit,  at least they will know that by sponsoring a tea party event- they are helping empower people devoted to the same causes and principles verses what we have  with these unreliable and unprincipled politicians!

As the small business donor dollars dwindle, so too will all hope of representation in government if the current trend continues, the tea party movement is giving small business another possibility to look at in trying to invest in  and rebuild for the future.

Among Reichert’s reasons; We lack vision to see bigger picture…

Washington, DC – Congressman Dave Reichert’s Statement on  American Clean Energy and Security Act:

“Energy independence and our national security are critical issues for America. These issues transcend politics. The future of this country is on the line and we can spare no effort when it comes to  leading on these issues at a global level.

Energy independence and national security are indeed related and gambling that America can magically supply its energy needs by cutting off its availability from efficient sources is the lefts political plan.  The right has said let’s increase domestic production here at home in a clean and responsible manner with technologies that are available now while working to improve on those technologies to make them even better and cleaner!

“This bill is not perfect, but it is a vital step toward energy independence.

A bill based on a lie is not even in the same category as perfect! I would not be surprised if our energy dependence actually increases after this scam was wrought considerable damage for a couple of years!

“America cannot maintain global leadership without innovation and new ideas, and we cannot lead if we increasingly depend  on foreign nations to heat our homes and move people and goods.

Congress has deliberately created the dependence by continually working against the domestic production of our own energy and use of existing technologies. Innovation and new ideas come from free enterprise and not from government strings of control!

The price of inaction is too great; America cannot stand on the sidelines while our competitors embrace new energy efficient technologies.

The new technologies cost a fortune and deliver little in the way of efficiency while causing a myriad of brand new problems.  American business does not stand on the sidelines, now or ever, did Obama give him this line?

It’s also important that we engage in a bipartisan discussion as we move forward – this bill has many other hoops to jump through before it becomes law and I will continue to work with my colleagues across the aisle and in the Senate to gain more tax relief for middle-income families.

This is an admission that middle class income families will be economically harmed by the legislation. A real bi-partisan discussion would to be allow the thousands of scientists that have expressed dissent to be heard and listened to before drafting legislation that devastates an entire country!

“Teddy Roosevelt was the true example of a Republican engaged in conserving resources for our children and grandchildren, but he also had the foresight to seek a brighter future for them. Republicans must be at the table as we look for solutions in energy independence and preserving our environment, while also looking at the bigger picture and working with all of our colleagues for a stronger nation.”

Thank God for Teddy Roosevelt! What a great leader, who had vision, and had principles, and stayed true to them without making our country weaker (in every area) with hair-brained schemes sure to cost jobs, money, status, and freedom, for all of America,  like we have on the way with the Cap and Tax!

Related Article at NWbloggers

Media “Lapdog Act” continues with Health Care Reporting!

Obamas poll numbers are actually below what George W. Bush had at the same stage of his presidency.

This is incredible, as the media has done everything they can to promote both the man and his policies since he became the presumptive Democrat nominee last year, something never afforded to Bush by a long shot!

Fortunately we have actual facts reported by others like Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center.

Brett knows what media should be doing and what they should not be doing, and when it comes to reporting on most anything involving the liberal agenda you can pretty much take it to the bank that they (the media) will not be doing their job!

Alexandria, VA – Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today called on the media to stop reporting on the American health care system as a “crisis” situation.  The facts simply belie the claim.

A poll conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Zogby International (http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1722) finds that 84 percent of Americans, including 46 percent of Americans without health care insurance, are “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with the health care they currently receive.

Released on Wednesday, the poll was glaringly absent from most news reports late last week and over the weekend.

MRC President Brent Bozell:

“The media need to stop acting like arsonists when it comes to their reporting on the U.S. health care system, starting a fire and then suggesting to put it out the government takeover of 1/5th of our economy.

“There is no health care crisis.  The American people are overwhelmingly satisfied with the health care they currently receive.  The media should report this instead of helping incite for the socialist solution – the government making our most vital life and death health decisions.

“The real crisis here is the crisis of confidence that the American people have in the media.  The press need to stop creating calamities where there are none, and instead do what they are charged with doing – reporting the facts.”

MRC.org – The Media Research Center

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Just a few reasons to despise Obamacare proposal!

Alan Caruba highlights just some of the provisions of Obamacare

Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare

Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll

• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll

• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).

• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”

• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.

• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.

• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.

• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!

• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!

• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.

• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).

• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.

• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.

• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.

• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!

Obamacare murders patient choice regardless of name they use

The month of August 2009 is a critical one to the American people.

Regardless of Pelosi or Obamas rhetoric about who the villain is in stopping them, the American people need to step up our opposition while the legislators grace us with their presence!

Regardless of the name they apply to their “plan” it is going to mean economic disaster and long term misery  to Americans.

I have reprinted Senator Demint’s email below from the Senate Conservative Fund

Co-ops = Public Option = Single Payer

Knowing that Americans would reject the idea of a “single payer” government health care system, Democrats began calling their plan a “public option.” Now that Americans have rejected that idea too, Democrats are peddling another proposal called health care “cooperatives.”

Unfortunately, these federally-backed co-ops are nothing more than a public option by another name. Washington will set up and subsidize them so private health plans are squeezed out of the marketplace. Then, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the costs will catch up with these government-sponsored entities and Congress will tell us they are “too big to fail” and must be nationalized.

Some Democrats are willing to admit that co-ops are the same as a public option. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said earlier this month that, “We’re going to have some type of public option, call it ‘co-op,’ call it what you want.”

Some Democrats are also willing to admit that the public option is the same as a single payer system. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) said this week that, “I think if we get a good public option it could lead to single payer, and that’s the best way to reach single payer.”

It’s becoming clear that no matter what name Democrats put on it, all of their ideas lead to a government takeover of our health care.

Join the Recess Rally At noon on Saturday, August 22, 2009, citizen rallies will take place outside congressional offices across the country. If you would like to participate, click here to find your Congressman’s local office and get more information.

The latest government bailout

This week, the Senate moved beyond bailing out industries that it has driven into the ground to bailing out its own programs that it has failed to manage.

Proving once again that the federal government is incapable of managing the federal highway system, the Senate passed $7 billion to shore up the failing program. The bill also provides $7.5 billion to bail out the failing unemployment insurance program and $185 billion to bail out several government-managed home-ownership programs.

Only 17 Republicans had the courage to vote against this rip-off. Click here to see how your Senators voted.

Question: If the government cannot manage these programs, what makes anyone think it can manage our health care?

9/12 March on DC

The people are being dictated to by the government, but the government is supposed to work for us. We the people have organized and are going to deliver the message to the elites in Washington DC!

They work for us!

09*12*09 March on Washington

Tea Party Movement goes to Capitol Hill

National Sponsor

National Co-Sponsors

“Our Government” Turning on Americans

Those who are joining the tea party movement have one goal in common,we are  Americans reclaiming our power.

But our own government cannot allow us to retake our power from them, so they blame others for misleading us and not knowing what is best for us!

“Angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists.”
Brad Woodhouse, Democrat National Committee

“Astroturf.
“….manufactured anger. “
Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman

“experts at fake grassroots campaigns that promote corporate interests.”
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

“oil industry and Republican operative millionaires’ club“
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

This is the year 2009.  Our country is the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Our country is the champion of liberty and individual rights.  Our country celebrates over  two centuries of prosperity and and more freedom and innovation than the world has ever witnessed. We have become the most powerful nation on earth because of the most perfect document guaranteeing our rights, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness ever penned, our US Constitution.

However there are those that have worked slowly but surely to erode every joint in our framework for our free republic.  They are doing this without the consent of the governed while pretending to protect and preserve our core strengths.

Now our most basic, God given rights, are being challenged by a government confused by what they are allowed to do with their delegated power and with what they do not have authority to do.

The very first and most important right listed in our Bill of Rights  is appropriately  freedom of speech.

For government at the highest levels to order surveillance and reporting of those speaking in a dissenting voice and to be falsely named as unruly mobs is a sign that should concern all Americans greatly.

One party has come to monopolize the flow of information to the people and are crossing the line and identifying ordinary concerned citizens as something we are not!

Today a blogger wrote who we actually are very eloquently

at the website Hot Air.com and I wanted to share his thoughts-

Who We Are

posted at 8:48 am on August 6, 2009 by Doctor Zero
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There seems to be a bit of confusion among Democrats about the nature of the opposition to their plans. Maybe I can help clear things up, by telling them a few things about us.

We’re not paid minions of any corporate interest or lobby. Most bloggers working to stop the Obama health-care disaster are like me, writing when they can find the time, because we care about the future of our country. The same is true of the people showing up at town hall meetings, and organizing rallies. Some of us are well-dressed in tailored suits. Others wear jeans and T-shirts. Most of us are dressed in what we wore to work.

Our support for a massive government program does not increase when you tell us we’re not allowed to ask questions about it.

We’re not racists. We’re also not racialists. We don’t think a wise Latina is inherently more qualified to do anything than a wise Asian woman, a wise white woman, or a wise white man. We’re tired of being fed excuses for high government offices staffed by anything but the best people for the job. There are too many high government offices, so we’d like some of Obama’s absurdly incompetent appointees to take their titles with them when they leave. We remember what it was like when we got rid of the Clinton mob, so we’ll be conducting inventories on the contents of those vacated offices, before we turn out the lights and pour cement in the locks.

We don’t like having to fight desperate battles to save our freedom and future from socialist politicians every ten or twenty years. We don’t like having our time wasted with trillion-dollar statist fantasies, when our government is already trillions of dollars in the red. We’re tired of checking the papers each day, to see which group of us has been targeted as enemies of the State. We’re growing impatient waiting for the Democrats to come up with ideas that don’t require their supporters to hate someone. We’ve had our fill of “progressives” who act as if we’re living in 1909, and none of their diseased policies have ever been tried before.

We believe government should be punished for failing to live up to the expectations of its citizens, not the other way around. We don’t think people who destroy thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in market value should get a pass because they meant well. We’ve had enough of dodging a massive State that wants to organize, subsidize, penalize, and divide us. We refuse to pay tithe to a religion we don’t support, including the official State religion of global warming. We demand honesty, humility, and transparency from our public servants, no matter how many elections they’ve won. We won’t settle for making the only important decisions about our futures in the voting booth, once every couple of years.

We don’t blame people for showing up to grab their share of a government handout. We blame the people who stole the money from the rest of us, and put it on the table for them. We don’t think respect for private property ends at a certain income level, or that only some people should be applauded for doing their best to get ahead in life. We believe in the power and righteousness of capitalism, the exchange of goods and services between free people acting in their own best interests. There is no moral substitute for it. Every other scheme for governing human affairs amounts to a few dominating some, to the applause of others. Our freedom is not for sale, and we reserve the right to defend it from theft.

We don’t invest our hopes in the government. It is beneath the dignity of free men and women to spend their days hoping a politician decides to provide for our needs. We face the future, not with passive and helpless “hope”, but with active and dynamic faith in ourselves, and our fellow Americans. We are opposed to a political class that tries to cultivate our hopes by showering us with fear. We don’t trust politicians with our fortunes, much less with our lives. In fact, we don’t trust politicians much at all… but we absolutely require them to trust us.

We do not regard America as the sole country on Earth that should be forbidden from taking pride in its history, traditions, and achievements. We reject the notion that celebrating our traditions is an automatic insult to anyone else. We owe absolutely no apologies to murderous dictators or unelected tyrants, and we care little for their feelings. We believe there are many lessons to be learned from our history, by all the people of the world, and we cannot teach those lessons if we allow ourselves to be shamed into silence. We will never hesitate to call evil by its proper name, or give evil men good reasons to fear us.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a lot of work to do. There’s an election coming up next year.

Learning Arizona

Obamacare Public Option

This article was received via e-mail from Small Business Against Big Government.

Last week I attended a luncheon with some other small business people to hear the Arizona State Treasurer address Arizona’s private and public economic status.  The Treasurer pulled no punches. The state legislature is deadlocked over the budget and barring either immediate spending cuts or an immediate tax increase the state is 30-60 days away from being out of money.

Arizonians were sold a bill of goods involving the big tobacco settlement from 1998, remember that?

By the next election cycle Proposition 204 sealed their fate- as what was sold- was not what was written in the bill, just as the Obama administration is doing now.

This is an excellent article that clearly lays out what awaits America with the Trojan Horse called the Public Option!

Anatomy of a Trojan Horse

If you think by some miracle that Obamacare actually has a chance of bringing any of the improvements promised, take a look at reality, than get out there and help stop this before it is too late!

Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

James Simpsons article hits the nail on the head.

Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

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Md’s Fighting Back

Liberty Belle needs our help calling MD’s

Friday, August 28, 2009

Volunteers Needed to Make Phone Calls!

Volunteers Needed to Call Some Doctors!
What: The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and Tea Party Patriots have organized a Doctor’s Rally on September 10, in Washington D.C. This rally will take place two days before the big taxpayer march on September 12. They need to get the word out to doctors and they are desperate for people who can make some phone calls in the next couple of days! They need to call over 400 physicians in Washington State. If you have any time at all, please consider helping out.
Contact: If you want to volunteer, please email Kathryn Serkes at kathryn@takebackmedicine.com, and put “Volunteer to call WA Docs” in the subject line. You can check out the AAPS’s website here for more information about how they are fighting against this legislation, and fighting for doctors and patients.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is fighting the health care reform battle

We also note that the White House is now being sued for suppression of free speech over their attempt to silence critics with the fishy and illegal  flag@whitehouse.gov data collection program-

CONTACT: Kathryn Serkes, AAPS
serkes@att.net
www.AAPSonline.org

August 27, 2009
Embargoed until 11 am:

WHITE HOUSE SUED OVER FREE SPEECH VIOLATIONS in healthcare battle: Doctor & patient groups say White House intended to shut up opponents

Washington DC — The Office of the President and other White House officials are defendants in a free speech lawsuit filed by a prominent physician group, and a non-profit advocate for inner-city poor.

The White House has “unlawfully collected information on political speech,” thereby illegally using the power of the White House to chill opposition to its plans for health care reform, according to the complaint filed in District Court for the District of Columbia, by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) .

