Hello Tea Party…

Yesterday our Congress passed Cap and Trade. In the emails that I have been reading from Tea Party Groups across the nation there is almost and air of revolution. People are angry and one reason why is that the voice of We the People has been ignored by Congress. I have seen a few emails calling for open revolution. The anger is palpable and is understandable when we understand what Cap and Trade is. So here it is in a nutshell.

Companies, businesses, industries will all be required to buy credits from the US Federal Government to offset their carbon emissions. In other words the smoke that they release into the air or atmosphere. Some companies won’t use as many of the Carbon Offsets also known as carbon credits as others, because some companies won’t blow out as much smoke. The companies that use less will then be able to sell their Carbon Credits to the companies that use more and have exceeded their carbon credit limits.

Here’s what that means for each one of us. A company required to buy a credit means that company must find money to buy that credit and the only Capital (ability to raise money)  they have is the products they produce whether their product is a widget, a car, or a British Thermal Unit of Energy. So they will raise the price of their products meaning that we the consumers of those products will have to pay for the price of the carbon credits.

Here is why the carbon credit is called a tax. When the government requires individuals or corporations or businesses or companies to pay them for something, especially something that doesn’t exist, that is plain and simply a tax. Well this will plain and simply be the largest tax increase in the history of our nation. That’s the truth. That’s the bottom line and guess what, every American will pay for it. There will be no graduated means of paying for it. In other words if you make $10,000 a year, you will pay just as much if not more than the person making $100,000 dollars a year. To make matters worse, this bill will effectively double your energy costs if it become law with the stroke of Barack Obama’s pen.

Our Congress has betrayed us. They have no Constitutional Consent to pass something like this. I ask you this question. Is there anything in the American Constitution that provides for politicians to require you and I and private businesses to pay for Carbon Emissions? I challenge you to find that Amendment.

July 4th is going to be a day that we have a say. Many people are literally rising up today June 27th and protesting. If you feel like you want to join on of these protests I encourage you to go. They are having a protest today in downtown Chicago.

Federal Plaza in Chicago
230 S Dearborn
next to the big ugly red statue
1:00 PM

If you want to go please contact Dana Phelan who is one of the RockfordTeaparty Media Coordinators. His email address is: dpelan2250@aol.com

Thanks

David Hale
Director, RockfordTeaParty

Hello Tea Party…

Flier pick up is complete. I will hand the rest of the fliers out at the next meeting which will take place on Wednesday July 1st at 6 pm at the old Highland School, now Office building, on E State St and Rockford Ave which is for GPS locators at 2222 E State Street. Please enter through the east entrance which is the Rockford Ave entrance. It will be our final planning meeting prior to the Tea Party where we wrap up all the ends and all the lose ends. I hope to see you all there. We will have a great chance to talk to vent to plan and to energize.

I talked to Rockford’s own Kurt “Walk the Talk” Kallenbach and thus far his experience has been exciting. He has met some of the most amazing Americans, in fact Americans similar to all of us. They just happen to live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana. But they are WE. His adventure is leaving an indelible mark on his soul and his heart and I can hear it in his voice. I can’t help but think I don’t want Rockford to be left behind. Kurt started his walk as a desire to make a change and tell people that one man can do with a final goal of reaching the DC Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement although given little press this time around is stocked full of Americans estimated at more than a million across the nation and quite possibly more than two million. Its a national movement and Rockford actually has a voice in it. For to long Rockford has had no voice and Rockford has had to be silent in the shadow of our giant brother 70 miles southeast. Rockford has a voice in a national movement and its about time Rockford had something to say. Our local media has shortsightedly ignored this voice and this movement not because it is not newsworthy but because of their own political entanglements and their own lack of vision.

I am tired of Rockford being left behind in this state and in this nation. We have not been left behind in some ways…we win many competitions. We win the highest property tax rate in the state competition and second highest in the nation competition. We win the highest unemployment rate in the state competition and of course what follows is one of the highest in the nation. 13.9 percent as of today. We win the highest crime rate in the state competition and what follows is if you beat out Chicago in crime statistics you can rest assured you can be counted in the top crime cities of the nation. Our number ones are extraordinary failures.

But I can tell you this, it isn’t for lack of trying to make  difference. If you are tired of Rockford being left behind and leading in all the wrong categories then I encourage you to come to the RockfordTeaParty on July 4th and make your voice heard. We are a new voice. An American movement. We have not been left behind on this one. We are in the thick of it. We have a chance to begin making true changes that will cost us top billing in those areas where we need to lose and begin to place out best feet forward where we need to win.

