I believe that the majority of Americans are good, hard-working people. For too long we've been silent because we were going about our business raising our families and making the country work. Now everything that we've worked for all our lives as well as our inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution are being stolen from us by the current Administration and Congress. It's time to DO something!
Do you remember the movie, "Miracle on 34th Street?" Do you remember the scene where a man is on trial for claiming to be Santa Claus and as evidence his attorney has sacks and sacks of mail brought in, all addressed to Santa?
Keep that image in your mind.
Most people have heard about the Alamo, but just in case you don't know the "real" story, Texas was part of Mexico in 1836 and a tyrant named Santa Anna was taking away people's rights by trampling on the Mexican Constitution of 1824. That's what the men in the Alamo were fighting for; they flew a flag with the Mexican colors that said "1824."
We are NOT an angry mob! We are NOT un-American! We just want the government to follow the U.S. Constitution. In that way we are doing just what the men at the Alamo were doing.
I do NOT want anyone to be violent or ugly or disrespectful. What I AM asking is that you do a very simple, easy thing that will make a far greater impact than signing a petition. (Remember the image of the thousands of letters, mountains of letters.)
Each of you buy six postcards and six postcard stamps (which are 28 cents). Send one to your U.S. Representative and two U.S. Senators. If you don't know their addresses (ours are printed in the daily paper) you can find them at:
http://www.house.gov/ for your Representative and
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm for Senators
Even if your Representative and Senators do not support what's going on (ours don't, thankfully) they need to know that we are behind them to give them courage to stand up to the loud hateful voices of opposition.
Also write the President, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. Their addresses are below:
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington DC 20500
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
Senator Harry Reid
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Keep it short and simple (a requirement on a post card) but don't delay! They will be back in session after Labor Day, so mail it between August 31 and September 4 so you can FLOOD THEIR OFFICES with mail!
Snail mail makes a huge impact on elected officials, but letters take too long since the anthrax scare in 2001. Postcards are cheaper to mail, too!
Please send this to anyone else you know who is frustrated, scared, and angry at what the current government is doing to our freedoms before it is too late.
Remember the Alamo!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Letter to "Blue Dog" Democrats
I am begging you as an American, a taxpayer and a voter to please vote against H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Government health “care” is monstrously inefficient, as any veteran using the Veteran’s Administration will be happy to explain, and any doctor (if he or she had time to write) would tell you about Medicare reimbursement.
My husband worked for the State of Texas for 3 years and we were part of an HMO where bureaucrats made decisions on what medical care was deemed “necessary.” It was a nightmare! Without taking up your time to explain the details, we had to pay to see a doctor who was not “authorized” in order to receive necessary medical care. If a similar system is implemented on a national basis, not even that option will be available.
I was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 46 and have been in remission for 4 years, thanks to the availability of timely, up-to-date medical care and pharmaceutical research, as well as our private employer’s health insurance plan. If Congress allows the federal government to take over our wonderful, even if flawed, health care system, the time WILL come, as it has in every nation with nationalized care, that faceless bureaucrats will effectively determine who lives and who dies based upon the limited funds and the inevitable need for rationing care based on who is more worthy to use those limited funds.
Please stop this senseless rush to push through a massive health care bill that the vast majority of the American people do NOT want! There are many solutions available to better the health care system without DESTROYING what already is good in the system and without piling more and more debt onto We the People who pay the taxes.
My husband worked for the State of Texas for 3 years and we were part of an HMO where bureaucrats made decisions on what medical care was deemed “necessary.” It was a nightmare! Without taking up your time to explain the details, we had to pay to see a doctor who was not “authorized” in order to receive necessary medical care. If a similar system is implemented on a national basis, not even that option will be available.
I was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 46 and have been in remission for 4 years, thanks to the availability of timely, up-to-date medical care and pharmaceutical research, as well as our private employer’s health insurance plan. If Congress allows the federal government to take over our wonderful, even if flawed, health care system, the time WILL come, as it has in every nation with nationalized care, that faceless bureaucrats will effectively determine who lives and who dies based upon the limited funds and the inevitable need for rationing care based on who is more worthy to use those limited funds.
