Socialists in Congress… Shocking New Evidence

Socialists in Congress… Shocking New Evidence from WND Indicate More than Earlier Reports of 70, As Many As 82

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 16, 2010

Unbelievable.

The news came out last week about 70 members of Congress belonging to the Democratic Socialists of America, but that number is now believed to be as high as 82.

From WorldNetDaily, How many socialists sit in Congress today? 1 group boasts 70, but see what WND survey suggests:

WASHINGTON – The Democratic Socialists of America boasted in a newsletter to insiders 70 of its members currently serve in Congress, but an independent survey by WND suggests the number of actual avowed or semi-secret socialists in the House and Senate is considerably higher – at least 82.

The DSA is a political action committee and bills itself as the heir to the defunct Socialist Party of America. Its chief organizing objective is to work within the Democratic Party as the primary, but not sole, method of achieving public ownership of private property and the means of production.

“Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work,” explains an internal organizing document obtained by WND. “The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals.”

In October 2009, the DSA newsletter reported that 70 congressional Democrats are active members.

The group also claimed 11 socialists sit on the House Judiciary Committee, including Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.

But, according to an independent investigation by WND, the number of those sympathetic to the socialist goals of the DSA is substantially higher than 70.

In 1998, WND reported the close association between the DSA and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. At that time, the caucus website was actually hosted by the DSA. Following the revelation in WND, the Progressive Caucus website became an official U.S. government website as it remains today.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus website boasts 81 members as well as resource links to numerous openly socialist publications and organizations, reports WND Editor Joseph Farah in his column today. Farah first broke the story of the DSA-Progressive Caucus link 12 years ago in a series titled “Congress’ Red Army Caucus.” (here and here)

Those links include Mother Jones magazine, Moveon.org, OneWorld, The Nation magazine, ACORN and the Institute for Policy Studies.

Last week, WND reported that Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, is a member of the DSA. She is not, however, listed on either the Progressive Caucus website as a member or on the list of members published by the DSA last year.

“By my count, Kilroy would make at least 82 members of the House and Senate who are avowedly socialist,” Farah concludes.

The “Socialist List” is below… spread the word and refer to this for the upcoming election. This information comes from an October 2009 newsletter from the Democratic Socialists of America — the newsletter listed 70 members of the U.S. Congress who are active members of the organization.

The anti-constitutional doings of most of these corruptocrats is legendary. I’ve written about some of these politicians before — as have many other conservative bloggers — and so, I’ve provided links to a few previous posts should you want to quickly read up on them and not get the “happy-happy-joy-joy” spin of the Obama JournoList media.

In some cases, I’ve written about these socialists multiple times — and usually not in a way that would be considered flattering (right, Pete Stark, Alan Grayson, and Charlie Rangel?).

This explains SO much and affirms suspicions that many pundits and American citizens have had for quite some time — including the explanation for the truly nauseating fawning by the Congressional Black Caucus during their visit to Cuba in April 2009. They ignored the suffering and poverty of the Cuban people and drooled over and heaped praise upon Fidel Castro, as though the aging tyrannical dictator was a rock star. At least two who attended that trip — Rep. Linda Richardson and Rep. Barbara Lee — are socialists, per the list below.

Some of these incumbent miscreants have recently lost in their primary elections, so voting citizens of their states have already wised up.

Co-Chairs

Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs

Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon.
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members

Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members

Hon. Neil Abercrombie (formally HI-01, now Gov. of Hawaii)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

From Diary of a Mad Conservative, 70 members of Congress belong to the Socialist party:

Two things of note in this revelation. The first is the astonishing number of Democratic House members who not only belong to the Socialist Party of America but even more incredible, don’t mind if people find out about it.

From Nice Deb: Can We Call Them Democrat Socialists, Now?:

I’ve been saying for a year and a half now that it’s time to rebrand the whole party. Even though most Dems are not on the record, they’ve greenlighted Obama’s Socialist agenda every step of the way.

