Do we care?

From the Columbus/Central Ohio 9/12 Project:

To my fellow Central Ohio 9-12 Patriots – As you may have heard, the president will be in Columbus next month to campaign for Gov. Strickland. On our meetup.com site, one of our members posted this information as well. Our member asked…”does anyone care?” This question, quite frankly, chilled me to the bone. Do we care?

We’re all tired and want to go back to our normal lives before all of this started. THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT AND WHAT THEY ARE HOPING TO DO TO US. Please realize that we are “getting in their heads.” All you have to do is look at the amount and intensity of the attacks on us and our movement. We have done so much in such little time. This is no time to let up or give up.

Please, please take a few minutes to view this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAgmrSimx4

He said:

“The price for this freedom, at times, has been high but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.  The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow*, and so many thousands of others, were called upon to make.  It does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds.  To believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.  And after all, why shouldn’t we believe that, WE ARE AMERICANS.”

*Just as Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Inaugural Address sent Americans scurrying to their Bibles in search of the Prophet Micah, Ronald Reagan last week set the nation wondering about Private Martin A. Treptow, an obscure World War I hero. The new President, inspired by a letter from an unnamed admirer, quoted a passage from Treptow’s diary: “America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.”

Please, don’t lose focus on what we need to do, what is at stake.

The president will be at the Columbus Athenaeum (32 North Fourth St. 43215) on Wednesday, August 18th at 11:30 a.m.  I contacted Strickland’s campaign and was told the speech and fundraiser are one in the same at this location.

DO WE CARE?

“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves.  Ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children…”

Thank you for your time and for your efforts.

- Joan Magnacca

Now is the time for average Americans to do great things.

We Want You!

We are looking for more people to serve on the Education Committee. Assistance is needed with planning programs and classes, researching educational resources, and finding appropriate venues and speakers.

In addition, we need people who are willing to present programs and lead discussions. No experience is needed – just a willing heart. If you are interested in working on this vital committee, please attend our next 9/12 Education Planning meeting – Monday August 2, 2010. I know it’s very short notice. Please respond to Laura @ laura@cincinnati912project.com if you are willing to serve on the committee, even if you can’t make the meeting.

Bring your thinking caps… hope to see you there!

August 2, 2010 – 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.

Symmes Branch Library
11850 Enyart Rd.
Loveland, Ohio 45140

The Consequences of One Party Rule

Not content with further increasing confiscatory taxes and obligating each and every citizen to their $47,000 share of the $14 Trillion National Debt Congress created, the 111th Congress and Barack Obama now seek to confiscate two years of each Citizen’s life through HR 5741, the Universal National Service Act.

What is the purpose of the Universal National Service Act? “To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

HR 5741 Section 105 (c) To the extent determined appropriate by the President, the President may use for purposes of this title the procedures provided in the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.), including procedures for registration, selection, and induction.

The 111th Congress is blatantly showing its definition of “Serving the Public” which is to serve the public as on a platter rather than to as a servant of public.

Clean House in 2010? I certainly hope so, along with 1/3 of the Senate. Then continue the cleaning in 2012 and 2014.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-5741

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-in/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h5741ih.txt.pdf

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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams

Dancing as the nation is destroyed

Representative Boehner:

From an out of control and bloated budget approaching $4 Trillion you people could not find the several billion to extend unemployment benefits without increasing the deficit even further?

Nero only fiddled while Rome burned, you people are celebrating and gorging yourselves on every excess imaginable as you pursue every opportunity to harm this nation and its Citizens. The 111th Congress is beyond irresponsible, your actions are treasonous.

Emmette Boone
College Corner, OH
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“Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?” “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.” ~~ Question & answer of Benjamin Franklin on a sunny day in 1787 Philadelphia.

My strong objection to the confirmation of Elena Kagan

The Honorable (Senator Name)
United States Senate
524 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

RE: My strong objection to the confirmation of Elena Kagan

Dear Senator (Senator Name):

The Executive and Legislative branches of our government have been taken over by a coalition whose goal is a fundamental remaking of our country. Our only remaining check and balance is the Supreme Court. The U. S. Constitution was written to protect the rights of American citizens and limit the powers of government. The duty of the Supreme Court is to apply the law as written; not to change the law to fit political or social objectives.

Article 5 of the Constitution provides the amendment process as the method for making any changes the people deem necessary. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution grants to the legislature the power to “create all laws”. Article 6 of the Constitution states that judges shall be bound by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. It does not allow for any court, including the Supreme Court, to ignore or otherwise pervert the law of the land according to the political beliefs of the judge.

Elena Kagan is a political ideologue with zero judicial experience. Her past actions indicate that she will become an activist judge to change the laws of our country based on international law and social objectives. Her record makes it clear that she will vote to eliminate free speech, limit Second Amendment freedoms, remove limits on the powers of government, and take away any other individual rights of U. S. citizens that interfere with her personal perception of the “greater good”.

