Free speech? Conservative meeting crashed by cops ~ By Barbara Simpson

Barbara Simpson sounds off on Breitbart meetup forced to disperse

Then there was the incident in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, where a group of conservatives was meeting quietly in a restaurant when, suddenly, the place was surrounded by cops and squad cars and choppers and spotlights and a loudspeaker demanding that people disperse.

Needless to say, that broke up the meeting, which, by the way, had broken no laws and had disturbed no peace. No one was cited, but the meeting was effectively ended.

You heard about that, didn’t you?

This may be the most profound thing I've written about, so please pay close attention! Barbara Simpson provided THE best ammo that I could ever ask for!

I knew that I'd see it happen someday, but it happened much sooner than I thought it would. It's starting. Dissent is being silenced with sheer force.

It's starting with the small little groups, which gives me the greatest concern. Why? It is because the small little groups do not have the power of the press (not even Breitbart... remember what happened to Andrew?) or mainstream politicians to be defended, regardless of the most egregious treatment, by force, when they try to exercise their Constitutional rights of free speech. For right now, nobody cares. But really, believe me, they SHOULD care! They're NEXT! Just sayin'...

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Free speech? Conservative meeting crashed by cops

You heard, didn't you, about the kid who devised what he called a clock but which looked, for all intents and purposes, like a bomb? He took the contraption to school and scared the wits out of a teacher who reported it and the you-know-what hit the fan. He insisted it was just something he invented…

VIDEO: Why do Liberals attack black Conservatives?

There is a real truth that people on the Left need to know, but they refuse to hear it or believe it. I pretty much made the point in a blog I just posted recently, called, "Seven Hard Truths Liberals Just Don’t Want To Hear ~ By Kurt Schlichter." It really fits well into the puzzle, one of the pieces that I will give you here. This is the part where the Liberals have one basic attack strategy: Attack those that make their cause known for whatever it is!

While this great country has drifted to the Left, there will soon be more and more people that will get it! The black Conservatives are showing that there is a great alternative to Lyndon Baynes Johnson's Great Society. Sticking to values and principles that many of us grew up with will help anyone that wants to take responsibility for our future, regardless of race! But, heck, if those on the Left think that they can hide the truth forever that not all black American's have fallen for the lie that America willingly keeps them from prospering, there will be people like me that will serve the Truth to them until somebody comes and pries my keyboard from under my cold, dead hands.

As Kevin Jackson of the Blacksphere explains it:

Even Bill Maher is getting it. Maher was discussing Paul Ryan’s comments about what’s happening in the inner cities, and Bell decided to ring the racism bell. W Kamau Bell, the host of a show called “Totally Biased” proved to be exactly that. At least he’s honest about his racism, though he still needs to come to grip with his ignorance.

The black community needs honesty. The black Conservatives will provide the honesty that they need, but it is going to be difficult to get people to find out about the truth with the bombardment of the disinformation from people like Jamilah Lemieux that spew out their anti-Conservative disparagement, even when the messenger is black. And, surely, when the messenger is white like me. Jamilah won't like this post, I can assure you of that! Just sayin'...

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VIDEO: The Great Awakening: An inspiring call to action to Conservatives

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Jimmy Kimmel Can’t Find Any Obamacare Takers ~ By Alicia Cohn

Kimmel also unveiled a new spoof about the “Obamacare-care” package visitors need in order to navigate HealthCare.gov. In the parody video, attempts to fix the difficult process only make it more impossible.

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And let me ask this question: For those that have signed up (somehow successfully, if that is possible), are you satisfied with your new doctor? Are you getting better care now? Or, do you have to wait a few months to see a physician, even with an acute illness? How's it working out for you?

While I do believe that Kimmel's satire video was funny, this is not a funny situation for our country. And it is also sad, not funny, that people in the demographics of the needed people to sign up, didn't respond to Jimmy's question in a very affirmative way.

Now, let's ask another question: Will the public finally discover how bad this is going before the November 2014 Midterm election? We must hope so, and we must make some noise... Remember the Tea Party rallies and rowdy Town Hall meetings in 2010? That's what we will need to do again. Just sayin'...

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• 3 Things You Don’t Know About Obamacare That Could Hurt You

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Jimmy Kimmel Can’t Find Any Obamacare Takers

By Alicia Cohn

February 19, 2014 at 3:11 pm

From The Foundry blog on The Heritage Network

Jimmy Kimmel is getting a lot of comedy mileage out of the Obamacare rollout.

Every time a new Obamacare problem pops up, the late night talk show host has a new punchline.

Tuesday night, Kimmel asked his Hollywood audience if any had signed up for health insurance through HealthCare.gov. Not a single person raised his or her hand.

“Really?” he responded. “They claim that more than 3 million people have now signed up on HealthCare.gov’s website.”

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VIDEO: The War on Conservatives is beginning.

