<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668</id><updated>2012-02-05T12:03:08.151-07:00</updated><category term='Letter to the editor'/><category term='constitution'/><category term='economics'/><category term='law enforcement'/><category term='Census'/><category term='Government control'/><category term='Law'/><category term='school'/><category term='Abortion'/><category term='vaccinations'/><category term='Healthcare'/><category term='homosexual'/><category term='government accountablity'/><title type='text'>THE TRUTH IS NOT RELATIVE</title><subtitle type='html'>A conservative and factual when possible perspective on many contraversial issues, utilizing my God given,  Constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech attempting to be respectful without denial or compromise of the truth.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>351</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-8488155551316696126</id><published>2012-02-05T08:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T12:03:08.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Letter in response to cease and desist from school attorney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Dear School attorney,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This is my first interaction with a law firm in 49 years. In this length of time I have heard much about how dishonorable they operate, how they really do not care to represent people or entities properly but only how to stretch issues as long as they can to maximize their return by being as disruptive as possible to all they involve in their games of “pretend Justice.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;As you can see, I am not someone that scares easily and does not respond well to threats. I feel I must now take you to task for disrupting my life and for your failure not only to properly represent the school but you’re by refusal to answer my questions in fear that I am right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Let us recap, I went to exercise my first amendment right at a school district meeting, I was honest and straightforward and it embarrassed the board which is why they called you. You then sent me a letter telling me I committed a crime, which is ridiculous for challenging the school board on issues that concerned me. I then sent you a letter and asked you to support your position with several more questions I wanted answers to and you refused to call me back! I left messages, sent letters and you purposely ignored me when you could have addressed the issue yourself, saving the unnecessary calls to your office after my first call to you. You could have also stated &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;I was not worthy to contact you in your first letter to me and &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;could&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;have also saved your staff the trouble of having to answer &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;my calls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The latest, I just received on February 4th, you write another letter to threaten me and support your position with weak laws that are unconstitutional on their face instead of answering the questions I asked? Why not have just answered my questions in the fist place?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I made closer to eight calls, not 20 (are you exaggerating!) to your office and was no more rude or frustrated that anyone else that would call and out of complete disrespect, you fail to return their call. Do you think you can send me a letter telling me I committed a crime and spinelessly not have to be challenged on your position then have me bow to you demands at your failure to answer my questions?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I am a law abiding man of Honor and of Truth and will not back down from anyone. I will hold anyone accountable for divisive and unwarranted behavior even if it is someone with a title of nobility which apparently is undeserved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I find your use of ambiguous terms disrespectful and dishonorable for a man of your education. If you are truly detail oriented, perhaps I can suggest that you first get your facts straight. Your use of “Probably” or “something like” is very unprofessional and unbecoming of a man of such an elevated title as yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;At this point in time, I have given you the chance to straighten out this issue between myself and the school board and feel you are totally unwilling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I will accept your first letter charging me of a crime as null and void due to your failure to answer my questions and will go on with business as usual, I have respectfully denied my attendance at several meetings hoping for a remedy that has never come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It has been a pleasure to learn more about your profession and how pathetic it really is, how dishonorable you operate and threatening you can be in attempts to scare people into submission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Thank you Mr.&amp;nbsp;attorney for allowing me to realize that a tile of nobility is after all just a title and carries with it nothing of any substance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Very truly yours,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Thomas A. Munds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;By the way, your “client” was paid for, without authorization with OUR TAX DOLLARS, as a protective and controlling mechanism to prevent being held accountable by the people that pay their salary. In essence, at our expense, WE hire you to sue and harass us. Does this compute to you, is this what is right, honorable and desirable in the most free country in the free world? I think not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-8488155551316696126?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/8488155551316696126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=8488155551316696126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8488155551316696126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8488155551316696126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/02/letter-in-response-to-cease-and-desist.html' title='Letter in response to cease and desist from school attorney'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-6909998485627162324</id><published>2012-02-05T08:46:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T08:46:58.566-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><title type='text'>Letter from school attorney...final cease and desist</title><content type='html'>After my final letter of notice and demand that went to various government entities, I finally recieved a letter from the school attorney, not because he was adhering to my request but because after repeated attempts to contact him by phone and hisrefusal to answer my letter, it was a latter to me to cease and desist my harrassment, Serioulsy?Anyway, here is his letter to me dated January 31,2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Mr. Munds,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today you left a message with my receptionaist that you were going to sue me if I didn't talk to you on the phone. This is PROBABLY the 20th harrassing phone call you have made to my office. You have been rude, threatening and inappropriate with my staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing this letter to demand that you cease and desist contacting my law firm of me from this point forward. I do not represent you. I represented, for a limited purpose, the&amp;nbsp;--- school district. I&amp;nbsp; Have not been authorized to charge my client for speaking with you&amp;nbsp; and I consider my initial communication with youto be the first and last communication with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Idaho law prohibits the use of telephone to threaten and harass. The Federal Communications Act also prohibits telephone harrassment. If I receive one more call from you I will refer the matter to federal and state law enforcement officials for prosecution. If you personally appear at my office, I will request you be cited for trespass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very Truly Yours,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;School attorney&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-6909998485627162324?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/6909998485627162324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=6909998485627162324' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/6909998485627162324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/6909998485627162324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/02/letter-from-school-attorneyfinal-cease.html' title='Letter from school attorney...final cease and desist'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-5277501983733480701</id><published>2012-02-04T17:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T17:20:52.365-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><title type='text'>Coaches and athletic directors making law?</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I&amp;nbsp; break from the political fight&amp;nbsp; to enjoy my children while I can but I find it increasingly&amp;nbsp; more difficult because of the restrictions placed upon myself and my kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who makes law, better yet who isn't making law?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everytime my kids or wife tells me we are going to&amp;nbsp;a game, it seems my blood pressure begins to rise. Why? Because everytime I go , I find out more of our rights are being restricted by people without that authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day last week We had a basketball game in Nampa. I was aware from previous visits that they have make a law that no outside food and drinks are allowed, I really wanted to know how they make such laws and who enforces them so when we arrived I began speaking with the athletic director.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typically, today when you question authority, there is an immediate defensive reaction. Realizing this I told him that I was aware of this fact and didn't want him to think I was trying to be combative but needed some answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I told him I was running for legislature and had some questions he asked what I was referring to. I pointed to the various signs around the foyer and asked him where he got the authority to prevent people from bringing outside food and drink into the school and to force people to spend money at the concessions. He told me that no one has ever questioned it before and people are just so willing to comply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stated that just because people are willing to comply doesn't mean that the laws created by the school are acceptable just because people don't know better. He told me that it was for two reasons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. To keep the kids safe ( Where have we heard this before!)&lt;br /&gt;2. To make money at concessions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I asked him if he ever thought about the rights violations with regads to his decisions he said there were no rights violations, as government authorities without authority typically do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I said so help me out and walk me through this in my head...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rights of the people are God given&amp;nbsp; and are inalienable.&lt;br /&gt;People Ordained and Established governemnt to protect those Rights&lt;br /&gt;People pay taxes to support the protection of their rights&lt;br /&gt;People are forced to take from their own savings and retirement to pay for government workers&lt;br /&gt;Government creates agencies to protect themselves from the people that created them.&lt;br /&gt;Government creates public school and indoctrinates the people to believe rights come from government&lt;br /&gt;Government takes the power from the people and takes our rights away..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I said so, to make my point, The people pay for the building you work in, create your job, pay your salary, your retirement and benefits at the expense of ours so you can restrict the rights of those who created your existence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked him to explain how the rights of the children and the tax payers are not being violated?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stated the obvious: You have denied outside food and drink to force us to pay for concessions that we payed for you to have in the first place to resell back to us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have put signs on the pop machines stating that we cannot use the pop machines while concessions are open to force us to pay for them, then you force us to pay admission to the same building&amp;nbsp; that was built and maintained by the taxpayer? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you state that no food or beverage is allowed for safety but it only applies to Highschool? Don't the younger children deserve the same protection?&amp;nbsp; Maybe this proves that it isn't about safety at all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many times do you think a taxpayer should keep paying for the same service? We built everything you are restricting us from, how do you justify your position?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said well, you cant bring your thermos in because iut may have alcohol in it. I said is it a crime to have alcohol in school, when no crime has been committed and if it is dangerous should you go after the state since it sells it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked him again, &lt;strong&gt;Where do you get your authority to restrict the people&lt;/strong&gt; and he said &lt;strong&gt;" A few coaches and a few school athlectic directors decided to restrict the people in the name of safety."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked him what would he do if someone refused to pay, he said he didnt know because no one had ever challenged the rule before, then told me I would be removed from the premesis and arrested!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrested? For&amp;nbsp;what? Refusing to pay for something I already paid for? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, as it stands, I AM THE ONLY ONE CHALLENGING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF TYRANNY THATS SOLE DESIRE IS NOT TO PROTECT YOU BUT TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND USE IT TO CONTROL YOU! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ACCORDING TO THE ORGANIC LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT&amp;nbsp;NOR ANY &amp;nbsp;GOVERNMENT AGENCY HAS NO AUTHORITY TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND CONTROL YOU UNLESS YOU LET THEM BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THEM THIS IS SO, THEY ARE LYING TO YOU!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If&amp;nbsp; the sports tems need money perhaps they should ask for it, not force people to pay it! Are they afraid that people won't pay? That should tell you something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they can't&amp;nbsp;afford to pay for sports and the maintenence of the buildings&amp;nbsp;maybe they should have thought about that before they built them, went to such extravigance, cusioned their retirement and salary..for life and have the benefits of their existence tall o fall on the tax payer. If this country was founded that all men are created equal, why cant I keep my income and keep the money I save for mine as they could for theirs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will no longer tolerate "fear tactics" where they use the kids as their monetary and political pawn to get what they want!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-5277501983733480701?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/5277501983733480701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=5277501983733480701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5277501983733480701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5277501983733480701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/02/coaches-and-athletic-directors-making.html' title='Coaches and athletic directors making law?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-7125014916539137294</id><published>2012-02-03T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T15:24:24.701-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BOISE SMOKIN BAN information</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Greetings concerned citizens,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Special thanks to 580 KIDO radio's Kevin Miller and Austin Hill for covering this issue and trusting me in the public exposure of government corruption at all levels. I appreciate them very much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Several months ago, our Boise mayor and his council decided, by executive decree, to intervene in private businesses imposing a smoking ban ordinance. Whats next? Will they control what we do in our homes, in our cars,&amp;nbsp;because that's what's either here on on its way!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In the first hearing I was there with my video camera ( video on "Video" tab on my website)&amp;nbsp;and with my line of questioning,&amp;nbsp;called&amp;nbsp;out Councilman Alan Shealy when he stated that "The constitutional BS!?"&amp;nbsp; I couldnt believe what I had heard and no one seemed outraged, why? Maybe some will now understand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Anyway, several years before and onward&amp;nbsp;through that hearing,&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp; began watching and have&amp;nbsp;continued involvement in boldly fighting for the rights of the citizens of Boise and our state, which is also why I an running for state legislature and hope people will see that I will not allow the rights of others to be violated if I can help it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;This information below is is to direct you to a defense fund we have created to pay for legal fees to fight against our mayor and council and to prevent further usurpation of government in all areas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is my desire, but not required,&amp;nbsp;to speak with you, to get to know&amp;nbsp;you as I get your thoughts on the governments intervention before you send any money. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have concerns, please call me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom Munds 208-861-6405&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;or email me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:tom@tommunds.com"&gt;tom@tommunds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Boise legal defense&lt;/strong&gt; fund for the smoking ban is:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.O Box 190031&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boise, Idaho 83719&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;I am interested in hearing stories from not just bar and restaurant owners but people that frequent these restaurants. As I understand it, the Boise Police have began Nazi style sweeps to make sure&amp;nbsp;people are not breaking the law with regards to the ordinance which is really no law at all because they simply don't have the authority!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have information regarding such stories, I need to hear from you to stop this madness!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;In the name of Freedom and liberty for all,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Tom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-7125014916539137294?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/7125014916539137294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=7125014916539137294' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/7125014916539137294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/7125014916539137294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/02/boise-smokin-ban-information.html' title='BOISE SMOKIN BAN information'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-1647580532458566131</id><published>2012-01-31T10:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T10:01:34.015-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is the Law? Is this a problem?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;What is the Law? Is this a problem?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Governments were created by "the people' to protect their rights, not to dictate them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Governments rule over their people and dictate the rights they never had authority to do. The following example sums up the award winning legal system in the freest county in the world&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Local tax paying Citizen in local school challenges his rights and that of his children in a district meeting,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Gets letter from school attorney (Paid for by the tax payer to protect the school against citizen) stating he committed a crime.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;School board verbally states that they have not restricted citizen’s liberty (how Ironic is that?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;When citizen writes response to attorney and never gets a written response, the citizen makes calls to attorney's office to see if he can get answers to his questions and gets repeatedly ignored and never a letter or a call back. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;When citizen writes letter to the Attorney General, he receives a letter that states the (taxpayer funded) AG's office was created to protect the interest of the state (Against the tax payer that pays their salary and retirement benefits for life) and is referred to an attorney because they can't give legal advice.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Is asking what form of government we have today asking advice or holding our system accountable and their failure to answer the question negligent?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;What is the law? Is it what an attorney thinks it is, how about the supreme Court?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;In my quest to find out, I have contacted the Legislature, the Governor, the Attorney General, various senators, congressman and they all refuse to answer the question, WHY? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Isn’t the power inherent in the people that established government to protect the people and did we not reserve the right to hold them accountable to know what the laws are?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Is there somewhere I can go to have someone tell me? What if no one knows the answer to the question? My guess, &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No one knows!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;How are “we the people” to know what the laws are and subject to them only when law enforcement states we have committed a crime? If we are not told what the law is, how can we be responsible for the knowledge of them and why then does this concept not apply to our created government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;So, as I look at the constitution, which I was told a long time ago was our rule of law, I believe one must be a licensed BAR attorney in the state of Idaho to practice law. I realized that all the judges as well as the attorneys are members of the same organization that protects their interests of those in the organization (against the people)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;How does this protect my freedom if all government entities have created protective barriers from the people that entrusted their protection to said government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;I received a tremendous wakeup call a few years ago and I concluded the following:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;God created man, which gave "the people' inherent authority&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;God creates history where man can learn from previous mistakes&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Man created government to protect the God given rights of man &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Man creates three branches, checks and balances, constitution and Bill of Rights to insure that protection.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Government creates agencies at tax payer expense to protect themselves from "the inherent authority" the people that fund their government&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Governments create BAR licensed requirement to protect the judges and attorneys from "the inherent authority"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Governments no longer have to answer to the people, even with regards to what the rule of law is.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Governments create schools to revise the understanding that power from people is from the government and that if there is no God, government must be God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Government re-writes history and usurps the power, it was never given to restrict man and instead of protecting our freedom, it instead restricts our freedom in the name of security that knows no bounds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;When governments have control over the people, they rule over the people. When all the power is inherent in governments, as history dictates, eventually governments then kill the people that created government to protect their rights, known as tyrants.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Our society is like all others before in history. Our present course is set up to fail due to our ignorance of law and the misplaced power of authority. The end result of a failed society is chaos, mass genocide and return to bondage.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;t is my duty as a father of four sons and a candidate for representative in the state legislature of my district of children and parents, to protect their future from tyrants.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;With all due respect, if law enforcement really cares about what they do, to protect the people and to maintain a civil society one must know the origin of the problem, the warning signs and written history because with all the well-intended attempts this society will fail.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Does a man have the right to fight for his freedom and the liberty of his state and nation without suffering the consequences of someone that doesn’t even understand the rule of law?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;As I understand it, the rule of law needs not to be dictated by tyrants but is written in the hearts and minds of men and confirmed by the only documents to preserve our freedom, called the constitution and our Bill of Rights and that any law, statute or ordinance that is repugnant to it, is null and void.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;If you are ignorant of this fact and you are a government official that has sworn that oath to uphold and defend the constitution, who is guiltier, one that understands the law and the importance of the oath or someone that doesn’t?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;I feel it is only fair to warn you that you have been duped into believing that law is whatever man says it is which &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;is not the case in America. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;We are the rule of law in a constitutional republic, framed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights, limiting government while preserving freedom, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;not subject to &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;the whimsical law of man. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-1647580532458566131?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/1647580532458566131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=1647580532458566131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1647580532458566131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1647580532458566131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-is-law-is-this-problem.html' title='What is the Law? Is this a problem?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-4621903886286496948</id><published>2012-01-31T09:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T09:11:54.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A day at the Idaho crimminal justice meeting 1 27 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Friday morning, began with a guy that after reading a particular book, believes that things, in the criminal field are getting better, I wish I could see what he sees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Following up with this statement he shared his concerns about the Feds watching over the police departments, the rising crime in Seattle, Portland and Spokane and attributed the reasons to be due to politics, funding with no oversight, the militarization of police, improper training and of course, video. Police in several states are even wearing video cameras on their bodies to keep them accountable.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What they were saying here peaked my interest and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing because I wondered if they saw these things that are so clear to me.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Later in the meeting they were seeking funding for the treatment of juveniles and wanted more counties to participate.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They communicated about new Dept. of Correction programs including gang assessment tools, 5 1/2 month rehab at tax payer expense and how beneficial it will be ( at whos expense?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Other topics were:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Being out of compliance with SORNA.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The need to re-categorize offenses into different tiers pending advise from psychologists using Dr. Bumby’s graph.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Giving judges more options on how to become problem solving courts rather than just judge the law&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Officers completed misdemeanor probation academy&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Making offenders pay for their own testing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;That according to 19-2608 they have the right to perform bodily fluid testing on individuals ( SJR102?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A power point presentation was next with Health and welfare talking about fraud and how to prevent it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;He stated they have 580 staff, a 40% INCREASE over last year; they have 235,000 recipients and attribute growth to education? And is 100% FEDERALLY FUNDED. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They say that anyone can use these welfare cards because there is no ID required but feel it is an invasion of privacy to ask?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;(Where does the authority come from for the state to accept federal money for living outside its budget?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A woman and the US marshal and US Attorney spoke about human trafficking, stated the buyer is the problem and that restitution should be considered.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They stated under 18 USC 2423a, 2422B, and 1591, and 1595, they are justified in determining who the traffickers are, but said that their right to control is determining when illegal sex activities happens. (How can they know this when people are traveling unless they have seen people in the act? Is this another form of arbitrary control and up to the discretion of the FEDS? Seriously?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They stated how important it was for the FEDS to help with this problem in our state, under the UN protocol.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They also mentioned that since we have a constitution they use the “commerce clause” to gain the control necessary to combat this problem. ( this is ridiculous! I do not believe that the commerce clause was intended to have the federal government encroach on the states to find sex traffickers. If the constitution was written for a moral and religious people, can the constitution really still apply?)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The stated the need to raise fines will help contain the issue.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They initiated Project safe childhood which, no doubt they feel is a good thing but something tells me this is one more instance where the rights of good honest Americans will be violated again in the name of safety.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;With the aforementioned, There is no part of me that believes that this group has any intention on harming or restricting the rights of people, they in great part seem to be genuine people and passionate about their jobs and treated me very well.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The problem is that every part our government is re-active instead of proactive&lt;/b&gt;!(not to be confused with preemptive.) &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;and creates , in itself, the need to rule and control as an outcome of what it teaches!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Today's attempts to create a better society are bandages and only address the symptoms of a much larger problem that people refuse to address, which is simple if people would just look.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This system we have created is set up to fail. The origin of the problem is where the solution lays.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Today, we praise our tolerance, diversity and equality. When we removed God from the school house, we taught our children to look to the government for all of their needs instead, that they are all entitled to believe how they want to and that everyone was on an equal footing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We teach our children, evolution, that they are an insignificant random chemical accident and therefore their life is of no value, they are taught that they cannot be held accountable or be responsible for the things they do because they are no better than animals which results in the need for more law enforcement to contain the multitudes of people doing what they feel is right as they were taught in taxpayer funded public schools.