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In eulogizing Senator Robert Byrd-Democrat West Virginia, former President Bill Clinton-Democrat, Arkansas, said: "There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned he once had a fleeting association with the Klu (sic) Klux Klan (KKK) and what does that mean?  I'll tell you what it means.  He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his like making it up -- and that's what a good person does....There are no perfect people! There are certainly no perfect politicians."

 

Well, the former liar-in-state was right about one thing; there are no perfect politicians.  However, to gloss over Robert Byrd's association with the racist KKK is beyond distortion.  It's re-writing history.  So what's new?  The Liberal/Progressives have been doing that for a hundred years.

 

Byrd was not just a country boy trying to get elected. He was also, a lifetime bigot, who was a big player in the Klan.

 

He didn't just go to a couple of meetings either.  He was an Exalted Cyclops. He got close to the Grand Kleagle, who was almost the Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the Klan.  This certainly was not just a casual or "fleeting" association (as suggested by our former president) that Senator Byrd had.  An Exalted Cyclops means he was a recruiter.  He solicited new members to hate black Americans; to segregate black Americans; even to beat and murder black Americans.  Robert Byrd formed a KKK chapter of his own.  He didn't just go to a couple of "fleeting" meetings, and he was a recruiter for years. He formed his KKK chapter in 1943.   And he was still writing about the 'vital need' for the Klan in 1946.  How do you "fleet" for three years?

 

Senator Byrd was so "repentant" he opposed every piece of civil rights legislation. He filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1965.  It wasn't until the death of his son in a car accident in the early 1980s that Robert Byrd said he had to rethink his feelings about black people. He said -- in the 1980s -- that it 'finally occurred to (him) that they might love their children, too.  What an awakening!  Black people actually love their children too!  My, oh my, wake up the kids!

 

Robert Byrd wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo-Democrat, Mississippi, in 1944, "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather, I should die a thousand times, see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." 

 

Sometime before the decade ended, the future senator later wrote a letter to the Grand Wizard (the REAL Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler) of the Klan saying, "The Klan is needed today as never before. I'm anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state of the nation." Robert Byrd was the only Senator to have voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, the only two African-Americans to be nominated to the Supreme Court.  Senator Byrd opposed Clarence Thomas because Byrd stated he was offended by Thomas' use of the phrase 'high-tech lynching' of uppity blacks in his defense.  Senator Byrd also opposed some of George W. Bush's judicial and cabinet nominees who were black.  Notably, Janice Rogers Brown for judge of the US Court of Appeals DC district, and Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State.

 

And that was only a decade ago.

 

For years the Democrats have been telling us that Republicans are racist.  Maybe it's time they learn their own history.  But, of course, that would necessitate telling the truth. And sometimes, the truth hurts.  Especially at election time.

 

That's why there are liars and storytellers in politics.  It makes getting elected so much easier.

 

How long do we continue to ignore the damage to America; in murders, maimings, kidnappings, car jackings, gang activities, drugs, environmental destruction and identity theft? It costs $2.7 billion annually in Arizona just to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. And what about the 30 million Americans out of work?  Yet we still allow employers to hire "undocumented" workers.

 

Here is the true cost of illegal immigration; the death and maiming of police officers and citizens in Arizona by illegal aliens:

 

1. Rob Krentz a rancher on the Arizona border (murdered)

 

2. Phoenix Officer Shane Figueroa (killed)

 

3. Phoenix Officer Nick Erfle (Murdered)

 

4. Phoenix Office Glidewell (shot in chest)

 

5. Phoenix Officer Marc Atkinson (murdered)

 

6. Phoenix Police Officer Ignacio Conchos and his partner, Officer John Davis  (murdered)

 

7. Phoenix Police Officer Ken Collins (murdered)

 

8. Officers Jim Kliewer and Officer Jerry Kilgore (gunned down)

 

9. Police Officer Brian Wilbur (seriously injured)

 

10. Officers Jim Kliewer and Officer Jerry Kilgore (gunned down)

 

11. Phoenix Police Officer Brian Wilbur (seriously injured)

 

12. Phoenix Police Officer Jason Schecterle (severely burned)

 

13. Phoenix Police Officer Robert Sitek (shot and seriously injured)

 

14. Child serial rapist in Chandler

 