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Tea partiers to the rescue ~ By Henry Lamb

The tea party is gathering the strength necessary to reclaim local governments and fumigate Washington. Progressives are beside themselves, mystified by the popularity and growing power of what they regard as the dregs of society. Progressives have no intellectual defense against the principles of freedom. Their typical response is to vilify, denigrate and demean the character of anyone who dares challenge their "enlightened" wisdom.

The staggering number of progressives in the media and throughout the community is a tribute to their effectiveness in public schools and universities over the years. While today's freedom fighters were earning a living in what they once knew to be a free society, the progressives were taking tax dollars to fund education policies and non-government organizations that worked to transform the free society into a Marxist society managed by government.

Message from tea partiers to progressives: "Get the hell out of the way or get squashed; you will not steal our freedom!"

The message that the progressives least want to hear is that the Tea Party is not dead. NOT DEAD!

Oh, did Henry mention that progressive Republicans (RINOs) will not have support from the tea partiers? No, he didn't mention that. But I just did. The victory over the RINOs - progressive, establishment Republicans - is going to have to take place in the nomination process.

Henry Lamb has it right! The Tea Partiers will come to the rescue by not allowing another RINO to get the GOP nomination. Tea partiers aren't ordinary people. Tea partiers are far from assuming room temperature! They are just freedom fighters that aren't going to allow the woosie media pundits to choose another lame candidate that would have no chance, and would be little to no change from what we already have. I'm just sayin'...

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Tea partiers to the rescue

HENRY LAMB

By Henry Lamb

June 04, 2011 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2011

Editor's note: Listen to this column online.

Whenever America gets into trouble, it is the ordinary people who come to the rescue. It's not the government. It's not the Hollywood stars who think their opinion is required to make the sun rise. It's not even the matriculated messiah in the White House. It is the ordinary, hardworking people who see their country in trouble and organize themselves into ferocious freedom fighters against whom the gates of hell cannot prevail.

The current version of this uniquely American response to danger has been labeled the tea party.

On one side of the battlefield are the progressives, who embrace the socialist/communist philosophy of Karl Marx. On the other side is everyone else, most of whom just want government to leave them alone, get out of the way and to stop stealing their money through ever-increasing taxes and fees.

Progressives believe that government power must be invoked to manage and control all the people. Freedom fighters believe that government must be limited in its power to accomplish only those tasks the people direct it to accomplish. Specifically, freedom fighters want first and foremost their government to protect their God-given, Constitution-guaranteed, unalienable rights. They want their government to protect them from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. And they want their government to enforce the laws the people make through their elected representatives.

Progressives, on the other hand, want first and foremost government to guarantee that all people experience "social justice," which translates to equal benefit from the earth's resources. Progressives believe that government power must take wealth from people who accumulate more than they need and redistribute it to other people who need it.

Freedom fighters believe that the earth's resources are a gift from the Creator to be used by all creatures, including man, to achieve the highest plane of earthly happiness possible. Progressives believe that the earth's resources are finite and are exploited only by man, whose use of the earth's resources must be limited and controlled by government.

In growing numbers, freedom fighters are recognizing that over the last several decades, the progressives have taken charge of governments in the United States, at the local, state and the national levels. Consequently, freedom fighters are organizing themselves into battalions of brothers who are bonded by their belief in the principles of freedom enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Without any top-down chain of command, the tea party across the nation appears to be following a higher inspiration, focusing on two primary objectives in an unspoken but coordinated strategy: 1) reclaim local government; and 2) fumigate Washington.

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Organized labor vs. the tea party ~ By Henry Lamb

Labor unions, especially public-employee labor unions, have become a threat to the republic. They have demonstrated a philosophy closely akin to Marxism, demanding ever more from taxpayers to redistribute to their members. These unions are different from those that organize in private industries. Private industries must negotiate with profits they earn. Public unions negotiate with employers who use unearned tax dollars they simply confiscate from unwilling payers. There is no natural barrier to prevent the unions from taking control. This is why public employees are paid so much more than people who do similar work in the private sector.

Tea parties get no automatic dues deductions from the employers of their members. They will have to continue fighting with truth, honor and determination. It will take a lot of all of these virtues to combat the tactics the unions will employ to unseat Republicans in the 2012 elections. From the courthouse to the White House, labor unions will do everything they can to reverse the gains made by Republicans in the November elections. Tea parties, 9/12 groups, property-rights groups, Tenth Amendment groups, gun–rights groups and every other individual, business and organization that cares about freedom should begin now to work toward expanding the number of Constitution-loving officials at every level of government.

Here's the thing: I could not think of anything that I could write that would not just be parroting Henry Lamb's excellent commentary. But fortunately, while surfing around youtube today, I happened to find the following video which illustrates what the Tea Parties are up against:

Video provided by SCRGov on Jul 22, 2009

Organized labor vs. the tea party

HENRY LAMB

By Henry Lamb

March 19, 2011 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2011

Editor's note: Listen to this column online.

Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Legislature kicked a rattlesnake when they significantly reduced the power of the state's public-employee labor unions. Labor unions across the country have declared war on Republicans, even threatening death, and the tea parties that support them.



A battle between organized labor and the tea parties is decidedly a one-sided battle. Organized labor receives regular income from every member, often deducted by the employer and paid directly to the labor union. National Education Association attorney, Bob Chanin says:

"The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year. …"

Tea parties, on the other hand, survive on the voluntary contributions of people who give to support their beliefs.

Labor unions can lease buses and print signs and pay members of other unions to stack their demonstrations. Tea-party members must take time off from work and make their own signs if they participate in demonstrations.

Labor union protesters, to some significant degree, are essentially mercenaries; Tea-party protesters are patriots. This gives tea parties a decided advantage. People who are motivated by principle, a sense of fairness, honor and respect for the God-given freedom guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution will win – in the long term.

In the short term, labor unions can and are likely to wreak havoc in every venue they can. In Wisconsin, labor unions disrupted operations, vandalized the Capitol and blocked people from entering the building.

In the short term, labor unions are organizing to recall eight Republicans. It is the 14 Democratic senators who should be recalled for abandoning their responsibility and hiding in another state for three weeks. Labor unions can assign and pay people to march up and down the streets to collect signatures. Labor unions can create and run TV and radio ads. Labor unions can, and do, threaten and intimidate people until they do the bidding of the unions. Tea parties rarely have the funds or inclination for such activities.

Tea parties have reason, right and determination on their side; labor unions have demonstrated their willingness to destroy whatever gets in their way.

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Why violent revolt lies in our future ~ By Larry Klayman

Of course, when Larry Klayman's column is read, most people will undoubtedly say, "That can't happen here." With all of the things going on that Larry discusses in this column, will you still be able to say, "what is there to worry about?"

And, we all know the reaction that the progressives had about the Tea Party movement. Tea partiers were criticized and called derogatory names by the leftists, with claims that tea partiers were potential domestic terrorists. Why all the leftists' lies about the tea party movement? Could it be because they are concerned that the "tipping point" could be reached soon with all of their tyrannical and socialist agenda being passed, like ObamaCare? Of the various signs of dark times to come that you will read about in this column, do you know if any of them will push this country over the edge and spark a violent revolt? Will you be prepared if it happens?

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The Golden Horde ~ By Patrice Lewis

Why violent revolt lies in our future

LARRY KLAYMAN

By Larry Klayman

December 18, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

President Ronald Reagan used to say that the scariest words in the English language are: "Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Two hundred or so years earlier, our Founding Fathers had essentially the same thoughts when they declared independence from the British Crown based on its refusal to take into account the grievances of the colonies and its peoples, and instead attempted to beat them into submission.

Today, as we observe the holidays and ready ourselves for a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the New Year, in the face of continued control of the Senate and White House by the Democrats and President Barack Obama, these words and thoughts ring louder than ever. Never before in the history of our sacred nation has the "State of the Union" been worse and indeed more hostile to the needs of the American people. And both Democrats and Republicans are responsible!

I have written in earlier columns that I sincerely believe that we have entered a new revolutionary period in American history. With each passing day, I become more convinced of it. And, regrettably, I believe that we are only a year of so from violent revolt if things do not radically change "on a dime."

Here are the signs of the violent revolution to come:

First, the economy continues in a tailspin, with unemployment increasing. Families do not have the financial means, even assuming they are able to bring home a salary, to pay for their children's higher education, buy a new car, much less put good wholesome food on the dinner table. Couple this with glacial growth in the economy, our dependence on foreign capital to keep the nation afloat and the continued real-estate crisis and the picture is more than bleak. And God forbid we have another large terrorist attack or an oil field or two in the Middle East blows up – the entire world economy could easily go down for the count. People get real upset when they do not have money; plain and simple. Just ask any employer who has missed or is late on a pay period for his employees. He or she is lucky not to be lynched. Our government has not only missed several pay periods, it is taxing the populace into submission and wasting these revenues on projects and graft that return nothing but more hardship.

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Teach (learn, know, care, share) ~ By Victoria Jackson

Victoria Jackson, a "Saturday Night Live" cast member from 1986-1992, is an actress, comedienne, songwriter, uke player, wife, mother, ex-gymnast, Jesus-follower and new grandmother ... not in that order.

But I didn't know she is also a columnist! This is my first encounter with Victoria Jackson on WorldNetDaily.com (WND), although I found by looking in her archives that Victoria has been with WND for three weeks now. (Okay, I've been busy and had not a chance to read ALL of the commentaries, until now.) So, check out this column, and take a few minutes to watch the video that Victoria had linked to at the bottom of her column (see below). I think you will enjoy this column and the video, and like me, you'll be looking forward to seeing more of Victoria's columns every Friday on WorldNetDaily.com. I am sure you will agree that Joseph Farah made a great decision to add Victoria Jackson to the WND team.