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;These issues are &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;self-perpetuating- increasing lawlessness, recidivism and retention rates as well as increasing the tax rates are other taxable efforts to bleed the wealth of the nation dry also resulting in the people’sreliance of government that when it fails people again in voicing their opinions are dependent on the need for law enforcement and the vicious circle continues, without a pro-active solution in sight.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Once upon a time we taught to be proud, we shared what is referred to as “American exceptionalism” where we were united in our belief that our inalienable rights came from God and that governments instituted among men were to protect those rights not to dictate them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We believed that we were all fearfully and wonderfully made and put on this Earth for a specific purpose and that each one of us had a significant role to play, to live within the law, to take personal responsibility for our own actions, to be honest, to maintain integrity and to honor those establishments crucial to the prosperity of a nation, seem like America to you today?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;IN the governments self-created chaotic environment, it also creates the need to control the unrest it creates, the people must, without authority, subject themselves to the restriction of our rights that has always lead to tyrannical and despotic governments, where governments instead of protecting the rights of the people, now dictate them, then people begin to fight back.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;When governments have control over the people, they rule over the people. When all the power is inherent in governments, as history dictates, over time governments then kill the people that created government to protect their rights, and are known as tyrants.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Our society is like all others before in history. Our present course is set up to fail due to our ignorance of law and the misplaced power of authority. The end result of a failed society is chaos, mass genocide and return to bondage.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It is my duty as a father of four sons and a candidate for representative in the state legislature of my district of children and parents, to protect their future from tyrants.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;With all due respect, if law enforcement really cares about what they do, to protect the people and to maintain a civil society one must know the origin of the problem, the warning signs written in history or all the well-intended attempts to maintain this society they will fail and our nation and government will fall like all those whom have fallen before us.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Does a man have the right to fight for his individual freedom and the liberty of his state and nation without suffering the consequences of someone that doesn’t even understand the rule of law, that was put in place to protect their rights?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-4621903886286496948?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/4621903886286496948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=4621903886286496948' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4621903886286496948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4621903886286496948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-at-idaho-crimminal-justice-meeting.html' title='A day at the Idaho crimminal justice meeting 1 27 2012'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-909251098366550351</id><published>2012-01-25T07:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T07:20:13.147-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economics'/><title type='text'>Have we reached economic prosperity yet?</title><content type='html'>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"&gt;   &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0.75pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt;"&gt;Have we reached Economic prosperity Yet?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 2.25pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt;"&gt;Statistic from the American dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;If you are an American under the   age of 30, you have probably figured out by now that the entire economic   system is stacked against you.&amp;nbsp; The way that our economy is structured   today is ridiculously unfair to younger Americans.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;First, we endlessly   push our young people to go to our ridiculously expensive colleges and   universities where the pile up enormous amounts of debt.&amp;nbsp; Then they get   out into the real world where they find that only a handful of really good   jobs are available for the vast army of college graduates entering the   workforce.&amp;nbsp; Sadly, most of the jobs that our young people are working   these days do not pay enough to be able to support a family or buy a decent   home.&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, our politicians are busy mortgaging their   future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Our young people are expected to support a Social Security   system that will not be there when they get older, and every single day more   than 2 billion dollars is added to a debt that will hang around the necks of   younger Americans and their children for the rest of their lives.&amp;nbsp; If   you stop and think about all of this for too long, your head might just   explode with anger.&amp;nbsp; Well, not literally, but you get the point.&amp;nbsp;   The truth is that this is going to be the first generation in U.S. history   that is going to do significantly worse than their parents, and that is a   terrible shame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Are you not convinced that things   are really bad for younger Americans?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Do you think that they should just   shut up and quit whining about things?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Well, keep reading.&amp;nbsp; You just   might change your mind by the time this article is over.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;The following are 24 facts that   show how ridiculously unfair our economy is for Americans under the age of 30   that will make your head explode....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; U.S. households led by someone 65 years of age or older are &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/07/news/economy/wealth_gap_age/index.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;47 times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   wealthier than U.S. households led by someone 35 years of age or younger.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Today, only about &lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/30/have-the-youth-given-up-on-obama/" target="_blank" title="55.3 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;55 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all   Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 have a job.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Back in the year 2000, more than 50 percent of all Americans   teens had a job.&amp;nbsp; This past summer, only &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-09-05/Summer-ends-on-sour-note-for-jobless-teens/50247060/1" target="_blank" title="29.6%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;29.6%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all American teens had a   job.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone   between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/every-age-group-is-getting-poorer-in-america-except-for-one-2011-9" target="_blank" title="by about 12 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;by about 12 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   after you adjust for inflation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; It is absolutely ridiculous how much it costs to get a college   education in America today.&amp;nbsp; After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college   students are now borrowing &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/2011-10-19/student-loan-debt/50818676/1" target="_blank" title="about twice as much money"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;about twice as much money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   as they did a decade ago.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Average yearly tuition at private colleges and universities in   the United States is now up &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE" target="_blank" title="to $27,293"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;to $27,293&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; That figure has   increased by 29% in just the past five years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Back in 1952, a full year of tuition at Harvard was only $600.   Today, it is &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/archives/is-college-worth-it" title="$35,568"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;$35,568&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The cost of college textbooks &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE" target="_blank" title="has tripled"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;has tripled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; over the past decade.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/college-graduates-debt_n_854047.html" target="_blank" title="approximately $25,000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;approximately $25,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   in student loan debt by graduation day.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; At some point this year, total student loan debt in the United   States will surpass &lt;a href="http://www.finaid.org/loans/studentloandebtclock.phtml"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;the 1 trillion   dollar mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the first time ever.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The total amount of student loan debt in the United States &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/archives/is-college-worth-it" title="now exceeds"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;now exceeds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for our college   graduates.&amp;nbsp; The percentage of mail carriers with a college degree is now   &lt;a href="http://mises.org/daily/5045/The-Education-Bubble-Is-Fuel-for-Revolt" target="_blank" title="4 times higher"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;4 times higher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; than   it was back in 1970.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hey-college-seniors-this-is-whats-happening-to-your-peers-when-they-try-to-find-jobs-2011-4#for-many-of-you-your-degrees-wont-matter-one-third-of-you-will-land-full-time-jobs-that-dont-require-them-5" target="_blank" title="One-third of all college graduates"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;One-third of   all college graduates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; end up taking jobs that don't even require   college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In the United States today, there are &lt;a href="http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/26-04-11%20Middle%20Class%20Under%20Stress.pdf" target="_blank" title="more than 100,000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;more than 100,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; janitors   that have college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In the United States today, &lt;a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634" target="_blank" title="317,000 waiters and waitresses"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;317,000   waiters and waitresses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Right now, there are &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/35-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-college-education-has-become-a-giant-money-making-scam"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;5.9 million&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their   parents.&amp;nbsp; According to recent Census data, men are almost twice as   likely to live with their parents as women are.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; At this point, there are &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/24/news/economy/Obama_housing/index.htm?iid=HP_River"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;more than 3.5   million Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that are behind on their mortgage   payments.&amp;nbsp; Young people that were offered "teaser rates" on   their first homes before the housing collapse represent a large proportion of   these mortgages.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;CNN recently featured the story of   &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/news/economy/1201/gallery.middle-class-struggles/?iid=HP_LN"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;29-year-old   Ginny Gant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;I followed "the   plan" to achieve the American dream and now I feel like I'm caught in a   stagnant nightmare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;My husband now works for the   Navy as a civilian and I am a high school teacher. We bought our two-bedroom   townhouse nearly at the peak of the housing boom for $196,500. We're   underwater on our mortgage with a high interest rate. I'm looking at having   to stick with this house for eight, nine, 10 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;I really would like to have   two or three children, but I just don't think it's feasible to have that many   children in this house. It's too small to have a family and it's not what I   envisioned for myself when I followed the rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The total value of household real estate in the U.S. has   declined from $22.7 trillion in 2006 to &lt;a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article31784.html" target="_blank" title="$16.2 trillion"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;$16.2 trillion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; today.&amp;nbsp; As noted   above, large numbers of young Americans bought homes in the years leading up   to the &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/category/housing-crash"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;housing crash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,   and they lost a ton of wealth when home values plummeted.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; We are facing a &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-bitter-and-painful-facts-about-the-coming-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis-that-will-blow-your-mind" title="retirement crisis"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;retirement crisis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that is absolutely   unprecedented in U.S. history.&amp;nbsp; Right now, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers   are turning 65 every single day.&amp;nbsp; Young Americans are expected to pay   for their Social Security benefits, but Social Security will not be there   when Americans under the age of 30 get older.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Young Americans get arrested at a far higher rate than older   Americans do.&amp;nbsp; Amazingly, &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076173/US-youth-crime-revealed-THIRD-young-adults-arrested-23.html" target="_blank" title="30% of all Americans"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;30% of all Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   get arrested by the time they reach the age of 23.&amp;nbsp; Once you spend time   in prison, getting a good job becomes much tougher.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Approximately &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-economic-numbers-from-2011-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;one out of every   five&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Americans under the age of 30 is currently living in   poverty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; 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href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/have-we-reached-economic-prosperity-yet_25.html' title='Have we reached economic prosperity yet?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-5345395981948155946</id><published>2012-01-24T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T18:06:19.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Challenging school authority is a crime?</title><content type='html'>As several of you know and as I have posted before, at my attendence several moths ago in a local school board meeting I was sent a letter, by the tax payer funded attorney to protect their interests against the tax payer, that stated by challenging authority I committed a criime, I was outraged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few weeks of thinking how to pursue this, I decided to respond back to the school attorney to have a few questions answered so that I was made aware of just what the laws were so I didn't violate them again as I am a law abiding citizedn, or so I thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When&amp;nbsp;a month had passed and I still hadn't recieved a response, I&amp;nbsp; made several calls to his office, left messages and still no call. In the last call when I aksed why I wasn't getting my calls returned and asked if I needed to go there to wait for him, the secretary asked me if I was threatening her...Serioulsy? Since when is asking if I need to go to an office to wait to speak to soomeone a threat? Is that a crime as well, I was getting discouraged and angry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week later I wasn't quite sure what to so so I wrote a final notice and demand with a time of compliance&amp;nbsp;that I felt was reasonable to get my questions answered or I would be forced to take further action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is the letter from the attorney, re-written by me to post, followed by the my letter of response and also my final notice and demand. Also included is a link of an article I printed that I used to help make my point that I labeled addendum C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a parent paying taxes to your public school, this should concern you greatly because you now have no rights&amp;nbsp;and your only&amp;nbsp;right to redress your school district&amp;nbsp; is to spend money on a lawsuit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear Mr. Munds,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It has been brought to my attention that on September 12, 2011 at a &lt;u&gt;regularly scheduled&lt;/u&gt; school board meeting for the ---- school district, &lt;u&gt;you caused a disruption&lt;/u&gt; during the meeting. &lt;u&gt;Specifically,&lt;/u&gt; it was reported to me that in a rather loud voice you called the superintendent and board members “a bunch of communists” &lt;u&gt;or something&lt;/u&gt; to that effect.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This was stated in the presence of other patrons, employees and students.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is the position of the&amp;nbsp;--- school district that it &lt;u&gt;has no control over the content of your personal three minute talk&lt;/u&gt;. However, the school board does have need to control its meetings where there are no disturbances or incitetful rhetoric being provided to its employees and board members of the District. The manner of your demeanor is problematic. An orderly process has been established for&lt;u&gt; patrons&lt;/u&gt; to make public statements during an optional hearing of [ signed in] visitors( up to a three minute duration) section. Beyond that, there are &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;NO RIGHTS &lt;/b&gt;afforded for your display of your public behavior.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In fact, Idaho Code sites it a crime for any parent, guardian or other person to upbraid, insult or abuse a teacher of the public schools in the presence and hearing of any pupil and that individual is guilty of a misdemeanor ( ID section 18-916). Of course, a teacher also includes certified administrators under the definitions set forth by the Idaho legislature. &lt;u&gt;If such conduct is disruptive to the education process, &lt;/u&gt;a person may be excluded from attendance on any school property.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If any further disruptive behavior from you is observed or experienced by the School board, the district will pursue your removal from attendance at these meetings.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hopefully, we will not be placed in a situation where that will occur and you will abide by our rules, as far as utilizing the limited section “hearing of [signed in] visitors.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Very truly yours, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attorney at Law&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;  &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS The school board wanted me to inform you tht SECURITY CAMERAS, a closed campus and locked gates are all allowed under Idaho code section 33-512(11). (They may be allowed but are they in violation of our constitutional protection.? Only those that have read it and understand it would know.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My response back to the schools attorney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;November 21, 2011&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Dear Mr. Attorney,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I appreciate your letter dated September 21, 2011 regarding the alleged disruption of the&amp;nbsp;--- school board meeting. The intent of my reply is to ask you to clarify and provide answers for the questions I have listed below to help me become more educated on how law works and government entities function so that I may better understand my restrictions that are placed upon me without my knowledge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I am a father of four boys that is gravely concerned with the legacy we will be leaving them after you and I are long gone. I have a deep passion&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and reverence for our American heritage and spend every waking moment learning more about our Founding fathers as well as constitutional, Biblical and common law. Every day I realize that we are straying further and further from our founding principles and know enough about history to know the direction we are headed as a nation at warp speed. I am so passionate about this knowledge &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;I have decided to run for state legislature again in 2012.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I feel I am grounded, reasonable and logical&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and my desire as a God fearing, law abiding, tax paying&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;American that loves our children and desires the preservation of freedom is to take every opportunity to reach out to others, to have them consider alternatives to the direction we are headed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;So, now that I have told you a bit about me, I would graciously ask that you could provide answers to these following&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;questions including statutes, policies,&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;codes, constitutional provisions and supreme court cases for each question so that I may better understand my restrictions and be aware of them so that I do not break any laws. I originally had 25 questions but in the interest of time, I limited it to 12.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I am concerned about the schools continual unrestricted ability to encroach on the rights of the student, the parent and family supported by the government and confirmed by the legislature.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Please define, in detail, what form of government we have today so that I may understand the rules?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Is the Constitution still our rule of law, if so, is it living breathing or to be interpreted as the founders originally intended?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Who decides when rights violations have been committed? If this power remains in government and not in the people, what do we have in place now to protect the people from the government, when they begin to tell us what our rights are? And how do we begin to implement this protection when needed?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If law is no longer designed to protect the innocent and punish those who are guilty as it was intended and is to "to ensure social justice" how does this not subvert the original intent of the law and our republican form of government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If rights and truth are relative and ultimately up to interpretation, leaving the people powerless over their government and swearing of the oath is no longer important isn't it the job of the legal system to ensure the people's protection from such arbitrary laws?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If we now rely so much on the Supreme Court for what our rights are, In your opinion is the Supreme courts purpose to dictate our rights rather than to preserve them and does this not make the supreme court nothing more than a tyrant king replacing our constitutional republic with&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;a monarchy defeating the purpose of a constitution as our written rule of law established to protect our rights not to dictate them?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;8.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It is my understanding of law, that the constitution, and all laws made thereof shall be the Supreme law of the land and that all laws, ordinances, policies, rules and state constitutions repugnant to it are null and void ( Art. VI, Sec. 2a). If this is true, much of the Idaho state constitution is null and void especially Art. IX, Sec. 1, that states "the legislature shall establish a free common school" because it outside the "few and specific&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;powers" delegated by Art. I, Sec 8?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;9.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If Schools are "free" why are they paid for by the taxpayer? If they are free and paid by the taxpayer, why do we pay a tuition, why do we pay to eat lunch, pay to enter sporting events and pay again for at those concessions that the taxpayer already bought, than have to pay to use it after hours when we paid for it anyway? It seems inconsistent in the laws where we would call something free, when in reality it is more expensive than if it weren't free? If nowhere in the constitutions does it say that all salaries and benefits for life shall be guaranteed by the taxpayer are we free to assume it isn't necessary to pay tuition or to enter sporting events?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;10.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;You also state that Idaho code is a crime. Where and how is this possible when crimes require an injured party- the victim, the "corpus delecti" , the witness, and a trial by jury? Are you suggesting that the constitution has actually been suspended and that Title 50, USC, The War powers Act is in force where all lesser laws-all violations, policies procedures, rule and ordinances are now to be considered crimes? If so, should not the people be aware that the constitution is suspended, or is ignorance no excuse for the law? If this is so, does this&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;ignorance also apply to attorneys and government officials that have abandoned their oath and do not understand the Supreme law of the land? Which entity then that committed the crime should be considered more severe?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;11.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;How can people be held responsible for all laws that are created as the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;list of laws increases? Is this not restricting the liberty and freedom of people putting&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;them&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;in fear of doing anything in fear that they are committing a crime? Does this not &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;violate the constitution’s guarantee of freedom and the concept that the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;power is inherent in and to remain in the people and not their government, and isn't it a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;form of tyranny? If not, please explain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;12.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Where does any government entity, like the school board, get the authority to tell us what our rights are, tell us what is and isn't constitutional and who decides when enough protection is enough or does it matter? If a board member or school teacher dislikes me or what I said at a board meeting, can they not consider me a threat and lock the school down when no threat was actually posed? Are their clear written times and events when this procedure takes effect or subject to arbitrary interpretation?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In closing, I appreciate the letter I received from you concerning the school district as well as your attention to addressing my questions as requested.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Again, to clarify my intent in this letter, it is only to obtain answers to the listed questions so that I may be better educated&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and able to understand the limitations on my actions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Respectfully,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Tom Munds&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AFTER NO RESPONSE, MY FINAL NOTICE AND DEMAND LETTER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Mr. Attorney,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;By way of reintroduction my name is Tom Munds.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;First I want to say, I respect all of your oaths of office and accept them, thank you for your service.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I am writing this &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;FINAL DEMAND LETTER &amp;amp; REQUEST FOR ANSWER&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; because to date you have not provided me an answer to the questions I have concerning your letter representing the ----School District, September 21, 2011. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;[See &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Addendum A&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; my original letter], [See &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Addendum B&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Julian September Letter]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The issues that cause me great anxiety are those that harm my children and family and all others at the ----- School District who are afraid to speak out on these problems.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Specifically outlined in the first letter and to re-iterate, the loss of our personal freedoms e.g., paying for football games, parking issues, gated lots and lockdowns, inappropriate sexual innuendo by teachers and staff in front of and directing at children, forcing our children to sign documents under duress and coercion to play sports, stating vaccinations are regulations rather that suggested, then disallowing the Christian doctrine which this country was built on then turning around and busing children to see the Dali Lama (some did not bus children but other school districts did), teaching the philosophy of Humanism, and then not allowing us to bring our own food and drink to athletic events as well as having a school entity think they have the power to tell me what rights our community has.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;All these trepidations listed are only a partial list of the whole and are not tied to public safety as the School District eagerly chants but a means of control; our School like others across the nation are indoctrination centers and a prison camps.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;[See &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Addendum C&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;]&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I unambiguously demand you and the&amp;nbsp;---- School District to address these apprehensions immediately.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The issues above carry tremendous significance for me, my family, and others that have experienced the same disparate treatment.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I want to understand how our&amp;nbsp;---- School District Superintendent is going to handle these problems and reparations, not just for our school district but how he will vote on the issue state wide and then ultimately what Mr. Luna’s position will be nationally.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Since the time of my original letter, other issues have emanated that could be entered and discussed at this time however I will reserve the right to deliberate them later presuming you do not answer my original letter. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;I believe a month has passed since I wrote my letter, by reasonable standard you have had adequate time to answer.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I have made numerous telephone calls to your office and as many messages have been left on your voice mail with no response, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;all I am requesting is an answer, so I distinguish how to conduct my business with the&amp;nbsp;---- School District from this point forward.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;As you can see I am directing copies of this correspondence to the appropriate State of Idaho officials in order that they can appreciate our circumstances concerning these issues, and hopefully they can aid your ability to give riposte to my enquiries.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;To put in your terms how serious I am about these issues, I am committed to the following statement; should you not answer my letter within the next 15 business days, you will force me to take my legal remedies at law against your client in order to get these simple questions answered.