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The get rich at our expense climate change alarmists are having their most recent coven in Asia.  While our esteemed Obamessiah bows deeply over the hand of the Emperor of Nippon, his collectivist allies continue to squeal over the “need” to “do something now!” about imaginary man-made climate change.

Despite the sheople herders and the “oh no!!” based on nothing but faith that mankind is bad crowd, there are sensible people who offer rational solutions not based on government take overs of the economy.  I disagree with these folks on the threat but they offer constructive views and suggestions.  You can get plenty of information on both sides of the climate change debate.

Educate yourself and protect your liberty.

(source: http://www.scientistsfortruth.com )

• Climate Depot(www.climatedepot.com)
• ICECAP(www.icecap.us)
• Watts Up With That?(www.wattsupwiththat.com)
• Climate Debate Daily(www.climatedebatedaily.com)
• Climate Audit(www.climateaudit.org)
• Science and Public Policy Institute(www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org)
• International Climate Science Coalition(www.climatescienceinternational.org)
• The Carbon Sense Coalition(www.carbon-sense.com)
• Australian Climate Science Coalition(www.auscsc.org.au)
• JoNova(www.joannenova.com.au)
• The Climate Sceptics(www.climatesceptics.com.au)
• The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition(www.nzclimatescience.net)
• The Resilient Earth(www.theresilientearth.com)

There are many, many more excellent sources for those with the will to research rather than rant.  Who favor fact over media/politician driven ignorance.

Why are 20 percent of the population liberal?  Why does the President state with surety that "only the government" can solve economic problems?  Health care coverage disparities?  Save the environment?  It is because he belongs to a segment of the dependency mass.

Where comes this confidence in government.  Even supposed conservatives "admit the need" for "government action" on a plethora of issues.  They, conservative and liberal alike, disregard any mention of such action being outside the scope and authority of Federal Government.  Government programs have consistently failed since the depression.  The New Deal failed, the "War on Poverty" failed.  Medicare is a mess that's getting worse, as is Social (in)Security.  Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  Let's look at the dependency mass that perpetuates this fantasy of government goodness.

The dependency mass includes the 20 percent identified above, the leftist collectivist politicians who claim to represent them and another, difficult to size group of "moderate" or "independent" types.  Within this mass there are several types.

The Professional Victims: This is a very diverse group who choose to divide rather than unite America.  They are incapable of seeing "Americans" but must subcategorize them in to victim groups.  Their aim is to gain power, influence and money for themselves while claiming to be "protecting" those they identify as "oppressed".  Oppression in the U.S. only exists in the fevered imaginations of these professional victims and their organizers.  One benefit of modern American culture is that everyone realizes that liberty is for everyone and that success is available to ANYONE willing to work hard for it.  Unless of course the Sheople herders of the dependency mass complete their collectivization of America.  Perhaps if these professional victims didn't perpetuate racism (and all other "isms") and a victim mentality in their sheople the U.S would get even better.  But that would eliminate their true purpose, to gain power, influence and money.

The trained dependents:  This is a group that through the cultural changes and the liberal's control of public schools and academia have come to believe that the government's role is to provide them with things.  Money, houses, health care, jobs.  They believe they are entitled to these things for no reason other than that they want them provided.

The emotional idealists: Deciding based on feeling good.  The donor base of the donkey party.  They struggle with guilt at their own fortune, afforded them by freedom.  They think that it is only right and good that others be required to give, by coercion, to "those in need"as deemed by the idealist.  They believe that government is good and that people are inherently good.  Their morals are relative.  Things are moral if it feels emotionally good to them.  Freedom is just a smoke screen for "mean" or "selfish" people. All people are entitled to whatever wish or believe they need.  All should be required to provide it.  Earning things, respect, goods, status is just a concept used by "cruel" people.  The greatest feature of this type is their all consuming self-centeredness.  All things must work in a way that allows them to feel good about themselves.