Welcome, Victoria! Glad to see you here!

Teach (learn, know, care, share)

Victoria Jackson

By Victoria Jackson

December 03, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Liberals teach, but it's mostly lies. Liberals teach that fixing illegal immigration is racism, that tolerance only applies to them, that the unproven theory of evolution is fact, that abortion (murder) is "women's health care," that there is no right or wrong, that sexual immorality is good, and that books like "Conversations with God" and "Conversations with God for Teens" are truth. These two deceptively titled books twist Scripture into New Age Relativism.

Why would I want to be a liberal? I love truth not deception.

This week in my self-education, I learned that 1) The government does not punish websites that leak national security top secrets, but they do unconstitutionally terminate music websites – this is the beginning of their attack on our freedom of speech. 2) The "climate change" enthusiasts, the Earth Worshippers, are using their lie to internationally redistribute world wealth (crash the U.S. economy). Obama's end to off shore drilling has the same goal. (Diamond Al Sonja Schmidt's book, "Deb & Seby's Real Deal on Global Warming" says that one volcano produces more greenhouse gases than all the human-made cars of all time.) 3) There is a two-page section in the 2,700-page Obamacare law that no one read that gives Obama a private army of 6,000 or more that answer only to him.

Ignorance is bliss. Sometimes the truth is just too ugly. That's when you need a moment to stop and look up:

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!

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The next tea party ~ By Joseph Farah

After some careful thought, I decided to post this column. Actually, it wasn't a matter of whether or not I would post it, but what I thought about the idea. I've decided that I would not write about what I thought of the idea, but let you make your own decision. And then, you should send an email to Joseph to let him know what YOU think about his idea.

Joseph asks, "Is there something more we can do to raise the stakes, to energize more Americans, to rally the troops and awaken others who are still sleepwalking?" That's a great question. I still keep running into people that have very little idea what the tea party movement is about, or for that matter, have very little clue about what is going wrong in America. About the only things they are aware of is how bad the economy is (and that it is George W. Bush's fault), and the oil spill (and why hasn't BP plugged the hole yet?). And why is that? It is because not enough of us that have a clue are working hard enough to clue in the clueless!

What more can we do to rally the troops and energize more Americans? How about if all of us do as much as possible to communicate with people, whether it's on our blogs, by email, face to face conversations with friends, relatives and neighbors, posting to our facebook or My Space pages, on twitter, on youtube, and etc. etc. etc. Spread the word in what ever form you can, but we all MUST  chip in. Just sayin'...

George Washington print,
by Arnold Friberg

By the way, don't forget about the Restoring Honor Rally on 8/28/10 that Glenn Beck has been working so very hard on. Information about the rally can be found at the above link.

As for me, I don't think it should be business as usual on the first Monday in October. But I'm eager to hear what others think. Is this the next tea party?

By Joseph Farah

Posted: July 10, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The tea-party movement has demonstrated its size and strength in a thousand rallies, demonstrations and town-hall meetings.

The action today is focused on traditional political campaigning leading up to Nov. 2 election – as it should be.

But what else can we do?

What else, if anything, should we do?

I am of the belief that most of my colleagues in the media, and those in the political establishment, are still underestimating the electoral revolution we will see this fall. I don't want to detract in the slightest from the work that needs to be done in every congressional district and every precinct in America. It's important work. It's hard work. It's vital work.

The 2010 midterm election is, as has been said by many, the most important such vote Americans have participated in during the last 100 years. It could fundamentally change the country's direction – an objective that is necessary for the nation's very survival.

But is there anything else we should consider doing between now and then as a show of force?

Is there something more we can do to raise the stakes, to energize more Americans, to rally the troops and awaken others who are still sleepwalking?

I'm just thinking out loud here, so consider this idea just that – a radical idea perhaps worthy of consideration.

What about a one-day general strike by citizens in protest of the purposeful destruction of the American Dream, the rule of law and the will of the people?

What if, just prior to the election, perhaps on the first Monday in October, the day the U.S. Supreme Court traditionally reconvenes following its summer vacation, millions of ordinary, hard-working Americans, who don't get the whole summer off, didn't report for work?

What if business owners who fear for the future of their country closed up shop on that day and encouraged all employees to rally at city halls and state capitals and in the District of Columbia?

What if those taking the day off spent the day handing out fliers and knocking on doors for congressional candidates pledged to return American to its constitutional moorings?

What if we effectively shut down the nation so Americans could get a taste of what's coming if we don't change course in a hurry?

I'm not necessarily calling for it. I'm just putting it on the table for discussion.