The lawsuit was prompted by the White House solicitation for the public to report any “fishy” comments to ‘flag@whitehouse.gov.’ Although the White House slightly revised its data collection procedure last week, the email address still exists, the illegal activity continues, and is part of an “unlawful pattern and practice to collect and maintain information” on the exercise of free speech, which “continues in violation of the Privacy Act and First Amendment even if the Defendants terminate a particular information-collection component due to negative publicity.”

An open letter to Glenn Beck about the 9/12 protest in Washington DC

An important analysis of where the American people are- and what we need to do to stop an elitist government, and replace it with a representative one. I hope all my friends and readers take the time to read this piece.
An open letter to Glenn Beck about the 9/12 protest in Washington DC

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Surge USA – SurgeUSA.org – free to choose against the liberal insurgency

Attention Parents!

Obama Worship Indoctrination scheduled for September 8th, 2009
This is an outrage to use our public school systems for political influence and is something we could expect out of a dictatorial regime but not something that we can tolerate in America.

Read more on the administrations plans to misuse the school systems for this purpose at:

Surge USA – SurgeUSA.org – free to choose against the liberal insurgency

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GOP Job #1

Originally posted at TeaPartyNation.com

Dear GOP-

Your job is not to come in and try and take the lead in the tea party movement- you have one job-

Listen!

One of the things you will hear is- grow a spine!  Fight for what is right!

Another thing you will hear is do not compromise our conservative principles! We do not want or need bi-partisanship as you try to claim, when principles are involved that are pitting liberty against tyranny!

Yet another issue for you to grasp- is that being labeled the ‘party of no’ is a good thing when the ‘party of overspend’ is in power!

Some other notes you may care to take; we like Sarah Palin much more than you,  so maybe you can take some notes on her values, and backbone, and then look in the mirror!

You will also hear us say “quit with the global warming crap”…if you haven’t figured it out by now, not only is it a big liberal scheme, the solutions for fixing the “non problem” make us more dependent than ever on our enemies to survive!

If you really pay a little closer attention you will have noticed that we have no qualms whatsoever calling a socialist by that name, and oh by the way Obama is a socialist, a Marxist, and exhibits a fondness for the communism revolution, not American freedom or capitalism. And what’s up with his snuggling up with all the other tyrants of the world?

Listen and you will hear us ask, where are the investigations of these “trusted public servants” caught red handed as tax cheats and liars and thieves?  Why is a second tier govt. set up out of sight in the Executive?

If you will listen you will see we do not want to be dictated to, we want you to go back to what your job description actually is, servant to the people!

The American people are rising up out of frustration for a reason- you do not listen, neither party listens, and we have had it! We are not going to let you ruin our beloved country! Too many have sacrificed their blood to preserve it!

We expect you to follow our Constitution at all times.

America is not a welfare experiment, quit treating us as if we need your guidance, listen when we tell you to leave us alone to manage our own affairs.

The more you try and fix everything the more it needs repair from your remedies!

Repeal the failures, the unconstitutional big government anchors dragging down our ship!

When you realize what you do is more important than finding money for an election you may regain our respect.

If we say not to do that,  and you continuously tell us you will do it anyways, as has been the case, we will expose you, and the money will not help you to keep your job.

If you voted for cap and tax, or the health reform socialism, or for Sonia Sotomayer you not only do not hear us, but show contempt for America as she was meant to be. We will not forget.

We do not know the grand world scheme that is up your sleeves, but if you are part of it- cease and desist, because we want no part of UN run central power world governance over us!

Restore America, follow the Constitution. Laws are to protect our freedoms, not to deny them.

Do you get it? Listen!

America is screaming at you, listen!

Once you hear us, maybe then you will once again fight for what is right.

Statewide Conservative Conference scheduled in Bellevue

Many of our friends of this site are participating in this conference

on Saturday, October 10th,2009,  at the Westin Bellevue.

Reposted here FYI

Evergreen Leadership Conference III Statewide Conservative Action Conference Saturday, October 10, 2009 – The Westin Bellevue Home | Register|  Location| Program | Speakers|  Sponsors

Why The Tea Party Movement is a Threat to Both Parties

The tea party movement has enormous potential power.

The threat to the liberal agenda is obvious, we have common sense and the country’s best interest at heart.

The threat to the right is less obvious.  They should- and do fear it too.

The tea party movement can bring an end to the status quo.  The end to an era of business as usual at the expense of the citizens.

To explain what I mean by the right: Those who have dominated the political right from the time of Gerald Ford until now.

These are not conservatives. Ronald Reagan being an exception of course.

There are a few solid conservatives, but they are in the minority within the ranks of the right who hold power.

We know who holds power, the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Michael Steele etc.

Despite being slaughtered in the last two election cycles at the polls, they hold to the losing proposition that they must adhere to being mired in the muck of the middle ground, that they must be bi-partisan, and that they must forever allow for compromises even to our most sacred principles as lain out by our Forefathers!

The left and their compliant media slyly have encouraged this position for the right as the only reasonable position to take.

This they have willingly complied with.  As a result we are bleeding from a thousand cuts instead of dying quickly.

This too plays right into the left’s hands and has enabled them to live by a double standard resulting in a steady increase in their political power.

From filibusters of judicial nominees to watered down, but still liberal socialism plans, on S-chip and prescription drugs entitlement programs, the liberals have won their way.

There is every indication that those in the right still holding power have learned nothing.

There is also every indication that they also believe that they can continue to lead us where we do not wish to go, and to choose a strategically impossible ground from which to fight from.

Many, many people have expressed  that the tea party movement should not allow the takeover by the Republican Party as it is.  Agreed!

Though we cannot afford to lose to the left again in 2010,  likewise we cannot allow a weak and wimpy party to lead us astray because we think we have no other choice!  There is another choice.  Stand our ground!

We do not have time to build viable third parties as they can only be effective if they too are built solidly- from the ground up.

Many people might disagree,  yet look at their history of failure.

The answer lies in changing the leadership of the right.

How do we do this and still fight from a solid position?

We stand our ground.  We make them come to us and fight from the position of republican conservative  principles once again. They come to us, and stay with us,  or fight alone.

This is what must happen, there is no other solution that can work in time.

The largest demographic of people in this country do not need to budge. The polls show that 63% of the country still hold mostly conservative values.

Those that wish to be on the winning team need to come to us, listen,  do what we ask of them.

What we ask is what the Founders laid out-to be followed as intended.

We cannot allow our tea party movement to be swallowed up by the current failure of leadership on the right.  We must guard well what we have started and organized, and beware of this inevitable attempted coup by the current power within the party,  while we continue to scrutinize the left and defend against their radical agenda.

The right needs to get out of the cronyism game of  ‘pay to play’ both parties use now to horse trade for votes, money,  and for power.

While the elitist’s (on both sides) are busy scratching each others backs, they are crushing the peoples backs- with a burden of massive debt,  over regulation,  overspending,  new taxation,  and the taking of our liberty.

The tea party movement has arisen in the nick of time to say ENOUGH!

We now need to stand our ground- and demand that any who seek to be our leaders  get on board our train!

First National Tea Party Convention

A lot of people are spreading a lot of false information about Tea Party Nation so let me clear the air!

This convention represents a serious step to get people together to meet face to face to develop strong working relationships so that when necessary they will be able to coordinate their efforts of their various groups.

Participation is independent of any affiliation with any of the hosting/sponsoring groups.

The convention is designed to strengthen any and all groups who participate and leave us all with stronger networking capabilities.

Tea Party Nation is a non-partisan organization that supports conservatism, not parties.

Tea Party Nation is organized as a free enterprise business, not as a non-profit.  They do not ask people for donations. They do not charge for membership.

Tea Party Nation does not have any ties to any political party,  nor has it endorsed any political candidate.

Tea Party Nation allows for the posting of other organizations tea party movement events, links,  and initiatives on its website by its members.

Latest TPN newsletter

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Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.

Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movements’ multiple organizations principle goals. This event will be co-sponsored by other national groups that believe in a responsible and limited federal government that is responsive to all the people. National Taxpayers Union, American Majority, Smart Girl Politics, and SurgeUSA are just a few of the organizations contributing their talents and time to this convention.

Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has just confirmed that she will be one of the Breakfast speakers at the convention. Other topics and workshops to be covered: Conservative Activism; Using Social Media to advance our cause, How to Coordinate efforts with other groups in your state, How to get Youth involved in Conservative Activism. There will be two discussion panels taking place on Saturday. The first will be entitled, “How to Defeat Liberalism” and the second will be a panel of Tea Party Organizers discussing “Where the Tea Party Movement Goes From Here.” More workshops, speakers and seminars will be announced as they are finalized.

About Your Convention

This event is planned for our tea party movement people to have the most representation from across the nation by design. We want local tea party groups to select their best to meet with their peers from across the nation. The local tea party’s themselves know who will best represent them, bring the best ideas, and have the most desire to move this process of organizing to the next level.

Though this event is geared toward representatives of tea party groups, anyone who supports the tea party movement is welcome to attend.

What we have to share with one another face to face is the true value of holding this convention though the program agenda will be dynamic and action packed in its own right.

We would hope that most groups could do some minor fund raising to help defray the travel, accommodations and ticket price. This is an investment in the true future of our movement and the people who are going to move us forward are going to be attending this event as they understand this.

Fifty people in a small tea party group for example each investing $10-20 dollars would take care of most of the costs to a delegate. This is not a huge investment money but information wise it will yield huge returns.

We suggest that your tea party meet soon to discuss who will be sent. There is a limited availability on the tickets.

The Opryland Hotel code to reserve your room at their special convention rate is; TEA10.

www.nationalteapartyconvention.com

The Clarity of Our Principles

This is an absolute must read for anyone and everyone in the tea party movement in my opinion.

“Clarity is the first step toward understanding, and understanding is the prerequisite to rational evaluation.”

Obama’s Atomic Bomb:The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda

by John David Lewis

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The GOP establishment does not get it.

The incumbent politicians will not listen.

Our country is being cannibalized by both parties.

The tea party movement needs unity enough to work together when needed.

We are in a fight to save this country and there is no time to spare or waste bickering over who has the better ideas on how to do it.  We must work together now!

Support any and all tea party movement efforts you can, it is time to take the next step, replacing the problem politicians with representative government again.

Mutiny on “The Bounty”

Are we really rudderless?

If we look at America as a ship on a journey of destiny, through the seas of time, we can see that our ship of bounty is not by any means rudderless. Likewise the tea party movement is not rudderless either. America is a beautiful and complex ship with incredible power and equally incredible grace. Those that man the various stations that make her go are some of the best educated, most innovative, hard working and loyal people the world has ever had. The systems that make her go are the best ever designed for any journey near or far. They have performed superbly from her launching well over two centuries now.

Lately though our ship has began to falter, our engines are overtaxed, our fuel starved by some rather perplexing orders issued by a new officer corps over the last few decades. Our great ship has altered her course and headed off to some very troubled waters. In addition to the problems brewing within her bowels she has become a target designated for destruction by others.

On board her magnificent decks there are opposing factions that have worked well in times past to check and double check the actions of all to make sure that the proper and necessary procedures were adhered to to insure the integrity of the ship so we could safely navigate the stormy seas that compose the worlds history. So successful has this journey been that it is the envy of the entire world, and has spawned both awed admirers and jealous hatred alike.

However those who have ridden and lived their lives aboard have found liberty, freedom, reward, and happiness so long as they have maintained a respect for the integrity of her systems. Others have become disenchanted with the intended functions of her systems and make specious claims they are outdated, and the results of breaching the interlocks on our systems are beginning to have catastrophic results. The operating instructions were corrupted, the training too, the redesigns were constantly slipped in, and those who had redesign in mind seized power from those who wished for the integrity to be maintained. The results are that our engines are working much harder now, our fuel starved, and our boat is overladen and stressed to a breaking point.

Our troubles are many and to compound this hideous situation we are being steered straight into further trouble. Our systems may soon be beyond repair. We may be unable to change course, lose most of or all of our propulsion and lose any ability to institute any independent damage control. The ship is listing badly to the left.

The good news is that traditionally there are many more in the faction that believes in the integrity of our systems than there are who are instituting the redesigns. They may be able to save our ship yet. But how?

The redesigns control everything now. They control the officer promotion system and will use any means possible to keep that power. They hold all the key positions to steer and manage the power of the ship too. They control the procedures and the publications for running the ship and they control the fuel.

The ships communications network is vital to both the re-designers and the traditionalists. The messages are in conflict. The re-designers would have all on board believe that their redesigns are working splendidly and that not only is everything fine, it is much better, and will be very apparent once all the old thinking is gone.

The rest of the crew knows better. They have seen many such ships with the same ill designs wrecked on the rocky coasts of history. The rest of the crew are those that have now joined the tea party movement or will soon.

Our movements rudder is our shared knowledge of the integrity of systems designed superbly to work in harmony by limiting the power of those at the helm to redesign any of them. We are the engines of our ship. Our fuel is our way of life which is based on our God given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The officers of our ship have hijacked us, they are the pirates that seek to rob us of our choices and still think we will be their engines. They pretend to know of calmer waters and a better way forward, but they do not.

Re taking control of our ship is vital now. Being able to restore the integrity of our systems is also vital but will take much longer to repair. The pirates are guarding against both. They are trying to make their changes irreversible. They have just begun to employ techniques that will drown out any protests to their actions.

We do have a Captain for our ship, and all have sworn to obey this captain. Only those who actually are doing this are worthy of our loyalty and those that usurp our Captain’s authority need to be forever demoted, and never again be entrusted with any delegated power received by the people of our ship. All the pirates must be removed.

Our Captain is the US Constitution, and it is up to us to demand that only this steerage ever be used to guide our ship with Gods blessing and protection.

THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
’T is of the wave and not the rock;
’T is but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee,—are all with thee!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Meet the Candidates” vetting meeting inspiring, informative, well run

Something is happening in the so called liberal state of Washington.  Conservatives are making their voices heard and if the meeting I attended today is any indication Patty Murray may soon be without a job.  The people in attendance were unanimous in their opinion that this needs to be the case.

Kudos go out to organizer Dan Michael of the Puget Sound Conservative Underground for setting up the event which ran like clockwork except for a minor microphone glitch at the start.  I was glad to finally meet him in person.