We don’t want Rockford to be left behind yet again. This is our time. This is our chance to be a part of something truly historic, and though the media won’t admit to it, heck they may not even cover it, we are part of a New Amercian Movement that will ultimately push through the real kind of change that must take place to give America back to us. Back to Rockford.

Thanks and I’ll see you all at the planning meeting on July 1st and at the Tea Party on July 4th.

David Hale
RockfordTeaParty

While Obama was running against McCain, my son asked me why Barack Obama would be a bad choice for president. He has recently been inundated with polls and votes at school and told me that he has even had discussions with other 11-year-olds about how they voted. He told me that Barack Obama would be the next president because all the kids in his class voted for him. I asked him who he voted for and he told me of course for McCain. Yet his question was an honest one since everyone around him is telling him that Barack Obama will be the best choice. I fumbled around wondering what to say. I googled it and found relatively nothing useful. I then came up with something he could understand and I could explain with simplicity.

“Son,” I said, here is why we don’t want Barack Obama to be the president.

Pretend you work really hard over one weekend mowing 10 lawns or shoveling snow off 10 or 20 sidewalks and you make about 50 bucks. On Monday when you go to school you go to get in line at the cafeteria and hand the cashier your money and it is a $10 bill.

Behind you is Robert the bully. Well Robert sees you have $10 and is a little bit envious that you had $10, but Robert spent his previous weekend playing video games, running around the neighborhood, watching TV and eating Cheetoh’s. So being envious he goes to the principal at school and tells the principal he only had $2 for lunch and Aiden had $10. Well the principal being liberal devises a plan in order to take some of your money and get it into the hands of Robert.

So she announces over the speaker that anyone having more than $5 must report to the office to pay a fine. The fine is $1 dollar if you have $5, $2 if you have $6, $3 if you have $7 and $4 if you have $8-$10. If you have more than $10 dollars you get fined $6. The students arrive at the office and are told of their fines and ask why they are being fined. They are told that they have to help pay for the lunches of those students who have less. The kids pay their fines and the principal announces to the school for those with $2 or less to come to the office to come and collect their lunch money.

The students who paid their fines watch those who paid nothing and worked for nothing collect their lunch money. The next day none of the kids show up with anything more than 2 dollars and that weekend the kids who paid fines decide it is their right to play video games, watch TV, run around the neighborhood and eat cheetoh’s.

That following Monday all the kids refuse to bring any money to school because those who were fined didn’t work for their money since their incentive to work was taken away because their money just went to pay for other people, and the ones who previously came to school with $1 or $2 dollars brought no money because they were thinking that the principal would fine the other students for lunch money and the less they have the more they would get from other students fines. Now that nobody has any money to pay for lunch everybody gets their lunch for free and the School has to take care of the bill. So thats how I explained to my son why voting for Barack Obama would be bad.

Title: Pre-Event Meeting
Location: 2222 E State Street
Description: This is the final planning meeting for the RockfordTeaPArty and a great opportunity to connect one more time prior to the TeaParty on July 4th. We will be discussing all aspects of the Tea Party and of course continue our dialogue regarding the direction of our nation. We want all interested in making America better to attend this meeting.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-07-01
End Time: 21:00

Hello Tea Party…

The RockfordTeaParty is truly an American Movement. Last night’s meeting was full of this amazing example of an American Movement. It was a meeting, and it was a good meeting full of very smart Americans, very weary Americans, but all of them primed for the next steps toward our true recovery of this Republic and in particular the Constitution upon which it is expressed fully.

I cannot thank all of them enough for their decisions to volunteer for the various tasks toward the July 4th Tea Party. I cannot thank them enough for the financial contributions they invested in the July 4th Tea Party. With these two aspects now addressed, the RockfordTeaParty should have a decent show of hands. Hands of those Americans ready to make a difference in our community and country.

In Rockford the Tea Party is an Ark where people are gathering with other like minded who want to make a difference beyond just yelling at their TV screens. Legislative Coordinator Phil Parra likened it to a Battleship Group because Rockford has many great organizations, but none of them really offer people their chance to be heard in one place. The RockfordTeaParty gathers them all unites them and gives voice to what we fully believe.

Whatever the case we had a great organizational meeting with status updates from various groups and a true sense of excitement that we are together and forging ahead with the ideas that matter to us all. So thank you to all who attended and to all who will be at the next meeting prior to the Tea Party itself on July 4th. The next meeting times will be posted and released by this coming Tuesday.