And make no mistake. Obama is a Democratic Socialist, himself.

I find it mighty difficult to believe that out of so many avowed socialists in Congress, only one is in the Senate and all the others in the House of Representatives.

Will keep an eye on further developments on this story.

The Re-Election of Obama by suspended elections?

The Re-Election of Obama by suspended elections?
Judi McLeod Full Story

The fool proof way for Barack Obama to guarantee his re-election would be to suspend the 2012 election.

Thanks to North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, suspending elections is an idea whose time has come.

Perdue’s proposal dropped like the proverbial bombshell at a Rotary Club event was offered as a means for politicians to gain time to tackle crippling unemployment and a stagnant economy.
The Trash of Islam
Daniel Greenfield Full Story

Two years ago the Egyptian city of Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world and the “timeless city” of Obama’s Cairo speech, the heart of the Arab Spring, was suffering from a garbage crisis. The crisis had a very simple cause, the pigs that used to eat the garbage were killed to prevent the spread of Swine Flu.

The pigs living in “Garbage City” had served as both organic garbage disposals and food sources for the Zabaleen, families of marginalized Christian Copts who made a living by collecting the garbage, reselling the inorganic garbage and feeding the organic garbage to pigs. The system worked fine so long as there were pigs, but without the pigs, Cairo’s streets are filled with giant mounds of rotting garbage.

Barack Obama, Democratic Wrecking Ball

Peter Wehner 09.27.2011 – 11:20 AM

Here’s yet more good news for Democrats. National Journal reports:

One of the Democratic party’s leading pollsters [Stanley Greenberg] released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today, painting an ominous picture for congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being dragged down by an unpopular president who would lose to both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

 

The story goes on to say that instead of an overall anti-incumbent sentiment impacting members of both parties, voters are taking more of their anger out on Democrats. When voters were asked whether they’re supporting the Republican incumbent or a Democratic candidate, 50 percent preferred the Republican and just 41 percent backed the Democrat. And here’s the really ominous news for Democrats: Voters in these districts said they were more supportive of Republicans than they were during the 2010 midterms, when 48 percent said they backed the Republican candidate and 42 percent said they backed the Democrat. (Republicans won 55 percent of the overall vote in these 60 battleground districts, while Democrats took 43 percent.) In 2010, Republicans netted 63 House seats – their best showing since 1948.

There’s also this: President Obama’s job approval rating in the battleground districts is just 41 percent — and only 43 percent in the 30 more competitive seats that are a little more Democratic.

What this means is right now, based on the data of a respected Democratic pollster, Democrats would — if the election were held today — suffer a wipeout that makes what happened to them in 2010 look like a walk in the park. And things are likely to get worse, not better, as the months roll on.

It may be that Barack Obama will do to the Democratic Party what no one, not even Ronald Reagan, could achieve–which is to bring it to its knees.

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King Hubbert’s Theory is to Petroleum What Leeches Are to Medicine
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Kelly O’Connell Full Story

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state”
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According to the Elizabeth Warren, private property is a false construct
Serfs in Warrenville
Daniel Greenfield Full Story

If nothing else, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for Commissar of Massachusetts deserves to be credited for getting at the heart of the issue. And the issue is private property.

Corruption, thy name is Democrat Mindless Marxist Minions

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Corruption, thy name is Democrat
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Netanyahu’s Speech and the Deafening Silence
Victor Sharpe Full Story

If Israel shrank to just one downtown city block in Tel Aviv, it would still be reason for an all-out war of extermination by the Arab and Muslim world.
Mr. Reeve, could you please not apologize for naming your second dog America because as one patriot to another, go right ahead! Hurrah for dogs, hurrah for America. Hurrah for dogs in America!
Dog’s Name Offends Islamic Watch Dogs
Ashraf Ramelah Full Story

