What It All Comes Down To

"The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable, to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled" - George Washington 1787

George Washington understood, as many of the Founding Fathers did, that We The People hold the power. That our Representatives, both House and Senate, were our servants, that they served us. Something I've begun to do is no longer call the positions in DC "jobs". If we continue to call them jobs, then we continue to grow career politicians. Instead, we must get back to the founding ideals of public servitude. Our Congress members are our servants, and as George Washington pointed out, when they do not follow the Constitution, the people will vote them out. Well, welcome to November 2, 2010.

For the past 3 years, we have woken up to the fact that our country isn't what we thought it was. We've woken up to legislation called TARP and the government taking over businesses and bailing out others that have been deemed too big to fail. We awoke to the fact that the Democratic party wasn't what it used to be, that it had been consumed by a force called the Progressives. It took us about a year and a half to realize the hidden agenda of this force, but we found it and fought it.

Now, the time to start the restoration is upon us. If we don't make the stand here and now, who knows when we'll have the chance again, if ever. Although the Constitutions Conservatives could take over the House and possibly the Senate, they will still have to deal with a Progressive President for 2 more years. This means that a lot of votes will take place to overturn vetoes. And they will most likely make it through the House, but the Senate will be the challenge if it is not taken back.

I do not advocate for Republicans, Democrats, or Independents. I advocate for Constitutionalists. For those who believe in the founding ideals and the same principles that guided our founders. Fiscal responsibility, limited government, and the individual. Many believe that with November 2nd, we'll be closer to the end of this fight, but on November 2nd, it's only beginning.

We must hold our elected officials feet to the fire more than ever, even those who have run on the Tea Party message. In fact, those deemed "Tea Party Candidates" will have their feet held to the fire a little more than others because they have run on those ideals and have made that commitment to bring that back to DC.

The ballot is your weapon. We are a peaceful revolution and we fight with our voices and our votes. Many people have made the claims that they don't need to vote because so many others will turn out. Well let's imagine if everyone had that same thought, no one would vote. Every vote counts, because all of those people who believe their vote counts, they all add up. Others make the claims of voting for the lesser of two evils. Although this can be true, then take that lesser of two evils and let them know that they're being watched. That they will be seeing a lot of you, and that you will support them when they are right, and vigorously oppose them when they are wrong.

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." - Ronald Reagan 1964

Do not let the last stand on earth die. Don't let the shining city on a hill fall away from existence. Between now and November 2nd, educate people, as many people a day as you can. Don't tell them how to vote, but inform them about the issues and the candidates. Give them places they can go to research. And then tell them to tell someone else. We can not have that uninformed electorate that John Kerry spoke of. We have educated ourselves over the past 3 years. Now let's put it to good use and get America back and restore it.

The Roots

One thing we've always known about the Progressives is that many of their ideals originated in Europe. But until recently, no one really had a grasp on exactly where the ideal came from within Europe. Obviously there were Socialist, Communist, Fascist, and other ideals of a totalitarian governments. But very few have heard or dug into the Fabian Socialist and the Fabian Society.

I grant that my knowledge of the Fabian Socialist is limited to the bit of information I have found on a quick search. But more intensive research will be done as just that brief scratch of the surface has reviled so much. The group favoured gradual change rather than revolutionary change. It's name was derived in honor of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus (nicknamed "Cunctator", meaning "the Delayer"). His Fabian strategy advocated tactics of harassment and attrition rather than head-on battles against the Carthaginian army under the renowned general Hannibal.

The Society was founded on January 4, 1884 in London as an offshoot of a society founded in 1883 called The Fellowship of the New Life. The ideal of The Fellowship was to transform society by setting an example of a clean and simplified life. But when many wanted to be politically involved to further this transformation, it was decided that the group would separate.

Fabian Society began attracting many prominent contemporary figures drawn to its socialist cause, including George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Hubert Bland, Edith Nesbit, Sydney Olivier, Oliver Lodge, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald and Emmeline Pankhurst. Even Bertrand Russell briefly became a member, but resigned after he expressed his belief that the Society's principle of entente could lead to war. At the very heart and core of the Fabian Society were Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Together, they wrote numerous studies of industrial Britain, including alternative co-operative economics that applied to ownership of capital as well as land.

