QUOTE OF THE DAY ON LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY

Life, Liberty and Property. .
“Citizens choose your sides. You who are for French notions of government; for the tempestuous sea of anarchy and misrule; for arming the poor against the rich; for fraternizing with the foes of God and man; go to the left and support the leaders, or the dupes, of the anti-federal junto. But you that are sober, industrious, thriving, and happy, give your votes for those men who mean to preserve the union of the states, the purity and vigor of our excellent Constitution, the sacred majesty of the laws, and the holy ordinances of religion.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - A New York Federalist Newspaper (Spring of 1800)

LIBERTY AND MORALITY ARE AT WAR AND IT'S COSTING CONSERVATIVES ELECTIONS

http://lastresistance.com/594/liberty-and-morality-are-at-war-and-its-costing-conservatives-elections/

INTERESTING O'REILLY INTERVIEW ON WIKILEAKS, FIRST AMENDMENT AND OBAMA'S ACTS OF TREASON

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=46843

Thank you, www.libertyjunkie.com - a great blog you must visit.

Personal liberty and ignorance

http://www.personalliberty.com/government/the-results-of-our-ignorance/

John Stossel - transcript of live chat on liberty

http://www.theagitator.com/2009/06/25/live-chat-with-john-stossel/

Rowsing opening speeches from Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty

and how I wish I were there to be in the company of liberty lovers.

You will NOT forget some of these speeches - three are here:

http://www.libertymaven.com/2008/09/02/ron-paul-rally-for-the-republic-videos-introduction-doug-wead-lew-rockwell/1674/

with more to come by Liberty Maven.

And here's Dr. Paul: http://www.libertymaven.com/2008/09/03/ron-paul-speech-at-rally-for-the-republic-09022008-video/1718/

http://www.libertymaven.com/2008/09/03/the-paul-supporter-hated-cfr-interviews-ron-paul/1725/

Fourth Amendment, the FHP and FL Rep. Jimmy Patronis

Panama City talk show host Burnie Thompson, aired on FM radio station 101.5 every weekday morning (850-233-9988) has long vented about the practice of FHP's illegal traffic stops. I'm pretty vocal against them too, for the same reason Burnie's angry (Constitutional rights and violation of the Fourth Amendment). It is a case of "Your papers, please."

I suggested "we" set up a meeting with our state representative Jimmy Patronis, who smiled engagingly enough among the flag wavers and campaign sign holders in McKenzie Park when he wanted a vote. Thompson said he was interested. What I originally wanted was a meeting with Thompson, Phil Lucas, Editor of the Panama City News Herald (850-747-5000), Roger Smith, Editor of the weekly County Press and any other interested party who wanted to come along. Well, Burnie never contacted me, though I talked about this on the air a couple of times and he appeared to be gung ho on the subject. Lucas wanted to send someone in his stead, and Smith was the only one willing to attend.

So I said SCREW THAT, not because of Smith's presence only, but because of the others' inattention to a matter that is not to be taken lightly.

Originally, I also wanted the FHP there, too, but decided to get Patronis' view on things first. In talks with Thompson on the call-ins, he seemed up for that, but then he lost steam.

So I sent the following email to Patronis last week canceling the meeting and never got a reply. (850) 914-6300

I wonder why? I wonder if I will after it's on the internet.




August 20, 2008


Rep. Jimmy Patronis
Suite A
455 Harrison Avenue
Panama City, FL 32401

Dear Rep. Patronis:

Thank you the opportunity to meet with you on August 28, with members of local media. We have decided to decline the meeting and by copy of this letter are canceling it. We are canceling not because of lack of interest, but because of comments made in a telephone conversation regarding the FHP’s unconstitutional traffic stops. In that conversation with a male constituent, you stated that you would get Burnie Thompson together with the FHP. So? The other issue, more important, was your statement that you could reach “middle ground” on this subject.

Stop right there! There is NO MIDDLE GROUND WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED.

The Florida State Constitution mirrors the Constitution of the United States.

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States states:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/02.html#3

No act, local or state law may supersede the founding document. It is THE law of the land.

