Fear and loathing by the federal government: Free people are dangerous and undesirable….

The DHS says: If you're thinking about speaking out against government tyranny...think twice.

Do you advocate for individual liberty, publicly or privately? Do you revere the U.S. Constitution as a barricade against a federal government metastacized into an enemy of freedom instead of its protector? Do you store food for emergencies? Do you own a gun? Are you a military veteran returned from a war zone assignment? Do you drive a van? Do you pay cash for some purchases? Are you “suspicious of federal government authority”?

According to a new study paid for by the federal Dept. of Homeland Security (“DHS”)…

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It is One Thing to Declare Independence…It is Another Thing Entirely to Have it.

New Hampshire with American FlagIt is a well reported truism that Independence day, the 4th of July, the day selected as the one on which we told our oppressors we’d take no more, that Republican’s and Conservatives, Libertarians as well, reap more significant social and political benefits than our Liberal and Democrat/Progressive opponents.  The people who support the left are just not as in to it.  Telling.

So this is not much different than the way many Democrats who run for elected office pander to their still-majority religious nation of ‘God-fearing’ peasants.  The patriotism is an act.  They pretend to admire the documents and ideas that, at their core, stand between them and the kind of government they prefer.  They rearrange the words, and change the meanings to justify acts that reduce us to little more than slaves; either to finance their ambitions or as the impoverished recipients of them.  Reduced to subsistence defined by a distant tyrant whose swarms of Officers harass our people, and eat out their substance.

What the left espouses as patriotism would more accurately be defined as Nationalism.  The state and the party before all else.  Not much different than having a king, something we said we didn’t want 236 years ago.

Which reminds us.  It is one thing to declare Independence.  It is another thing entirely to have it.

We live in a Republic.  Your states are sovereign.  Unshackle yourself from the distant tyrant.  Just say No to Obama.  And if we say no together, there is not much he or any progressive tyrant can do about it.  Without us, they are nothing.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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A Patriotic “New Years” Resolution – Resolve To Be Free From Tyranny

I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Independence day, which I did not in my previous post with the Declaration of Independence.  I also wanted to mention the strange feeling that I awoke with today.

I think I know what the second or third generations of conquered nations felt like; remembering the “old ways” out of deference to our ancestors or as a way of expressing defiance.  You can see the history in your own past, that of friends and neighbors, places and days, stories told, in objects and heirlooms.  You can even smell it and hear it.  But you can’t quite remember it.  That is how I felt when I woke up. Unfocused. Not certain of where the path was that I am looking for.

But I am not a “Sunshine Patriot.”  Most of my activism has occurred during these dark hours of the Obama years.  I didn’t have to be afraid of the Socialists hiding in the bushes.  They have been running my country under the cover of a propaganda media.   And despite these odds I am here, on the front line, every day, investing my own time and effort to promote a different message.   And I am not alone.  Everyone here at GraniteGrok is doing the same thing.  And at blogs all over the country.  And that is the message.  No matter what is set before us, we are not going quietly.  We will not just shout in the darkness.  We will instead light another candle to push back the infringing pall of tyranny just a little bit longer.  But we need your help.

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What’s a Fourth without parades?

I am awaiting some important phone calls so today, no parades for me (and I do like parades!).  However, Grokster Mike sends this one in from Amhearst:

Mike at Amhearst 4th of July parade 1

I know the person that built this – Bill Tobin of Sanborton.  A good man, proud of his country and proud of his state – representing the Great Seal of New Hampshire! (And, by the way, an Ovide supporter- that frame on the truck bed is about to sport a pair of Ovide signs)  Oh, and Mike found the center of the Obama – Biden contingent:

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A Fourth of July message to my fellow Groksters – and to our readers. And especially to those that just might be stopping by.

