The RIGHTS and RESPONSIBILITIES of government are given to the citizens.

The headline is correct.  The US Constitution gives both the right and the responsibility of government to the citizens of the USA.  We have the responsibility to make sure that the people we elect to represent us are following the Constitution.  Over the years we have many times allowed our elected representatives, who are supposed to be serving us by giving us a voice in our central government, to violate the Constitution by making Unconstitutional laws and by appointing Judges and federal officials and employees who make policy that violates the Constitution.  

If the above situation does not change, the USA will certainly cease to exist, at least in its present form of representative Constitutional government.  In reality, the representative part of our government is severely compromised at the present time.  The only way to revive it is to have an electorate that commits to being actively involved in government by interacting with its elected representatives on a proactive basis in constant fashion. 

We need to elect representatives who see their duty of representation to include regularly meeting directly with ALL of their constitutents in their home states or districts.  We need to have their numbers on speed dial, their websites on our favorites, and send postcards (which process faster) or letters through the US mail as well. Above all else, these representatives need to know the US Constitution and be dedicated to serving  and representing we citizens as the Constitution mandates. We need to make these respresentatives accountable to that standard upon election, and keep them accountable to that standard at all times.

If we as citizens do not demand representation AND TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT REPRESENTATION, our rights that go along with this responsibility will surely be lost. 

If you can make it, meet us in Washington DC on September 12th, 2009.  There are many US citizens who are going to be there, actively pledging to do just what I have described above.  One way to find out more information is coming in the form of a bus tour to several USA cities leading up the September 12th rendezvous in DC.  Check out Tea Party Express for more information.

This is the week for the feedback to the Senate and the House of Representatives to begin.

This is the week for feedback to your Senators and Representatives. The Propaganda Collusion Machine that is the Mainstream Media and The White House is in full force and high gear, and your elected officials (should-be representatives) are ready to retreat into the Haven-Inside-The-Beltway, otherwise known as Washington DC. THESE ELECTED OFFICALS DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS IN THE LEGISLATION THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY PASSED FOR "STIMULUS", NOR DO THEY KNOW WHAT IS IN THE PENDING LEGISLATION. THEIR CONSTITUENTS HAVE DISCOVERED MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS THAN THOSE LEGISLATORS WHO HAVE ALREADY VOTED EVEN KNOW. These members of government know that the truth lies with the people who have elected them, but they don't want to hear it, nor do they want to acknowledge it. They have ducked and dodged the people during their recess from work and now they will start to do their backroom deals. The deals will not have the average citizen in mind; the only interests they have in mind to represent are those that can afford to have a paying lobbyist in Washington DC. This is how business has been done in DC for a long time, too long of a time, but the potential cost here is not only the tax dollars and freedom of ourselves, our children, grandchildren, and future generations beyond that. The potential cost here is the end of the USA as established by our currrent Constitution, both for practical purposes and in reality. If you want that to happen, then I oppose your view. I want the USA to become once again the Constitutional Republic that it was founded to be. Join me or oppose me, but do not remain silent. The cost of silence is too great.

This is the week for the feedback to the Senate and the House of Representatives to begin to change to a higher level then ever before in history, and going into the future there must be constant feedback and constant vigilance. We simply cannot trust that any of our views will be represented without keeping our eyes on them at all times and keeping pressure on them at all times as well. Simply voting and counting that as enough will NEVER be adequate going forward.

Two weeks until 9-12

Two weeks to go until the 912 March on Washington DC and other places across the USA. What has to change is something that will take more than one day to accomplish. Americans have become lazy and complacent in regard to their personal freedoms. We have a pathetic percentage of voter turnout. Even fewer citizens make sure that their voices are heard by the elected representatives. These elected representatives think of themselves as the leaders of the people, not the servants of the people as the Constitution rightly states that they are. If you can particpate in 912, that would be awesome. If you make it your lifelong duty as a citizen of the USA to take seriously the RESPONSIBILITY that comes with being a citizen and receiving the rights of citizenship, then we have a chance of taking the USA back to what The Constitution establishes it as. If 912 is a one-time thing instead of a lifetime change, then we are still on the slippery slope of ruin. IT'S YOUR CALL, AMERICA. WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS...

From ATTACK MACHINE: A story about Ted Kennedy that would have ended his career if he were Republican instead of Democrat.