A short pre-meeting time period allowed the people to mingle and briefly talk to the candidates where at one point I was handed a real Superbowl ring and looking at another on candidate Didier’s pass catching hands earned during his NFL days as a Washington Redskins tight end.  During this period I heard encouraging comments about all these candidates themselves being committed to help the eventual winner in this group to oppose the sitting Senator Murray.

I also talked with Steve Beren who has been my friend and is quite an influence and workhorse for our cause in the Seattle area.

I also had the chance to talk with the man who had been selected to read the questions for the candidates by the name of John Cartmell who is a determined and passionate writer to Congress, the RNC, and anyone else he sees needs some guidance in the way they are conducting business for the American people.

A moment of silence for the people of Haiti who suffered devastation from an earthquake days ago opened up the meeting, which impressively started one minute ahead of schedule in the packed yet comfortable room at the Redmond Regional Library, which is a very nice library.

Dan had an opening statement to explain the meeting format,  cracked a couple of good jokes, and proceeded to introduce the field of conservative candidates.  All five candidates were well represented though due to previous commitment one candidate (Salazar) was represented very ably by his campaign manager Debra Churchill.

Each candidate had 6 minutes for an opening statement and the time monitor Jay (whom I met after the meeting and thought I both looked and sounded like the actor Sam Elliot) seamlessly kept the program on track.

Jay founded the Washington Patriot Hub

Early on an eye opening moment came when the audience composed of conservatives motivated by recent events in our country were asked to indicate by show of hands how many had only recently become active and involved in politics.  Impressively almost everyone raised their hand.

The questions to be asked were selected from a list of question sent in by the members of PSCU in addition to some other conservative organization in the area.

Each answered the same question and each was a hard act to follow so impressive were many of their answers. The questions asked were many I myself had and they covered the gambit of most of the pressing issues such as health care reform, accessibility to the people, integrity and character of the candidates, their understanding and dedication to limited Constitutional federal government, states rights and duties, illegal immigration and border security, troop commitments and artificial time-lines,  family and traditional values, our commitment to our posterity, social issues, and the absolute biggie- the unconstrained and irresponsible taxing, borrowing, and spending ruining this country by the elitists unrepresentative governance we now have.

The candidates all confirmed that no matter which of them emerged as the winner among them that they would fully get behind and support that person to defeat the “tennis shoe’s one” Patty Murray aka the most liberal senator in congress.  At one point one speaker offered to give her an application to the socialist party once she had lost the people senate seat in November!

My own perception is that all of these Senate candidates are levels above Patty Murray, solid conservatives with the right integrity and characteristics that conservatives and independents will want from their representation. They have real accomplishments gained through their own hard work ethics and life experiences.

They all know that health care reform as being pushed by this Obama administration would be an unmitigated disaster and all vowed to fight for repeal and through the judiciary if it is passed with all its unconstitutional mandates!

The questions were not softballs, and the answers seemed to be very free from any evasiveness.  I liked all of them.

Most got their platform points into their answers as well.  It is going to be a tough choice but as a tea party movement person I see enough from all of them to make it through the early vetting process.

Dan was well organized with this as well .  Everyone was supplied with a checklist to continue the process of vetting and meeting to discuss what they have learned.  All of these candidates were smart enough to participate and not listen to the pundits who still push their party over principles!

So to meet these fine candidates – please go to their websites and study their positions and get to know them-

Chris Widener

Clint Didier

Art Coday, Jr.

Sean Salazar

Craig Williams

I also had a chance to meet the candidate running against another very liberal (socialist) congressman in my district- Jay Inslee.  James Watkins wife, Ashley, was there to hand out his info and his website is www.WatkinsForCongress.com

Dan closed the meeting by stepping into the mold of  “The Great One” aka Mark Levin and read from his quote on the critical nature of 2010 elections….for a moment I thought I was in the presence of “The Great One” himself…okay, not really, but when it comes to this particular meeting Dan put on a great one!

Hmmmm……Let’s see, Liberty or Tyranny?

It is clear that the ruling elite thought the American people would choose a “nanny state”

and continue to exploit the taxpayers money to fund more and bigger government.

Health care reform was the biggie that they had hoped to sail through the Congress quickly by staging “Astro-turfed” protests (bussed in) to give the (false) impression that this was what Americans wanted, and that we wanted it now!

Something big happened however, something none of the pundits predicted!  Americans rose up together and said;

WE DON’T THINK SO!

Yet still not enough people realize the real peril we all are in, and how close we are to losing our liberty.

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How and Why America’s Productive Will Win

We are under assault by a naturally occurring problem that our Fore Fathers worried about and some unnatural problems by those with an ideology that wishes to permanently destroy what we have in order to rebuild a substitute in its place using human envy to accomplish this.

Our country is founded on liberty and justice.

The Fore Fathers worried about the tendency of a self perpetuating tendency for government institutions to grow and reinforce that growth at the expense of a correlating demise of liberty.

We can see now that their concerns were more than justified.

The pursuit of equality in the name of justice is the lever that has allowed our politicians and judges to pry and wedge away our individual rights and assign meaning or importance to them as only valid if they are collective rights.

In this manner a government has justified the pillage of the individual and use of force to do what it wishes to do in spite of what the consequences to individual rights have been.

We also have those that have always wished to form a society that absolutely rejects any individual freedom and only assigns collective rights based upon what they say they should be.  Those are the unnatural forces that are actively attacking this country now as we speak and currently hold the reins of power.

Their system uses the facade of equality also.  That system depends on controlling all aspects of our society and it depends on the productive to toil for the unproductive.
“To each according to their need, from each according to their ability.”

So how do we “Go Gault” with no secret valley to retreat to?

In a way without realizing it we are already doing so.

The tea party movement sprang up seemingly out of nowhere.  People started to realize that their hard work is not paying off and that our government is going to continue to be irresponsible, redistribute our hard earned property to others and that there is no end in sight.

So how have we gone Gault?

People have taken the time to put their time and money where their heart is and just as importantly decided to use their productivity in a way that the government has not figured out how to steal.
Instead of working overtime to line the feds pockets and take home our meager leftovers after they grab our labor to give to others, we have put our extra time and productivity into working to restore our liberty. We have collectively put in hundreds of millions of hours to do this and we are just getting started.

There are many that have stood on the sidelines and taken a “wait and see” attitude about this movement, and what it means, and if there is any chance for it to be effective.  Guess what- those people are joining us now.

All the major personalities and the most respectable conservative organizations that we normally listen to give us the alternative to the lying media are all getting involved themselves and the politicians too see that this movement cannot be ignored in any way, shape, form, or manner.

What we have is a movement of the productive people in this country that are fed up by being ripped off by the unproductive and being directed by some self-important elites that “know better” than everyone else what is right for us in our lives.

Our productivity has been used against us to supply their power.

When we use our productivity to restore our own power these elitist’s will not stand a chance.

This voluntary productivity cannot be stolen by the government, and it is generated by the individual as a free choice.  We have barely tapped into this resource as of yet.

Once people ask themselves the question of what they personally are prepared to do, what preoccupation is more important to them than their own liberty… watch out!

Don’t get in our way!

Related article of fellow patriot Lady Libertas Who Are We, America?

Hooray! A Happy Health Care Highway!

Everyone should just be jumping for joy!  Health care is now a right in America!

How this will work is easily illustrated.

See your health care is like your vehicle. You are a thing just like your vehicle too!

Your vehicle was in pretty bad shape according to just about everyone, though it is curious how it still seemed to be working okay for you up until now.

The great news is- do we ever have a deal for you!

We are going to repair your vehicle for free!

Here is how the deal works, we will fix your vehicle and everyone else’s vehicle too!

Though it is free we will start taking payments from you over the next four years to pay for the repairs.

By then we will have enough money to start everyone’s repairs all at once!

So you just pay for four years first- then we start!  After that we give you back your vehicle to use the way we let you.

The paycheck deductions will continue of course, but only for the remainder of your life… for you.

There will be a couple of new rules in exchange for us fixing your vehicle (for free) of course.

First of all; you and nearly everyone else, will get to go anywhere you want on the new highway we reserved just for you… and everyone else.  There are only entry ramps on this highway- and no exit ramps at all! So don’t worry about getting lost you will be on the same highway as nearly everyone else.

Of course myself, and a few of my friends have to use our own roads that barely have anyone on them, and never get near your new highway.  We actually have on ramps and exits in case we need them, but I digress.

Anyways, your new vehicle will be working just fine and it will take you to the places we want you to go!

It’s free by the way, except for the fees and other deductions of course.

Now should your vehicle start to cause any unforeseen problems we will ask you to park your vehicle where we tell you, for as long as we need to have your vehicle parked! All you will have to do is just wait-it’s  so easy!

Sadly, we know that at some point your(and you) vehicle will have outlived its useful life.  This might clog up your new highway for others on it and we will probably ask you to retire that vehicle from further use if we see signs this may be happening.  People will help you make the choice we already decided for you at that point.

Some newer vehicles might overload the highway too and since traffic will only move at an imperceptible crawl to begin with, we won’t need too many new vehicles crawling in to the traffic.  If we can encourage people not to keep them in the first place that would be great- and we will even pay to ensure they are destroyed before they become a “burden.”

We are doing all of this for you, because it is long overdue, you deserve it and this highway should have been a right long ago, and we care about you!

Oh by the way all previous roads will be destroyed, and you will have no other choices but your new health care highway, if you do not like it- oh well- we made it the new law!

Happy Motoring!

Congress and the President of the United States

Fighting for Washington, but which one?

New ads are appearing for Congressman Jay Inslee
They state “Support Jay Inslee, A fighter for WA”

Jay Inslee has been in congress fighting for “Washington” for a very long time.

He tells us of his accomplishments often, yet our area’s problems do not improve.

Our deficits are exploding, our jobs are disappearing, our taxes are going through the roof, our highways remain jammed, crime is on the rise, our kids education scores are pitiful, and on and on…

Here are some of his fighting skills:

Jay Inslee fights to ensure that his special interests are well taken care of.

He also fights to raise taxes at every opportunity.

Jay fights for excessive regulations on businesses often.

Jay Inslee fights for what Nancy Pelosi wants consistently.

Jay fights to be a Washington insider.

Mr. Inslee fights for collectivist causes.

Jay fights to avoid direct confrontation or accountability with the voters at Town Halls.

Jay fights communication with his constitutes with form letters, and screened “call ins.”

Inslee has led the fight to globalize the fraudulent green scam of control known as the Apollo Alliance.

Jay Inslee fights to ensure ACORNS viability.

He fights for the governments intervention in mortgage and other financial sectors that cause unnatural and collapsing economic bubbles.

Jay fights for government bailouts of every kind!

Jay fights to remain a career politician that represents Washington first, it’s just the wrong one.

Mr. Inslee fights for big government and against traditional American’s love of our individual liberty.

In fact Jay Inslee just marked his dubious place in history permanently as a traitorous member of the notorious 219 whom advocated and voted for the heavily unconstitutional mandates for seizing power from the people and giving it to bureaucrats in Washington over our most personal choices in life!

Most of all, Jay Inslee fights to remain in a job that would be much better filled by a representative of the people in his district in Washington State.

So yes, he is a “fighter for Washington”, he loves it there!

Mom’s and dad’s in Washington deserve a fighter that fights for us and our children, not to make us all government dependent children.

When it comes to “we the people”, Jay has proven he is an adept “knock out” artist.

Time for us to retire his gloves.

Halt the Assault

Tell these royal elitist’s to quit gambling away our future!

Primary resource- Tea Party Elections

Tea Party Primer Strategy

by Reasonsjester

Reference Resource site: Tea Party Elections

[Dave]This is an extensive database and cross resource site for key strategic races in the primaries across the country and those in other parts of the country are proving how they vote affects us all.  Helping in key races in this election is more important than ever.

Local conservative candidates should keep their information that becomes out of date updated by contacting the website administrator.

The American people have had enough. Betrayed by phony conservatives in the Republican Party and radicals in the Democrat Party, the time is now to repeal or shred every bit of un-American legislation passed by the “progressives” in both parties over the last eighty, if not one hundred years.

The time for sitting on the sidelines and waiting for our fellow Americans to pick up the mantle of freedom has run out, as most of us realize. We must organize, act boldly, confront, and dethrone the usurpers who would have us live out their fantasy of servitude to them and their obsolete causes.

Richard Viguerie of American Thinker sums up the basic strategy in his Tea Partiers and The New Party Leaders well:

Here are my five recommendations to Tea Partiers as to how to change both major political parties:

1. To paraphrase Bill Clinton advisor James Carville, “It’s the primaries, Stupid.” Tea Partiers should focus only on primaries now, and not focus on the upcoming November elections just yet. In the primaries, challenge every establishment, big-government incumbent. Conservatives winning in primaries will make the November elections a  more significant chance for meaningful, long-term change. Over half of the filing deadlines have not yet passed.

2. Support candidates who will vote to fire their party leaders.

3. Withhold support from all Republican or Democratic national committees, and give your donations directly to principled conservative candidates.

4. In addition to running and supporting candidates for public office, run for every possible party office. The best way to get a political party to change is to take it over.

5. Rove said that Tea Partiers need to study key issues. Quite frankly, Tea Partiers already know the issues. Despite the fact that many are new to organized politics, they are savvy and wise about the direction the country needs to take. They do, however, need to read and study more than the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and other writings of the Founders, although those are, of course, the essential foundations. They should read and study the writings of great but more recent conservative thinker-activists such as Mark Levin, Bill Buckley, Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater (The Conscience of a Conservative), and others. Tea Partiers will then better know who they are politically, will better understand what they believe, and will possess even better clarity about why they believe it. By reading conservative thinker-activist writings from the past half-century, Tea Partiers will be better able to educate, enlist, convert, and successfully debate others.

As a postscript to these five recommendations, I would add that Tea Parties should support only candidates who will pledge to repeal many of the laws, regulations, programs, and policies of recent big-government politicians — and by that I mean both Republicans and Democrats. Also, any candidate who does not identify upholding the Constitution as one of his or her top five priorities should be suspect.

As a multi-decade veteran of the conservative movement, I can say that two of its biggest mistakes have been to become too attached to big-government Republican Party leaders and to fail to make inroads into the Democratic Party. The Tea Party can change that.