Just recently The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia interfered in a Canadian organization’s right to place a TV ad on Canadian television which educated Canadian consumers with statements of true facts. Yes, that’s right. A foreign dictatorship policing another nation threatens individuals with a cease and desist letter to halt the airing of their ad. More recently, Mr. Derek Reeve, a councilman in the California town of San Juan Capistrano, is chastised and shamed by another Saudi-style agent of censorship into removing the name of his family’s pet dog. They would like him to rename his pet something acceptable to them, I guess.
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A.J. Cameron
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History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Dick Kantenberger Gifted Education Writer Examiner.com

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this.
It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family
and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter
whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and
card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the
United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the
message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

An old Social Security card with the “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION” message.
Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,

No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes into the Program,

Now 7.65%
on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,

No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the
independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the
general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed
as income.

Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month —
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put
away’ — you may be interested in the following:

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —-

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —–

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— –

Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!

———— — ———— ——— —– ———— ——— ———

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the

Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will
evolve. But it’s worth a try.

How many people can YOU send this to?

EPA to property owner: ‘Your land is our land’

$40 million in fines pending over plan to build new home

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Posted: September 23, 2011
9:50 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

 

 

Mike and Chantell Sackett

Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $40 million in fines and is not kidding.

That’s the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, with briefs being filed today by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of a Priest Lake, Idaho, family, Chantell and Mike Sackett.

Attorney Damien Schiff, who will be arguing before the high court in the case, said it’s simply a case of a government run amok, and it poses a potential threat to perhaps not every landowner across the nation, but untold millions.

“Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws”

The Sacketts, Schiff said, “bought property, and the government in effect has ordered them to treat the property like a public park.”

“The EPA has not paid them a dime for that privilege,” he said. “The regime we have operating now allows the EPA to take property without having to pay for it, or giving the owners the right to their day in court.””

The organization has prepared a video to explain the case:

 

The case developed when the Sacketts bought a .63-acre parcel of land for $23,000 in a subdivision in their hometown of Priest Lake, Idaho. The land is 500 feet from a lake, had a city water and sewer tap assigned, had no running or standing water and was in the middle of other developed properties.

The couple obtained all of the needed permits for their project and started work. Suddenly, the Environmental Protection Agency showed up on the building site, demanded that the work stop and issued a “compliance order” that the couple remove the fill they had brought in, restore the land to its native condition, plant trees every 10 feet, fence it off and let it sit for three years.

(Story continues below)

Then they would, for costs estimated at roughly a quarter of a million dollars, be allowed to “request” permission from the government to build on their own land.

Or else, warned the agency, there is the possibility of fines of $37,500 per day – with the total now surpassing $40 million.

Chantell reported she was told by the EPA that if “you’re buying a piece of property you should know if it’s in wetlands.”

“I started to do research. I said, ‘So how do I find this piece of property in the wetlands [registry]’? And she said, ‘Here’s the coordinates.’ When I actually pulled up the coordinates, it’s not there.”

No matter, said the government. Do what we want.

So the Sacketts went to court, only to be told the courts can’t address a decision like this, as it’s an administrative decision. The couple would have to meet the demands of the “compliance order” and pay the $250,000 to apply for a building permit, then challenge the eventual decision.

Or they could expose themselves to $37,500 per day in fines by refusing to cooperate.

The “taking” of their private property without due process now is the focus on the high court’s hearings.

The brief explains that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that “no person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” But the Clean Water Act gives the EPA authority to issue compliance orders, then fine defendants who are “in violation.”

“Any citizen engaged in a range of activities may run afoul of the act,” the brief explains. “The Clean Water Act’s reach is extremely broad, requiring a permit for the discharge of ‘pollutants’ from a ‘point source’ into the ‘waters of the United States,’ which phrase has been interpreted by regulation to include ‘wetlands.'”

The regulations, the brief contends, had been defined so broadly by the EPA that they have pertained to “land that appears to be totally dry.”