The Mainstream Media would have trumpeted this story all over the place if Teddy had been a Republican. (From Attack Machine) A SOBER LOOK AT TED KENNEDY …written by the late Michael Kelly, published in 1990 as part of GQ’s 50th anniversary. Edward Kennedy was once the handsomest of the handsome Kennedy boys, with a proudly jutting chin, a Nelson Eddy jaw and Cupid’s-bow lips under a thatch of chestnut hair. When he is dieting and on the wagon, there is a glimpse of that still, which makes it all the harder to see him as he more often is. There is a great desire to remember him as we remember his brothers. The Dorian Grays of Hyannis Port, John and Robert, have perpetual youth and beauty and style, and their faces are mirrors of all that is better and classier and richer than us. Ted is the reality, the 57-year-old living picture of a man who has feasted on too much for too long with too little restraint, the visible proof that nothing exceeds like excess. It’s a long piece, partly critical and partly praising. Some of the former here, with a cameo by Christopher Dodd.…The two most infamous Terrible Teddy stories make the point. Both take place at Washington’s La Brasserie, where Kennedy is a favorite customer. Brasserie I: In December 1985, just before he announced he would run for president in 1988, Kennedy allegedly manhandled a pretty young woman employed as a Brasserie waitress. The woman, Carla Gaviglio, declined to be quoted in this article, but says the following account, a similar version of which first appeared in Penthouse last year, is full and accurate: It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant’s annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. “They’d always get their girls very, very drunk,” says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her. As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check. Eyewitness Betty Loh told me that Kennedy had “three or four” cocktails in his first half hour at the restaurant and wine with dinner. When she walked into the room after Gaviglio had gone in, she says, “what I saw was Senator Kennedy on top of Carla, who was on top of Senator Dodd’s lap, and the tablecloth was sort of slid off the table ‘cause the table was knocked over—not completely, but just on Senator Dodd’s lap a little bit, and of course the glasses and the candlesticks were totally spilled and everything. And right when I walked in, Senator Kelly jumped off…and he leaped up, composed himself and got up. And Carla jumped up and ran out of the room HITTING THE LINK TO THE GQ STORY AND READING IT ALL IS WELL WORTH THE TIME.

Try this solution for Health Care Reform

The government is currently trumpeting that the "Public Option" would create competition in the healthcare insurance industry. Currently the government actively restricts competition by not allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines. This way, the government has actually created the issue which they state that a government health insurance will solve. If the government was truly serious about increased competition being a solution for the cost of health care, then they would simply remove the barriers that they themselves have created and allow insurance companies to compete on a national level, across state lines. This is the "Crisis" gameplan that Rahm Emmanuel admits is used by The Left. In this case, and in several others, the "Crisis" has been created in order to fit the solution. The "Healthcare Debate" is all about creating a smokescreen to transfer power away from the citizens and to the central government. There is no principle in the Constitution that allows for this, and the framers clearly are against this centralized power. Your health care will not be better and will be worse with any further government involvement in it. You will simply be less free and with fewer of your Constitutional Rights if the government involves itself further into the health care system.

HolyCoast.com: Teddy Kennedy Was Against Universal Health Care Before He Was For It

HolyCoast.com: Teddy Kennedy Was Against Universal Health Care Before He Was For It Interesting stuff from Rick Moore at HolyCoast. It seems that if a Republican POTUS proposed Government Health Care then it was not acceptable to Senator Kennedy, who has been a long term champion of Government Health Care. The current proposed legislation ("Bill" is such an appropriate term in some cases, is it not?) for the Government Healthcare debacle is actually named for Senator Kennedy. This sort of reminds me of all the "Don't Fool With Social Security" signs that we saw when George W. Bush proposed doing something to right the ship of the Ponzi Scheme known as Social Security and was opposed by Democrats across the board, the same folks who now think changing Social Security is a good thing. (That's a picture of a Flip-Flop up there. It's a green Flip-Flop so maybe I'll use it for an Al Gore story sometime in the future as well, but for this story it is only significant that it is a Flip-Flop)