Tea Partiers need to remember that you are the leaders you’ve been waiting for. We all need to get out of our comfort zones and provide leadership to take back America — and that starts with changing the Republican and Democratic Party leaders.

In addition to these I am advocating a GRAND STRATEGY OF STRATEGICAL ELIMINATION of the MOST VULNERABLE DEMOCRATS and the MOST STATIST REPUBLICANS.

Many of us are in hyper-partisan districts with no chance of removing an entrenched progressive from power.  Like a tic that has embedded its teeth into the electorate, attempting to pull the body out will only leave the head in place.  PUT YOUR TIME AND MONEY WHERE YOU WILL MAKE THE MOST IMPACT.

In addition to organizing family and friends to vote for the best available candidate, volunteer your time and funding to the most trustworthy candidates with the best chance to succeed.  Who is trustworthy?  Those with consistent conservatism scores, both recent and lifetime, and those who are receiving most of their money from individuals and not corporations.

We must act, but we must not act blindly. And that is why, with the help of many of the members here, I compiled a database that can be put to use to isolate, personalize, and polarize the seemingly innumerable statists who seek a return to their seats of power in November. Are we going to allow that to happen? Hell no!

Have straw-men, will travel

That is how I imagine the title on a Barack Obama cover-sheet for his resume.

Hope was coming, change was needed, and neither the status quo nor the special interests would escape. Can we do all that…Yes we can!

So went the rhetoric of the new dynamic young leader vying for the presidency of the United States.

Of course the speech lasted much longer and the substance was pretty much left up to the audience to fill in… as they imagined it.

That was then, and that is now, still.

The dream weaver is president now, and has been 16 months. The rhetoric is still the same.

We see that there has indeed been change, and bigger government involvement in our lives has comprised almost all of it.

The hope part has worn thin too, for all but the most die hard ideologues as the same old empty promise rhetoric of so many politicians before him.

The bad guys are still referred to as the special interests, corporate special interests, CEO’s and special interests, and those wanting the status quo and the special interests.

There is of course the banking special interest, the financial sector special interests, the insurance industry special interests, and the right wing special interests too. Let’s not forget those fringe tea partiers who of course are really just front groups for the special interests!

These straw-men are the traveling bad guys that the avenging hero must dispense of in every imagined, or even actual crisis, to save the day, to save you. He tells us we should thank him.

Read almost any request for campaign donations for a Democrat candidate and you will find Mr. Special Interest listed as the bad guy they are fighting, and why they need your loot to defeat him.

Having any special interests must be a very bad thing. This charge might be especially hard to make stick to others if your own list of special interests was very long itself. One might even not want to disclose this inconvenient fact less ones own credibility be attacked. Of course having the media covering the dreams verses the realities helps.

But even with the White House doing everything in their power not to be transparent in their dealings with special interests, it isn’t hard to see where the taxpayers money has been going nor who is behind getting it to them.

The visitors log at the White House is a chronology of special interests visiting for the purpose of special favors. These people are not turned away as unwelcome guests, they are invited to come get in line. They all have an interest in getting what they want. The president acts to give them what they want and they in turn act to give him what he wants.

Next time you hear the president or one of his cronies crowing about special interests, don’t worry about undefined straw-men, think about that White House visitors log and how nice it might look in some sunshine!

One more thing, when that next request for money or support for a Democrats position comes in your in-box look for that “special interest bad guy dude”, he is sure to be mentioned in one way or another!

The Pelosi Index: Listing those standing against liberty

Who is among the worst of the worst?

Jay Inslee!!

via website The National Republican Trust PAC

• The Pelosi Index Summary
• The Pelosi Index Chart
• 12 Key Votes

- Democrats with a score over 70%
- Blue Dog Democrats with a score over 70%
– Democrats in Districts won by McCain with a score over 70%
– Republicans with a 0% score having never sided with Pelosi

Freedom is not Free

The best human condition possible is living in freedom.  Many people in this world do not believe in the natural human condition of freedom, and seek to limit it, or outright take it away.

Freedom must be guarded and protected at all times in order to be preserved. Protecting freedom sometimes has a very high cost.  Freedom is not free.

A friend has written a beautiful tribute to honor the fallen heroes that have died defending freedom for so many.

-written and performed by Lisa Mei

Not in Vain

(Free download)

Not In Vain

She held her baby tightly
Walked between those hallowed rows
Of familiar white tombstones
Bearing names of our nation’s heroes
She found the one she was looking for
With a heaviness in her chest
Tears fell as she whispered
“Here’s where your daddy was laid to rest”

She looked around saw others
Who were mourning silently
Somewhere in the distance
The sound of “Taps” echoed in the breeze
Flags were placed by grateful hearts
Where every single hero lay
Her eyes filled with tears as she said his name
That’s when she swore she heard him say:

Don’t cry, baby
You will never be alone
Lean on God to help you
Find the strength to go on
For our family and country
I gave my life in freedom’s name
Please keep liberty’s fire burning
So all I gave was not in vain.

That night she lay sleepless
His words echoed in her mind
She stared at the flag they gave her
Kept on her nightstand by her side
She heard her baby start to cry
Wiped her own tears away
Rocked her baby back to sleep
Then fell to her knees to pray

Dear Lord, I need you now
Oh, I want to do my part
To honor my baby’s daddy
Whom I loved with all my heart
Help me overcome the challenges
Sure to come my way
She began to cry when once again
She swore she heard her lover say:

Don’t cry, baby
You will never be alone
Lean on God to help you
Find the strength to go on
For our family and country
I gave my life in freedom’s name
Please keep liberty’s fire burning
So all I gave was not in vain.

Sleep finally embraced her
She dreamt that he was there
Wiping her tears away
Whispering softly in her ear…

Don’t cry, baby
You will never be alone
Lean on God to help you
Find the strength to go on
For our family and country
I gave my life in freedom’s name
Please keep liberty’s fire burning
So all I gave was not in vain.

Keep the torch of freedom burning
So all I gave was not in vain.

Copyright 2010, Lisa Mei (BigDawg Music Mafia)

You can find more of Lisa Mei’s work at

http://www.lisamei.com/

“Righting” Our Consent

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because our government is acting without it!

Inaugural Issue
September 10, 2010

Let’s put ‘We the People’ back in charge!

Outright lies. Downright corruption. Something isn’t right with our country these days.  We the people see it often now.  What is going on?  We don’t wish for foolish spending, higher taxes and ridiculous regulations that restrict us more everyday.
We want legislation we can read, and we want bills that are read, and debated in the open, but that’s not what we’re getting. Something isn’t right…

ROC Article- by PSCU’s Dan Michael

Coming Up From Underground
By Dan Michael

Before 2008, the only involvement I had in politics was voting every four years in the Presidential election. I had never supported a political candidate by donating money or putting up a yard sign.  I couldn’t name the three State legislators from my Seattle suburb, let alone explain the Bill of Rights without crib notes. But in 2008, I started sensing that too many citizens and too many mainstream media outlets were drinking kool-aid while our country was in serious trouble financially and morally. The majority of the country, and the vast majority of those in my Puget Sound community, were not only idolizing a liberal Senator with limited experience, but were about to elect him to the highest office in the world.  It was during the 2008 election that I awakened.

But the problem was, even though I was awake, I didn’t feel I had anyone to talk to who shared my conservative beliefs. In November of 2008, in the progressive greater-Seattle area, I was surrounded by Obama ’08 stickers on the bumpers of about every third car that passed me on the roads. Believe it or not, the gym I worked out at purposely blocked Fox News and only showed CNN and MSNBC on its TV sets in the cardio-workout section. The people I worked with talked about the history-making moment of electing an African-American, but if they were asked who Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers were, they had no idea.  So even though I had awakened, I felt like I was still in a nightmare. I needed to find anyone that might be conservative like me. But where to go?  The internet, of course! Thus, the Puget Sound Conservative Underground was born.

The Puget Sound Conservative Underground (PSCU) began as a social group on Meetup.com at the start of 2009 and the inauguration of President Obama. Within a few months, our membership grew as more people joined up and wanted to share online in message boards their conservative stances on politics. Realizing that in-person discussions would be more fulfilling than virtual ones, I started hosting “Coffee with Conservatives” meetups, where a dozen or so Seattleites would come up from underground for two hours on a Saturday to secretly gather in a library meeting room or coffee shop and talk about current events and politics freely, without the usual fear that our conservative beliefs would be attacked by the typical, progressives that make up most of the community.

When I think back, my only purpose for the PSCU started out as a selfish one – find others who felt like I did politically, so I could have someone to talk to instead of only screaming at the TV news alone in my living room. Then as membership kept growing online to where I had a couple of hundred fellow-conservatives saying they too felt like they had to be “underground” in liberal Puget Sound, I decided to expand beyond being merely a group for meetups. Beyond our coffee gatherings, I started promoting to fellow PSCU members the other conservative happenings in the area, such as tea party protests. I held book club meetings and movie nights. I also tried to motivate fellow-conservatives to write our politicians, albeit Democrats, and get them to see we did not want runaway spending, bailouts, and government-controlled healthcare.

Before I knew it, we had over 500 members on our Meetup.com site, and I added a Facebook.com site too, which eventually grew to over 800 members. At this same time that the Puget Sound Conservative Underground expanded, my frustration with politicians grew at an even faster pace. The Democrats in D.C. and Olympia weren’t listening to us. “Plan A” – getting our representatives to listen to the people – wasn’t working, and politicians were passing stimulus and healthcare bills against the will of the people. So I decided the PSCU needed to go to “Plan B.”

Plan B began on the first year anniversary (January, 2010) of the PSCU, with the hosting of a U.S. Senate Candidates’ Forum. Plan B was simple – have conservatives help elect a batch of new politicians who shared our values and would replace those in office who didn’t agree with us and weren’t listening to us.  Continuing after the Senate Forum, the PSCU hosted events for other Republicans running for office, in both federal and state races, so members could get to know these candidates, vet them, and find the most conservative candidates who, in our blue state, would also be the most electable. I started online polls and members shared their feelings of candidates on our website’s discussion boards, as we educated each other. I also highly promoted the importance that we must donate to these candidates’ campaigns and volunteer on their campaign teams. All of this being spearheaded by me, a political novice who only discovered Sean Hannity and Mark Levin 18 months earlier.

Will the work of the Puget Sound Conservative Underground have a lasting, positive effect besides just providing a safe outlet for conservative conversation? We’ll see on November 2. Meanwhile, members have thanked me for running this group and providing both a virtual and in-person instrument for conservatives in the liberal Puget Sound to vent and get educated. But to be honest, I need to thank my fellow members. Because by them coming up from underground and responding to a “join me” message on Meetup and Facebook, I have kept my sanity, lessened my yelling at the TV news, and learned a lot about politics and conservatism. It has been fantastic to be in contact with others who think like me. And you know what’s interesting? As more Seattleites have awakened with me, I have been seeing less Obama bumper stickers on the roads around town. Perhaps the Puget Sound Conservative Underground can get rid of the last word in our group’s title in 2011, and simply be known as the Puget Sound Conservatives.

Dan Michael lives in the Seattle suburb of Woodinville and is the organizer of the Puget Sound Conservative Underground on Meetup
www.meetup.com/pugetsoundconservativeunderground/ and Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pugetsoundconservativeunderground/

The Traditional American Movement

We the People have been provoked into action lately.

We are not going to simply stand by silently and watch a few power hungry elitists change what America stands for and usurp our authority for self rule.

So we have witnessed incredible organization and educational activities by many different traditional American groups arising against the absurd idea that we ever relinquished self government and ceded power to a big government, big brother authoritarian rule.

Friends at the Traditional American Movement website have created a great meeting place for these different groups to further communication in the fight to restore confidence in a government that actually represents us again.

Conservative Discussions on Topics That Matter

The Righting Our Consent Newsletter ran this yesterday-

Big news for great friends this week!

Our like-minded friends at The Traditional American Movement worked their tails off to get the main website open for the public on Veterans Day, and are pleased to announce the site is now online and open for conservatives like you to become involved.

Additionally, we at ROC are pleased to announce that by mutual agreement with Traditional Americans we will be using their forum as our forum, to facilitate communications between our readers so you may comment on what you read here and more importantly interface with other like-minded conservatives.

ROC will also be dedicating a portion of our newsletter to the activities and announcements pertaining to The Traditional American Movement website. We will cover the news you want; from interesting blog or forum posts, to important announcements regarding activities.

Conservative ROC Newsletter Teams With TradAm

The newsletter is teamed up with The Traditional American Movement (TradAm) Forum where there is a core group of strong conservatives. This site has all the tools we need to inform and inspire others.

You owe yourself the time to check it out.

From TradAm TV to the Common Ground Project and all the discussions in between you will find that this is a place where Traditional Americans are fighting for our values and principles and to preserve the American way of life!  Your conservative group or blogs links and banners are allowed on the site also.

Is AP Trying to Influence RNC Division?

Via Barrington Tea Party, Illinois

Should Michael Steele remain the RNC Chairman?

Here’s an interesting recent blog post about RNC Chairman Michael Steele, and his ties to Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady.

http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=8607

The news media (not exactly the most reliable source of information for conservative Republicans) has also been pushing a new narrative recently about Michael Steele, as shown by this article.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9JOCPSG0&show_article=1

Various Tea Party groups have also been bashing Michael Steele recently.  A few individuals have suggested that Sarah Palin might be good in this role, if she chooses not to run for President, but that may not be her best move.  She has more freedom to endorse and support candidates by not taking any party leadership role, and by not helping to fund those who remain part of the problem.

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The posturing and positioning for 2012 is well underway, and we can count on the information distributors to try and shape the battlefield to their advantage.

 

Fire & Fixed Bayonets

Via Righting Our Consent Newsletter

 

A military wife and mother of 4 lets loose, and we can relate to every word she writes…

“One of the most powerful blog posts I have ever read.”

“Thank you for writing what I think. I’m sending this to all

contacts. Bless you.”

“Beautiful. Spot on and deeply appreciated.”

“An excellent account of what most Americans think and feel despite the impression of reality the left’s many delusional factions attempt to manufacture.”

