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CALL TARGETED HOUSE MEMBERS About the Healthcare Bill.  Tell them the Tea Party of the people are still watching, engaged, active and will do all we can to vote them out if they vote for this bill.  Click HERE

Do not read if you have high blood pressure, Socialists, Unions, SDS and California Teachers Association sponsor "Defend CA Public Education", on March 4, 2010.  If you are wondering who they believe is the ulitmate power in the universe click Here.

- REGISTER TO VOTE  ALSO LA County Vote by Mail Application
- Mintz4Assembly Web Site

South Bay Tea Party Monthly Meeting - Wed, March 17th (below)
March 27th - District Walk for Sunder Ramani (43rd Assembly) (below)
April Tax Day Tea Party - April 15th Tea Party Election Rally (below) 

Great Videos: We the People and from Tea Pac 

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South Bay Tea Party Monthly Meeting - Wed, March 17th

Steven Greenhut, Author of "PLUNDER!" will be our key note speaker check him out here. 

Greenhut has performed a great service for ordinary citizens and taxpayers with PLUNDER: How Pubic Employee Unions are Rading Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. But be forewarned: If you take high blood pressure medicine, better take a double dose before reading this book. It will surely amplify the current distrust and disgust with government today as reflected in the resurgent taxpayer revolt and the Tea Party movement. ... --- Jon Coupal, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

We will be answering more of your questions and talk about our South Bay Tea Party platform.  more to come... 

March 17th, 7PM to 9PM
Location: Old Albertson’s (Hope Chapel Youth Center)
2510 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
South East Corner of Artesia and PCH

Click here for map

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March 27th - District Walk for Sunder Ramani (43rd Assembly)

Sunder's election is a special election April 12th.

He is our Scott Brown only more fiscally conservative.  He will send shock waves across our nation if he is elected in California and his election looks very likely, especially if you sacrifice and help.  He holds our Tea Party values so lets help...

Where: Ramani for Assembly Headquarters
919 W. Glenoaks Blvd, Glendale, CA
When: Saturday, March 27, 2010
9:00AM-3:00PM

Strike Team - 43rd Assembly District - March 27, 2010
There is a Special Election on April 13th in the 43rd Assembly District.  We need the Red Team and other volunteers to come out in force on March 27th.

We have a tremendous opportunity to take back the 43^rd Assembly District (formerly Jim Rogan's district) because a special election has been called for April 13^th.  We have an excellent candidate - Sunder Ramani (RamaniforAssembly.com) and we are on track to WIN.  Sunder is leading the field of 5 candidates - 4 Democrats - and an army of volunteers is needed to insure a win on April 13^th.

We are calling for every volunteer to join with us to walk for Sunder on Saturday, March 27^th.  We will meet at Sunder's headquarters, 919 W. Glenoaks Boulevard in Glendale at 9AM.   Go online to donate and volunteer any extra time you have - this is a very quick election and if we can win we will set the tone for the November election statewide.

All volunteers are needed for this important precinct walk and phone day.  Absentee ballots will drop on March 29th so we will be knocking on doors of those voters in Burbank and Glendale who will receive an absentee ballot.  The election is Tuesday, April 13th and we plan to win back this seat once held by Jim Rogan.  Go to www.Ramaniforassembly.com and see our great (Conservative)  Republican candidate.  We need walkers, phoners and drivers this day.   Breakfast and lunch will be served.  We need at least 200 volunteers to cover the district that day!

This special election will send a signal throughout the state that the (Conservative) Republican Party is BACK!  See you there. 

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April Tax Day Tea Party - April 15th Tea Party Election Rally

April 15th Tax Day Tea Party Rally - Take IT to the NEXT LEVEL

We started one year ago (1,800 people huddled like penguins in 35mph wind) because of our shared deep concern for the very survival of our country due to the extreme deficit spending, approaching $3 Trillion, then came the Communist (self proclaimed ones) Czars, then Government controlling our private banks, then Government talking over 2 of the largest corporations in America, GM and Chrysler, then a massive Government power grab using Healthcare as its foil, not to mention Cap and Tax still waiting in the wings to further destroy jobs in America.  

