Aprils 18th's Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir or Madam:

Just a very few words in response to the recent let­ter con­demn­ing the Mes­sen­ger and not pay­ing atten­tion to the message.

In my hum­ble opin­ion, Ray Charles could see that Mr. Obama and his Pro­gres­sive ilk are hell bent on destroy­ing Amer­ica as we know it. Oooooh, am I say­ing, “The Sky Is Falling?”

The writer of the let­ter, who wants to ignore the mes­sage of the Mes­sen­ger, asks for proof of the Progressive’s Agenda, has only to look and lis­ten to what Mr. Obama him­self has said.

Even before he was Pres­i­dent he berated small town Mid­west Amer­ica for cling­ing to their guns and reli­gion. Then he is angered because the Founders have put safe­guards into the Con­sti­tu­tion which pre­vent him from doing what he wants. Then he basi­cally tries to void the First Ammend­ment by doing an end run around it, regard­ing forc­ing Reli­gious Uni­ver­si­ties and Hos­pi­tals to do things which are com­pletely con­trary to their own reli­gious beliefs. Then just a few weeks ago he chas­tises the Supreme Court, which was founded by the very first act of the newly formed Con­gress and is one of three Co-equal parts of our Gov­ern­ment, because they had the nerve to over­turn what he called a “law that was passed by a strong major­ity of a legally elected Con­gress,” never mind the fact, that they deemed it unconstitutional.

These are just a few of the Red Flags that the Amer­i­can Elec­torate should con­sider before they even think of giv­ing him another four years to trans­form Amer­ica into just another Mediocre Social­ist Coun­try instead of the Unique Shin­ing City On A Hill, as Pres­i­dent Rea­gan saw it or the Grand Exper­i­ment (that worked) as our founders envi­sioned it.

Thank you, Darl Mills, Mt. Gilead

Dear Edi­tor,

After read­ing the let­ter writ­ten about the Tea Party one thing is very clear — that per­son has never been to a tea party meet­ing or taken the time to find out what tea par­ties are all about, oth­er­wise they would not have wasted their time writ­ing the let­ter and would have attended a meeting.

The prob­lem is peo­ple who are sit­ting on their back­side drink­ing Star­bucks watch­ing Real­ity TV are telling me they do not care about the con­sti­tu­tion or the free­doms they are los­ing every day. For them to say oth­er­wise are only mouthing words and not mean­ing any­thing they say. They also do not care or take the time to find out what is being taught their chil­dren in school because drink­ing Star­bucks is more important.

When was the last time they attended a school board meet­ing to ask if the prin­ci­pals of the con­sti­tu­tion is being taught to the chil­dren in the class­rooms. When was the last time they asked the State of Ohio Board of Edu­ca­tion why they do not want the con­sti­tu­tion prin­ci­pals taught in the schools in Ohio?

When was the last time they called or sent a let­ter to a con­gress­man or sen­a­tor ask­ing why they voted for a bill that not only takes free­dom away from us but also destroys the con­sti­tu­tion in some small way?

When was the last time they look a per­son in the eye that was run­ning for any elected office to find out how they stood on the impor­tant issues that affects their every­day life? Also to find out one other impor­tant item — do they sup­port the con­sti­tu­tion and what it stands for? After they are elected, do they keep an eye on the per­son elected to make sure they are work­ing for ‘we the peo­ple’ and not just spe­cial groups of peo­ple that uses money to buy their vote on issues? But then I guess they don’t care and also think that is alright that the peo­ple that are elected and sent to Wash­ing­ton DC feel they do not have to answer to the peo­ple who elected them, only to the bosses of their polit­i­cal party. I know drink­ing Star­bucks is more impor­tant than mak­ing sure our gov­ern­ment is work­ing for us not against us.

United Nations Agenda 21 — some peo­ple are right there is noth­ing to worry about. After all [what] it is plan­ning to do is to have a one-world gov­ern­ment so they can con­trol the whole world and have all of your free­doms taken away and you will be told where and where you can­not live. For years big unions and Mus­lim extrem­ists have been try­ing to do the same thing, so why would they want to team up the United Nations? Regard­less of polit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion, two indis­putable facts remain. Agenda 21 is a direct assault on pri­vate prop­erty rights and Amer­i­can sov­er­eignty, and it is com­ing to a neigh­bor­hood near you — but not under the name of agenda 21, but either called com­pre­hen­sive plan­ning, growth man­age­ment, or smart growth.

