A voice suffering from Government Tyranny – simply for being TEA Party – Part 1

Am on vacation this week – a “staycation” in doing errands as well as finally starting to approach the long list of “honey-do’s” (as well as long list of tasks of my own).  Both have long laid fallow resulting in, well, “the house suffering from benign neglect from blogging”.  A week won’t cut it down substantially, but the habit will be formed (er, I hope, under  (long suffering) TMEW’s stern visage).

As I was go thither and fro, TMEW had the news on TV on and I caught a bit of the testimony from some of the TEA Party leaders who had been targeted by the IRS simply for having “TEA Party” in their names.  I have transcribed one so far and am doing one more now – of the six people who testified to Congress, I think these are representative of all of the people who felt their country slipping away these last few years and deliberately being transformed from its original ideals at the time of our Founding and simply felt it was time to educate their fellow citizens and roust them from their political slumber.  One such lady is Becky Gerritson of the Watumbka (AL) TEA Party:

If you do not have the 7 minutes to watch, at least glance through the transcription (I got “most of it”) to see what was important – the fear that our Government that was meant to be public servants to Citizens is now turning that table to that of a Public Master to a public servitude.

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Notable quote – Rep. Jim Bridenstine

“[Obama’s] dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness, and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead. The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing.” Via Weasel Zippers

A voice suffering from Government Tyranny – simply for being TEA Party – Part 2

“I think the IRS needs to fix its labeling machine: we’re the San Fernando Valley TEA Party not Occupy Oakland”

In addition to Becky Gerritson, another TEA Party founder by the name of Dr. Karen Kenny  of the San Fernando Valley TEA Party testified to the Congressional committee on the targeting that they received from the IRS (emphasis mine):

Thank you Mr. Chairman.  John Adams knew that facts are stubborn things. In this district, facts are hidden under the mantle of office.  They get used as tools or weapons but they wait for us. We must seek them with the Lamp of Truth and put them into words.

But you and I speak languages in this Republic. You speak the language of Power, of pen, purse, and gavel. I speak American grassroots, the language of Liberty, through Providence, Property, and Civic Virtue.

We seldom speak together about The Rule of Law unless it is ignored or violated; now is such a time. I have a story that bridges the distance between my State of California and this Capital.  What I say here must be said here.

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Susan ‘Baghdad Bob’ Rice moves to NSA

Great news.  The National Security Adviser within the Obama Administration tasked with leaking stuff meant to bolster the Obama Global brand is being ‘resigned.’ Tom Donilon, who is reputed to have let out secrets about our allies and missions is being thrown under the bus replaced by UN flack Susan Rice, best known for her … Read more

Data Point – Where are the Entrepreneurs?

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Let me say right off the bat that I am no economist and would never even try to fake being one here on the ‘Grok.  That said, I see this chart as being extremely troubling.  Our traditional economics here in America has depended people, drawn to America on the idea that they too could make their own American Dream, that were willing to take that risk.  They knew and understood that while the risk to succeed meant great riches if they did indeed succeed, they could also nose-plant – yet took that risk anyways.

Some, being imprudent, failed to do the requisite homework, failed to calculate the risks, went ahead and risked it all anyways by starting up their business, and did the nose plant.  And yes, some did succeed despite themselves (re: anyone remember Pet Rocks?).  Most look, however, evaluate those risks and as this chart shows, have decided that the future is too unknowable to risk it.

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Eastwooding The New Hampshire State Senate On Roll Call Votes

Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?
Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?

If party designations connote principles, and party pledges imply performance, and we extend that assumption to the relationship between electoral action and legislative response, then it should not be beyond the pale to expect the elected to provide proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was presumably based.

And why do I care?  Apart from an obvious and general interest in politics, as a conservative, I’d simply like to see some regular and consistent evidence that those people in the state legislature who style themselves as conservatives are, in fact, voting like conservatives, without necessarily having to go through some other groups filter (or here-say) to arrive at a conclusion, one way or the other.