Now it is time to go from Protesting Rallies into putting all of our energy into Rallies to get fiscal conservatives elected to office and the one office with the greatest possibility of winning in this area is the 53rd State Assembly seat with NATHAN MINTZ.  So we will be gathering at 3 major locations here in South Bay with MINTZ signs and other South Bay Tea Party signs to go from Rallies to Elected Officials.  Also welcome at the Rally Pete Kesterson posters, Mattie Fein Posters, John Stammreich Posters.

Location 1 - Jane Harman's office (where we have usually met)
When: April 15, 5 PM to 7 PM
Where: 2321 Rosecrans Ave, El Segundo, CA 90245 - on the sidewalk - MAP 

Location 2 - Corners of PCH and Artisia (where we have met at Hope Chapel)
When: April 15, 5 PM to 7 PM
Where: 4 Corners of PCH and Artisia MAP

Location 3 - Working on this with the Torrance Tea Party

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- Conservative Action Project: The Individual Mandate in “Obamacare” is Unconstitutional 

- New unemployment interactive map.

- ClimateGate great paper - help stop the Cap and Tax debacle and staggering lies. more...

- Unplug the Political Machine -please visit: www.unplugthepoliticalmachine.org.   You can also download the petition to circulate yourself from their websit HERE. This petition has a different format than the other one below. Please print using two sided Letter, 9 1/2" x 11" size paper-- the secretary of state office will not accept this petition in any other format. Follow the directions on the petition precisely, including filling yourself in as petitioner on the sheet. We are happy to collect filled out petitions from you.  OR use your iPhone to collect signatures, yes it's true...

 

- Citizen Legislature Project - please visit: www.reformcal.com.  You can also download the petition to circulate yourself from their website at: http://www.reformcal.com/petition.html  Please print using Legal, 9 1/2" x 14" size paper-- the secretary of state office will not accept this petition in any other format. Follow the directions on the petition precisely, including filling yourself in as petitioner on the sheet. We are happy to collect filled out petitions from you.

NOOO on OBAMACARE.  We were there for the 1 Million Med March. Click here for more pictures  YES WE WERE THERE

NEW Metro LA Tea Parties - check out our new combined strength of 40,000 people.

NEW "The Most Powerful Office in the Land"

LA South Bay Tea Party STORE also Books and other New STUFF

More new posts below...

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Do you need more encouragement to act now, read Thomas Sowell’s article below.  Or ask yourself does it matter that our president has surrounded himself with: Mao supporting Czars; an FCC Czar who endorses Chavez, a communist and wants to shut down conservative talk radio; Acorn, SEIU, and Apollo. And who is leading a radical government takeover of healthcare; and a bill called Cap and Trade, that is a radical redistribution of wealth scheme.  Years ago this would have been crazy talk but today it is the sad truth.   THIS IS THE TIME TO ACT - ELECT Tea Party Conservatives

Federal pay ahead of private industry

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available. MORE

We Need Green Money, Not Green Jobs

  by Star Parker - 3/1/2010

Van Jones is back, reconstructed and rehabilitated.

Jones, recall, departed from his White House job as "green jobs czar" after publicity about his association with a "9/11 truther" organization that alleges complicity of the Bush administration with the 9/11 attack.

He was already a lightening rod, having characterized President Bush as a "crackhead", using profanity to describe Republicans, and offering gems like blaming "white polluters and white environmentalists" for "steering poison" to minority communities.

But as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel understands that power brokers should "never waste a crisis", those on the left grasp that you never waste an asset like a black self-described communist from the 1990's with an Ivy League degree and a best selling "green jobs" book.

So now Jones has new jobs at Princeton University and Washington's Center for American Progress. And, to seal the public rehabilitation, he will be awarded the NAACP's Image Award, and has been called by NAACP president Benjamin Jealous a "national treasure.

"Central to Jones' work will, of course, be the continuation of his "green jobs" agenda. The Center for American Progress announcement says he'll be a senior fellow and leader with its Green Opportunity Initiative.

CAP was founded by rich liberals who thought the left needed a think tank like conservatives have (as they concluded they needed talk radio, and hence founded the now defunct Air America). One of the major sources of funding of CAP was Marion and Herbert Sandler who got rich building Golden West Financial selling Adjustable Rate Mortgages with teaser rates to unsophisticated buyers. Yes, the very greedy kind of business people that the Obama administration would have us believe caused our current economic crisis.

But the beauty of the left is that facts will never get in the way of ideology.

