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The old saying is that you eat an elephant one bite at a time. The concept is timeless and has application across broad swaths of society, including politics. Incrementalism is a well established tactic, particularly by the political Left and judicial activists. The idea is that you need not reach your goal in one fell swoop. It might take longer, but goals can be just as surely, and often more permanently, accomplished in several steps.
Consider Tim Graham’s NewsBusters expose of its most recent application by Jorge Ramos, a Univision anchor and the focus of Time Magazine’s, “10 Questions for Jorge Ramos”. His first question is “As a Mexican-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, what is your take on the immigration debate?” His outrageous answer is, “The Declaration of Independence says that all men are created equal, but right now millions of men and women in Arizona and in other parts of the U.S. are not being treated as equals, and I can’t believe that. Countries are judged by the way they treat the most vulnerable, and the most vulnerable population in the U.S. right now is undocumented immigrants.”
The Declaration, indeed, recognizes all men are created equal. This is a foundational principle of the country to which Ramos himself swore allegiance when he became a citizen. Yet nothing in the Declaration lets Ramos ignore US law or advocate for others to do so under the guise of equality. The equality the Declaration recognizes is that there are basic rights belonging to all men which must be equally recognized by all men. Further, no man or government is permitted to violate those rights. Ramos’ notion of equality seems to be that all men must be considered American citizens in order to be equal.
Ramos gratuitously alleges millions in the US are treated less than equally. Such a notion is indefensible. Everyone in the US must obey its laws and the laws of the states in which they are present. Insisting they do so is not unequal treatment. It is the essence of equality. All who break the law must answer to the law.
Equality requires the law to be applied the same to all men, even illegal aliens. Ramos wants illegal aliens to be exempt from some laws. That’s hardly equal. Ramos refuses to have illegal aliens abide by the same 4th Amendment Due Process protections the rest of us must rely on. That’s hardly equal. Illegal aliens and citizens alike are protected from running afoul of law enforcement because they have dark skin and a Hispanic surname. They must first be found or suspected of violating another law before their immigration status is relevant.
Of course, law enforcement might abuse its authority. It has happened before and there are precedents to deal with that. That, too, is part of equality under the law. But one cannot assume because the possibility exists in any given situation, the reality exists in all situations. Ramos’ argument depends on that assumption. It’s not that law enforcement might violate the rights of Hispanics on occasion. He must argue for a routine, near universal, violation of the rights of Hispanics. There is no evidence supporting this conclusion.
Finally, such reasoning requires Ramos to apply as valid a concept he must also condemn as wrong. Law enforcement cannot draw negative conclusions about Hispanics based on heritage but Ramos can draw negative conclusions about law enforcement based on occupation. Once again, that’s hardly equal.
It is precisely such small and incremental devaluations of language and concepts that must be exposed, condemned and corrected if our country’s heritage and strength are to endure. Ramos, and those like him, are ignorant of the most basic concept upon which this country was founded; that all men, even the King, are subject to the law. It is “Lex Rex” (The Law is King) and not “Rex Lex” (The King is Law). Rather than call Ramos on his ignorance, Time celebrates it. Such a disregard for truth by Ramos and Time serves no one, least of all the illegal aliens in our midst.
Allowing such specious reasoning to muddy the waters only means the needed solutions to such a vexing question are put off even longer while small minds rail against the very concepts established for their protection. It also weakens the strength of our nation, the same strength so many come here to be protected by, one ignorant argument at a time …
As angry as I was about Moore’s crime, I believe the lesson here is – this is not a “Michael Moore” problem, it’s a principle problem. If there is no respect for your right to your own property; if, in just one example, your property in the form of money can be taken from you by Government via taxation and given to another to benefit those doing the taking ~ why are we surprised to see the exact principle and philosophy applied to other property – real, intellectual or otherwise?
Better than calling out Michael Moore is a strategy focused on excoriating anyone – Republican, Democrat, Greedy Corporate Robber Baron or Thieving Limousine Liberal – ANYONE – who advocates taking ANYTHING belonging to someone else and using it for themselves. If I do not have the right to everything that is mine then I do not have the right to anything that is mine.
If society as a whole condemned such blatant theft, we could just about return our country’s moral and political compass to true north with need for little more in the way of activism. If we only squeal when our ox is gored, then we are little better than Rand’s Moochers and Looters.
What Moore did to Jack Lail and his videographer is criminal. But so is what the Government does to Americans every day.
