I was disappointed to read the editorials in the Daily News uncomplimentary of the Okaloosa Tea Parties – your ‘untangling’ and ‘bagging’ and ‘playing it safe.’ As to your confusion, a visit to www.emeraldcoastpatriots.org will straighten you out. As to seeming not to boldly go, consider the difficulties of concerned individuals of divergent backgrounds converging to common purpose while the powers that be disparage and savage their gatherings. Yet gather they do while determining organizational legal requirements, introducing the new candidates to cure the ills of Congressional office and daring to inform of experiences under radical Islam (Saturday, August 21st at the Emerald Coast Conference Center). As to your bagging, well, just shame on you, too.
President Obama calls America’s founding documents, our Constitution, “flawed.” Whether his criticism is due to his own background, from a learned perspective progressively socialistic or because of some understanding of historical atrocities, it is not the outstanding and unique written basis of the United States that is flawed but those men charged with leading toward the Constitution’s purpose who have chosen instead their own selfish interests or agenda.
Accordingly, we of the Tea Party movement protest and seek to educate on the issues as they bear upon the Constitution, defending our freedoms and our liberties by responsible choice. The task may be daunting but must be undertaken. A majority of citizens are dissatisfied with the current direction of the country and the behavior and manner of operation of its government – dissembling the sovereign republic toward a world government; affronting allies and pandering to enemies; controlling business, free speech, the Internet, life, health and protection; gaming immigration and playing stimulus; losing jobs; spending into uncontrollable debt and deficit.
The hopes and expectations of all Americans have been upset with the bottle of horse liniment we have been sold. It is time to stop swallowing it. I have heard argument that Tea Party people don’t like socialism but hypocritically like Medicare, Social Security, police and fire protection which are socialism. Don’t be fooled by such distraction. While Medicare and Social Security are indeed elements of socialism, they should be gradually stopped while returning people to their own capability and responsibility. As for group police and fire protection, that is not socialism but a proper providing for the general welfare. Still, while I can’t fight a large fire, I have a fire extinguisher at home. And as for the misinterpretation of separation of church and state as a need for a wall; well, even walls have windows and doors.
Socialism has been creeping upon us for over a century; now to burst upon us who have been lulled into apathy and acceptance. Do you still believe you have made the right “choice?” Do you not see the class warfare being waged? Do you think about your wages and agree that “at some point you have made enough?” Do you know when it is your “duty to die?”
If you don’t like what is happening, then join the Tea Party in your area. Our Niceville-Valparaiso group meets the second and fourth Monday at 6PM in the Niceville City Hall. We welcome especially those younger and unsure so that we may engage in amicable discourse truly to understand and help improve America for all. Help us develop educated voters for August and November. Have the courage to stand up, speak out and breathe in the promise of the Declaration of Independence once again.
Submitted as a guest column submission from Joseph P. Phillip, Niceville, FL
Bravo, Bravo! For the less eloquent of tongue I thank you. Media owners and reporters have become to fearfully of the liberal side of media to report the truth. Stop making the news what you think it should be or portray it to your political slant. Respect the same constitution that gave you the right to freedom of the press. Just thing what will happen to your freedom of the press under a socialist society.
Well said! For the first time in my life of 73 years, I have terrified of what the government has become. Everyday there is something else coming from the horrible administration and Congress. I worry what kind of country will be left for my grandchildren and their children on forward.
Mr. Phillip:
Thank you for the continued effort to educate the public as to the purpose of the tea party movement. I enjoyed reading your article and I appreciate the time you took to write and submit it.
I would like to comment on your defense of Medicare and Social Security. When Social Security was created as part of the New Deal legislation, the average life span of the average American was approximately the same as the age that benefits began. SSI, or social security insurance, was a benefit paid if you happened to live too long. I believe that a social safety net for the elderly and permanently disabled who cannot work is not a bad thing and neither do most of the people that I know. It appears that the peoples’ biggest mistake is to allow our government to manage our withholding for SSI and Medicare over our lifetimes and to mislead the American citizenry into believing that there is a Social Security and/or Medicare “trust fund.”
Are you a Believer?
The U.S. Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land
America was never a Secular (Non-Creator values) Nation! America was founded by Believers in a Supreme Creator!
“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator”— (Declaration of Independence)
Did you catch that? “All men are created equal —— endowed by their Creator”— (Declaration of Independence)
America was never a Secular Nation! America was founded based upon our Creator.
Why are Liberals lying to us?
From the beginning of this Nation there have always been Non-believers that wanted to destroy our Constitution.
Our Constitution was based on God’s Commandments and Laws.
For Non-believers to Destroy our Constitution, Non-believers had to remove God from our Nation!