Lazy People: Both the intellectually lazy who "believe things" just because considering another view involves intellectual effort.  They are perfectly willing to latch on to what "seems right" rather than think things through.  Academia strives to turn out such "thinkers" whether consciously or because the "instructors" are such themselves.  We mustn't forget the physically lazy who are more than willing to take hand outs and "programs" rather than better themselves by individual effort.  Doing so would take away from their video game and tv time.  Heaven forbid that work be required to get a check. 

Selfish People:  Many of the lazy, above, fit here too.  As do many in the other groupings.  Selfishness and greed are powerful emotional  motivators. I've heard people who receive government issued freebies ("programs", "benefits", checks) refer to them as "their" money.  Pontificate loudly on their "right" to them.  Fight vigorously against any idea or plan to "take away my" *insert free anything here*.  A humorous interview in Detroit was with some people who lined up for hours to get some "Obama money".  They didn't know or care where it came from ("Obama's stash"?!?).  Such gross ignorance and crass selfishness aren't unique, it is common.

Envious People:  Envy is another powerful emotion that causes liberal people to adopt and support collectivist government as needful and good.  To those who haven't achieved at the same level as others don't seek to raise themselves but to tear down those who have.  A term they love is "raise all boats" not caring that such attempts sink more boats than are raised.  To these types, achievers are "greedy", "mean" and "selfish".  They can't make a distinction between the ambition and self-interest of achievers and prefer to assign their own envious selfishness.  The envious are often lazy, make or made poor choices and ignorant of those things which achievers excel at.  Rather than achieve they prefer to dislike and attack those more successful than they have chosen to be.

Intellectual Elitists: A driving force of liberal and socialist collectivism.  There are people of all political stripes who suffer from this but it is pervasively liberal in academia and government and often used as political justification.  "We just know better than you" is the hallmark of such elitists.  They live in environments that reinforce and perpetuate their elitism.  When confronted with this concept the liberals defend their elitism by saying "I should disregard people who do know better" (than you)?  They continually claim to have "facts and knowledge" that non-liberals don't possess to justify their emotion based ideologies.  Intellectual arrogance is part and parcel to these types.

Collectivist Rulers:  Drawn from the intellectual elitists, the emotional idealists and just plain megalomaniac politicians (note: these types of politicians accrue to conservative as well as liberal groupings.  It only depends on what they see as the path to power).  Collectivist politicians often begin as any of the other groupings or some combination.  They tend however to be focused on an eye for the main chance.  The acquisition of power and the perks of power.  The reinforcement of their conviction that they know better and above all that the people of "flyover" country "clinging to their guns and bibles" truly need the caring knowledgeable control of such as themselves.

Such characteristics breed the condescending attitudes of collectivists, fuel their arrogance and pump up their hubris.

The only solution to problems is less Federal Government.  Uncle Sugar actually acting within its enumerated powers.  20 percent claim to be "liberal", unfortunately their political mass is swelled by folks such as those above.  We all suffer from such tendencies as we are not "inherently good", rather failed creatures with the ability to improve ourselves.  By our OWN EFFORTS not by the "programs" of elitists who wish to penalize success and empower only themselves.

So many pundits, many of them leftist offer sage advice on how the Republicrats could again become the party in power.  They speak of "mainstream" and "big tents" and "moderation".  The collectivists would love the elephants to follow this advice so they can remain a party with no principles and very little electoral appeal.  Non-activist voters tend to want conviction, principle and the keeping of promises made.  The lack of these is what causes America's historical disapproval of the current ruling elite.

For the republicrats to become Republican again they don't need a "big tent" they need a new tent.  Done right, the tent will be enormous.  Following this simple RWR ideal; "A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." is the path to take.

Don't convince people who don't share conservative and originalist beliefs to join the party.  It will weaken it.  Rather educate people about the truth of history.  Demonstrate the policies that have worked.  Free enterprise, individual liberty, personal responsibility and small Federal government.  Illustrate the failures of EVERY big government "solution".  The great depression, extended by government.  The war on poverty failure.  Government regulation killing industries or driving them off-shore.  The list is not endless but is very long.