The first Fabian Society pamphlets advocated tenets of social justice coincided with the zeitgeist of Liberal reforms during the early 1900s. The Fabian proposals however were considerably more progressive than those that were enacted in the Liberal reform legislation. The Fabians lobbied for the introduction of a minimum wage in 1906, for the creation of a universal health care system in 1911 and for the abolition of hereditary peerages in 1917.

All of the above sound very familiar to today's Progressive agenda. At the same time these ideas were going on Europe, Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt was enacting the Monroe Doctrine. Today we have the Progressives raising minimum wage and forcing people to purchase Obamacare.

Fabian socialists were in favour of an imperialist foreign policy as a conduit for internationalist reform and a welfare state modelled on the Bismarckian German model; they criticised Gladstonian liberalism both for its individualism at home and its internationalism abroad. They favoured a national minimum wage in order to stop British industries compensating for their inefficiency by lowering wages instead of investing in capital equipment; slum clearances and a health service in order for "the breeding of even a moderately Imperial race" which would be more productive and better militarily than the "stunted, anaemic, demoralised denizens...of our great cities"; and a national education system because "it is in the class-rooms that the future battles of the Empire for commercial prosperity are already being lost"

The Fabian Society believed that landowners collecting rent was money unearned and believe that they shouldn't be able to collect rent. The Fabian Society participated heavily in the creation of the Labour Party which grew out of the trade union movement and the socialist organizations of the times. And much like the Progressives and Socialist, the Labour Party was in favor of policies such as public ownership of key industries, government intervention in the economy, redistribution of wealth, increased rights for workers, the welfare state, publicly funded healthcare and education.

Through the course of the 20th century the group has always been influential in Labour Party circles, with members including Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Anthony Crosland, Richard Crossman, Tony Benn, Harold Wilson and more recently Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The above is only a brief scratch. Imagine what can be found if you really dig into this Society of Socialist and later Progressives. We knew that many of these ideals that call for the destruction of a country like America derived from Europe, but nothing like this. The ideas above gave birth to people such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Benito Mussolini, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Cloward, Frances Piven, Saul Alinsky, John Holdren, Barack Obama, George Soros, Bill Ayers, and many others through history who have believed in some of the ideals or all of them. The sad thing is, they actually believe that these ideals and what they are doing, is the right thing.

True Act of Treason

With Congress coming back from session, it only took Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) 3 days to commit an atrocious act. In a post on his website and a tweet to Lady Gaga, he stated that he is going to add an amendment to the end of H.R.5136, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. The amendment he wants to add is the DREAM Act, that would create a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants that serve in the military or earn a college degree.

Now what does the DREAM Act have to do with funding for our men and women in the armed forces? Absolutely nothing. The reason for adding this amendment to the end of this funding bill is that way Republicans have to vote for it because what Republican would vote against funding our troops? When this bill was voted on in the last session of Congress, it fell 8 votes short of the 60 needed to preempt a filibuster threat. Since then, 4 of the 9 Republicans who voted for the bill have left the Senate, while all 9 of the Democrats who voted “no” are still around. Furthermore, at least one Democrat who voted in favor last time, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), is now firmly against it.

Now many have asked, "What does the DREAM Act do exactly?" Well, here are the criteria:

The bill would automatically grant "conditional permanent resident status to any undocumented immigrant who is meets all of the following criteria:

* is under 35 years of age
* has graduated high school or earned a GED
* has been in the U.S. for at least 5 years prior to the date the law takes effect
* was 16 years of age or younger when they entered the U.S.
* is “a person of good moral charecter”
* has not been under a judicial order of deportation since before they were 16.