The recent scandal associated with the use of research data at the Climate Research Unit in England -- which has been essentially the headquarters of global warming research -- has brought claims of man-made climate change into serious doubt.

Sober minds realize that this must be a time for reassessment about assumptions driving the belief that irreversible climate change has occurred and that this alleged change is caused by human activity. As expressed in an editorial in Britain's Prospect Magazine, "We cannot rely on highly imperfect climate models as a basis for policy initiatives that cost billions and change how we live.

"But this hasn't put a dent in the green jobs movement. President Obama continues to push this idea as central to economic recovery, as he did the other day speaking to CEOs at the Business Round table in Washington.

The love affair on the left with "green jobs" is, of course, about ideology, which is why facts are irrelevant. It is another excuse to grow government and bring European socialism to America. What could be a better opportunity than to claim that the planet's atmosphere is now out of whack because of capitalism?

Van Jones is important because he uses environmentalism as a new platform to welcome poor blacks onto the government plantation.

This is important spin because poor folks do have common sense. In a Zogby poll done after the presidential election, 73 percent of blacks said they were opposed to taxing fossil fuels to promote alternative energy.

The Carter Administration invested $2.1 billion in the Great Plains Coal Gasification Plant to convert coal to gas. The result? Zero. Federal government spending since 1961 on "advanced energy technologies and basic energy science research" totals $187 billion with hardly anything to show.

Poor folks don't need socialism or green jobs. They need green money. They'll get more of it being free, going to school, getting married and going to work.

California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief

Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece's current debt woes.

By James Quinn, US Business Editor in New York
Published: 8:20PM GMT 26 Feb 2010

Mr Dimon told investors at the Wall Street bank's annual meeting that "there could be contagion" if a state the size of California, the biggest of the United States, had problems making debt repayments. "Greece itself would not be an issue for this company, nor would any other country," said Mr Dimon. "We don't really foresee the European Union coming apart." The senior banker said that JP Morgan Chase and other US rivals are largely immune from the European debt crisis, as the risks have largely been hedged.

California however poses more of a risk, given the state's $20bn (£13.1bn) budget deficit, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is desperately trying to reduce.  MORE

Jeanette Nordstrom - National Center for Policy Analysis

Dear Policy Patriots -

"They're Baaaaack!" Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week and the battle over health care will resume at the "Health Care Summit" on Thursday. The Obama Administration has invited 20 Democrats and 17 Republicans to discuss health care reform and promised that the event would be broadcast live and in its entirety.

The President's New Health Plan. President Obama has offered his own proposal for the legislative way forward which is largely a mixing and matching of the House and Senate plans already on the table.

Three New Surprises. While most of the President's plan is old hat, there are three new ideas, all bad.

Purpose of Summit: Policy or Politics? While Democrats insist the Summit is no political trap, some in the GOP are skeptical. When is the last time you saw a real deal negotiated before television cameras?

The Threat of Reconciliation. On Friday, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid threatened that Democrats were prepared to use reconciliation, a controversial legislative tactic which would allow the Senate to pass government-run health care with only fifty votes. Punctuating his assertion, Reid said, "We're going to have that done in the next 60 days." Reconciliation remains unpopular, however. Only 18 percent of Americans support use of reconciliation.

Policy Patriots Can Help Stop This! You're making a huge difference in the fight against government-run health care, having sent almost 550,000 emails and placed nearly 11,000 phone calls to Congress. Major media outlets are taking notice of the NCPA's health policy solutions, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Thanks for your continued support!

Your Support is Crucial! The chips are down with President Obama making a last ditch effort to force government-run health care on the American people. Please let your voice be heard:

• Go to Free Our Health Care NOW!

• Enter your personal information and click TAKE ACTION!

• You can write a letter or make a phone call. You can do either; both are important!

Contribute to the Cause! We appreciate your past support and know that without you this fight wouldn't be possible. You can donate online or send a check to:

National Center for Policy Analysis
P.O. Box 650098
Dallas, Texas 75265-0098

Thank you for your continued support of the NCPA.

Warm regards,

Jeanette Nordstrom
National Center for Policy Analysis
www.ncpa.org

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Canadian Premier Comes to US for Operation

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.

Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.

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British Healthcare Unhealthy

Grandmother disgusted at filthy hospital nursed and bathed other patients on her ward

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:09 PM on 29th January 2010

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Appalled: Janet Halsall was disgusted by the conditions in Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon

A grandmother was so disgusted by the filthy conditions and neglect on a hospital ward that she bathed and cared for the patients herself.