Please stop this senseless rush to push through a massive health care bill that the vast majority of the American people do NOT want! There are many solutions available to better the health care system without DESTROYING what already is good in the system and without piling more and more debt onto We the People who pay the taxes.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Letter to RNC Chairman
Michael Steele, Chairman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Mr. Steele:
I am returning your survey, although I doubt that it will be counted since there is no money included. Let me explain why.
I have voted in every national, state, and local election since I was 18 years old. I did not become a Republican until I learned about party platforms when I took a political science course at age 26 and realized I could no longer support the Democrats. My husband and I have worked with the Republican Party at the local and state levels here in Texas, but we have not been able to support them monetarily in good conscience ever since the “RINOS” (Republicans in Name Only) have taken over.
As long as you allow people such as Colin Powell and John McCain to be the “voice” of the Republican Party, then we cannot support it. We will continue to vote, but we will vote for the candidate who most closely aligns with our conservative beliefs in small government and fiscal responsibility, as well as those “social issues” that the RINOS malign us for having, i.e. pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-parental rights. We will not change our core principles for anyone or anything.
It would be in your best interest to notice that a recent Gallup poll shows that 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservatives, 35% moderate, and 21% liberal. Why on earth do you persist in “moving left” in order to pacify your liberal critics? They don’t want to get along—they want to destroy you!
Here’s hoping and praying that something will wake up the Republican Party or we will soon be calling one another “Comrade” in this United Socialist States of America.
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Mr. Steele:
I am returning your survey, although I doubt that it will be counted since there is no money included. Let me explain why.
I have voted in every national, state, and local election since I was 18 years old. I did not become a Republican until I learned about party platforms when I took a political science course at age 26 and realized I could no longer support the Democrats. My husband and I have worked with the Republican Party at the local and state levels here in Texas, but we have not been able to support them monetarily in good conscience ever since the “RINOS” (Republicans in Name Only) have taken over.
As long as you allow people such as Colin Powell and John McCain to be the “voice” of the Republican Party, then we cannot support it. We will continue to vote, but we will vote for the candidate who most closely aligns with our conservative beliefs in small government and fiscal responsibility, as well as those “social issues” that the RINOS malign us for having, i.e. pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-parental rights. We will not change our core principles for anyone or anything.
It would be in your best interest to notice that a recent Gallup poll shows that 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservatives, 35% moderate, and 21% liberal. Why on earth do you persist in “moving left” in order to pacify your liberal critics? They don’t want to get along—they want to destroy you!
Here’s hoping and praying that something will wake up the Republican Party or we will soon be calling one another “Comrade” in this United Socialist States of America.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Letter to A.C.O.R.N.
Dr. King is turning in his grave. You have set back race relations fifty years and undone much of what he gave his life to change. By calling everyone who disagrees with your radical agenda a "racist" you have cheapened the real meaning of the word. When a true racist rears his or her head, no one will listen.
Dr. King used the truth to persuade others to see that "separate but equal" was wrong. You lie and practice voter fraud and use intimidation with taxpayer funds to help destroy the American economy and our God-given freedoms of speech and assembly in order to change this country because you are so full of hate that you want to "get even" with millions of people who have never done you wrong.
Don't you see that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and even prominent members of the Democrat Party stir you up because they profit from your continuing hate? Why do you hate? You are seeing things that no longer exist. Yes, there will always be some white supremacists that think they're better than everybody else, but most people in this country are color blind. Most Americans want everyone to succeed. And in a free America, everyone has equal opportunity to do their best and use their God-given talents to make the best life possible for themselves and their families.
If you destroy a free American, then everyone will be equal--equally poor and miserable. No one will have the means to help his brother rise above it because the government will control everything. If they promise you power, they are lying. Government doesn't share power with anyone.
You need to go back and listen to Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. There is much more to it than "free at last." Here are some important words you need to remember:
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
"The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."
Americans must all be free or none of us can be free. Tyrants who love power will crush liberty even here in "the land of the free" unless we stand together to oppose them.