Via  the blog Stop Shouting

My Rebuttal to a Progressive who Admonished Me to Play Nice ….

The following rebuttal is mine alone. I do not speak for my husband, for my friends, for my children, but solely for myself.

I am tired of being told to sit down and shut up.

I am tired of being told what I can and can not say.

What is “acceptable”, while my ideas and values are mocked and trampled.

 

Enough. I have had enough.

I remained stoic when…

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The Rarest Thing In Washington D.C.

Originally posted at Liberty4 US blog

While it is true that honesty, integrity, common sense, or ethical behavior seem rare these days in Washington, D.C., there is another glaring rarity that is so obvious that most cannot see it.  Those that are the closest, who work there, are the least likely of all to see.

In fact, it may require some distance to observe this basic truth. For the further away one is, the more likely one is to suffer ill effects due to the very rarity of this entity.

The rarest thing in Washington is a product this country needs the most.

What is it that is so rare?

The rarest thing created in Washington, D.C. is… good law.

On one hand we should recognize and respect these people for the sacrifice they make in serving us, but on the other we deserve much better. Lawmakers there have a nearly impossible task given the scope of the role most of them now believe they own. Logistically, they just do not have time to construct good law.  They no longer seem to understand their job descriptions as decreed by the people. Who can blame them though, with the federal courts continuously handing out findings that seem to indicate we have moved beyond our Constitution, in the name of progress, which leads them to believe in an ever expanding role for themselves, and the part they must play? Great cover, having unelected activist judges provide the “business of Washington” rules. They also believe that they are primarily there to make law, so they go about making multitudes of new laws for us all to follow.  And therein lays the problem. Hundreds of new laws, and tens of thousands of new rules to enforce them are created by them yearly. And their product is not very good. Have you looked at our federal tax laws?

Since we citizens are not all the same, and have such a wide variety of differing needs and interests for ourselves and communities, making laws to be applied equally to everybody across the land is no small design challenge. And the fact of the matter is, the design challenge is rarely ever met at all.

As an analogy imagine trying come up with a sound bridge design which must accommodate all the people, all the time, and handle any and all contingencies, and also be safe, and do this in a few days, weeks, or even months. In fact, such a bridge would be nearly impossible to even design or to make, ever.

Any such undertaking of this magnitude should also be rare.  But this is not what happens in Washington, D.C.. What happens there is that reams of new “problems” are brought to a lawmakers attention, and he or she is expected to come up with equitable solutions.  So they go about the process of making new laws via the bill procedures. After all they are called “lawmakers.”

Originally, when the elected adhered to our Constitution and understood their job, lawmakers were supposed to congregate in our U.S. capital to decide on important solutions primarily concerned with protecting the citizenry from external threats to their lives, liberty, pursuit of happiness and property.  They then returned home to report to their constituents and state legislators. When Congress stuck to those actual responsibilities, they had far fewer laws to make than what they undertake now, and they actually had a chance to design and construct good laws. Somewhere along the line however, they decided that they were really there to decide for us citizens what to do about anything and everything. Having given themselves authority they do not have, they are now overwhelmed by it.

Today a “problem” is more likely to be a “special interest” or ideological wish list, rather than any actual national distress or threat needing a new law for a solution.  The lobbyist who represents money…

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Thanking, Supporting Our Troops

When it came to being there for our troops, Bob Hope takes top honors.  Yet all of us can find a way to thank and support those who put it all on the line for us everyday so that we can remain free.

Please use the following link to find and evaluate those on the home front dedicated to assisting us in that support.

Citizen Support

Thank you

December 1969 Connie Stevens & Bob Hope perform for our troops

Leading & Courageous Women

As a male participant and witness of the phenomenal political change that materialized over the last two years in reaction to another “change,” and with the year coming to a close,  I wished to share what should be an undeniable observation.  The revolution against an elitist, out-of-control, big spending, big government establishment was spearheaded by courageous women. An often heard complaint in the tea party movement is that supposed conservatives in government seem afraid to stand for that they profess to believe in. We wish those in government would heed the example these ladies continue to exhibit.

While many sat on the sidelines and wrung their hands over what was occurring in DC, it was women who took the bold, fearless steps in opposition to it. They inspired us by the millions eventually, and ignited something never before seen in this country which came to be known as the Tea Party movement.

To be sure, there where also many deserving men to be credited as well– who were also out in front.  However, the top spots belong to these lady warriors in my book.

When this observer thinks of the tea party beginnings, and its amazing growth, these five women are at the very top of the list as major catalysts for propelling the movement.

Michelle Malkin- The conservative blogger and syndicated writer who pulls no punches to expose government corruption, or their hypocrisy and irresponsibility. She constantly proves that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.

Keli Carender-An inspired Malkin reader and someone that decided to take action despite living in one of the most liberal places in the country. On February 16, 2009, Keli organized and conducted the nation’s very first “Porkulus Protest” days before the infamous Rick Santelli rant in Chicago. ( Malkin even sent trays of roasted pork for the event) Keli then went on to organize the Seattle Sons and Daughters of Liberty as a resource for other grass root participants.

Michele Bachmann-The Congresswoman targeted by Soros, and the worst elements on the left, for her outspoken and strong stance for constitutional, limited, and fiscally responsible government, who became one of the earliest elected officials in support of the tea party movement, and went on to found the Tea Party Caucus in the House.

Sarah Palin-The former Alaskan Governor and Republican Vice President Candidate in the 2008 election became an even more hated target of the left when she appeared at the national Tea Party convention in February 2010 as the keynote speaker, and encouraged the grassroots movement to continue in that vein, and resist any attempts of top down direction– and in the process pushed the “upstart” tea party movement into the mainstream political discussion for good.

Amy Kremer- An early organizer for Atlanta Tea Party, one of the nation’s largest tea party groups, and later as a spokesperson on the Tea Party Express bus tours that traversed the country, Amy often was the face of the tea party for the media in its early stages, and at other major national events.

These warrior women were not alone, but they were fearlessly out front– many, many times.  You have to respect their guts, and wonder if the tea party movement would have ignited the way it did without any of them.

We are indebted to these fearless and relentless fighters, and this is just a very small blog’s recognition for what they have accomplished. These women battle for what this country stands for, and deserve to be  recognized and thanked for it.

Beyond this, is the hope that their example might inspire many of our elected representatives to take the same fearless and bold steps toward restoring a principled, and respectful style of government that knows the limits of its contract with the people.

These women have shown us all how much can really be accomplished by their examples of guts and determination to do what is right, and getting it done.

Merry Christmas

 

Eastside Tea Party Blog wishes you a Merry Christmas

Our friends at the Traditional American Movement, along with the Righting Our Consent team, have sent a cool Christmas card to share. If you are interested in finding no nonsense patriots that are looking for common ground with any conservative group and working at taking back self government without any of the turf war stuff we recommend checking out their sites.

 

We, the people of:
The Traditional American Movement and Righting Our Consent
Wish You A Merry Christmas!

Click card to open, use your mouse to hover over figures in card once you have opened it! Enjoy!

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Those of another faith are also wished glad tidings and happy holidays!

Enjoy everyone, and Happy New Year to you, and yours!

Please forward this card to family and friends and have them join us.

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Teachers Giving America a Lesson on Entitlement Mentality

Who knew responsibly tightening ones financial belt would cause such massive wide spread agony among the parasitic?

Staving Off the Entitlement Flu

Woe be it to the poor governor of any state that tries the new elixir being called “Fiscal Responsibility to the Taxpayers” without preparing for the ensuing pathogenic consequences!
Just when we thought that flu season was about to end for the year, an outbreak of Wi-Madison flu has struck with a wholly illogical vengeance!

Though the evidence is not official, it seems that the influenza strain is a direct result of having to swallow a bitter pill of reality. This medicine causes all sorts of side effects previously undiscovered in recent years… due to the unavailability of this prescription!

Here is just a partial list of severe symptoms and immediate reactions:

• Widespread sickness sets in on certain select overcompensated professions
• Shuts down all public schools, leaving the children unfed
• The infected will mass together at non infected homes and state capitols
• Causes aggravated, heated, angry, and uncivil rhetoric, complete with cross-hair signs and Nazi symbols
• Causes the president to comment, and subliminally empathize with the stricken
• Causes hostage negotiators to fly in and offer to broker a cure
• Causes certain legislators to flee their jobs for “undisclosed” locations
• Causes the media to use the words “undisclosed” and “unfair” repeatedly

Fiscal healers are cautioned to take the following precautions if planning to dispense this same treatment option:

• Call out the National Guard and have them move all state owned buses to flooded areas where they cannot be used
• Tow any new high end Mercedes or Corvettes parked about town, as they belong to the union leaders spreading the flu
• Call the undisclosed location, and offer money to owners to house legislative refugees there until new special elections are held to replace them
• Tell the media that someone coordinated the whole thing from Wasilla,Alaska and give them plane tickets
• Pass out free Obama T-shirts to crowds so they know protests are over
• Schedule and announce Lady Gaga will appear immediately in a neighboring town and there will be more T-shirts
• Set up a training day for teachers so they will understand their pink slips
• Tell students that they will need to make up two days for every day their teachers are out… and provide them picket signs that say “Get back to work!”

This advice meets the new Obama guidelines for preventative care, and if the kids aren’t in school how the heck is Michelle going to be able to direct what they eat?

See more of AF Branco’s great toons at www.comicallyincorrect.com

New Social Network Vulnerablity- “Fake Persona” Software

FREEDOM MOVEMENT ALERT!

The various freedom movements, full of members motivated to seek each other out,  have had phenomenal growth enabled by the convenience of several social networking sites on the internet. The beauty of the whole setup is that we have effectively bypassed the media, and their propaganda, to get to the truth.  Most of our groups have learned that we need to moderate our own sites for both spam and the deliberately disruptive, we tend to call “trolls.  But a recent article by “Social Media Examiner”,  Sean Kerrigan, tells us that we are now entering a whole new game– and it is being spearheaded by our own government.

 

Read it, and please pass this information on to your members!

US Gov. Software Creates ‘Fake People’ on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda

The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.

The contract calls for the development of  “Persona Management Software” which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: US Gov. Software Creates ‘Fake People’ on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda – National Social Media | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/social-media-in-national/us-gov-software-creates-fake-people-on-social-networks-to-promote-propoganda#ixzz1ElJknLq5

WA 4 WI Rally

 

“WA 4 WI – Justice for Taxpayers” Rally
Saturday, February 26 at 11:00 am!
*The Time Has Come For Taxpayers to Stand Up for Justice!*

 

Tomorrow, Olympia will be ground zero in the battle to restore our founding principles and fiscal accountability!

The forces of Big Labor, Big Government and MoveOn.org will be marching into Olympia because they know that their power is threatened by those of us who believe in economic freedom and limited government.

Those who have enriched themselves on the backs of taxpayers think that they will be able to flex their muscle and keep the gravy train of our tax dollars flowing into their coffers.

But you and I will be there to stop them!

RALLY WILL BEGIN AT 11:00AM SHARP!

Tomorrow’s rally will begin at 11 AM sharp! All activists are urged to arrive early as the Unions are holding their Worker Solidarity Rally at Noon just around the corner! We will be at the Capitol Steps on the north side.

Washington shares the same public sector union problem as Wisconsin.  We agree with the stand that Gov. Scott Walker is taking and want to see similar reforms take place here in Washington.  Our budget is comparable –state pensions and union collective bargaining has got a stranglehold on our taxpayers.

Ending union monopolies is a conversation that we should be having here in our state and there are other proposals that would shift the balance of power back where it belongs –in taxpayers’ hands.

This rally is not an attack on the individual public employees who are our friends, neighbors, and fellow taxpayers.  It is about the unhealthy relationship between union leaders and state lawmakers that is forcing our state into bankruptcy!

All activists are encouraged to bring signs.

Spread the Word!
Pass along this info via your email network.
Call your friends, family and co-workers.
Tweet about the rally (use the hashtag #WA4WI).
Post updates to your Facebook account.
Organize Carpools.

Be sure to bring your cameras and cell phones. The media will be heavily focused on this event. Posting pictures and video through Twitter, Facebook and YouTube will be critical in getting our message out and winning this battle.

What: “WA 4 WI – Justice for Taxpayers” Rally
When: Saturday, Feb 26 at 11:00AM
Where: Capitol, North Steps in Olympia

Yours in freedom,

Nansen Malin
Washington State Director
Americans for Prosperity

Left Plans for Social Justice Initiative in Seattle

Washington’s Left is engaging in a big push for “social justice” in Seattle, and they will get national support from groups like the ACLU and ACORN [and their renamed satellites] and count on official support within our government at the city, county, and state levels for this as well.

The gist, or core of their initiative is to give special power to one group, or sets of groups, over other people in order to make everything equal.  This of course is not justice at all.  It is social engineering at the expense of liberty and individual rights. The idea that individuals that happen to belong to a particular classification entitles them to be given different rights is both denigrating to those individuals in that group, and of course, it is anti-liberty and in opposition to our constitutional principles.

The past, which is indefensible because for long periods of time that many individuals, especially minorities, were denied true equality and liberty based on a physical description, cannot now be used to justify “group” or “positive rights” trumping the sovereignty of the individual. Only the same exact rights for all is equality. When we have reached the point where rights only start at the level of a favored group, than all rights are lost forever, and the individual becomes subservient to whomever the current power holders are, or will be. We would no longer be Americans.

The following essay shines some light on this main issue which now divides Americans.

The Petition of Positive Rights
ROC Op/Ed March-2011

What would we find out about our friends and neighbors political views were we to prepare and circulate the “Petition for Positive Rights?”

The following core ideology is what is embodied in such a petition:

In order for society to exist and function in a fair, compassionate, and just manner, certain groups must be given preferential treatment over other groups, and individual rights are necessarily secondary… in all cases, for the greater good. The experts in government are best suited to administer these decisions for the people, and enforce compliance to these societal rights. The people are entitled to positive rights to eliminate any and all inequities that may arise, if a society is to be responsible and responsive to the people. Our Constitution did not anticipate modern problems, therefore omitting these positive rights was, and remains its great flaw in need of correction.