Janet Halsall, 74, was admitted to Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, for three days to have a scan on her liver, when she was shocked to see staff repeatedly ignore pleas for help and leave fellow elderly patients to ‘fend for themselves’. 

The kind-hearted pensioner was so appalled by the conditions in the hospital that she

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247030/Grandmother-disgusted-filthy-hospital-nursed-bathed-patients-ward.html#ixzz0e1gcBqyI

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The C-SPAN Lie? 8x

Conservative Action Project: The Individual Mandate in “Obamacare” is Unconstitutional

Posted on December 21st, 2009 by Robert Romano  LINK

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT:

RE: The mandate under the Obama-Pelosi-Reid healthcare legislation requiring American citizens to purchase health insurance violates the U.S. Constitution.

ACTION: We urge you to make this point to members of the U.S. Senate—and if a bill passes the Senate to impress upon members of both chambers of Congress—that the key provision in the healthcare legislation violates the U.S. Constitution.

ISSUE: Mandating that individuals must obtain health insurance, and imposing any penalty—civil or criminal—on any private citizen for not purchasing health insurance is not authorized by any provision of the U.S. Constitution. As such, it is unconstitutional, and should not survive a court challenge on that issue. Supporters of the legislation have incorrectly contended that the legal justification for the mandate is authorized by the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, or the Taxing and Spending Clause. Given that this mandate provision is essential to Obamacare; its unconstitutionality renders the entire program untenable.

• The individual mandate is unconstitutional unless there is a specific constitutional provision that authorizes it. The federal government is a government of limited jurisdiction. It has only enumerated powers. Therefore unless a specific provision of the Constitution empowers a particular law, then that law is unconstitutional. There is no such authorization for the mandate.

• The individual mandate is not authorized by the Commerce Clause. Most of those advocating the Democrats’ bill say that Congress can pass this legislation pursuant to its power to regulate interstate commerce. That argument is incorrect, because there is no interstate commerce when private citizens do not purchase health insurance.

• The Commerce Clause only covers matters where citizens engage in economic activity. The last time the Supreme Court struck down a law for violating the Commerce Clause, in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court did so on the grounds that the activity in question was not an economic activity.

• The Commerce Clause only extends to persons or organizations voluntarily engaging in commercial activity. Government can only regulate economic action; it cannot coerce action on the part of private citizens who do not wish to participate in commerce. In the most expansive case for Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce, Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the Court upheld the agricultural regulation in question against a wheat farmer who earned his entire living from growing and selling wheat, making him a willing participant in interstate commerce.

• The Commerce Clause requires an actual economic effect, not merely a congressional finding of an economic effect. When the Court struck down the Violence Against Women Act in United States v. Morrison (2000), the Court noted that although the statute made numerous findings regarding the link between such violence and interstate commerce, it held that those findings did not actually establish an economic effect. Therefore the various interstate-commerce findings in the Senate version of the “Obamacare” legislation do not make the bill constitutional.

• The individual mandate is not authorized under the General Welfare Clause. The Supreme Court made clear in United States v. Butler (1936) and Helvering v. Davis (1937) that the General Welfare Clause only applies to congressional spending. It applies to money going out from the government; it does not confer or concern any government power to take in money, such as would happen with the individual mandate. Therefore the mandate is outside the scope of the General Welfare Clause.

• The individual mandate is not authorized under the Taxing and Spending Clause or Income Tax. The Constitution only allows certain types of taxation from the federal government.

• The Article I Taxing and Spending Clause permits duties, imposts, excises and capitation taxes — duties, imposts and excises are taxes on purchases. A capitation tax is a tax that every person must pay, and the Constitution’s apportionment rule requires that every person in each state must pay exactly the same amount. The Obamacare mandate is imposed on people who are making no purchase, and is a tax that some people in a state would pay, but others do not.

• The Sixteenth Amendment allows an income tax.  An income tax is imposed only on earnings, but people would have to pay this tax even if they had no income.

Therefore it cannot be any of these constitutionally-permitted taxes.

