AGU: Sucker Punch the #GOPe; Elect @RichardMourdock

This Tuesday May 8, 2012 you have an opportunity to sucker punch both the GOPe and the media elites of the LSM.

Now is your chance to grab the bull by its horns.

For weeks now the LSM have gleefully concluded that independent Tea Party Americans have lost their steam, and will not carry any weight in this election cycle.

Once again, they have no idea what they are talking about.

Obama's favorite Republican (Senator Dick Lugar) was sitting pretty for re election until last week when out of the blue Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Richard Mourdock for the Indiana Senate Seat.

Within minutes the American Grizzlies United (AGU) Board of Directors decided to follow the Governors lead and throw our support behind Richard Mourdock as well.

The Sarah Palin endorsement came at 2:51pm EST on Friday April 27th. By 6:36pm EST word came that the American Action Network (which some have called the establishment cavalry) withdrew their support from the Indiana GOP Senate race.

They had previously promised Obama's favorite Republican $590,000 for his primary re election campaign.

So what happened in those four hours?

You happened.

You matter.

Deep down the GOPe fears you.

In a desperate and shameless attempt to sustain (and advance) crony capitalism the GOPe spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on focus groups, recycled consultants, and political experts.

But they are no match for you.

You have the power within you to take on the GOPe and win.

 

But, there is still a lot of hard work to do between now and tuesday to bring victory to Richard Mourdock (and sucker punch the GOPe and LSM).

Learn more about Richard Mourdock: http://www.richardmourdock.com/

Donate to Richard: Contribute

Volunteer for Richard: Get Involved

Our American Grizzlies United Indiana State Coordinator Morgan Rigg needs your help in defeating the GOPe. Morgan needs your help to send a true conservative to the United States Senate, and remind the know-it-alls in the LSM that you have the power within you to elect a candidate who shares your vision for America.

To help Morgan send an email to: indiana@organize4palin.com

You don't have to live in Indiana to let your voice be heard.

Does your cell phone plan have free minutes? You can make sure your voice is heard by making some phone calls the next four days on behalf on Richard Mourdock.



Or perhaps after you GET YOUR #GRRR ON you may find yourself Going Rogue and organizing a Twitter Storm using this link: http://bit.ly/odsvDp and the hashtags: #RedIN, #INSen (and of course #GRRR).

We all have constructive roles in the restoration of America.

Our victories in 2010 slowed down the Obama liberals, but it has not stopped them. Together we can stop the Obama agenda and make government respect the will and the wisdom of the American people.

Our work continues...

 

Thomas S Schmitz

American Grizzlies United; Chairman

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The Battle of Athens, Tennessee - 1946

James Madison stated, in reasoning and defense of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States …

The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit to.

In addition, the Second Amendment provides a means, a right, to protect one's self, family, property, and fellow citizens against violent criminal activity when law enforcement is either not available or cannot reach the scene in time. The Second Amendment was and is intended to be exercised by all lawful citizens of the United States in every state of the Union; for all states that are part of the Union have ratified and agreed to abide by the Constitution of the United States and can only add to its articles and amendments and not change it without the proper mechanics provided in the Constitution regarding rescinding, repealing, or changing any articles or amendments to that important national document.

Mark Alexanderat The Patriot Post, of which I supported and admired since its establishment (formerly the Federal Post) back in 1999 when I ventured to produce an Internet publishing venture in the form of a newsletter that later became a “blog” that is so popular and useful today; wrote a Case Study in Grassroots Restoration of the Rule of Lawentitled The Battle of Athens (Tennessee).

Mark Alexander, a direct descendent of Tennessee Patriots that were veterans of every major conflict in defense of American Liberty beginning in the American Revolution wrote about an incident that occurred in the “Volunteer State” that resides along stories of the Patriot sons and daughters of Tennessee like Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, and Sam Davis as well as Alvin York who have gone down in history as heroes with honor and courage. The story is little known outside the state of Tennessee, so I will join Mark Alexander in relating this story and providing excerpts form one of his essays to provide incentive for modern Americans to take action by responsible voting. I suggest that you go to the link provided above and read the history of it entirely. You will also see a rare photo at the link of the veterans who stood against corruption of their homelandwhile they were away fighting for freedom of the world in the 1940s. They won and restored the Rule of Law.

This story affected me because I remember when I mustered out of the US Army after serving off-and-on for fourteen years how much the citizens in the private sector had given up to those operating our government in terms of rights and liberty for false and impossible promises of what Big Government can provide. As Mark Alexander wrote:

Given the rigorous efforts by the current regime of Socialist Democrats occupying the Executive and Legislative branches of our federal government, revisiting the Battle of Athens provides a timely lesson in Patriot devotion to Liberty. Democrats today have nationalized the corruption of the electoral process by both overt efforts (blocking measures such as Voter ID, and endorsing voter intimidation at polls) and much more insidious covert measures (increasing the rolls of voting village idiots who are dependent on wealth redistribution for their livelihood -- those who vote for their living rather than work for it).