Middle Tennessee has a forum scheduled this evening for candidates for Tennessee’s Senate District 17. It is sponsored by the Wilson County Tea Party (WCTP), moderated by WLAC’s Steve Gill and will feature GOP candidates Mae Beavers and Gordon Borck. It will not feature GOP candidate Susan Lynn. WCTP is reporting this. Their emails and their website say “Rep. Susan Lynn has declined to participate.” Reading those words, one would be justified in concluding Rep. Lynn was extended a good faith invitation and refused it. One would also be justified in drawing the negative conclusions about Rep. Lynn such refusals usually generate.
However, it seems WCTP’s sparse explanation, while accurate, is incomplete. When Rep. Lynn was invited to the debate, she immediately agreed to participate. It was only after WCTP refused to seat a forum moderator other than Steve Gill that Susan withdrew from the event.
Steve has been critical of Rep. Lynn on his show. He has taken many GOP candidates to task, including Mae Beavers, if he is to be believed. Gill thinks he’d make a great moderator. Listening to this clip from his show, while some say his words argue for his impartiality, other words and a manner seen by many as demeaning and insulting are said to argue otherwise. Does this prove he cannot be impartial? No. Might reasonable people wonder if he could be? Yes. In cases like these, requests to seat a new moderator are routine. Given their history, Rep. Lynn asked for a different moderator. Not because tough questions might be asked. But because of who was asking the tough questions. WCTP refused.
Which brings us to WCTP. Why sponsor this debate in the first place? Was it to provide information to voters about candidates? Then all they have to do is find a date, a place and a moderator acceptable to everyone. Lynn’s request for a different moderator is not unusual or difficult to fulfill. But the WCTP declined to participate. Why did they decide having Steve Gill moderate was more valuable to voters than having Susan Lynn answer questions?
The decision is disappointing and, frankly, goes against all the Tea Parties stand for. It’s more the sort of thing we expect from special interest groups. Why refuse to act in the interest of the People? Why insist on a scenario so easily perceived as restricting access to good information?
WCTP’s refusal to accommodate Lynn’s reasonable request set up a Catch-22. If Rep. Lynn accepts the invitation as is, she puts herself in the hands of one who might treat her badly. If she refuses the invitation, it might be used against her politically. There’s no upside, yet she has to choose. She chose to refuse the invitation.
WCTP’s explanation of Lynn’s decision is terrible. Instead of full disclosure, they offer incomplete truth. They say, “Rep. Susan Lynn has declined to participate,” when it was just as easy to say, “Rep. Susan Lynn has declined to participate due to concerns over the impartiality of our moderator.” That would have been a complete and truthful answer. It would also mean having to explain why they chose not provide a moderator acceptable to all invited guests.
This is precisely the inside-the-beltway, smoke-filled-back-room, good-ol’-boy, politics as usual the Tea Parties formed to oppose. That we have a Tea Party using such tactics is disturbing. But the worst conclusion is, given the ease with which the problem could have been solved, how does an objective observer label this as anything but intentional.
In the end, this is not about Susan Lynn, Mae Beavers, Gordon Borck or even Steve Gill. It’s about the integrity of the Tea Party Movement. The entire country is talking about its future. Some say it’s bright. Others say it will all be over shortly. The answer will be found in the actions of the Tea Parties themselves. If they will not ensure they cannot hear the various siren songs sung across political seas, if they become the very thing they say they despise, then one of our best hopes to deliver our country from the evils it currently faces is lost.
BP CEO Tony Hayward has been the brunt of massive, international criticism for his behavior. Barack Obama has also personally been critical of Hayward and BP. Hayward’s comment that he’d like his life back and his decision to attend a yacht race while the Gulf crisis remains unresolved have been seen as evidence of his lack of concern and engagement regardless of what official statements BP might release. BP is seen as fiddling while Rome burns. Response to him and his actions is understandable.
Inexplicably, President Obama has avoided similar charges being laid at his doorstep. Searching for “whose a** to kick” and shaking down BP for $20 billion between shots on the front nine gives the impression of effective engagement and serves to divert attention from his own equally irresponsible and callous disregard for those impacted by the spill.
At issue are resources for cleaning up oil spills known as skimmers. They have a variety of designs, applications and capacities. But skimmer technology is proven and in daily use around the world. Recognizing large spills need large capacity skimmers, the Market has developed just such products.
These products are being offered to the US from all over the world. But the Obama administration refuses to accept them. There are are two basic reasons why, one environmental and one rooted in protectionist labor policy. President Obama cares more about the interests of Labor Unions and Environmentalists than he does everyday Americans being devastated by the oil spill.