The temporary resident status for people meeting these criteria would be good for a period of 6 years. After that time, if a person granted residency under the DREAM Act can be granted permanent citizenship status if they can show that they accomplish at least on of these things (from the bill text):

(i) The alien has acquired a degree from an institution of higher education in the United States or has completed at least 2 years, in good standing, in a program for a bachelor’s degree or higher degree in the United States.

(ii) The alien has served in the uniformed services for at least 2 years and, if discharged, has received an honorable discharge.

If not, they are automatically returned to their prior undocumented status when the 6-year period is up.

Basically offering more incentives to illegals to come to our country illegally. Not only that, but it always illegal immigrants to serve in our military. Now, how can we trust an illegal immigrant to fight for our rights and freedoms when they have already violated those rights and freedoms by coming into the country illegally? When the Roman Empire conquered a region, it did one of two things with the residence of that regions. They would enslave them or make the serve in the military. Thus, when the fall of the Roman Empire came, many of the conquered soldiers revolted against the Roman Government with the very weapons that government had given them.

This truly is an act of treason by Harry Reid. He is holding our troops ransom to get the Hispanic vote in the November election. According to a Pew Hispanic Center report from 2006, Mexicans make up 57 percent of the undocumented immigrants. Another 24 percent are from other Latin American countries.

He is holding our troops ransom to commit an act of treason that our men and women of the armed forces die to stop every day. He is playing politics with the very money that could save the lives of our troops. He is willing to let them die to gain political points. If Nevada reelect Harry Reid, they truly deserve the corruption and hassle they will get from it. This is a true act of treason not just against the American citizens but against the American citizens who sacrifice every day in our armed forces to protect our freedom and liberty.

Restoring Honor

This weekend I was at the Restoring Honor rally in Washington DC. As many know, the media is missing the point or skewing the facts. From what I saw, there was no politics discussed. There were no fights or arrests. There were no arguments. There was only people coming together for one common cause, God.

The crowd was enormous and it was packed with people. You were getting close to someone didn't know. It was fairly hot and you basically had to give a little nudge to move the line. Now you would expect arguments and fights to break out. For people to have bad attitudes and make comments. The fact is, everyone was very polite and even helped each other to get through the crowd.

One story from some people on our bus was that they had sat back by the Washington Monument and that it was just grass between them and the World War II Memorial. By the end of the event, the grass had disappeared and it was all people. As an eye-witness, I have to say that there was at least a million people at the event.

Another story was that some people met some foreigners from France who had no idea about the event, what was going on, or even who Glenn Beck was. The people had to explain in about 5 minutes what was going on in the country, who Glenn Beck was, and what the rally was about. The foreigners understood since their country is very much in the same state.

The event was about coming back to God and to restore the honor within ourselves and by doing so, within our country. The event wasn't about politics or even about Glenn Beck. It was about individuals looking within themselves and coming back to the realization that it all starts with us. As John Adams said:

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

The reason we face the out of control government, the Progressive agenda, and the elitist politicians is because we have gotten away from that religious and moral people. We've lost sight of God and what is important. We've focused on money, power, and corruption for far to long. The point of this weekend was to come to together and get back focused on God and our principles. To get our country back not by political means but through moral and virtuous means.

We can continue to focus politics and work through the Constitution, but all of that work will be for nothing if we don't focus on God. Thomas Jefferson and the founders gave us the clue at the end of the Declaration of Independence:

"With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

They told us that we must look to God. That we must stake our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor on him. That if we ever stray away, that all we have to do is look back to him and come to the realization that through him all things are possible. That if we look to him and within ourselves, that our country and government will restore its honor.

The Real Human Rights Violation

It's not bad enough that Arizona has been sued by the Federal Government and Mexico. It's not enough that they were condemned by China. Now in President Obama's first U.S. Human Rights report to the UN Human Rights Council, he is getting the UN involved in the investigation. Before we get to that, let's examine some of the misleading statements made by the Obama Administration. Firstly the Introduction:

The story of the United States of America is one guided by universal values shared the world over—that all are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights. In the United States, these values have grounded our institutions and motivated the determination of our citizens to come ever closer to realizing these ideals. Our Founders, who proclaimed their ambition “to form a more perfect Union,” bequeathed to us not a static condition but a perpetual aspiration and mission.