Of course my experience was not as dramatic as those vets returning home to McMinn County, but the gist of the theme applies. In today's case, we merely need to educate ourselves as to what the Constitution and its amendments mean and how they are to be applied, and ensure that we exercise our right to vote – which is also a means of arming the community against corruption and those who disregard and promote the mindset that the Constitution of the United States is a “living document” that can be changed to whatever political policy is at hand by whoever is in office. This, of course, would not be possible, and Barack H. Obama(alias Barry Soetoro) would have already received a legal impeachment hearing and possibly a trial if the legislative body called Congress wasn't corrupt in itself.

But I digress …

In 1945, more than 3,000 battle-hardened vets returned home to McMinn County and found it brimming with political corruption. The GIs, who had fought for Liberty in the European and Pacific theaters, were not going to surrender it to corrupt politicians on their own soil. A spokesman for these Patriots proclaimed, "The principles that we fought for in this past war do not exist in McMinn County." Despite numerous complaints about the corruption since 1940, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the control of Franklin Roosevelt, ignored citizens' charges of election fraud and did not respond. …
By 1946, some veterans were determined to challenge the Cantrell/Mansfield corruption machine, and they qualified for several posts on the upcoming election ballot. One of these men was Knox Henry, the GI candidate for sheriff of McMinn County. Endeavoring to ensure honest elections, a month ahead of the primaries they petitioned the FBI to send election monitors. As with previous requests for help to restore Rule of Law, their requests were ignored.
On Election Day, 1 August 1946, Mansfield imported some 200 strong-armed "deputies" to ensure the election would go his way. Mansfield's men ejected the veterans from polling sites, and in one instance a deputy pointed his gun at them as they attempted to re-enter a poll and shouted, "If you sons of bitches cross this street I'll kill you!" Mansfield arrested one GI poll watcher, Walter Ellis, who insisted on monitoring polling in the courthouse. One black voter, Tom Gillespie, was shot after a confrontation with a Mansfield deputy who denied him the right to vote.

While not as dramatic as just described, this reminds me that in the 2008 presidential election year there were Black Panthers standing outside of voting poll places intimidating voters entering the building; in addition, there was one case where a young female American voter was beaten for not supporting Barack H. Obamaand a college student uncovered election fraud in Indiana that was rampant across the United States.

These incidences did not deter Americans from considering just what entities and powers were behind a little-known community organizer who had a brief stint in Congress and who suddenly is propelled into a national campaign for presidency with “Hope and Change” signs everywhere. The real question today is: Has Americans learned their lesson in choosing candidates? According to the corrupt and bias media, no. But what about real America? The place that the mainstream media ignores. Barack Obama rhetoric preaching a "united" America falls short of his actions and speeches after becoming president, most recently his speech concerning the death of Trayvon Martin. Soon after his speech, the Black Panther organization put a bounty on the head of the alleged murderer, George Zimmerman. 

Alexander continues …

The veterans weren't about to let the 1946 election cycle fall to the same corruption that had undermined the previous three elections. In the early evening, a group of vets who had been ejected as poll watchers mustered up some fellow vets. Being short of arms and ammunition sufficient to challenge Mansfield's crew and retrieve the ballot boxes, these men "borrowed" keys to the local National and State Guard armories and requisitioned three M-1 rifles, five Colt .45 pistols and 24 British Enfield rifles. The vets then went to the jail, where they offered the deputies safe exit if they would turn over the ballot boxes. The deputies declined and shot two of the vets. The GIs returned fire in a pitched gunfight that would continue into the early morning hours of 2 August, when a number of vets from neighboring Meigs County improvised explosive devices (baled dynamite sticks) onto the jail's porch in order to soften up the resolve of the occupants. Shortly thereafter, the deputies did surrender and the GIs secured the building and ballots. (Cantrell and Mansfield, cowards that they were, had abandoned their deputies and fled into the dark early in the battle.)

The political party, democrat socialists, Democrat Party of the US, consistently complains about “fairness”; yet their party has more incidents of unlawful activities concerning voting fraud than the Republican Party or that of independent or third parties.

Part of the reformation of our government should include election reforms.

In conclusion …

The non-partisan veterans delivered this message to the radio announcer at WLAR: "The GI election officials went to the polls unarmed to have a fair election, as Pat Mansfield promised. They were met with blackjacks and pistols. Several GI officials were beaten and the ballot boxes were moved to the jail. The GI supporters went to the jail to get these ballot boxes and were met by gunfire. The GI candidates had promised that the votes would be counted as cast. They had no choice but to meet fire with fire. In the precincts where the GI candidates were allowed watchers they led by three to one majorities." The following morning, the armory weapons were cleaned and returned, and the ballot boxes were turned over for a legitimate count.

In the final count the GI candidate, Knox Henry, was elected sheriff of McMinn County, and three other vets filled key county positions. In order to thwart future corruption, the town of Athens formed a new police force. In addition, elected county officials agreed to a $5,000 pay limit. In the decade that followed, the McMinn County reforms were adopted in many other counties across the state.