Elena Kagan is not fit to serve as a U. S. Supreme Court Justice and is a threat to the only remaining check against unlimited government expansion.

Please push your fellow senators to stand up for the Constitution of the United States and the rights of citizens. Filibuster the confirmation of Kagan to prevent this destruction of the rule of law upon which this nation is based.

Sincerely,

(SIGNATURE)
(NAME)
(ADDRESS)
(CITY, STATE ZIP)

Republicans Who Supported Sotomayor (9 of 40)

• Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)
Voinovich, George V. – (R – OH) Class III
524 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3353 Fax: (216) 522-7097 Cleveland

• Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Graham, Lindsey – (R – SC) Class II
290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5972

• Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Alexander, Lamar – (R – TN) Class II
455 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4944
Fax: (202) 228-3398

• Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
Bond, Christopher S. – (R – MO) Class III
274 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5721

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Collins, Susan M. – (R – ME) Class II
413 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2523 Fax (202) 224-2693

• Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
Snowe, Olympia J. – (R – ME) Class I
154 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5344 Fax (202) 224-1946 Fax: (202) 224-1946

• Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Lugar, Richard G. – (R – IN) Class I
306 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4814 (202) 228-0360

• Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.) No longer in Senate

• Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Gregg, Judd – (R – NH) Class III
201 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3324

Republicans Not in Senate for Sotomayor Vote

• Sen. Scott Brown (MA)
Brown, Scott P. – (R – MA) Class I
317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4543 Fax: (202) 228-2646

• Sen. George LeMieux (FL)
LeMieux, George S. – (R – FL) Class III
356 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3041 Fax: (202) 228-5171

Other Republicans Likely To Support Kagan

• Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah)
104 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-5251
Fax: (202) 224-6331

• Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.)
172 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-5754
Fax: 202-224-6008

Senator Jon Kyl (Ariz)
730 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 29510
P 202-224-4521
F 202-224-2207

Who you walk with

Representative Boehner:
In a press conference with Mexico’s President Calderon on May 19 Barack Obama opined, “Tell me who you walk with, I’ll tell you who you are.”

Other than a community organizer whose birth certificate and other records are sequestered, who is Barack Obama? Examining who he has chosen to walk with, the picture of who Obama is becomes clear. Obama’s walking companions: Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, William Ayres, Louis Farrakhan, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Rod Blagojevich, Bernardine Dohrn, ACORN activists, marxists, socialists, anti-American activists, opponents to Constitutional Principles ad nauseam.

Who is Barack Obama? Read his autobiographies. Examine with whom he has walked.

Who are our representatives in the US Congress House and Senate? Who are the latest nominees to seats on federal courts, including the Supreme Court? Examine with whom they walk. Those who walk with Barack Obama are accompanied by those with whom Barack Obama has walked in his past and emulates today.

Emmette Boone
College Corner, OH
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“Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?” “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.” ~~ Question & answer of Benjamin Franklin on a sunny day in 1787 Philadelphia.

The States Can Stop Obama

The States Can Stop Obama
By Sheriff Richard Mack (Ret.)

By now we have all heard the cliches and seen the posters from the “Tea Parties” espousing freedom, less government, and perhaps most of all, how the federal government had better back off trying to shove their national healthcare down our otherwise healthy throats. The truth of the matter is all the slogans of “Don’t Tread On Me” or “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” or “We’re Mad As Hell And We’re Not Taking It Anymore,” don’t mean a thing when compared to reality; the real and actual answer to all the protests, marches, and outrage. The answer is in our own backyards! The States can stop every bit of it! That’s right, the individual States can stop “Obamacare” and all other forms of out-of-control federal government mandates and “big brother” tactics. If Arizona, Hawaii, New Hamshire, Texas, etc. want nothing to do with National Healthcare as proposed by Barack Obama or Congress, then all they have to do is say “No!”

For you skeptics who think the States could no more do this than fly to the moon, let’s look at the law. First, the U.S. Constitution is the ultimate and supreme law of the land. More specifically, the Bill of Rights was established, because some of our Founding Fathers, feared that the Constitution did not go far enough in restricting or limiting the central government. Hamilton was one of a select few who wanted a bigger and powerful federal government.
However, several key states and powerful delegates such as Patrick Henry, said they would not support the formation of a new government if the Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights, a supreme law to establish basic and fundamental human rights that could never, for all future American generations, be violated, altered or encroached upon by government. So the Framers of our Constitution came up with ten; ten God-given freedoms that would forever be held inviolable by our own governments.

