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passivity is no longer an option
exercise your First Amendment
Right of Petition of Redress (remedy) of Grievances
Stop the tyranny. Confront the rising rogue national government in DC face to face! We own this Country!
We especially own DC. It's time to start planning to visit your Reps in DC in person, in 2013. This is a Paul Revere alert to all concerned citizens! We MUST refuse to sit by passively while we and future generations are financially enslaved because of the present day unconstitutional, criminal, temporary and feckless leadership in Congress and the White House. It is time for a STAND.
May, June, July 2013 an unprecedented display of the resolve of the American People from all corners of the USA!
We the People own DC and we are paying a visit this summer!
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passivity is no longer an option
exercise your First Amendment
Right of Petition of Redress (remedy) of Grievances!
" The only way we can change, is if the American people demand it."
President Barack Obama January 16, 2013 audio
"STAND" (noun): A national spontaneous exercise of your First Amendment Right of Petition of Redress (remedy) of Grievances! (Read the First Amendment carefully!)
Personally confront your federal elected officials in DC this summer with your specific grievances and solutions. A STAND is a national citizen action by the tens of thousands daily focused on confronting personally each rogue and lawless elected official and/or their Staff directly, with the aim of ultimately restoring constitutional limited government. No single organization can do this or organize this for you.
Take it personally. It's your country. STAND!
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In the spirit
of the 2009 and 2010 Townhalls
May 24 thru July 7, 2013
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Congressional members should resign and vacate their offices in disgrace if they cannot pass a real budget this spring on track to achieve a balanced Budget in 5 years. No Excuses. The new national discussion going forward this spring and summer should not be about which party is to blame for shutting the Government down, but whether or not WE the People will shut THEM down. No real and legitimate Budget by May? The People should demand NO paychecks going forward for any elected member of Congress or White House. This President and Senate have us nearing national fiscal and civil collapse with their miserable, fraudulent, post constitutional governance. Their overspending is criminal. Do not be assuaged with empty promises, spin, and misinformation. They are daily seizing the day. They are willfully heading us into national fiscal collapse. Why? It is simple: More hardship and chaos birth more and tighter central government control for them to consolidate. This is for them their highest prize and their ultimate religion. The only question going forward is not whether their actions will result in collapse and federal elite control of the nation, but whether or not there are some citizens left in the nation who refuse to stand by passively forever. Once America falls to and becomes utterly dependent on, and constrained by, this toxic blend of fascism and pure socialism, there will be nowhere else to go.
Historians estimate those colonists who actually fought in the Revolutionary War numbered 200,000 out of a population of 2.4 million at the time. A percentage of 8.3%. If only 1% of those who voted for Romney in the 2012 election participate in STAND in Washington 2013, we will see over 500,000 converge on DC over a 6 week period. If just 3% participate it would be 1.5 Million. Add to that a small percentage of the 40+ million who failed altogether to vote in 2012. Will the serious Patriots of our day seeing the reality of the hour, once again show up?
Thanks to an arrogant White House, a complicit national media, and a feckless Congress, we still don't know what really happened in Benghazi, or exactly what the President's role was. Nor who was the WH mastermind who concocted and authorized Fast and Furious. Add to these, countless other constitutional high crimes and misdemeanors, the American people are understandably nervous and perplexed. Millions of Americans are unquestionably frustrated, angry, and anxious. The Founders gave us the 2nd Amendment as a bulwark against a growing tyrannical government. But so we would hopefully never need to use it, they ALSO gave us the First Amendment Right of Petition of Redress of Grievances as literally a citizen safety valve for the Republic during times of governmental abuse and over-reach. If we hope to avoid ever using the 2nd Amendment provisions because of tyranny, me must first exhaust the First Amendment while we can. It is sadly time for those millions who are frustrated, angry, and anxious to assemble themselves before their would-be masters. Stand up, and take vocal personal action. That is what a STAND is, and does. It is tenaciously peaceful and stern at the same time.
Oh, by the way....
from The Hill January 18, 2013
Michelle Obama:
To Supporters in a new video:
“The relationships you’ve made, the tools you’ve built and the lessons you’ve learned have already begun to change our politics. And in the coming years, they can change our country. And that’s the mission of Organizing for Action,”
The newly restructured group is expected to launch as a 501(c)4 activist organization, which is prohibited by federal law from having politics as its primary purpose.
“In terms of the specifics of what this organization will look like, a lot of that will be up to you. It will be determined by your energy and ideas and feedback. Because after all, this is your movement,” Obama said.
“Let’s be clear: All that hard work was about more than just one election. So if we want to finish what we started and truly make that change we believe in, we can’t stop now. And that’s why today I’m proud that our friends and supporters are launching Organizing for Action, the next phase of our movement for change.” said Obama.
"OFA" morphs into... "OFA" ...huh?
Looks like the Administration is now organizing and mobilizing their citizen followers for "Action".