So it is the agenda of the Tea Party to do what peo­ple that don’t have time to do because drink­ing Star­bucks is more impor­tant. The main objec­tive of the Tea Party is to do the job they don’t want to do.

A grass roots orga­ni­za­tion that wants the con­sti­tu­tion taught in all of our schools in the coun­try. Let every elected offi­cial know they either sup­port the con­sti­tu­tion or they will be replaced by the way of the bal­lot by some­one who will. Also the fact they are work­ing for us not the other way around. The polit­i­cal agenda is to reestab­lish the free­doms we enjoyed in the past and to insure the same free­doms for the gen­er­a­tions to come after us. To return this nation to the great­ness and respect it once had but now has lost.

To sum it all up the Tea Party is a non-partisan, not-for-profit, grass roots orga­ni­za­tion, and like the orig­i­nal Boston Tea Party is not a social issue move­ment. Our core prin­ci­ples are fis­cal respon­si­bil­ity, con­sti­tu­tion­ally lim­ited gov­ern­ment, and a free mar­ket society.

Yes the Tea Party just wants to fight to pro­tect your free­dom to rant and rave about an orga­ni­za­tion you do not know any­thing about and to allow you the right to not attend a meet­ing to find out they are try­ing to pro­tect your right to stay home to watch TV and drink Starbucks

“When the peo­ple fear the gov­ern­ment there is tyranny, when the gov­ern­ment fears the peo­ple there is liberty.”

― Thomas Jefferson

Duane Rasey, Mount Gilead

To the Editor,

Last week a per­son responded to the let­ter I had writ­ten the pre­vi­ous week and that per­son sug­gested a few items to which clear, pre­cise, cohe­sive, and non-inflammatory expla­na­tions were requested. I will attempt to answer those con­cerns (sug­ges­tions) although I have already addressed most of them in pre­vi­ous Let­ters to the Edi­tor. If this per­son would still want more infor­ma­tion than I can pro­vide in this let­ter (because in order to keep it as short as pos­si­ble I can­not go into great detail), I sug­gest attend­ing the meet­ings — that is where the answers are found.

How are we dif­fer­ent? In other words, what does the Mor­row County TEA Party stand for? The Mis­sion of the Mor­row County TEA Party is to attract, edu­cate, orga­nize, and mobi­lize our fel­low cit­i­zens; to secure pub­lic pol­icy con­sis­tent with our three core val­ues of Con­sti­tu­tion­ally Lim­ited Gov­ern­ment, Fis­cal Respon­si­bil­ity, and Free Mar­kets; to pro­vide the voter with the infor­ma­tion and resources needed, because the ulti­mate deci­sion is up to the voter; to keep in touch with our state and fed­eral leg­is­la­tors so that they know how we think they should vote and to remind them of the promises they made.

Is the sky falling? No, but the Con­sti­tu­tion is being ignored and many of the Free­doms it guar­an­teed are falling by the way­side. The younger you are the more you have no idea how far afield we have been led. An exam­ple: Where in the Con­sti­tu­tion is the power of the Pres­i­dent to issue “Exec­u­tive Orders”? Where in the Con­sti­tu­tion is the power of the Pres­i­dent to name unelected Czars to cre­ate poli­cies and reg­u­la­tions? Nowhere!

“Arti­cle. I. Sec­tion. I. 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.”

If this per­son doesn’t own a Con­sti­tu­tion the TEA Party gladly will pro­vide them one free of charge. Other read­ing mate­r­ial they should read “A MIRACLE That Changed the World THE 5000 YEAR LEAP” Prin­ci­ples of Free­dom 101 by W. C. Skousen (this book includes the 28 Prin­ci­ples of Lib­erty); and “THE LAW” by Fred­eric Bastiat.