The "tent" will be HUGE of its own accord because people want prinicpled leadership from people who intend to SERVE rather than rule.  Don't build a big tent, build the tent right.

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Sally Morem has views worth reading.  Here is one her recent essays.  A fine contributor to our network and to maintaining American Freedom.  See the original post here on Scribd.

Take up America’s Torch
By Which We Remember December 7 and September 11
By Sally Morem
In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: And in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly,
Scarce heard amidst the guns below.
We are the dead.
Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders’ fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe,
To you from failing hands we throw
The Torch—be yours to hold it high;
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders’ fields.

Canadian Colonel John McCrae left us with this eloquent plea for the
defense of the free West, a very appropriate thing to ponder on the
anniversaries of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on New York and Washington,
DC. His poem, In Flanders’ Fields, depicted an image of cemeteries filled
dead Canadians, Englishmen, Frenchmen and Americans, buried under the
battlegrounds of World War I in Europe. The spirits of these dead ask us in
the poem to continue their brave efforts to defend freedom from the
depredations of tyranny. Perhaps they knew that the ‘war to end all wars’
wouldn’t.

Americans did what had to be done. After the sudden blows our forces
suffered in Hawaii and those we suffered later in the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, we regrouped, struggled, and finally triumphed.
But, there are those who believe that Flanders’ Field was and is too high a
price to pay for freedom. They feel that peace should be our only concern.
Pacifists fear the results of war far more than the devastating effects
surrender would have on us. They don’t realize that appeasement to the
Kaisers, the Hitlers, the Tojos, the Stalins, and the bin Ladens would never
bring peace, but would instead lead to waves of future wars, endless wars of
oppression conducted by power-hungry tyrants, egged on by the weakness
displayed by their pacifist enemies.

The dictionary defines the pacifist as one who is in opposition to war or
violence as a means of settling disputes and who specifically refuses to bear
arms on moral or religious grounds. By so doing, he hopes to bring about a
permanent peace.
Unfortunately, this could never happen through unilateral disarmament. If a
pacific society were somehow established, its internal order would soon
break down under the pressure of criminal acts and outside aggression.
Pacifism is therefore an unstable strategy for any society to undertake. It, by
definition, cannot cope with violent domestic or foreign acts. Survivors
would have to cease acting as pacifists in short order. Or there would be no
survivors left to sweep up the shrapnel and put out the fires.
But, how can we preserve freedom and yet avoid future Flanders’ fields?
Perhaps we can’t. The military option is simply too attractive to too many
people. A show of force really works. People see the guns, the tanks, the
battleships, the bombers, and the soldiers…then they do what they are told
to do. They surrender. They give their conquerors anything they demand.
In any effort to ease the danger of war, certain facts of life must be attended
to. The first thing we must realize is that this world is filled with billions of
people who organize themselves into millions of groups, instantiating at
least as many differing dreams and goals and ideals. Not all of these groups
co-exist peaceably nor do they all conduct their affairs in an honorable
manner. In such a situation, conflict becomes unavoidable.
Any proposal for the demilitarization of the world must come to grips with
the harsh reality of human nature reflected in the operation of human
leadership of groups: There will always be leaders who will lie, cheat,
scheme, and murder to get their own way within their group and against
other groups. They will not be dissuaded by sweet talk of human love and
brotherhood.

Secondly, we must remember that human beings are just as capable of
cooperating with one another as they are of fighting. We see this every day
in peace as our armies and police keep the bad guys at bay, permitting us to
trade and associate in friendship, without threats or coercion.
Ironically enough, war itself illustrates the power of human cooperation.
While soldiers fight enemy soldiers on the battlefield, they also obey their
superior officers, protect one another, move the wounded to safety, and
move supplies to the front in an orderly fashion. War is organized conflict,
with emphasis on the adjective organized. We see the human capacity for
both beastliness and heroism magnified on the battlefield. Perhaps this is
why some of our most powerful stories are war stories.