“If the EPA has completed an analysis and made a determination that the property contains jurisdictional ‘wetlands,’ the citizen has no right to judicial review of that analysis. If the citizen hires professionals to conduct a ‘wetlands’ determination, EPA is not obligated to accept it. Despite any evidence, professional opinions, or agency advice the citizen obtains, EPA may still impose sanctions by a compliance order if it has ‘any information’ that” it wants to use to call it wetlands, the brief explains.

Further, the “compliance order” also demands that the private property owners give the EPA full access not only to the lands but to their private records about what is done to the land.

“Given that the order is not based on probable cause, it withdraws the Sacketts’ constitutional right to be free of unreasonable searches by requiring them to grant access to ‘all records and documentation related to the conditions at the site and th restoration activities conducted pursuant to this order.'”

The EPA ordered the planting of specific trees and shrubs and then demanded that the land “be fenced for the first three growing seasons.”

“Monitoring of vegetation on the restored site for survival and ground coverage shall be performed in October 2008, June 2009, October 2009, and October 2010,” it ordered.

“The very existence of the order, subjecting the property to a federal mandate, prohibiting the intended, authorized use, and requiring expensive remedial actions, substantially reduces the value of the property and limits the Sacketts’ ability to [use] it,” the brief said.

“Although there has been no judicial decision to establish EPA’s jurisdiction and authority to impose these deprivations, the compliance order threatens the Sackets with various ‘sanctions.'”

The couple’s eventual lawsuit claimed the EPA does not have jurisdiction and the order violates their due process and other constitutional rights.

“The second claim turns on the basic principle that, before a person can be deprived of liberty or property, he is entitled to a full and fair hearing ‘at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner,'” the brief argues. “The third claim is based on the related principle that a person cannot be punished for conduct that violates an ‘impermissibly vague’ law.”

The district court rejected their case, as did the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The court created a constitutional problem by reading the Clean Water Act to preclude judicial review of the compliance order,” said the brief. “The court acknowledged both that the Clean Water Act’s express language does not mandate the interpretation it ultimately adopted … and that courts should avoid statutory interpretations that raise serious constitutional questions,” the brief said.

“The court never considered whether contrary inferences might support the conclusion that Congress did intend for individuals like the Sacketts to obtain review under the APA. Similarly, the court never considered whether the nature of the compliance order itself supports review.”

Additionally, it’s an order issued without probable cause and “the process that produces the order is entirely secret, with no notice given to property owners like the Sacketts.”

“In sum, the compliance order has deprived the Sacketts of the only economically viable use of their property permitted under local law, deprived them of their right to exclude unwanted persons from their property, and deprived them of their right to be free from unreasonable searches of their property and effects. The Sacketts have never received any review, let alone meaningful review, of the compliance order,” the brief argued.

Schiff earlier told WND the significant property rights and due process issues need to be resolved.

“When the government seizes control of your land, and you disagree with the justification, shouldn’t you be allowed your day in court? Just as important, should EPA be a law unto itself, without meaningful accountability to the courts and the Constitution?” he said.

“We’re very encouraged that the Supreme Court has recognized how important our case is,” said Mike Sackett in a statement released earlier by the foundation. “We are standing up against an agency that seems to have unlimited resources and few if any limits on what it can do to property owners. We’re standing up for everyone’s right to go to court when the government hands you a raw deal – or takes over your hard-earned property. Thank goodness PLF has been helping us, and now PLF will be making our case in the nation’s highest court.”

Schiff told WND earlier that there is “no question that the power the EPA is claiming it has under the Clean Water Act is significant.”

“Even if you have a good basis the think the EPA is wrong, the EPA won’t let you get into the courthouse,” he said. “They are able to shut the courthouse door by issuing compliance orders that are not judicially reviewable.”

That puts a landowner in the impossible situation of either complying with the order with its potential cost of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars or facing that same penalty in fines.

And it’s not just the Sacketts’ land that could be subject to such orders. The foundation arguments suggest that private property across the nation could be at risk.