David Hale
Director, RockfordTeaParty

The 16th Amendment:

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes,from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were created in part to escape the abusive taxation of the King of England, yet at the turn of the 20th century our leaders convinced 3/5 of the states and a majority of the population to put a form of self taxation into the very document that was created to escape and shake of the chains of tyranny our founders fought with such bloody resolve to eliminate?

The 16th Amendment is anti-Constitutional. The previous 15 amendments are all designed as protections of American’s rights that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution declares are given to us by our Creator. The United States is merely a protector of those rights and that is legally proclaimed through the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

The bright idea to make the 16th amendment to the constitution is an idea giving power to a consensus of dictators the right to putatively disempower the very people that the constitution it was amending was meant to empower. The 16th amendment was purely a manipulative power grab by the leaders of the day to seize what belonged to the people and place it in the hands of a few. It effectievly centralized our government.

It should never have been made a part of the constitution. The 16th amendment must be repealed just like the 18th Amendment was repealed. There should be a national referendum on the fair tax to replace the 16th Amendment. I don’t know how our ancestors from the turn of the 20th century could vote to enslave themselevs and future generations by making taxation a constitutional power. A power government was never meant to have since power is not given to government, but the responsibility to defend American rights is the only power. By creating the 16th Amendment we have given those in power the right to have power instead of giving people the right to have power.

The Constitution is by its very virtue a document that protects the rights of Americans as opposed to protecting the right of government to tax us. The 16th Amendment in contradiction to the purpose of the constitution actually protects the government from the people. It gives government a right. That is insane in our system. It essentially gives a right to dictatorship by comittee which means Congress is a dictator.

It takes away the right of free people to live freely and to decide freely. The 16th Amendment in essence cancels out the previous 15 Amendments to the American Constitution. We have no constitutional rights as long as the 16th Amendment is a part of a document that is supposed to protect our God given rights. The 16th Amendment is in essence became the core of the constitution because it gives the right to the government to levy taxes and to levy taxes on anything and the power to tax is the power to destroy. If you can tax anything you can control anything and the means of that control is to use these powers of government to force you to pay and if you don’t to haul you off to jail or use the myriad of other laws to take your livelyhood and earnings away.

Hello Tea Party…

So lets get started on a plan to move beyond the tea party and into
significant change. The ultimate goal of the RockfordTeaParty is true
change. Change at the ballot box. Our Legislative Coordinator Jessica
McGowan has drafted a superb letter which will be sent to out elected
officials that describes exactly what needs to happen in order for
them to be endorsed by the RockfordTeaParty.

Real Change is only going to happen with a vibrant and active
electorate. This vibrant and active electorate must be highly
educated. That sounds like a lot of work, but it is not. The pieces of
the puzzle are already in place. It is up to you to come and view it.
Tim and Linda Thomas who have been extremely committed to this cause
are already out educating people locally about the constitution and
the real freedom it provides We the People. Their home is open on
select nights for an educational series that they have been teaching
on the Constitution with the aid of Constitutional Scholar Michael
Badnarik. Contact them at: ilteaparty@gmail.com to set up a time when
you can attend their meetings regarding this important educational
series. This is not the 5th grade Constitution you got from your
overworked and underpaid grade school teacher. This is easy to
understand life giving liberty information.

And then there is Rogene Hamilton a true tireless warrior who is
putting her heart and soul into the Continental Congress. She will be
speaking at the Tea Party meeting on this Thursday night. This
tireless patriot is a delegate to the Continental Congress who are
exercising their First amendment rights to Redress Grievances to the
United States Government. She can be contacted at: crs@mchsi.com.
Rogene’s effort is perhaps one of the most exciting behind the scenes
quiet movements that is making an impact. Their movement grows only
with committed Americans who really want to make a change in the
current regime’s trajectory.

These are people right here in Rockford that are committed to making
changes to our nation that truly matter. We don’t have to go far to
meet these people. We don’t have to go far to make a connection with
them. All we have to do is let them know we are interested and they
will do the rest. Let them know we want to help, to participate
someway and they will give you the next step.

As we become increasingly educated in this process we will be able to
significantly target the 2010 Elections. We have a left wing, liberal
tax and spend democrat running for the seat Barack Obama vacated when
he became President. Roland Burris and Alexi Gunulius are both as far
left as it gets and are both knocking down and dragging out their
fight for that seat while a fiscally conservative limited government
candidate has yet to emerge. Sorry folks we won’t find one of those
among the democrats. If we as the RockfordTeaParty are going to make a
change then we must be actively pursuing it. We must vote out of
office those people who will maintain the current course of this
current fiscally irresponsible regime.