… Historian Dan Daley wrote, "It was a violent but decisive clash of two social and political cultures, between the past and the future of rural, state, and ultimately the federal government, and a reconfirmation of the deeply ingrained ideal that Americans can assert themselves against tyranny, even when it was taking place in their own backyard." …

First and foremost, this incident, like so many before and since, affirms why our Founders codified in the Second Amendment the unalienable right of the people to "keep and bear arms." As Justice Joseph Story (appointed to the Supreme Court by our Constitution's author, James Madison) wrote, "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." History records the appalling 20th-century consequences of disarming the people.

The second lesson is that those of us who have pledged by sacred oath to "support and defend" the Liberty enshrined in our Constitution against "enemies foreign," must be equally devoted to the defense of Liberty against insult by "enemies domestic."

Today, Americans can clean up the corruption and political establishment by becoming knowledgeable of constitutional and state election laws and ensuring that they are enforced and acknowledged. An American citizen who is armed with knowledge and ignores the propaganda on campaign TV ads and the mainstream media bias can improve and reform our government through honest and sincere candidates by voting for those who address the issues, not by the present ideology of politics, but by the standards and precedence set forth by the Constitution of the United States.

By all means, vote, it is your constitutional right – but do so with a sense of wisdom, armed with knowledge; which can be more powerful and prevent the need to stand against corruption as the veterans of Tennessee were forced to do after returning home from a long war.

As Mark Alexanderaptly puts it:

One certainly hopes we can defeat the socialist corruption undermining our Constitution nationally, with ballots, not bullets, but one way or the other, the next American Revolution is just over the horizon.

Save our republic by insisting that media report honest, fair and objective news and leave their opinions for the commentaries in the columnist section. Freedom of Speech does not give anyone the right to not tell the whole story, suppress truth, or only provide information that they want Americans to know. 

 

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Wisconsin Recall: America is Watching

It must be known to readers by now the request for recall of Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin has passed the required votes and a recall election is scheduled for June 5^th, 2012. The recall is based upon the views and complaints of union members that work for the Wisconsin state government, to include the teachers' union. It is the public employee and teachers' union that has been instrumental in escalating the matter this far, and is now under national scrutiny, because, if Governor Walker IS recalled, it will show the strength and force that unions have over labor in the private sector as well as the government employment sector. This boils down to the constitutionality of government employees being allowed to have private sector-controlled union entities that meld special interest into the mechanics of government operation and drain the treasuries of government paid for By the People.

As Peter Ferrara wrote at TownHall:

Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, which means not equality of result, but that everyone plays by the same rules. A recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled for June 5. But on the ballot that day will effectively be whether we should establish in law after all these years a new aristocracy in America, not subject to the democratic will of the people like everyone else, with special legal privileges, including the right to plunder the taxpayers with virtual impunity. That new aristocracy is state and local government public employee unions. Nationwide, these public employee unions plunder taxpayers for pay for state and local government workers that is on average 45% more than the taxpayers paying those salaries make in the private sector. The bill to taxpayers for each of these workers includes an average hourly wage of $26.25, plus another $13.56 in hourly costs for benefits, for total hourly costs of $39.81, or $80,000 per year on average. …the Manhattan Institute's E.J. McMahon reports that for public school teachers in Milwaukee, the annual cost of family health coverage is $26,844, for which the teachers were paying nothing. State and local government workers today are not exploited in sweat shop conditions for poverty wages as the workers in union lore of old. Today it is taxpayers who are the ones being exploited. Governor Walker offended the public employee union gods now seeking his recall with his state budget reforms enacted early last year. … Walker, based on his experience serving as County Executive for Milwaukee County for 8 years, and in the state legislature for 8 years before that, focused on cutting the growth in state and local government spending instead. That spending restraint included requiring state and local government workers to contribute to their own benefits more like private sector workers. After all the yelling and screaming in Wisconsin, in the end these workers were only required to contribute 5.8% of their salaries towards their pensions, matched by their government employers (taxpayers), and 12.6% of the costs of their health insurance, with the other 87% paid by taxpayers. This compares to private sector workers paying on average 21% of the cost of their company health insurance, with most private sector workers having no pension. The budget reforms also limited collective bargaining to negotiations over salary, but not over benefits or working conditions and rules. This gave counties, cities, and school boards the flexibility to make management changes to reduce costs, without laying off workers and reducing services to the public, and to increase efficiency in serving the public.

The key point in this excellent analysis by Mr. Ferrara is that, as I have advocated all along, that government employees are not the elite of society that they should receive far higher wages than the average compared career field (and that especially includes federal government) and receive benefits without paying a portion of it – like the private sector. This IS Big Government, and that is what constitutional Americans and those advocating the “Tea Party” movement is all about. Therefore, this is not just a crisis that concerns the state of Wisconsin, but instead it is a preview of what could happen all across America – the further strengthening of unions who have infiltrated and taken control of public employment at the expense of taxpayers.

Governor Walker is only implementing what he said he would do when he campaigned for the governorship. Now that it affects those that have sucked up taxpayer funding and kept an attitude of “better than the private sector” – they are not happy, and neither is the power-grabbing unions.