Since you took an oath of office promising to uphold the Constitution and the Constitution of Florida, you must also honor it by protecting the citizens from the overreach of law enforcement. If you cannot live up to that oath, then you must resign. By even considering a middle ground, you are conspiring against the citizens by not upholding the U.S. Constitution 100 per cent. What is your interpretation of “middle ground”, Rep. Patronis? Does that mean you approve of Bay County citizens being only half safe in their houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures which are warrantless?

When a citizen (pay attention – “civilian” is not used here) is stopped by the FHP, that citizen has been seized. If you question an FHP officer and balk at or refuse to hand over you “papers”, you will be arrested. If I do this on the principle that guarantees me my right to travel freely, standing squarely on my Constitutional rights which were bestowed to me at birth by God, and get myself arrested, are you going to pay my legal bills?

Do not let the thought of “if you aren’t doing anything illegal, why should you mind” enter your head. This is the moment where law enforcement crosses the line, and where the Fourth Amendment guarantees your rights.

Warrantless searches and no “probable cause” have no place in our society, because those who practice this are breaking the law and they are our law enforcement agencies and elected officials who have decided to countermand the Constitution(s) by passing laws to dilute it or negate it completely.

When your family came to this country from Greece and prospered, as did mine from Cuba, Spain and Italy, you can bet the first thing they learned was the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They memorized those rights because they were, at last, Americans. Ask them to refresh your memory about what happened prior to WWII. You will see patterns emerge, especially regarding police and their disregard for rights.

We, and I mean the entire country, have law enforcement agencies accepting federal grants, which is a very dangerous thing. To ignore it, to not do research into what I am saying, is also a dangerous attitude, because that is irresponsible. If we, the citizens who do understand the Constitution and the importance of our rights as sovereigns, do not speak up and stand up, we will lose our rights. We must stand up for our rights and open the dialog – to each other; to law enforcement agencies performing illegal actions against us under the guise of illegal law, or just “doing their job”; to our elected officials. If not, our county, our state and our country will become a full-fledged police state. Vigilance is the responsibility of the citizen, and not a sin.

I wrote an entry in my blog the other day about this very subject, and you may visit it at
http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com/. I invite you to view it. (Please scroll here to find it.)

I have a suggestion. Other communities have instituted CopWatch groups, where, without citizen oversight committees, citizens are armed with video cameras and tape recorders and the resulting records of misconduct by law enforcement shared with the media. News travels by nanoseconds these days by internet. Do I think this is needed here? Absolutely! One or the other, or the formation of citizen oversight committees for every law enforcement agency in the state which I have suggested in letters to the editor of the Panama City News Herald, and discussed on talk radio.

Lou Dobbs of Lou Dobbs Radio and CNN has sent his approval by email for me to speak on this subject, and I will as soon as I can get in the queue, which will happen any day now.

On this subject I stand like a rock, defending our rights, our liberty and our country. As your constituent, I hope you agree.

Very truly yours,


If you are a Bay County resident, or a Floridian who feels the same as I do, please contact your state representative, your newspaper editors, your talk shows and your law enforcement agencies. It's time to start shaking fingers in front of their noses inside their personal space, asking them WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, AND WHY DID YOU LET THIS HAPPEN, because if you don't know your rights, you don't have any. And I'm not going down because you don't care. I'm going to stand up because I do!

Politicians come in all shapes, sizes and colors. But one thing they have to do for the people who elected them, and that is honor their oath of office and their promises to their constituents. And they need to be bugged every single day until they holler "Uncle - YOU WIN!" and tell the truth for a change, because they owe you.

Articles of Impeachment - a MUST READ

Don't be bored with this. Rep. Dennis Kucinich took five hours to read this before Congress.

A local attorney, Michel Stone of Panama City, FL wrote an excellent letter to the editor of the Panama City News Herald which appeared this morning with the following link.

It matters not if you are a political animal. What matters is that you understand what this President is doing to our country. He is methodically dismantling our country and committing terrible crimes against our people and our nation with pen strokes; totally disregarding the principles and foundation upon which this nation was formed.

If you are an educator - and that even means a mother and father - read this and weep. Then discuss it with your children.