• The individual mandate is unconstitutional regardless of whether there are criminal penalties involved. There is no distinction between criminal and civil penalties for determining the constitutionality of legislation, and the penalty imposed in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) was not a criminal penalty. Therefore even if the criminal sanctions were removed from the legislation, the imposition of any penalty or consequence for not purchasing insurance renders the mandate unconstitutional.

• The individual mandate cannot be properly compared to requiring auto insurance. President Obama said in a Nov. 9 interview on ABC television that requiring people to buy health insurance and penalizing those that do not buy is acceptable because people are required to buy car insurance. That statement is untrue.

• Only state governments can require people to get car insurance. While the federal government is limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution, the states have a general police power. The police power enables state governments to pass laws for public safety and public health. The federal government has no general police power, and therefore could not require car insurance.

• States do not require people to purchase car insurance. Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. States require people to get insurance only as a condition for those people who voluntarily choose to drive on the public roads. If a person chooses to use public transportation, or use a bicycle instead of a car, or operate a car only on their own property, they are not required to have car insurance, and cannot be penalized for lacking insurance.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE UNCONSTIUTIONALITY OF THE HEALTH CARE MANDATE, PLEASE VISIT THESE WEBSITES:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/LegalIssues/lm0049.cfm

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28463.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28620.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28787.html

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/30/ken-klukowski-open-letter-pelosi-gibbs-constitution-individual-mandate/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/02/beware-the-health-insurance-police/

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/interview-with-the-president-jail-time-for-those-without-health-care-insurance.html

http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=7a758af3-1b78-be3e-e03a-c0eea6d515c5

12/21/09

(All organizations are listed for identification purposes only)

CONSERVATIVE ACTION PROJECT

Edwin Meese, former Attorney General

Steven G. Calabresi, Professor, Northwestern Law School

Mathew D. Staver, Founder & Chairman, Liberty Counsel

Curt Levey, Executive Director, Committee for Justice

Marion Edwyn Harrison, Past President, Free Congress Foundation

Kenneth Klukowski, Senior Legal Analyst, American Civil Rights Union

Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America

J. Kenneth Blackwell, Visiting Professor, Liberty School of Law

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

Matt Kibbe, President, FreedomWorks

Jim Martin, President, 60 Plus Association

David McIntosh, former Member of Congress, Indiana

Colin A. Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring

Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center

Brian McManus, Council for Affordable Health Insurance

Karen Kerrigan, President, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

T. Kenneth Cribb, former Counselor to the U.S. Attorney General

Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com

Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator

 

NHS [UK] maternity services in meltdown

NHS maternity services in meltdown: A former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos.

By Verena Burns
Last updated at 1:21 AM on 16th December 2009

Clutching her husband's hand and with agony and exhaustion etched on her face, a young woman struggled into a room in the maternity unit where I worked.

She was in the early stages of labour with her first baby, she was terrified, in excruciating pain and desperate for any crumb of support.

Helpless beside her, her overnight bag in his hand, her poor husband looked equally traumatised.

My heart went out to them. But I knew there was little I could do. With five other pregnant women to care for at the same time, all with hugely different and complex problems, I was rushed off my feet and didn't have the time to look after her properly, to allay her fears or to hear about how she wanted the birth to unfold.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235921/Midwives-meltdown-A-NHS-worker-reveals-understaffed-maternity-wards-sinking-chaos.html#ixzz0ZpAg9lI9

“The Most Powerful Office in the Land”