Taking this petition door to door would be a great experiment in discovery.  Many citizens would sign it outright, in full agreement. They are already convinced that others should be responsible for their needs. Others might too, without even seriously considering for an instant that they had just agreed to forgo their own personal liberty or freedom to choose how to live, and assign it to government “experts.” People that value freedom however would be rightly taken aback, in shock and horror that anyone in America would be calling for an end of freedom in a petition, and inciting a call for permanent servitude.

The problem is, that regardless of whether or not any such actual petition is in existence, increasingly the American people have been consciously or unconsciously adopting this doctrine since the 1920′s when social liberalism first got real traction in our country. FDR’s “New Deal” then set us on the path of an ever-expanding welfare state, that has grown to monstrous and unsustainable proportions, is corrupt beyond belief, and has placed the most prosperous nation ever in the history of mankind on a destination for inevitable and complete economic, social, and moral collapse. Meanwhile the morality and values previously widely shared among our citizens accustomed to living in liberty, have rapidly spiraled downward into an overall decay of civility in our society as a direct consequence.

The “Petition of Positive Rights” is a direct contradiction to what our U.S. Constitution spells out on how we are to be self-governed, based on equal individual, not collective, rights. Yet, for decades now, we have allowed those whom have sworn to all to uphold our Constitution to get away with ignoring it and imposing that collectivism. While they publicly swear to uphold and defend it, they never fully do, and instead spend their terms busily playing the game of trying to get power for their own favored groups. All the while the individual is stolen from, and is left unrepresented, without having given his or her consent. Leadership has come to mean choosing in favor of “the favored” by the elite “deciders” at all levels of government, but especially by the federal government.

There is very little doubt left that President Obama believes in the “Petition of Positive Rights.” Millions have listened to the audio tape of him speaking precisely to his beliefs for this. He, along with Holder’s Justice Department are not disguising how they are selectively following laws, giving special treatment to some groups depending on their favored status with him, while ignoring the individual rights of the people or groups not in favor with him, based on his agenda. And to him, the radical federal court rulings of the past were not radical enough for not cementing in place new “positive rights.” Positive rights are whatever government says they are.

Speaking of the Warren Court its interpretation of the Constitution during the Civil Rights movement, Obama said, “It wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. At least as it’s been interpreted and more important interpreted in the same way that, generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties; says what the states can’t do to you, what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the state government or federal government must do on your behalf.”

This audio tape was made public before Obama was elected, and still he was elected. It is very clear that the Left is determined to agitate, aggravate, and exploit those already dependent, until they in turn demand that even more of the decisions be placed into governments hands, and of course, the people’s money as well.  Obama is leading them in the destruction of our constitutional principles using these techniques.
Positive rights are really about relinquishing personal power, and giving it to nameless, faceless bureaucrats. Obama does not explain that everything government does for one entity can only be done at the expense of, and to, another entity.

One favored and protected group in particular, the so-called mainstream media, has enabled the advance of the Petitioners, and the demise of our liberty, by themselves becoming dependent on the elitists. Ironically their special protected status was always meant to help ensure liberty, and guard against them becoming dependent on governments in power as a check to it. But those who become dependent are no longer free to choose what they say or do.  Now, to keep their own favored group status, they must comply and be subservient to their masters. Having a near monopoly on the information dispensed for public consumption, and dutifully reporting it based on a biased “consensus” acceptable to their masters has worn thin on many people. The old media is now widely distrusted by any freedom loving American, while the more trusted new media alternatives are vilified and denigrated by both them and the insiders for not playing along. Clearly, informing our families, friends, our neighbors, the young, and the old, on what they are being asked to choose between, and what is at stake, from these opposing sides in this war for our future, now depends greatly on us speaking up and fighting against their propaganda.

There is no room to compromise with these beliefs by the Left, and those capitulating to them on the Right, and still maintain liberty.  We are either going to be free to earn our own way in life, or we will become subservient to our new masters who will have wrestled away each and every last right from us, and redistributed everything about who we are as Americans.

Our Founders knew real justice in a system of government depended on protecting the smallest group, the individual, from infringement by any other group, of any size. They knew the most likely abuser of this would be our own government, due to man’s very nature.  Our heritage though is not to select the weakest among us, only empowered through stolen rights and money, to dictate to the strong. Yet the Petitioners act as if this is the answer somehow. Our Founders saw the true potential for all mankind lay in the strength and abilities of the free individual, and they were right.

Our freedom movements have our own petition, we call it the U.S. Constitution, and it has served us well when it has been followed. Now let us petition our leaders to remember this.

This is the war we absolutely must win.

Which will prevail, our Constitution, or the Petition of Positive Rights?

[Article reprinted with permission RightingOurConsent.com]

Missing Person, Malkin Cousin, Marizela Perez

UPDATE INFO:

March 15, 2011

Searching for Marizela: New videos, message from her parents & an army of volunteers

Please read the update above which includes new info released to the public, and continue to keep an eye out for any sign of Marizela.

Searching for Marizela: An update

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 8, 2011 09:44 AM

SEATTLE — The photo above from Marizela’s friends/family shows the tattoo on her left inner arm that reads “lahat ay magiging maayos” — a Tagalog saying for “all will be well.”

Thanks so much to all of you for your prayers and for helping to spread the word across the Internet.

Thanks to many friends/contacts in the Seattle-area media who covered her disappearance over the past few days, including:

Seattle Times
KOMO radio’s John Carlson and KOMO TV’s Shomari Stone
KING TV
KIRO

Marizela still hasn’t been heard from or seen by family since Saturday.

The Seattle PD says it has probable visual identification of Marizela boarding the Othello train near her home in the Rainier Beach area and commuting into the University District during the noon hour on Saturday. A Seattle PD detective from the missing persons bureau says there’s evidence that she was last seen Saturday afternoon at the Safeway in the city’s University District on 4732 Brooklyn Ave NE between 1-2pm. At some point during that time, purchases were made on her debit card.

The police say they “have no reason to suspect foul play” at this point. There are several reasons and grim evidence that cause the family to remain gravely concerned about Marizela’s safety, health, and well-being. As mentioned yesterday in the flyers the family is handing out, Marizela was taking anti-depressants and has been for some time. As my family gets on the ground to continue the search for Marizela, please continue to get the word out to anyone in the Seattle-area you know. Here’s the updated info on her last known location/time. If anyone saw or talked to her in the University District Saturday afternoon or has seen her since, please contact law enforcement ASAP:

Name: Marizela “Mei” Perez

Date Missing: Saturday March 5, 2011; Last seen between 1-2 P.M.

Last Seen: Safeway in University District (4732 Brooklyn Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105)

Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district

Description: Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing a dark jacket with hood, denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.

Please contact if you have any information regarding this person:
Jasmin: 609 – 742 – 2360
Edgar: 609 – 646 – 0905
Melinda: 206 – 760 – 1822
Joy: 609 – 742 – 2336

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Please see this post by Michelle Malkin

Her cousin is missing somewhere in the Seattle Area

Missing: Marizela Perez

Here’s more info we’re trying to spread via Facebook and Q13Fox/KCPQ in Seattle:

MISSING PERSON

Name: Marizela Perez

Date Missing: March 5, 2011, 12:00-12:30 P.M.

Last Seen: Rainier Beach area, heading to UW Seattle campus to meet friends for lunch or study in the UW libraries

Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district

Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.

Tax Day Rallys in Evergreen State

Olympia
Location: North Steps – Olympia Capitol Building, 416 Sid Snyder Ave
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 2 PM
Sponsor: Tea Party Patriots, Freedom Foundation, co-sponsor: AFP, Tacoma 912 Group, Lakewood Chamber of Commerce
Theme: Push Forward
Link: http://pushforward.eventbrite.com/

Bellingham
Location: Guide Meridian near Bellis Fair Parkway
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Sponsor: Bellingham Tea Party
Theme: We’re Not Going Away

Everett
Location: Snohomish County Courthouse, 3000 Rockefeller Avenue
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: Noon to 2 PM
Sponsor: Sno-Isle Tea Party (formerly Everett Tea Party)

Bellevue AM
Location: Bellevue City Hall
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 11 AM to 1:30 PM
Sponsor: Song of Truth Foundation, Washington Conservative Enthusiasts
Theme: Rob McKenna Bellevue Tax Day rally
Link: http://www.songoftruth.org/events/bellevue-tax-day-2011

Bellevue PM
Location: Factoria, corner of Factoria Blvd and SE 36th St
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 5 PM to 7 PM
Sponsor: Issaquah/Sammamish Tea Party and the Renton/Kent Tea Party Patriots
Theme: Who Decides? and FAIR TAX
Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168046393244626

Yakima
Location: 2nd St Park, 2nd St. & Yakima Ave.
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 3 PM to 5 PM
Sponsor: Yakima Tea Party – 9.12 Project
Theme: It Ain’t Over

Okanogan
Location: Okanogan County Courthouse, Intersection of 3rd Avenue and Norman
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 5:30 PM
Sponsor: Lewiston-Clarkston Tea Party

TriCities
Location: John Dam Plaza, Richland WA
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 4 PM to 6 PM
Sponsor: TriCities Tea Party
Theme: FairTax

Sequim
Location: Corners of Washington & Sequim Avenue
Date: April 15th, 2011
Time: 11 AM to 1 PM
Sponsor: Concerned Citizens of Clallam County

Still Searching for Marizela

Via Michelle Malkin:
Find Marizela: Support bracelets and fund-raisers
By Michelle Malkin • March 28, 2011 03:16 PM

It has now been 23 days since my cousin, 18-year-old University of Washington student Marizela Perez, disappeared in the Seattle area. I wish I could tell you good news. We have had a private investigator on the case the past week. Several leads have been followed. But Marizela is still missing.

Use tag “Marizela” on Malkin site to read all the articles pertaining to her sudden disappearance and the search efforts.

Please help in any way you can.
http://michellemalkin.com/category/marizela/

Paying For Free Lunch

Harry Reid thinks the taxpayers who have found a voice in the the form of the Tea Party movement have it all wrong…

What did Milton Friedman say about those that think like Harry Reid?

 

Let’s Be Clear…

Obama is fond of saying this.

If anything gets much clearer for America under Obama’s leadership, based on how the media will report it, then expect bats to start falling from the night’s sky as they suffer catastrophic mid air collisions in their sonar deprived blindness. We know the lapdogs are just doing what they are told to do as caucus team players, parrot the talking points, but the rest of us can see even they are beginning to squirm more now at the lies and audacity, and feel the need to shower more often.

No real explanation as to why Obama chose to start a new war without any real national interest, not even the ministers of propaganda are able to spin it well.

Maybe we can get a clear explanation on what social engineering did for our housing values? Or maybe, why people like Barney Franks or Chris Dodd are not in prison for their roles in the outright extortion and ponzi schemes they devised and supported resulting in the predictable and subsequent collapse of the mortgage financing sector?

This country has tremendous reserves of untapped energy resources and the technology know-how to safely extract them, and put them to productive use to aid our economic vitality, but what is very clear is that those invested in their own power will not permit this course for our future, not while they hold the reins.

Here is what is crystal clear to the average taxpayer, that there are way too many people playing games with the truth. A trip to the grocery store for life’s necessities is becoming a budget management exercise (that used to be reserved for planning summer vacation spending) as both food and gasoline prices are soaring.

The Democrats own the budget mess.  Any shutdown that is needed due to their reckless spending over the last four years is, and should be, pinned squarely where it belongs, on them! This country only reached a ten trillion dollar deficit in October of 2008 but now we are well past $14 trillion! Granting another raise of the debt ceiling would clearly be an outrage against the consent of the people, so our experience tells us watch out, they will find a deceitful or underhanded way of doing this and the GOP will cave in to it, despite our protests, or the damning long term affects to our posterity.

During campaigns we hear much about trimming wasteful and overlapping programs in our federal government. We know there are tons of them and the waste and fraud and abuse of taxpayers money is rampant.  Now is the time to get down to the work of paring off all this fat, as their carbon footprints on our pocketbooks is far too big.

Both parties could also look at the barriers to their power imposed by the US Constitution that they have so willfully destroyed through overreach, or just ignored for decades, and see that maybe that wasn’t such a hot idea. So many burdensome rules and regulations have been created nobody can know or comply with them all, and the free enterprise racehorse of the past is burdened with an estimate 20% of its own weight by all these, while still being expected to compete globally. While the real issues of our country like national security, energy independence, effective education, crime, moral decline, poverty etc. have not improved, and in fact worsened under central planning, our government takes an ever larger share of the cargo area in our 747 jumbo jet economy while telling us all to shut up, and sit down, and do as we are told.

Failure and incompetence without accountability is business as usual for these people, and they want to tell us how we should live? No way! We can clearly see that their interference is what is clouding our future!

Let us be clear! Let us set the conversation! Those in Washington need the message recited over again and again, they may call us any name they wish, they can blame us for their dead bats too, but we have had it, we are watching them closely in greater numbers than they think, we expect the truth, responsible and accountable government, and clearly we need to continue to let them know it!

Objects to be Manipulated Into Serfdom

ROC Editorial
[Appears in Newsletter ROC Issue #14-2011]

Objects. That’s us, the American people. The people can be manipulated by words. Those engaged in the perpetual game of acting as Santa Claus, for anyone that has their hands out, in order to retain power for themselves, have shown this to be their attitude to the citizens of this nation. So after decades of this style of governing, our country is in real trouble. Too many people have been partners in this tango of deceit.

It would be one thing if those dispersing all the goodies were the actual owners of the treasures in the first place, and they wished to have them redistributed among themselves, but of course this is not, and has never been, the case. They need productive makers and innovators to loot from. They need the power to force others to comply.

What is happening here now is what has happened around the world by people who were gullible and susceptible to the words of manipulators who hide behind a paper thin veneer of legitimacy based upon their ability to exploit the hardships of the truly needy.

It is sickening to watch so many of our fellow countrymen either enable or participate in this despicable behavior that is so immoral, and so destructive to our society. It is disgraceful to think of all the efforts devoted to the basic tenet of lying your way through life to protect a power sharing racket, based on creating alliances for the purpose of enabling legalized theft and redistributing stolen goods. Yet we see so much evidence of this everyday. From voter fraud, hidden government records, judges ignoring objectivity, outright fabrications like global warming, backroom deals of bribery and extortion, all of it meant to consolidate power over other people. Even those we used to hold in high esteem seem to have no problem with lying their way through life, as we recently witnessed in Wisconsin with doctors writing false sick notes to the unionized teachers that actively sought them out.