Here's the link.

This list is far more important than a stained blue dress and sexual exploits of a President.

This is a pointed assault on the American people, freedom and liberty.

http://www.democrats.com/files/amomentoftruth.pdf

Remember, I am neither Democrat or Republican. I am, however, a proud American citizen. I don't want to live to see the complete demise of liberty and freedom, or see my children and grandchildren in chains or dead.

Here's the one that got away yesterday in case you want to read it.

Bulletin: A few minutes ago I...

nearly swallowed a spider. I killed one like it last night. I picked up a book (which I really want you to consider reading) off the small chest by the loveseat and took a mouthful , and then thought, "That the heck was that in the water?" How did it get dirty? I hadn't swallowed. I spat it out and there it was - the identical twin of last night's squashing. EEEEUUUUUUuuuuu!

They say that you swallow about eight spiders in a lifetime. I'm going to be watching from now on.

It must have fallen in when I picked up the book. EEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUU. That was awful! Had the creeps for a long time after that.

Now, back to the book. If you scroll through the old posts, I had linked a video on our contemporary government and its threat to our liberty. My cousin Tom, a staunch conservative, ex-Air Force captain and Viet Nam vet, was very, very upset when he listened to it, because he believes Naomi Wolf who was pictured giving a lecture to students on how precious our liberty is, and how we have let others govern every aspect of our lives, steal our liberties and our rights is virtually a Communist. The book is "The End of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, a Citizen's Call to Action". Well, I don't agree. Not when you hear her speak, or read the book. What I am getting from it are the "GPS readings" of the warning signs of a disastrous disintegration of our country, and why.

I'm not too far into it. But Wolf has the unique gift of upending the box of the jigsaw puzzle, and show you where the pieces go.

We are here because of the singular courageous acts of our patriots. They were radicals in a time of unease and restraint. Liberty was a radical thought. Whether they were seeking religious freedom as the Pilgrims, or the sweetness of breathing the free air of personal freedom by escaping the rule of a tyrant king, these radical men and women eventually fought an impossible war on soil they claimed as theirs, which of course, displaced our native Americans, but I'm not going to light another fire. King George's fist reached across an ocean, but the blood of the new American patriots boiled and watered and fertilized that fabled tree of liberty. And America was born.

The concept of the founders of this country - that radical thing called FREEDOM - and the carefully crafted Constitution, called for all of us to be engaged in our pursuit of limited government, maximum freedom and the right to privacy. They wanted us to understand, as we walked through our lives to new centuries, that we were given individual responsibility, to protect the preciousness of freedom and liberty and understand the tenets they set down for us.

Today, the Supreme Court has legislated law - not interpreted the Constitution - in the case of the sentencing of rapists, particularly in the case of children, in Louisiana. Rapists, including those who viciously rape children, will only be put to death when they kill their victims. I heard Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana speaking on Glenn Beck's show today, so impassioned, so angry and frustrated that the Justices would disallow the death penalty for rapists of children.

In the case of Heller, a case which decides whether or not residents of Washington, DC are "allowed" to keep and bear arms for hunting and personal protection, they were deciding on OUR RIGHTS, to which we are entitled the moment we are born, if we are free children of a free country. There are, however, restrictions on the types of weapons, and if law enforcement can have them to use at will against free citizens, then we should have them available to us.

The Founders, I'm sure are banging their fists against their coffin lids wherever they are buried, or their ghosts are pacing the cemeteries, forests and fields where they fell birthing America.

This is not really a digression from Naomi Wolf's book. We've been sleeping. And when we awoke, we took liberty and freedom and placed it in the hands of politicians who are mercenaries of corrupt global entities whose sole purpose is the destruction of the concept of freedom and liberty because they don't want us to feel our power. We didn't take the smoldering fire with us as we trekked through those 200+ years from then to now. We didn't teach our children, and we didn't think it was so important that the Constitution be taught and understood in the classroom. Seldom if ever do we hear about it in church, yet it gives us the right to worship as we please.

President Dubya Bush has signed our liberties away with a penstroke many times. And now we are headed into draconian times if we aren't careful...our lives as free men and women are seriously under siege.