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I trust you elucidate to the ----- School District that in my opinion your law firm stands to make a lot of money handling this concern, and the&amp;nbsp;---- School District may find it more cost effective to simply answer my letter then pay your exorbitant legal fees, especially since it has the outward appearance that you are prolonging an answer, one can only presume that you will bill more hours, in today’s down market billable hours are becoming tough to accumulate or in this case create.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Even defending a law suit is expensive when the Plaintiff might be judgment proof, and I would draw your attention to the whistle-blower statues that cover this issue.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Please feel free to call me with any questions you may have, I am available at the above phone number during business hours. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;I enthusiastically await your response.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If you believe my argument has no merit, Please see addendum c in support of my argument, here is the link: &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/28-signs-that-u-s-public-schools-are-rapidly-being-turned-into-indoctrination-centers-and-prison-camps"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/28-signs-that-u-s-public-schools-are-rapidly-being-turned-into-indoctrination-centers-and-prison-camps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;( in the original letter I printed it annd attached it to the letter as addendum C)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Most Sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Tom Munds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;  &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;  &lt;v:formulas&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;   &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;  &lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:f&gt;&lt;/v:formulas&gt;  &lt;v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"&gt;  &lt;/v:path&gt;&lt;/v:stroke&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Idaho Department of Education&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Tom Luna, Superintendent of Public Instruction &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;650 W. State Street&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;PO Box 83720&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Boise, ID 83720-0027&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;State of Idaho&lt;br /&gt;Office of the Attorney General&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;E/Co Lawrence G. Wasden&lt;br /&gt;700 W. Jefferson Street, Suite 210&lt;br /&gt;P.O. Box 83720&lt;br /&gt;Boise, Idaho 83720-0010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the school superintendent and his assistent were also mailed.&lt;br /&gt;I wait anxiously for a response and hope he does because we dont need to prolong this any further than necessary, either at my expense or that of the tax payer!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-5345395981948155946?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/5345395981948155946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=5345395981948155946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5345395981948155946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5345395981948155946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenging-school-authority-is-crime.html' title='Challenging school authority is a crime?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-2797785238948314097</id><published>2012-01-24T16:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T16:56:23.434-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Have we reached economic prosperity yet?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 2.25pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt;"&gt;Have we reached Economic prosperity Yet?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 12pt 0in 2.25pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt;"&gt;Statistic from the American dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;If you are an American under the age of 30, you have probably figured out by now that the entire economic system is stacked against you.&amp;nbsp; The way that our economy is structured today is ridiculously unfair to younger Americans.&amp;nbsp; First, we endlessly push our young people to go to our ridiculously expensive colleges and universities where the pile up enormous amounts of debt.&amp;nbsp; Then they get out into the real world where they find that only a handful of really good jobs are available for the vast army of college graduates entering the workforce.&amp;nbsp; Sadly, most of the jobs that our young people are working these days do not pay enough to be able to support a family or buy a decent home.&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, our politicians are busy mortgaging their future.&amp;nbsp; Our young people are expected to support a Social Security system that will not be there when they get older, and every single day more than 2 billion dollars is added to a debt that will hang around the necks of younger Americans and their children for the rest of their lives.&amp;nbsp; If you stop and think about all of this for too long, your head might just explode with anger.&amp;nbsp; Well, not literally, but you get the point.&amp;nbsp; The truth is that this is going to be the first generation in U.S. history that is going to do significantly worse than their parents, and that is a terrible shame.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Are you not convinced that things are really bad for younger Americans?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Do you think that they should just shut up and quit whining about things?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;Well, keep reading.&amp;nbsp; You just might change your mind by the time this article is over.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;The following are 24 facts that show how ridiculously unfair our economy is for Americans under the age of 30 that will make your head explode....&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; U.S. households led by someone 65 years of age or older are &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/07/news/economy/wealth_gap_age/index.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;47 times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; wealthier than U.S. households led by someone 35 years of age or younger.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Today, only about &lt;a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/30/have-the-youth-given-up-on-obama/" target="_blank" title="55.3 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;55 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 have a job.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Back in the year 2000, more than 50 percent of all Americans teens had a job.&amp;nbsp; This past summer, only &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2011-09-05/Summer-ends-on-sour-note-for-jobless-teens/50247060/1" target="_blank" title="29.6%"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;29.6%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all American teens had a job.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/every-age-group-is-getting-poorer-in-america-except-for-one-2011-9" target="_blank" title="by about 12 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;by about 12 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; after you adjust for inflation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; It is absolutely ridiculous how much it costs to get a college education in America today.&amp;nbsp; After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are now borrowing &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/2011-10-19/student-loan-debt/50818676/1" target="_blank" title="about twice as much money"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;about twice as much money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as they did a decade ago.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Average yearly tuition at private colleges and universities in the United States is now up &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE" target="_blank" title="to $27,293"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;to $27,293&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; That figure has increased by 29% in just the past five years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Back in 1952, a full year of tuition at Harvard was only $600. Today, it is &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/archives/is-college-worth-it" title="$35,568"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;$35,568&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The cost of college textbooks &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE" target="_blank" title="has tripled"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;has tripled&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; over the past decade.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/college-graduates-debt_n_854047.html" target="_blank" title="approximately $25,000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;approximately $25,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in student loan debt by graduation day.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; At some point this year, total student loan debt in the United States will surpass &lt;a href="http://www.finaid.org/loans/studentloandebtclock.phtml"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;the 1 trillion dollar mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the first time ever.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The total amount of student loan debt in the United States &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/archives/is-college-worth-it" title="now exceeds"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;now exceeds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for our college graduates.&amp;nbsp; The percentage of mail carriers with a college degree is now &lt;a href="http://mises.org/daily/5045/The-Education-Bubble-Is-Fuel-for-Revolt" target="_blank" title="4 times higher"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;4 times higher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; than it was back in 1970.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hey-college-seniors-this-is-whats-happening-to-your-peers-when-they-try-to-find-jobs-2011-4#for-many-of-you-your-degrees-wont-matter-one-third-of-you-will-land-full-time-jobs-that-dont-require-them-5" target="_blank" title="One-third of all college graduates"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;One-third of all college graduates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In the United States today, there are &lt;a href="http://growth.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/26-04-11%20Middle%20Class%20Under%20Stress.pdf" target="_blank" title="more than 100,000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;more than 100,000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; janitors that have college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In the United States today, &lt;a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634" target="_blank" title="317,000 waiters and waitresses"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;317,000 waiters and waitresses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have college degrees.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Right now, there are &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/35-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-college-education-has-become-a-giant-money-making-scam"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;5.9 million&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their parents.&amp;nbsp; According to recent Census data, men are almost twice as likely to live with their parents as women are.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; At this point, there are &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/24/news/economy/Obama_housing/index.htm?iid=HP_River"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;more than 3.5 million Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that are behind on their mortgage payments.&amp;nbsp; Young people that were offered "teaser rates" on their first homes before the housing collapse represent a large proportion of these mortgages.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;CNN recently featured the story of &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/news/economy/1201/gallery.middle-class-struggles/?iid=HP_LN"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;29-year-old Ginny Gant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;I followed "the plan" to achieve the American dream and now I feel like I'm caught in a stagnant nightmare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;My husband now works for the Navy as a civilian and I am a high school teacher. We bought our two-bedroom townhouse nearly at the peak of the housing boom for $196,500. We're underwater on our mortgage with a high interest rate. I'm looking at having to stick with this house for eight, nine, 10 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;I really would like to have two or three children, but I just don't think it's feasible to have that many children in this house. It's too small to have a family and it's not what I envisioned for myself when I followed the rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The total value of household real estate in the U.S. has declined from $22.7 trillion in 2006 to &lt;a href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article31784.html" target="_blank" title="$16.2 trillion"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;$16.2 trillion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; today.&amp;nbsp; As noted above, large numbers of young Americans bought homes in the years leading up to the &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/category/housing-crash"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;housing crash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and they lost a ton of wealth when home values plummeted.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; We are facing a &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/25-bitter-and-painful-facts-about-the-coming-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis-that-will-blow-your-mind" title="retirement crisis"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;retirement crisis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that is absolutely unprecedented in U.S. history.&amp;nbsp; Right now, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers are turning 65 every single day.&amp;nbsp; Young Americans are expected to pay for their Social Security benefits, but Social Security will not be there when Americans under the age of 30 get older.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Young Americans get arrested at a far higher rate than older Americans do.&amp;nbsp; Amazingly, &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076173/US-youth-crime-revealed-THIRD-young-adults-arrested-23.html" target="_blank" title="30% of all Americans"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;30% of all Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; get arrested by the time they reach the age of 23.&amp;nbsp; Once you spend time in prison, getting a good job becomes much tougher.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; Approximately &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-economic-numbers-from-2011-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;one out of every five&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Americans under the age of 30 is currently living in poverty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; In 2010, &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056864/Handout-nation-Food-stamp-map-America-reveals-hotspots-15-population-government-help.html" target="_blank" title="42 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;42 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.&amp;nbsp; A very large percentage of those single mothers are under the age of 30.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; According to one recent survey, only &lt;a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/09/07/most-20-somethings-are-pessimistic-about-their-financial-futures/" target="_blank" title="14 percent"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;14 percent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their financial futures.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;#24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt; The U.S. government is stealing about 150 million dollars from our children and our grandchildren &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-the-u-s-government-keeps-spending-money-like-this-we-are-doomed-and-if-the-u-s-government-stops-spending-money-like-this-we-are-doomed"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;every single hour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Younger Americans will have to bear the burden of this debt far longer than older Americans will.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 140%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"&gt;So what do you think about the plight of Americans that are under the age of 30?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Georgia&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Nice huh? Come on congress, Keep printing and spending &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;more money and see how impossible prosperity will be for the future you are creating so many laws to protect!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-2797785238948314097?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/2797785238948314097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=2797785238948314097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2797785238948314097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2797785238948314097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/have-we-reached-economic-prosperity-yet.html' title='Have we reached economic prosperity yet?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-2630892562898989339</id><published>2012-01-18T15:08:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:15:34.562-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LETTER TO EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE IDAHO STATE GOVERNMENT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;LETTER TO EXECUTIVE BRANCHES of the IDAHO STATE GOVERNMENT&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;January 18, 2012&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I would first like to begin by stating; I accept and honor your Oaths of Office, thank you for your service in honor of our State and our Country. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;By means of introduction, my name is Tom Munds. In the past few years I have studied a great deal with regards to constitutional law, Biblical and common law, our nation’s history, philosophy, economics, the rise and fall of nations and attention to current events and fear the path we are taking. It is through my education and fear as a result, where I have developed a passion for attempting to challenge, inform and educate, no disrespect intended, those whom are willing to communicate on what and why things are happening and what solutions are available.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It was this fear and passion that gave me the desire to open communication with our Executive Branch in Idaho and meeting with many of you was an honest, respectful attempt to bridge what appeared to me as a dangerous communication gap between patriot groups and law enforcement that seemed to be a divisive attempt to create animosity between one group and the other. The intent of this letter is specifically intended to create continuity to alleviate any further misunderstandings and negativity with regards to those God fearing, law abiding citizens, patriot groups and our military families that have sacrificed themselves and families so that we may preserve our freedom in this state and our country.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It has been several weeks since I have had the pleasure of meeting several of you, to introduce myself as well as to share some of my concerns with regards to where we are headed both locally as a State and as a Nation. I hope to have a chance to meet with the rest of you as time allows.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;To recap the issues of concern that were hopefully communicated in my meeting with several of you, they related, specifically to the proper role of government, law enforcement, the misunderstanding, dangers and reliance of the information related to the SPLC ( Southern poverty law center) and the imposed target on good, law abiding American people, who have been defined as “domestic terrorists” by the SPLC and accepted as truth by the DHS (Department of Homeland Security), and the latest bills in congress that should instill fear in anyone. Although we cannot control the intent of everyone for there are a few in every gathering, of whose intent we disagree, these implications for the majority of us are, for the most part, without merit and unjustified.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Why is this letter important? My belief is this: (and can be relatively substantiated with news articles, quotes and statements made by government officials)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Governments, at all levels, in general, have no understanding of the proper role of government, either because they weren’t taught it, they didn’t think it was important, perhaps blatantly didn’t care or it has cleverly been changed without the knowledge of the people. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;For example, Law enforcement’s role TODAY is to protect the interests of THE STATE, to preemptively and continually restrict the rights of the people “in the name of safety” no longer to guarantee or protect the people’s rights and Freedom as was originally intended.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Today, The rights of the people are replaced with arbitrary and unbridled preemptive measures both locally and nationally “ in the name of safety” which then has no limits and extends this authority to all government agencies, in many cases without legislative approval and the people have no way of proper redress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Federal government also has usurped its power and also now dictates the rights of the people and the states where it has no authority other than because we have accepted funding (Feds outside Constitutional limitations) that allows them to use the funding as a means of control, undermining our state sovereignty and integrity or all three branches of local and National government.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Federal government through the information given to it and relied upon by the SPLC, The Southern Poverty Law Center, is using the same “fear tactics” to instill fear in our local law enforcement, by redefining and assassinating the character of those God fearing, Law abiding citizens, making our law enforcement think that the best preemptive measure against us “in the name of security” is the need to nationalize the police force which completely undermines our sovereignty of the state, the Posse Comitatus act of 1847and has allowed the training of paramilitary operations and use of the military against its own people, if needed, which recent bills in congress build confirm.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;These measures are used to diminish and eventually eliminate the power of our local law enforcement and absolutely contradictory not only to the establishment of law enforcement but also to the intent of it on those who love this country whom are now called “domestic terrorists” those who know our history, were in the military, those who are prolife, pro-gun, pro-constitution, pro-God and pro-state sovereignty, and support our local law enforcement to protect us from such encroachments!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Although there are always a few that undermine the intent of the well-intended majority, we have no control over them. I stand in support of “We the people” that understand the proper role of the family, government and law enforcement, we accept it, we agree with it and we uphold it. We are pro-freedom and we understand the failure to take personal responsibility for our actions, by default, ends with the loss of freedom! How can people in support of freedom be subversive to good government that would result in direct opposition to the goal we are trying to preserve?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;I was not nominated as a spokesman by any group and have no power of authority or influence over them but out of the sense of urgency and understanding felt it was important to send this letter. As a member of just about every patriot group in the Treasure Valley, I have the means of communication and would like to extend an invitation to any or all of you to open dialogue with myself or perhaps with as many of the local groups as you wish to hear and from and speak to clarify any and all misunderstandings of who we are so that you may know, we stand in support of the proper role of local law enforcement not against it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I appreciate the time several of you have taken to speak with me in your busy schedules, as for those whom I have not met; I hope we can meet in the future.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;So that you may get a better understanding of the intent of this letter and the determination and passion I possess, I have decided to run&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;on this platform for the Idaho state legislature in my District, which apparently, to date is District 9 but may be subject to change pending outcome of legal issues pertaining to the redistricting process. Also, for more information about me please visit my website at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tommunds.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"&gt;www.tommunds.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; or feel free to contact me at the number below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;IN the name of freedom, liberty and justice for all, so help me God, I will support and defend “we the People”&amp;nbsp;and this constitution for the united States of America.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Grace and mercy be upon you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;With all Humility and due respect,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Tom Munds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;2012 candidate for representative for District 9 for the Idaho State Legislature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;PO Box 851&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Middleton, Idaho 83607&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;208-861-6405&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-2630892562898989339?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/2630892562898989339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=2630892562898989339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2630892562898989339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2630892562898989339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/letter-to-executive-branch-of-idaho.html' title='LETTER TO EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE IDAHO STATE GOVERNMENT'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-4608688902314025690</id><published>2012-01-16T20:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T20:32:09.389-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government accountablity'/><title type='text'>Questions exposing Boise Councilman Alan Shealy</title><content type='html'>Several mponths ago I attended the Boise city smoking ban ordinance that flushed our our tyrannical councilman&amp;nbsp;with a line of questioning that exposed something that should be an outrage!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is a bit late but as I thankfully hear both Kevin Miller and Austin Hill&amp;nbsp; still communicate the vile disrespect of the people of Idaho, when I questioned Boise councilman Alan Shealy and had him state in a public forum, that the constitution was BS, I felt it was important to post the questions that lead him out of his hole to show his true colors so that people will hopefully have a brief questionaniare that they can use to begin to politiely challenge government authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I run for state legislature, I am proud to put myself out there to help return the power back to the people of this great state and I hope that this blog post and my website willbe seen not as combative but to uphold honor and integrity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the questions of that great evening that exposed where the power really is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. What form of government do we have today?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A. If we are a democracythen majority rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; B. If we are a constitutional republic, we are bound by the rule of law whee government is to&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; preserve&amp;nbsp;their rights not dictate them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Is the US constitution the Supreme law of the land?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A. If it isn't then feel free to continue arbitrary oppresive laws that violate the persons liberty.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; B. If it is, Please cite the constitutional provision that allowd these restrictions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Shall the constitution be interpreted as our Founding fathers had intended or as a living breathing document?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A. If it is as our founders intended, please state a quote a provision that allows such restriction&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; B. If it is a living breathing document, may I introduce us to the totalitarian state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why aren't tobacco companies banned if it is so harmful?&amp;nbsp; Do you know why they aren't, because of the money!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who will enforce these laws, police?&lt;br /&gt;Will we now be crimminals for those who violate the smoking ordinance or should the city be the criminals for the failure to uphold their oath to protect our freedoms and deciding instead to dictate them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If government was established to protect the rights of people, not to dictate them, where now, is the peoples guarantee that it will do as it is established and what confines governemnt to ensure the people it will not encrioach on the rights of the people? and what f they fail to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a law maker, what are your thoughts with regards to these issues? and what is your proposed recourse in nullifying such encroachments?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-4608688902314025690?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/4608688902314025690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=4608688902314025690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4608688902314025690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4608688902314025690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/questions-exposing-boise-councilman.html' title='Questions exposing Boise Councilman Alan Shealy'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-810783114603625983</id><published>2012-01-13T05:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T05:17:31.742-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Letter to the editor to Payette county</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Intro Letter to the editor&amp;nbsp; 1 5 2012 to Payette County&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Are you optimistic about our future or more and more concerned? Can we return back to the principles of freedom through the proper role of government, fiscal responsibility and&amp;nbsp; the protection of our written “Rule of law” as our Founding fathers intended, where the power is inherent in the people ?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;Do you feel properly represented in the legislature? Does the redistricting issue concern you about what options will be available to you in this election year?&amp;nbsp; Do you find yourself wondering if you can find a viable replacement? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It seems few if any understand the proper role of government and representation, both in the state house and in DC. “We the people” face a full frontal assault from every level of government due to the lack of understanding of proper representation and how to fight back. We have been conditioned to believe the power is in government rather than in the people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Do you wonder if there is anyone in the state house that will stand and adamantly oppose the usurpation of your rights by either local or federal governments or both? I share the same concerns.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;My name is Tom Munds and I am running for State representative in, so far, the new District 9 which includes: Payette County, Middleton, Letha and Star.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;I have spent the last several years in deep comprehensive study in Constitutional, Biblical and Common law, government and American history to grasp not only the “original intent” of our Founding fathers but the proper Biblical role of government where the foundation of all law originates.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;I welcome you to learn more about me. Visit my website, call or email me or offer to have town halls or meetings in your home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.tommunds.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.tommunds.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or call 208-861-6405.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;Please register and Vote for Tom Munds May 15, 2012!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-810783114603625983?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/810783114603625983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=810783114603625983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/810783114603625983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/810783114603625983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/letter-to-editor-to-payette-county.html' title='Letter to the editor to Payette county'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-7963216471037525367</id><published>2012-01-12T12:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T12:21:32.044-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on relativity...