We have seen what unions can do with the right politicians working for them – look at the auto industry bailout and the literal takeover of General Motors by the federal government and United Autoworkers Union. As for results of what Governor Walker has accomplished:

Walker's collective bargaining reforms have added up to over $1 billion in documented savings for state and local governments in Wisconsin in the first year alone. That enabled the entire state deficit to be eliminated without yet another tax increase, and without layoffs of teachers and other government workers, except in three school districts that have continued to resist implementing the reforms. The reforms have also resulted in the smallest property tax increase in 15 years, and the first decline in local school tax assessments in 6 years. In short, Walker's reforms are working. The right of collective bargaining for private sector workers is not at issue in Wisconsin, though President Obama and the Democrats want to confuse the public on precisely that question. Under current law, there are plenty of market and legal checks on private sector unions to keep them from abusing the public. The ultimate limit if they push too far is that their company will be driven out of business. Though that does happen sometimes, that is only when management fails to do its job in resisting excessive union demands. Otherwise, within current market and legal checks, private sector unions actually perform a helpful market function in ensuring that employers keep up with market wages and working conditions as expeditiously as possible. Not so for government unions, which are two words that together spell oppression. Federal, state or even local governments cannot be driven out of business. They gain their revenue forcibly through taxes. As a result, there is no market limit to how much such unions can pirate from the public. … Government employees work for democratically elected officials representing the will of the people, not greedy miscreants exploiting them for personal profit. This is another reason why there is no legitimate role for government unions, and there should be no collective bargaining rights for government bureaucrats. The democratically elected Congress or state legislature cannot sit down and bargain with government employee unions as equals. Government employees are subject to the democratically expressed will of the people like everyone else. They are not and should not be treated like aristocrats with special legal privileges, exempt from democratic governance. If government workers feel their pay and working conditions are inadequate or oppressive, they can join the democratic process to elect new representatives like everyone else. Private sector workers, by contrast, cannot elect new employers.

Such fundamental, unworkable problems with government unions used to be commonly understood, which is why even an ultimate liberal like Franklin Roosevelt would not recognize such unions. And that is why strikes by government workers have been commonly prohibited in American history as well. … These are the reasons that federal employees have no legally recognized collective bargaining rights at all. Governor Walker's reforms would still provide for more collective bargaining for Wisconsin government workers than allowed those so badly oppressed federal workers, whose wages are set by an act of Congress rather than by collective bargaining. … The June 5 Walker recall vote in Wisconsin represents a critical turning point for the entire nation. If the public employee unions prevail in recalling Walker because he dared to challenge their legal privileges and political power, these unions will be entrenched nationwide as the new American aristocracy, which the common serfs are doomed to serve and pay. … Walker faces the might of the national public employee union machine, as well as the national Obama political machine, which sees the public employee unions as the core of its political base. If the American Dream is to remain available to working people, and not just bureaucrat aristocrats, then Scott Walker must survive the recall, and his reforms must remain intact. That means patriots across America must respond to this Paul Revere moment with maximum possible support for the Walker campaign, which can be found on the Internet. Or what was won at Lexington and Concord 237 years ago will be lost in Madison this year.

For Wisconsin voters: This is an important time to show up at the voting polls and decide whether you want unions to control government or We the People. That is the gist of this argument that escalated into a recall election that will cost taxpayer funding as well as their future prosperity. Those selfish government employees and their parasitic unions need to realize and be thankful they have jobs while those in the private sector are beating the streets and checking their newspapers for a chance to be employed. When one looks at the average wage of compared positions within those government jobs, you wonder what the devil they are complaining about. Mr. Ferrara is correct – a new aristocracy has shown its ugly head, and wasn't that part of the reason why we rebelled against a government across the seas in the 18^thcentury?
FDR, Democrat demagogue counterpart to Republican Ronald Reagan, supported unions, but knew full well that unions did not belong in government. Unions have slowly infiltrated its power into government thanks to naive or corrupt politicians.

Vote to keep Scott Walker as governor. He shouldn't be recalled for doing what was expected, correcting the plunder of the state government of Wisconsin by the previous governor and his sociocrat buddies in the state legislature. Where was a cry for recall when Governor Jim Doyle raised taxes each time he started a term, after saying he wouldn't, and in the first month of his second tenure, passed the highest tax increase in the history of Wisconsin - $1 billion. The state fees were raised 38% during a time when Wisconsinites, like other Americans, were trying to make ends meet with an economy pushing towards a national/global depression.

Vote on June 5^thto retain Governor Scott Walker to continue his policy of reducing Big Government and the cost of keeping it.

By the way, Milwaukee is the 4^thpoorest city in America.

Isn't it time to fix that?

Letting unions and the government employee elite having their way will not change that reality. They say they are for the "little guy" but in reality they use the them for their own agenda.

The nation is watching what we do on June 5^th– give in to the unions and selfish public employees or not; and it is significant in the sense that it will be a precedence of future elected officials who actually work at reducing government spending and making life better for We the People.