Would it work? Would Americans participate? If they did, would it generate more interest and participation in the election? Would it persuade Americans still sitting on the fence to join the revolution?

This may sound like a radical idea. But the first tea party in Boston Harbor was a dramatic act of civil disobedience. I'm sure there were many who sat on the sidelines and said, "This is going to be counterproductive. We should stick to writing petitions to the king and Parliament."

At some point, though, when the powers that be continue to ignore those petitions, continue to ignore the peaceful rallies, continue to ignore the public-opinion surveys, continue to ignore each and every new election, you have to raise the stakes.

Is this the way?

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Independence Day never meant more ~ By Joseph Farah

Independence Day has always been my favorite non-religious holiday. Though I love watching the fire works show, it is the meaning of the day that is important to me. It always has been, and always will be.

Yesterday morning, I happened to have captured some great video on Fox & Friends. Peter Johnson, Jr. gave a wonderful tribute to Independence Day that I would like to share with you today:

Independence Day: The Real Meaning of the Holiday - Peter Johnson Jr

Happy Independence Day! A great tribute to the holiday many people just call the 4th of July, but it is about America's birthday and Independence.

Video provided by TheREALjohnny2k

On this holiday weekend, please do not forget about our veterans that have fought for our freedom. They are the ones that have for so long both given us freedom, and have fought to protect it, many who gave their lives to do so. And most of all, we must not allow their sacrifice to go to waste. This November 2 will be the day we can change things in Washington D.C., and even in our states and cities. It will truly be up to us if we want to keep our liberty now and in the future. Just sayin'...

So, relax tomorrow. Kick back and grill. Watch a ballgame. Shoot off the fireworks and wave Old Glory.

But, for heaven's sake, don't forget what this holiday is all about. It's about one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.

By Joseph Farah

Posted: July 03, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Tomorrow Americans will take the day off, watch ballgames, barbecue in the backyard, watch fireworks displays and fly the flag.

But I'm hoping they will do more than that this Independence Day.

Given the state of our nation this July 4, 2010, I recommend everyone sit down with their family and their friends and read the Declaration of Independence. It's a document that is as relevant today as it was when it was written 234 years ago.

You've got to read it like you were reading it for the first time – with a fresh perspective. It might help that Americans are in the embrace of a tyranny very familiar to the founders who wrote and signed this historic document.

Look what they wrote. It is both a list of grievances and a sweeping vision of a life previously unknown anywhere in the world.

What were their grievances?

As I write in my new book, "The Tea Party Manifesto: A Vision for an American Rebirth" – which I chose to launch tomorrow, even though the bookstores are mostly closed, because the symbolism was too powerful to ignore – we can relate well to the founders' complaints:

• government was failing to perform the limited responsibilities the institution was required to perform;

• government was exceeding its authority;

• government was violating individual rights;

• government was obstructing immigration laws;

• government was obstructing justice;

• government was turning the land into a police state;

• government was superseding the established laws of the land.

Yes, indeed, I can relate.

In fact, as I wrote in a previous book, "Taking America Back," I actually believe the founders, despite their colonist status, lived in a society far freer than the one we know in America today.

In effect, we have allowed ourselves to be colonized once again, this time, not by a foreign power, but by our own domestic central government in Washington.

We may have more modern conveniences. We may have a more comfortable life than the colonists. Food and shelter and the basic necessities of life may be easier to come by than they were in the 18th century. But, can anyone truly suggest that we have more liberty than most of the colonists had? I think it would be very hard to make that case.

Yet, those men and women were willing to sacrifice everything they had – their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor – to make a heroic stand for liberty.

Often, throughout my life, I have wished I could live in a time and place like that. Could this be such a time and place?

I believe America is on the brink of major changes. This country is at a crossroads. And whether we choose the freedom path or the tyranny path will be decided in one of the most historic elections in American history Nov. 2.

But that won't be the end of the fight. That will be just the beginning.

The tea-party movement arose in response to the increase in tyranny Americans are facing. It's a vibrant and broad grass-roots movement. Yet, how long it lasts and how much impact it will have on the future of our nation is still to be determined.

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The tea party does care about immigration issue ~ By Tom Tancredo

It's amazing. We find out from Tom's column that certain Tea Party Movement leaders seem(ed) to think that illegal immigration and border security wasn't a part of the grass-roots issues! What are (were) they thinking? Some of them are now rethinking that strategy. My favorite part of the column was when Tom wrote, "In retrospect, it is amazing that the organizers and promoters of citizen protests against big government and beltway boondoggles thought they could exclude this issue from a genuine grass-roots movement."

Are the so-called "leaders" of Tea Party movement organizations really on our side? For any of them to NOT consider the issues of border security and illegal immigration and amnesty is beyond comprehension. All they had to do is look back to the time from 2004 to 2007 and see how the Bush amnesty plan went down in flames. And, they had to know that it was because of a grass-roots uprising, where millions of people flooded the Congressional phone lines, mail boxes, and fax machines with protests against the amnesty plan.

