Rep. Patrick McHenry Voted To RESTRICT Your 1st Amendment Rights

The Following is a press release from Ken Fortenberry’s campaign. He is running against Rep. Patrick McHenry for the US 10th District Congressional seat.

Friday, March 16, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

McHenry votes against Free Speech, U.S. Constitution;

Washington politicians scaring public into becoming sheep. The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are being systematically ripped apart by Washington politicians, and U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry is one of the attackers.

A bill that passed in the U.S. Congress this week  (H.R. 347) restricts the Constitutionally-granted free speech right of all Americans and makes it a felony to “enter or remain” in an area that government officials designate as “restricted.”

“This bill slaps every American right in the face and robs them of the freedom they are guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” said Ken H. Fortenberry, a Republican challenging McHenry in the May 8 primary. “For any American citizen to face a felony charge and a lengthy prison term for speaking out on any issue or politician is absolutely reprehensible.”

The law allows the Department of Homeland Security to designate a “building or grounds” where the president – or anyone protected by the Secret Service – to be a “restricted” access area if the event is deemed an event of “national significance.”

“This means that if a citizen shows up at an event where a presidential candidate is speaking or attends an event where a foreign official is present and shouts something they don’t like, the citizen could be hauled away in handcuffs to face a felony charge and jail time,” said Fortenberry. “This law is not only vague and overly broad, it clearly would not stand up to a Constitutional challenge in court,” said Fortenberry.

“The founders of our nation would roll over in their graves at how our Constitution is being trampled on by politicians who are afraid of public scrutiny and criticism. Under the guise of protecting our freedom, they are robbing us of our freedom, and we are letting them get away with it,” said Fortenberry.

“Mr. McHenry has once again turned his back on the Constitution and has sided with politicians and bureaucrats who are afraid to face the people who put them in office. This is the second time in less than a year that McHenry has sold us out. Last year he supported the National Defense Authorization Act which gives the president to authority to order any U.S. citizen anywhere in the world to be put behind bars indefinitely, without any charges or trial. The politicians are trying to scare the American people into becoming sheep and following them mindlessly while their rights are being stripped away.”

Fortenberry also lambasted the media for its lack of coverage about the legislation.

“I can’t believe that the media – the so-called protectors of our free speech – have sat on the sidelines and let this legislation become law without a peep of protest,” he said. “They ought to be ashamed of themselves for turning their backs on their responsibility to the First Amendment.”

I have always had my doubts about Rep. McHenry’s leadership abilities…but now I question his judgment.  If you live within this map, please visit Ken Fortenberry’s website (linked above) and see if you think he has better judgment than Rep. McHenry. If you agree he does, Ken will need you to go vote in the May 8th Primary.

If you are interested…

I was invited to be a guest on the Vince Coakley show concerning Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. You can listen at the link below.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VinceCoakleyPodcast/~5/KhDfurg7WNk/Vince_20120105_010512184348.mp3

Why does “Living Wage” language surprise ANYONE in Asheville?

 You are dues paying members of ICLEI, an accredited NGO for the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development. ICLEI worked with the Center for American Progress, AFL/CIO,  Apollo Alliance and many others to create the STAR Community Index which calls for   

“Ensure that every worker earns a living wage—one that allows workers and their
families to afford a decent standard of living, including housing, transportation,
and other basic needs without depending on public subsidies.”

Click here to read them for yourself.

In addition to the above mentioned groups Maggie Ullman, Manager of the City of Asheville’s Sustainability Office is also listed in the credits for the STAR Guidelines.

Click here for the Asheville Citizen-Times for the original article.

CBS News: U.S. Commerce Department to create an Internet ID for Americans

SHOUT OUT to my Oklahoma bud Shirl at http://stillstandingup.wordpress.com  for reminding me about this story!

This story was first published by CNET. You can read the full CBS story here.

STANFORD, Calif.–President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

Details about the “trusted identity” project are remarkably scarce. Last year’s announcement referenced a possible forthcoming smart card or digital certificate that would prove that online users are who they say they are. These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by online vendors for financial transactions.

Where have I read that before…oh yeah the Bible talks about that. So no news to read here. Just move along.

Schmidt stressed that there’s no chance that “a centralized database will emerge,”… well I don’t know about you but that’s good enough for me, sign me up Mr. Schmidt…will I be able to choose if the ID goes on my forehead or right hand? I have kinda a fat head so I think I want mine on my right hand.