</title><content type='html'>Youve seen it a lot this past few years, the endless barrage of attempts to assasinate the character of the American people and we have sat and taken it quite well under the circumstances with perhaps one misunderstanding. In my&amp;nbsp; understanding, it appears that&amp;nbsp;we&amp;nbsp;are divided as a nation. It is my belief that "We the people" would not be against eachother if we were properly educated and not conditioned to partake in the sladerous assaults on eachother that encites class warfare created by our media and our government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Youve seen the revisionism in school, the abandonment of any adherance to any fundamental principles that this nation stood on&amp;nbsp;only to further an agenda. The worst part is finding out where it all originated. I can tell you that words are one way they acheive thier desired result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can change the meanings of words, you can change&amp;nbsp; law, and therefore there are no absolutes on which to fix anything, you can change the world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a list I found that clearly shows how misguided and divided we are as a nation. I would not like to catogorize any individual or group by this post but to state that I believe it is the media and our government that create these catagories to divide us as a people to achieve their desired goal of a totalitarian state.&amp;nbsp;It is my belief that we&amp;nbsp;need to educate people on what is happening behind their backs and hope that once they realize these things they will then be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem due to this conditioning process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"&gt;   &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in; width: 477.75pt;" valign="top" width="637"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 20pt;"&gt;Translations   of Common Euphemisms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 533px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(155, 187, 89); border-style: solid; border-width: 1pt 1pt 2.25pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 16pt;"&gt;DEMOCRAT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 2.25pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 16pt;"&gt;REPUBLICAN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Arsenal     of Weapons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Gun     Collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Delicate     Wetlands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Swamp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Undocumented     Worker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Illegal     Alien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Cruelty-Free     Materials&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Synthetic     Fiber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Assault     and Battery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Attitude     Adjustment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Heavily     Armed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Well-protected&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Narrow-minded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Righteous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Taxes     or Your Fair Share&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Coerced     Theft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Commonsense     Gun Control&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Gun     Confiscation Plot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Illegal     Hazardous Explosives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Fireworks     or Stump Removal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Non-viable     Tissue Mass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Unborn     Baby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Equal     Access to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 24pt;"&gt;Opportunity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Socialism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Multicultural     Community&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;High     Crime Area&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Fairness     or Social Progress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Marxism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Upper     Class or "The Rich"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Self-Employed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Progressive,     Change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Big     Government Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Homeless     or Disadvantaged&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Bums or     Welfare &amp;amp; Leeches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Sniper     Rifle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Deer     Rifle with scope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Investment     For the Future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Higher     Taxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Healthcare     Reform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Socialized     Medicine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Extremist,     Judgmental, or Hater&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Conservative&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Truants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Homeschoolers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Victim     or Oppressed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Criminal     or Lazy Good-For-Nothing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;High     Capacity Magazine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Standard     Capacity Magazine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Religious     Zealot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Attends     Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Fair     Trade Coffee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Overpriced     Yuppie Coffee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Exploiters     or "The Rich"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Employed     or Land Owner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;The     Gun Lobby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;NRA     Members&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Assault     Weapon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Semi-Automatic     handgun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 30;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Fiscal     Stimulus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;New     Taxes and Higher Taxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 31;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Same     Sex Marriage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Legalized     Perversion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 32;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Mandated     Eco-Friendly Lighting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background: rgb(230, 238, 213); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Chinese     Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 33; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.5pt;" valign="top" width="251"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Accepted     Fact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 211.5pt;" valign="top" width="282"&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Horse     shit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 24pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-7963216471037525367?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/7963216471037525367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=7963216471037525367' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/7963216471037525367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/7963216471037525367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-relativity.html' title='Thoughts on relativity...'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-4461018632935774345</id><published>2012-01-12T11:29:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T11:29:55.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Socialist manifesto outline</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;When reading this post, consider the principles of freedom, if you know them, consider that governments were instituted among men to protect LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY and that it was bound by the constitution to "limited and specific powers."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;When you read the outline, ask yourself if these principles apply in America today and how we have come to accept some form of totalitarianism as freedom, when the below are in complete diametric opposition to both the constitution, Our Bill of Rights&amp;nbsp;and the origin of common law in scriptures&amp;nbsp;as we sing the Star spangled banner and put our hand over our hearts reciting the pledge of Allegiance!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Socialist Manifesto outline:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;A) Promise Hope&lt;/strong&gt; 1) Empower Main Stream Media to misdirect facts into plausible deniability for a fictional reality.&lt;br /&gt;2) Deny responsibility for anything negative in the current administration.&lt;br /&gt;3) Deny any coincidence of flood, drought, storms, or pestilence, of biblical reference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B) Promise Change&lt;/strong&gt; 1) Produce drones with disinformation to further enslave the masses.&lt;br /&gt;2) Cause further dependency.&lt;br /&gt;3) Spread hate and fear to entice insurgency.&lt;br /&gt;4) Empower appointed Czars to misdirect management into more funding for this administration leadership re-election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C) Promise Transparency&lt;/strong&gt; 1) Deny responsibility for anything negative.  &lt;br /&gt;2) Claim credit for everything short of the truth.&lt;br /&gt;3) Emphasize strong management skills even when its obvious that none were applied. &lt;br /&gt;4) Enable Marshal Law and stop the 2012 removal of their sympathetic Muslim Brotherhood candidate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;(Outline found on Facebook under Ed Schoettle)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"&gt;Thanks Ed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-4461018632935774345?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/4461018632935774345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=4461018632935774345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4461018632935774345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/4461018632935774345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/socialsit-manifesto-outline.html' title='Socialist manifesto outline'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-886236864448861104</id><published>2012-01-11T22:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T22:51:20.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Public school or indoctrination centers?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-headline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal tahoma, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;With all due respect to those who are strong advocates of the public school, and in thier defence, I believe that most if not all the teachers believe in and love our children but because of the busy nature of employment, they may be unaware of the big picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To be clear, I like my teachers, I like the people just fine, what I do not like is what is hapening that people are not aware of. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Government entities were never to rule over the people, the people were under their own law, Common law. Governments were to preserve the rights of the people!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never established to take the role of the parent and destroy the rights and liberties of the family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never meant to teach our kids that thier rights come from government or that they were to look to the government for everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never meant to be apart from our moral and religious foundation, that was Marxism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The schools were never meant to be taught that America is a democracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never meant to&amp;nbsp;teach that the Supreme Court was the final arbiter of mans rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never to teach that the Bill of Rights was to be determined by our government&amp;nbsp; but protected from them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Schools were never to teach our children communist propaganda such as environmentalism, globalism&amp;nbsp;and collectivism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Our schools were never meant to teach Anti-American sentiments and revisionist history to confuse the greatest nation on Earth&amp;nbsp; and what made us that way, why we were free and what the mistakes were that other countries had made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is not about the teachers as much as it is about a government agenda to gently condition its people into submission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Is is possible to transform the thinking of an entire town or legislative District to help them understand what is happening when they are being paid to teach this way without being made aware of the consequences, If it&amp;nbsp;is possible, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;even at the risk of losing an election&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I will try!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Just in the last year, parents are told we are committing crimes for challenging authority. We have no control over the direction of the school and what it teaches, to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;they&amp;nbsp;state that the Federal government has authority to dictate the rights of the states.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Today, the superintendent of the school can now violate the freedom and liberty of the parents. If&amp;nbsp;your views differ&amp;nbsp;theirs&amp;nbsp; the only way for redress is to expend more money, aside from your tax dollars funding the school, the salaries and building maintenence as well as forceful redistribution to those who are too lazy to work,&amp;nbsp; to be used in your own defense against a school attorney funded by YOU, the tax payer that won't even return your calls when a reply letter is sent to them wanting questions asked on where their authorioty comes from?????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Are we smoking crack today in America? Does anyone understand the gross irony&amp;nbsp; that I just stated? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The power that was once inherent in the people is now in the hands of your government and they, now tell you when you have a say and when you dont as well as what the rights of your family are...AT YOUR EXPENSE!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I realize many in my town view me as abrasive and the enemy but it is only because they don't know me or see the big picture or if they do, it is to save thier jobs and utilize fear tactics " in the name of safety" or "for the sake of the children"&amp;nbsp;to continue to violate your rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This article below is important because it supports my argument about what is happening today, that parents and children&amp;nbsp; have all been conditioned to sell out all of our freedom for security because our children must be protected at all costs...REALLY, why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;All costs? Even at the childrens expense, putting their future in debt? WHY would we say we care about children and need to protect them&amp;nbsp; on one hand and teach them that killing them is a choice and a right on the other? Doesnt that in fact &lt;strong&gt;destroy the teachers job security&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;when people kill the future children they were to &amp;nbsp;teach?&lt;/strong&gt; And doesnt this kill the funding for the school when the &lt;strong&gt;school gets paid per student&lt;/strong&gt;? Are they not hurting for money in part because we have killed 50 million children since 1970? Think of that revenue...GONE!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Why would we protect and do everything for our children , ill-equipping them 12 years&amp;nbsp; by doing so, and then spending them into an economic apocalypse that will destroy their future? Isnt that like setting them up to fail, guaranteeing their enslavement in addition to ours&amp;nbsp;to the government that spent their inheritance and teaching them fiscal and moral irresponsibility?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Once they are&amp;nbsp;enslaved&amp;nbsp;worse than we are,&amp;nbsp; today , will they still spew the contradictory pledge of allegiance and Singing the "land of the free" when anyone with half a pulse&amp;nbsp;knows we are no longer free? Will they or do they even know why we, in America have these traditions? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Was it to spread communism by environmentalism or to "spread democracy?", NO!!, it was to honor God,our Founders, honor the continual sacrifices that made this nation great and the blessing of our form of government, that ALL men were created equal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The pledge, the flag and all we stand for gives myself and others&amp;nbsp;and gave those before us lumps in their throats, tears in their eyes and made their heart skip a beat and that feeling and that understanding made millions go to war to protect our freedom, and sacrifice their lives FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;...&amp;nbsp;not to spew mindless regurgitated rhetoric but to lift the hearts souls and minds to&amp;nbsp;ponder America's exceptionalism!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Here is where we are today....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ask your children what they think their future looks like and ask yourself, have you been part of the problem or part of the solution!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; display: block; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-bodycopy clearfix" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: block; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal tahoma, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="61" scrolling="no" src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/button.js?url=http%3A//endoftheamericandream.com/archives/28-signs-that-u-s-public-schools-are-rapidly-being-turned-into-indoctrination-centers-and-prison-camps&amp;amp;&amp;amp;style=normal&amp;amp;b=2" width="50"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003H3CKLO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=shatteparadi-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=B003H3CKLO" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1872" height="266" src="http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/28-Signs-That-U.S.-Public-Schools-Are-Rapidly-Being-Turned-Into-Indoctrination-Centers-And-Prison-Camps-300x266.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-image: initial; border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin: 10px 10px 5px 0px; padding: 5px;" title="28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being "educated" in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps.&amp;nbsp; Our children desperately need to focus on the basics such as reading, writing and math, but instead a whole host of politicians, "education officials" and teachers are constantly injecting as much propaganda as they possibly can into classroom instruction.&amp;nbsp; Instead of learning how to think, our children are continually being told what to think.&amp;nbsp; Not only that, our children are also being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state.&amp;nbsp; Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked.&amp;nbsp; Independent thought and free expression are greatly discouraged and are often cracked down upon harshly.&amp;nbsp; If students get "out of line", instead of being sent to see the principal they are often handcuffed, arrested and taken to the police station.&amp;nbsp; In addition, law enforcement authorities are using weapons such as pepper spray and tasers against young students in our public schools more than ever before.&amp;nbsp; Children in U.S. public schools are not learning how to live as strong individuals in the "land of the free and the home of the brave".&amp;nbsp; Rather, they are being trained how to serve a&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/category/big-brother" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Big Brother"&gt;Big Brother&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;police state where control freaks run their entire lives.&amp;nbsp; If we continue to allow all of the liberty and freedom to be systematically drained out of our school children, then there is not going to be much hope for the future of this nation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;The following are 28 signs that U.S public schools are being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;All 50 U.S. states are now constructing federally-mandated databases that will track the behavior and performance of all public school students in America throughout their entire school careers.&amp;nbsp; According to&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_feds_are_tracking_your_kid_xC6wecT8ZidCAzfqegB6hL" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="the New York Post"&gt;the New York Post&lt;/a&gt;, the Obama administration wants to use the information that is gathered for a wide array of purposes....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 120px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The administration wants this data to include much more than name, address and test scores. According to the National Data Collection Model, the government should collect information on health-care history, family income and family voting status. In its view, public schools offer a golden opportunity to mine reams of data from a captive audience.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;All over America, school children are being immersed in the radical green agenda.&amp;nbsp; In fact, in many areas of the country children are actively trained to watch how their parents behave and to correct them when they are being "environmentally unfriendly".&amp;nbsp; The following is from a recent&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/nyregion/10green.html?_r=1" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="New York Times article"&gt;New York Times article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;about this phenomenon....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 244px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I have very, very environmentally conscious children — more so than me, I’m embarrassed to say,” said Ms. Ross, a social worker in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. “They’re on my case about getting a hybrid car. They want me to replace all the light bulbs in the house with energy-saving bulbs.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ms. Ross’s children are part of what experts say is a growing army of “eco-kids” — steeped in environmentalism at school, in houses of worship, through scouting and even via popular culture — who try to hold their parents accountable at home. Amid their pride in their children’s zeal for all things green, the grown-ups sometimes end up feeling like scofflaws under the watchful eye of the pint-size eco-police, whose demands grow ever greater, and more expensive.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Later on in that same article, a district superintendent is quoted as saying that they try to inject the green agenda wherever they can into the curriculum....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 104px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“We’re trying to integrate it into anything where it naturally fits,” said Jackie Taylor, the district’s superintendent. “It might be in a math lesson. How much water are you really using? How can you tell? Teachers look for avenues in almost everything they teach.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;One 13-year-old student&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/suit-filed-after-nm-teen-_0_n_1124180.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="down in New Mexico"&gt;down in New Mexico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was recently handcuffed and forcibly removed from a classroom just because he burped in class.&amp;nbsp; In all, over 200 students in Bernalillo County "have been handcuffed and arrested in the last three years for non-violent misdemeanors".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;All over America, students are being taught that the First Amendment does not apply in public schools.&amp;nbsp; Expressions of free speech in school are often cracked down upon very hard.&amp;nbsp; For example, one group of high school athletes was recently&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/7357978/high-school-athletes-suspended-tebowing" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="suspended"&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for "Tebowing" in the hallways of their school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Many public school sex education classes have totally crossed the line.&amp;nbsp; Instead of just "educating" children about sex, many sex ed courses are now "indoctrinating" children about sex.&amp;nbsp; One recent example of this was detailed&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/opinion/does-sex-ed-undermine-parental-rights.html?_r=1" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="in the New York Times"&gt;in the New York Times&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 260px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;IMAGINE you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given “risk cards” that graphically named a variety of solitary and mutual sex acts? Or if, in another lesson, he was encouraged to disregard what you told him about sex, and to rely instead on teachers and health clinic staff members?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;That prospect would horrify most parents. But such lessons are part of a middle-school curriculum that Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, has recommended for his system’s newly mandated sex-education classes. There is a parental “opt out,” but it is very limited, covering classes on contraception and birth control.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Sadly, this "sexual indoctrination" appears to be working.&amp;nbsp; According to&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078369/Sexual-activity-teenage-girls-higher-claims-new-research.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="one recent study"&gt;one recent study&lt;/a&gt;, sexual conduct between teen girls in the United States is now at the highest level ever recorded.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Putting kids in jail has become standard operating procedure in the United States.&amp;nbsp; Today, nearly one-third of all Americans&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076173/US-youth-crime-revealed-THIRD-young-adults-arrested-23.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="are arrested by police"&gt;are arrested by police&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by the time they reach the age of 23.&amp;nbsp; At this point, the United States has&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="the highest incarceration rate"&gt;the highest incarceration rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in the world and the&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="largest total prison population"&gt;largest total prison population&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;on the entire globe, and yet our society just continues to become more unstable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;In some U.S. schools, RFID chips are now being used to monitor the attendance and movements of children while they are at school.&amp;nbsp; The following is how&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/ethics/goodbye-roll-call-hello-rfids" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="one article"&gt;one article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;recently described a program that has just been instituted at a preschool in California....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 152px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Upon arriving in the morning, according to the Associated Press, each student at the CCC-George Miller preschool will don a jersey with a stitched in RFID chip. As the kids go about the business of learning, sensors in the school will record their movements, collecting attendance for both classes and meals. Officials from the school have claimed they're only recording information they're required to provide while receiving&amp;nbsp; federal funds for their Headstart program.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Increasingly, incidents of misbehavior at many U.S. schools are being treated as very serious crimes.&amp;nbsp; For example, when a little girl kissed a little boy at one Florida elementary school recently, it was considered to be a "&lt;a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="possible sex crime"&gt;possible sex crime&lt;/a&gt;" and the police were called out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Even 5-year-old children are now being handcuffed and arrested by police in public schools.&amp;nbsp; The following is from&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kcra.com/r/29847063/detail.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="a recent article"&gt;a recent article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California earlier this year....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 88px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#11&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A teenager in suburban Dallas&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Teen-Fined-637-for-Foul-Language-in-Classroom-114879844.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="was recently forced to take on a part-time job"&gt;was recently forced to take on a part-time job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;after being ticketed for using bad language in one high school classroom.&amp;nbsp; The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#12&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;It is not just high school kids that are being ticketed by police.&amp;nbsp; In Texas the crackdown extends all the way down to elementary school students.&amp;nbsp; In fact, it has been reported that Texas police gave "&lt;a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2011/01/11/should-texas-cops-be-giving-tickets-to-6-year-olds/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="1,000 tickets"&gt;1,000 tickets&lt;/a&gt;" to elementary school kids over a recent six year period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#13&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Our children are being programmed to accept the fact that they will be watched and monitored constantly.&amp;nbsp; For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending large amounts of money&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/control-freak-society-government-to-monitor-school-lunches-with-cameras/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="to  install surveillance cameras"&gt;to install surveillance cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in the cafeterias of public schools all across the nation so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;If you can believe it, a "&lt;a href="http://current.com/18d6mkc" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="certified TSA official"&gt;certified TSA official&lt;/a&gt;" was recently brought in to oversee student searches at the Santa Fe High School prom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Last year, a 17 year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father's lunch with her to school.&amp;nbsp; It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples.&amp;nbsp; So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this?&amp;nbsp; The school&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="suspended her for the rest of the year"&gt;suspended her for the rest of the year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#16&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;According to blogger Alexander Higgins, students in kindergarten and the 1st grade in the state of New Jersey are now required by law to participate "in monthly anti-terrorism drills".&amp;nbsp; The following is an excerpt&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://cdn1.alexanderhiggins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Notification-Of-Terrorism-Drills-For-NJ-Public-School-Students.jpg" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="from a letter"&gt;from a letter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that he recently received from the school where his child attends....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 88px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Each month a school must conduct one fire drill and one security drill which may be a lockdown, bomb threat, evacuation, active shooter, or shelter-in place drill. All schools are now required by law to implement this procedure.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;So who in the world ever decided that it would be a good idea for 1st grade students to endure "lockdown" and "active shooter" drills?&amp;nbsp; To get an idea of what these kinds of drills are like, just check out&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbWjX9pZs0s&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="this video"&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#17&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;In some U.S. schools, armed cops accompanied by police dogs actually conduct surprise raids with their guns drawn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6r9neE89Fg&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="In this video"&gt;In this video&lt;/a&gt;, you can actually see police officers aiming their guns at school children as the students are lined up facing the wall.