As we prepare for Victory 2010 in California's 29th Congressional District, it's important that everyone have a good understanding of Precinct Organization which is absolutely essential to electoral success.  The article below by Rick Herron is a simple yet powerful explanation of why Precinct Organization is so important to our American political system.  The Pasadena Patriots are now actively recruiting Precinct leadership at all levels - from Block Captains to District Chairpersons.  If you really want to make a difference in 2010, give us a call and we'll get you started (626) 792-1772. Note: As you read, keep in mind that although the precinct structure Mr. Herron refers to in Ohio is very similar to ours, there are some differences.  For instance, according to the by-laws of the California Republican Party, only seven Central Committee members are elected per Assembly District to represent all the Precincts of that District.  Running for these offices is fairly simple and includes obtaining 20 signatures and filing by February 1, 2010.  The election takes place during the Republican Primary on June 3, 2010.  We need as many Tea Party Patriots as possible to run for these offices! "The Most Powerful Office in the Land" by Rick Herron (Disclaimer for internet: Mr. Rick Herron gave this speech, and then approved this transcript of the speech, in 1988 for the Platform Republicans in Hamilton County, Ohio. The original talk and pamphlet was not copyrighted and was meant as a public service to go into the public domain for the benefit of the average pro-life voter in America who did not understand how our precinct system works. Mr. Herron has not been consulted on the posting of this public domain article on this website, nor should any endorsement of other items on this website, or any related website, by Mr. Herron be understood or implied by the posting of this excellent article here. Obviously, the precinct system is open to any group working on any issue or set of issues.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   Introduction to the Original Pamphlet In 1986 Rick and Debbie Herron attended conferences put on by the FREEDOM COUNCIL. At this meeting the "nuts and bolts" of politics in the United States were explained. Rick Herron explains that the first time through he did not fully appreciate what he had heard. When Mr. Herron's explanation was first transcribed into print in 1988, 321 pro-life candidates for Precinct Executive were already on the ballot in the Republican primary in Hamilton County the county which houses Cincinnati, Ohio. Everyone was now looking forward to the primary in May which would then be followed by the Hamilton County Republican convention in June, 1988. The pro-life faction had adopted the name "Platform Republicans" to indicate that they wished the local party to begin nominating only candidates who strictly adhered to the pro-life, pro-family planks of the 1980 and 1984 National Republican Platforms. Articles had already appeared in the Cincinnati Post, and the Cincinnati Enquirer; the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's pre-eminent newspaper, had devoted front page coverage to the movement. Why all the excitement? The Herron article explains why hundreds of Cincinnatians had been persuaded to run for the office of Precinct Executive. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   The Four Laws of Civics "Why are we running for Precinct Executive? The main thing to keep in mind is our goal. What do we want to accomplish by this? We believe this project will actually get the law changed. (Note: Herron is here referring to the law permitting the killing of unborn children by abortion and the need to change the law to protect the right to life of these babies.) "First of all, I would like to make clear that we don't believe this struggle between the forces of life and the forces of death is some kind of a debate. If this were a debate, we would have won a long time ago because all of the facts, all the logic, is on the side of life. Obviously, it's not a debate. We pro-lifers have been studying for debate while the enemies of life have been studying war. So guess who is winning the war? Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, we are in a state of war with the enemies of life. And don't kid yourself, you are their enemy. This war, this struggle, is being fought in the courts, and in the legislatures. Battles won and lost in this war are measured by government policy. Policy is the prize. And, right now, killing children is a policy of the United States. So our goal is to change the policy. So if policy is to change we must know how policy changes. This is where the four laws of civics come into play.   The First Law of Civics is that People Are Policy. And what that means is if you want to change the law, if you want to change the policy you have to change the people that make the policy. And if you doubt that, try writing a letter to Howard Metzenbaum sometime. "So how does the law change? Well, these Senators or Congressman up there they make a decision, they pass a bill the law changes. That's basically all there is to it. If during a vote there are more of THEM, then THEY make the policy. If on the other hand there are more of US, then WE make policy. Personally I would like it better if we made policy. So how do legislators get in there where they're in a position to change the policy? "Well, they're elected in the November General Election in accordance with: The Second Law of Civics which is: If Your Name Is Not On The Ballot, You're Not Going To Win. So in order for our friends to win the November General Election so they can change the policy we have to get their names on the ballot. "Well, how do we get their names on the ballot in November? Well, we get their names on the November ballot by ensuring that they win the Party Primary election in May. So people who want to be Senators and Congressmen have to run in the primary and then if they win, they get their name on the ballot in November. "So if we want to change the people who change the policy, it becomes our job to make sure that our friends win the primary. So how do we ensure that our friends win the primary in May? Victory in May is based on: The Third Law of Civics: Only Candidates Endorsed By The Party Win The Primary. It's just that simple. There might be six Republicans wanting to be Congressmen in the First or Second Congressional District. And they're all running in the primary. Only one of them is going to win and that's invariably the one that's endorsed by the Party. And there's a very good reason for that. Most voters are just like myself. They don't have time to study all the issues or candidates. Election day comes up on them just like it does on me oh my goodness, it's election day already. They go down to vote, and someone outside the polling