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28
Oct 11

OWS, the Tea Party, and the government double standard.

When I organized the first Sturbridge Tea Party rally a year ago, I was surprised at all the bureaucratic hoops I had to jump through. I needed permits, insurance and government approval, all at a substantial cost, all due by some arbitrary deadline. If more than X amount of people were expected to attend I needed to anticipate that so I could pay for more porta-potties. No food was allowed unless it was okayed in advance by the Board of Health. I was limited to when (and where) I could post signs. I had to make sure people didn’t park here, or stand there, or make too much noise, etc etc etc. I was lucky because the Sturbridge Police were helpful not obstructionist. But it certainly was costly and time consuming to exercise my right of free speech. I expect this was the case all over the country for every tea party rally.

Not so for the OWS crowd. The laws just don’t apply to them. They got no permits, no insurance and the government supplies their porta-potties. They play drums all night, disturb the neighbors and refuse to leave when told. They aren’t paying for the police, we are. No one is inspecting their food, or telling them when to leave, or anything else for that matter.

Some of the tea parties are striking back:

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia tea party group is demanding a refund of about $8,000 from the city of Richmond, claiming it was unfairly charged for rallies while Occupy protesters have used the same space for several weeks for free.

The political organization is sending the city an invoice for the charges incurred for three rallies held in Kanawha Plaza over the past three years. The Occupy protesters have been camped in the plaza since Oct. 15.

Richmond Tea Party spokeswoman Colleen Owens says it’s not fair that her group had to pay fees for permits, portable toilets, police and emergency personnel. The group also had to purchase a $1 million insurance policy.

Tea party groups in Charlottesville, Va., Atlanta and Washington, D.C., have raised similar complaints.

IF OWS decides to come to Sturbridge, I’ll be right there with them. Meanwhile could someone please explain to the democrat mayors and governors in this country what “equality under the law” means.

Tea partiers take great pride in making sure every place they gather is cleaner when they leave it than when they arrived. The OWS crowd defecates on police cars and trash public property with abandon.

Once again people who are out there demanding that the government act like their nanny are getting a pass from the government. While those of us who play by the rules have to pay the bill.

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30
Sep 11

Calling Joe MCCarthy

This morning while at the post office, a man I didn’t recognize, held the door for me. As I thanked him he said: “I want to thank you for all you are doing with the tea party”. I was surprised he recognized me, but said “thank you” again, and told him when and where we meet.

He then told me that his support had to be in secret because he works for a local bank and could not let anyone know he was a tea party supporter. He then confided that he watched Fox News every night – as if that admission required a confession. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this sort of thing but it still shocks me that love of country and the constitution are things people feel the need to hide.

That wasn’t my first tea party encounter with a banker. We initially held our meetings in a conference room at a local bank opened to anyone who wanted it. One day the bank’s president called me to say he was getting complaints and could no longer let the tea party meet there. This is the same bank that hosts religious services on its property on Sundays.

Apparently being a tea partier is a little like being in the communist party in the days of McCarthy. And if it has come to the point in left wing Massachusetts that it is more acceptable to support public worship at a local business than to support the free market, Alinsky is truly winning.

The Executive — No Comments
14
Mar 11

May I play through

One of the things I think about quite a bit is what makes someone want to run for office. Whether it be the guy running for the town council or the person running for President. I have come up with a lot of reasons, for some it is the chance to serve their community, state or country, maybe give something back, for others it is the chance for power. These would be the two main categories which I think any candidate or office holder would fit into. Except our current President that is.

With Barack Obama I think there is something else. I personally don’t think he really cares all that much about this country, at least not in the sense someone like me does. He doesn’t see the country as the greatest in the world, he doesn’t believe that our form of government is the greatest in the world, if he did, why does he try to change it every chance he gets? Make no mistake about it, Obama is a Progressive and he wants to turn this country into a Socialist state. But, I don’t think that is why he wanted to be President.

And as far as the power thing goes, I am not sure he really has all that much. The first two years of his presidency, he had a majority in both the Senate and the House, yet he really didn’t accomplish a whole lot, and now it is even worse, so it wasn’t political power he was after. He had that and failed to capitalize on it. If it is world power, he has made this country a laughing stock around the world, making enemies of our allies and believing he has made allies of our enemies. When confronted with any kind of crisis he cannot make a decision, instead adopting a “wait and see” attitude which leads to him doing nothing until it is too late.

