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.

Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" recently in an interview with a "Gay" news internet site.

This is a wonderful example of the patent dishonesty frequently used by "progressive" (collectivist) politicians.  Particularly when they are promoting the agenda of tiny fringe minority special interest groups such as homosexuals (liberal ones I must clarify).

The idea is to use false attributions to frame the debate on an issue into an argument that has nothing to do with the facts at hand.  For instance, in the example above, Frank (D-MA) calls Justice Scalia a "homophobe".  This imputes, ridiculously, that the Justice bases his decisions of some sort of undefined "fear" of homosexuals or homosexuality.  In fact, Justice Scalia bases his decisions on the U.S. Constitution.  Read his dissent in the Lawrence case and point out any indication of "fear" of homosexuals.

We think that homosexuals would have much greater success in their activism for acceptance and endorsement of their abnormal and unnatural choices if they stuck to the facts of their issues.  As long as they insist on imagining, or worse, projecting their own emotional states on to those who are their political opponents they won't gain the ground they seek.  American Freedom should include all and significant cultural and social changes SHOULD be debated, but based on fact, not on the dishonest attribution of emotional states by assumption or deception.

We recommend you send this to your alleged representatives in Washington D.C.  Immediately!  Share this across your Tea Party Sites and talk about it at your Tea Parties.  Get your States to pass a similar resolution.

Text of the New Hampshire (Live Free or Die) 10th Amendment resolution.

“That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General (federal) Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”

Stand up for American Freedom

http://amfreenet.com/tea-parties-schedulesDid you see the President on Leno?  Did you see him on 60 Minutes?  Have you seen his responses to those who dare question his direction, plans and goals.
It seems our President has failed to mature beyond his teens.  He needs not to fulfill his mentor Alinsky's principles.
He is plotting a course that is dangerous or worse, he isn't plotting anything beyond his emotion based vision of collectivism.
Wake up Americans and protect your American Freedom.
We can live with and through arrogance.  So many politicians are just that.  We can tolerate petulance and flippancy although that destroys confidence in the man entrusted to execute our laws.
The apparent incompetence is what is worrisome.  There are ways you can .  Do it!!!!

Be Heard - Participate - We DARE YOU!
Read the Amfree Blog on Townhall
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Join the American Freedom Net contributor group

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Listening to Fox News Sunday today I was interested in the interplay between Juan Williams and Brit Hume.  Brit seems to understand economics in the context of taxes, who pays them and how they impact job creation.

Juan, who is a smart person whom I believe is motivated by good intentions (feelings) appeared exasperated that anyone could support anything BUT increasing on the "rich".  He wants to know how anyone could oppose tax increases on the the top 2% of income earners.  It was pointed out to him that lower tax rates on the highest incomes increase that groups total share and total amounts paid of taxes.  The top 2% pay 60% of all income taxes. Over 50% of "taxpayers" in reality pay little or no Federal Income Tax.  Despite that Juan falls back on the jibe of "tax cuts for the rich" as if it is a bad thing.  Despite the fact that this policy causes the "rich" to pay MORE in total and percentage of receipts to the Federal Behemoth.  He also used twice the common collectivist canard of the "rich" needing to pay "their fair share".  I note that the "fair share" quantity is never verbalized.  Maybe a leftist/progressive/collectivist/socialist/liberal would care to specifically quantify what a "fari share" is exactly.  How much?

Next Juan expounded on the planned "investments" by Uncle Sugar in health care, energy and education.  The panelists and hosts correctly doubted the ability to pay for these "long term investments" but neglected the central fallacy.  NONE (not one) of these "investments" is the responsibility, province or purview of the Federal Government.  Again, we would like someone to point out exactly WHERE in the U.S. Constitution is federal spending, control or "oversight" enumerated as a function of the Federal Government?  Good luck because it isn't there.

One of the greatest threats to American Freedom is the collectivists and their fellow travelers ignorance and/or complete disregard for the Constitution (particularly the 9th and 10th amendments).  What do you think?  For leftist collectivists, how do you *feel* about it?

Jim Demint is speaking out for "Americans to Stand Up".  Many are, this Friday.  You can learn more here and here.  You can join the cause if you belong to Facebook here and here.  Get the information and participate on Friday, February 27th, 2009.  After Friday, keep the cause alive to protect the financial freedom of your kids and theirs.  Keep American Freedom a reality.