15. 15 year old raped in Scottsdale by school janitor

 

16. 15 year old kidnapped and raped in Guadalupe

 

17. Kris Eggle-park ranger in southern Arizona (murdered)

 

18. Border Patrol Agent James Epling (murdered)

 

19. Deputy Sean Pearce (shot by homicide suspects)

 

20. Deputy Lew Argetsinger (shot by homicide suspects)

 

21. Sgt. Manuel H. Tapia (shot by a drug suspect)

 

22. DPS Officer Robert K. Martin, 57,  (shot to death - his assailant, Ernesto Salgado Martinez, a 19-year-old ex-convict)

 

23. Agent Richard Fass, 37, of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (murdered)

 

24. Agent Alexander Kirpnick, 27, Border Patrol (murdered)

 

25. Gilbert mother killed by illegal alien fleeing from police in Mesa

 

26. Jason, decorated Iraq war veteran stabbed in his own front yard by illegal alien

 

27. Mother "legal immigrant" killed by illegal alien trying to ram Sheriff's Deputy's car in Phoenix

 

28. Tracy "17 year old" killed by drunk illegal alien

 

The burden of blind-eye police department policies forced upon them by local politicians, police chiefs and open-border philosophies, were paid for with the lives of not only dedicated police officers throughout Arizona, but also its citizens.

The preceding disclaimer was taken from Wilder's copy of "The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and The Articles of Confederation."

Now, we're not talking about Penthouse magazine, or violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto.  We're talking about the founding documents of our republic.  Why would you need a disclaimer?  Should we now put a disclaimer in front of the works of Shakespeare; or Homer; or  Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?

What is it about the Constitution that doesn't reflect the same values that we have today?  We believe in personal liberty, equality and opportunity.  Do we all not desire to pursue happiness?  Or is that only limited to the rich and powerful apparatchiks; as in the former Soviet Union?

Those elites in academia would have us believe that our Founding Father's ideas and ideals are out-of-date.  They were really for another time.  So we shouldn't have freedom OF religion, we should have freedom FROM religion.  We should only have freedom of speech if it's politically correct speech and authorized by someone who's smarter than us.  We should only allow freedom of the press for those who agree with an administration and congress who seek ever more power.

You see, those above mentioned freedoms are rights guaranteed to us by our Bill of Rights; the first ten amendments to our Constitution.  There is a reason that they are in the 1st Amendment.  It's because they are the most important of our rights.  Without them, we would not have lasted 234 years.  These rights are not to be viewed in the context of ever-changing societal norms.  They are supposed to SET the norms. 

Our Constitution is the framework of our republic.  It spells out exactly how our government is meant to work.  Unfortunately, for the last one hundred years, we've strayed farther and farther from this MOST important document and we now have a government that is not of the people, by the people and for the people anymore.  With its continuing disregard for the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, it has proved that it no longer wants to govern.  It wants to rule.

I seem to remember that the last king who ruled over America didn't do very well. 

We've thrown out despots before.  We will throw them out again.

I recently received an email from a friend (at least I think he's my friend) in which he called me an idiot.  Well, he didn't directly call ME an idiot, but he referred to Tea Partiers as idiots.  I'll assume he did not know I was a Tea Partier since he subsequently emailed me and removed me from his list of idiots.  For which I'm eternally grateful--I think.

But it did give me pause to wonder why Tea Partiers are thought of by many as idiots.  So in my best Jeff Foxworthy impression:

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you believe the US Constitution is written in stone and not "living and breathing", subject to the whims of vainglorious legislators or misguided judges.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that "Thou Shalt Not Steal" applies to everyone; including the government.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that corporate cronyism will lead to fascism.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that "Press 2 for Spanish" or bilingual education does little to assimilate immigrants into the American culture leading to the "Balkanization" of America.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you see the federal government as out-of-control and encroaching more and more on our civil liberties.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you think that every single government program is on the verge of bankruptcy.

You may be a Tea Partier...

    If you resent the enslavement of minorities by a federal government that gives them handouts instead of opportunities.

You may be a Tea Partier...
    If you are angry that your children's and grandchildren's futures are being mortgaged to China.

And you may be a Tea Partier...

    If you tire at being called a racist and a bigot because you believe in the America of our Founding Fathers.