Any of the so-called tea party leadership better start getting it right, or get out of our way! Just sayin'...

Local tea-party activists from California to Florida and from Idaho to Massachusetts now see the immigration issue the same way 71 percent of Arizona citizens see it – as a matter of national security, public safety and fiscal necessity. They want their legislators to enact Arizona-style laws in their own states, and they join 88 percent of Americans in saying they want more border security.

Self-proclaimed tea-party leaders in Washington, D.C., who want to deny or obstruct this new tea-party consensus do so at their peril.

By Tom Tancredo

Posted: June 19, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Local tea-party groups from Orlando to Phoenix and San Diego to Nashville have rallied to support Arizona's new immigration law.

Over the past 15 months since the beginning of the tea-party movement, there has been an organized effort to keep the immigration issue off the tea-party agenda. That effort has failed. Score round one a victory for grass-roots democracy.

The effort to keep immigration off the tea-party agenda has not been any kind of conspiracy; in fact, it has been quite open and unapologetic. For example, the national Tea Party Patriots, which is affiliated with Richard Armey's Washington, D.C.-based Freedom Works organization, has been vocal and systematic in excluding immigration-related concerns from its "Contract from America." Touted as a grass-roots poll of tea-party members, the poll from its inception has barred any attempt to add immigration concerns to the poll's menu of issues. Thus, the lack of any reference to border security or immigration enforcement in the final "Contract" comes as no surprise. Fortunately, the real world intervened, and real patriots found their voice.

In April, Arizona lawmakers passed and Gov. Jan Brewer signed a new immigration-enforcement law, S.B. 1070, and the open-borders libertarians who had worked so hard to control the tea-party agenda woke up to a new world.

When you stop to think about it, this reawakening of citizen concern over border security should not have come as a surprise. The lessons of the failed 2004-2007 push for amnesty legislation were clear. From the moment in January 2004 when President Bush launched his amnesty proposals, to the defeat of the Senate amnesty bill in the summer of 2007, the opposition to amnesty came from grass-roots conservatives and ordinary Americans, not from the Republican establishment. In retrospect, it is amazing that the organizers and promoters of citizen protests against big government and beltway boondoggles thought they could exclude this issue from a genuine grass-roots movement.

There have been two distinct groups within the tea-party leadership attempting to keep immigration off the tea-party agenda. One group is amenable to reason and has in fact become accommodated to the issue. Those are individuals who oppose amnesty but believe that the tea-party movement must stick to economic issues of low taxes and limited government if it is to be successful in changing the direction of government. That's a reasonable viewpoint, and reasonable people can disagree over how important the immigration issue is compared to other issues.

The second group of tea-party leaders who have fought the inclusion of immigration in the tea-party agenda are open-borders libertarians who support amnesty. They are folks found at Freedom Works, the Club for Growth and the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. They have opposed allowing immigration onto the tea-party agenda because they understand very well that grass-roots conservatives and tea-party patriots oppose amnesty by a margin of at least 80-20.

Thus, from the beginning of the tea-party movement, the authentic voices of grass-roots tea-party activists were ruled "out of order" by leaders who wanted to control the agenda. What changed that was not some coup at the top. What changed the agenda was the lightening bolt out of Arizona at the end of April, the enactment of S.B. 1070. Arizona stood up and said, "Basta! Enough!"

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Is tea-party violence in the air? ~ By Joseph Farah

This column by Joseph Farah tonight reminded me of something that I had experienced back in the early 1980's, and the parallels are amazing. I hope you will excuse me for indulging in a little reminiscence for a moment, but it will tie together what the tea party movement is going through, as Joseph wrote.

Back in 1980, I joined Amway as a distributor. Jimmy Carter was still President. Once I attended my first Amway rally, I was hooked. I couldn't get enough of it, and so I bought hundreds of tapes and positive thinking books, and attended many more rallies, many very far from home. What excited me was all the people that believed in Free Enterprise and FREEDOM. What amazed me was how many people there were that thought just like me.

But the real parallel comes here: We had our detractors, just as does the Tea Party Movement. And guess who the detractors were? The liberal press, college professors, government officials, and union labor. They had the same fear of the AMWAY movement as they now have of us tea partiers! Imagine that! Just as Joseph wrote, Amway distributors, like tea partiers, were only "asking for government to get off their backs." The government wanted to regulate us out of existence if they possibly could. They (liberals) didn't like Amway distributors because we weren't asking for handouts. We didn't want anything to do with government programs. We were just people that wanted Freedom and the opportunity to be financially independent, on our own, without their assistance.

In a way, I think the Amway distributor army was the genesis of Tea Party movement. Who knows, but I would guess that a lot of those of us that were (or are) in Amway may have been some of the first to rally around the Tea Party Movement. We just want freedom for all who will listen. Just sayin'...