Guess what…when we get that unifying idea we will get a lot of the
side effects to, such as tackling the illegal immigration problem, the
abortion problem, the gay marriage problem. We want to attack all
those issues, but the big 800 pound gorilla is the out of control
government we must shrink. We can only do that effectively by standing
in the gap. I am reminded of an incredible moment in the movie Troy
when Achilles (played by Bradd Pitt) the bad boy warrior of the Greeks
just finishes off an opponent and stands before the entire Army of the
warrior whom he had just finished off and asked them this question: Is
there no one else? Is there no one else? His body tense and muscles
rippling and blood splattered all over his face with Javelin and
shield in hand and with a look of pity he turned and walked away when
all of that Army fell silent. I feel like Barack Obama finished off
our best warrior and stands before all of us now asking that same
question with a look of pity on his face. Is there no one else? Is
there no one else? Even if the sound of our voice is that of a Church
Mouse we are saying, “Yes there is. There is someone else. There is
us.”

Come to the RockfordTeaPArty. Participate in the life of your nation.
Send a donation to RockfordTeaParty, 708 Glendale Ave, Rockford, IL
61108. Stop by the tea party meeting on June 11th at 6 pm in the
Basement of First Free Church on the South East corner of Spring Creek
and Mulford. Tell Barack Obama and the Irresponsible Congress yes
there is someone else. Tell them it is the Constitution Stupid.

David Hale
Director, RockfordTeaParty

PS: We have many needs to make this a great July 4th Tea Party. Please
consider volunteering to help out to do something.

Title: RockfordTeaParty Planning/Funraising Meeting
Location: First Free Church
Description: First Free Church Basement Room 145
2223 N Mulford Rd
Rockford, IL
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-11
End Time: 21:00

All day my mind has been occupied by the thought that maybe we are
truly done. My walk along the Rockford Sinisissppi Bike path is often
a great time to reflect on the previous week which is usually filled
sick people, traumas and yes some people who have gone to meet their
maker.

This morning though I could not help but think about all the
excitement when Rick Santelli made his infamous rant and the
subsequnet Tea Parties that became a real firestorm across America.
With the Boston Tea Party deep in our history but also buried in our
5th grade memories, Santelli stoked a small fire that truly lived in
every one of us patriots. Many of us didn’t know the year it even
happened in, let alone the day and various events leading up to it.

Many of us just knew some fed up taxpayers from our national history
who eventually founded a nation threw some tea in a river that
ultimately ignited a revolution. Santelli merely stated what we all
wanted to hear.

It was about 21 days after the election of a man none of us knew but
who was making swift and sweeping changes, and it was like Hurricane
Obama had gone to Washington and was fulfilling all of our worst
fears. We were livid. We were united. We were stunned into action. The
hurricane has not stopped. We have just adapted to it. We are getting
used to the abuse. We are acclimating to slavery.

The day Santelli ranted at the Chicago Board of Trade we were ready.
The fire just grew and there was no containing it. Now after two
months the lights from that fire have softened and nothing but little
tea lights are spread out across the country barley flickering and are
extinguishing with a breeze. The voices that were loud and barely
containable have moved on.

There can be no doubt that the fire we had for the Tea Party movement
is barley burning now. With the 4th of July coming up fast, barely a
peep is being mentioned about the next Tea Party. We have barbecues to
attend to. We have fireworks to prepare. We have drinks to buy and
potato salad too. Its summertime and perhaps we are just not ready for
a fight.

I hope I am wrong. I hope that this is just the calm before the storm.
I hope that America will stay the course and fight for the ideals we
all really believe in. Obama is not going to go away. He is going to
maintain his course. His agenda will progress. Seeing is not believing
in this case. We have to be prepared for what is really coming. And I
believe. And I don’t need to see the end result to figure it out. And
it is on the way.

More radical changes that none of us signed up for. The kind of change
he didn’t promise. He promised change for the better, and the change
that is on the way is coming like a plague. It will knock America to
her knees. It will forever change this nation for the worse.

We are the last defense. Maybe not the Tea Party movement itself, but
the people who believe in this movement are the last defense, and
every minute we don’t spend opposing this man and this congress is a
moment of change for the worse.

To be honest all may just be lost. But I will go down with the ship.
Join me at the RockfordTeaParty on July 4th. It is our ship. The only
thing left is to drown.