This week has given us some hope however. We see real leaders stepping forward and offering a just, compassionate and logical path that ends the perpetual looting game, and restores accountable and responsible government that the good people are finally demanding. The Tea Party movement is comprised of these people that we traditionally think of when we think of America. Honest, hardworking, with a strong sense of family and moral principles who want to preserve the heritage of a great country that lives in freedom and looks out for their fellow man.

Paul Ryan’s budget plan is exactly the type of reform that we need to set this country back on course.  The Democrats are trying to lie to the people, Paul Ryan is giving us the truth! The course lain by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama ends as a smashed wreck on the rocks, with America broken, and its people subservient, and no longer with a say in their own government, while also deprived of any individual liberty. It ends this way only if we allow ourselves to be treated as objects, who were easily manipulated into supporting the dishonest, who are always consumed by the need for power.

However, under the Ryan plan, America regathers both its moral compass, and its strength. A Santa Claus method of favoritism in exchange for power requires an endless supply of other people’s money, taken by force, that is unsustainable. This gangster system needs to be thwarted for good now, no matter how much temporary sacrifice this requires, because when it violently expires eventually and inevitably, after all the money is gone, and our country is in its death throes, the pain will be far, far greater.

The Democrats did not pass a budget because they decided it would be easier to deceive the public by attacking any Republican plan.  The President’s proposal for a budget was a continuation of the irresponsibility and dishonesty he wishes to perpetuate.

So what will happen? Will we become a nation which succumbed to lying words, from liars, who would have us believe they are helping the weak, or will we follow a true path to reform our broken and exploited system to restore the real America?

Via WSJ Paul Ryan: The GOP Path to Prosperity

In a related article on deceit, please read Thomas Sowell’s piece at Creators Syndicate on Political Statistics.  Politicians use of assumptions allow them to mold just about any report to read the way they want it to read. If their assumptions are garbage, their report will be too!

How to Spell Irresponsible…

Sure is a lot of undeserved back-slapping going on in Washington DC (Elitist Central Control) over having reached a budget compromise.

It is clear that many who hold the reins of power do not like the message they received in November, and have now elected to pretend that us Americans concerned for the unsustainable amount of increasing debt & spending should be the ones who need to get a grip.

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Message from Rob McKenna-Tax Day Rally

Can you believe it? “We don’t care what happened in the last election.”

That’s right, it’s less than six months since the historic 2010 election, and already the far-left protestors screaming for media attention are pretending it didn’t happen.

In fact, one hard-core tax-and-spend advocate summed up their position succinctly at last week’s protests in Olympia: “We don’t care what happened in the last election.”

Don’t you think that the message voters sent last year was clear enough?

Last fall, voters in our state resoundingly rejected a state income tax and repealed new taxes on candy, bottled water and other items. At the same time they passed, yet again, a 2/3 majority rule for passing tax increases, a measure that majority Democrats have repeatedly ignored and repealed.

No, that message should be clear enough, even for a screaming protester.

Washington voters rejected tax hikes on struggling families and told the Olympia crowd – Make do with the taxes you already take!

It’s not that far-left extremists, some of whom were arrested storming the governor’s office in the capitol last week, didn’t hear that message. They just don’t like it and think your elected officials should ignore it.

And that’s why the mob was cheering when they heard “We don’t care what happened in the last election.”

Now that’s a pretty galling statement. The far-left position is that everything the voters said last year should be ignored, and they made their voices loud and clear in Olympia last week. They received the media attention they wanted.

Unfortunately, average taxpayers don’t necessarily have the time to drive down to Olympia and encourage legislators to hold the line on taxes. They have families to raise, jobs to do and businesses to keep afloat.

So, I do want you to know about one opportunity, perhaps a little closer to your home, where you can make your voice heard. Tomorrow, April 15, I’ll be speaking at Bellevue City Hall to the Tax Day Rally 2011 at 11:00 a.m. It will be a great event where we celebrate our state and stand up for the majority of people who DO care what happened in the last election.

I hope to see you there.

All the best,

Rob McKenna

Church of the Deciders

Church of the Deciders
ROC Editorial 4-15-2011

How important is the first sentence in Amendment 1 of our Constitution’s Bill of Rights?

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …”

Turns out, in light of what is transpiring in this country, it is pretty darned important! Is it not the liberals whom go ballistic at the slightest hint that anyone, at any level of government, would permit anything resembling our traditional religions to be sanctioned in the least by our government institutions? Yet, a strong case can be made, by simply observing the forced cultural trends being driven by the elitists, that we have in fact allowed a new unprincipled, pseudo-religion established by the Left, aided and abetted throughout the political spectrum, and implemented within all the branches of government, and at all levels. Unfortunately many among real religious faiths have also been sucked into the cult.

In academia world, whose members are hailed by the Left as our saviors, it is not a secret, that the professors, authors and philosophers have a general consensus “group thing” going, in which they consider the important aspects of life which must not be left to chance, nor be allowed to develop naturally. It is also true, that for the most part, these “progressives” mostly subscribe to ideologies that reject traditional customs (including religious ones),  Judeo-Christian principles or beliefs, free capital markets, American exceptional-ism, the concept that our government should be limited as to what it can decide for us, or the idea that individuals should be free to follow the dictates of their own consciences, or are even capable of using their reasoning.  It is these beliefs that motivate them to study society and religiously experiment, test, and bless their own opinions, as they employ their hypothesis, theories, and models to change our society into something else, something that can be directed to move humanity in the direction they want… which is often opposed to human nature and free will.

The uprooting of our traditional American culture and customs, and the supplanting of their experimental beliefs and values in their place, is their religion. It may not have one official or exact name, but it has all the elements of a religious organization. It is being established and institutionalized via the courts, the lawmakers, and the executive branch, both through their propaganda, and by the force of government. It has its own symbolism, its sermons, its behavioral expectations, its own narratives, and is setting an alternative morality and ethical standard via its main religious law, “political correctness.”  This authoritative “religious law” is being preached to our younger generations as if it were gospel. Social studies, or indoctrination are paramount priorities, to these “teachers,” far more important (in their wisdom) than reading, writing, or arithmetic of course.

This new religion even has many false iconic figureheads to worship. It also increasingly has real punishment associated with not observing its edicts. Much of what passes today as “mainstream accepted thought” is obviously not how most of us think at all, but rather is what we are told to comply with, or else. Often we can see it is the case that even when the voters are given a chance to say “we do not consent” to a particular aspect of it, we are overruled in the courts, and vilified by the foot soldiers of their crusade. We have already passed a point in which it has become truly absurd as to what we are expected to believe or feel about what society “ought” to be, as established by them. In this system free will and choosing are not really options.

It is clear what our Founders thought about the establishment of any religion that people were compelled to follow. They absolutely knew this would be counter to a free society, so were opposed to it. They listed this as their very first item when outlining our Bill of Rights. They had seen the effects of state-like, freedom-robbing tyrannies that grew in power in the name of religion, but ultimately subjugated its own members, and fought others of different religions constantly over power. They sought to protect the individual’s choice to worship, as he saw fit, not to be dominated by any particular denomination.  At the same time, they further recognized that to be successful as a nation, the principles and morality brought by religion were essential to our future as a nation.

Our government was established as one of self-government by, of, and for the people. We ratified it as such. We did not ratify a system of “comply or else,” where “thought police” dictate what we are allowed to value or believe. The Left has managed to establish this new tyranny by orchestrating a religious-like state, using allies incrementally developed by the political process of dividing us, and dictating what is acceptable in the name of society, and its undefined betterment. If their religion had a name it might be called the “Church of the Deciders.”

Though the Tea Party movement has a very strong element that wants to keep any social or cultural issues away from the three core elements they fight for, fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets, it is becoming apparent this is not enough. The unraveling of our culture is affecting all these areas as well. Businesses are being sued, ridiculous rules are being written for the “PC code,” people are being fired over comments or attitudes that have become forbidden by this code.  In just one example out of hundreds, observe how everyone in business has had to adopt some form of being “green” just to comply with the whole notion that man is destroying his own home planet merely by existing. Classifications of people are now determined to be either good or bad, of being subjected to law, or exempt from it. Woe be it to any party that gets caught in the politically correct snare, sanctions will be forthcoming!

So here we are in 2011, and our own country is becoming extremely foreign to us due to this insidious new religion. The Left has managed to use the government and media to establish a fervor in the name of “the greater good.” They will be the self-appointed stewards in charge of making sure the new commandments are adhered to. There are some new beliefs to learn, some new values to hold to, and some irresponsible behaviors to emulate, along with below average expectations, and a new immoral national character to embrace! So “don’t ask and don’t tell,” don’t worry about a flood of illegals strolling into the country, don’t profile people that worship out of a book that tells them to “destroy us wherever they find us,” don’t try and think for yourselves, don’t believe that government experts can’t solve any ill you may have, don’t question “kinetic military actions” or the end of drilling for oil here, (not now, not ever), but you are permitted to believe in the windmill!  Don’t doubt that your health should not be your business, or the pills provided by the men in black will not provide a wonderful death experience for you, or your loved ones, and above all never try and use logic of any kind!

The real churches are a force for good, and a competition for the Left’s false creation, and the works they perform are based on real and voluntary traditions of compassion for their fellow man and following the guidance of God. They promote self reliance and not dependency. The liberals therefore try to marginalize real religions. They have worked hard to put in place their alternative to them. Recently in its narrative they claimed that we are no longer a Christian nation, and questions if we ever were. They wish for us all to throw our moral compass overboard and leave the navigation to them.

For those that have not yet succumbed and been converted to the Left’s idea of religion, the article Christianity As An Influence On The Founding Fathers, John A. Sterling (Dec. 2001), does a great job of addressing the question; is America still a Christian nation? However, in today’s insane world, read it at your own risk, for surely both the Founders, and us normal thinking people, will be held to be on the wrong side of the new religion!

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“Positive” Government Rights De-constituting America

Reprinted from the original post at http://forums.traditionalamericanmovement.com

Thanks to decades of progressive education, media propaganda, and politicians from both parties that have ignored their oaths to uphold our US Constitution, we may now say we are nearly de-constituted as a country that once was based on individual freedom and our property rights, in a society which both revered and observed the rule of law.

Preamble of the De-constituted
We the Central Authority of the Subservient States, in Order to form Enduring Powers, establish arbitrary Justice, insure domestic Obedience, provide for the Social Compact, promote the Standardized Consensus Agenda, and to secure and redistribute the Property of the Demos, do command, and so order, this Manifesto as Supreme authority over the subjects of the Socialist States of America from this time forward.

Far fetched? Which part is not already true?

Our federal government, populated and dominated by socialist ideologies, is dictating what the states may or may not do, as well as us citizens, as if we were subjects commanded to obey, instead of the source of our elected representatives authority. This dictating attitude of office holders is heard in their words, and seen through their actions.

The Rule of Law, along with the elements that are required for true justice, have been usurped by the rule of men. The laws have grown so numerous, and so complex as to not be known even generally, much less in any specifics by most of the people. Increasingly we see these laws are applied unequally, to politically favored groups for either exemption or benefit, and to dis-favored groups as punishments and inhibitors of freedom. Not only is the individual left largely unprotected now in favor of the arbitrary “greater good” of society, new laws are damning to the individual… and his rights. Success of the productive is often met by confiscation, overbearing regulation, and even more laws of men which are meant mainly to siphon off a maximum value for the longest time possible, and redistribute those proceeds to ensure political power for themselves. Judicial review is no longer conducted by impartial or independent judges.

Irresponsible social promises have been made now for generations, by those willing to promise anything, without being held responsible for their false advertising, which in turn has made the notion of a ‘social compact’ between the government and the people seem almost natural for people to expect, and many feel this promised arrangement is somehow superior to the idea of true self sufficiency and the liberty to pursue ones own happiness. Evidently these people have never thought it through far enough to realize that one cannot both retain responsibility for determining one’s own path, and simultaneously enjoy no responsibilities for their own welfare.

If we are to retain our ability to demand our consent for a system of self-government, as a representative Republic, we must elect those that understand the elements of good law to be our lawmakers. Otherwise we end up with the rule of men, uncertainty, decline, and worst of all, the end of our liberty.

Our Founders understood what the Rule of Law consists of. Our elected officials need to remember these elements too. The rule of law must be known (knowable) in general to all, have a certainty (a law we count on to last without changing, and have a sound legal framework. It must be applied with equality, with an absence of any government discretionary power which always threatens the Rule of Law. It must have impartial independent judicial review. It must acknowledge its authority is only derived by protecting our individual rights.

The recent Obamacare law is a prime example of what happens when the Rule of Law has been eviscerated and usurped by the arbitrary rule of men. It is an unprecedented massive, unknowable law that was both rushed and rammed through Congress by a majority against the will of the people, which tramples on individual rights, is already undergoing numerous changes, will generate volumes of new rules, is creating uncertainty, is full of both discretionary powers by government and exemptions for government and others of favored status, and much of it is not subjected to any independent judicial review or even congressional review. Life itself will be put at risk by its provisions, which do include a “death panel” based on costs of services.

So we can see that the fictitious Preamble of the De-constituted above is not far fetched at all. This is however how those in power now exercise their duties. This is the power and purpose they are actively seeking by any means possible, and they likely hope to pronounce a similar manifesto of control when they know that they have crushed any resistance to them. They have massively abused their power to the point of controlling us, by ignoring good law, constitutional constraints to limit power, the sovereignty of the individual, and substituting arbitrary rules of their own making. All the positive good born of freedom which our fellow citizens, current and past, have built upon to grow this society into the greatest country, is now in jeopardy of being lost forever unless we end this rogue regime of post constitutionalists and any like it.

It is not too late though, unless of course, We the People ignore what Edmond Burke stated;

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men (and women) do nothing”

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.

Righting Our Consent Newsletter

Our great country has its roots in revolution against government without representation.  The people did not consent to most of what they were being subjected to, which amounted to a constant and increasing oppression of freedom and man’s unalienable rights. Eventually they declared their independence from the conditions they found intolerable.  They in effect righted their consent in their governance.