The last of these basic foundational principles was the one to protect the power, sovereignty, and the autonomy of the States; the Tenth Amendment. This amendment and law underscores the entire purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forbids the federal government from becoming more powerful than the “creator.” Let’s be very clear here; the States in this case were the creator. They formed the federal government, not the other way around. Does anyone believe rationally that the States intended to form a new central government to control and command the States at will? Nothing could be further from the truth. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution details what duties the federal government will be responsible for under our new system of “balanced power.” Anything not mentioned in Article 1, Sec. 8, is “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (Tenth Amendment) Hence, the federal government was not allowed creativity or carte blanche to expand or assume power wherever and whenever they felt like it. The feds had only discrete and
enumerated and very limited powers. Omnipotency was the last thing the Founding Fathers intended to award the newly formed federal government. They had just fought the Revolutionary War to stop such from Britain and their main concern was to prevent a recurrence here in America.

In perhaps the most recent and powerful Tenth Amendment decision in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mack/Printz v U.S. that “States are not subject to federal direction.” But today’s federal Tories argue that the “supremecy clause” of the U.S. Constitution says that the federal government is supreme and thus, trumps the States in all matters. Wrong! The supremacy clause is dealt with in Mack/Printz, in which the Supreme Court stated once and for all that the only thing “supreme” is the constitution itself. Our constitutional system of checks and balances certainly did not make the federal government king over the states, counties, and cities. Justice Scalia opined for the majority in Mack/Printz, that “Our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other.” So yes, it is the duty of the State to stop the Obamacare “incursion.” To emphasize this principle Scalia quotes James Madison, “The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” The point to remember here is; where do we define the “sphere” of the federal government? That’s right; in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and anything not found within this section belongs to the States or to the People. So where does health care belong? The last place it belongs is with the President or Congress. It is NOT their responsibility and the States need to make sure that Obama does not overstep his authority.

Just in case there is any doubt as to what the Supreme Court meant, let’s take one more look at Mack/Printz. “This separation of the two spheres is one of the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty. Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other…” What? The Constitution, the supreme law of the land, has as a “structural protection of liberty” that States will keep the federal government in
check? No wonder it was called a system of “checks and balances.” The States (and Counties) are to maintain the balance of power by keeping the feds within their proper sphere. So do the States have to take the bullying of the federal government? Not hardly! The States do not have to take or support or pay for Obamacare or anything else from Washington DC. The States are not subject to federal direction. They are sovereign and “The Constitution protects us from our own best intentions.” (Mack/Printz) Which means the States can tell national healthcare proposals or laws to take a flying leap off the Washington monument. We are not subject to federal direction!

In the final order pursuant to the Mack/Printz ruling Scalia warned, “The federal government may neither, issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.” It is rather obvious that nationalized healthcare definitely qualifies as a “federal regulatory program.”

Thus, the marching on Washington and pleas and protests to our DC politicians are misdirected. Such actions are “pie in the sky” dreaming that somehow expects the tyrants who created the tyranny, will miraculously put a stop to it. Throughout the history of the world such has never been the case. Tyrants have never stopped their own corrupt ways. However, in our system of “dual sovereignty,” the States can do it. If we are to take back America and keep this process peaceful, then state and local officials will have to step up to the plate. Doing so is what States’ Rights and State Sovereignty are all about.

KING’S DISCHARGE PETITION

From: “Howard”
Date: July 8, 2010 12:31:28 AM EDT
To: Jean Schmidt , Gertrud Whitaker , Sara
Subject: KING’S DISCHARGE PETITION

Dear Jean,

Thanks for signing on to Steve King’s Discharge Petition which I hope will lead to a new vote in the House on “obamacare.” Perhaps this monster can be throttled to death while still in the crib.

All the best,

Howard
Member, Union Township and
Clermont County RCC
Member, Union Township TEA Party

God Bless The USA

This is all I need to say today. Watch this, and remember to give thanks that we are living in a time and place that we can hold these truths, and fight to restore our country. Remember why we’re here, and resolve to do everything you can to honor these people, and all patriots everywhere fighting alongside you, past and present. Happy Birthday, America. We promise not to let you down

In liberty,
Karen Best
Founder/Cincinnati 912 Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnHYKvdBsE&feature=youtube_gdata

“DEEMED”? WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN CONGRESS?!

Sent this to Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (OH-2). I encourage each of you to send this or something similar to your congressperson ASAP. Click into www.house.gov to get your rep’s email contact address. Thanks.

Dear Jean,

Please do all you can to stop the Democrat-controlled Congress from “deeming” legislation into law. Apparently they have “deemed” as passed a 1.1 trillion-dollar budget that isn’t a budget. That cannot be allowed to stand. They are spending my taxes without a budget and without debate and a straight up and down vote.

This link describes it.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37893

November 2d can’t come soon enough for me and for millions of voters like me.

All the best,
Howard
Eastgate