The utter refusal of the current Federal government to limit it's own reach as provided in the Constitution, has stunted what should be a robust development of the full spectrum of our own North American energy resources. By so doing they are impeding the path to energy independence essential for our economy and national security. We are being needlessly hindered from using God-given natural resources and technology to harness them for the good of all. It is simply immoral. Furthermore, it is unconscionable that fraudulent EPA claims of man-made climate change dangers would hold the country hostage in energy development. This is not only a national disgrace, it is a national security debacle of the highest order. The same could be said for the willful and unconstitutional failure to secure our borders and enforce and reform immigration laws. The country cannot endlessly withstand this deterioration of law and common sense. The national interests of the USA are being threatened from within as never before.
Indianapolis Mom uses Facebook in just 6 weeks to organize thousands to march in DC January 26, 2013
Established just in December 2012, the One Million Moms for Gun Control seek to persuade Congress to pass unprecedented national gun control measures that would eviscerate the 2nd Amendment, universally track and control all weapons and ammunition in the US going forward.
Will they have their way? Obama's way?
These misguided and naive people are mobilizing and growing. And taking their message directly to DC.
What will American Conservative Patriots do? Send Emails? Really?
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Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm
Jan 29, 2013 12:00 AM EST
"The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so." By David Mamet.
David Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director.
Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm
Jan 29, 2013 12:00 AM EST
Newsweek...... David Mamet
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so.
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.
For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia. The agency is called “The State,” and the motto, fleshed out, for the benefit of the easily confused must read “The State will take from each according to his ability: the State will give to each according to his needs.” “Needs and abilities” are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to “the State shall take, the State shall give.”
All of us have had dealings with the State, and have found, to our chagrin, or, indeed, terror, that we were not dealing with well-meaning public servants or even with ideologues but with overworked, harried bureaucrats. These, as all bureaucrats, obtain and hold their jobs by complying with directions and suppressing the desire to employ initiative, compassion, or indeed, common sense. They are paid to follow orders.
Rule by bureaucrats and functionaries is an example of the first part of the Marxist equation: that the Government shall determine the individual’s abilities.
As rules by the Government are one-size-fits-all, any governmental determination of an individual’s abilities must be based on a bureaucratic assessment of the lowest possible denominator. The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
President Obama, in his reelection campaign, referred frequently to the “needs” of himself and his opponent, alleging that each has more money than he “needs.”
But where in the Constitution is it written that the Government is in charge of determining “needs”? And note that the president did not say “I have more money than I need,” but “You and I have more than we need.” Who elected him to speak for another citizen?
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. “One-size-fits-all,” and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is “slavery.”
The Founding Fathers, far from being ideologues, were not even politicians. They were an assortment of businessmen, writers, teachers, planters; men, in short, who knew something of the world, which is to say, of Human Nature. Their struggle to draft a set of rules acceptable to each other was based on the assumption that we human beings, in the mass, are no damned good—that we are biddable, easily confused, and that we may easily be motivated by a Politician, which is to say, a huckster, mounting a soapbox and inflaming our passions.
The Constitution’s drafters did not require a wag to teach them that power corrupts: they had experienced it in the person of King George. The American secession was announced by reference to his abuses of power: “He has obstructed the administration of Justice … he has made Judges dependant on his will alone … He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws … He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass out people and to eat out their substance … imposed taxes upon us without our consent… [He has] fundamentally altered the forms of our government.”
This is a chillingly familiar set of grievances; and its recrudescence was foreseen by the Founders. They realized that King George was not an individual case, but the inevitable outcome of unfettered power; that any person or group with the power to tax, to form laws, and to enforce them by arms will default to dictatorship, absent the constant unflagging scrutiny of the governed, and their severe untempered insistence upon compliance with law.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
Healthy government, as that based upon our Constitution, is strife. It awakens anxiety, passion, fervor, and, indeed, hatred and chicanery, both in pursuit of private gain and of public good. Those who promise to relieve us of the burden through their personal or ideological excellence, those who claim to hold the Magic Beans, are simply confidence men. Their emergence is inevitable, and our individual opposition to and rejection of them, as they emerge, must be blunt and sure; if they are arrogant, willful, duplicitous, or simply wrong, they must be replaced, else they will consolidate power, and use the treasury to buy votes, and deprive us of our liberties. It was to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that the Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government.
Many are opposed to private ownership of firearms, and their opposition comes under several heads. Their specific objections are answerable retail, but a wholesale response is that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. On a lower level of abstraction, there are more than 2 million instances a year of the armed citizen deterring or stopping armed criminals; a number four times that of all crimes involving firearms.
The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
Violence by firearms is most prevalent in big cities with the strictest gun laws. In Chicago and Washington, D.C., for example, it is only the criminals who have guns, the law-abiding populace having been disarmed, and so crime runs riot.