Wisconsin voters have the right to ask for a recall, assuming it is justified – it is a good process; however, those trying to recall Governor Walker are just the union's and progressive's “useful idiots”. It is the same reason why there is not enough Americans yelling about the income tax system – there are too many not paying their fair share of taxes, relying upon others to foot the bill. And the tax rate can be reduced, thereby improving economy, if those in government wouldn't spend the people's money like drunken sailors. Politicians know that by making Americans dependent upon their programs, they have control. Too many want to keep that control. This is, in effect, what is happening in Wisconsin and the recall movement.
Unions have outlived its usefulness, and indeed has become a parasite that is devouring individual freedom of choice as well as its parasitic operations that has led to economic ruin. There isn't a week that goes by that some union official isn't caught performing unlawful acts. It is and has been a corrupt mechanism that once aided workers into a working life of better conditions and who was originated by socialist and communist organizations and then taken over by elements of the crime syndicate who found a legal means to racketeer and plunder the American economy. In reality, public employees have wages and benefits that those in the private sector would be pleased to have, yet the public employees are always asking for more utilizing the union tactics of what is called collective bargaining. Indeed, the word "collective" versus "individual" is the key word that identifies its socialist/communist origins. It began as a means for the common folk to bargain with the aristocracy and today that bargaining chip has become the aristocracy that the original union concept fought against. A worker has no choice in matters of strikes or even belonging to the union itself through peer pressure and plain, ugly union thug tactics. This must stop in the private sector and unions should not be allowed in the government employee sector, with their wages and benefits directed by the Congress of the United States whose constitutional powers are granted in the Constitution of the United States. Just as the Federal Reserve System should be removed from its seat in power, so must go the unions that feed off taxpayer funding.
The horror to think that government employees must pay into their own health care programs! It is high time that they face reality with the rest of the population. Teachers are an important aspect of a civilized nation -- important in its growth and education of youth that will be future leaders, inventors, et cetera; however, they are well compensated in earnings, the basic average of entry level being $40,000 for nine months of work, not twelve; as well as receiving benefits that other citizens would relish. It is because of unions that education (one reason) has been increasingly unaffordable; as well as not getting the quality education expected of that much funding paid by We the People. 
In another article, I am going to address the long-needed reformation of the American educational system, where reform means that the American people get what they pay for and what they put into the system and at the same time acknowledging the importance of productive teachers that are mentors, that create good students who make productive and educated citizens.
It is important to note: Governor Walker stood by principles of lowering cost of Wisconsin government WITHOUT raising taxes or lay-off of government employees. Those complaining are doing so because they now have to pay into their health care and retirement system like other people do in the private sector -- all instigated by the powerful and corrupt unions. 
Unions have bankrupted industry in Wisconsin (and other states), ruined educational system across America, where the student isn't the priority any longer, and corrupted the political system by funneling vast amount of funding to secure political control. 
Stand up and be counted -- vote to keep Governor Walker on June 5th.

Milwaukee (4^thPoorest City in America) – Journal Sentinel complains about unemployment, created long before Walker took office: Wisconsin Missing Out on U.S. Jobs Gains (forgetting that it is easier to prevent a crisis than fixing it, which the latter takes longer.)

Vote against Big Government – choose Scott Walker on June 5^th. (Did you know that CEOs of unions against Walker make twice (or more) as much as the Governor of Wisconsin is paid?)

FURTHER READING and SOURCES

Scott Walker on the Issues

Wisconsin Improves Under Governor Walker

Governor Christie Supports Governor Walker

Governor Walker Takes Lead in Recall Election Poll

Unions Against Governor Walker

Polls Favor Governor Walker Recall (April 3^rd) – prove them wrong, Wisconsinites.

Union Leaders Against Governor Scott Walker

Union Operatives' Salaries Raise Eyebrows in Capitol

How Liberals Distort the English Language to Deceive and Manipulate

Sixty-Million Dollar Union Assault on Wisconsin Governor Walker

Republican Faithful Gear Up to Defend Walker

Wisconsin's New Aristocracy Is on the Ballot

Poll: Wisconsin Voters Now Oppose Walker Recall By 11-Point Margin

How Wisconsin's Recall Election Works

Wisconsin Recall is High-Stakes Bet for Unions (like the Obama takeover-bailout of GM and financial institutions)

The Right to Recall and, in Wisconsin, the Wrong (Viewing the progress of the recall petition – I and others believe the Left cheated, just as they do in elections.)

GOP Foolishly Ignores Recall Battle in Wisconsin (an example of how the GOP establishment is out of touch with reality – look at their poster boy to run against Obama in Election 2012 as an example). Did you ever notice that “liberal” progressives never protest peacefully? Look at the Tea Party rallies and compare.

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News Snips: May 5th 2012

Snippets for May 5^th, 2012 …

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  Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on May 4^th a bill that will prohibit state funding for any organization that provides abortion medical procedures as part of welfare benefits, organizations like Planned Parenthood. Taxpayers in that state will no longer fund abortions for citizens of Arizona. Arizona has been a leading state in reformation of the way government operates. Governor Brewer has served as a strong leader in constitutional law and promoting freedom and rights.
  
