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The United States of America
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| | is a Republican form of government vested in the the people to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" which puts forth a Constitutional structure of dual sovereignty, whereby firstly, legislative breadth is shared with a Congress limited to eighteen enumerated federal powers and with all other legislative power reserved to the states; and secondly, a federal Executive branch charged with the enforcement and administration of laws promulgated by Congress; and thirdly, a federal Supreme Court, and such other such inferior courts as Congress may legislate, to exert judicial power to resolve controversies. |
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The Do The Right Thing Party Mission Statement:
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| | The impetus for the Do The Right Thing Party is consistent with the Tea Party movement which is to stop excessive government spending and taxation by attracting, educating, organizing, and mobilizing our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets. |
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Do The Right Thing Party Founding Principle:
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| | Loyalty to the truth; a persistent commitment to the Constitution; and applying positive, constructive, efficient and effective solutions to address our opportunities and problems, are the three key requirements to sustain our Republic. |
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Core Values:
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| | Constitutionally Limited Government. |
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Fiscal Responsibility:
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| | Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or in the alternative, subjects its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restricts the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such current runaway deficit spending in Washington D.C. nows compels citizens to take action as the increasing national debt has become a grave threat to our national sovereignty, and the personal and economic liberty of future generation. |
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Constitutionally Limited Government:
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| | The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. It is possible for every citizen to determine the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, support for states` rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution is required. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters, support for personal liberty of the individual and adherence to the rule of law is absolutely necessary. |
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Free Markets:
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| | A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible. The current government`s interference with such matters distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded is now necessary, and citizens must oppose government intervention into the operations of private business. |
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Our Philosophy:
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| | The Do The Right Thing Party is dedicated to the three tennants of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. It is a non-partisan approach to ensure the core values derived from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. The plain fact is that the United States is a republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted "unalienable rights" by our Creator, and chiefly among these are the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We are all heirs to the republic, and as such we must claim our rights and duties which preserve their legacy and our own; and we as citizens must hold, as did the founders, that there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual. |
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Foreign Policy Agenda - Party Platform Top Ten List:
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| 1 | Achieve victory and bring home the troops in Iraq and Afganistan in a safe orderly manner with dignity and honor. |
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| 2 | Resolve the nuclear weapons threat posed by North Korea and Iran. |
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| 3 | Mitigate terrorism by capturing the leaders of terrorism and stopping their culture of hate. |
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| 4 | Increase human intelligence assets in Homeland Security to better defend against terrorism. |
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| 5 | Decrease reliance on foreign oil by increasing domestic energy production from all potential sources. |
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| 6 | Assist world leaders in improving the human rights of oppressed peoples. |
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| 7 | Endeavor to improve relations with our western hemisphere neighbors in Cuba and Venezuela. |
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| 8 | Facilitate a peaceful solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict. |
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| 9 | Improve the balance of trade and declining value of the dollar. |
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| 10 | Work with world leaders to resolve environmental and world trade issues. |
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Domestic Agenda - Party Platform Top Ten List:
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| 1 | Adhere to Constitutional principals: promote limited government, reduce taxes and support state`s rights. |
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| 2 | Require Congress to cite the specific constitutional authority to act in every bill it legislates. |
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| 3 | Require all Congressional legislation regarding a particular subject to be voted as a separate bill. |
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| 4 | Require Congress to desegregate seating by party and be in session only when a quorum is present. |
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| 5 | Enforce immigration law, identify every illegal alien, and then update our immigration policy. |
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| 6 | Give parents school vouchers for the taxes they paid to best decide where to educated their children. |
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| 7 | Privatize heath care insurance, require a published a price list and provide tax credits for premiums paid. |
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| 8 | Expand the opportunities for oil production and nuclear power to reduce reliance on foreign energy imports. |
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| 9 | Send a complete paper copy of the 70K pages of tax code to taxpayers annually and establish a federal flat tax. |
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| 10 | Enact a "Balanced Budget" Constitutional amendment and send taxpayers annually a plan to pay-down the defecit. |
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Top Ten Facts:
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| 1 | Congress needs to evolve from a group of 535 partisans to servants of the people as the Constitution demands. |
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| 2 | Our elected officials need to ensure the viability of the Republic instead of transforming it to a socialist-democratic state. |
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| 3 | People throughout the world demand liberty and peace, rather than a war given the choice. |
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| 4 | Good people everywhere want effective and long-lasting results rather than a good speech. |
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| 5 | The American people overwhelmingly want genuine solutions instead of relentless partisan bickering. |
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| 6 | The federal government needs to be vigilant in preventing terrorists attacking the Unitied States homeland. |
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| 7 | Every local community, regardless of political party, needs elected officials that respect and enforce the rule of law. |
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| 8 | The federal government has a duty to effectively and persistently enforce immigration law. |
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| 9 | Congress persistently lacks a commitment to balance the federal budget which puts the economy at risk of collapse. |
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| 10 | Supreme Court jurists who ignore the Constitution and politically amend the Constitution from the bench need to be impeached. |
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The United States Constitution ...