“I also wanted to mention the strange feeling that I awoke with today….and I share your sense of – not unease necessarily, but maybe  – resolve..?“

Words from my fellow Groksters that stirred me to write a message back:

My fellow Groksters,

There was a reason why each and everyone of you was chosen and asked to write for GraniteGrok.  I also believe that there was a reason why each and everyone of you said yes – you all realized that we ARE in a Cold Civil War, that “the strange feeling that I awoke with today” one that is “instinctive” and “palpable” are real.  I started this blogging schtick with Doug back in 2005 when it was just a novel way to get our rather opinionated opinions out there.  Now, I see that there was a Higher Purpose that yanked us into this place, and what we do now as the ‘Grok is probably far more important than what I ever thought.  Liberty and Freedom.

This July Fourth, we realize we are at a tipping point – a very important one.  We are in a fight for our Country’s future; the line has been drawn, and we either are those that just drift along or we respond that that “instinctive” and internal sense that something is awry.  If not us, then who?  Who will run to the ramparts to defend our Shining City on a Hill?  Who will stir themselves from the easy life and the easy way?  Who will say “I will put away the couch, the tv, the toys, and my family” and look deeper into their core to say “There is more; I am a descendent of our Minutemen – if not by blood but by that same love of country and Ideals”.  I will stand, not for the Old World based failed reasons that motivated my ancestors to leave the Old Country, but for the Rights given to me by my Creator.  I am that new Minuteman that refuses to give in to the Progressives that not only defend the Statism of that Old World but wish to entrench it here.  Millions have died to defend the philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence – yet, Progressives are fighting to redefine those words and ideas, turn them upside down, and say that they are the Patriots and we are the extremists.   They are the Fifth Column, the Trojan Horse, spreading rot within all of our institutions and Society.

But all of you Groksters and others that join with us in spirit (TEA Party, 9-12, constitutionally aware), are now are saying “You have gone far enough – and we will stop you”.  Some of you have already done your part; you took the oath, did the training, did the hard work, and literally fought for us.  We who stayed home did other things, vaguely aware that you were on the parapets standing guard and keeping us safe.  Yet, even with your tours long over, have come back to the fight once more.  Not with a gun (though you have such at the ready, with the spirit to lift it) but with keyboards, voices, and heart.  We who did not wear the uniform now join you in this different fight, side by side with you, ready to now do our part.

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What was the American Revolutionary War?

Thomas Fleming, in the July 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: As the Revolutionary Way progressed, “not a few of the rebels saw that the Revolution was a spiritual enterprise that would never really end.” For today’s American patriots, so it continues to be….

What’s a Fourth without parades? Part 2

Mike, our intrepid “National Correspondent” (since he is constantly flying all over the country!) send in another pic, this time from the Merrimack Fourth of July parade:

Real cool antique truck –  Power Wagon!

He promises more to come – and here (Update) are some:

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Thus far shalt thou go and no further

Revolution

On this day, a congress of desperate men drew a line in the sand; a line upon which they squarely placed their assets, reputations, lives, and the lives of their families.

What caused them to take such a risk? We all know what happened on July 4th, but what was at the heart of such a gamble for a group of educated and relatively comfortable men with plenty to lose?

“Self-determination”

These men already knew that in the colonies, men had the ability, within their class, to be successful by waging business, farming, or providing services.  Resources and opportunity were plentiful and, after a handful of generations had settled in, they began to see themselves as a sovereign people; yet Britain chose to treat them as a revenue-generating satellite of their massive empire, rather than brethren Englishmen.

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Notable Quote – Frank Chodorov

On this day where we celebrate Freedom, a warning on those that would take it away: Perhaps it is an inner need that impels the socialist to his ideology, for I have never met an advocate of government intervention who did not admit, inadvertently, his own capacity for commissariat functions.  He always has a plan, … Read more

Obamacare – Unleash the IRS!