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#18&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The U.S. government is now encouraging children&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://godfatherpolitics.com/2613/turning-schoolchildren-into-informants/#.Tuqyyi7Oz4I.email" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="to spy on their parents"&gt;to spy on their parents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;as part of the "war on terror".&amp;nbsp; If a school official hears that a parent has said the "wrong thing" at home, that parent could potentially get labeled as a "potential terrorist".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#19&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The U.S. government has also been increasingly using "polls" and "surveys" as tools to gather information about all of us.&amp;nbsp; In&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/12-signs-that-americans-who-love-liberty-and-freedom-should-watch-their-backs" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="previous articles"&gt;previous articles&lt;/a&gt;, I have noted how government authorities seems particularly interested in our children.&amp;nbsp; According to&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/033717_CDC_National_Immunization_Survey.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mike Adams of Natural News"&gt;Mike Adams of Natural News&lt;/a&gt;, the CDC is starting to call parents all over the U.S. to question them about the vaccination status of their children....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 200px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which has been comprehensively exposed as a vaccine propaganda organization promoting the interests of drug companies, is now engaged in a household surveillance program that involves calling U.S. households and intimidating parents into producing child immunization records. As part of what it deems a National Immunization Survey(NIS), the CDC is sending letters to U.S. households, alerting them that they will be called by "NORC at the University of Chicago" and that households should "have your child's immunization records handy when answering our questions."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;You can see a copy of the letter that the CDC has been sending out to selected parents&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/images/CDC-Letter-1.jpg" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="right here"&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#20&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Last year, a high school student in Southern California&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-student-suspended-for-sharing-faith-sues-school-district-49655/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="was suspended for two days"&gt;was suspended for two days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;because he had private conversations with his classmates during which he discussed Christianity.&amp;nbsp; He was also banned from bringing his Bible to school ever again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#21&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;In early 2010, a 12 year old girl in New York was arrested by police and&amp;nbsp;marched out of her school in handcuffs&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="just because she doodled on her desk"&gt;just because she doodled on her desk&lt;/a&gt;. "I love my friends Abby and Faith" was what she reportedly wrote on her desk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#22&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Back in 2009, one 8 year old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x1903566059/Taunton-second-grader-suspended-over-drawing-of-Jesus" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation"&gt;and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#23&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A little over a year ago, a 6 year old girl in Florida&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="was recently handcuffed and sent to a mental facility"&gt;was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;after throwing temper tantrums at&amp;nbsp;her elementary school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#24&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Other students in Florida&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="have been arrested by police"&gt;have actually been arrested&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for bringing a plastic butter knife to school, for throwing an eraser, and for drawing a picture of a gun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#25&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/virginia-attorney-general-says-teachers-cellphones-read-texts/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="has announced"&gt;has announced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that school officials can search the cell phones and laptops of public school students if there are "reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Increasingly, authorities are using "pre-crime" technology on our children in order to identify potential problem individuals.&amp;nbsp; For example, the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will&amp;nbsp;begin using analysis software&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5517231/crime-prediction-software-is-here-and-its-a-very-bad-idea" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="to predict crime by young delinquents"&gt;to predict crime by young delinquents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and will place "potential offenders"&amp;nbsp;in specific prevention and education programs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#27&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;At one public high school in McAllen, Texas earlier this year, students&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC3xejOJyrI&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="were ordered"&gt;were ordered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance.&amp;nbsp; School authorities have failed to explain how reciting a pledge of allegiance to a foreign nation has any educational value whatsoever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#28&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;All over the United States, tasers are increasingly being used to "subdue" high school students.&amp;nbsp; The following are two very shocking examples of this that were cited in a recent&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/153536/madness%3A_even_school_children_are_being_pepper-sprayed_and_shocked_with_tasers_/?page=entire" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Alternet article"&gt;Alternet article&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-image: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); clear: both; color: #555555; display: block; height: 388px; padding: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;On September 29, Keshana Wilson, 14, was shocked in the groin with a Taser while shoved against a parked car by Allentown, Pennsylvania police officer Jason Ammary, just outside her high school. The incident was captured on&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/dec/15/philadephia-police-taser-girl-video?newsfeed=true" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="surveillance footage"&gt;surveillance footage&lt;/a&gt;. Allentown police argue that the officer’s behavior was&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/14/9443178-police-officer-tasers-14-year-old-girl" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="justified"&gt;justified&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;because “Wilson was cursing and inciting a group of people” as well as resisting arrest. While defending his fellow officer, Allentown Assistant Police Chief Joseph Hanna argued, “officers are trained to use the justified amount of force dictated by the actions of the resister, not their age or gender.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2011/06/14/news/doc4df7b12331ec9768149316.txt?viewmode=fullstory" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Zahrod Jackson"&gt;Zahrod Jackson&lt;/a&gt;, a 17-year-old student, “was eligible to receive free lunch” at Middletown High School in Connecticut, according to a June report in the Middletown Press. Last September, Jackson exited the cafeteria line with a slice of pizza, but returned for a beef patty after spotting both pizza and a beef patty on the tray of a student who also receives free lunch. A screaming match ensued between Jackson and a cafeteria worker who accused the teen of stealing. The commotion quickly caught the eyes of SROs Kurt Scrivo, who “threw Jackson onto the cafeteria floor,” and Alex Rodriguez, who Tasered him five times.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;So is all of this brutal repression helping our children get a better education?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Of course not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;The truth is that the American population is rapidly being "dumbed-down".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Today, American 15-year-olds&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2009/10/26/9-signs-of-america-in-decline.html" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="do not even rank in the top half"&gt;do not even rank in the top half&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;of all&amp;nbsp;advanced nations&amp;nbsp;when it comes to&amp;nbsp;math&amp;nbsp;or science literacy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Not only that, our public schools are also producing kids that are woefully unprepared for college.&amp;nbsp; The United States once had the highest proportion of young adults with post-secondary degrees in the world.&amp;nbsp; Today, the U.S.&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/14/third-world-america/2/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="has fallen to 12th"&gt;has fallen to 12th&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Our public education system absolutely stinks and it is getting worse all the time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;I went to public schools all of my life, but I would never want to send my children to public schools now.&amp;nbsp; They are going downhill really, really fast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;Just sending different politicians to Washington D.C. is not going to change the course of this nation.&amp;nbsp; We need a complete political, economic, educational, moral, spiritual and philosophical renewal.&amp;nbsp; Right now America is becoming a little more&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/rise-of-the-beast-system-11-ways-that-amerika-is-becoming-more-like-north-korea" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="like North Korea"&gt;like North Korea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;every day.&amp;nbsp; If we continue on this path there will be absolutely no future for our children and our grandchildren.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;It is absolutely disgusting that our public schools are being transformed into indoctrination centers and prison camps.&amp;nbsp; This is not what America is supposed to be about.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"&gt;If we do not choose to stand up and fight for the future of this country, then we are going to get the future that we deserve.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-886236864448861104?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/886236864448861104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=886236864448861104' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/886236864448861104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/886236864448861104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/public-school-or-indoctrination-centers.html' title='Public school or indoctrination centers?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-5205127554320865202</id><published>2012-01-07T22:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T22:36:29.027-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law enforcement'/><title type='text'>Funny thing happened on the way home from a basketball game</title><content type='html'>If any of you have read my previous posts or you know what Iv'e been up to lately, you will know from my bout with the school attorney stating I committed a crime by challenging the authority of the school board,&amp;nbsp; It struck enough fear in me with my knowledge of history and law to pursue my latest mission&amp;nbsp;to to find out "What the rules are" What is the rule of law and what form of government&amp;nbsp; we have today in our town, our state and nationally and no one can seem to answer this simple question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my travels of speaking to Lieutenants and chiefs of the ISP and police departments, the county sheriffs and a wide variety of law enforcement officers my question is simply, if we are not a constitutional republic, what are we? If they take an oath, what do they take an oath to? If an oath is taken , isn't it important, why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they take an oath to the constitution, what if they do not adhere to it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we as "The people" established government to protect our rights and the power was inherent in the people and not our government, and the only document that protects us from government oppression is our rule of law that they swore to uphold, what happened?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can they change the rules on us arbitrarily? If we are ignorant and apathetic rather than "eternally vigilent" that they can, without any authority I might add, but yes they can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had just finished forcefully paying 10.00 again to watch another of my sons games and on the way out I saw, not one officer, but three from the Sheriff's office. When asked why they were here, they replied that they were board...Really, so our hard earned tax dollars pay for sheriffs to be on duty to watch games when they are board?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stopped one of them and gave him my card and told him I wanted to meet him because I was running for state legislature in this district. When he looked at the card, &amp;nbsp;he didn't really seem to interested and quite put off when I asked him if he could tell me what the rules are. When asked he told me that was up to the legislature, I said, hmm,. I think that would be up to the sheriff and law enforcement as enforcers of the law, wouldn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I ask&amp;nbsp;him what the rules are and&amp;nbsp;he tells me it is up to the legislature,&amp;nbsp;shall I will assume he either didn't know or didnt want to answer me? Do you suppose if I did something illegal he would know and arrest me for it? I'm pretty sure he would. If he would then he must know the law because would think that what I had done would have been illegal. I mean they should know the law if they are the enforcers of it, shouldn't they and is the law they know a secret?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If our law enforcement was established to protect our rights as servants of the people, not to dictate those rights, then if were asked him something about law, shouldn't they be required to answer it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he failed to answer it and I had done something illegal without knowing it, and he arrested me would it have been fair, to pay his salary and retirement for life, while arresting me for a law I didnt know made something illegal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, they typically say "ignorance is no excuse of the law!" at which point I ask, if the power is inherent in the people&amp;nbsp; or the government and&amp;nbsp;are you&amp;nbsp;a servant of the people established &amp;nbsp;to protect&amp;nbsp;the rights and supposed to know the law, would this phrase also apply to you as well?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should allow me to ask if they know their oath, where it originated and where the "ignorance" phrase also originated, or ask them, are you familiar with title 50 USC, for example and if they didn't know, shouldn't they? I mean governements originally really had no more power than what we could do to eachother, so could they or are they to have more power over the people than they do of themselves?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get back on track, when I asked him if he knew who I was, he said clearly, he knew who I was and at that point had no interest in&amp;nbsp; any further communication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did he know who I was? How does every law enforcement officer at this school &amp;nbsp;in this town know who I am ? Why would they treat me this way, unwilling to chat, smile, and act as though they have a million other things to do when they came to the game because they were board? Was it something I said? Is it a crime to challenge authority?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we pay for an entity to protect our rights when they watch over us like were criminals?&lt;br /&gt;When I told him&amp;nbsp;if we&amp;nbsp;would give up our freedom for security, we deserve neither and both would be destroyed, he disagreed and I said you can't disagree with history, that quote came from one of our Founding fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If one us disobeys the law,&amp;nbsp; it is considered crime,&amp;nbsp;does that apply to everyone?&amp;nbsp;Better yet, who is more of a criminal&amp;nbsp; one that didnt know they broke the law or one that did? Is there a difference if ignorance is no excuse? Can this apply only to the people, without also equally appying it to law enforment and every government agency?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is this, we have a serious problem and it isn' necessarily the fault of our law enforcement, As a matter of fact I support them 100 % because of the detriment of nationalization&amp;nbsp; if we don't, that ushers in the usurpation of state powers in exchange for the police state under federal power, which will be the last nail in the freedom in any state or the union!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our law enforcement put their lives on the line for us every day and we should be happy there are men that will do so and we need to honor them for it, I do. The problem is that they have all been successfully conditioned and educated something other that what was intended,&amp;nbsp; same with our military and it is our duty, that love them, respect them and honor them to re-educate them on what they are missing without beating them on the head when they will take the time to listen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MYTH: Law enforcment is to protect the interest of the state&lt;br /&gt;MYTH: It&amp;nbsp;is constitutional to have long standing armies and be the worlds police&lt;br /&gt;MYTH: Security is freedom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is this, if you ask any officer they will tell you, they protect the interest of the state rather than the people. They are not taught the foundation of law, the origin of law, the jurisdiction of law, the value, purpose and significance of the Constitution and have no idea why the Bill of Rights was written or the purpose of it, if they knew, they would be horrified at how opposite their job is from its original intent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post. like all of them&amp;nbsp;are written&amp;nbsp;is a public clarification as to the events that occur in my quest to bring us back to the rule of law that we think is in place, to re-educate those whom are willing to listen&amp;nbsp; and to state publically, since I am getting so well known (good or bad, Im not so sure),&amp;nbsp;that I have absolutley no intention to harm anyone, to break any laws, as long as I know what they are,&amp;nbsp;or to disrespect the postion&amp;nbsp;of authority. My question is simply and passionately and it will continue to be until I get the answer I believe the people have the right to know, to answer the following questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who has the inherent power, the people or the government?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What form of government do we have?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the rules that we must play by in order to not break any laws?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are these laws written or arbitrary or both?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you define&amp;nbsp;and state what is needed in order for one to commit a "crime?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which law is supreme, school rule, the city ordinance, the state statute, the state constitution or the US Constitution?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens when one or several contradict eachother? Is there&amp;nbsp; a particular hierachical order?&lt;br /&gt;and so on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you answer them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you cannot, you may just be a criminal waiting to be caught for a crime you didn't teven know you commited...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are law enforcment and cannot answer these questions, "Is ignorance no excuse" and have you just&amp;nbsp;broken the law as well as your oath to the people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I handed out my cards, I asked them to read my article coming out in the Middleton Gazette to better understand the method of my madness&amp;nbsp;and not to&amp;nbsp;pass&amp;nbsp;false judgement on my character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I prayed silently that a seed be planted, that they would come to my site and consider what I am saying to be the truth and to know I mean no harm to anyone and that I too, am an enforcer of the law not one one whom cares to violate it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-5205127554320865202?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/5205127554320865202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=5205127554320865202' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5205127554320865202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5205127554320865202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/funny-thing-happened-on-way-home-from.html' title='Funny thing happened on the way home from a basketball game'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-8771642370454336482</id><published>2012-01-07T20:55:00.017-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T21:04:20.537-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letter to the editor'/><title type='text'>Letter to the editor Middleton Gazette 1 2 2012</title><content type='html'>Letter to the editor Middleton Gazette 1 2 2012&lt;br /&gt;Happy New year my friends! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every new year we are blessed with new beginnings to ponder and correct errors that have been made in previous years and this is why I have decided to run for state legislature in the (old District 11 ) new District 9 which includes Middleton, Payette, New Plymouth, Fruitland, Letha and Star.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of you that know me understand me, those that do not may view me as a bit aggressive so I thought I would take this time to have you understand why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of you know, I ran for legislature in 2010 because I was concerned about the direction we were headed, both as a state and as a nation.  It shouldn’t be hard to see that things aren’t  getting better because we aren’t doing anything any different…  It is normal not to stray from our comfort zones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am here to offer something different, a return to the people’s fundamental protection of written law. I have spent the last five years educating myself exhaustively on the proper role of government through Constitutional, Biblical and common law, to obtain the wisdom and knowledge of both God and the “original intent” of our Founding fathers, through scriptures and our history with the desire to return to our proper role of government to the people, if they want it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We the people” are experiencing job and property loss, heavy taxation, increased regulation, and increased fiscal irresponsibility as part of a full scale assault from the federal government on the individual states.  It is crucial we have leadership with solid principles who have the backbone to stand against opposition, listening to their constituents, without the arrogance of their self-imposed elevation of authority, that truly understands their oath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The state and federal governments have drawn the line in the sand, and we need leadership that will place that toe on the line to meet their challenges who believe that God is the cornerstone of American liberty just as our Founders did and understand whatever we, as a nation did without His blessing would be in vain .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were once a beacon of hope for all nations, and appear to be more of a nation of ironies and contrary to what the Founders had envisioned.   What used to be a country of vision and harmony is being destroyed from within.  Today, government seeks for more power as it tramples its own oaths in an attempt to re-engineer our Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Supreme Creator gave man certain inalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property, as governments were created to protect those rights. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, it is clear that evil or ignorant men have conspired to take away those rights, instead of protecting them.  Presidents, Governors, Mayors and Councils have exchanged the protection of People’s Rights with endless laws and regulations to place you and I under their control “in the name of safety”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without the Constitution and Bill of Rights, one never knows which laws will be enforced, changed by decree or ignored by government.  We are no longer free to make our own choices because we have allowed the government to dictate what we do while these tyrants excluded themselves of any responsibility for their own actions at the expense of the tax payer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We no longer have a standard from which our laws are formulated.  Law has become whatever a judge or regulator decides regardless of any moral or ethical consequences.  We wish to protect our children in the short term at the expense and destruction of their economic future, teach our beloved children things like their rights come from government, instead of from God ( that can take them away), fund and support abortions as choice,  killing  thousands of innocent civilians in conflicts we deem “in our best interests” or “for the sake of freedom” or “in the name of security” by executive decree and spread something we shouldn’t even want for ourselves…Democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are a constitutional republic, a rule of law, the framework that limits government to “few and specific powers,” where both morality and religion are vital supports and the power is inherent in the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our governments have filled us with packs of lies; they promised under oath to protect our rights and have decided to dictate them instead.  Are you willing to trade every sacrifice made for your freedom for security and if not, where do you draw the line?  We, as a nation, and the future of our children are on a dangerous path.  We have been deceived and the time to wake up is now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can restore our freedom and liberty but not without the desire to reduce the size of government by the re-establishment of and re-education of our children about personal responsibility for it all starts at home, not at the State House!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am just a regular guy running to fight for those who feel they cannot or will not fight for themselves, who love their family, District, state and country, and the freedoms granted to each one of us by Almighty God as I do.&lt;br /&gt;If you agree, let us fight together to restore our Constitution and bring our state and nation back under the “rule of law.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please contact me and/or visit my websites, www.tommunds.com, www.Ipoimedia.com or http://truthofpoliticsandreligion@blogspot.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please contact me if you are willing to have meetings in your church, home, school, place of business  or if you just have questions about who I am or issues that concern you. I am willing to have as many town halls as necessary to make sure the needs of my constituents are heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t forget to register to vote and Vote for Tom Munds for District 9 Representative on May 15th, 2012!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-8771642370454336482?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/8771642370454336482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=8771642370454336482' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8771642370454336482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8771642370454336482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2012/01/letter-to-editor-middleton-gazette-1-2_07.html' title='Letter to the editor Middleton Gazette 1 2 2012'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-1364773118216386439</id><published>2011-12-22T12:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T12:13:31.866-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letter to the editor'/><title type='text'>Letter to the editor Beacon of hope of nation of ironies</title><content type='html'>This article took some time to write due to the contraversial nature of it,&amp;nbsp;fact I am running for the state legislature and wasn't sure if people would understand the intent of it. After much prayer and thought, I decided to write the article because I believe that people still need to become educated as quickly as posible before all chances of restoration are gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is my attempt to reach out to just one, to educate just one or to let&amp;nbsp;just one&amp;nbsp;know I understand what it takes, to stand when no one else will , that I am not just another politician but one that understands his oath that will do what needs to be done without coersive financing in support of a collective entity&amp;nbsp;to diminish&amp;nbsp; the value and power of one individual, if we are all create equal and our rule of law guarantees this, then diminishing the power of one in support of the many would be a derelection of my oath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The letter to the editor is below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Would I get your attention if I suggested the abolition of the US constitution while running for the Idaho state legislature? Would reading this article ruin the chance to win the election, will you read it in its entirety?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Why adhere to history we abandoned decades ago and perform traditions that few even know the meaning and purpose?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We are a new AmeriKa, not the beacon of hope to all nations, but now a nation of ironies and contradictions, Are we one nation under God or one nation on dope?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Is our country today what our Founding fathers wanted? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Our Founding Fathers believed power was inherent in the people that established government to protect our God given inalienable rights of LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY, that the constitution was written to limit government and the Bill of Rights were Rights that no branch of government could interpret or dictate.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Today, does government have the power over the people? Is the supreme court to be the final arbiter of man’s rights abandoning the checks and balances of the other two?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Instead of one tyrant king of England, three tyrant kings instead where the power remains in all three branches instead of in the people?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Instead of the peoples creation of government to protect life, we fund the destruction of it instead? Instead of government protecting our rights, they interpret and restrict our rights now with pre-emptive law all “in the name of safety?” Does government now destroy our economy by sending jobs overseas due to the environmental regulations and taxes? Does government to remove us from our homes, for failure or inability to pay taxes because we can’t find jobs in an economy that we have created through our own ignorance and apathy?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We deny our foundations in the name of tolerance, We pledge allegiance and don’t know why, We speak of freedom and trade it for security, we say we love our children and kill them as a choice, teach them they weren’t created or special and significant but a random chemical accident and they can, in fact, spend their way to prosperity, we lock them down in school and put them under surveillance stating it’s for their protection, when essentially they are jailed instead? If this is their future in progress what message does that send to our children, and we the parents allow this to happen?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We say we love our military but allow the government to label them as domestic terrorists, do we honor the sacrifices for freedom when we trade them for security? We elect our officials today not on their ability and knowledge or our knowledge of them but on outward appearance and are more comfortable words like security than we are of freedom. Will this article resonate with readers enough to believe the &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;properly understood constitution is not the problem, it is the ignorance of it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The power is in inherent in the people and is why I am running for legislature.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-1364773118216386439?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/1364773118216386439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=1364773118216386439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1364773118216386439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1364773118216386439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/12/letter-to-editor-beacon-of-hope-of.html' title='Letter to the editor Beacon of hope of nation of ironies'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-1072588167787691057</id><published>2011-12-09T17:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T17:29:26.517-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is the war on terror a fraud?