The environmental argument is irresponsibility in the extreme. The Taiwanese have a ship in US waters, waiting for permission to be deployed to the Gulf, that can process 500,000 barrels of contaminated water per day. Current estimates of the amount of oil flowing into the gulf range from 5,000 to 25,000 barrels per day (Note:figures are determined assuming litres=quarts and 42 gallons per barrel. It’s understood this is not an exact conversion). Depending on the water:oil ratio of the area in which the ship was working, it could stop the increase in oil accumulation in the Gulf if not get ahead of it.
The Taiwanese Super Skimmer sucks up water and oil and separates the two. The oil is stored aboard the ship and the water is pumped back into the ocean. Since the the oil/water separation is not 100% effective, some water returned to the Gulf has oil in it. How much? An AP writer says, “traces of oil.” But even those traces require EPA permission for the technology to be deployed. 500,000 barrels out – traces back in. The irony and surreal nature of the situation is obvious. The President could sign an order to deploy the technology. He refuses …
… deals with cabotage (i.e., coastal shipping) and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents …
In addition, amendments to the Jones Act, known as the Cargo Preference Act (P.L. 83-644), provide permanent legislation for the transportation of waterborne cargoes in U.S.-flag vessels.
In the event of emergency, Presidents can suspend the Jones Act. President Bush did so after Katrina. President Obama decimated the livelihoods of thousands by enacting a moratorium on drilling. He permits the livelihood of thousands more to be decimated as oil washes ashore. Yet he has the gall to claim he is doing all he can. Other countries have ships and crews, waiting to help, sitting idle in American waters, including the Taiwanese ship, flagged out of Liberia and carrying a crew of 32. How long must we wait for Barack Obama to decide the devastation of America’s economy outweighs the temporary suspension of 32 union jobs.
Worse, some of the most effective technology doesn’t even need such attention. According to Wierd Koops, chairman of the Dutch organization for combating oil spills, Spill Response Group Holland, Dutch technology is available which can be deployed “… very quickly, because only the oil skimmers need to be flown across the Atlantic and placed on local tankers …” While this still violates the Jones Act provision that such material be constructed in the United States and owned by U.S. citizens it gets around the shipping issue. It’s not like the US has companies capable of producing such equipment in a reasonable time frame, if at all. Why is this not the easiest decision of Obama’s presidency?
The conclusion is inescapable. We elected an inexperienced, empty suit with ties to people, places and policy detrimental to America’s best interests. He is incapable of action supportive of the Free Market, the notion of Americans protecting America or his constitutional obligation to secure the liberties of the people. He cannot distinguish between the anonymity of the Illinois Senate and the focus on his solo performance on the Presidential stage. Having flubbed easily memorized lines and eschewing the cue cards, the President resorts to blaming his supporting cast, stage hands and the orchestra while boasting of his award winning performance. The quintessential diva.
But beyond the staging, smoke and mirrors, Americans are being savaged. This is no play. It’s a battle. And it must be asked, who is more despicable? The man who shoots another man, even innocently or accidentally, or the man who watches the victim bleed out, having the power to help yet without lifting a finger, all while claiming he’s an integral part of the life-saving? If you can find the President somewhere on the back nine, ask him that for me …
Yesterday I sent off, just making my deadline, the copy for an article I was asked to write for a great new publication from here in Tennessee, The Tennessee Patriot.
Covering general 2nd Amendment issues, I questioned the effectiveness of unconstitutional efforts for gun control, asking in one draft, if one idea worked, might another not work better? If “gun grabbers” believe that a bad guy will not try to bring a gun on a plane because if the gun is discovered he will be arrested, tried and jailed – if that is truly an effective deterrent – then how much more of a deterrent would be provided by the scenario wherein the bad guy brandishes his weapon in a society filled with responsibly armed citizens who solve the problem immediately, loudly and messily?
That question didn’t make the final cut. But this morning, from the great folks at The Heartland Institute, this video arrived. It features Otis McDonald, a 76 year old Chicagoan who sued the city for his Right to keep and bear arms along with John Lott, author of the landmark book, “More Guns, Less Crime”, a highly recommended read. The answer I was asking in a different form is the one for which we all want an answer, “What is the most effective way to make and keep our citizens safe? Do weapons in the hands of law abiding Americans result in more or less crime and security?”
Here in Tennessee we are asking those same questions in the aftermath of the General Assembly’s legislating that Tennessean’s really do have the Right to bear arms. Opponents of several recent laws which increase Tennessee’s compliance with the 2nd Amendment have used the old, discredited arguments that allowing law abiding citizens to own and bear arms means all Tennesseans are at increased risk for being the victim of a crime involving a firearm. The grownups in the discussion understand the truth that law-abiding citizens are not the problem, criminals are. Allowing the law abiding to add to the resources we bring to bear on the question of crime of all sorts results in a drop in crime, not an increase.