EPA officials have declined WND requests for comment. They referred WND to a Department of Justice office, which did not respond.

The legal team noted that between 1980 and 2001, the EPA issued up to 3,000 compliance orders every year across the nation.

“The reality of the Sacketts’ situation is that they have been unambiguously commanded by their government not to complete their home-building project, to take expensive measures to undo the improvements that they have made to their land, and to maintain their land essentially as a public park until the property is ‘restored’ to the satisfaction of the EPA. They have been threatened with frightening penalties if they do not immediately obey; but they have been refused the prompt hearing they should have received as a matter of right in any court,” Pacific Legal argued.

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How to stop public school indoctrination.

“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I
have sown will never be uprooted.” Lenin

Our schools are being hijacked by leftist organizations
in their attempts to indoctrinate our public school children.

Our friends at Liberty Counsel have a special free resource
for you to counter these overt mind-influencing tactics.
The “Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools”
belongs in every home and school in America.  See their
message below to obtain your free copy.

Your friends at Grassroots Action

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From the Desk of:
Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Today the impressionable minds of school children that
went back to public school on the day after Labor Day
run the risk of being manipulated into accepting
“alternative” lifestyles and anti-religious bigotry.
You need to know what you can do to stop overt public
school indoctrination!  The “Patriot’s Handbook of
Religious Freedom in Public Schools” is yours at no
charge when you join our campaign to end this
outrageous use of our tax money.  Click here to
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And, please read my vitally important message below – Mat.

Marion,

The tragic fact is that leftists are indoctrinating our
children and grandchildren – as stealthily as possible –
knowing that if their agenda was exposed, Americans would
rise up against it.  Consider these recent events in our
public schools…

In July, the left-leaning California State Legislature
passed “The FAIR Education Act” (S.B. 48), which
mandates that educators, textbooks, and instructional
materials must positively promote “lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender Americans” as role models.

According to Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com,
S.B. 48 is now the seventh sexual indoctrination law that has
been forced upon California’s schools.

“It targets kids for a sexual brainwashing, and this
is all behind the backs of parents. It teaches boys
and girls (as young as 6) to admire those who engage
in homosexual, bisexual and transsexual behavior,
without ever telling them that it’s unnatural or that
it’s unhealthy.”

Teachers, even those with conscientious or religious objections,
are forced to portray these lifestyles as “normal.”

How is this important to school systems outside of
California? California is one of the largest purchasers
of textbooks in the country. Many other school systems
will, as a result of California’s influence on
publishers, be forced to use these same textbooks!

++ We must stand against the indoctrination of teachers
and students.

Marion, I will send you – free of charge – the
“Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools”
simply for reading and endorsing the Liberty Counsel Statement
on Religious Freedom in Public Schools.  The Statement says,
in part…

I have joined hundreds of thousands of my fellow
Americans in declaring that our nation’s public
schools must allow the full and free expression of
every American’s First Amendment rights to free speech,
free association, and religious expression.  Americans
don’t leave their constitutionally guaranteed liberties
at the schoolhouse door!

When you sign the statement, I will send you the “Patriot’s
Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools,” a booklet
that can revolutionize the way parents, guardians, and
students view their public school system, administrators,
educators, curriculum, extra-curricular clubs, activities,
and fellow students!

My legal team at Liberty Counsel has developed this invaluable
pocket-sized resource compiled from decades of experience
defending the rights of educators, students, administrators,
and community members from the attacks of radical activists
who want to squash freedom of religious expression in any
public setting, including schools.

It is imperative, as we start the new school year, that
the “Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools”
be in the hands of anyone who is concerned about the direction
our public schools are taking!

In fact, we pray that one day this handbook will have
a place in every backpack, every book bag, and every
brief case that enters the dangerous environment so
many of our public schools have become!