  
  
  
  She ensured that the Christmas holiday would not be oppressed in Arizona government buildings and infrastructure, banning it because of political correctness or a minute minority not wanting Christian icons to be displayed such as the nativity scene or the Christmas tree. She and the Arizona state legislature is presently in a legal battle that represents state rights in which Arizona has picked up on the slack of enforcement of immigration laws and the security of our southern borders. It is and has been a leading state in the right to carry and bear arms according to the Second Amendment. In Arizona, if you do not conceal a weapon and carry it in the open in a holster, you need no firearm permit; however, if it is concealed, a permit is required. Lawful citizens have the right to carry firearms and use if in defense of self, family, property and other citizens. 
  
  Arizona is also home of the sheriff hero, Joe Arpaio who has fought against illegal immigration and the crime it brings with it, has a strict prisoner policy, as well as recently came forth with evidence that Barack H. Obama's birth certificate displayed on the Internet as proof of birth in Hawaii is a computerized fraudulent document and social security account discrepancies. Sheriff Arpaio (with County Attorney Andrew Thomas) also has filed lawsuit in regards to alleged racketeering charges against four judges that are current members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and its managers. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a member of the growing national organization called the Constitutional Sheriff's and Peace Officer Association, (CSPOA) also known as Sheriff Mack's Constitutional Posse in which representatives from each county promote the education of constitutional law and the principles of freedom and liberty. The organization's motto is: Enforcing the Bill of Rights, Protecting the People's Liberties). I have initiated a chapter here in Door County (the Peninsula and Washington Island) as a member (Door Peninsula Patriots) and sent email to the local sheriff for endorsement. I have received no response since it was sent last month.
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  Ron Paul has been called radical for his policy on foreign affairs. In recent news, the Obama administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hung a Chinese (blind) dissident in the cold and out to dry by refusing to afford that person diplomatic immunity or protection by the United States. Instead, Clinton kissed the rears of Chinese officials who demanded that he be returned. Is that not the policy of NOT interfering with affairs of foreign nations? Yet, they call Dr. Paul a “radical” for believing that America should stay out of the affairs of other nations – mainly because we have too many problems of our own. The hypocrisy of this administration is beyond belief and Hillary Clinton is inept (putting it politely) at being in the important position of Secretary of State. Our foreign policy is in shambles, yet no one wants to elect Ron Paul who abides by the first president, George Washington (was he a "radical"?), and other founders that America should not get involved with foreign nations in terms of their politics, et cetera.

James Joyner, Outside the Beltway, wrote:

...If elected president, Paul’s most valuable contribution to a prosperous and secure American future might well lie in his application of a non-interventionist foreign policy, following the wishes of George Washington and the other founders. Most crucial today is the principle that foreign interventions when no genuine U.S. interest is at risk will yield lost wars, deep debt, and decreased domestic liberty. These common-sense principles were the key to national security in the early republic and would regain that status in a Paul presidency. A President Paul would infuse these principles into U.S. foreign policy and produce a non-interventionist doctrine: far fewer unnecessary and costly wars, far fewer dead soldiers, and far greater U.S. national security. This is a workable, adult approach to the world — especially the Muslim world — unlike the adolescent approach America’s bipartisan governing elite has hewed to for decades .

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  GM Volt

  It is hard to imagine how this President of the United States, Barack H. Obama (aka ?), can actually believe he is worthy of the American vote for office a second term. He certainly has scrambled in the last couple of months to make it look like he has accomplished something with propaganda and inaccurate statistics, but he will going down in history as a terrible president, worse than Jimmy Carter. His General Motors 45 billion dollar tax break didn't help matters, but at the same time he is declaring that “evil” corporations and the wealthy is not paying enough. It is because under this system, which the American people have asked reformation of, is an unfair and inefficient tax system where one entity or individual pays a certain percentage and another pays less or more. His propaganda of “unfairness”, which the Democrat socialist Party of America is famously saying election after election. The most disturbing aspect of that Marxist tactic is that too many American people are still falling for it. Obama has failed in the endeavor to promote, after government takeover of the auto industry and spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, to promote the Chevy Volt; which is a flop just like his record as president. Only 7,700 were sold last year before finally pulling the plug on the Volt. Too bad, it looks good, although a bit pricey. But then, everything is nowadays. Thanks you: Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
  Obama's well-known campaign rhetoric was about the high fuel prices during Bush II's tenure; with him spouting on about alternate fuels (which has yet to surface), which now the gas has doubled in price since Bush was in office at a national average of $3.80 per gallon. Obama and company made Bush II look like a warmonger; yet Obama has kept troops in Afghanistan, ignored recommendation from US generals and losing in Afghanistan – both in terms of a potential ally as well as the war. Operation Fast and Furious was supposed to be the great operation that would send Mexican criminals in jail and squash the cartels; instead, it ended up putting more firearms into the hands of killers that cost the lives of hundreds of Mexicans and an American citizen by Mexican cartels, while Eric Holder refuses to cooperate with the congressional investigation (contempt) calling anyone who charges him with wrong doing being a racist. I guess he doesn't think that it is racist to believe that he should get away with criminal activity because of his skin pigmentation. But what would someone no expect in such leadership when the President of the United States not only ignored his required appearance in a Georgia court, but his lawyers refused to show up for the scheduled trial date. 