RIP Edward Moore Kennedy

Ted Kennedy has passed on, and I wish the best to his family. I wish also that part of his legacy would include the due process of law in choosing his successor in the US Senate. There was a communication attributed to Senator Kennedy that was sent to the Governor of Massachusetts which implored the governor to ignore the law and appoint someone to take his place immediately instead of waiting the prescribed amount of time according to the law. I can only speak for me, but if it was my legacy, I would want it to be a legacy of upholding the law and respect for the law. I would not want to be remembered as someone whose last offically attributed communication was a request for another elected official to skirt the standing law outside of the due legal process of changing the law. I sincerely hope the the governor of the state which Senator Kennedy was elected to represent in the US Senate has enough respect for the law to uphold it in his offical capacity instead of using the death of Senator Kennedy as justification to operate outside the law. Everyone knows of many of Senator Kennedy's "issues", both personally and professionally, so I will not rehash them here. This last move, from beyond the grave if you will, would help cement a legacy and confirm that Senator Kennedy did not hold respect for the law of the land. Agree or disagree, I welcome your comments.

Will the USA continue to exist? Taxpayer March on Washington DC on Saturday September 12th 2009

I don't know if the USA will continue to exist or not. Let me define what mean by USA. I mean the USA that is founded on the US Constitution. The US Constitution that can only be ammended by proper construct of the people and their government, not by judges who invent Constitutional intent from wholecloth. If the USA that I am talking about does continue to exist, it will be because the people who have had the power and responsibility for self-government vested in them by that Constitution now turn to take that responsibility seriously, like our forefathers did during time previous to the birth of the USA.

On September 12, 2009, there will be a march on Washington DC. The purpose of the march is to remind our elected officials, the ones who have forgotten that they are representatives of the people who elected them, that We The People take our job of governing ourselves seriously. The March is not the beginning of something nor certainly is it the end of anything. Obamacare is a current threat, Cap-And-Trade Tax is a pending threat, and there is more tyranny in the pipeline. Now is the time to stand firm while we still have some freedom left. Who knows what "crisis" (either real, fabricated, or enhanced) will present the current crop of elected leaders with the opportunity to take away even our freedom to assemble.

We have seen the face of tyranny in our central government in Washington DC. This government has committed to spend TRILLIONS of our tax dollars on a faulty premise (deceptively named The Economic Recovery and Stimulus Act) that when a country is deeply in debt and in financial trouble, that country should spend and tax and borrow to get out of financial trouble. Mathematics is a universal language; this premise of spend and tax and borrow will not work for you or me in our personal finances, and it will not work for a country either, even if that country floods itself with its own mega-supply of currency, thereby devaluing the currency and fueling hyperinflation. I will qualify that statement; it will not work for a country that has a goal of prosperity and progress or even a goal of continued existence.

All signs point to what is effectively a one-party government that does not have the best interest of the country in mind. While the members of the current Administration and Congress voice their concern for our country, their actions indicate an adherence to the Cloward-Piven Strategy which seeks to collapse the current system and impel us toward a centralized government with a level of power that the framers of the Constitution were clearly opposed to.

If you can, join us in Washington DC on Saturday September 12th 2009. If you do not have the time or ability to go, consider finding someone who can go and sponsor their trip.

It is illegal to threaten death to anyone, especially to the President of The United States.

From Zombie (with other contributors noted on Zombie's site): Death threats are not good in any way shape or form. I am particularly sensitive to this; I know what it feels like to be threatened with death. The President of the USA has a lightning-rod of a job and is protected by specific language in the US Code in regard to several types of threats, death threats being one of them. There are lots of pictures in this report plus lots of interesting background on the status of death threats against The President. I am totally opposed to death threats against The President (no matter who holds the office) or against anyone else for that matter. Check out the report; it is worth reading the whole thing.

From Zomblog: Bush as Hitler is OK, but not Barack as Hitler.

Zombie is absolutely without peer. Here Zombie gives a retrospective of the many, many, many instances of Bush=Hitler comparisons, which were fine with The Left at the time that George Bush was POTUS. Nowadays it seems that it must be uncivilized to compare a President to Hitler. If you do a little bit of fact-checking on the National Socialist Party in Germany under Adolph Hitler you may be quite amazed at the policies and initiatives which are similar between current US Government and the National Socialists in Germany. Check out Zomblog for many more pictures and, as always, Zombie's insightful research and commentary.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Oh) schedules staged Town Hall meeting

From the Columbus Dispatch Politics website: Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, will speak at 10:15 am today about healthcare at The Ohio State University Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Avenue, Room 115A. Brown will be part of a panel discussion on health rerform. Limited seating for the public is available. The Democratic National Committe is trying to get backers of President Barack Obama to attend, saying in an e-mail blast that "this is an ideal opportunity to make sure that your support for health insurance is seen and heard at exactly the right time".