As the true Declaration of Independence says, it's unalienable. Unalienable rights are rights given by god to an individual that can't be sold, taken, or in any way given away. Inalienable rights are rights that and individual has that they can sale, give, or can be taken by the government.

In on section, they explain some of the executive orders given. Amazing considering executive orders are unconstitutional. In one section titled "Values and Immigration" they quote Ronald Reagan:

That immigrants have been consistently drawn to our shores throughout our history is both a testament to and a source of the strength and appeal of our vibrant democracy. As he left office, President Reagan remarked that the United States is “still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.” Over the last 50 years, the U.S. has accepted several million refugees fleeing persecution from all corners of the globe as well as many millions of immigrants seeking a better life or joining family. Today, the United States and other countries to which a significant number of people seek to emigrate face challenges in developing and enforcing immigration laws and policies that reflect economic, social, and national security realities. In addressing these issues we seek to build a system of immigration enforcement that is both effective and fair.

True the U.S. has accepted many immigrants fleeing their tyrannical lands looking for freedom and a better country. But many of them have done it legally while many more millions are here illegally, which the section fails to note.

In the same section, the following is noted about Arizona's Immigration law:

A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined.

What this part means is that the Administration has invited the UN to come and investigate the Arizona law. On November 5, the United States will be examined by UN bureaucrats from France, Japan, and Cameroon (an oppressive nation which is a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference). This trio will consider three items: Obama’s self-flagellating report, reports written about America by UN tribunals or international governing bodies, and testimony from non-governmental organizations with a pronounced anti-American bias. It will also consider “voluntary pledges and commitments made by the State,” such as suspending an Arizona state law.

Then the French, Japanese, and Cameroon diplomats will draw up a plan of action for the United States to implement. According to the UN Human Rights Council website, nations are re-examined every four years. The Human Rights Council looks for voluntary compliance. However, its website asserts, “The Human Rights Council will decide on the measures it would need to take in case of persistent non-cooperation by a State with the World Body."

The immigration issues in America are up to America and America alone. Not Mexico, China, or the UN. If the Federal Government would do their job and protect the border and the states from invasion, there wouldn't an issue in the first place. But since the Federal Government has failed to do its job, the responsibility is left to the states and the people.

Arizona along with many border states have called for help from the Federal Government and the Federal Government turned a blond eye to the country being invaded. The 1,200 National Guard troops that the Federal Government is sending down to the border aren't for border security, a majority of them are for desk jobs.

This is why many citizens have taken the responsibility of sitting on the border with their guns and protecting America and doing the job the Federal Government won't. It is time that we tell the UN that they can not dictate to us our laws. The Constitution trumps them and they have no legal or rightful ground to tell us how to run our states and our country. This is America, and We the People are taking it back.

The Two Man Vote

While the House voted to spend $26.1 billion and the President signed it the same day, Senate had a 30 minute session 2 days later looking at four pieces of legislative business. The catch, there were only two Senators present. Senator Ben Cardin (Maryland-D) in the role of presiding officer and Senator Chuck Schumer(New York-D) were the only 2 Senators at the session.

First they took care of the second reading of 2 bills that will be on the calendar when the Senate comes back in September. The bills were H.R. 5827 – Protecting Gun Own­ers in Bankrupt­cy Act of 2010 and S. 3762 – A bill to reinstate funds to Fed­er­al Land Dis­pos­al Ac­count.

Later in the 30 minute session, Cardin and Schumer passed 2 bills with unanimous con­sent. All with Schumer stating, "I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join in this important task," looking around at 99 empty seats. H.R. 6080 – Mak­ing emer­gen­cy sup­ple­men­tal appropriations for bor­der se­cu­ri­ty for the fis­cal year end­ing Septem­ber 30, 2010, and for other pur­pos­es. S. Res. 617 – Rel­a­tive to the death of the Honorable Theodore “Ted” Ful­ton Stevens, for­mer Sen­a­tor for the State of Alaska. H.R. 6080 has provisions in it for $600 Million for fences, bor­der “strike forces,” and do­mes­tic drones. President Obama will being signing it into law on Friday August 13, 2010.