Dr. King used the truth to persuade others to see that "separate but equal" was wrong. You lie and practice voter fraud and use intimidation with taxpayer funds to help destroy the American economy and our God-given freedoms of speech and assembly in order to change this country because you are so full of hate that you want to "get even" with millions of people who have never done you wrong.
Don't you see that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and even prominent members of the Democrat Party stir you up because they profit from your continuing hate? Why do you hate? You are seeing things that no longer exist. Yes, there will always be some white supremacists that think they're better than everybody else, but most people in this country are color blind. Most Americans want everyone to succeed. And in a free America, everyone has equal opportunity to do their best and use their God-given talents to make the best life possible for themselves and their families.
If you destroy a free American, then everyone will be equal--equally poor and miserable. No one will have the means to help his brother rise above it because the government will control everything. If they promise you power, they are lying. Government doesn't share power with anyone.
You need to go back and listen to Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. There is much more to it than "free at last." Here are some important words you need to remember:
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
"The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."
Americans must all be free or none of us can be free. Tyrants who love power will crush liberty even here in "the land of the free" unless we stand together to oppose them.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
My letter to SEIU
This one is shorter since I figured they might have a short attention span.
SEIU
5585 Pershing Ave, Suite 130
St. Louis, MO 63112
To Whom it May Concern:
I am appalled at the actions of some of your members during a peaceful protest last Thursday in which Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked for the "crime" of passing out flags and buttons. Shame on you for your bullying actions!
In case you haven't read it lately, the Bill of Rights, which are the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution says this in the first Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Your tactics are the same as tyrannies and despots of all times: you can't forward your agenda by peaceful, logical debate so you try to silence the opposition instead. Shame on you! I denounce your violent methods and will no longer have any sympathy for unions of any kind.
SEIU
5585 Pershing Ave, Suite 130
St. Louis, MO 63112
To Whom it May Concern:
I am appalled at the actions of some of your members during a peaceful protest last Thursday in which Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked for the "crime" of passing out flags and buttons. Shame on you for your bullying actions!
In case you haven't read it lately, the Bill of Rights, which are the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution says this in the first Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Your tactics are the same as tyrannies and despots of all times: you can't forward your agenda by peaceful, logical debate so you try to silence the opposition instead. Shame on you! I denounce your violent methods and will no longer have any sympathy for unions of any kind.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Another letter (I have become Sam Adams, I think)
Cynthia Tucker
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
72 Marietta Street N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303
Dear Ms. Tucker:
I am saddened by your words last week on Hardball that you believe "45-65%" of town hall protesters are "racist" just because they dare voice concerns against the government takeover of health care on top of the trillions stolen by the "stimulus" bill, bailouts of private companies, and the job-stealing "cap and trade" bill.
I am sorry that you are so focused on race, because believe me, this has NOTHING to do with race. It has to do with an out-of-control federal government who has become so arrogant they don't care who they step on or destroy in order to keep and grow their power. It wouldn't matter WHO was president—Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush—anyone who leads this headlong rush into socialism will be protested by ordinary, hard-working, tax-paying Americans.
It is you and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the President himself who are the racists by insisting that everything comes back to that. Believe it or not, the vast majority of Americans have long ago put racial tensions behind us. It is YOU who keep it stirred up.
I grew up in a military family in the 60's in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and learned from my parents and the U.S. Army to be color blind. I had native and Asian friends in Hawaiian schools, black friends in Louisiana schools, Hispanic friends in Texas schools. Yes, of course there are and always will be a minority of white folk that will never get over their feelings of superiority, but in all my years and all my travels across this wonderful country I have found and seen otherwise—true brotherhood.
I am so tired of stupid political correctness and multiculturalism tearing our country apart. Of course I'm going to protest what I believe is wrong! In case you haven't read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution lately, this is what it says:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
May God have mercy on our country before it is too late. And may you search your heart and your conscience to see what you are doing to add to the problem on a national level.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
72 Marietta Street N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303
Dear Ms. Tucker:
I am saddened by your words last week on Hardball that you believe "45-65%" of town hall protesters are "racist" just because they dare voice concerns against the government takeover of health care on top of the trillions stolen by the "stimulus" bill, bailouts of private companies, and the job-stealing "cap and trade" bill.
