Dick Armey in Asheville
We Read The Constitution
On Saturday, September 18th, you are invited to join with the citizens of Buncombe County, Henderson County, and Cherokee County as they proudly participate locally in the national event:
Where:
Fletcher Park, Fletcher, NC
– Howard Gap Rd., off Hwy 25
When:
Saturday, September 18th, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m
Sponsors:
Citizens of Buncombe, Henderson, & Cherokee Counties, supported by
- Asheville Tea Party
- Black Mountain homeschoolers
- Cherokee 9.12 Project
- Gen J Club of WNC
- Henderson Constitution Essay group
- various businesses and civic groups
Key Note Speaker:
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum of Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum
Details:
- The day’s program will be led by Guest Speakers and Students.
- We will also be honoring our military.
- Outdoor grills will available for cooking.
- There will be reading and craft groups and a play area for children.
- Bottled water will be available.
- Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of The Heritage Foundation’s The Declaration of Indepedendence and The Constitution of the United States.
Contact:
Jane Bilello
828-692-3117
jane@ashevilleteaparty.com
Websites:
<a href=”http://www.constitutingamerica.org/”constitutingamerica.org
drdansfreedomforum.com
wereadtheconstitution.com
Operation “Republican Takeover” Redux
A Tea Party Manifesto
By Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe | Wall Street Journal | August 17, 2010
[...] But let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.
That sounds great. However, the following information is far more instructive on the actual attitudes of FreedomWorks, Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe, and the Republican Party.
FreedomWorks Take America Back 2010 Boot Camp
Last weekend over 50 top Tea Party activists from around the country were invited to D.C. to take part in FreedomWorks’ four day “Take America Back 2010 Boot Camp”. Participants and staff discussed volunteer outreach, communications management and other important strategies to utilize during the upcoming election season.
…
Leaders from Tea Party Patriots, Project 21, Contract From America, The 912 Project and many others swapped ideas and shared lessons from their own unique experiences. In the last 18 months Tea Party momentum has grown substantially, creating new opportunities and challenges for organizers.
“We are like a teenage boy who goes to sleep one night and wakes up six foot four,” said Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks. “Right now he can barely walk, but soon he’ll be dunking basketballs.”
The electoral strategy for the fall was clear and well-received. First, we must beat the Republicans that stray from fiscal conservative values. Second, we must beat the Democrats on Election Day. Finally, we must hold everyone accountable starting on November 3.
To review:
ONE
FreedomWorks, the organization founded and chaired by Armey and presided over by Kibbe, invited “50 top Tea Party activists from around the country” to this event. Among that elite group of “top Tea Party activists” was none other than Don Yelton, vice chair of the Buncombe County Republican Party.
TWO
In additon to our local GOP leadership, the select group of grassroots Tea Party activists who received invitations to this event also included leaders of the following national organizations: Tea Party Patriots, Project 21, Contract From America, The 912 Project.
THREE
The stated strategy of the FreedomWorks boot camp is overtly partisan, bearing no mention of principle or philosophy, only partisan control.
“First, we must beat the Republicans that stray from fiscal conservative values. Second, we must beat the Democrats on Election Day. Finally, we must hold everyone accountable starting on November 3.”
What does it mean to “beat the Republicans that stray from fiscal conservative values” if your second stated goal is to “beat the Democrats on Election Day”? With whom does FreedomWorks expect to “beat the Democrats on Election Day?” Republicans.
So, let’s not be coy. Let us be clear about one thing: the internally conflicted FreedomWorks group and the Republican Party are not seeking any friendly partnership with the Tea Party Movement, but instead, by all evidence, seek a hostile takeover of it.
Operation “Republican Takeover”
A Tea Party Manifesto
By Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe | Wall Street Journal | August 17, 2010
The many branches of the tea party movement have created a virtual marketplace for new ideas, effective innovations and creative tactics. Best practices come from the ground up, around kitchen tables, from Facebook friends, at weekly book clubs, or on Twitter feeds. This is beautiful chaos—or, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek put it, “spontaneous order.”
[...] But let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.