The talent for cooperation is inherently human. Parents love, nurture and
protect their children. Business associates work together for their mutual
profit. People risk their lives to save others from the perils of fire and storm.
Any truly robust human culture dedicated to the preservation of peace must
allow human cooperation to flower naturally; it must not be forced.
Cooperation is inherently a voluntary act. A dictatorship enforcing
cooperation would be (and is) as counterproductive as a pacifist society
attempting to enforce peace.

From these two points we can deduce the following with reasonable
certainty: There can be no peace without freedom. Ever. Freedom is the
stuff of peace. Why? Because freedom is the stuff of a truly human life.
Cooperation may flourish in many different types of societies and conflict
may be bent to more positive ends through the workings of ancient
traditions, but only in societies where individual rights and responsibilities
are recognized as inviolable can such societies achieve a high level of trust
between large numbers of people, most of whom will never meet one
another. Freedom, then, has the capacity to engender a level of trust at least
high enough to ease ever-present tensions in very populous societies.
Freedom allows individuals to combine and covenant among themselves
without resort to force or threats of force. No gun to the head nor midnight
knock on the door required. Freedom also permits people to leave that
which they’ve created at any time. The “escape clause” of freedom
encourages both the free flow of commerce and of information and ideas
throughout the world as individuals enter and leave at will.

And by so doing, freedom discourages wars between free peoples. Free
peoples don’t fight one another. They don’t even threaten to fight one
another. Considering the history of armed conflict over the millennia, this is
a highly unusual and desirable situation to be in. If we would truly have
peace among the nations, freedom must be the means of its realization. It’s
the only thing that has ever been found by historians to have such a strong
dampening effect on war.

Albert Einstein was wrong when he said, “The first problem is to do away
with mutual fear and distrust.” These emotions cannot be waved away with
the magic wand of pacifism. The first problem is to do away with systems
and cultures of coercion. And this can only be done by guiding
inexperienced peoples through the process of creating societies of
freedom…all over the world. Maintaining the tender plants of newly
established free societies is a tricky task, but many peoples have already
succeeded in doing so in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Free America has been a powerful force for peace in the last few decades.
But, it didn’t achieve the stability of the West through the use of lethal force.
It never threatened its allies with the use of tanks and troops if they didn’t
obey American orders. It led its allies by offering its own great strength as a
shield against a common enemy.

It has been said by history commentators that if the two great nuclear powers
who had emerged out of World War II into the Cold War had been
totalitarian, say, Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, all of humanity
would’ve been wiped out in a nuclear world war long ago. We only have to
remember what happened when Hitler betrayed the Hitler-Stalin Pact to get
an idea of the truth of this assertion. Thankfully, one of the two
superpowers had been in reality a true democratic republic. America had
been strong enough to enable the West to remain free long enough to outlast
an aggressive, and then a crumbling Soviet Empire.
Let’s consider an alternate historical possibility. If the two superpowers
emerging from the flames of World War II had both been free societies, they
never would have posed a nuclear threat to each other or the world. Wars do
not come about simply by the presence of dangerous weaponry; wars grow
out of the enmity of enemies.