Cities of similar size in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and elsewhere, which leave the citizen the right to keep and bear arms, guaranteed in the Constitution, typically are much safer. More legal guns equal less crime. What criminal would be foolish enough to rob a gun store? But the government alleges that the citizen does not need this or that gun, number of guns, or amount of ammunition.
But President Obama, it seems, does.
He has just passed a bill that extends to him and his family protection, around the clock and for life, by the Secret Service. He, evidently, feels that he is best qualified to determine his needs, and, of course, he is. As I am best qualified to determine mine.
For it is, again, only the Marxists who assert that the government, which is to say the busy, corrupted, and hypocritical fools most elected officials are (have you ever had lunch with one?) should regulate gun ownership based on its assessment of needs.
Q. Who “needs” an assault rifle?
A. No one outside the military and the police. I concur.
An assault weapon is that which used to be called a “submachine gun.” That is, a handheld long gun that will fire continuously as long as the trigger is held down.
These have been illegal in private hands (barring those collectors who have passed the stringent scrutiny of the Federal Government) since 1934. Outside these few legal possessors, there are none in private hands. They may be found in the hands of criminals. But criminals, let us reflect, by definition, are those who will not abide by the laws. What purpose will passing more laws serve?
My grandmother came from Russian Poland, near the Polish city of Chelm. Chelm was celebrated, by the Ashkenazi Jews, as the place where the fools dwelt. And my grandmother loved to tell the traditional stories of Chelm.
Its residents, for example, once decided that there was no point in having the sun shine during the day, when it was light out—it would be better should it shine at night, when it was dark. Similarly, we modern Solons delight in passing gun laws that, in their entirety, amount to “making crime illegal.”
What possible purpose in declaring schools “gun-free zones”? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?
Ah, but perhaps one, legally carrying a gun, might bring it into the school.
Good.
We need more armed citizens in the schools.
Walk down Madison Avenue in New York. Many posh stores have, on view, or behind a two-way mirror, an armed guard. Walk into most any pawnshop, jewelry story, currency exchange, gold store in the country, and there will be an armed guard nearby. Why? As currency, jewelry, gold are precious. Who complains about the presence of these armed guards? And is this wealth more precious than our children?
Apparently it is: for the Left adduces arguments against armed presence in the school but not in the wristwatch stores. Q. How many accidental shootings occurred last year in jewelry stores, or on any premises with armed security guards?
Why not then, for the love of God, have an armed presence in the schools? It could be done at the cost of a pistol (several hundred dollars), and a few hours of training (that’s all the security guards get). Why not offer teachers, administrators, custodians, a small extra stipend for completing a firearms-safety course and carrying a concealed weapon to school? The arguments to the contrary escape me.
Why do I specify concealed carry? As if the weapons are concealed, any potential malefactor must assume that anyone on the premises he means to disrupt may be armed—a deterrent of even attempted violence.
Yes, but we should check all applicants for firearms for a criminal record?
Anyone applying to purchase a handgun has, since 1968, filled out a form certifying he is not a fugitive from justice, a convicted criminal, or mentally deficient. These forms, tens and tens of millions of them, rest, conceivably, somewhere in the vast repository. How are they checked? Are they checked? By what agency, with what monies? The country is broke. Do we actually want another agency staffed by bureaucrats for whom there is no funding?
The police do not exist to protect the individual. They exist to cordon off the crime scene and attempt to apprehend the criminal. We individuals are guaranteed by the Constitution the right to self-defense. This right is not the Government’s to “award” us. They have never been granted it.
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal (as above) for 78 years. Did the ban make them “more” illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
Will increased cosmetic measures make anyone safer? They, like all efforts at disarmament, will put the citizenry more at risk. Disarmament rests on the assumption that all people are good, and, basically, want the same things.
But if all people were basically good, why would we, increasingly, pass more and more elaborate laws?
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a “set of suggestions.” I cannot endorse his performance in office, but he wins my respect for taking those steps he deems necessary to ensure the safety of his family. Why would he want to prohibit me from doing the same?
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Martin Luther King and 10s of thousands of others sacrificially stood and marched before an unbending and unyielding federal government loaded with racist Democrat politicians in the 1960's who wanted to keep the status quo. The people chose otherwise. After much sacrifice and much turmoil, the Federal Government finally yielded. The people spoke mightily, and they HAD to listen. Today it is once again time for liberty loving Americans of all backgrounds, ethnic groups and political persuasions to personally face their wayward federal officials and rescue the Constitution from the hands of statists who would destroy it and us from within. If not, the USA will be unrecognizable in 4 years.
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Quit waiting around for some politician, the Press, or some party to do this for you. They brought the country to where we are. They cannot fix it. If We the People (en masse) fail to relentlessly rise, STAND, confront, document, expose, shame, and discredit specific elected DC office holders directly in person for their specific and particular lawless and unconstitutional actions of recent years...
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