Senator Brown is taking a page out of Barack Obama's playbook. Just set up the audience correctly and limit the attendance and you have a made-for-TV propaganda event. In my correspondence with Senator Brown, there has been nothing but a rubber-stamp approach for The Stimulus Act and for Government Healthcare. Senator Brown is from a family that has been in politics for several generations and he knows how to play the game.

This type of tactic is similar to how a totalitarian regime controls its populace by attempting to control the thoughts and reactions of that same populace. In this case, set up a situation that reflects the desired reality, get coverage from a compliant Ministry of Propaganda (i.e. The MainStream Media), and justify actions based on that false reality which is being portrayed as real.

You may think that my take on this is extreme. Be that as it may, the approach taken by the current administration and its majority (and minority) supporters in both houses of Congress has been, without question, extreme in its assault on the Constitution and our personal lives and personal freedom as well. I will not pull any punches in my response because they have certainly held nothing back in their assault against our way of life in the USA.

In Defense of Liberty: Zev Barnett

Zev Barnett writes at The Undercurrent about the current TEA Party protests and the premise that they must advocate a moral revolution, not just political change. The date is December, 16th 1773. A ship has just entered Boston Harbor. In its hold it carries the chains of a foreign government. American Colonists, increasingly rebellious under the weight of British opression, board this ship and as a symbol of defiance seize these chains and throw them overboard. This event has become known as the Boston Tea Party. ...when bewildered reporters enter (the current edition of) TEA Parties and remind protesters-"but, you are entitled to some of the stimulus money" - the protesters defiantly respond: "We don't want government money! WE WANT OUR FREEDOM!" Read all of Zev Barnett's article here.

Government Health Care = One Noose for One Neck

Richard Ralston writes at CAPITALISM MAGAZINE regarding his experience as a trauma patient in a hospital in New York City which was run by the government of the City Of New York: Before I developed a detailed interest in government management of health care, I was unwillingly introduced to the subject after I was badly injured in a head-on collision in a taxi to LaGuardia Airport in New York City in 1993. To my everlasting regret, the ambulance took me to a hospital run by the city of New York. The hospital was undoubtedly understaffed and overwhelmed. But that situation was made much worse by a nursing staff of indifferent, bloody-minded, time-serving union thugs. Over the next eight nights, I did encounter two or three hardworking nurses trying to help the patients as much as they could, but they were a tiny minority. The story is short and precise and worth reading the whole thing.

Democrats unleash union thugs on protesters, then hide from constituents citing

From The Blog Prof:

Democrats unleash union thugs on protesters, then hide from constituents citing "safety concerns" Shared via AddThis

HolyCoast.com: CBO Cost Estimates for Obamacare Could be $1 Trillion Too LOW

HolyCoast.com: CBO Cost Estimates for Obamacare Could be $1 Trillion Too LOW

Columbus, Ohio TEA Party August 1st 2009

You can see pics and video of the Columbus, Ohio TEA Party on August 1st at hourglass1941. Use this hyperlink or use the link in the My Blog List (right hand column of this blog) for hourglass1941 to check these out. I couldn't link to the post itself so if hourglass1941 is updated then this post will move down the page and eventually to the archives for her blog. I'll include some pics from that post here.

The local media estimated the crowd at "a few hundred". It was closer to 7,000-8,000 in reality.

Partisan poster from 2008 Presidential Campaign

I noticed this poster today when I was on a job site in Ohio. The picture doesn't reflect it very well, but the Obama "Vote" panel was definitely part of the original poster, which was published by the American Lung Association. I'm unsure of how the campaign finance regulations would address something like this. I seems to go beyond the pale of a simple endorsement by the ALA for Barack since it amounts to an actual campaign poster although the majority of the poster gives medical information. The ALA website indicates that donations to the ALA are tax deductible, and it also indicates that some of the settlement money with Big Tobacco is another source of funding for the organization. I'm sure the ALA does a lot of good work in prevention and care of lung disease, but this seems to be partisan politics instead of health care. Come to think of it, so is HR3200. (You can click on the picture to enlarge it).