We now have enough experience with a number of paired democratic states
sharing borders to know that they never put their forces on alert against one
another, let alone fire on one another in anger. Americans don’t fear British
or French nukes…with good reason. Our two imaginary democratic
superpowers would’ve acted towards each other much like post-war
Germany, Japan and America had—with peaceable trade and cultural
exchanges instead of ICBMs aimed at one another’s cities.
With all this in mind, America’s duty is clear. We must continue to foster
the development of free societies around the world. We must continue to
protect and defend ourselves and the free world from would-be oppressors.
Sneak attacks on America must never be permitted to happen again. When
we choose to be free, we give America’s Answer, written by R. W. Lillard,
to those who had given their lives for us nearly a century ago:

Rest in peace, ye Flanders dead,
The fight that ye so bravely led
We’ve taken up. And we will keep
True faith with you who lie asleep,
With each a cross to mark his bed,
Where once his own life-blood ran red.
So let your rest be sweet and deep
In Flanders’ field.
Fear not that ye have died for naught,
The Torch ye threw to us we caught,
Ten million hands will hold it high,
And Freedom’s light shall never die!
We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught
In Flanders’ field.

FAX your Senator TODAY!!

Dear Friends: Lipstick Undergound spent a lot of time compiling this list, and I thought I would share. If we want to see Cap-and-Tax defeated, we need to fight for our independence with the weapons we have — the FAX and internet. You can even fax free from your computer!

SENATORS TO HIT HARD:

Robert Byrd (WV) 202-224-3954, fax 202-228-0002
Evan Bayh (IN) 202-224-5623, fax 202-228-1377
Mark Begich (AK) 202-224-3004, fax 202-224-2354
Michael Bennet (CO) 202-224-5852, fax 202-228-5036
Jeff Bingaman (NM) 202-224-5521, fax 202-224-1792
Sherrod Brown (OH) 202-224-2315, fax 202-228-6321
Max Baucus (MT) 202-224-2651, fax 202-224-9412
Robert Casey (PA) 866-802-2833, fax 202-228-0604
Kent Conrad (ND) 202-224-2043, fax 202-224-7776
Byron Dorgan (ND) 202-224-2551, fax 202-224-1193
Kay Hagan (NC) 202-224-6342, fax 202-228-2563
Tim Johnson (SD) 202-224-5842
Mary Landrieu (LA) 202-224-5824, fax 202-224-9735
Carl Levin (MI) 202-224-6221, fax 202-224-1388
Blanche Lincoln (AR) 202-224-4843, fax 202-228-1371
Ben Nelson (NE) 202-224-6551, fax 202-228-0012
John D. Rockefeller (WV) 202-224-6472, fax 202-224-7665
Arlen Specter (PA) 202-224-4254, fax 202-228-1229
Debbie Stabenow (MI) 202-224-4822
Jon Tester (MT) 202-224-2644, fax 202-224-8594
Mark L. Pryor (AR) 202-224-2353, fax 202-228-0908
Olympia Snowe (ME) 800-432-1599, fax 202-224-1946
Susan Collins (ME) 202-224-2523, fax 202-224-2693
Gregg (NH) 202-224-3324
Lisa Murkowski (AK) 202-224-6665, fax 202-224-5301

For those Senators without published fax numbers, please use the contact forms available on the US Senate website by clicking HERE!

Fax a .DOC, .DOCX, or .PDF file free from your computer:

http://faxzero.com/
http://www.gotfreefax.com/
http://www.myfax.com/free/

While the resources listed may not be universally agreed upon they share one common good.  They are activist organizing groups advocating for American Freedom.

Following the “80 percent rule” we wrote about earlier, we recommend these for your consideration

• The 9-12 Project
• American Solutions Platform
• The Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition
• The Patrick Henry Center
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
• Set a Grassfire
• Protest Warriors

The only reason you won’t do something about your liberty is that you are “too busy” or too lazy to be free.  Truth is HATE to those who hate the TRUTH.

These things are not available for public scrutiny. Can you tell us why?  When do you intend to make them available.  If not, why not?

1. Occidental College records -- Not released
2. Columbia College records -- Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper -- "Not available"
4. Harvard College records -- Not released
5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
6. Medical records -- Not released
7. Illinois S tate Senate schedule -- Not available
8. Your Illinois State Senate records -- Not available
9. Law practice client list -- Not released
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
12. Record of your baptism -- Not available
13. There seem to be no articles you published as editor of the Harvard Law Review, or as a Professor at the University of Chicago.