The “Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools”
is yours – free of charge – when you endorse Liberty Counsel’s
Statement on Religious Freedom in Public Schools.  Click
here to endorse this important statement and to receive
the handbook:

http://www.grassrootsaction.com/r.asp?u=50791&RID=25036411

++ The quest to “normalize” radical homosexual behavior

President Barack Obama has helped usher in an alarming pro-
homosexual agenda into our public schools that a few years
ago would have been considered unimaginable.

His highly controversial appointment of Kevin Jennings to
be a so-called “Safe Schools Czar” led to a number of
stealth pro-homosexual initiatives in our public schools
(Jennings has since, thankfully, left the post).

Jennings also teamed with far-left members of Congress in
an attempt to “normalize” radical homosexual/transgender
behaviors (including cross-dressing) in our nation’s public
schools by mandate of a proposed federal law called the
“Student Nondiscrimination Act of 2010.”

Under extreme public pressure, the bill died in the House
Committee on Education and Labor, although some
Representatives have promised to revisit the legislation.

The pro-homosexual agenda is being advanced in school
systems all across this country due to overt
manipulation and threats from powerful leftist groups.

++ Teacher of the Year removed for opposing same-sex
“marriage.”

When Jerry Buell, last year’s Teacher of the Year at Mount
Dora High School in Florida, saw that New York had
legalized same-sex “marriage,” he expressed his disapproval
on the Facebook social media network – on his personal
time, his personal computer, and on his personal page.

Buell commented that homosexuality is wrong and that
seeing two “grooms” kissing on a news story revolted
him.

A former student from his school saw his post, took offense,
and “reported” him to school system officials. The Lake
County School District responded by taking away his teaching
privileges and reassigning him to administrative duties.

Through Liberty Counsel’s civil rights defense, Jerry was
reinstated within days and he was defended free of charge.
Without Liberty Counsel, Jerry would have incurred enormous
personal costs in hiring lawyers to defend his constitutional
rights.

Yet Liberty Counsel routinely defends these types of
legal challenges on behalf of students and teachers!

++ As the new school year begins, we must take action.

This is our call to action! Leftists and anti-religious
organizations like the ACLU are increasing their bullying
of school systems, teachers, educators, and parents through
unlawful “consent decrees,” intimidation, and blatant
misrepresentation and deception.

Do not be misled by their carefully orchestrated
attacks and maliciously crafted messages of
misinformation and propaganda. There are counter-
measures and solutions available to every citizen
of The United States!

The “Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools”
contains those measures and solutions. This booklet should
be in every home and school in America. The handbook covers
the following topics – and more.

*What are student’s rights in public schools?
*What are educator’s rights in public schools?
*What about religious liberty at graduation and other
seasonal activities?
*What about religious groups meeting on school grounds?
*What are your rights as a parent or guardian of a student?
*What about public access to school buildings?

I believe that this resource, containing this type of crucial
information about the rights of educators, parents and students,
has never before been produced in such a compact, easy to
carry format.  And it’s yours at no charge when you sign
Liberty Counsel’s Statement on Religious Freedom in Public
Schools.

http://www.grassrootsaction.com/r.asp?u=50791&RID=25036411

++The fact is, our civil rights ARE NOT left at the classroom
door!

Today, millions of children will walk into an environment of
leftist indoctrination.  Many will be summarily stripped of
their civil rights, experience bullying and blatant ridicule,
and suffer the censorship of religious expressions.

This is the disturbing pattern of things to come, unless
concerned citizens take action! Knowing and understanding
our rights is a crucially important first step.

I believe “The Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in
Public Schools” belongs in every household and school in
America.

In fact, we want to distribute hundreds of thousands
of copies of this valuable resource to school systems,
educators, students and citizens nationwide.

After you order your copy of the book, please consider
forwarding this special offer to your friends and family.

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The American Way Abandoned.

 By Dan Beaulieu

Reddit

Instilled deep within us is the pride of what it means to be an American. That pride is derived from the notion that, in our country, our values and our way of life is superior to those of other countries. Indirectly, that pride pays homage to our founding forefathers for establishing and protecting those values in our Bill of Rights (link).