I hope this is another effort newly elected State House Rep. Glenn Bradley in NC will nullify for our state!

And the concept of Nullification needs to be one that every patriot, in every state, should begin familiarizing themselves with today! It is probably our last hope to regain our government peacefully.

For a crash course in what nullification is click here

Charlotte Urban Street Design Guidelines Go into Effect

This from “Smart Growth Online”:

The City of Charlotte implemented Urban Street Design Guidelines (USDG) in December 2010, after adopting the policy in 2007. The USDG is the implementation tool for planning and designing Charlotte’s streets and for providing viable transportation choices for all Charlotte residents. The guidelines are intended to create “complete” streets, streets that provide capacity and mobility for motorists, while also being safer and more comfortable for pedestrians, cyclists, and neighborhood residents.

Despite the policy going into effect just last month, some streets and intersections have already been designed to meet the Urban Street Design Guidelines. For its proactive and progressive work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city’s Department of Transportation with its 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.

Among other changes, the guidelines will require wider sidewalks, add requirements for curbs and gutters, and also change the way designers determine how buildings are “set back” from streets and other structures.

Resource: http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/going_green/2010/12/charlotte-approves-urban-street-design.html

North Carolina –  Jan. 4, 2011

I bet this will not cost Charlotte or Mecklenburg county residents one extra dime in taxes. Good for you Charlotte.Who in the world needs a car in Charlotte anyway. GO SMART GROWTH!

North Carolina will face one of the largest state deficits in the country,yet the state currently owns approximately 50 planes!

In July WRAL reported that Lawmakers struggled to cut $1.3 billion from the NC budget in July for 2011-2012. I find it hard to believe that NC Lawmakers “struggled” to cut a billion out of the budget, and yet the state still owns/operates approx. 50 aircraft according to FAA records. 30% of NC’s fleet are registered to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources!

In comparison SC, Virginia, and  Tennessee own approx. 19,  3, and 25 aircraft respectively. 

Incredibly, Georgia owns approx 78  planes!

Pretty soon, the states are going to start lining up for bailouts. Is it just me, or should a requirement be that these states get rid of the aircraft that they are buying and maintaining on our tax dollars?

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/8049206/ NC Bugdet Deficet Story

WOW! Sen. Richard Wil-Burr-(RINO)-NC requested 82 earmarks for a total of $287,194,440, which is a 170% increase over 2010!

Sen. Richard wilBurr (RINO)-NC

I think it would have been just as expensive to have elected Marshall for Senate. 

http://www.carolinatransparency.com/earmarks/legislator.php?id=2

Richard Burr sponsored or co-sponsored 65 earmarks totalling $105,803,000 in fiscal year 2010 ranking 61st out of 100 senators http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/earmarks.php?cid=N00002221&cycle=2010

http://www.carolinatransparency.com/earmarks/ 2011 NC Earmarks from Carolina transparency

This is not the first $300,000 earmark to appear in an appropriations bill from NC entitled Swine Waste Management

In 2008 Sen. Burr and others requested an earmark for $325K that was entitled Swine Waste Management, and do you know what it payed for? A global warming scheme in eastern NC that covered swine lagoons to capture and burn methane gas! Here is a link to a post from NCCo2Debate that was published back in July. http://wp.me/sVCuO-201

Sen. Burr received 20% of ALL contributions the National Pork Producer’s PAC gave to Republican candidates in 2010, and this Political Action Committee also finished in the Top 50 of Sen. Burr’s contributor’s in 2010.

Gaspee Gazette is investigating whether or not the $349,000 earmark in the recent Omnibus Appropriations Bill entitled Swine Waste Management is the work of Sen. Burr as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101215/cm_atlantic/herecomestheomnibusbattendownthehatches6208

Would you like one or two lumps of treachery in your TEA?

 I normally do not copy whole articles but Ms. Milbank has nailed this one to the wall. I must say I am very proud of Jenny Beth Martin and I hope she continues to fight! 

By Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Wednesday, December 15, 2010; 8:00 PM

Dear Tea Party voter: You’ve been had.

“When the good people of South Dakota voted last month to send Republican Kristi Noem to Congress, they probably believed that she would give no quarter to the lobbyists and special interest groups who enjoyed, as she put it, “throwing money at the feet of a member of Congress.”