</title><content type='html'>Sometimes, you find artcles that just say almost everything that you think but never thought to say it like it like you found it was written. Fortunately, this article, written by Coach as a good friend of mine so as I post it to spread his name and his great article, I also post it because it fits into the problems I believe we face as a nation&amp;nbsp; today. Nice job, Coach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;IS THE "WAR ON TERROR" A FRAUD?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin-top: -1px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"&gt;By&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;Coach Dave Daubenmire&lt;br /&gt;December 8, 2011 &lt;a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/"&gt;www.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"&gt;NewsWithViews.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;At the risk of being labeled a “Truther”, or a “Birther” or a “Conspiracy Theorist” I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you some observations that I have recently made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;I suppose I find myself in a few head-butting incidents every now and then because I don’t just take things at face value. Although I don’t know when it happened I have become one of those who questions almost everything I hear, especially when it comes from the media.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Having spent the past decade or so dancing in and out of the public eye I have become adept at reading the bias in the media. Usually, when I get a call from one of them it is because they are searching for someone to articulate a position on a particular issue and they know that they can count on me to give them a good sound-bite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;They are not on my side. I came to understand that years ago, but in their attempts to be “fair and balanced” they call on me to give the “Right-Wing-Wacko” position that their journalistic fairness requires them to display. Rarely do I get the opportunity to have a serious discussion with a qualified, veteran reporter. They are not really interested in what I have to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Like so much in the media, the leg-work is done by some recently-graduated-from-journalism-school stringer who has been assigned the weekly “moral issue” for publication. Invariably, whatever this wet-behind-the-ears reporter puts in the article will be quoted over and over again as the story circulates through shared media-sources and the blogosphere. Once printed, the statement can never be clarified nor retracted. Often, the statement is out-of-context and designed to make me look like the wacko the unbiased reporter believes me to be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;But, of course, there is no bias. They are merely repeating the “facts.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;I would hope that you can tell from my writings that I am a deep-thinking man. I read and analyze volumes of materials weekly. I often receive information from readers who want to make me aware of a particular issue…I read everything, but don’t believe everything I read. Much of what I know, and believe, I never share with others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;That’s what “objective” columnists do, eh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Let me state up front that I am non-violent but understand others are violent, so I own guns. I love my country but do not trust the government. I respect our soldiers but do not support the wars. I am a proud Christian but ashamed of what passes as Christianity. I am a life-long educator but think public education is responsible for the condition of this country. I know it is safest to keep my mouth shut, but cowardly to do so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;So at the risk of alerting the TSA, the FBI, the IRS, Homeland Security, and the Muslim Brotherhood I want to state a conclusion that I have drawn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;The War on Terror is a fraud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;I don’t want to get into 9-1-1 theories, Dick Cheney, and the free-fall exhibited by the 3 buildings in New York. That research is for those far more qualified than me. But observation of where we are in 2011 makes me tilt my head sideways as I look at what has happened to freedom in America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;"He who would trade liberty for security, deserves neither liberty nor security."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;I believe the threat of Islamic terror is real and that national security is the number one job of our government, but I’ll be damned if I want to sacrifice my freedom because of what some former cave-dwelling, camel-riding recent-arrival-in-the-21st-century-Muslim might do. I fail to see how fighting in Afghanistan makes me safer in the cornfields of Ohio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;This all came home to me as I was standing in line at the airport last week…watching the “cattle-low” as they bowed to the commands of the TSA agent who just last week was an assistant manger at Pizza Hut.&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Take off your shoes…no liquids in the carry on…spread your legs and put your hands behind your head…wait for permission before moving forward.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;As I stood there waiting my turn to have my rights violated I was hit with an epiphany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wellnessresources.com/products/iosol_iodine.php" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="110" src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/Bannors/180x110-iosoliodine_nwv.gif" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Advertisement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;“What a joke,” I thought to myself. “If a terrorist wanted to kill a bunch of people, he could easily blow up a bunch of folks while he waited in line to go through the scanner. The scanner is supposed to insure that there are no bombs that make it onto the airplane, but do nothing to protect those who are waiting in line to be scanned.” On this particular early-morning flight out of Columbus there must have been 300 people waiting in line to go through security. What a terrorism opportunity!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;What would TSA and Homeland Security do if a bomb was detonated by someone waiting in line? What means of security currently prohibits this from happening? Why haven’t the “terrorists” thought of this? (I am sure they have.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;What if they simultaneously did it in six airport security-lines around America? Hasn’t the “government” considered that possibility? What are they doing to provide security as we go through security? Do we actually believe that the “terrorists” have to get on a plane too kill innocent Americans?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;All of the security is designed to make the cattle feel that government is protecting us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;And what about football stadiums? You mean no ‘terrorist” has thought about blowing himself up in the middle of Section B of the Super Dome during the National Anthem? What about your local high school? What about simultaneous, coordinated attacks on six schools around the nation? If their purpose was to spread death and terror can you think of anything more terrifying to the average American parent? How would TSA and Homeland Security respond to that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;And didn’t the “terrorists” miss a great opportunity for mayhem on Black Friday? Can you image the carnage that would be left as result of some suicide-bomber hitting the target by lighting up like a Christmas tree those lined up outside of the local Target Store?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;How about an IED inside our churches? If it is Christianity that they hate so badly why haven’t the ‘terrorists” planned some mega –explosions at a select group of mega-churches across the country?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Just look around. Do we really think that if those who masterminded the 9-1-1 attacks were smart enough to pull it off aren’t they wise inventive enough to see all of the vulnerable targets that you and I can see? Are we really safe because of wire-taps, airport strip-searches, and the supposed-Herculean efforts of the Department of Homeland Insecurity?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;When will we awaken to the fact that those who make a living off of the “war on terror” are depending on keeping us terrified?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;NOTE TO ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: I am not a terrorist, have no interest in killing innocent Americans, and am not interested in an armed conflict with the government. But the fact remains, I am more concerned about a black government vehicle pulling up in front of my house in the middle of the night than I am of Abdullah Appleseed blowing up a plane that I am on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newswithviewsstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="64" src="http://www.newswithviews.com/images/boxes/shop-btn-anim.gif" width="197" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Billions of dollars are being spent at the airports to protect us from bombers in burkas, while much easier, softer, more devastating targets remain wide open to a lethal assault.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Funny isn’t it. The Department of Homeland Security has made no secret of the fact that they consider God-fearing men like me to be a greater threat to America than some terrorist named Obama Bin Lying and his henchmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" border="2" bordercolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; width: 181px; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#000000" width="175"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Subscribe to the NewsWithViews Daily News Alerts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://lists.newswithviewsalerts.com/mailman/subscribe/alerts" method="POST"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Enter Your E-Mail Address:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input name="email" size="18" type="Text" value="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;input name="email-button" type="Submit" value="Subscribe" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Methinks something is amiss. Could it be possible that a “domestic terrorist attack” like the one’s I have just described could be exactly what the doctor ordered? Can you picture a scenario where the perpetrator is discovered to be an angry, right-wing, anti-government extremist…even though his remains no longer remain to be investigated or questioned?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;Can’t you imagine the chaos and need for a government crackdown if one of these soft-targets is suddenly hit? Do you find it hard to believe that right-wing Christian-profiling by the Homeland&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security would suddenly be in vogue?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;…and just who are all of those FEMA camps for?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;I hate to think like this. I wish I wasn’t so cynical, but something doesn’t seem right. Terrorism can not destroy America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;But terror can. Am I the only one suspicious of what I see?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.coachdavelive.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;for an audio version of this commentary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-1072588167787691057?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/1072588167787691057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=1072588167787691057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1072588167787691057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/1072588167787691057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-war-on-terror-fraud.html' title='Is the war on terror a fraud?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-8146967919323762965</id><published>2011-11-29T21:56:00.010-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T22:03:04.946-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Government control'/><title type='text'>The public school, who is the parent?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sUb5ARnFq1M/TtW255QBlAI/AAAAAAAAAJY/8lPweXIk3fs/s1600/thumbnailCA2OM2DG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="208" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sUb5ARnFq1M/TtW255QBlAI/AAAAAAAAAJY/8lPweXIk3fs/s320/thumbnailCA2OM2DG.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I love it when my children are happy. When they are happy I am happy unless what they are happy about violates the liberty and freedom of my family and my children, at which point it is no longer a game and nees to be addressed quickly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have been avid supporters of our children's sports- football, basketball, track. We have paid fees, endured many hosptal trips and even the sometimes overreach in authority of&amp;nbsp;various school administrators just so our children could enjoy the game. Weve payed&amp;nbsp;hundreds in entry fees to each game&amp;nbsp;as most do but as the&amp;nbsp;individual, state&amp;nbsp;and national&amp;nbsp;wealth began to decrease, it was time to start asking questions about where the money was going and for each question I asked I was horified at not only the fiscal irresponsibility but the neglect for the rights of the people that these elected officials swore an oath to protect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I begin, I would like to state that the subject matter in these posts could be considered offensive but shouldn't be so because the people have been led to believe something today that was never intended in the original establishmant of this country. It is not necessarily the fault of the parent or the teachers but of&amp;nbsp;a planned agenda to destroy the roots of this great nation and the legacy that that has been bestowed upon us, quite simply, weve been duped and dumbed down&amp;nbsp; to buy a lie! Many of these people are good people, nice people and well intentioned and are my friends. It is not my intention to disrespect them but to reveal a serious problem! The biggest problem isnt necessarily that these issuesexists but getting people to see them, most people see nothing wrong!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, comes&amp;nbsp;not as a new issue but a continuation of the multitude that I have mentioned in previous posts that so many people are either oblivious to, don't care or understand- In many cases, they act as if they have no desire to understand and it truly breaks my heart. As I was told tonight:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You are all alone over there, with so few that agree with you&amp;nbsp;and we are all together over here" or&amp;nbsp; "Why don't you leave us alone, we are happy here the way things are, why don't you move and take that constituion stuff with you or just move out of town!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, on record, I have a state legislator that stated the purpose of the school was to separate the parent from the child, so take this into consideration when reading the remainder of the post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issue, you ask? Public school mandated drug testing! Yep, "We the people have decided to abandon freedom and liberty once again, "in the name of security" and abandon personal responsibility to our children and and give the government school the authority to deem what is necessary and proper for our children and wouldn't you know it, my wife and I are the only one's that have a problem with it. The others, as history dictates, will be like sheep led &amp;nbsp;to the slaughter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First comes the parent athelete cell phone consent form that authorizes the coach to communicate with the child circumventing the parent as the buffer or safeguard&amp;nbsp;between the government and the family,approved by district policy. This is a problem for me but since it was an opt in program, they gave me the option to maintain control of my family and of course, embraced it!. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, A letter about the high schools expectations from us and the students ( not that we are allowed to have any of the school) where they in bold print state that RULES BY THE SCHOOL AND THE IHSAA MUST BE FOLLOWED ( no matter what they impose upon the parent! ahd who is the IHSAA anyway? coming in a later post)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They tell us how to think, how to act and what guidelines will be followed whether we agree or not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only do they have our children under surveillance all day, have officers roaming the halls and have the school in complete lockdown all day but they demand respect at all times ( while they assume the power over the people), they will CAREFULLY monitor ALL classes and progress in each class, they will be subject to attitude checks and our children will have their grades checked and signed by instructors in every class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are not allowed to speak freely about anything negative verbally or written, as on facebook,&amp;nbsp;or subject to reprimand!?( no free speech?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Penalties for failure to comply are to attend all study hall sessions, attend directed learning and suspension? ( what is directed learning?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kids WILL ride to and from the games on the bus! (NO options?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They ask that we, the parent follow the chain of command but fail to acknowledge that it should go both ways, like the parent is in control of the child, NOT THE STATE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last ( for now, as the hits keep on coming) is Exhibit A, the Middleton Drug testing authorization form that essentially takes the authority of the parent and gives an open blanket authority to the school to&amp;nbsp;do as&amp;nbsp; it sees fit to commit arbirary acts under "reasonable" suspicion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Results from the test, paid for by the parent,&amp;nbsp;do not go to the parent but to the school ( who is the paent here, the school or the state?)&amp;nbsp;and The school will deem when these tests are necessary, at times yet to be determined in addition to the school taking the child to get tested?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way it is important to know that if our child is suspect, it is due to the Professional opinions of the coaches and the principal, subject to&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp; SRO before he even mentions&amp;nbsp; the parent would be contacted first?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These documents are mandatory to participate and failure to comply results in the inability to play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, are you really ok with abandoning all the freedom that was bestowed upon you by God and maintained by the sacrifices of generations of families of men and women whom have suffered to ultimate sacrifice?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever asked yourself how much freedom you are willing to give up for security? As one of our Founders said, if you would give just a bit, you deserve neither and both will be destroyed"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in why this is a concern, please read my next post or previous posts regarding government entities willingness to encroach on the rights of the people, especially the posts regarding the school which has the power now to make law circumventing the legislature, with your legislator giving you two options, run for office or take them out of school (While they still forcefully take your mooney at the coersion of property loss?!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you care at all about freedom and liberty, you care about our military, the constitution or our heritage, or want to know more,&amp;nbsp;please contact me and let me know someone out there has a pulse!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-8146967919323762965?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/8146967919323762965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=8146967919323762965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8146967919323762965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/8146967919323762965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/word-about-extra-cirricular-school.html' title='The public school, who is the parent?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sUb5ARnFq1M/TtW255QBlAI/AAAAAAAAAJY/8lPweXIk3fs/s72-c/thumbnailCA2OM2DG.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-3224651599775116445</id><published>2011-11-22T12:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-22T12:48:10.834-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OVERRULED! Parental rights</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gbaDRdG6nrE" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OVERRULED! DO you feel like you have not only lost control of your rights, your decisions and feel the government has encroached in every avenue of your life? I have and it has got to stop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever notice how when entering into debates with others, there are some that still don't see a problem with the increased size in government and the control they have taken without being given that authority?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where did they get this authority to control and dictate the Inalienable Rights of man?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have been successfully conditioned through government public schools, media and through the advertising of this propaganda!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure it is true that&amp;nbsp;many &amp;nbsp;have neglected and become unwilling to take personal responsibility for our actions, by default increasing the size of government and this government has benefitted from the ignorance of man to enslave us, as all governments desire to do over time and the once independent people allow them to either "in the name of safety" or " its for the good of society" or "for the children!".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you suppose the people understand that by giving up their freedom they give themselves unto bondage or has the firm hold of Moral relativism allowed threm to believe that being indebted to another is actually freedom?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted this video as a tool to try to get others to see the tragedy that occurs when others make our decisions, dictate our rights and sell us into slavery!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I run for state legislature in 2012, I will stand firm and bodly declare when laws are repugnant to preservation of the freedom and liberty of the people!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-3224651599775116445?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/3224651599775116445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=3224651599775116445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/3224651599775116445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/3224651599775116445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/overruled-parental-rights.html' title='OVERRULED! Parental rights'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-2628384693660955549</id><published>2011-11-03T17:47:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T17:47:19.702-06:00</updated><title type='text'>List of  anti american supporters for Occupy movement</title><content type='html'>WAIT A MINUTE!!! We are told that we prolife, proamerican, gun toting religion believing people are the terrorists while Our commie in chief and members of congress support the number one enemy to America in its entire history?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just who is the enemy? Is it those for America or those against it? Arent we guranteed a reopublican form of government? Are we not guaranteed that the power is inherent in the people, that our right s are inalienable? That laws cannot be passed on the people if they are repugnant to the constitution?&lt;br /&gt;Where am I? Whos land am I occupying, what are the rules we are playing by? Are these rules the same for the people as for our government? Wasn't the wrtitten constitution to prevent arbitrary rule of man, how did we get here? IGNORANCE AND APATHY!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Blaze has presented details on the people inside the OWS movement as well as those believed to be supporting it with money, material goods (sleeping bags, non-perishable foods, etc.), organizational skills, and even storage space. We have named names from the White House to the American Nazi Party, we have shown connections to several unions (like SEIU, UFT, and TWU) and pointed out the organizers like the Working Families Party and ACORN.&lt;br /&gt;This morning we ask you to consider the recently posted &lt;a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2011/10/31/the-99-official-list-of-ows/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #d50b0b;"&gt;Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors, and sympathizers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; put together by intrepid blogger Zombie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Local” supporters:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-170276 alignnone" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cpusa.jpg" title="cpusa" width="36" /&gt; Communist Party USA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170277" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/amnaziparty.gif" title="amnaziparty" width="36" /&gt;The American Nazi Party&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170278" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/rcp.jpg" title="rcp" width="36" /&gt;Revolutionary Communist Party&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170279" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blackpanthers.jpg" title="blackpanthers" width="36" /&gt;Black Panthers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170280" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/farrakhan.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="farrakhan" width="36" /&gt;Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170281" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cair-1.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="cair-1" width="36" /&gt;CAIR&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some big names in the political world have also lent support to the cause:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170284" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/obamaows.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="obamaows" width="36" /&gt;President Barack Obama&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170285" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/biden.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="biden" width="36" /&gt;Vice President Joe Biden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170288" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nancypelosi.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="nancypelosi" width="36" /&gt;Nancy Pelosi&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;International Leaders and Governments: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170289" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/khamenei.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="khamenei" width="36" /&gt;Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170290" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hugochavez.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="hugochavez" width="36" /&gt;Hugo Chavez&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170291" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/revolutionaryguards.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="revolutionaryguards" width="36" /&gt;Revolutionary Guards of Iran&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170292" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/northkorea.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="northkorea" width="36" /&gt;The Govt of North Korea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170293" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/chicom.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="chicom" width="36" /&gt;Communist Party of China&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-170297" height="36" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hezbollah.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="hezbollah" width="36" /&gt;Hezbollah&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-2628384693660955549?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/2628384693660955549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=2628384693660955549' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2628384693660955549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/2628384693660955549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/list-of-anti-american-supporters-for.html' title='List of  anti american supporters for Occupy movement'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-3872642573417940911</id><published>2011-11-03T17:29:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T17:30:13.680-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaccinations'/><title type='text'>CDC concedes vaccines cause autism!</title><content type='html'>Really? Is this really a surprise? They created an FDA and USDA to supposedly protect our food, government schools to properly control our children, 502c3 to control the church, FCC to protect our airwaves, EPA to protect our environment and so on and it wouldn't be rocket science to believe that in every instance they have failed miserably in the protection they say was the reason for thier establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore this helps to clarify&amp;nbsp; that the creation of government entities if not to protect the people is to control them! Now its out, the heavily mandated vaccines and abuse of big pharma&amp;nbsp;are used to control the population either through dumbing them down or to "soft kill" them and force them to submit unto the government that we have now authoroized unknowingly to be the giver and taker of our rights!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAKE UP AMERICA, YOUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT HERE TO HELP YOU, THEY ARE HERE TO CONTROL YOU!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Here is another great news item that you won't find in your local papers or news stations, but none the less is very, very important.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;We have always known and felt vaccines would do more harm than good for our children and that's why we don't participate in them. This is a very touchy subject for some families, all I can say is to&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;do your due diligence and pray what is right for you and your family.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. U.S. Government Concedes Vaccines Cause Autism&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The U.S. Department of Health and &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="MIVA_LINK_1_0_1" name="MIVA_LINK_1_0_1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;amp;t=2637" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_1_0_1;"&gt;Human Services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_1_0_1;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_1_0_1;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Food and &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="MIVA_LINK_2_0_0" name="MIVA_LINK_2_0_0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;amp;t=2637" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_2_0_0;"&gt;Drug&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_2_0_0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_2_0_0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recently conceded the first vaccine-autism case. This case was filed in the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as part of the Autism Omnibus proceedings in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was one of the first three cases chosen that alleged Thimerosal in childhood vaccines significantly contributed to a child developing autism. Clifford Shoemaker, of Shoemaker and Associates of Vienna, Virginia, is the&lt;br /&gt;attorney of record in the Hanna Poling v. Secretary of HHS (case: 02-1466V). Experts filing on behalf of the petitioner, Hanna Poling, included pediatric neurologist, Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of Johns Hopkins University, and Maryland geneticist and epidemiologist, Dr. Mark Geier of the Genetic Centers of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This concession shows the dishonesty of the continual media spin coming from public health officials and others who maintain there is no evidence that Thimerosal, or any other part of any vaccine, has ever caused autism or, for that matter, has harmed anyone in any way. The facts are that the Vaccine Compensation Act has already compensated over 2,000 individuals who proved that they were harmed by vaccines, resulting in&lt;br /&gt;settlements of nearly two billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additionally, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific/medical articles from some the world's best universities have long implicated Thimerosal in vaccines as a causal factor in neurodevelopmental disorders including&lt;br /&gt;autism. Furthermore, in 2003, the U.S. House of Representatives' Government Reform Committee, after a 3.5-year investigation, concluded that Thimerosal caused the autism epidemic and that the FDA and health authorities were guilty of "institutional malfeasance" in covering it up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evidence supporting the connection between mercury and autism include:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;1. Published studies from the US and France showing that urinary&lt;br /&gt;porphyrins, a biomarker for body-burden of mercury, are elevated in patients&lt;br /&gt;diagnosed with autistic disorders (&lt;a href="http://www.mercury-/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.mercury-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; freedrugs. org).