Our founding forefather’s vision for America was based not only on their recent emancipation from the British oppression, but also from their collective knowledge of history and mankind’s past mistakes. They understood the evolutionary process of how a society could transform from freedom to totalitarian empire by studying the mistakes of so many failed governments that came before us. With that knowledge, they created a safeguard; the Constitution (link) was written to shield us from the otherwise inevitable fate of tyranny and ultimate self-destruction.

I can’t articulate enough just how privileged America is to have a heritage of such great revolutionary thinkers. These intellects have sculpted America into the greatness that it became and their words still resonate to this day, hundreds of years after their deaths. However, just as most privileged children naturally do, we live our lives simply pursuing our own priorities while taking for granted the great gift of liberty bestowed upon us. We fail to understand the necessity of demanding that our legislators remain diligent in upholding the constitution.

“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.” – Thomas Jefferson

It’s the nature of the government, to continually expand and rarely, if at all, retract. These expansions are almost always at the peril of our constitution; our personal liberties. The income tax is a perfect example of this unconstitutional expansion. Although there have been taxes dating back to antiquity, the first U.S. income tax legally declared was in 1861 as a “temporary tax” to pay for the Civil War, which then expired in 1871. The income tax was tried again in 1894 but was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. However, in 1913 they found a way to pass the income tax, by writing a 16th amendment. The income tax was passed into law under President Woodrow Wilson after the 16th Amendment was ratified.

It won support by the masses under the guise that it would only affect 1% of the richest Americans. “Soak the Rich” was the twisted banner the people rallied to. Just a few short years later the tax didn’t just include the rich, it expanded to incorporate the vast majority. This example displays both the relentless persistence and the deceitfulness that we were warned to keep in check.

Oftentimes, when these intrusive laws are sold to us, the lawmaker first designates a purported evil. In the case of the income tax it was “the rich”, drawing them up as unethical thieves who are leeching off the poor anyway. The privileged children buy into the propaganda and rally support to justify battle against an ostensible evil. This evil takes many shapes: race, creed, class and sexual alignment to name a few. We must never give into this, as selling out our fundamental principles only opens the door for totalitarianism.

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine

It is my personal belief that the decline of our founder’s moral virtues greatly accelerated in the dawn of the 1900’s. Between bad legislation, central economic planning, wealth redistribution, war propaganda, unconstitutional and undeclared wars, military occupation, the nanny welfare state, the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency along with the conception of hundreds of tax funded bureaucracies. They, in concert, brought on the complete annihilation of our forefather’s vision, and welcomed even worse legislation into existence…

The precipice of desecration came shortly after September 11th 2001, where, for security, we traded our civil liberties and welcomed with open arms The Patriot Act. This horrific legislation represents the worst transgression against our civil liberties that we have ever encountered. A Trojan horse of sorts, just as with the income tax in 1913, we bought into an evil, and sold out our principals to combat it. The impulse to accept such a devastating law rested in the obvious anger, fear and strong desire for vengeance which clouded our prudence to fully deliberate what exactly we were signing on to.

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Since the Patriot Act’s incarnation we are so far removed from our roots and fundamental morals we now employ… Freedom of speech zones, security checkpoints, unwarranted surveillance, torture, indefinite detention, forced inoculations, sneak and peak searches. This act violates everything that our Bill of Rights stands for. We have turned our back on our moral values in the name of “The War on Terror”… in fear.

You might ask yourself what the motives are for such transgressions, and although I believe that answer is centered on control, I know it is extremely multifaceted, simply meaning that there is no specific answer. So I once again draw reflection on Thomas Jefferson’s logic, “It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.” Once we failed to be vigilant in the protection of our founder’s great gift, that our “general nature” will slowly consume our freedoms.
One of the worst unconstitutional displays of control is Obama’s new Super Congress (link) which has usurped all power from the congress, thus silencing the voices of the American people. Make no mistake, America is now an oligarchy.