If these make me a Tea Partier AND an idiot, well, you can just call me "Lord of The Idiots."  

That's a moniker I'd be proud to wear.

So, I get an email from a friend today about our local tea party movement and thought I'd just "harangue it!"

the note:

As an insider with the Orlando Tea Party operation, can you enlighten me on the direction of this  once Righteously-spirited and Gentile of character movement?   Is our conservative reflex being controverted into a third party movement?  I never signed on for that!

 I thought I was just signing up for just  a little constitutional,  Jeffersonian revolution, a simple backlash statement to America's First Triumvirate: 'Obama-Pelosi-Reid', in an attempt to preserve our Republic.  I do not want any of us to become Cassius or Brutus, et. al.,   who killed for their Republic, and died violently because they were politically selfish, as a result.

Let me know.

my reply:

Hey Man ,

 

Great observation / question! I'll do my best to address it . . .

Any time you get more than a "group of one" it gets hard to agree on anything ;) The biggest problem with any movement is that it is made up of people, and quite frankly, people disappoint us!

Human nature; being what it is, despite the best efforts of those that teach otherwise, simply hasn't evolved since the ancient of days. And what you see now, is what I call typical - "Lawyer behavior". Lawyers by trade engage in the 'second oldest profession': "of taking something rather than making something!" Opportunism - is even more rampant in our post modern culture now that we have unbundled the moral component from society. And with such a large segment NOT believing that "Faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life" we as a society are "bound in the shallows and miseries" that accompany an existence absent Faith in God.

I believe that you, like we, "sign-up" for the Tea Party Movement! On the other hand there is the Tea Party - Party, which at least in Florida, is an attempt by folks to capitalize on the political opportunities created by the Tea Party Movement, you also have others attempting to financially capitalize on the Tea Party momentum by creating Tea Party PACs.

When I showed up for the first Tea Party meeting here in Orlando, there were 8 of us in the Room! Wow, we come a long way since then. And, while I can't speak for everyone, I think a good many of the Tea Party Movement folks have concluded that: While America is a two party system, our best hope is to use what ever influence we have to affect meaningful and positive results in candidates and elected officials that most closely reflect our own ideas - as we believe are set forth by our founders - in whichever political party they may be...

So while we have the Tea Party Movement fighting for the soul of our country, we also have the typical "tics on a dog" trying to aggrandize themselves or hijack our political fervor. But, we must 'shake the dust of our sandals' and endeavor forward, else the unholy triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi and Reid will visit a fresh manner of hell up on the producers in this country.

Most Patriots from the Tea Party Movement realize that the liberal's best chance for reelection - and to continue their assault on the principals that founded our nation - is for us to create a Third Party. What most denigrators of the Tea Party Movement don't realize is that the movement is all about ideas not about party: Ideas of Freedom, Liberty, smaller government and the concept of who owns you - whether "you own you" or the "state owns you".  And this is why the movement so terrifies entrenched party hacks who are bereft of ideas and instead substitute people over law, power over principal and advocate the false political economic doctrine where you are entitled to your neighbors stuff.

 Veritas Vincit,   -Rick

So, a year into Dear Leader's Reader's presidential term and we find that the whole "Hopey Changey" 'thang' was a bait and switch scheme from the jump.

 

While it should be no surprise that the most un-American of our Presidents - un-American being defined as having the least amount of shared experiences with the rest of us - would have a different view of what is right for our country, it is shocking to see how he is seeking to remake our country into a radical vision he learned elsewhere.

Perhaps this vision-quest for social justice was inculcated in a madrassa in Indonesian where he grew up as a young boy or maybe - by his own admission - transferred from is marxist professors in college or just fixed in his mind while sitting in the pews as a member of Rev Wright's congregation. This version of social justice is not at all what or Founders envisioned!

 

Our founders envisioned a "shinning city on a hill" where freedoms and the blessings of those freedoms were derived from God - not from Government! And while life outcomes might not be assured, at least we could all start the race from the same starting line. Now, as we remove God from our social and political discourse, we are moving toward a tyranny where what was once assured to us by God is now being stolen by an ever expanding central government to mete out at it's own capricious and arbitrary whims. "A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have."