I am sorry that you are so focused on race, because believe me, this has NOTHING to do with race. It has to do with an out-of-control federal government who has become so arrogant they don't care who they step on or destroy in order to keep and grow their power. It wouldn't matter WHO was president—Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush—anyone who leads this headlong rush into socialism will be protested by ordinary, hard-working, tax-paying Americans.
It is you and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the President himself who are the racists by insisting that everything comes back to that. Believe it or not, the vast majority of Americans have long ago put racial tensions behind us. It is YOU who keep it stirred up.
I grew up in a military family in the 60's in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and learned from my parents and the U.S. Army to be color blind. I had native and Asian friends in Hawaiian schools, black friends in Louisiana schools, Hispanic friends in Texas schools. Yes, of course there are and always will be a minority of white folk that will never get over their feelings of superiority, but in all my years and all my travels across this wonderful country I have found and seen otherwise—true brotherhood.
I am so tired of stupid political correctness and multiculturalism tearing our country apart. Of course I'm going to protest what I believe is wrong! In case you haven't read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution lately, this is what it says:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
May God have mercy on our country before it is too late. And may you search your heart and your conscience to see what you are doing to add to the problem on a national level.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
A second letter to the editor
I wondered why AARP was not screaming against this travesty of a "health care" bill, especially when you read pages 425-430 of its 1000+ pages that deal directly with "end of life" issues. Now I see from their website that AARP actually supports the proposed government takeover of health care, which will effectively devastate the private relationship between doctors and patients with a bloated government bureaucracy as middleman. This is not just a "reform" but a total destruction of the world's best health care system.
The many ominous phrases in the bill, coupled with statements by the President himself (that a 100 year old patient shouldn't be given a pacemaker, even though she still had a lot of life left in her) as well as health policy advisor at the OMB Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to Rahm (that doctors take the Hippocratic Oath "too seriously" and that Americans are "too enamored" with medical technology), point to a growing attitude of viewing senior citizens, who use a "disproportionate" percentage of health care benefits, as expendable members of society instead of valued parents and grandparents, cherished for their wisdom and prior sacrifices that have made this country great.
I'm not surprised, really. The President himself voted three times as a state senator to require babies that survived abortion be left to die. They too are expendable in this Administration's eyes. Life is no longer the most precious commodity to the "leaders" of this United States. Perhaps they should read the Declaration of Independence, especially the part about "unalienable rights" that begins with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
How dare the AARP claim to be "advocates" for the elderly and gladly take their money in dues and yet support this monstrosity of a "health care" bill that will ultimately treat them as trash to be discarded? The AARP is no better than the scammers that bilk trusting seniors out of their retirement funds!
I will never join AARP and encourage all the seniors in Kerrville to cancel their membership!
(signed) A disgusted 51 year old American citizen and cancer survivor, thanks to our present health care system.
The many ominous phrases in the bill, coupled with statements by the President himself (that a 100 year old patient shouldn't be given a pacemaker, even though she still had a lot of life left in her) as well as health policy advisor at the OMB Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother to Rahm (that doctors take the Hippocratic Oath "too seriously" and that Americans are "too enamored" with medical technology), point to a growing attitude of viewing senior citizens, who use a "disproportionate" percentage of health care benefits, as expendable members of society instead of valued parents and grandparents, cherished for their wisdom and prior sacrifices that have made this country great.
I'm not surprised, really. The President himself voted three times as a state senator to require babies that survived abortion be left to die. They too are expendable in this Administration's eyes. Life is no longer the most precious commodity to the "leaders" of this United States. Perhaps they should read the Declaration of Independence, especially the part about "unalienable rights" that begins with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
How dare the AARP claim to be "advocates" for the elderly and gladly take their money in dues and yet support this monstrosity of a "health care" bill that will ultimately treat them as trash to be discarded? The AARP is no better than the scammers that bilk trusting seniors out of their retirement funds!
I will never join AARP and encourage all the seniors in Kerrville to cancel their membership!
(signed) A disgusted 51 year old American citizen and cancer survivor, thanks to our present health care system.
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