When Darwin came along, Non-believers jumped on this false theory to do away with God in our Constitution.
Thus the Evil False Religion of evolution was born.
With this Evil False Religion Non-believers around the world began to –ridicule– any belief in God.
As more and more Intellectuals and Elitists jumped on the evolution bandwagon it became easier and easier to ridicule anyone they claimed was Ignorant enough to believe in a Supreme Creator.
It then became possible for Liberals to remove God from our schools and force the Evil False Religion of evolution to be taught to our Kids to support the Liberal’s Evil Anti-God agendas.
As the years have gone by the Liberal Intellectuals and Elitists forced God completely out of the schools. Next they forced God out of the Courthouses and then the Statehouses and now are hoping to totally force God out of America.
Liberals now have enough Power to force this Great Lie on this Nation and around the world, thus committing Treason against our Nation.
Our Liberal politicians are lying constantly, even now telling us that America is a Secular (Non-Creator values) country and was never a Christian Nation. Lies—Lies–Lies!!!
Without God there are no Absolutes. With no Absolutes the Constitution can be destroyed by these Liberals to suit their Evil agenda.
It has now reached the point that anyone including Our Kids in school are now –ridiculed– if they believe in God.
Intellectuals and Elitists that believe in evolution, consider themselves Superior over the masses of people. They believe they are much more Intelligent than other people, but they are Foolish enough to believe they came from a Monkey or some other such nonsense. These Liberals want to rule over us, making us their Socialist Slaves!
The visual image of the Intellectual Elite from the Very Finest Universities and Washington DC swinging thru the trees saying Monkey see, Monkey do would be very funny, if it wasn’t so serious. These Liberal Monkeys actually believe that they are Smarter than Common Taxpayers, that pay their Salaries. They should be working for us, not against us!
Monkey see, Monkey do, Liberal Monkeys doing what seems right in their own eyes, not God’s eyes.
God says have no other Gods before me. How can anyone call themselves a Believer, that believes in the False God of evolution and force our Kids to be taught in school that they came from Monkeys?
God says Honor Father and Mother. Liberals say your parents are ignorant to believe in a Creator; they claim to have all the scientific proof we evolved from Monkeys or some other such nonsense.
Our Creator God says do not Lie. The False Religion of evolution says we evolved from a Monkey. How much bigger Lie can we get than this Lie? Liberals believe in the Created and Deny the Creator!
“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator”— (Declaration of Independence)
Did you catch that? It does not say, Endowed by a Created Monkey!
“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal. (Declaration of Independence)
–Liberals believe Unborn babies aren’t created equal, ——not even Human.—
The Liberal platform –Deceives– a woman into believing she has the right to Murder her own Unborn Baby and have the right to get a certified Doctor to assist in the Murder of the Un-Born baby!
God says do not Kill, but what have the Liberals done? Liberals have Killed (Murdered) 48 million Babies by Abortions.
How can anyone call themselves a Believer in a Creator, go to church on Sunday, then on Tuesday pull the Lever and vote for the Anti-God Liberal platform that has Deceived many Americans into Murdering their own Unborn Babies?
What has gone wrong with our Great Nation?
Anti-God Liberal Legislatures have passed Unconstitutional Legislative acts and called them laws, which has turned this Nation upside down. What used to be Right is Wrong and what was Wrong is now Right. The Liberals are now doing what seems Right in their own eyes and not in God’s eyes!
We the People are going to have to decide if this Nation is built on Godly Principles and if so, we must remove all un-Godly laws. Our Founding Fathers would never have dreamed, much less approved the Murdering of our Babies!
God cannot bless us when we do all these wrong things. We must change before it is too late!
Liberal Legislatures that have passed ungodly laws that are Unconstitutional are Destroying America. Unconstitutional laws and everyone who supports them is a Domestic Enemy.
Our Great Nation cannot stay Great without God’s continuing Blessings. God cannot bless Evilness!
Are You a Believer?
What are you going to do about these Evil Liberals who have infected our Schools and Government?
Everyone makes Poor choices sometime in their Life, but a person of Good Will is going to be willing to do the Right thing, when it is brought to their attention that they have made a Poor choice.
We the People are asking everyone to do the Right thing and be willing to Protect and Restore Our Constitutional Freedoms, Rights and Liberties.
– Now is the Time–
To Support the Constitution and Remove All Domestic Enemies.
Liberals that would destroy our Constitution to suit their agenda are Domestic Enemies!
We must vote all Liberals out of office!
–We cannot afford to Lose any more Freedoms!—
–By Our Failure to take Positive action, We shall be just as Guilty as those taking Our Freedoms away from us.–