place hands them a sample ballot that was published by their Party. They take the sample ballot in, they take a stylus in their hand they look at the sample ballot and they start punching holes. They're trusting their Party to have made the correct decision in endorsing these people. "So if we are going to change the people who change the policy we must ensure that our friends are endorsed by the Party so their names get on the sample ballot. "So, where do these Party endorsements come from? Who is the party? For all practical purposes the party is made up of members of the Executive Committee. And it is the Executive Committee that hands out the Party's endorsements. Every County has their own Democratic Executive Committee and Republican Executive Committee and we have ours in this county. These Committees decide who's name will go on the sample ballots which are distributed outside the polls at the primaries. The endorsed candidates win, they invariably do. After winning the primary they move on to the November General Election. The winner there goes on to Columbus (Ohio) or Washington and changes the policy. So it turns out these endorsements are very important. Because if our candidate doesn't get endorsed for the "May Primary" he doesn't go any further in the process. That's the end for us. It is important that we understand that in order to get to Columbus or Washington to change the policy, we have to succeed at each one of those steps. If we miss any one of them, the whole thing fails. "So, if we are going to change the policy, it becomes our job to get as many of our friends as possible onto the Executive Committee, so that we can ensure that our friends get the Party's endorsement at the "May Primary" step. "So what is the Executive Committee that passes out these endorsements? Wouldn't you agree with me that these are pretty important people, even more important than the people they endorse? Do you know any members of your Party's Executive Committee? Where do they come from? Who are they? How do you get to be on the Executive Committee? Do they run recruiting advertisements in the paper? Do you go down to the unemployment office and tell them you want to be on the Executive Committee? No. To ensure that our friends have a majority on the Executive Committee so that we can ultimately change the policy we must help them get elected to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee of the Party is elected every two years by the members of the Party's Central Committee. "So what is this Central Committee that elects the members of the Executive Committee? Wouldn't you agree with me that these are pretty important people, even more important that the executive committee that they elect? Where do they come from? Do you know anybody on the Central Committee? Did you ever hear of the Central Committee? Well, what is it? The Central Committee is made up of one person from each precinct in the County. (Note: your precinct consists of about five or six streets around your house.) Our County has 984 precincts, so there are 984 members on the Hamilton County Republican Central Committee. And each one of those members is called a Precinct Executive. The terms "Precinct Executive" and "Member of the Central Committee" are synonymous. This very important Committee meets at a very important meeting once every two years where the Executive Committee is elected. "So if we want to change the people that make the policy it becomes our job to ensure that our friends have a majority on the Party's Central Committee, so that our friends are elected to the Executive Committee, so that our friends receive the party endorsement, so that our friends win the primary, so that our friends can get on the ballot in the November General Election, so we can help them win there, so they can go on to Columbus or Washington and change the policy. "The bottom line is that membership in your Party's Central Committee is the Highest Office in the land. The reason that this is so is because the Central Committee decides who all of the policy makers are going to be. "So if we want to change the policy it becomes our job to become members of our Party's Central Committee. And that's why we're asking you to run for Precinct Executive: so that you will become a member of the Central Committee; so that then you will decide who becomes a member of your Party's Executive Committee; so that next a pro-life majority on the Executive Committee will endorse an all pro-life slate of candidates for the Party Primary Election; so that only our pro-life friends are on the ballot for the November General Election; and then, finally a pro-life majority in the state and federal legislatures will change the policy and keep it changed. "Because there can be only one member of the Central Committee from each of the 984 precincts in Hamilton County, it is imperative that we locate, and encourage to join with us, at least one pro-lifer from each precinct. That is why if each of us would do this in our own precinct then we will succeed. And so we conclude with: The Fourth Law of Civics: "The Precinct Executive turns out to be THE MOST POWERFUL OFFICE IN THE LAND. And that's why we are doing what we're doing."

 

WSJ - What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says

By BETSY MCCAUGHEY

The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know.

What the government will require you to do:

• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a "qualified plan." If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a "grace period" to switch you to a "qualified plan," meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there's no grace period. You'll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.

• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a "qualified plan" covers and how much you'll be legally required to pay for it. That's like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later. 

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Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes

Andrew Napolitano   - FOXNews.com  - November 06, 2009
(Judge Andrew Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst.)

Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be. 

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.

We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat.

When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me "Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone's healthcare--, he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights, it doesn't care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn't even read the laws it writes.

America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be. 

When Congress takes away our freedoms, they will be gone forever. What will you do to prevent this from happening?

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