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. A published study by researchers at Harvard University that found&lt;br /&gt;twice as much mercury and &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="MIVA_LINK_3_0_3" name="MIVA_LINK_3_0_3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;amp;t=2637" target="_self"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_3_0_3;"&gt;oxidative stress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_3_0_3;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bookmark: MIVA_LINK_3_0_3;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in the brains of those with an&lt;br /&gt;autism diagnosis as found in the brains of those who were normal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. A study from the US showing a significant relationship between&lt;br /&gt;increasing blood mercury levels and an increased risk of a diagnosis of an&lt;br /&gt;autistic disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Numerous papers by independent researchers showing a link between&lt;br /&gt;increasing mercury exposure from childhood vaccines and the risk of a child&lt;br /&gt;developing an autistic disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Several papers showing that adding low levels of Thimerosal to&lt;br /&gt;certain blood, brain, eye, immune, liver and/or muscle cells poisons their&lt;br /&gt;cellular mitochondrial pathways and can induce cell death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, despite being banned in Europe and restricted in 7 U.S. states, Thimerosal-containi ng flu vaccines are still recommended for routine administration to pregnant women and infants, with little or no warning of&lt;br /&gt;the presence of this known poison in these and other vaccines. Vaccines have and will continue to save many lives. However, an immediate ban and recall of vaccines and other drugs containing mercury compounds used&lt;br /&gt;in their production must be instituted immediately to stop the epidemic of developmental disorders, including autism, caused by the unsound use of mercury in medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information, please visit CoMeD's website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercury-/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.mercury-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;freedrugs.org&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, here is another great site for more information from an expert on vaccinations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor Sherri Tenpenny's videos which shows many truths about vaccines that he's been hidden from. Here is a website with more info on Sherri Tenpenny:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nmaseminars.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.nmaseminars.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034038_vaccines_autism.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.naturalnews.com/034038_vaccines_autism.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exposed: CDC deliberately manipulated, covered up scientific data showing link between vaccines containing mercury and autism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(NaturalNews) Deniers of the link between mercury-laden vaccines and autism are going to have a hard time denying the latest findings by the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD). The nonprofit group has obtained critical documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that exposes the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) role in deliberately lying about and manipulating a key Danish study that showed a clear link between vaccines containing mercury and autism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2003, the journal Pediatrics published a study conducted in Denmark that observed a significant decline in autism rates following the country's elimination of Thimerosal, a mercury-based component, from vaccines. But thanks to the CDC's corrupting influence, the published version of the study in Pediatrics actually claimed the opposite, and alleged that removal of Thimerosal brought about an increase in autism rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the documents, CDC officials removed large amounts of data from the study that showed a decline in autism rates following the removal of Thimerosal. The agency then twisted the remaining data to imply an increase in autism rates following the removal of Thimerosal, and suggested that there was no link between Thimerosal and autism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon submission of the CDC's tainted version of the study to Pediatrics, the study's authors contacted CDC officials to let them know that the agency had incorrectly interpreted the data. They tried to tell the CDC that its figures and conclusions were wrong, and that corrections needed to be made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CDC allegedly responded by saying that it would take a look at the incorrect data, but proceeded to submit the corrupted version of the study to Pediatrics anyway. After encouraging the editors of Pediatrics to perform an expedited review of the corrupted study, the CDC ended up convincing the journal to publish the fraudulent study, which it did in 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that this critical information has been officially released for the world to see, CoMeD is pressing the CDC to conduct a full criminal investigation into the matter, and make a formal declaration about whether or not scientific fraud was involved. CoMeD is also calling for a full, immediate retraction of the corrupted study from Pediatrics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This should not be tolerated by those who are entrusted with our children's health and well-being," says Lisa Sykes, President of CoMeD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034038_vaccines_autism.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.naturalnews.com/034038_vaccines_autism.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To learn more, visit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mercury-freedrugs.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://mercury-freedrugs.org/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources for this article include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anh-usa.org/cdc-mercury-.."&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.anh-usa.org/cdc-mercury-..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /&gt; &lt;br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-3872642573417940911?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/3872642573417940911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=3872642573417940911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/3872642573417940911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/3872642573417940911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/cdc-concedes-vaccines-cause-autism.html' title='CDC concedes vaccines cause autism!'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-5559504764130012880</id><published>2011-11-02T20:56:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T21:16:32.253-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='constitution'/><title type='text'>101 questions on the Constitution. Is your candidate worthy?</title><content type='html'>As I set out on my mission with my video camera and&amp;nbsp;ask &amp;nbsp;questions to local government entities to hold them accountable as well as attempt another run for the Idaho state legislature with the hope that people still desire freedom and liberty and to honor the sacrifices of those that gave their lives for our freedom, I decided to write a questionnaire so that people that are fed up but aren't sure what to do will have some direction on how to keep their government officials accountable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In previous posts I have written my own more basic questionnaire to ask the core questions basically asking&amp;nbsp; "what the heck arew the rules are we playing by these days if it isnt the constitution, or is it and if it is, which interpretation is it and if it isnt known, is it a derelection of their duty and are they guilty of the same thing they try to hang on "we the people" when they say, "Ignorance is no excuse of the law?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who then is more guilty of a crime, me for not knowing the entire law library or the government agency that doesnt even remember his oath?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in an attempt to bring back government accountability, here is&amp;nbsp;a more comprehensive&amp;nbsp;questionnaire provided by&amp;nbsp;the National center for&amp;nbsp;constitutional studies at &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://nccs.net/"&gt;http://nccs.net&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that would probaly be better used to educate yourself unless you think you can retain an elected official long enough to have them answer all of the questions. Here is the list:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Identifying Constitutional Candidates&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;"But how can you tell when a candidate for political office is really a Constitutionalist?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If the candidate is already in office he will have a voting record which will clearly show whether or not he is a Constitutionalist. Several organizations monitor the Congress and publish the results.However, if the candidate is a newcomer to politics you will have to test his knowledge of Constitutional principles by asking a few questions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What Kind of Questions Should Be Asked?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;We are listing a few of the many questions which might be addressed to a candidate in order to determine whether or not he stands for those basic principles advocated by the Founding Fathers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;As we go through these questions you will note that nearly all of them can be easily answered by anyone who has attended the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;"Making of America"&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt; seminars on the Constitution. In the text for this course the answers to all of these questions are explained and documented. If your candidate does not know the answers, invite him to take a Constitutional seminar at the earliest possible date. The eight hours required for this study (thirteen on audio or video tape) may turn out to be the best investment in political orientation he could find. No American should run for public office until he has studied the Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Questions on General Principles&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;1. Under the Constitution, &lt;u&gt;who has the sovereign authority&lt;/u&gt; to govern?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The founders said &lt;u&gt;it is in the people&lt;/u&gt; "by God's own allowance." No branch or agency of the government should be allowed to operate in violation of the expressed will of the people. Their collective will is set forth in the Constitution and the laws passed by the people's representatives.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;2. In what way are "all men created equal?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;All humanity are &lt;u&gt;equal in three ways&lt;/u&gt;: 1. equal &lt;u&gt;before God&lt;/u&gt;, 2. equal &lt;u&gt;before the law&lt;/u&gt;, 3. equal &lt;u&gt;in their rights&lt;/u&gt;. In all other respects people are different.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;3. What is an inalienable right?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;An inalienable right is one which comes as an "endowment from the Creator" and cannot be violated without coming under the judgment of God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;4. Which inalienable rights were listed in the Declaration of Independence?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Declaration of Independence lists the right to&lt;u&gt; life&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;liberty&lt;/u&gt; and the &lt;u&gt;pursuit of happiness.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;5. What did the Founders mean by the "pursuit of happiness?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This is a collective phrase designed to cover all of the other inalienable rights.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;6. Give an example of an inalienable right which is essential to the pursuit of happiness.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders believed, for example, that human happiness requires that each of us enjoy the &lt;u&gt;right to acquire, develop and dispose of property. &lt;/u&gt;They believed that without the protection of property rights, all other rights are placed in serious jeopardy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;7. What are some of the other inalienable rights?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The inalienable rights of mankind include such things as the &lt;u&gt;right of self government&lt;/u&gt;; the right of human beings to &lt;u&gt;beget their own kind&lt;/u&gt;; the &lt;u&gt;right of parents to rear their children free from outside interference&lt;/u&gt; (unless there is criminal abuse or neglect); the &lt;u&gt;right to freedom of belief&lt;/u&gt;; the &lt;u&gt;right to freedom of speech&lt;/u&gt;; &lt;u&gt;the right to assemble&lt;/u&gt;; &lt;u&gt;the right to petition&lt;/u&gt;; &lt;u&gt;the right to change residence or one's job, etc.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;8. What is the purpose of government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders said the basic reason for creating a government is &lt;u&gt;to protect the inalienable rights of the people&lt;/u&gt;. The government is to provide "liberty under law," which means that &lt;u&gt;no law should be passed unless it is specifically designed to protect the freedom, liberty. and well-being of the people.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The American Structure of Government&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;9. What is a democracy?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A democracy is a government wherein decisions are made by the masses of the people rather than by elected representatives.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;10. What is a republic?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A republic is a system in which the laws are passed and decisions made by the elected representatives of the people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;11. Why did Jefferson call the American system a democratic-republic?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Because the system allows the masses of &lt;u&gt;qualified voters to participate in the election of their officials (democracy)&lt;/u&gt; and then the people's &lt;u&gt;elected representatives enact the laws and administer the affairs of the people under majority rule but with the equal protection of individual rights (a republic).&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;12. Is it a mistake, therefore, to call the United States a democracy?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. The only part of the American system which is borrowed from "&lt;u&gt;democracy" is the popular election of government officials&lt;/u&gt;. Except for this, the Founders strongly emphasized the republican aspects of the American system. A republic places the responsibility for sound government and decision-making on the people's elected representatives rather than allowing the fluctuating and superficial emotions of the people to override law and order or the rights of minorities. The classical example of government functioning on republican principles and prevailing over "pure democracy" would be the case of a sheriff protecting a prisoner against a lynch mob.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Task of Controlling Power&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;13. Why is separation of power safer than concentration of power?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Government is "force" which Washington compared to "fire" and said government is a "dangerous servant" and a "fearful master." &lt;u&gt;Power should be dispersed among the people where they can keep it under control.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;14. How should the powers of government be separated?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;First of all, the Founders wanted &lt;u&gt;political power separated vertically&lt;/u&gt;. They considered the principal &lt;u&gt;power base of society to be the&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt; family&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. However, there are a few things which a community of families can provide better than a single family (police, fire, water, utilities, etc.). Power to perform these functions is therefore delegated to the&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt; community&lt;/b&gt;. Then there are a few things which groups of communities can do better than the single community. These tasks are assigned to the higher level of the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;county&lt;/b&gt;. There are also a few things that a group of counties can do better than a single county and these are assigned to the&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt; state&lt;/b&gt; level. The Founders also discovered that there were &lt;u&gt;certain matters dealing with foreign affairs, problems of war and peace, imports, etc. &lt;/u&gt;which need to be handled in behalf of &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;all the states&lt;/b&gt;. These responsibilities are therefore assigned to the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Federal Government&lt;/b&gt;. It should be noted that the Founders' pyramid of power provided that the&lt;u&gt; greatest number of responsibilities should rest with the family&lt;/u&gt;. Only a few responsibilities were assigned to the levels of government above the family and the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Federal Government was to have the least of all.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;15. What remedies did the Founders provide if government officials violated the channel of power assigned to them?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Administrative pressures from other departments are provided and if his offenses are serious he can be &lt;u&gt;impeached for treason, bribery, high crimes or misdemeanors.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;16. Why did the Founders want the powers of government to flow from the bottom up rather than the top down?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Jefferson stated that a &lt;u&gt;political unit governs best which governs least&lt;/u&gt;. In other words, the services which the people need from government are relatively simple and when circumstances are normal t&lt;u&gt;he people like to conduct their affairs with as little interference from the government as possible&lt;/u&gt;. Consequently, in the Founders' original plan for a happy and prosperous society, &lt;u&gt;the functions of government were designed to be relatively simple and remarkably cheap.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;17. Then why do we have such a complicated and expensive government today?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The professional politicians learned that in a war, depression, or a serious crisis, &lt;u&gt;the people will endure higher taxes and a far greater concentration of authority on the higher levels of government&lt;/u&gt;. Certain &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;politicians therefore set out to exploit every emergency as an excuse for the acquiring of more power.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; During most of the twentieth century ambitious politicians trumpeted the message that the government can solve practically all problems better than the people. Today, as a result, Americans are being literally "programmed" to death--and taxes have skyrocketed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Separating Power Horizontally&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;18. How did the Founders separate power horizontally?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;There are&lt;u&gt; three functions of government at each level of society&lt;/u&gt;. One function is to &lt;u&gt;make the law&lt;/u&gt;, another is to &lt;u&gt;administer the law&lt;/u&gt; and a third is to &lt;u&gt;interpret the law&lt;/u&gt;. These are all on the same horizontal level and are referred to as the legislative, executive, and judicial functions of government. The Founders wanted these three functions to be separated into equal, independent departments. At the same time, &lt;u&gt;they wanted to coordinate these functions so that one department could not function without the other two&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;Each department was therefore assigned to serve as a check on the others&lt;/u&gt;. The idea of the Founders was to have these functions of government &lt;u&gt;"coordinated but never consolidated." &lt;/u&gt;This was one of the most ingenious devices contributed by the Founders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;19. What happens if the separation of powers breaks down either vertically or horizontally?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders warned that&lt;u&gt; if the vertical separation of power should ever break down so that all power began to be concentrated in Washington, there would be a severely arrogant abuse of the people by government officials&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;They also said that if the legislative executive and judicial departments failed to act as a check on each other, there would be tyranny and the people would lose their freedom&lt;/u&gt;. For more than one full generation this is what has been happening.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Americans Experiment with Another System&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;20. Is the consolidation of government functions the trend today?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. Consolidation of power is gravitating toward Washington at a pace which would have greatly alarmed the Founders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;1. What has caused this?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Beginning around 1900 certain wealthy i&lt;u&gt;nfluential groups lost confidence in the original American system and began propagandizing the people into believing that a "redistribution of the wealth" by the government would greatly improve the American life style&lt;/u&gt;. This theory of economics with its concentration of &lt;u&gt;political power at the center of government is usually referred to as socialism.&lt;/u&gt; Samuel Adams vigorously warned against these principles. He said &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;socialism violates equal protection of rights and completely destroys the concept of limited government.&lt;/b&gt; In fact, he said&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt; the Founders had done everything possible to make these collectivist policies "unconstitutional."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;22. What has been the result?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;These policies launched the United States on a wild and dizzy trajectory which has resulted in &lt;u&gt;run-away inflation&lt;/u&gt;; a &lt;u&gt;huge burden of national debt&lt;/u&gt;; taxes which are devouring nearly half of the peoples' earning power; a &lt;u&gt;serious invasion of individual rights&lt;/u&gt;; and a &lt;u&gt;virtual collapse of states rights.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;23. Has socialism or "collectivism" worked anywhere in the world?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Unfortunately, &lt;u&gt;it has not.&lt;/u&gt; In fact, the militant forms of socialism such as communism, nazism, and fascism have caused more wars and shed the blood of more human beings than any system of government in the history of the world. Even the so-called "peaceful" forms of socialism such as Democratic Socialism and Fabian Socialism, have proven counter-productive and have continuously crept along the razor's edge of perpetual bankruptcy. &lt;u&gt;Americans have sent over hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid trying to help the socialist nations survive. Now we are bordering on bankruptcy ourselves.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;24. How did the Founders structure the American system so that socialism would be unconstitutional?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;They did it by setting up a &lt;u&gt;"limited" form of government&lt;/u&gt; with &lt;u&gt;carefully enumerated powers&lt;/u&gt;. Jefferson called these limitations on government the "&lt;u&gt;chains" of the Constitution.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;American Leaders Began to Abandon the Founders' Success Formula&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;25. Does this mean Theodore Roosevelt was In error when he said the President could do anything except that which the Constitution forbids?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes, &lt;u&gt;he was turning the Constitution upside down&lt;/u&gt;. The President and all other officials of the government are only allowed to do that &lt;u&gt;which is expressly authorized&lt;/u&gt;. The Founders referred to &lt;u&gt;any exercise of power outside of these Constitutional chains as "usurpation."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;26. Was President Woodrow Wilson also in error when he said the United States should become involved in the political and economic affairs of the world?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes&lt;u&gt;. The Founders had continually warned against foreign, entangling alliances&lt;/u&gt;. The Founders believed the United States should try &lt;u&gt;to be friendly with all nations, but beholden to none&lt;/u&gt;. They knew that political interdependence leads to the development of power blocs, and power blocs ultimately lead to war.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;27. Was Franklin D. Roosevelt in error when he structured the New Deal?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. The New Deal was &lt;u&gt;structured on collectivist principles&lt;/u&gt; designed by such men as Harry Hopkins who &lt;u&gt;saw socialism as a tremendous vehicle to acquire power over the people&lt;/u&gt; and their resources. His famous formula was "tax, tax -- spend, spend -- elect, elect!"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;28. Was Lyndon Johnson in error when he said, "We will take from the haves and give to the have nots!"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders would certainly have called it an error. &lt;u&gt;There is absolutely no Constitutional authority for the government to engage in any such invasion of private property rights.&lt;/u&gt; Throughout history it has always been popular for governments to pretend they are going to "soak the rich," but such programs have always ended up with &lt;u&gt;government officials using this newly acquired power to violate the inalienable rights of both rich and poor.&lt;/u&gt; It is a political trick to build bigger government with bigger debts and bigger taxes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;29. Was President Nixon in error when he continually tried to involve the United States in a "New World Order"?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. &lt;u&gt;It is extremely dangerous for Americans to enter into foreign engagements where decisions for Americans are made by non-Americans.&lt;/u&gt; The Founders believed that we should coordinate but &lt;u&gt;never consolidate our free and independent society with foreign nations.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;30. Was President Carter in error when he began meddling in domestic affairs of foreign nations?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. &lt;u&gt;The Monroe Doctrine specifically promised that the United States would never undertake to meddle in the domestic affairs of other countries&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;Any president or secretary of state who has followed a policy of "interventionism," has operated outside of his Constitutional authority.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Presidential Violations of the Constitution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;31. What about executive orders which are treated as laws after being published in the Federal Register?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In the eyes of the Founders &lt;u&gt;these would be considered unconstitutional.&lt;/u&gt; The President can issue &lt;u&gt;executive orders to the administrative branches of government under his supervision&lt;/u&gt; but he &lt;u&gt;has no authority whatever to make "laws" for the people since the Constitution assigns that authority exclusively to the Congress. &lt;/u&gt;An act of Congress could stop this whole illegal procedure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;32. What about executive agreements between the President and heads of foreign governments?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This procedure is also&lt;u&gt; unconstitutional&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;The Founders provided that all agreements with foreign nations must have the advice and consent of the Senate&lt;/u&gt;. Since American Presidents began holding summit conferences with the heads of foreign governments, they have been entering into secret engagements which very often never see the light of day let alone receive the advice and consent of the Senate. Each year there are many more executive agreements signed by the President than there are treaties ratified by the Senate.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Judicial Violations of the Constitution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;33. What about new laws laid down by the Supreme Court?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This is called "&lt;u&gt;judicial legislation."&lt;/u&gt; This occurs &lt;u&gt;when the Supreme Court creates a new law by pretending to interpret an old one&lt;/u&gt;. In the Federalist Papers the Founders specifically warned against this type of arrogance by the Supreme Court.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;34. How is the Supreme Court supposed to interpret the Constitution?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders made it very clear that &lt;u&gt;the Supreme Court would be violating its assignment if it substituted &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;its own opinions&lt;/b&gt; for that of the Founders&lt;/u&gt;. Until recently it has always been an established principle that &lt;u&gt;the Constitution must be interpreted the way the Founders intended&lt;/u&gt; it and not according to the whims or caprice of modern justices.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;35. Is there any way to curb the Supreme Court from exercising its power in an unconstitutional manner?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes&lt;u&gt;. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;A Judicial Reform Amendment &lt;/b&gt;would allow any Supreme Court decision to be overturned by two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate&lt;/u&gt;. A decision could also be overturned by concurring resolutions from three-fourths of the State Legislatures. Had this procedure been available the states would have undoubtedly outlawed forced busing of school children at least twenty years ago.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Unconstitutional Edicts of Regulatory Agencies&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;36. Is it Constitutional for an agency of the Federal Government to write rules and regulations which are enforced in the courts as "laws?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No&lt;/b&gt;. This is a recent development in governmental procedures. &lt;u&gt;It is called "administrative law."&lt;/u&gt; The Founders provided &lt;u&gt;no power in any agency of government to make laws except the Congress.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Blurring the Founders' Division of Labor Between the States and the Federal Government&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;37. How did the Founders intend to divide the problem-solving powers between the States and the Federal Government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;James Madison spelled it out in the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Federalist Papers, No. 45&lt;/b&gt;. He wrote: "&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined.... &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and the properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;38. How did the Founders know whether to assign a problem to the State or Federal Governments?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;If a problem &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;involved foreign relations&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt; (war, peace, treaties, etc.) or matters which could not be handled by any one of the states (regulating interstate commerce, crimes on the high seas, navigable waters, naturalization, etc.)&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;it went to the Federal Government&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;. All other powers were retained by the States.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;39. How many areas of power were ultimately assigned to the Federal Government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Constitution gives the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Federal Government twenty powers&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;u&gt;These are set forth in Article I, Section 8.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;40. What if the Federal Government thinks it needs more power?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The government &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;cannot legally exercise any powers except those which are specifically granted to it by the Constitution.&lt;/b&gt; The only way Washington can get any additional legitimate power is by an amendment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;41. Where does it say that the Federal Government is specifically restricted from exercising any power not granted to it by the States?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Tenth Amendment&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;42. Then how did the government get so much power?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The dominating arrogance of the Federal Government today &lt;u&gt;came about primarily through &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;three channels&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;1. outright usurpation of power,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;2. an edict by the Supreme Court in the Butler Case in 1936 reversing the original meaning in the Welfare Clause, and&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;3. distorting the Commerce Clause as the means of shattering the restrictive chains of the Constitution and expanding federal jurisdiction into hundreds of areas never intended by the Founders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Subverting Two Important Constitutional Clauses&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;43. What was the Butler Case?