Why are so many so enthused about a man who has done nothing but be *anointed* by the secular collectivist elites?

While generally opposing activist courts it is most disconcerting when they don't or won't act in their actual constitutional role.  The Federal Behemoth's nationalizing of private companies is quite grossly outside the scope of their enumerated powers.

Actual harm to private citizens and their property is taking place.  From the link above; "GM pensioners, did indeed represent something like $20 billion worth of GM’s liabilities. So the idea that the union should get an equity stake in return for that is fair enough. However, the UAW is getting three times as much as the bondholders, who represent $28 billion of GM’s outstanding liability."

Where is equal protection under the law?  Where is the prohibition on illegal "taking".  Where is the "fairness" that collectivists so frequently moan about?.

Who has standing to bring suit?  Why hasn't it been done already?  If I held those bonds I'd be suing GM's butt off as well as challenging the blatantly unconstitutional actions of the executive branch.

While the forecasts of total doom for America may be a little over the top there is no doubt that we are on a path divergent from our traditions and founders' intent.

Don't rationalize or excuse lack of action to preserve your American Freedom.
Participate in the Tea Party Movement
Join Ron Paul's "Revolution"
Take part in defense of traditional faith in America
Contribute to policy solutions that support our Liberty

A great example is the fine work being done by the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition
You CAN make a difference if you join your fellow freedom loving Americans and ACT.

I miss my Mom.  Mom has been gone from this world for nearly 8 years.  As with all families and all Moms (or most perhaps) there were conflict issues, relationship challenges and multitudes of feelings.

I have been blessed in life with other “Mom” figures too.  To Mom who is gone and to Moms who are not, be sure to recognize them today.  No, not materialistically. Try a hug, a sincere statement of appreciation and just love them.

Moms provide central support to most people in childhood, youth and adulthood.  When you have no one to hear your pain, Mom will.  When you need a warm contentment outside of rationality and logic, Moms can provide it.  Moms are your biggest fans, your rock of origin and a relationship that is unique amongst all the ones you have.  Appreciate it.  Thoughtfully consider it, meditate on it.  Pray in thanksgiving for it.  Even Jesus’ Mother fit in this way.

I love you Mom even if I can’t hug you today.  I love the other Moms in my life too and wish each and all a joyous Mother’s day.  I encourage you all to make as many days a year as you can, some kind of “Mother’s Day”.

Our dear friend Mut (pronounced Moot) sends this timely warning from her excellent post on our main site. Here is a critical excerpt:

“Just this morning, I received word that a new radical organization calling itself “A New Way Forward” has put together an underhanded sneak attack designed to undercut the popular uprising known as the Tea Party Movement,” Bill Wilson, of Americans for Limited Government (ALG), warned mainstreet Americans yesterday.
“Simply put, their idea is to stage phony rallies throughout the country on April 11–made to look like they are part of the Tea Party movement–while actually opposing Tea Party principles and supporting the complete government takeover of our banking system.”
Memo to mainstream Americans: The far left, masters of hypocrisy and street theatre, will use decoys in “The Way Forward” to pose as YOU in an attempt to undermine and shut down the Tea Party movement.

Just like the Moonbats, they can count on the mainstream media to help them pull off their doublecross.

“`The Way Forward’ scam was conjured up by an Obama activist named Michael Lux,” says Wilson. “Lest anyone try to tell you that Mr. Lux is sincere in saying he wants to “help rebuild the banking system”, don’t you believe it for one single second. Before starting up his new Obama front group, Lux was a high-paid lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, a top executive for the leftwing People for the American Way, and a special assistant at the Clinton White House.”

Want to get a handle on your politicrat rulers?  Compare proposed Federal legislation to the simple bullet list below.  We can read legislation even if our representatives (alleged) can't or won't.  Also compare executive orders and SCOTUS decisions you can find at FindLaw.com
An extra kudo for those of you who actually know the source and specific location of the bullet list provided.  Do this comparison and see how our politicians, media and many "pundits" don't know what the heck they are talking about.  Or worse, they don't care.