(H/T: cartoon from Lucianne)

Well, does Nancy P. remind you of the Wicked Witch?  Well, now that Obamacare has been judged constitutional, we all are going to be meeting up real closer now with our friendly neighborhood IRS dudes (reformatted and emphasis mine):

  •  The IRS now gets to know about a small business’s:
  • entire payroll
  • the level of their insurance coverage
  • Whether small businesses provide “affordable” coverage to workers as determined by Big Govt.
  • A “shared responsibility requirement” fines up to $2,000 per worker after the 50th person if insurance is deemed inadequate (which means you may have to tell your employer a lot of  personal / family info you never had to before
  • It gets to know information about you and your family:
  • the income of the primary breadwinner in your house
  • and your entire family’s income
  • Determining whether individuals buy “adequate” health coverage
  • Insurance plan information, including who is covered under the plan and the dates of coverage
  • The costs of your family’s health insurance plans
  • Whether a taxpayer had an offer of employer-sponsored health insurance;
  • The cost of employer-sponsored insurance
  • Whether you have received a premium tax credit
  • Whether you have an exemption from the individual responsibility requirement.
  • Whether or not you are subject to the Mandate / Tax penalty is based not on your income, but your household income.

Obama on Unpatriotic Debt – Rut-Roh…

Bwahahahahahaha!   I love Liberals.  Honestly.  They don’t even make it difficult. H/T Hot Air And why not post the RNC’s response… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VbJ9ICG3Z_I

How is the NH Union Leader Like FEMA…?

How is the Union Leader Like FEMA…?   Slow to respond and not very satisfying results.  (Ok, maybe they are not that bad, just maybe this once.) Five days ago the Union Leader reported that Salem NH House Rep. Marilinda Garcia was against the veto override of HB 1679- the partial birth abortion ban bill.  They … Read more

You’re Just Not Smart Enough For Free Speech

All things being equal, the only reason Democrats might have to complain about the affect of FEC vs. Citizens United on paid political speech is if it somehow removed some pre-existing advantage they had.  Why else cause such a fuss?  The left clearly has just as much right to take advantage of the current state of political discourse as anyone, right?

So that’s not the problem, is it?

The real problem has nothing to do with money.  Democrats have tons of that and always have.  And they never complained when they could afford more “speech” than anyone else.  So spending money on speech is not the issue.

And it has nothing to do with ‘transparency, not the way they have framed it.  They want “transparency” because without it they can’t use their media advantage to intimidate opponents into keeping their opinions, ideas, and money to themsleves.  Democrats can’t silence groups of donors they cannot specifically identify (see also Obama/FEC trying to force Right wing groups to release donor lists).

So Democrats are not worried about money in political speech.  They are worried about money and speech they can’t control.  They are worried about people hearing any message that is not their message.

Democrats are afraid of free speech because they simply do not think you are smart enough to know what you are supposed to believe.

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Running in Rockingham 17 – A Democrat Socialist From Tennessee?

William Hudson Connery III is running for the New Hampshire House.  He is a Democrat.  He is running in Rockinham 17.   And with the registration deadline just past, he’s already got problems.

William-Hudson Connery III cant stand church goersLet’s start with that picture of the anti-religious bumper sticker he had posted on facebook that he abruptly took down…just after he signed up to run for the New Hampshire House I’d guess.  The one that says, “I’ve got Nothing Against God, It’s his fan club I can’t stand.”  He is certainly welcome to his opinion but not being able to stand most of the population seems like a strange condition for someone seeking public office.  If he “can’t stand” 8 out of 10 constituents who exactly is he hoping to represent?

He’s also rather partial to another bumper sticker (if you read the updates next to the picture) that says “I’m sorry I missed Church I was too busy practicing witchcraft and being a lesbian.”

Well where’s the left wing outrage about that?