 

The dirty little secret is, that the guv'ment is "sharing" dollars that belong to someone else.  Our guv'ment has NO MONEY.  In order for our politicians to give money to someone, they must first take it from someone else. This means that for every "public" dollar shared to accomplish a faux vision of social justice, that dollar must be confiscated from someone who created in the private sector as a fruit of their own labor.

If the European model of social justice is implemented, we can certainly get an immediate Q.E.D on how that has been working out for the last 40 years! Persistent unemployment always over 10%; and for those that have jobs, wages about 33% less than in America; and a reduced standard of living with much less discretionary spending. So for those on WIC, Welfare and raking in the other unearned "entitlements" your discretionary spending for 'rims', cellphones, flat screens and unfettered entertainment is directly paid for by those that have jobs! If we move to a  "social justice" scheme where we have fewer people working. If fewer people are working, then there will be less, less for everyone.

 

Freedom the real Social Justice - ... "is never more than a Generation away from Extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." source   Will you let Freedom die - on your watch?

Truly surprised this is NOT getting more attention!

'Beware the Ides or March', or in this case the Ides of December, when the 'socialists of the world' will meet in Copenhagen in hopes to mete out final punishment on free markets, capitalism and the Liberty and freedoms of the American Middle Class.


Buzz words to remember:

• Reparations
• Climate-Debt
• Global Government
• Treaty Enforcement

As a gentle reminder, treaties  ratified by Congress supersede ANY and ALL rights guaranteed by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Beware: these Climate Change thugs are coming after you and me - that's us - the U.S.  to collect a climate debt for our use of fossil fuels and collect the will try. If our congress ratifies this Global Warming Treaty Jackassary from Copenhagen - they will have just handed some dumb-tard Bureaucrat in Belgium sovereignty over you, your family and your children's future - FOREVER!  The dirty little secret is that once a treaty is Signed,it can NOT be unsigned without the consent of 100% of the signers.  Since the U.S will be the largest single financial contributor, it is highly unlikely that those on the recieving end will allow the U.S. to leave the treaty without some sort of conflict.

Please take a few minutes to view Lord Christopher Monckton commentary from October 14, 2009...



 


Et tu Barrack, et tu Congress? Despicable, like modern day Bruté attacking the last vestiges of freedom in the world.

Wow, if two years ago a TV news anchor would have said that our elected leaders would eagerly be embracing socialism they would have been laughed off the air.

• if twenty years ago somebody would have said that our elected leaders would eagerly be embracing socialism they would have been laughed out of town.
• if forty years ago somebody would have said that our elected leaders would eagerly be embracing socialism they would have been run out of town.
• if eighty years ago somebody would have said that our elected leaders would eagerly be embracing socialism they would have been dropped in their tracks.
• if one hundred years ago somebody would have said that our elected leaders would be eagerly embracing the collectivist ideas of espoused by Marx, Engels and they would have hung for treason!

Today we - us, US citizens - our constitution, our once free markets and our liberties are under attack by an "criminal mob" of Constitutional Apostates hell bent on waging 'social justice jihad' on the principles of our founders. These constitutional-contrivers, while claiming to looking forward, are actually aggressively working to subjugate us to the tyrannical rule of centralized government. Pharaoh, Caesar, King or Czar, all differing names for a title that seeks to devolve nearly 5000 years of social and political progress to return us all to the subservient slave, serf or vassal we were 'clearly'  meant to be.

The United States Congress, actively disavowing the principals of our founders and eagerly embracing the collectivist concepts of communism would be like the College of Cardinals electing an atheist to be the Pope.
 
America is under attack from within -led by the most un-American of Presidents and in the oldest of bait and switch schemes we bought 'hope and change' and when we get home from the election we find we have a 'pig in the poke' - hopelessness and collectivism.

Americans our country is being 'thieved' out from under us - what are you willing to do to stop it?

1. Call and write your congressman and Senators to voice your opinion - daily?
2. Donations of time AND money to Politicians who's campaigns you support?

Perhaps you will find some other PEACEFUL means here:
http://Resistnet.com  (Grassfire.org)
http://teapartypatriots.org
http://oathkeepers.org   for serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters

Pray for a Revival - yes petition God for divine intersession.   It is becoming clear to me that absent Trust in God we will not be able to return from the brink. Instead, we will be scattered among the nations of the world and our 'land will be laid waste and our cities will lie in ruins'.