  

  Queen Hillary, Wicked Witch of West

  Hillary Clinton, his Secretary of State has allowed a blind Chinese dissident to return to Chinese authorities. Hillary continues the legacy of the Clinton relationship (Bill Clinton) with communist China – by kissing their rumps. Progressive socialists don't understand the schoolyard bully syndrome, they would rather give in to bullies and then call it “diplomacy”. Meanwhile, Iran has threatened to make pre-emptive attacks on US missile defense sites – those that have not been reduced by the Obama cut.
  President Obama has spent more than 75 billion dollars of taxpayer funding to address the mortgage crisis to be added to the hundreds of billions spend by Bush before leaving office. It was this topic that afforded Obama's lead against McCain in the presidential race – shame on American voters for being duped. Meanwhile, homeowners have seen no results and feel that money spent on the “too big to fail” financial institutions have come out better than they have. ObamaCare, according to the Democrat socialists, was supposed to miraculously reduce the deficit, provide universal coverage, and everyone was supposed to keep their own health care plan. Yet, according to the CBO:

   It will add 700 billion dollars to the deficit over its first 10 years, 3-5 million people will lose their health care, and 30 million people still won't have health coverage. 

  Shame upon the Obama fans for being duped and pity on the rest of us who saw through his disguise. But what would want expect from a community leader – the only political background this guy had before becoming a senator then president?
  During the last presidential campaign, Obama stated: 

   I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.

  Obama attempted to stop children on farms from doing the traditional chores around the farm – but fortunately that failed. Besides, children must work as well as their children in order to pay the debt he racked up in less than four years.
  

  
  For more than three years the unemployment remains higher than what was promised – 8%, instead of the required 5.5% rate (according to Obama projections). After spending almost a trillion dollars on stimulus nonsense (like Bush) is another failure of keeping a campaign promise.
  Obama and family took another expensive vacation to Spain courtesy of taxpayer dollars, but there was no report on anything being spent on hookers by his security staff while there. This president is known for several historical precedents: taking the most vacations, spending the most time on campaign dinners and events, the most czars in presidential history, increasing Big Government, most unconstitutional acts and abuse of office, and accomplishing the least in terms of success versus campaign promises. 
  
  

  

  I Voted For Obama

  Yet, the media wants America to believe he is still leading in popularity and doing such a great job? A testament that, along with government, it is another entity that needs a thorough cleaning out (like Congress – GOP & Sociocrat) in a total reformation. That begins with reformation of society in the way it looks at values and the educational institution that will produce responsible, objective, constitutionally minded graduates.

Hey, but what do I know? I am just one of We the People.

•  At the end of May there will be a big American communist rally in Chicago, Illinois. The state has been, for some time, progressed towards socialism; and history shows us (for those who pay attention) that socialism leads to communism -- and as Ronald Reagan stated once freedom is gone it is difficult or impossible to get it back. While the "useful idiots" have the right to do so, it is just a public display of how low the "Land of Lincoln" has gotten thanks to corruption, citizen apathy, and ignorant voters. Any decent person in Illinois should be planning an exodus, like the Mormons did in the 19th century, and get the hell out of dodge. Just don't exodus to California. Illinois is the last state to hold out against the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by not letting its citizens exercise those rights. Where is the Supreme Court when its needed? Too busy with La Raza functions or disavowing the US Constitution on Egyptian TV.

And that's the Snippets for today, May 5th 2012, the year of presidential election and the prediction of doom via the Mayan Calendar. 
 

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The Ultimate Appeal To Persuade Fellow Blacks To Stop Voting Democrat

By Lloyd Marcus
Proud Unhyphenated American

Candidly, I have struggled with this for years; how best to explain why I am a black conservative and why fellow black Americans should join me.

I served on a board with an extremely bright black mom. Both of her kids, a boy and a girl, are brilliant; her son received a full scholarship to Yale.

This black mom is well-read on “whiny” black liberal authors and philosophers. I am talking about the majority of black authors you see featured on mainstream TV. They sound extremely intellectual, explaining how white America is still systematically abusing blacks and why more heavily funded government programs are the answer. I feel like screaming at my TV, “Knock it off! Bottom line is you hate white people and are seeking more entitlement government freebies!” Such needy victim rhetoric has NOTHING to do with, nor does it achieve REAL, “black empowerment”. Frankly, these people turn my stomach.

As I said, the black mom is extremely well-read on victim-hood peddling black authors and has never heard of brilliant black conservatives Professor Walter Williams and Dr. Thomas Sowell.

Professor Walter E. Williams is an American economist and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist.

Dr. Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author of 30 books. Dr Sowell is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Both these guys are about “real” black empowerment, teaching personal responsibility, education, hard work and morality; not the standard blacks-are-eternal-victims and white-America-owes-us garbage spouted by black pundits on TV. Thus, you NEVER see Prof. Williams or Dr Sowell on mainstream TV. I love these guys, Prof. Williams and Dr. Sowell.

Black media and mainstream liberal media, for the most part, ignore black conservatives. It is shameful that I had to hear about distinguished black conservatives who have the their heads on straight from white conservative talk radio hosts.

On rare occasions when black media (talk radio, TV & etc) does recognize black conservatives, for the most part, it is to denigrate them – labeling them Uncle Toms, traitors to their race and self-loathing stupid n******.