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GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC presents Rosa Koire on Agenda 21 – Parts 6 and 7

I’ll tell you, the more I hear about the subject, the thoughts of “are you serious”?  Yet, when I look at the example in Portland, Oregon where “sustainable development” is the end-all-be-all of urban planning, I start to think “mmmm, maybe there is something to this” (here, here, here, and here).  Skyrocketing housing costs have … Read more

Book Review – Rebuild the Dream by Van Jones – Part 1: Lie 1

Rebuild The Dream by Van JonesAs I posted here, I purchased a copy of Van Jones’ new book and had it signed by Van himself.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have a shot to start reading it.  Until today.

There’s been a lot of stuff going on, both in my blogging life as well as in the life outside of the laptop (little as it might be) and I just needed to switch gears for a bit.  So, I started to read some of the books that have been sitting on the shelf for a while – and realized how much I’ve missed holding a book in my hands!  So I as said earlier, it was time to read this book by one of the biggest cheerleaders for a “government centered life” for us all – and basically, someone who has no problem in slagging folks like TEA Partier me.  After all, I’m not someone who studied Marx as a political way to follow and have little truck with Communitarianism – a word that you’ll be seeing more often here on the ‘Grok.  Essentially, the emphasis is on “the community” and while the Wiki definition makes it seem benign, read the section on Positive Rights:

Central to the communitarian philosophy is the concept of positive rights, which are rights or guarantees to certain things. These may include state subsidized education, state subsidized housing, a safe and clean environment, universal health care, and even the right to a job with the concomitant obligation of the government or individuals to provide one. To this end, communitarians generally support social security programs, public works programs, and laws limiting such things as pollution.

A common objection is that by providing such rights, communitarians violate the negative rights of the citizens; rights to not have something done for you. For example, taxation to pay for such programs as described above dispossesses individuals of property. Proponents of positive rights, by attributing the protection of negative rights to the society rather than the government, respond that individuals would not have any rights in the absence of societies—a central tenet of communitarianism—and thus have a personal responsibility to give something back to it.

I digress in a small part -but make no mistake in that in many cases, the emphasis is always that the individual Rights must be subsumed to the need of the Collective.  With these watermelon environmentalists, there will be more and more emphasis that we need to give up stuff and Rights “for the common good” – at and by their command.  The problem is that ” the needs for the Common Good”, just like the vaunted “social contract” that Leftists accuse Conservatives of violating, there is never a sheet of paper that lay out what the “Common Good”‘s needs are, or the boundaries vis-a-vis our Individual rights.  All there is seems to be a never ending, vaporous commentary of “we more, you less”.  How do you defend yourself against what is basically vaporware?  (er, easy: start asking them the hard questions of “what?”, starting writing them down, and don’t take “no” when they say “er, later – we have to go over this other stuff” or “I’ll get back to you”.

Thus, this fits in both with Van Jones as an environmentalist and with the Granite State Future Plan / Sustainable Communities Initiative posts I’ve been putting up lately. So, back to the review – I haven’t even made it to Chapter 1 yet – the Prologue is 35 pages long.  In it, two things struck me:

  • He shoulda listen harder to his Dad; he comes around to believe him but missed the most important point
  • He lies

About what?  “Of course, President Obma had no intention of closing America’s coal mines.” (page xxvii).  Just one big lie through that nice big smile he has!

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Did Chief Justice Roberts “pull a Souter”?

Chief Justice John Roberts

Someone over on the wholly excellent and extraordinary RLCNH email list has just opined that in ruling as he did on Obamacare, Chief Justice John Roberts “pulled a Souter.” That is, the feeling is that Roberts—like so many “conservative” judges nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court in the past, has “matured” and gained “strange new respect” as the political classes worked on them—has once again betrayed the values and ideas that lead him to be put on the Supreme Court.

Wrong. So wrong, in fact, that I need to Explain All, once again, to those who doubt. Here’s the way it is….

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The Hunger Games

I read all three of these in record time.  Two this past weekend.  And while there are some curious stabs at environmentalism, and the can’t we all just get along meme, the most power full themes are the terror of absolute tyranny and the fact that we are all damaged goods. I highly recommend them. … Read more

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