The American values of individual freedom, fiscal responsibility and limited government bind the ranks of our movement. That makes the tea party better than a political party. It is a growing community that can sustain itself after November, ensuring a better means of holding a new generation of elected officials accountable.
NOTE: Dick Armey, Chairman of FreedomWorks, will be in Asheville for a townhall meeting on Aug 26, 5-7 PM at UNCA Humanities Center.
RELATED
Operation Republican Takeover
Tim Peck | August 15, 2007
Some philosophical libertarians, myself included, have proposed a hostile takeover of the National Republican Party based on the proposition that current neocon leaders have squandered the franchise and Presidential candidate Ron Paul is the only hope to restore its significance in the American political arena.
Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto [book]
By Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe
This groundbreaking manifesto is essential reading for tea party activists—or any American seeking to understand what the Tea Party is fighting for and what’s next for the movement.
Steve Wynn Is Not Fooled
Steve Wynn Takes On Washington
CNBC
May 29, 2010
Steve Wynn, a casino resort/real-estate developer who has been credited with spearheading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas Strip, talks about the Fall of America.
Reboot: Henderson County Tea Party
From the tri-cornered desk of Bill O’Connor
From: Bill O’Connor
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:46 PM
Subject: Important message – REPLYTo all Henderson County Tea Party Members
We all know that the Henderson County TEA Party is an entirely volunteer organization, and members and associates are free to make associations any way they see fit. People do join and leave at will. Some of you may have received a proposal by three of our members. Copy attached) Apparently, this trio and small circle of like-minded friends, propose to change the structure of the Henderson County TEA Party to be more like the Asheville TP. We understand that this group plans to disrupt our meeting tomorrow evening, August 10th.
That will be a shame and shameful. If you believe in your HCTP, please come out to the Grass Roots in Horse Shoe for our 6:45 meeting and show your support.
The more logical action for this small group is to form or join another group. But instead they wish us to consider a hastily drawn and incomplete set of bylaws with a 5-10 or more member bureau of management. Like the Healthcare Bill, they apparently plan to fill in the details after it passes. These are not totally bad ideas, but need to be discussed openly, soberly, not in haste, by a bylaws committee formed in the daylight, not in secret and behind both doors and backs.
We mention the Asheville connection because the sender of the attached memo is Debbie Dante, a member of the Asheville board that according to it’s bylaws, is responsible for the management of the Asheville TP. I needn’t remind you that the Asheville TP management says that they won’t support Jeff Miller for Congress because their endorsement of Mr. Eichenbaum was not just for this year’s Republican Primary.
We also note here that despite having publicly pledged to support the winner of that Primary at least 5 times, Eichenbaum still has not done so.
All of the Freedom groups in our area began with the goal of changing our politics by changing the politicians; supporting those who are our best examples of followers of our Constitution. Some like the Asheville TP and others veered off into demanding a kind of purity in candidates that leaves them with no one to support.
We in the HCTP have, on the other hand, from the beginning resolved always to support the best candidate in general elections as the surest way improve our governance. To do otherwise is to surrender to the status-quo in Washington, Raleigh, and Hendersonville .
We are about 2½ months away from perhaps the most important election of our lives, and the remaining time should be spent trying to get Jeff Miller and Richard Burr elected, rather than diverting our focus to establishing an administrative hierarchy.
These three authors of the attachment, and perhaps others, seem to conclude that to form a new organization they must first criticize and attempt to tear down the present organization. They do this to the extent that not only do they engage in personal character assassination (forbidden from our first day) but, to top it off, they propose to use the same organizational name we presently use.
Be assured that all communication from The Henderson County TEA Party will continue to be sent out over my signature and from this e-mail account. Anything not from me, as communications editor, or from this a-mail address is not from the Henderson County TEA Party.
