Jul 28, 2010 | Take Action
On Monday night’s webinar the National Leadership Council of Tea Party Patriots voted overwhelmingly, to ask affiliated members of Tea Party Patriots to hold sign waving events for 1 hour on Thursday, July 29 to show our support of the people and State of Arizona on the day SB1070 goes into effect. If you cannot hold an event we ask that you put a sign in your car, truck, lawn, windows, or wherever you can to show your support for this law.
If you plan to stand at an intersection waving signs, please be sure to list it on TeaPartyPatriots.org so that other people near you can use the search zip by code feature to meet up with you. After logging to the site, from the homepage, click Submit an Event (in the right hand upper corner), fill out the form and click Submit Event. We will have people approving events quickly throughout the day.
Remember in Tea Party Patriots each member is empowered and encouraged to be a leader in the Tea Party Movement. This is a good time for those who might not have planned an event to step up and have a short 1 hour rally in support of Arizona, Gov. Brewer, and our country’s sovereignty.
To view the original message, visit the Tea Party Patriots’ website.
Jul 28, 2010 | Immigration
By Dr. Harold Pease
If anyone wonders how the new Arizona illegal immigration law, coming on board July 29, will affect Arizona, they need only to look at Prince William County, Virginia. They have had virtually the same law in effect for three years. Commissioner Cory Stewart who spearheaded that law said, “We had some of the same problems Arizona did. We had so many illegal immigrants coming into the county causing trouble, causing crime, and exploding the number of English as a Second Language students in our school system. We passed a pretty strict measure in 2007 and it has had great results.”
Under their law, Stewart said police must check the immigration status of persons “for a small crime, shoplifting, DUI, being drunk in public-any of those crimes.” They are then taken to a magistrate who normally “holds them in jail pending trial, because they are illegal immigrants and obviously there is a high risk of flight. They serve their sentences and we hand them over to federal authorities for deportation.”
The benefits of the new law were immediate and clear. The county experienced a 38% reduction in violent crimes, in the number of uninsured illegals giving birth in hospitals, and in English as a Second Language enrollment. All of this resulted in a drastic taxpayer cut, and popularity of the law soon soared to 80%. The law has saved lives with the drop in violent crimes. Illegals tended to move on to other Virginia counties, thus increasing their problems. As a result, and in spite of the fact that they initially ridiculed the new law, Fairfax county, and Montgomery County, MD soon implemented the same law as Prince William county.
When asked how many lawsuits were filed against the police or county by citizens claiming discrimination after the law went into effect, the answer was none. “There has not been one substantiated claim of racial profiling,” Stewart argued.
Of some note is the lack of national attention when a county was enforcing federal law, largely neglected by the Feds. It has also not been of particular interest to the Media. But when Arizona wanted to put an end to the violence spilling over the border (Phoenix is now the kidnapping capitol of North America) all hell turned on them. Now the Federal Government, who is supposed to protect the states, is suing its own state because the state is doing the job the government is constitutionally required to do.
In response to this suit, thousands of small contributors are sending money to support Arizona. Most contributors are retirees who cannot believe in their country’s unwillingness to defend it’s citizens. This money is coming from every state in the Union, and thus far amounts to over a half a million dollars- pocket change to the lobbying groups defending the President’s suit. The Feds are seen as the national bully and are not likely to merit well in the PR game as they pick on a state that is finally willing to stand up to them- even with a favorable (virtually managed) establishment press.
Unfortunately should the Federal Government be victorious in making the Arizona law null and void it will do so for Prince William, Fairfax, and Montgomery counties as well. This will return additional crime and taxes to places that some time ago greatly reduced these problems. It will also leave us all much less defended, as no other state will dare to protect it’s citizens again.
If you wish to contribute to help Arizona defend herself from the Federal Government, please visit KeepAZSafe.com.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College.
Jul 28, 2010 | Immigration
By Dr. Harold Pease
Customs and Border Protection arrested about 52,000 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico in 2009. This number included countries known to export terrorism and the numbers from each actually caught, such as Afghanistan 4, Egypt 14, Iran 15, Iraq 16, Nigeria 29, Pakistan 41, Saudi Arabia 1, Somalia 19, Yemen 13, and North Korea 10. So much for national security. These numbers reflect only those caught, and who knows how many succeeded undetected. Border security is national security. If Mexicans can get in illegally, so can everyone else.