The horror of it all! That the tea-party movement would attempt to persuade people they are right without coercion and without attempting to seize power is perhaps the scariest part of all to people like Bernstein and most of the media and political elite in this country.

Yet, it is exactly what is so appealing about the tea-party movement to me.

Here's what I see when I attend tea-party gatherings, as I will again July 15 in Las Vegas: I see love of one's country. I see responsibility. I see commitment to the Constitution. I see the most potent grass-roots political movement to arise in America in my lifetime. And I see hope.

By Joseph Farah

Posted: June 18, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

To read some of the hyperventilating opinion about the tea-party movement, you would almost certainly have to conclude that its brief history has been littered with at least small acts of random violence.

College professors who have encouraged students to riot, throw stones, barricade themselves in university buildings and disrespect police and military authorities decry the "fierce anger," "seething anger" and "rage" of the tea-party movement. Media people who observe the leftist demonstrations du jour degenerate into chaos and real violence without remotely approaching condemnation are aghast and instilled with fear by the peaceful singing and chanting at the tea-party rallies.

It's not just a matter of predicting that a wave of revolutionary violence is coming from the tea-party constituency, it is an assumption in quarters that have heretofore coddled, encouraged, overlooked, dismissed, enabled and excused such excesses when committed by supporters of "good causes."

"To date, the Tea Party has committed only the minor, almost atmospheric violences of propagating falsehoods, calumny and the disruption of the occasions for political speech – the last already to great and distorting effect," writes philosophy professor J.M. Bernstein in The New York Times. "But if their nihilistic rage is deprived of interrupting political meetings as an outlet, where might it now go? With such rage driving the Tea Party, might we anticipate this atmospheric violence becoming actual violence, becoming what Hegel called, referring to the original Jacobins' fantasy of total freedom, 'a fury of destruction'? There is indeed something not just disturbing, but frightening, in the anger of the Tea Party."

I'm not afraid of the tea party.

Are you?

I'm more afraid of my government and the way it is exceeding all legal constraints on its authority.

In fact, I'm certain that the tea party – a spontaneous, grass-roots uprising of hard-working, law-abiding Americans calling out their elected leaders and the bureaucratic army they employ on their excesses and abuses – is the answer to our country's crisis.

Thus, in America today, we have a political polarization not seen in this country since the 1960s – one so deep and wide and pronounced that those on either side can't even understand what the other is saying. They are not speaking the same language. They might as well be from different planets.

That's how I feel when I hear people denounce the tea-party movement as a group of angry, bitter troglodytes who don't even know what they want.

Listen to the ravings of Bernstein, again: "In truth, there is nothing that the Tea Party movement wants; terrifyingly, it wants nothing."

In a sense, he's right. The tea-party movement, more than anything, is a movement of people who want to be left alone, who wish to be self-governing individuals in a land of limited government, just as the founders promised.

They're not asking for a bigger piece of the pie. They're not asking for handouts. They're not asking for special rights based on the color of their skin or their bedroom practices. They're asking for government to get off their backs.

That terrifies Bernstein and his ilk. Why? Because it means these people can't be bought off so easily.

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Hijacking the tea party ~ By Joseph Farah

I sure hope a lot of people read and pay attention to what Joseph Farah had to say in this column. The election this November, the Midterm election, is the most important election that we may have ever experience. It could be our last chance. As Joseph says, it is "a pivotal vote that will determine whether the United States of America will continue to be the shining city on a hill, a beacon of freedom and justice throughout the world." It will be our time to let the politicians know that We the People are no longer going to be apathetic. We the People aren't going to continue to twiddle our thumbs, thinking that there isn't anything we can do about what our politicians are doing to us.

This is OUR time to take back America, and We the People do not have much time left if we want to stay free. We need to vote, not just in November, but very importantly, NOW, during the primaries. It is our chance to get rid of the politicians who have been treating us like useful idiots. Just like what some of us did during last Summer's Congressional recess, where we crowded town hall meetings and gave the Congressmen and Congresswomen a piece of our minds, it's now time for the smack-down in order to show the politicians that didn't listen to us and went ahead with passing ObamaCare that they can no longer get away with it. It's time to let them know that they represent us, and can no longer get away with ignoring the Will of We the People. Just sayin'....

Pray that God smiles on America this year.

Pray that God smiles on the tea-party movement and uses it mightily.

Pray that God confuses the minds of all those who would use this movement for their own self-aggrandizement.

Pray that the tea-party movement does not get hijacked by those who would turn it into a strictly materialistic endeavor devoid of God's real concerns for the nation.

Pray for unity and success for the tea-party movement.

By Joseph Farah

Posted: June 03, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The tea-party movement is only about two years old, but, because of its potency, there have already been many attempts to hijack it.