It is vital that those who take seriously the coming election com
out tomorrow to the Grass Roots at 6:45 to support your TEA PartyWe, the People,
Bill
Post-meeting dispatch
From: Bill O’Connor
Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 4:10:34 PM
Subject: Call to Link Arms and EngageStanding Together – In the Reality of the Political Situation
It was clear even before the formation of a Henderson County TEA Party was considered that the only concrete thing we in Western North Carolina could do to change Washington was to retire Heath Shuler. That became Job 1 for the Henderson County TEA Party. It still is. Administrative concerns, personal differences, belief that we could have a better candidate, even issues advocacy are secondary.
Our issues are voted on by Representatives and Senators who have shown a willingness to ignore even the concept of Constitutional Government. We must, today, put all other things aside and join in the work of defeating Heath Shuler. That means actively supporting, and voting for the businessman and tireless behind-the-scene supporter of community causes, Jeff Miller, a citizen, not a politician. We can have no reservation.
Will we tolerate or waste time with summer soldiers and sunshine patriots who would sit out this election? The answer is obvious, and the answer to the question; “Are you working for Miller?” is the test of a reality-based patriot in the 2010 eleventh congressional district. If the answer is less than enthusiastically “Yes”, the speaker is simply out of touch with reality and willing to let the rest of us determine his/her future.
To reduce destructive discord and in the further spirit of renewal we will restate and explain what has been our policy, from the beginning, of forbidding personal public attacks. We oppose issues and ideas, never people. Today we put all yesterdays behind us, but starting now there will be zero tolerance for this destructive, disruptive behavior which saps our energy and diverts our attention from the election work at hand. HCTP is and has always been open to anyone willing to stand up for an issue and do something about it. What we won’t tolerate is someone sitting on the sidelines calling out that we “…don’t get anything done.”, but not offering to do any work. These people will not in the future get any attention or consideration.
The path to leadership in HCTP is through effort, not complaint or bureacratic organizing, and most of all not empty personal charges, innuendo, and working behind the scenes to undermine any of us personlly and our work.
Any public statement or utterance that attacks an individual by name or innuendo, will result in the indivual(s) being separated from HCTP without exception. They will not be welcome at our functions and if present will not be recognized from the chair for any reason.
The circular firing squad that has plagued various patriotic movements, especially ours recently, ends here now. We simply must get back to working together for those common goals we agree on and leave everything else at home.
This is a voluntary organization dedicated to individual Liberty and Freedom of association. Any adamantly opposed to our ways are not only encouraged to find their own way, but can do so with the confident knowledge that we will not only help in any way we can make to them a success, but never speak ill of them, period.
We, the People,
Bill
Tea Party Blacks
Reporters vs. Conservative Black Leaders at Press Conference
August 4, 2010
Two reporters engage in a heated exchange with black conservative leaders at a press conference at the National Press Club on August 4, 2010 challenging the NAACP on its charges of racism within the tea party.
Redistribution Fail
There’s Nothing “Bright” About the Stimulus Bill
by Daniel Wahl | Objective Standard | June 18, 2010
Forbes recently published an argument against the stimulus bill, focusing on its so-called “dark side.”
A little over a year ago the Obama administration passed a staggering $787 billion stimulus package designed to rescue the economy. More than half of that money has now been spent, and the economy is still just creaking along. But now people are realizing that there is a dark side to this spending orgy. It has to end, and then we have to pay the bill.
Yes, Americans are learning that they will have to pay the bill. And hopefully they are learning that government spending is no way to stimulate the economy. But what Americans most desperately need to learn is that such spending packages are not merely economic atrocities but also, and more fundamentally, moral atrocities.
This spending bill, like all welfare legislation, amounts to legalized theft and forced redistribution of wealth. It forces producers—such as those who design and manufacture sofas, and those who design and manufacture video games—to hand over a large portion of their earnings to those who refuse to work and choose instead to lounge around on sofas and play video games all day.
This is utterly immoral. It is a gross violation of individual rights. Thus it is profoundly un-American. Americans who care about individual rights should condemn such legislation not merely as economically untenable, but also—and more importantly—as morally unacceptable. Only then will we begin to reverse the statist trend that is leading this once-free country ever closer to tyranny.
Oath Keepers Under Attack
SUMMARY LIST OF ORDERS OATH KEEPERS WILL NOT OBEY
1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
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