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In this decision, Justice Roberts included &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;in his opinion&lt;/b&gt; a dictum that the Congress would no longer be restricted in its taxing and spending powers so long as it was in the&lt;u&gt; "general welfare" &lt;/u&gt;of the nation. This immediately &lt;u&gt;opened the U.S. Treasury to looting for all kinds of give-away programs &lt;/u&gt;which politicians began using to buy votes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;44. In what way has the Commerce Clause been distorted to give the Federal Government unconstitutional powers?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;This clause was simply designed to give the Federal Government sufficient power to insure the "free flow" of commerce&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;so that the States would not interfere with inter-state shipments as they had done in the past&lt;/u&gt;. Since 1936 the original intent of the Founders has been expanded to include Federal control over practically everything which affects inter-state commerce either directly or indirectly. &lt;u&gt;This usurpation of authority by Congress &lt;/u&gt;(which has been upheld by the Supreme Court), has shattered some of the most important restrictions on Federal intervention in the business and commercial life of the nation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Some Practical Questions&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;45. Doesn't the more complex nature of modern society require a far more extensive control of the economy by the Federal Government?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;No. The more complex society becomes the more it needs the automatic problem-solving devices of a free-market economy operating with the least possible interference from government.&lt;/u&gt; As Adam Smith pointed out, government interference only adds to the complexity of the system and results in a serious deterioration of individual freedom.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;46. What is a modern example of the Founders' original success formula solving some of the highly complex problems of a modern society?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;No nation could have had a much more complex situation than West Germany right after World War II.&lt;/u&gt; Every major city in Germany was bomb-gutted and the people were surviving in basements and make-shift hovels. &lt;u&gt;Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany took over in 1949 and immediately initiated the basic economic principles advocated by the Founding Fathers&lt;/u&gt;. By using freedom instead of heavy-handed government regulations, &lt;u&gt;West Germany achieved the highest standard of living in Western Europe within eight years. &lt;/u&gt;The West Germans were not only fully employed but importing foreign labor besides. Clothing, food and housing were abundant and cheap. West Germany became so prosperous she was the envy of socialized Sweden. It will be recalled that Sweden wasn't even in the war and had boasted of the superiority of her socialist controls. However, in Sweden a young married. couple has to wait ten years to get a one-room apartment because of the government monopoly over housing. It was obvious West Germany had chosen a better way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Questions About Money and the Budget&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;47. What happened to the Federal budget after the "Butler" case?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;In 1936 (the year of the Butler case) the Federal budget was around six billion dollars&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;By 1996, the looting of the American taxpayer had pushed the Federal budget to more than 1.6 trillion dollars!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;48. Is it Constitutional for the government to spend more money that it takes in?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes. The Constitution allows the government to borrow in emergencies&lt;/b&gt;. Unfortunately, during the last 50 years Congress has continually found excuses to borrow whether there was an emergency or not. The only way to stop this is to replace the big spenders in Congress with constitutionalists who recognize that we are presently on a disaster course.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The National Debt&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;49. How much is the national debt today?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The U.S. National Debt is nearly &lt;u&gt;five trillion dollars&lt;/u&gt; requiring interest payments which cost more each year than the entire cost of all wars we have ever fought. Future liabilities to which the government is already committed will require taxation of an additional six to eleven trillion.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;50. How does the U.S. debt compare with the debts of other nations?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The United States now owes more than all of the rest of the nations of the world combined.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;51. Why would the Founders have considered this gigantic indebtedness immoral?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders said that &lt;u&gt;no generation should go so deeply in debt that it becomes guilty of squandering the next generation's inheritance&lt;/u&gt;. They said &lt;u&gt;such extravagance is immoral.&lt;/u&gt; All past generations tried to pay off all the debts accrued during their time. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ours is the first generation which has deliberately squandered the inheritance of its children.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What About Welfare?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;52. But hasn't much of our money been spent for welfare and other important social programs?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This was the &lt;u&gt;main excuse for sky-rocketing taxation and deficit spending&lt;/u&gt;. Tragically, however, the &lt;u&gt;money has been squandered primarily to build a vast bureaucracy&lt;/u&gt;. It is amazing how many of the government's multibillion dollar social programs have provided only a pittance to trickle down to the poor, the sick and the elderly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;53. But didn't the government have to try to do something to help those in need?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Founders specifically warned against this type of political deception&lt;/u&gt; where the compassion of the &lt;u&gt;people is exploited to build big government and raise taxes.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;They said that all types of charity and welfare should be handled on the local level where abuses could be quickly detected and corrected.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;54. But what if the states do not provide needed services?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The existence of a need on a state level does not create a power on the federal level&lt;/u&gt;. When a state fails to fulfill its obligation the pressure should be exerted on the State, not the federal government. &lt;u&gt;Jefferson said there is no way to preserve freedom if all political power gravitates to Washington.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The National Debt and Foreign Aid&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;55. In view of America's tremendous national debt, why do we continue giving foreign aid to over a 125 countries?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;This whole procedure violates the Constitution and common sense&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. What started out as part of the defense program in the interest of the United States has turned into an &lt;u&gt;international Santa Claus give-away program,&lt;/u&gt; similar to the extravagant give-away programs at home. Tens of billions given away each year automatically add to the national debt.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Social Security&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;56. Is Social Security an insurance plan or a welfare plan?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Supreme Court has held that it is a welfare plan.&lt;/u&gt; This means that it can be terminated at anytime. It also means &lt;u&gt;the government can distribute its proceeds arbitrarily.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The contributor to social security payments acquires no rights and receives only what the government condescends to distribute to him as "payments" if he qualifies under the government's arbitrary poverty level.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;57. Is there a better way?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. It is called an &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;annuity program.&lt;/b&gt; If the &lt;u&gt;money contributed by an employee&lt;/u&gt; (and his employer) between 25 and 65 &lt;u&gt;were invested in American industries under an annuity plan,&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;the fund could be built to a quarter of a million dollars by the time he retires. An annuity fund of this kind would permit an employee to retire at $1,200 to $1,500 per month. &lt;/u&gt;Furthermore, the money is his. He does not have to be poor to get it. If he dies it goes to his widow and children. He earned it. He owns it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;58. Is the Federal Income Tax Constitutional?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. The Sixteenth Amendment was adopted according to the requirements of the constitution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;59. Is this the type of tax which the Founding Fathers would have employed?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;No. They provided that direct taxes be apportioned to the states according to population, not according to the incomes of the people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;60. Has income tax been administered uniformly?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No. A graduated income tax violates the equal protection of rights&lt;/b&gt;. It violates the principle of uniformity required by the Constitution and makes the property of accumulated wealth less sacred than those who have less.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;61. Is it possible to administer the Income Tax fairly?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; This could only be done by setting up a universal monitoring system similar to a "police state." &lt;u&gt;This would violate all of the basic rights guaranteed in the Fourth Amendment.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;62. Would it ever be possible to repeal the Federal Income Tax?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Yes. By phasing out governmental activities which are clearly outside the Constitution,&lt;/u&gt; the cost of government would be greatly reduced and the income tax could be safely eliminated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;63. Would the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment interfere with defense and other legitimate Federal responsibilities?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;No.Tariffs and other sources of Federal revenue would more than adequately provide for the legitimate expenses of the Federal Government if its unconstitutional expenses were phased out. Who knows, there might even be a surplus!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;64. Is a national sales tax constitutional?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the federal government may assess a sales (excise) tax as long as it is uniform throughout the United States.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;65. What about the thousands of Federal-aid programs covering nearly every aspect of American life?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Federal grants are unconstitutional unless directly related to some power specifically delegated to the Federal Government.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;A strict interpretation of the Constitution would probably wipe out at least 95% of the Federal-aid programs presently plaguing the nation.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Federal Regulatory Agencies&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;66. What about EPA?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Environmental Protection Act involves problems which the Founders &lt;u&gt;delegated exclusively to the States &lt;/u&gt;where local supervision could prevent abuses and deal with over-regulation more readily. &lt;u&gt;Today, federal control over air, water, and land environment is strangling the economy and suppressing the development of energy and natural resources.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;67. What about OSHA?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Occupational safety and health are important responsibilities but &lt;u&gt;they should never have been delegated to the Federal level. The Founders knew that government is too big, and the legal machinery too expensive for most citizens to handle.&lt;/u&gt; They therefore endure the disruptive and oppressive edicts of this agency because it has been too big for the average citizen to fight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;68. What about the Federal Communications Commission?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;This agency &lt;u&gt;was designed to "police" the traffic on the air waves&lt;/u&gt; but the FCC has used its licensing power to control the editorial content of programs. &lt;u&gt;This is in direct violation of the First Amendment.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;69. What about the Pure Food and Drug Administration?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;There is &lt;u&gt;no authority&lt;/u&gt; for this agency under the Constitution. If it is in the national interest to have such an agency it &lt;u&gt;should have been authorized by an amendment&lt;/u&gt;. There is already a wide-spread criticism of &lt;u&gt;the arbitrary manner in which this agency has exercised its broad spectrum of power&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;70. What about Consumer Protection?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Here again we have an exercise of power unauthorized by the Constitution. Do we really want that much power allocated to the federal level where the agency is so big and powerful that not even the largest corporations are able to cope with its abuses?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What About the Government Setting Up &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Business Operations?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;71. Is there any authority in the Constitution for the government to set up tax-exempt corporations or business operations to compete with tax-paying citizens?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The answer &lt;u&gt;is no, unless the corporation or business is directly connected with an area of Federal responsibility enumerated in the Constitution&lt;/u&gt;. For example, an independent government corporation to provide mail service would be constitutional. &lt;u&gt;However, a corporation set up to compete in the production of electricity, the manufacturing of clothes, or the operating of a chain of public restaurants, would not.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;72. How many corporations and businesses does the government operate at the present time which are unauthorized by the constitution?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Around 700 corporations and 11,000 businesses.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;73. Are all of these tax-exempt?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes.&lt;/b&gt; They are &lt;u&gt;not only tax-exempt but most of them are being subsidized out of tax funds because they are not being operated efficiently.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What Caused the "Sagebrush Rebellion?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;74. Shouldn't all of the states have been admitted to the Union on an equal basis?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. This was set forth by Congress in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;75. Which states were strong-armed into accepting statehood without being admitted on an equal footing?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;All of the Western States and Alaska.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;76. In what way were they forced to accept statehood unequally?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Large regions of these states were retained by the Federal Government for purposes not authorized by the Constitution in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;77. About how much of the land did the Federal Government usually withhold from these states?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The government retained around 50% of the land in most Western States, but 79% of Nevada and 96% of Alaska.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;78. Are any of these states attempting to get this land back?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Yes. &lt;u&gt;The press has labeled this effort the "Sagebrush Rebellion,"&lt;/u&gt; but it is not a rebellion. These states are simply &lt;u&gt;following the legal and Constitutional procedures necessary to have this land turned back to them.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What About Locking Up State Territory As Wilderness Areas?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;79. Does the Constitution authorize the President and the Secretary of the Interior to lock up large blocks of land within a state as a "wilderness reserve?"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No&lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;. This violates the express provisions of the Constitution&lt;/u&gt; but was upheld by the Supreme Court on extremely tenuous grounds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;80. Does the Constitution authorize the Federal Government to have a national forest within the confines of a state?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; This is not included in the list of territories which the federal government is allowed to occupy with the consent of the state. (See Article I, Section 8, Clause 17) The Supreme Court had to distort the Constitution to justify it. &lt;u&gt;Historically, the states have had fewer forest fires and have maintained the state forests on a higher level than the national forests.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;81. Does the Constitution authorize the Federal Government to have national parks within the confines of a State?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; For the same reasons as those cited above, the Supreme Court should have disallowed them. It has been observed &lt;u&gt;that as a rule state parks are better maintained and provide better facilities than those operated by the Federal Government.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;What About Federal Control of Energy Resources?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;82. Does the Constitution authorize the government to control, regulate, or inhibit the production of energy resources within a state?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;No.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Problems with Government Monopolies&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;83. What about the widely expanded activities of the Interstate Commerce Commission?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Founders never intended the "regulation of commerce" to include cartel monopolies, fixing prices, fixing routes, and regulating industries into bankruptcy.&lt;/u&gt; The recent deregulation of airlines dramatically demonstrated the advantage of free-market competition over a system of unconstitutional governmental regulations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;84. Does the Constitution authorize the Federal Government to set prices?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Not in time of peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;85. Does the Constitution authorize the Federal Government to set wages?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Not in time of peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The National Labor Relations Board&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;86. Does the Constitution authorize the Federal Government to enter into labor-management disputes in the private sector?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; This area of &lt;u&gt;federal usurpation&lt;/u&gt; occurred during the "New Deal" days by completely distorting the original intent of the Commerce Clause.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Department of HEW&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;87. Is there any Constitutional foundation for the extravagant and wasteful expenditures of the Department of &lt;u&gt;Health, Education and Welfare?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; Each of the agencies under HEW has developed since the Butler Case. The dictum in this case authorized &lt;u&gt;the general welfare clause to be interpreted in a manner which extended government intrusion into areas specifically excluded from federal jurisdiction by the Founders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;88. About how much of the federal budget Is spent each year on these unconstitutional activities?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Around 600 billion dollars in 1996 which is approximately 1/3 of the federal budget.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;89. Would it require an amendment to the Constitution to eliminate the Department of HEW?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; An act of Congress could dismantle this extremely costly department which has probably been more wasteful and nonproductive in its assigned area of activity than any other branch of the government.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Equal Rights Amendment&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;90. Why was the Equal Rights Amendment defeated by the states?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In the beginning nearly &lt;u&gt;everyone assumed that this amendment was designed to provide equal rights for women&lt;/u&gt;. This supposed objective was widely approved. It was only after 30 states had ratified this amendment &lt;u&gt;that it was realized that the simple wording of this amendment would actually destroy a broad spectrum of rights which American women already have, such as the common law right as well as the statutory right to be supported, along with their children, by their husbands. ERA would not only have destroyed this right but also eliminated many rights relating to employment, maternity leave, insurance and survival rights which are presently provided by law.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Morality and Government&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;91. Do you believe that people's morals will affect their ability to enjoy freedom and liberty under the constitution?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Benjamin Franklin said: " &lt;u&gt;Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom&lt;/u&gt;. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;John Adams was equally explicit: &lt;u&gt;"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people&lt;/u&gt;. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Samuel Adams added a final warning: "&lt;u&gt;Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Abortions&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;92. Does the Supreme Court have authority to hear cases involving moral issues such as abortion?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; The original Constitution allowed the federal courts to hear only eleven kinds of cases, clearly outlined in Article III.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;93. Is federal funding of abortion a violation of the Constitution?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes&lt;/b&gt;. The specific and limited authority granted to the Federal Government does not include any funding for abortions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Gold and Silver Standard&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;94. Was the United States taken off the gold and silver standard in violation of the Constitution?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes&lt;/b&gt;. The gold standard is written into the Constitution (Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) and was&lt;u&gt; removed by several acts of Congress&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;without an amendment to the Constitution&lt;/u&gt; between 1934 and 1964. From the Founding Fathers standpoint this whole procedure was illegal.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Federal Department of Education&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;95. Is it Constitutional for federal funds to be used in the financing of local schools?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; The Founding Fathers warned against the funding of schools by the Congress. In fact, education in the U.S. has seriously deteriorated since federal funding began. James Madison equated &lt;u&gt;the Federal funding of schools as extremely dangerous and said it was almost as bad as funding and controlling the churches of the nation.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;96. Should the members of state and educational associations be required by law to pay dues to the National Educational Association?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; The NEA is a private lobby with an annual budget of nearly $60 million dollars. It succeeded in getting the states to pass a law requiring the educators in state associations to pay dues to the NEA. These laws should be repealed&lt;u&gt;. Teachers find themselves compelled to pay dues to this private organization which often advocates policies that are inimical to the best interests of American education.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Taxes on Dividends&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;97. Should stockholders be required to pay income taxes on their dividends when the corporation has already been subject to a corporate tax?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; The stockholders are the owners of the company. They have already paid around 48% tax on the company's earnings. The residue should be distributed among the stockholders as funds on which the required tax has already been paid.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Control of Firearms&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;98. Should the Federal Government pass laws providing for the control of guns?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;No.&lt;/b&gt; The Founders left gun control under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state. They felt it was extremely dangerous to allow the federal government to "infringe" on the right to bear arms even in the slightest degree.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Modern Method of Electing Senators&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;99. Should the Seventeenth Amendment be repealed?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The Founders would undoubtedly say&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt; yes&lt;/b&gt;. They set up a&lt;u&gt; House of Representatives to represent the people&lt;/u&gt; and set up a &lt;u&gt;Senate to represent the individual states.&lt;/u&gt; Senators were originally &lt;u&gt;appointed by state legislatures &lt;/u&gt;and were &lt;u&gt;the watchdogs of states rights.&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;The Seventeenth Amendment took away the authority of the state legislatures to appoint senators&lt;/u&gt;. and &lt;u&gt;therefore required senatorial candidates to appeal to the people in a popular election. &lt;/u&gt;This resulted in &lt;u&gt;the senators frequently ignoring states rights in an effort to get more money for their states&lt;/u&gt; just as congressmen do. &lt;u&gt;States' rights have been seriously deteriorating since the Seventeenth Amendment was adopted in 1913&lt;/u&gt;. It destroyed an important element of balance which the Founders built into the Constitution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The BLM&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;100. Should the Bureau of Land Management be abolished?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes.&lt;/b&gt; This bureau has been &lt;u&gt;rapidly phasing out the traditional grazing rights of ranchers&lt;/u&gt; and &lt;u&gt;setting up impossible regulations on land &lt;/u&gt;which should have been turned over to the states when they were admitted into the Union.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Government Expenses&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;101. Can you find out how the government spends its money?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Yes.&lt;/b&gt; A complete breakdown of government spending is published each year by the Government Printing Office. This is required by the Constitution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-5559504764130012880?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/5559504764130012880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=5559504764130012880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5559504764130012880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/5559504764130012880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/101-questions-on-constitution-is-your.html' title='101 questions on the Constitution. Is your candidate worthy?'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-843530305319386422</id><published>2011-11-02T17:09:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T17:21:37.607-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='government accountablity'/><title type='text'>Letter to the editor- pre-election</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National  and local corruption, a result of ignorance and apathy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve been told I am aggressive, abrasive and I that I am the town or state rabble rouser and told I&lt;br /&gt;scare people. Some like me because they understand me, others dislike me&lt;br /&gt;because they don’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most commonly known today asthe guy that supposedly positioned Boise city councilman Shealy into spouting“constitutional BS” My mission today is to go anywhere and everywhere I can&lt;br /&gt;with my video camera to  hold our government accountable , to challenge&lt;br /&gt;their education on the constitution  and the oath they swore to uphold&lt;br /&gt;to preserve our freedoms and not to tyrannically dictate them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This oath is critical becauseit is an admission of understanding that the power is inherent in the people,not in the government, a power and authority they were never given. This is why&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to run for the Idaho state legislature in what appears today tobe the new district 9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have created a questionnaire that is available at &lt;a href="http://www.tommunds.com/"&gt;http://www.tommunds.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you find this list useful in the restoration of accountability in&lt;br /&gt;government and our constitutional republic that hangs by a thread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May we the people realize&lt;br /&gt;that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Did you or will you take an oath of office and do or will you remember&lt;br /&gt;what it was for and where it came from?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    Is swearing an oath important and why?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    Who will be responsible for holding you accountable if you negate this&lt;br /&gt;oath?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.    Where do you get your authority to act in the position you possess or&lt;br /&gt;desire to possess?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.    What form of government do we have in America?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.    What is our governing rule of law?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.    Is the constitution to be understood as the founders intended or is it a&lt;br /&gt;“living breathing document”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The complete list available in the previous post. for questions or comments, please do not hesitate contact me at &lt;a href="mailto:tom@tommunds.com"&gt;tom@tommunds.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6737025022558122668-843530305319386422?l=truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/feeds/843530305319386422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6737025022558122668&amp;postID=843530305319386422' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/843530305319386422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6737025022558122668/posts/default/843530305319386422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://truthofpoliticsandreligion.blogspot.com/2011/11/letter-to-editor-pre-election.html' title='Letter to the editor- pre-election'/><author><name>Hosea46</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14881521678941102962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6TAjOZ_gb9k/SUH4FIn9BWI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/qezps-Uef8o/S220/tom+with+hat.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6737025022558122668.post-7055688539458205074</id><published>2011-11-01T18:13:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T18:45:06.737-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Freedom of the press stops at " the press"</title><content type='html'>Today, my friend Lee was invited to to an interview with channel 6 as a follow up story to his apparent arrest fiasco at the Federal building in August as they had found out the charges against him were dropped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In preparation for this interview he had asked me to come along and video record it to help keep the story straight and prevent media spin as we all know they are known for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When they saw my camera equpment and realized our intentions they retracted the offer to be recorded but asked if he ever decided to do the interview with me recording it, they would be happy to do so, interestingly enough, they stated that anything I recorded would be property of the media station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was at this moment I felt the invitation to ask the interviewer if he knew the origin of media and its purpose