What I find concerning is the fact that 2 men came back from recess to do all this. That 2 mine alone had the power to sign away $600 million without any real debate over the issue. This vote was really a taxation without representation. Where were all the other Senators?

I realize that Congress is in recess but the fact that these 2 Senators did all this brings an odd question as to why. Maybe they didn't want to face the people back home or there's something in these bills they don't want seen. Either way, where were the other Senators? Where was our representation?

I urge you to call your Senators and ask them where they were and why they weren't there representing you even in a 30 minute session. Why they weren't their voting on $600 million bill in a time that we have $13 trillion in debt. Yes the border needs to be secured but why is it that these 2 Senators found it ideal to return to DC during recess and pass this bill under the rug? Where were the other 98 Senators?

Our Stamp Act

In 1913 the states ratified the Sixteenth Amendment. This amendment brought about what we call today, the Income Tax. The income tax taxes people's incomes based on how much they make. In the Presidential election of 1912, the 3 candidates, Woodrow Wilson(D), Theodore Roosevelt(Progressive), and William Howard Taft(R), all supported the income tax. Support for the income tax was strongest in the western states and opposition was strongest in the northeastern states.

In 1765, the British Parliament passed an act to impose a tax on all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, almanacs, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American Colonies to pay for the Seven Years War. This act was known as the Stamp Act. The colonists were against this tax as they had no representation in Parliament to vote on this act and thus the cry "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION". It was the first tax imposed on the colonies without their consent and the American Colonies began boycotting English goods that came into the colonies.

During this uproar in the colonies, Benjamin Franklin was in England as the Pennsylvania Assembly's agent to the Crown. He was much opposed to the Stamp Act. Parliament didn't know why the colonies were so angry, they held many sessions questioning experts on American affairs. Finally, they called upon Benjamin Franklin. The following is a few exerts from "The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin to the Repeal of the American Stamp Act".

Q. You say the Colonies have always submitted to external taxes, and object to the right of Parliament only in laying internal taxes; now can you show that there is any kind of difference between the two taxes to the Colony on which they may be laid?

A. I think the difference is very great. An external tax is a duty laid on commodities imported; that duty is added to the first cost and other charges on the commodity, and, when it is offered for sale, makes a part of the price. If the people do not like it at that price, they refuse it; they are not obliged to pay it. But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent if not laid by their own representatives. The Stamp Act says we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us or ruin us by the consequence of refusing to pay it.

Q. Then no regulation with a tax would be submitted to?

A. Their opinion is that when aids to the Crown are wanted they are to be asked of the several assemblies according to the old-established usage, who will, as they always have done, grant them freely, and that their money ought not to be given away without their consent, by persons at a distance, unacquainted with their circumstances and abilities. The granting aids to the Crown is the only means they have of recommending themselves to their sovereign, and they think it extremely hard and unjust that a body of men in which they have no representatives should make a merit to itself of giving and granting what is not its own but theirs, and deprive them of a right they esteem of the utmost value and importance, as it is the security of all their other rights.

Franklin made it quite clear that taxing the people based on what they make or create would destroy them and the economy. The idea was much like Redistribution of Wealth, taking what people have worked and earned and giving it to others. He also made clear that the colonies were a giving people and that if asked, they would gladly give.

The Income Tax and the Stamp Act are much the same in the fact that they both tax the people based on what they make or create. The American Colonies fought against the Stamp Act and it was repealed in 1766. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified and passed by 42 of the 48 states. This was under the beginning of the Progressive movement and their first act against the American people and the history of the founders.

Unlike the Progressives of today, the Progressives of the 1900s actually followed the Amendment process. And thus, the only way for the Sixteenth Amendment to be repealed is by another Amendment to be passed. They have chained us down with this curse and now it is up to us to stop this and many other acts that they have and are committing.