Take a look at how Lott’s book and The Heartland Institute’s video answer those questions.
TeaPartyHD.com has a live interview up today with Nathan Tabor, the GOP County chair assaulted by Governor Spencer. Spencer, an apparent Leftist activist, crashed a peaceful demonstration in which Tabor was participating, issued threats, generally disrupted an assembly in which he had no part, shoved Tabor’s wife and then punched Tabor in the face.
The video was pulled from YouTube but TeaPartyHD was able to capture it before it came down. The video of the assault is spliced in with a live interview with Tabor. Governor Spencer was contacted and offered the opportunity to speak for himself and explain his actions. He refused.
But if you listen to the Progressives and those enjoying the Kool Aid they are vending, it’s the Right that is violent and racist. The “old sayings” are too numerous to list exhaustively but “It takes one to know one”, “Methinks thou doest protest too much!” and “The pot calling the kettle black!” come to mind – just to start. The takeaway here is that Democrats, Progressives and Leftists are the party of violence, division and criminal activity.
From ACORN and their criminal enterprise to Governor Spencer and his complete disregard for the values that made America great – it is the Left that Americans should be afraid of. This is true whether the Progressive in question is Governor Spencer punching out a man because he doesn’t approve of his views or if the Progressive in question is Barack Obama assaulting the values that made our country the envy of the world because he doesn’t approve of individual and economic Liberty.
This is making the rounds on the Interwebz, as it should.
Helen Thomas has been a staple in the White House Press Corps for years. She is one of the main filters through which information passes on its way from being made to being reported by Hearst Newspapers. It is not particularly unreasonable to believe that a person with such misinformed and toxic opinions would be able to accurately report the news without bias.
Even if I allow, and I do, that all people have a bias which colors their processing of information, Thomas’ bias is seemingly both strong and wrong, based on her statements. Thus we have even more reason to be leery of anything which might emanate from her pen or mouth, regardless of whatever esteem in which she might be held by others.
Her reference to Palestine as “occupied” and her identification of the proper “home” of the Jews as Germany, Poland and the United States is pathetic and horrifying. That a person in such a position should hold such an ignorant view of history and world events is stunning. We often hear charges of media bias leveled. We seldom witness such strong evidence supporting such charges.
I’ve held the political views I’ve had for years. While they’ve changed and matured during that time, the underlying philosophy behind them has not. My point is that as an American and an activist, whatever success I have had in challenging and changing the political system has not been grounded in what I believe. Rather my success was built on a foundation of technological innovations which gave me, as an individual, the same voice in the political arena as that enjoyed only by politicians and media moguls until quite recently. Technological innovation remains the driving force behind the growth and success of Conservative thought and influence. Specifically, online and internet innovation.
The latest offering in that innovation process is a product I’m both excited about as an activist and proud to be associated with as part of the team responsible for developing it and bringing it to market. It’s called TeaPartyHD and it has the ambitious goal of providing a professional and complete news network to the online community dedicated to covering and reporting the news in a crowd sourced, community powered format. In addition, there are several related products in the pipeline that will complement and enhance TeaPartyHD which will be announced and released in the near future.
For activists and organizations looking for the next generation tools to make your voice heard and to fight for the principles that will rescue our Republic, TeaPartyHD is designed to be a significant weapon in your arsenal. The official launch of the network is taking place in Nashville, TN this Saturday night May 29th at a fund raising event for the National Fiscal Conservative PAC. You can find more details in the TeaPartyHD press release included at the end of this post.
What I’m asking you to do is visit TeaPartyHD right now. The site is not quite spit polished but our plans and vision will be clear. Visit the site, look around, kick the tires and give us your feedback. What do you like? How can you see TeaPartyHD fitting in to your plans or those of your organization? Most importantly, while you’re there, please sign up for email updates by clicking on the “Free Membership” button. There is a lot of information coming about the products and services offered at TeaPartyHD, ways you can be personally involved and how you can use TeaPartyHD to make a difference right in your community. Let us keep in touch with you and you won’t miss any of it.