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In a Republic:
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| | Its purpose is to control the majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect the individual`s God-given, unalienable rights. |
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| | These controls result in also protecting the rights of the minority and the liberties of people in general. |
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| | A Republic is defined as: (1) a constitutionally limited government of the representative type; and (2) created by a written Constitution; and (3) adopted by the people; and (4) changeable from its original meaning by them only by its amendment; and (5) with its powers divided between three separate branches in order of importance: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. |
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| | The term "the people" above relates primarily to the voting electorate, but does include, in the context of liberties and rights, all of the citizens of the republic. |
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The United States Constitution sets forth a republic based on the "Rule of Law":
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| | "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State." [Article. IV, Section 1] "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." [Article. IV, Section 2] "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..." [Article. IV, Section 4] |
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| | "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."
[Article. I] "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States ... and ... shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective Numbers." [Article. I, Section 2, Clause 1] "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State..." [Article. I, Section 3] |
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| | "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." [Article. II.] |
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| | "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." [Article. III.] |
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| | There are twenty seven (27) amendments to the Constitution and the first ten (10) are said to be the "Bill of Rights" which came into effect more than 216 years ago on December 15, 1791. The Bill of Rights limits the powers of the Federal government of the United States, protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory. |
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The enumerated Powers of Congress granted by the US Constitution, Article 1, Section. 8:
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| | | Clause 1: | | The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; |
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| | | Clause 2: | | To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; |
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| | | Clause 3: | | To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; |
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| | | Clause 4: | | To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; |
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| | | Clause 5: | | To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; |
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| | | Clause 6: | | To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; |
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| | | Clause 7: | | To establish Post Offices and post Roads; |
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| | | Clause 8: | | To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; |
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| | | Clause 9: | | To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; |
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| | | Clause 10: | | To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; |
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| | | Clause 11: | | To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; |
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| | | Clause 12: | | To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; |
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| | | Clause 13: | | To provide and maintain a Navy; |
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| | | Clause 14: | | To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; |
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| | | Clause 15: | | To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; |
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| | | Clause 16: | | To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; |
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| | | Clause 18: | | To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. |
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| | The Federalist - the Founders rational related to the enumerated Powers of Congress |
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Herbert Hoover - "Emergencies" used by Congress as an excuse to ignore the Constitution:
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| | Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
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| | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - The "Emergency" used by Democrats as an excuse to pass Obamacare: |
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| | "But we have to pass the bill [now] so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
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| | The declaration of a national emergency by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal Congress in 1933 ushered in a new era of constitutional redefinition. Regardless of the Court`s declarations to the contrary, the emergency declared by Roosevelt became grafted into the Court`s New Deal jurisprudence in the form of drastic reinterpretations of the Constitution`s economic clauses. The changes resulting from Roosevelt`s emergency measures radically altered the American form of government. Even after the grounds for the alleged emergency presumably ended, the expanded federal powers invoked under the New Deal emergency decree remained. Today`s American political and legal structure is based, to a large extent, on this altered constitutional state invoked by that emergency decree. |
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What is NOT in the United States Constitution:
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| 1 | Mention of the existence, rights or priviledges of any political party. |
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| 2 | Any power of the President to declare war. |
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| 3 | The power of Congress to appropriate monies for health, welfare, education, environment, agriculture & energy. |
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Politics: link to full definition
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| | The art or science of government or governing, especially the governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs. |
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Thomas Jefferson:
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| | "On every question of construction of the Constitution, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." |
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John F. Kennedy:
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Margaret Thatcher:
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On Creating Dictators:
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| | "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler 1787 |
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| | Alexander Tyler was a Scottish history professor that had that to say about 2000 years after "The Fall of the Athenian Republic" and about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution. |
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On Communism and Socialism:
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| | "A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community."