Find out what traditional Americans are doing to right their consent.  Knowing our principles and fighting for them is a duty we cannot afford to ignore with the liberal assault on who we are and what we believe as a country.

April 29, 2011           Issue #17- 2011

Arbitrary Laws Must Not Stand

“’Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.” –John Locke

Shortly after riding into office in 2009 on a blank slate, where many a voter had interpreted his vague, albeit exciting sounding platitudes of “hope and change” to be their own hopes and vision of changes, Obama and his collectivist friends “hit the ground running” as he had indicated to his allies he would during his campaign.

Squarely in their target sights was the American health care insurance system, which had been prepped for attack during the campaign as an uncaring, and overly costly system, that was stunting economic growth, failing the people, and in need of major reform.

This was merely a cover lie for the plan to fundamentally change us from a free and consensual government by the people, to a new system of rule over the people by grabbing power from them permanently. Making it appear as if the people were asking for this particular change would be most useful.

Continues…

The Rule of Men Trumps Liberty

Everyday is Memorial Day

Officially, yesterday was Memorial Day.  For the loved ones of the fallen however, every single day is.

A friend of mine is a Gold Star dad.  He lost his son in 2003 in Iraq.  His son paid the ultimate price for us.  Our fighting men and women do not get to decide where or how to defend our liberty and freedom, but they risk everything when they do.  Every year the anniversary of a son’s birthday reminds him of his loss.  The anniversary of his son’s death reminds him of his loss. Memorial Day reminds him of his son’s loss.  The anniversary of 9/11 reminds him of his son’s loss.

Everyday is Memorial Day to this father, and I expect it is so for so many others as well.

They personally know the real price of freedom through the loss of their precious loved ones.  Every family who has a loved one, or loved ones, serving our country prays that they will never have to face the bad news that all too many others have received.  Others will pay a price with serious life-long injuries and pain, many with lifelong consequences.

The solace for them, and any small comfort that my friend finds is knowing that his wonderful child was doing what he lived to do, and doing it proudly, with honor, and his sense of duty to his country, and always with his fellow soldiers welfare foremost in his mind.

My friend knows his son was a hero, they all are,  he just hopes others know and appreciate that truth as well, and that we never fail to remember that freedom is not free.

Yesterday was Memorial Day, but so is today, and so is tomorrow.

Of all the tributes I saw and read over the past week, the video below in particular stood out, because it says it all, so beautifully.

God bless America.

 

New Show With Provocative Name…Serious Fun!

Some friends of ours have collaborated on what should be a fun, provocative, entertaining and informative show format!

Nothing but true…

The Accountability Shortage Eroding America

The Accountability Shortage Eroding America
ROC Commentary

None of us are saints, most of us could do better, and we are all accountable ultimately for what we say or do, whether others may know of that which we do, or not.

“He’s a man of his word” is a saying which indicates someone can be trusted as honest. “A man’s word is his bond” is another version meaning the same thing. Traditionally we used to know a lot more people who said what they meant, and meant what they said, and some of them where even in politics! Nowadays, we cannot even trust most of our American media to be accountable in providing us the unvarnished truth, especially if there could be political fallout to certain parties in reporting the facts.

Integrity and accountability go hand in hand.  “Keeping them honest” has always meant holding people to account for what they say, and do. People with true integrity seem to have developed the self-discipline to live honestly, whether or not others are watching, even when it is easy to act anonymously or when opportunity to surreptitiously abuse trust presents itself.  We used to think of this as maturing. Not so many years ago this described the majority of our American population.

Popular culture, technology, and the prevailing socializing discourse in our time, have created new circumstances and some hiding zones or enclaves that too many people are using to escape consequences for their actions or words. These areas cultivate unlimited excuses or justifications for unaccountable behavior. Our own government uses the unaccountability by some to impose ridiculous measures for forced accountability on all, while ironically fighting any efforts by the people to require accountability from them. Not only that, depending on the political outcome they desire, they blatantly oscillate between both encouraging irresponsible behavior, and/or punishing it. Using the catch-all excuse of “social justice,” our leaders are classifying us, dividing us, marginalizing our individual worth, and controlling us, all because they can depend on the breakdown of accountability they have engineered or some willingly seek.

Those of us concerned for our country see we have an increasing lack of accountability on display from those who should be held to the very highest standards of conduct.  We see that our media has been corrupted, and are no longer diligent in their roles as guards for the public assigned to watch for signs of the abuse of power.  We also see that too many of our fellow citizens have adopted a mob mentality, and seem to want to be free of any personal accountability. Whether or not we are doing it to ourselves, or having it done to us, our standards for personable accountability are being lowered.

America cannot afford to allow this to continue and still expect to remain free.

We need people of integrity, and people who stick by their principles in our leadership positions.

Everybody is not suited for leadership.  We see the consequences of allowing those without experience, ability, or integrity to make important decisions that affect far more people than themselves. There is a basic truth in the “Peter Principle,” where eventually a person will be promoted to a level of incompetence, but seems especially true with those who lack integrity, honesty, and personal accountability in their lives.

Our institutions built on principles, which formerly created better conditions for people to take their responsibilities to be “men (and women) of their word,” seriously, have been under attack for decades by those seeking more power for themselves and less influence or power from those entities.

Those foundational institutions that reinforce the values we seek from a responsible citizenry begin with the basic family structure, our schools, our churches and our community groups. One aspect that is common about these associations is that they are voluntary.  Another was that they were originally relatively free of government interference, especially from afar. We can no longer claim this trait, just look at our schools now. These traditional relationships were also largely local, and we knew the members, and knew who best to trust among them.

Even as little as a decade ago, it is highly unlikely that a man with the highly questionable and little known background such as Barack Obama had could have been elected as president. The lack of accountability for his past associations and the lack of relevant experience both would have made him unelectable. But that is immaterial now since he was elected.  What is important is that he has now shown that he is not “a man of his word.”  He lies frequently and seemingly very easily, he retreats from accountability or responsibility for his own actions, and blames others or makes excuses, and he has shown little in promoting America or our values. The problems America faces as a nation are worsening, not improving, under his leadership.

An institution which has remained an island for real accountability is our military. The discipline and integrity of the professional men and women in our military have not suffered the same social values slippage the rest of society has, though it seems to be a new target for change by the elitists lately. Our hopes for finding true leaders with demonstrated and known records for achievement and accountability is enhanced with groups like Combat Vets for Congress PAC. Their motto, “Embedded Integrity.” They endorse people like Rep. (Lt. Col.) Allen West.

The previously mentioned traditional community institutions (those whom have managed to resist the culture of corruption in our society) is another great place to look for our needed leaders, and we should encourage those we identify as principled and trustworthy to run for office at all levels.

Yet, it also seems we all might need to take a fresh look at our own personal actions or behaviors in life.  Are we ourselves contributing or participating in the erosion of our society?  Are we staying silent when we should speak up, or putting minimum effort into fighting for what we believe in? Are we making excuses too? If you believe for example that more people need to get involved in your group, do you have a goal to attract a certain number each week or month?  Is there a plan in place for achieving your goal?  Are you truly giving it your best effort?  Isn’t this part of being accountable also?

The lack of accountability is responsible for most of our issues faced by the country; from illegal immigration, to the mortgage market fiasco, to the fight over health care costs, and in just plain dishonest corruption by those holding office.  Our leaders, and we ourselves, better wake up soon and demand a renewed, higher standard of accountability!

Just in case this commentary does not convey the importance of accountability, please carve out a period of time to watch the wisdom found in the MRC-TV video (about an hour) A Call to Accountability.

Time To Pay the Piper?

Time To Pay the Piper?
ROC Commentary (July 15, 2011 Issue#28)

Any private entity operating like our government does now would likely be considered a criminal enterprise.

Since the 1930′s our federal government works in many respects much like Ponzi schemes made famous by many notorious figures who devised underhanded ways to help themselves to the fruits of other people’s labor for profit to themselves.  Politicians figured out long ago that public accountability was lacking at certain times, especially when their own party enjoyed immense political power. Tricky wording and emotional appeal could be employed to get enough visible public support to advance ill-advised policies and programs so they could be incrementally implemented with minimum resistance from the people, most of whom would never consider the long term implications. So they promised the American people the world, the stars and the moon! Unfortunately many believed that there was such a thing as a “free lunch!” The politicians then pocketed their political profits…at our expense.

So many wild promises have been made to Americans for decades now by these politicians in the name of solving one “problem” or another with vague assurances as to the benefits compared to the true costs.  This selling by incremental steps has a ratcheting factor too (rarely, if ever, reversed) that has allowed the politicians of the federal government to create incomprehensible, mammoth-sized money drains on America’s productive. A continuing series of power usurping moves by these so called representatives or by supposedly impartial judges with agendas (public servants entrusted with upholding the duties and responsibilities required by the US Constitution) has also successfully reversed the role of our federal government in relation to the people.

Increasingly the media safeguard for accountability has evaporated as they have ignored their watchdog role or actively participated in the political deceptions. Now the federal government has intruded into numerous areas of our lives by exercising power they were never granted by the people or by our founding documents. This usurpation of power has cost us big time… in both monetary terms, and in our liberty. The “piper” now holds a huge bill in our name (not the politicians who ran it up)… that threatens to exceed our ability to pay. The reckless spending for empty promises must stop now, and the bill we owe must be addressed … while we still can. The past promises that were made and are now depended on by so many must be brought into proper perspective through a prism based in reality and not automatically continued “as is” until they inevitably ruin us all financially.

What we are witnessing in the the “debt ceiling” debate is the unpleasant reality which eventually catches up with those who set up schemes to defraud others.  The unpleasant results of making wild promises, while using other peoples money to keep the scams going, has come to a head.  Those who are in on the Washington con or “game” simply wish to continue to play… by giving themselves permission to do so, even though it has become glaringly apparent that the longer this continues, the worse it will be for our young and future citizens.

The American people for the most part have made it clear that we expect and demand responsible, accountable, and honest solutions by our representation to get us back on the right track and provide our posterity with the same opportunities we have enjoyed. We repeatedly reject any more “smoke and mirrors”, or “kicking the can down the road” in order to avoid doing what must be done.

This is not just another high stakes contest in the game of “chicken” between political foes.  This battle has much more on the line than who wins politically. Ultimately the outcome will directly affect all the people, and determine the future or demise of this country.  There is very little to really compromise on, as the actual choice is stark… either the success or failure as a country.  It is time to stand up for doing what is right if we believe in America. It is long past due time to “pay the piper” and to get our house in order to ensure that from now on… we have and operate a government based in reality… and not false utopian dreams for equal outcomes, ideological fantasies, or other pretending.

“The Liberal Abuse of the English Language” – HIJACKED WORDS – Dr. Grace Vuoto

Think about what is destroying America’s real freedom and how it is being accomplished…

 

 

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Standing As One

Americans are continuing to come together to fight fiercely for their liberty.

The ruling class hates this and tries to marginalize us all as extremists…

It will never work for them.

 

America is meant to be be a free nation under God

Thanks to Toots Sweet from Big Dawg Music Mafia for his latest powerful video.

Jobs Matter

A New Direction for Washington

Big government stifles job creation. Washington State has followed that path for too long.

We believe that the leadership, experience, and values of Rob McKenna will allow for the conditions to allow businesses to create jobs here in the Evergreen State! We also have faith that the Tea Party movement will unite to support his candidacy.

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Spending Is the Game

The ruling class is pulling out all the stops in the mis-framed debate over the direction our country will take to try and put up barriers to anything resembling a halt to what they like to do best; spend the taxpayers money as fast as they can!

The problem is that after going on a literal blitzkrieg of irresponsible spending based upon the cover of cannibalistic stimulus policy known as Keynesian economics, including endless bailouts,  quantitative easing (money printing), crony payouts, and the like, since 2007, we suddenly find ourselves very, very far in debt.

In the 2010 elections the people clearly said, “ENOUGH!”,  by voting out incumbents in historic proportions.  The message was unmistakable that people wanted a halt to fiscal irresponsibility… and out of control government.

So now those most recently voted in are holding fast and we the people are holding everyone’s feet to the fire by expecting them to stand on the principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility.

The establishment, who were shocked by the election results, seemed to understand briefly that business as usual had changed. However, they quickly got over it, believing that they could use their powers to bring any “upstarts” inline with their reality and the way “things are done inside the beltway!” This particular plan has not seemed to work very well though and now we witness much screaming and howling and crying, “FOUL!”

It seems that those associated with the Tea Party movement are now considered middle-earth hobbits incapable of being reasonable nor of understanding the complexities of the game by members in their own party establishment.

We understand just fine.

Obama and the other leftists in charge have no desire to stop spending at a fast and furious rate, but they do have an election to worry about, so they will do whatever it takes to blame the right for their spending addiction.  We learn from them that the current GOP leadership is weak on principles, and will often sacrifice these strategic strongholds (conservative principles) in order to gain minute or insignificant pieces of political ground in order to claim progress.  This easy exploitation seems apparent to everyone but those who are being played.

Economically the left has no answers at all that do not include more taxes and more spending.   They just need the permission to continue their program relatively unabated.  It is their foes in Congress who are continuously “compromising”  to give them this further permission. To be fair, there is actually one area the left would cut willing, our national defense. Other than this, they are about growing, not limiting government size.  For that, they always need more of the people’s money to spend.

The astronomical national debt numbers are not imaginary figures ginned up by cave dwelling know-nothings.  This debt was created in record time by those in Washington… playing their game. These are addicts and enablers trying to point fingers at the interventionists wanting responsibility in their representation! We get back  loud protests about disastrous election results if the game is not allowed to continue on their own terms!

There are only so many points of time where the opportunity exists to turn back in the right direction for this country.  This is one of those times. Let’s put the onus back on those who deserve the real criticism.

The best deal for America is to take the steps needed to bring spending under control, and to do it now, not later.  It may be too tough a job for some, but in that event, we can, and will, find those who are willing to perform the job of ending the spending game.

“The Undefeated” Movie Trailer

Few public figures have ever generated the strong emotions over the issues of our time like Sarah Palin has.

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You’re Gonna To Pay

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The “D” Bomb

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