• To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
• To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
• To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
• To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
• To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
• To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
• To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
• To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
• To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
• To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
• To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
• To provide and maintain a Navy;
• To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
• To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
• To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
• To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Er*ction of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
• To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

This is a very important notice and statement by our partner and network member Mutnodjmet.
Reprinted from the American Freedom Network home.
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Dear Readers: I wanted to share with you a story of a rebellion within a rebellion. I hope that these words will reach the hallowed halls of national groups attempting to coordinate local Tea Party events. I want them to exercise extreme caution in whom they put forth as the face of the Tea Party movement. The national Tea Party network heads need to know – NOW – how angry grassrooters are that Newt Gingrich is being heralded as an important voice of the Tea Party movement. Frankly, all of my Tea Party compatriots see this potentially damaging to our credibility as a true non-partisan effort. We want no blessing from him, or any other old-style politician. We do not want Newt as the face associated with the Tea Party movement.

By way of background, I was a hereditary Democrat who voted for President Clinton in 1992. After Clinton’s team jacked up my taxes, I joined the Republican Party. I donated to the party in 1994, because I was a very impressed with Newt’s “Contract with America”. His ten-point plan promised to reshape the federal government by decentralizing authority, deregulating industry, reducing taxes, reforming social programs, and increasing power for states. Ideas I liked then, and ideas I am striving to promote now.

And that is part of the problem! The Republicans wrested control of the US Congress from the hands of the Democrats, who had held the till for 40 years. The GOP had it for a full 12 years. What did they do with it? Is the federal government any smaller? Are the states any more independent? Potentially devastating Democratic acts (e.g., Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act 0f 1977, which led to the excesses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) were not repealed. There were no significant reforms to Social Security, which is a heinous Ponzi scheme. There is no significant development of our refineries, oil fields, nuclear power, and all other technologically reasonable energy sources. Then, of course, there were the Republican scandals (e.g., Rep. Cunningham bribery case, the Sen. Criag bathroom bru-ha-ha).

With all this history in mind, you will excuse me for NOT being excited when ex-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich releases this video, in which he promotes his “partnering with the Tax Day Tea Party movement” AFTER thousands of non-politically-connected American citizens demonstrated!

\"Newt on YouTube\"

I do not think Newt’s invitation will inspire one extra person to come to our events. The opposite, I fear. Newt Gingrich is a Republican with a lot of baggage, and bears some blame for our current crisis. I cannot think Independents, Democrats (even the deepest purple of the blue dogs), Libertarian, or Constitution Party members will consider the Tea Party movement authentically non-partisan if he is strongly associated with it.

Our friend Nik sums up our feelings about this video succinctly: His video insults me personally. His "partnering" with the "tax day tea party movement" to "develop a real protest" implies several things I find objectionable. The Tea Party movement isn't solely run or organized by the people at Tax Day Tea Party. Further he implies that the efforts until now by real regular Americans (as exampled by the folks at American Freedom Network) haven't been "real protests". He is seeking to gain, politically, from the grassroots effort of the Tea Party Movement. He is seeking to skim the cream from the citizens' initiative and, at this late date, have it associated with him for his own personal gain of power and influence.

Keep in mind, both Nik and I find Newt worthy of respect. The former Speaker of the House is a highly intelligent man and a very effective organizer. He managed to get much needed, and effective, Welfare Reform pushed through and signed by President Clinton during his congressional tenure. His American Solutions organization promotes some very sound policy ideas, such as Drill Here-Drill Now-Pay Less. He is a good communicator with a grasp on modern technology and a keen observer of the American political landscape and its trends. However, his flaws are such that they diminish the authenticity which makes our Team’s grassroots efforts so special.