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first, a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” – Thomas Paine

Have we ushered in the age of the Orwellian big brother society? When the people of the United States have come to the point of openly applauding the idea of a colossal razor wire barrier (link) that encompasses our borders, I think it’s apparent, that we truly have strayed from American fundamental principles. This whole notion brings frightening images of the berlin wall to mind; images of prison guard towers with razor wire glistening from the searchlights. What a disturbing vision for America, our Army standing at the border as we deign to the level of North and South Korea.

Big Brother is truly watching us all. Since 9/11 our privacy has been drastically diminished. Between the TSA groping’s in airports, subways, football games and even proms we are no longer secure in our persons. With wiretapping and warrantless sneak & peak searches we are no longer secure in our homes. We now see video monitors installed at banks, fast-food restaurants and Wal-Marts with looped videos of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano urging us to spy on our neighbors saying, “If you see something, say something”. This is designed to invoke a constant state of tension and fear of looming terrorist threat. Legislation has come forth which would allow the government to take over the screens on your smart phone for urgent Presidential Addresses. The underlying message of “give up your freedoms and the government will keep you safe” prevails.

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Has the age of the Military Industrial Complex that Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about come to fruition? Our politicians bequeath cartels and handouts to colossal conglomerates in trade for career-making campaign funding. These large super companies own financial institutions, energy companies and healthcare establishments amongst a great many other things. They control our data flow through printed and televised media which gives them the opportunity to portray events or legislation in a light that benefits their cause. At the same time the same company will also produce the various tools and weapons of the war. Our government then gives other countries our tax dollars in the form of foreign aid with the condition that they use that aid to buy our (company’s) munitions.

This conflict of interests insures perpetual war, dishonest media coverage and a duopoly of corrupt lobbyist and bureaucrats in our political system. It also has particularly negative effects on our economy and small businesses. Driving our work overseas and underselling the more heavily regulated and taxed small business. This has killed the American entrepreneur and the dream of our forefathers… This is not how America was to be.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine

The revolutionary war wasn’t just a war of muskets, steel and blood; it was a revolution of ideas. Once again, and long overdue, the notion of revolution has finally risen to the mainstream once again. The American people are reeducating themselves on the Constitution, studying economic policy and rethinking our role in the world. Although our movement is swimming against the current of big business, political interest and the mainstream media, we are within striking distance of reinvigorating the American Dream. But we need to choose the correct leader to hold the torch as the path is dark.

“…every generation needs a revolution…” “…at least once every 20 years…” “…a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” – Thomas Jefferson

I believe right now that there is one amongst us. He’s the only top-tier candidate running for Presidency that offers us real change and a return to constitutional sanity both financially and morally. He has been called the professor, the prophet and the Thomas Jefferson of our time. With him the sun will set on the dark ages of intellect, and bring forth a new day. We must defend the American Pride that is our heritage by upholding the constitution. You can choose to stop buying into the duo-political system that enslaves us and vote for an idea. You can choose to save the American Dream.

“I am an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.” – Ron Paul

Some people believe the constitution is out-dated and simply will not work in today’s age, but logic perseveres, our founders were not simple men. America is just a newborn child in comparison to our civilization as a whole, and even in ancient times there were governments. Each fallen Empire became a testament of man’s “general nature” and how it shifts governments into Empires. Studying the triumphs and failures of man kinds past, our founding fathers created the constitution to stop history from repeating itself. We cannot be so vein as to think their logic doesn’t transcend both time and technology, as their logic was forged from 10,000 years of civilization. Their logic is sound.

Regardless of opinion, let’s look at the facts. We’re hated globally for our occupation, we’re $14.7 Trillion in debt, and we’re being spied on and groped by our own government. We’re broke and on the verge of collapse (Link).

History is about to repeat itself one way or another: Collapse or Revolution.