Microsoft Bookshelf 1994 [context: the government is the community] |
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| | "Socialism is a stage on the way to communism, which is the more advanced stage of human organization."
Karl Marx |
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| | "How do you tell a communist? Well, it`s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It`s someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery."
Winston Churchill |
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| | "I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
Hugo Chavez |
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On Liberty:
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| | "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin |
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| | "Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
Winston Churchill |
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On abortion:
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| | "America did not invent human rights. It is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
Jimmy Carter |
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| | "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
Ronald Reagan |
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| | "A calloused attitude toward the unborn permits a calloused attitude toward the newborn, the elderly, the deformed,- as well as toward all principles of liberty."
Ron Paul |
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Office Holder Commentary ...
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Senator Harry Reid: Fox news, July 13, 2010
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| | A local TV reporter told Senator Harry Reid, "When you go to the unemployment office there`s many U.S. citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don`t have jobs because right now some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers." |
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| | Reid responded, "I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation." |
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| | When the reporter then cited a Pew Hispanic Center study that shows 17 percent of all construction workers are in the U.S. illegally, Reid said, "That may be someplace -- but it`s not here in Nevada." |
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| | However, Pew`s 2009 numbers show Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of unauthorized immigrants in the labor force. |
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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi: Fox news, March 18, 2009
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| | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is "un-American." |
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On Attorney General Eric Holder`s Policies: Fox news, July 06, 2010
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| | In emotional and personal testimony, J. Christian Adams, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. |
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Independent Commentary ...
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A closer look at "Change"... Who is the "enemy"?
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| | Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972) was an American "community organizer" and writer who defined the first job of a "community organizer" as a task to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable and their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments and/or greedy corporations. In 1971, Alinsky published "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals". One his rules included attacking individuals: "Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions." Success happens when the "community organizer" convinces followers that their own personal responsibility to lift themselves out of whatever misery they find themselves is a hopeless task and the more expeditious route is to rebel against the "enemy". The next job of a "community organizer" is to "help" these folks bond together and demand what they deserve by persistently putting forth the claim that the "enemy" is the dastardly governments and/or greedy corporations, and that success will occur when the "enemy" eventually sees an available "self-interest" opportunity to grant whatever terms it will take to cause the harassment to cease.
The Socialist movement uses Alinsky`s model to achieve success by using his "class warfare" approach , pitting the "middle class" and "poor" comprised of the "have nots" against the "haves" or "enemy" entities, and combining this approach with a need for hasty "emergency" measures to combat the "enemy", and justifying these "temporary" needs for setting aside the requirements of the Republic`s Constitution for the "greater good". Often times the "emergency" measures have lofty goals, but lack implementation details, especially the negative elements, before such is enacted. This gives the Socialist the initial opportunity to claim a measure of success with "change", then blame any failures on the "enemy", which gives rise to the need for even more "emergency" measures to combat the "enemy".
The fact is that the class oriented "have nots" always have more votes then the "haves". Thus, the Socialist`s goal is to bring as many "have nots" on board as possible to "change" the government paradigm and keep the focus on the "enemy", not the Socialist. Power shifts when the notion is accepted by the majority that there is no need to amend the Constitution as required by it, and give as much power as possible to the movement to defeat the "enemy". In the last step, a De Facto Socialist government emerges which "temporarily" suspends the Republic`s Constitution until things get better. Since, Socialist dictators rarely relinquish power and Socialist governments have even more rarely produced better results, the "temporary" need for setting aside the Constitution can last for decades until a revolution brings Socialism to collapse, and replacing such with a new government to complete the cycle.
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