For the last one hun­dred and nine years, the haters of our United States Con­sti­tu­tion, the Pro­gres­sive Move­ment, have been chip­ping away our GOD-given free­doms and dri­ving our repub­lic into bank­ruptcy. It has been done by both polit­i­cal par­ties and many times with­out any con­sti­tu­tional author­ity. Don’t just take my word for it — look up, read and learn about the likes of the “Square Deal”, the “Fed­eral Reserve Act”, the “Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion Act”, the “Clay­ton Antitrust Act”, the “Fed­eral Farm Loan Act”, and America’s first-ever fed­eral pro­gres­sive income tax in the ”Rev­enue Act of 1913”. Also don’t for­get the “New Deal”, the “Fair Deal”, the “Great Soci­ety”, “Medicare”, “Med­ic­aid”, the “War on Poverty”, “Eco­nomic Stim­u­lus”, the “Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act” and “Obama Care!”

One of the state­ments that out­raged this per­son was that the Pro­gres­sives have teamed up with the United Nations Agenda 21. It was asked “how does one team up with an Agenda?” Agenda 21 is also known as “Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment” and was adopted at the UN’s Rio Earth Sum­mit in 1992, the U. S. sig­na­tory was George H. W. Bush. 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 and pledged to eval­u­ate progress made in imple­ment­ing the plan every five years there­after. Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton estab­lished, by Exec­u­tive Order, the President’s Coun­cil on Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment (PCSD) for the pur­pose of imple­ment­ing Agenda 21 in the United States. Cap and Trade, global warm­ing, pop­u­la­tion con­trol, gun con­trol, open bor­ders, higher taxes, higher gas prices, refusal to drill Amer­i­can oil, food con­trol and farm­ing con­trol (“reform”), and con­trol of pri­vate prop­erty are just part of Agenda 21.

At first glance some of these things might not sound like such bad ideas until one dis­cov­ers the insid­i­ous details that are involved. Don’t take my word for it — check it out your­self. Web sites are: www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/ — full text of Agenda 21; www.planning.org/growingsmart/guidebook/ — grow­ing smart leg­isla­tive guide­book; www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/ — Alliance for bik­ing and walk­ing; and www.icleiusa.org/- ICLEI Local Gov­ern­ment for Sus­tain­abil­ity USA. These and 18 other web sites were handed out at the March19th meet­ing where Agenda21 was presented.

Then there are peo­ple like George Soros who give bil­lions to left-wing causes, influ­ences U.S. elec­tions, and wants to cur­tail Amer­i­can sov­er­eignty. Soros is a finan­cial backer of Media Mat­ters for Amer­ica, a pro­gres­sive media watch­dog group that hyper­ven­ti­lates over any con­ser­v­a­tive view that makes it into the main­stream media. He is a major fun­der of MoveOn.org, and Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress that has been instru­men­tal in pro­vid­ing pro­gres­sive talk­ing points and pol­icy posi­tions for the Obama admin­is­tra­tion. Envi­ron­men­tal extrem­ism: For­mer Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his left­ist envi­ron­men­tal ideas have been funded by Soros’ money. He is also fund­ing these groups: the Ella Baker Cen­ter, Green For All, the Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress, and the Apollo Alliance which was instru­men­tal in get­ting $110 bil­lion in green ini­tia­tives included in Obama’s stim­u­lus pack­age. Soros also funds the Cli­mate Pol­icy Ini­tia­tive to address global warm­ing and gave Friends of the Earth money to “inte­grate a cli­mate equity per­spec­tive in the pres­i­den­tial tran­si­tion”, and all this while highly-respected sci­en­tists have stated that these fear­ful cli­mate claims are a hoax! Cur­rency manip­u­la­tion: A large part of Soros’ multibillion-dollar for­tune has come from manip­u­lat­ing cur­ren­cies. Dur­ing the 1997 Asian finan­cial cri­sis, Malaysian Prime Min­is­ter Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bring­ing down the nation’s cur­rency through his trad­ing activ­i­ties, and in Thai­land he was called an “eco­nomic war crim­i­nal.” Known as “The Man who Broke the Bank of Eng­land,” Soros ini­ti­ated a British finan­cial cri­sis by dump­ing 10 bil­lion ster­ling, forc­ing the deval­u­a­tion of the cur­rency and gain­ing a billion-dollar profit. Now he is a dri­ving force behind our finan­cial cri­sis. Once again, don’t take my word for it — check it out at the Library or on the internet.

Do we have rea­son to be con­cerned about los­ing our Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Republic?

Nel­son Hack. Mt. Gilead

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