Whether you are liberal, conservative, middle of the road, please acknowledge the right to the word "patriot". It is the name proudly worn and earned as a defender of the Constitution in a time where political correctness has sullied its meaning. The rights it denotes, are divinely bestowed to each human being, and not bartered or begged for. It doesn't mean fight and die on foreign soil for a tyrant who made you think it was for the good of America. That war we're fighting, I am convinced is a scam; there is now so much evidence to prove that we have been duped. The forces that control our politicians never sleep.

But neither do patriots.

Read the book for a wake up call.

How weird are posts lost in cyberspace to a perfect stranger...

I wonder if the staff at Blogspot reads each post? Well if you're listening, why, if I used another's laptop computer yesterday and sat here for an hour with a impassioned plea (re Naomi Wolf's recent book - A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot) and a funny incident with me almost swallowing a spider, that had drowned a few seconds before in my glass of water - did it find its way into a strange blog when I saved it?

Naomi Wolf gave a talk to a class about freedom and liberty and how those two states of being, and our rights from God as free men in a free country have been compromised. The video is here if you scroll down far enough. It impacted me profoundly. My cousin Tom, an Air Force captain, conservative Republican, his heart and soul stamped with "USA", tagged her a liberal, and I believe is full of scorn for her. BUT, what she will bring to your attention most of all, is how we came to the shining shores of freedom, how we got to be free, how we have left the responsibility to be engaged in ensuring these rights and freedoms are not infringed in any way. These two states of being - being personally free and having personal liberty - is infringed every time a law is passed or a president decides to bypass Constitutional law and make a decision on a pen stroke, and in recent history, start a war on foreign shores based on lies and fraudulent information, frenzy-fed to us by bombarding media, and economically, bringing us to our knees, and killing innocent people, including our soldiers.

Do I believe the war in Iraq is a cruel boondoggle? Yes I do. You know that already.

Do I believe we have taken "freedom and liberty" for granted? Obviously.

We have given these precious, simple states over to elected officials for safekeeping because we thought they would do the work. They have been bought by the rich and powerful and so sold us out. We have been serenaded by media to believe we still have them when we don't. There really are people in power over our government - they are the global elite, bound to destroy America as we want to know it.

We are many generations away from the wars on our soil that set us free. We think we know what it feels like not to be subjects - but we are; we have become unwitting sheep to the masters with strange names like "The Bilderbergers" and alphabet soup entities like WTO and CFR who pull the strings of our politicians and our media. Freedom feels better than swimming naked in a mountain stream, safe and unfettered. Ever do that?

We need to take the responsibility back for returning the country to it's original glory - full of self-reliant, courageous people who believe something's not right, and who are dedicated to take the reins.

Like the spider I nearly swallowed yesterday, had I not been vigilant and curious about what I saw just before the fluid passed my lips, we need to be every watchful, because our nation deserves our full attention.

No matter what flavor of American politics you are, you deserve to read Naomi's book because it will set up red flags where you didn't see them before. You can get inexpensive copies from Amazon, used. Circulate it. Make your children read it and discuss it over dinner.

I am very impressed.

I'm asking you for 47 minutes of your time

to view this astoundingly articulate video from Naomi Wolf, who wrote a book called "The End of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc

Her mentor was a holocaust victim. If you are a writer or any creative person, an educator, a parent, an activist of any kind, a patriot (it is NOT a four letter word) please watch this very important video. I watched it and promptly ordered the book.

It really doesn't matter if you buy the book. What is important that you watch, listen and share this most important video. If you are concerned about what is happening in America today - the economy, the buzzwords, the use of extreme force on citizens who do not submit to requests for silence or submission, the surveillance we are under, what's NOT being taught in our schools on the way government works (or is supposed to work), then it behooves you to watch this video.

I just checked Google, and there are pages of Naomi, but I came across this interview in a liberal
site, and it's a good one. You might like it. http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/077

Don't let labels frighten you away from this: liberal, feminist, patriot. When you read or view
this, it will strike a chord within you. Sometimes, you just have to open your mind.