Liberal mainstream media today strives to keep black conservatives “invisible”.

My 84 year old black dad never heard of Herman Cain until the liberal media's gleeful 24/7 coverage of alleged sexual harassment against Cain during his bid to win the Republican presidential nomination.

Think about that folks. Herman Cain is a black conservative author, business executive, radio host and syndicated columnist. Cain was the first black CEO of Godfather Pizza and CEO of the National Restaurant Association.

If embraced by Oprah, Tavis Smiley and the mainstream media, Herman Cain would have been a tremendous inspiration to young black entrepreneurs. But, the left “don't cotton” to uppity blacks who achieve the old-fashion way -- via education, hard work and character without government intervention or lowered standards.

Tragically, the left chose to introduce Herman Cain to black America as nothing more than a guy who can't keep it in his pants. This is how the left (liberal media and Democrats) love to demean, discredit and humiliate self-reliant, non-victim-minded blacks.

Still, I keep searching for the answer – what do I say to persuade blacks to, as that spiked haired blonde female dietitian used to say, “Stop the insanity!” How do I get fellow blacks to see beyond their racism and “honestly” assess their forty years of loyalty to the Democratic Party? Are blacks better off today than they were forty years ago? Remarkably, aspects of black life surrendered to Democrat policies and programs are far worse. Enough with the stupid, fact-free rhetoric which says, “I can't vote for a Republican because they are racist”. Historically and even today, most racism against blacks and whites, spews from the Democrats.

Black American brothers and sisters, the dems have been playin' you for suckers for far too long. They are not your friends. Their motivation and game are extremely simple.

The Democratic Party leadership has been infiltrated by arrogant power hungry liberals who think they know better than you how to run your life. They invent “fake” enemies via lies about Republicans being racist, mean-spirited control freaks. Ironically, this perfectly describes the modern Democratic leadership. Every Democrat campaign is the same. Vote for us! Surrender all power to us! We'll take care of you and protect you from the evil Republicans!

Meanwhile, under Obama, black unemployment has gone through the roof.
Black on black crime statistics are shockingly high. 
The black male high school dropout rate is at an epidemic high, only 25% graduated in New York.
Fifty percent of black pregnancies end in abortion. Since 1973, approximately 5 million blacks have died of AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, Cancer and heart disease combined. By far, abortion is the greatest cause of black deaths, 13 million. Blacks are committing a suicidal genocide.

Black America, how's that monolithic forty years of loyalty to the Democrats thing workin' out for ya'? As God continues to give me strength, I will continue my quest for the ultimate appeal that will persuade my fellow black Americans to stop the insanity of voting Democrat.

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman – www.CampaignToDefeatObama.com

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Wisconsin is sounding the alarm across this country. Our neighbors in the badger state need your help. They are the canary in the coalmine. As goes Wisconsin so goes the nation.

Recently, one Mama Grizzly came to the defense of another reform minded Mama Grizzly:

Governor Sarah Palin said, "(Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch)..."She's in the fight of her political life for doing nothing more than what she and Governor Walker were elected to do."

Weaponizing a loop hole in the Wisconsin state constitution, Big Labor Union Bosses are using the hard earned money of their union brothers and sisters to fund a seperate recall effort against Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. Even though since 1967 governors and lieutenant governors have been elected together as a team. There is no dual ticket for recalls.



Rebecca was elected in 2010 with Governor Scott Walker yet she is facing an expensive, burdensome, and Union Boss weaponized recall.

Why?

For fulfilling her campaign promises.

In the 2010 campaign, Scott and Rebecca promised the taxpayers of Wisconsin that as a team they would have their back. Taxpayers were saying, "government needs to live within its means the way we do in our small business's and our families".

Governor Scott Walker and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch put in place reforms that have helped private sector businesses create thousands of jobs, turned a $3.6 billion budget deficit into a surplus, without raising taxes or cutting essential services.

These sudden and relentless reforms have led to 88% of Wisconsin job creators saying that Wisconsin is headed in the right direction, up from just 10% one year ago.

The people of Wisconsin are happy that the days of never-ending spending, borrowing and taxing are over.

Yet, this Union Boss weaponized recall is intended to make an example of Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Kleefisch through intimidation and thug tactics.

Yesterday, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch was interviewed on The Dr Gina Loudon Show:

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

(NOTE: Special thanks to American Grizzlies United Wisconsin State Coordinator Bill for helping set up this interview with Dr Gina and the Lt. Governor)

In the interview Rebecca specifically asked for your help.

You can make calls for Rebecca to help ensure that the millions of outside dollars flooding into Wisconsin will not destroy the reforms, record, and reputation of this public servant.

You have a choice. You can retreat or fight for these reforms.

To Learn more about Rebecca: http://www.rebeccaforreal.com/

To donate to Rebecca: Contribute

To volunteer to help Rebecca fight this weaponized recall you can send an email to our AGU-WI State Coordinator Bill: wisconsin@organize4palin.com

 

Our work continues...

Thomas S Schmitz

American Grizzlies United; Chairman

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