From politicians trying to resurrect their careers to media activists trying to establish careers, there is a temptation to think of the tea-party movement as cattle or sheep that can be herded in any direction with skillful manipulation.

I don't believe that's true.

I hope it's not true.

The tea-party movement is so important to the future of the country precisely because it is an amorphous, grass-roots uprising – called not by leadership but by national crisis and necessity.

It's not only political folly to attempt to get in front of this parade, it's probably bad career advice.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The tea-party movement is the broadest and potentially most powerful grass-roots political movement in my lifetime. But there is also a spiritual component to it that most of the hijackers either can't understand or don't want to understand.

This is not just a band of Americans angry about their dollar not going as far as it once did. This is not just a movement centered on materialistic concerns. This is not just a bunch of rubes in need of direction from more sophisticated minds.

I laugh when I hear seasoned conservative activists talking about how they intend to teach the tea partiers how to be winners.

With the exception of a momentary second wind in 1994, the conservative establishment has been moribund since Ronald Reagan's administration. Because it threw its lot in with the Republican Party, come hell or high water, the conservative movement allowed itself to be co-opted and taken for granted.

The great potential of the tea-party movement is that it will not allow that to happen.

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Felipe Calderon's blatant hypocrisy ~ By Pat Boone

Pat Boone writes about the Mexican President's sheer hypocrisy when it comes to Mexico's immigrations laws. Below is the Wolf Blitzer interview with Calderon as seen on CNN's The Situation Room that Pat refers to in his column:

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Calderon and Mexico are experiencing their own brand of "tea party," the grass-roots population-wide revolt against their government and oppression and corruption. But, instead of our Constitution-based, peaceful and electoral tea party, theirs is a veritable witches' brew of crime, violence, drug traffic – and the wholesale illegal departure of 15 million of their citizens desperate to escape to something better.

Mr. Calderon, go back to your own country and keep trying to clean up your own house. We Americans are about to clean up ours at the polls. Our tea party is "We the People."

By Pat Boone

Posted: May 22, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been making a big splash here lately. I'm wondering if our authorities checked his credentials when he entered the country. Probably not … racial profiling and all that, you know.

But the major news channels all dutifully trumpeted and broadcast his address to Congress, in which he lectured America on how we should conduct our immigration policy. After complimenting us on our history and standing in the world, he stated emphatically his disapproval of Arizona's recent announcement that the state will more strictly enforce our immigration laws. He paraphrased President Obama's earlier remarks about the Arizona stance not being reflective of America's moral code and ethical standards.

You may have seen the reaction on TV: Speaker Pelosi jumped to her feet and applauded wildly, at which the whole left side of the hall (the Democratic side) also stood and applauded, while the whole right side (the Republican side, of course) sat stolid and non-approving – much the same reaction as that of our Supreme Court justices when Obama chided them in front of the world for a decision he disagreed with.

Even without any approval or support from the right side of Congress, I'm sure both presidents were gratified by their mutual support of each other and Calderon's lecturing statements, which would immediately and repeatedly be spread abroad by the obedient media.

But amazingly, the Mexican president, after a congratulatory visit to the White House, granted one in-person TV interview, with Wolf Blitzer of CNN.

He probably deeply regrets doing that now.

To his great credit, Blitzer really pinned Calderon down on his own country's immigration policies and enforcement of its laws. Blitzer had actually read Mexico's laws – which have been, and are, far tougher on illegals entering their country than America's are on illegals here!

They've never been a secret. Surely you, like I, have read the horror stories about Americans stranded in Mexico after money and passports were lost or stolen. About the extortion by authorities, and imprisonments in notorious Mexican jails and, in the last several years, the disappearance and murders of visitors by rampant criminal gangs.

I remember several fact-based TV movies about tourists being extricated from prisons in Mexico, once by a heroic helicopter rescue. Even our government has advised against "spring break" visits to Mexico by exuberant American college students – because of real dangers caused by rampant lawlessness, corruption, drug cartels and renegade gangs, armed to the teeth and threatening even to Mexican law enforcement.

But it's being more widely revealed and known now: MEXICO'S IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE MUCH, MUCH TOUGHER ON ILLEGALS THAN AMERICA'S. (emphasis my own) And in his interview with Blitzer, Calderon – stammering at times, looking for the right words – had to admit it.

What are some of the provisions of Mexican immigration law?

• Immigrants must speak Mexico's language.
• No bilingual programs in schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business must be conducted in Spanish.
• Foreigners will never be able to hold political office.
• Foreigners will not have the right to vote no matter how long they're in Mexico; Article 33 states, "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country."
• Mexican authorities are ordered to keep track of every single person in the country.
• Foreigners will not be a burden to taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care or other government assistance programs.
• Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned.
• Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons.
• A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison.

Basically, and undeniably, under Mexican law, illegal immigration is (a crime). The General Law of Population says: "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)

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