But since she defeated Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (in part by making an issue of Herseth Sandlin’s marriage to a lobbyist), Noem has hired her new chief of staff from . . . a lobbying firm! And on Tuesday afternoon, she was the guest of honor at a “Meet & Greet” with Washington high-rollers at the powerhouse lobbying firm Barbour Griffiths Rogers. Once these boys start throwing money at Noem’s feet, she’ll soon be chin deep in lobbyist greenbacks.

House Republican leaders rejected a Tea Party-backed candidate as the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, instead installing Hal Rogers of Kentucky, who is known as the “Prince of Pork“

Noem is one of at least 13 incoming Republican lawmakers who have hired lobbyists to run their offices. As The Post’s Dan Eggen reported last week, dozens of freshman lawmakers have already had fundraisers to collect millions of dollars from lobbyists and other deep-pocketed interests. In the month since Election Day, new Republican members had more than a dozen such “debt retirement” events.

And the parties continue. Rep.-elect Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), for example, told supporters on his campaign Web site: “I intend to take our voice and shout it loudly to the Washington, D.C., bureaucrats and politicians to make sure they know that we want legislation reflective of true conservatism. I will make you proud.”

And how, exactly, is he making his constituents proud so far? On Tuesday night, he was scheduled to be the beneficiary of a dinner fundraiser at the Republican National Committee’s Capitol Hill Club. Checks – $500 for individuals and $1,000 for political action committees – are to be made payable to Steven Palazzo for Congress – and mailed to an address not in Mississippi but in Alexandria, Va.

Of more consequence is the Republicans’ tax compromise, which, as the Tea Party Patriots group pointed out, violates no fewer than five provisions of the Republicans’ campaign “Pledge to America.” Among the broken promises in the pledge, which was designed to show that Republicans were faithful to Tea Party principles, are vows to “act immediately to reduce spending” (page 21) and to “advance legislative issues one at a time” (page 33).

Citing these violations, the Tea Party Patriots said the tax compromise makes the pledge “a joke,” and the group launched a petition drive to fight passage of the measure. Jenny Beth Martin, a national coordinator of the group, said “it is an insult to those who voted them into power to procrastinate on their pledge to honor conservative principles.”

So what did Republican lawmakers think of this Tea Party protest? Well, on Monday evening, the Senate held the crucial cloture vote on the compromise. The vote, which essentially guaranteed passage, was 83 to 15, and only five Republicans voted no.

Tea Party pull is stronger in the House, but even there, the powerful interests remain unchecked. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), the incoming chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said last week that “Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks.” And those naive Tea Partyers thought Washington was supposed to serve the taxpayers!

But is there nobody who will keep faith with the Tea Party voter? Even Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a darling of the movement, is going wobbly. First, she dropped her bid for a leadership position in the House when it became clear she wouldn’t win. Then she raised questions about the House GOP’s plan to ban “earmark” spending on pet projects. The woman who once maintained that “all this pork is bad” told Politico recently that there must be a way to funnel infrastructure money to her district. “This isn’t trying to be too cute by half of what is an earmark and what isn’t,” she said, “but we have to address the issue of how are we going to fund transportation projects across the country?”

Simple, congresswoman: The way you did before. In Washington, it’s business as usual.”

danamilbank@washpost.com

 http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2641228/posts?page=4 Noem Statement

http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/108244669.html Bachmann Statement

In addition you have Boehner going on national TV and announcing to the world he would slash 5% out of the budget… did he really mean to say that out loud?

And here in NC good old Sen. Burr co-sponsored a bill that will have our food supply run by the feds. I guess the only way they will learn is if we send new ones every two years to the House. I would be just fine with that!

Finally! A North Carolina Representative, Glen Bradley, has uttered the word that will return NC’s soverignty…NULLIFY!

Rep. Glen Bradley-NC District 49

This is from a post by Rep. Bradley on Facebook.

“The North Carolina Farmers Freedom Protection Act is now in Bill Drafting for the NC State House, currently slated for filing on January 28th or January 31st. This is a nullification bill for S.510 regarding NC produced foodstuffs.”

Nullification is the key to NC reasserting its independence from the federal leviathan. Gaspee Gazette will be sure to follow Rep. Bradley’s progress in the NC general Assembly.