Let’s look at Libya for example. He really hasn’t made any kind of stand, even though the Libyan rebels asked for our help. Libya is a country who has been our enemy for many years and who has attacked our soldiers in the past. He had the chance to help oust the current dictator in Libya and possibly install a democratic and friendly government, but instead has done nothing. So now what will the likely scenario be? Khadafy will more than likely fall shortly, more than likely when the rebels get help from Al-Qaida, who will then turn the Libyans against the US, saying basically, “You asked for the Americans help and they spat on you, this is why we must now kill them.” We have given Al-Qaida the perfect opportunity to strike and control another country.

So I don’t think he wanted to be president for the power. Instead, today I figured it out. Barack Obama wanted to be President just so he could say he was President. He had no experience and no idea what it would take to be president. He began his campaign for his second term the day after he was elected. He has used his office so he and Michelle can live the good life on the taxpayers’ dime, holding lavish parties, seeing all the best entertainment, eating like royalty (which they truly believe they are). Barack has no idea what a president needs to do, and while there have been others in the same situation in the past; at least they had brains enough to surround themselves with good people. Not Obama. He has surrounded himself with people like him, people with very little experience in the private sector, where real experience comes from.

Yesterday, while the world is going crazy, earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, as well as the threat of a major nuclear catastrophe, the Libyan rebels being slaughtered by their country’s dictator, gas prices going through the roof, unemployment still rising, Barack Obama went out and played 18 holes of golf. Is this how a leader leads? It is when he has no idea of how to fix things.

I have never been a fan of President Obama, but I have also never really disrespected him either, he is the President, but I have finally lost all respect for him. All true Americans, those who truly believe in the American way and the real American dream, not the one where the government provides everything to you, need to do everything in their power to see that this man does not get reelected to another four year term. If he is, there will be no fixing what he has destroyed.

 

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01
Mar 11

Mussolini made the trains run on time

On the local Boston news at noon today there were two stories concerning railroads. The first, of special interest to Worcester, was about how recently, okay all damn winter, the MBTA commuter rail has been, well to put it politely, all f***ed up. Yesterday it took riders on the 5:00 PM train over four hours to get from Boston to Worcester, and the same train in the AM was two hours late as well.  The second story concerned how our senior senator, John Kerry, is pushing for Massachusetts to get some of this money President Obama wants to spend on high speed rail. What an interesting juxtaposition. Okay, I have no idea if it is a juxtaposition or not but it seemed like a good place to throw in a big word. Continue reading →

The Executive — 7 Comments
23
Feb 11

If you don’t like it just ignore it

Just when you think it can’t get any worse we have this: “Adminstration refuses to defend Anti-gay Marriage Law”. This is just a polite way of saying “Screw the Constitution, we will only enforce the laws we like.”

Once again the Obama Administration has decided to step on the US Constitution because they don’t like something and they can’t get the legislature changed. Just because the President doesn’t like the “Defense of Marriage Act” doesn’t mean it can be ignored. I don’t like the fact that I can’t drive 95 MPH on the Massachusetts Turnpike, but I don’t ignore the law.

Personally I have no opinion on Gay Marriage, this is America and people should be free to do what they want. What people do is between them and their God, if they believe in God, it isn’t my business or the Governments. I will say I believe the voters have the right to vote on the matter, unlike here in Massachusetts where the voters weren’t allowed to. But that will be a topic for another day.

This law was duly passed and signed but none other than the hero of the liberal left Bill Clinton and it has not been legally removed from the laws of the United States, Therefore it has to be defended if a case is brought up to the courts. Now I suppose one could argue that the law itself is unconstitutional since it is not one of the enumerated powers which is listed in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, but since it is on the books, it is safe to assume it was either not challenged or if it was the challenge failed. (It is interesting to note though that one of the enumerated powers gives the Congress the right to “Define and punish piracies…on the high seas”, let’s see if Obama does something to the Somalians).

There is nothing in the Constitution or the Amendments which says the President has the authority to decide which laws he of his Justice Department will enforce. It’s interesting, as I wrote last week, a question which is always asked of tea party members by non-members is “What does taking back the Constitution mean?” This is a perfect example. The left is constantly taking away the Constitution by subverting it, changing the meaning of it or just ignoring it. When we say we want to take it back, we mean things such as this need to stop. The Constitution means exactly what it says. It does not mean what you want it to say.

This is just another example of why the tea party movement must advocate change in the 2012 elections. If we don’t, there will be nothing left worth savings.

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