Finally, if you like what you see, please tell a friend about TeaPartyHD. The real success of the network will be when your stories, opinions, solutions and ideas are being talked about around America’s workplace water coolers, over lunch after Sunday services and between family and friends as they look to the future and prepare their individual responses to the tyranny their Government is forcing on them. There’s no way to predict how many people will be, as I was, energized by this new tool. The only sure thing is that they are out there, silent now – but looking for the right tool to help them speak out. In the end, that’s what it’s all about, after all. As the TeaPartyHD slogan says – it’s “Your Vote. Your Values. Your Voice”!
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It’s a flood of Government help from Democrats in charge at the City and State level. If only it would be limited to clearing the streets and ensuring we retain clean water and the sort of things Government is supposed to do, I wouldn’t mind. We’ll see …
But if they follow Rahm’s advice and don’t let a crisis go to waste, we’ll be seeing all manner of new regulation, legislation and general Government meddling and posturing that accomplishes nothing. Don’t build stuff here! Everyone must now have this or that in their home! Government can now force you out of your home against your will. The usual tyranny …
I suppose that’s not nothing. After all, it will likely rob of us a little more Liberty at the cost of a little more in taxes and political weasel words. I guess the truth is it will accomplish nothing worthwhile.
When creeks, streams and rivers escape their confines and spread across the countryside, it endangers everyone and everyone wisely recognizes the danger and takes appropriate action. Too bad people don’t recognize that Government escaping its confines is infinitely more dangerous to a people who desire to remain free.
Following smaller than expected (and certainly smaller than desired) turnout at most of the Tea Parties in Middle Tennessee last week, I’ve heard the sentiment expressed that perhaps the Tea Parties have peaked and are no longer a force to be reckoned with in American politics. While this is one possible explanation for the showing here and elsewhere last week and while it appears some politicians may be thinking the massive grassroots response to DC shennanigans can now be safely ignored, there is another explanation that is just as legitimate. It’s the one I think is most valid. But we’ll have to wait until November to say for sure.
It’s my considered opinion that Tea Party goers are looking at late 2009 and 2010 as even more important than the early days of a movement only just barely a year old. At first, the Tea Parties were a place to vent and to network with those of like mind. Very quickly they morphed into places to network and organize. Now the groups that networked and organized at the early Tea Parties are rivaling the Tea Parties themselves for attendance and man-power. In short, folks are either suffering from rally-fatigue or they are seeing less value in merely gathering to protest and are banding together to acquire political power and accomplish political goals.
Some of you may remember recent events here in Middle Tennessee where an organized group not affiliated with the Tea Parties came close to taking over the second largest county GOP organization in the state. There are echoes of that same activity from the same group currently underway to try and wrest control of the state GOP Executive Committee from the folks who have controlled it for years. I have been asked if there is a similar coordinated attempt by Tea Party people here in Tennessee to also take over the GOP’s SEC (there isn’t). But it’s this sort of political activity that Tea Partiers are rallying to. Here in Tennessee it takes the form of community organizing like Conservative Neighbors and the Tennessee Precinct Project. Or it is showing in huge interest in groups like the Young Republicans. Some of it is seen in the increased numbers of PACs and the formation and operation of other 527s and 501c3s and 501c4s. But the swell of activity is huge. And since most of this activity doesn’t bear the name Tea Party, it may be getting lost in the usual clutter of activity in an election year. But I think November will show the depth of the passion with which Tea Partiers are committed to political activism.
In other places Tea Partiers are more open and more blunt in their approach. Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ reported today that NewsMax is reporting that Tea Party activists in Utah may have successfully “taken over the [state] GOP.” This sort of activity and its related result didn’t express itself as a Tea Party. But it certainly sprang from one and is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. Tea Partiers, abused and ignored or feeling abused and ignored, in one of the most Conservative states in the Union have flexed considerable muscle and mobilized hundreds of activists to accomplish this. Again, while it remains to be seen if they are ultimately successful, it is evidence that both the political Right and the political Left dismiss the Tea Parties as either irrelevant or over-the-hill at their peril.
Progressive Socialists bent on a 5th column take over of America from within ignored hundreds of thousands gathered in DC on 9-12-09. Moderate Republicans seem willing to, at a minimum, consider ignoring them if the price isn’t too high. Those hundreds of thousands from DC along with many more hundreds of thousands who were unable to make it to DC last Fall took notice and have decided their votes and their voices have been ineffective. It’s time for action.
Or not … time will tell. But my money is on the Tea Partiers …
The old saying is that you eat an elephant one bite at a time. The concept is timeless and has application across broad swaths of society, including politics. Incrementalism is a well established tactic, particularly by the political Left and judicial activists. The idea is that you need not reach your goal in one fell swoop. It might take longer, but goals can be just as surely, and often more permanently, accomplished in several steps.
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