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Notable Quote – On “Reorganizing” the Republican Party

“…it is probably enough to observe here that in the nature of things the exercise of personal government, the control of a huge bureaucracy, and the management of an enormous mass of subsidized voting-power, are as agreeable to one stripe of politician as they are another.  Presumably they interest a Republican or Progressive as much … Read more

NY State District Attorney Will Not Prosecute Cuomo’s Gun Laws

“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”  — John Morley

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka, Former Columbia County Judge- Times Union
Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka, Former Columbia County Judge- Times Union

Two New York State troopers stopped Gregory Dean, a 31-year-old Dutchess County resident on Route 22 in New Lebanon for a broken license plate light.

Three summonses were issued to Dean: Driving with a suspended license; an inadequate license plate; and unlawful possession of ammunition device, a Class B misdemeanor.”

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said he examined the seriousness and nature of the crime along with Dean’s criminal history (or lack thereof) and subsequently determined  it to be the best exercise in prosecutorial discretion in declining

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Biden: “If it only saves one life!” It did, it really did!

Gun Appreciation Day - Concord
The UN does want to come and take them

It has been a bit since I put one of these stories where a gun helped to save a good guy against some bad guys (who also had guns), but given that 60 nations have just signed the UN Small Arms Treaty (sending US Secretary of State John “Lurch” Kerry into a paroxysm of joy that Obama said he was going to sign it), it is good to point out that most often, guns are used to protect the good folk (as opposed to just be used by those that would commit malfeasance):

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne police say a man fatally shot a man who tried to rob him outside his home.

Police say the intended victim was standing on or near his porch Saturday night when he was approached by two men who tried to rob him. However, the man was armed with a handgun and fired several rounds, striking one of the would-be robbers several times while the second fled on foot.

The intended victim called police immediately to report the exchange of gunfire. He was shot in the foot and was in good condition Sunday at a hospital.

Police said the robber who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene and that a weapon was recovered near his body.

Police didn’t release the names of the men who were shot.

They should.  And as rapidly as possible.  And as for the dead robber, a lesson: Thou Shalt Not Covet.   Else you get Covered (up, as in body bag).

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Treaties, Irony, and Gun Rights – Oh My!

When second or third world Muslim Freedom fighters want to overthrow a controlling oppressive government, the Obama administration is Johnny-on-the-spot with…well…guns; other peoples money for guns or training in the use of guns, or some such thing.  But when American citizens want to exercise their second amendment right to lawful gun ownership (at their own expense) as a long term deterrent to the potential threat of a controlling and oppressive government, Obama and the Democrats want to do everything and anything they can to make that exercise as difficult as possible, if not impossible.

So yes, you need guns in pursuit of liberty and freedom from controlling oppressive regimes just not this one.

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Notable Quote and then some….

"Paid liar"....
“Paid liar”…..

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” — James Madison, Federalist #51.Via Ace – read the whole thing:

The IRS scandal as an example of runaway organizational culture

Organizations large and small develop unique cultures over time. You see this in companies like IBM, Apple, and GM. Employees who stay in these companies over the long term, those who move up the ladder into the executive suite, tend to personify these corporate cultures to a great degree. Employees marry each other, socialize with each other, attend the same events. In company towns, this corporate culture can characterize the entirety of the town itself.

Which is why the current IRS scandal has left me completely unsurprised.

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GrokTALK! June 1st, 2013

This week on Grok Talk!… Skip, Susan and Steve talk about the upcoming CNHT Picnic, the Obama Bus, Press scandals, SB11, Anti-globalists, Harrell Kirstein, Patrick Abrami, Granite State Futures and their listening sessions, Jerry Garcia, enabling legislation, and microphones that are not golden. JR Hoell, New Hampshire Republican House rep,  stops by to talk about … Read more

Notable Quote – Scott Rohter

Only a few countries follow the principles of limited government and individual liberty as set forth in our Constitution, and only a few countries actually have free and open markets. These are the political and economic principles that built America into a great and flourishing nation. Whatever strategy the United States is employing, it is … Read more

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