This is nothing new to the government. Their own 2005 study A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, admitted that “aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States” and that “members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border.” In light of the need for greater border security exhibited by our failure to stop the September 11 attacks, it is difficult to believe that the Federal Government really cares.
With over one million illegal immigrants crossing the border each year (the government document cited above gave the number between 4 and 10 million in 2005 alone) how can anyone argue that this does not constitute an invasion and a threat to our language, economy, culture, and now even our security? A major purpose of the Constitution noted in the Preamble is to “provide for the common defense.” Common Defense is again given as one of the four powers of Congress in Article I, Section 8 wherein eight qualifiers dealing with what was meant by common defense are mentioned–all with a military aspect. The indisputable collective intent is to protect this people. Is intentionally failing to do so treason?
Illegal immigrants from terroristic countries already declared war by destroying the Twin Towers and damaging the Pentagon. Treason is defined in the Constitution as consisting of one of two things: “levying War” and “adhering to their enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” It appears that the Government’s position is intentionally not sealing the border; are they then guilty of giving the enemy “aid and comfort?” Proving intent on the part of the President or Congress might still be difficult, but it is time someone suggested such. We identified Iraq, Afghanistan, and Al-Qaida as responsible and went to war on them as a result. Yet we have done virtually nothing to keep other terrorists from entering the country at will on our very vulnerable under belly.
Without “common defense” one ceases to be a nation. The Federal Government has relinquished its most important function. Instead of being sobered by a state attempting to enforce already existing Federal law to protect its people and border, the Government is attacking its own states and people. The Federal Government reacts as though it is threatened by the national popularity of the Arizona law (now over 60%), and by the list of over a dozen states contemplating doing the same thing. Strangely, the Government sees Arizona as the national threat, not the illegals, who may include those from terroristic countries wishing to blow up our buildings filled with legal American citizens.
Some argue that the border is too big to protect. China successfully kept out barbarians many centuries ago with the Great Wall and they had no razor wire, drones, machine guns, motion detectors, cameras, helicopters and gigantic earth moving equipment as we do. It is the will to do so that does not exist in either party but more especially the Democratic Party. The money we spend in defending other countries’ back yards could build and secure ours many times.
But there seems a deliberate attempt somewhere in government not to protect us. Mr. President, would you please stop fighting your own people and protect us as the U. S. Constitution demands? And please, no more half-hearted efforts like finally giving us 150,000 National Guardsmen when we need 750,000, and new amnesties that only encourage an extension of our current invasion. Please seal our borders, or resign so someone else can.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College.
Jul 28, 2010 | Constitution
By Dr. Harold Pease
George Washington said, “Government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” The Founders understood that the biggest obstacle to freedom was the tendency of all governments to grow, absorbing power unto themselves. He also observed the natural inclination of the people to shove decision making power upward to the seat of government as they became more apathetic and indifferent. One force pulls and the other pushes, but in time they accomplish the same thing: eventually all significant power resides in Washington D. C. thousands of miles away, just as it was in Parliament in Colonial times, and the people are not free. The Founders planned to stop both forces by authorizing only a legislative branch to make rules. This legislative branch was limited to only specific grants of power, listed in Article I, Section 8.
Nothing better represents the tendency of government to grow like fire more than the following fictitious, but all too real, account written by an unknown author:
“Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, ‘Someone may steal from it at night.’ So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.” Never mind that the yard had had no theft problems previously.
“Then Congress said, ‘How does the watchman do his job without instruction?’ So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
“Then Congress said, ‘How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?’ So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
“Then Congress said, ‘How are these people going to get paid?’ They created a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people.
“Then Congress said, ‘Who will be accountable for all of these people?’ So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
“Then Congress said, ‘We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cut back overall cost.’ So they laid off the night watchman.”
The reason this story is so powerful is that it is so readily apparent in any government run program; virtually everything it touches is wasteful and broken. In addition to adhering to the Enumerated Powers, The Founders’ collective view to never elevate to a higher level that which can be resolved at a lesser level would stop most waste. Instead of limiting their power, we gave them charge of education, energy, banking, part of the auto industry and now our healthcare–none of which are Enumerated Powers and thus unconstitutional. The recently passed Health Care Bill created 159 new committees and commissions to manage all the new power. And we wonder why we have lost so much freedom.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College.