The flaws go to character, which our friend ssgconway details: That his ambition and vanity are, together, his pole star, I think is plain. He cannot be trusted. Character does count. I accept a normal amount of frailty, error, vanity and even corruption (within limits - 'honest graft,' if you will, as in Cassius), but I would have a hard time, after hammering Bill Clinton, not doing likewise to someone who was impeaching a President for things that he was also doing at the very same time. Add to that his telling his first wife that he was divorcing her while she was in a cancer ward, and you have an ugly character.

Then, there are those pesky ethics charges related to Gingrich. These charges include one in which he was fined $300,000 claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. This was the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing. Then, there was a very loud public outcry related to a $4.5 million book deal from Harper Collins. These distractions led to a near revolt among the congressional Republicans in 1998, an historic loss it that year’s House elections, and thwarted completion of the "Contract with America". This is NOT the face we need.

I am a hardworking member of the grassroots organizational staff of a local Tea Party event planning group. I have worked avidly with the other members of American Freedom Network to promote American values and sensibilities. My friends on this network are also heavily engaged in their local Tea Party efforts. We want warn the people who tout themselves as the “leaders” or “go-to-girls” of the Tea Parties that we want no part of politics as usual.

I am still a Republican. I do think that the party is best positioned to stem the Obama’ administration’s blatant power grabs and destructive economic games. However, should Newt be the direction that the GOP is headed, then a Third Party Option will be more appealing to me and any Tea Party goers. I know that my dear spouse, Horemheb, has already rescinded his long-held GOP membership and is now a registered Independent. I am finding it hard to convince him to donate to either the state or national political organizations. It behooves Republican Party to recognize that the protests against unwise tax-and-spend politics-as-usual apply to both parties: representatives should not jump to the conclusion that the thousands at the Tea Party protests automatically translate into GOP votes during the next election cycle.

Perhaps the most insidious aspect to his “partnering” is that I think he is trying to jumpstart his presidential campaign on the backs of the Tea Party protesters. Newt's interjection into the Tea Party movement is even more aggravating, because he actually supported TARP I (Troubled Assets Relief Fund, the initial bank bailout program that was suppose to quickly heal the economy when it sailed through congress last fall)!

Newt is worthy of respect, not automatic allegiance. This is SO NOT the face we need right now. I am sure our energetic band of Tax Revolters can locate a fresh new voice with economic acumen, street savvy, a strong backbone and sound character.

If the Tea Party Movement needs a “Face”, then I vote for this one: Lloyd Marcus!

\"Lloyd Marcus on YouTube\"

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Speaking of Lloyd Marcus, he will be at Santa Barbara's Tea Party next weekend. The event is slated to start at 3:00 pm in downtown Santa Barbara next Saturday, April 4, 2009. The current plan is to meet at Santa Barbara County Courthouse at 2:30 PM, then march four blocks to the rally point. For more information, please check the Santa Barbara County Tea Party website.

Fur more information on other California Tea Parties, especially those that will be among the over 300 across the country on April 15th-Tax Day, check the Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition website.

As a side note, Gingrich isn't the only one getting on the Tea Part Boat!

In honor of Earth Hour we propose an alternative activity.

We of the American Freedom Network propose you do the following at 8:30 PM (your local time).

• Turn ON every light in your house AND place of business.
• Light a fire in your fireplace(s).
• Do your laundry in such a way that you'll have both washer and dryer running
• Bake a cake while simmering several things on the stove
• Turn on all of your TVs (muted) and Radios (loud on the same station)
• Vacuum
• Make sure your kids/family are playing their video games and using all of your computers
• Use as many electrical/gas appliances, tools and other powered items as you can safely at that hour.

Why do such a thing?  It won't bankrupt you but WILL point out the stupidity of the global warming collectivists.
The "earth" doesn't care if you are using power or not.  Only the socialist boobs and their ignorant sheople do.
Do this as an adjunct to your tea party activities.