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 The Tea Party Movement bubbled up in the United States of America as a result of the fear we felt that when we thought we had lost what we deemed most precious to us – our freedom and liberty.  Just nine months ago, many of us were concerned that we had waited too long to get involved in the body politic of the United States.  Nevertheless, some of us decided to stand by no more, regardless of how hopeless the task seemed to be as we saw the first few months of the Obama Administration unfold.  Be honest, we thought it was over, didn’t we? 

 But we went to work, when all seemed lost.  Now, let’s awaken today knowing that it is not lost.  We must double our efforts.  More importantly, we must expand the movement using our early success as a recruiting tool, showing our friends and neighbors that they too can make a difference.  That is the message today.

 I am convinced that if we hadn’t stood up when we did, we might have nowhere to stand.  McCain’s loss motivated us.  His loss was a seminal moment in our history, because his win would not have stopped the socialist movement, it just would have been slower, like under Bush, and more unrecognizable, hurting chances to enlist citizens for change.

 I am also convinced that God intervened to assist us.  The cooling climate is a major gift from God.  The cooling undercut greatly the leftist religion of environmentalism and global warming, no small matter in assisting us in exposing the media conspiracy behind it, a key component to our success.

 Finally, there is no doubt that we were presented with the gift of arrogance, hubris, and miscalculation by the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress who misread the country’s mood.  The socialists, for years working to keep under the radar, believed that they had won, and their excessive pride led them to “come out of the closet”.  More Americans than ever could see, easily, for themselves, without fear of being called a “conspiracy kook” exactly what the socialists, or statists, had been working for years to accomplish in the United States, a complete abrogation of the Constitution of the United States of America led by the Van Jones’, the Mao worshippers, the gay and lesbian promoters, and the ACORNistas. 

 So, I write this as a pep talk, a locker room speech, a recognition that our team has improved faster than anyone could have expected.  It is important to remind ourselves of our victories, so that we know we are not just whistling past the graveyard or tilting at windmills   We have won a game or two, a matter of fact that we never could have predicted just some months ago.  We have been heavy underdogs, but we are narrowing the odds.  We must use our victories to recruit more to our view, our view that we must bring back the Constitutional principles of the United States of America.  We can now show progress.  We must embolden ourselves.  We must reapply ourselves and double of efforts.  We can shape this country and take it back.  We know we can win if we apply ourselves and commit ourselves to reshaping America so our children and grandchildren will be able to experience the country we once knew. 

 Our biggest win, so far, is the fight against the religion of global warming or climate change or whatever they will call it next.  Let’s appreciate how far we have come and the battles we have won.  First, the Senate put off the bill.  Second, the Environmental and Energy Czar, Carole Browner, announced that no legislation would go forth this year.  Third, the President of the United States, willing to go to Europe to lobby for the Olympics, was not willing to go to Europe to lobby for an international climate change treaty.  Finally, the United Nations declared the December Copenhagen conference on climate change a bust – no treaty would result.    

 Second, look at the public opinion polls, they are reflecting a changing belief system in our electorate.  Big government is down.  Freedom and liberty are up.  Conservatism is up.  Liberalism is down. 

 Third, look at the collapse of the “statist” media.  Newspapers are collapsing.  Conservative television and radio is on the rise.  Americans are starting to find alternative sources for information. 

 Fourth, look at how political races and perceptions of political parties are changing.  In the special election in New York’s 23^rd Congressional District, the Conservative Party Candidate is leading a Republican and a Democrat.  We’ll see what the outcome is next week, but that is hopeful news.  The Republican Party hierarchy is being exposed as supporting moderate to liberal candidates, even in primaries.  The Florida and California Republican Party primary races for the U.S. Senate may lead to candidates winning who are running against the moderate to liberal D.C.-based Republican interests.  There is an awakening amongst many of us that it has been both parties have been leading us to the same place, more big government.  It has been both parties that are stealing our children’s future.  It has been both parties growing the Federal debt.  It has been both parties bailing out Wall Street.  It has been both parties that are moving us further away from the spiritual principles that underlie our Constitution.  Though there may be more than a “dime’s worth of difference” between the two parties, there is surely not a dollar’s worth.  “Throw them all out” is the rallying cry that we hear more and more.

 So, fear not.  Just keep working.  We need to organize better.  We need to recruit more to our ranks.  But, make no mistake, we are winning.  Let’s rededicate ourselves.  There is no matter more important to us, our children and their children than a fundamental change of direction in this country, back to the principles upon which we were founded.

Paul Porter

Paul Porter is the host of The Paul Porter Show on WFOY AM 1240 (3 – 5 pm) in St. Augustine, Florida, a show that hopes to Bring Back America One Day at a Time by educating the audience about the spiritual principles that underlie the US Constitution.

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What 1868 change to the US Constitution made much of the bill of rights applicable to state governments as well as the federal government?

The 14th Amendment "incorporated" the Bill of Rights to apply to the States. Before the 14th Amend., the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal gov’t.

The Democrat media machine, also known as the “Old Media” and no longer known as the “Mainstream Media”, have created the narrative of Racism in America, and that all opposition to President Obama is not principled based on substance, but instead is based on nothing more base and hateful than unprincipled racism.  That is the mantra that is being pounded daily, hourly, and minute-by-minute now that the Obama policies have fallen dramatically in their acceptance by the broad middle of America. 

Jimmy Carter chimed in last night, aided by the politically biased and corrupted General Electric subsidiary, the NBC news organization and the former Carter intern, Brian Williams of NBC News.  Remember, Jimmy Carter was the first former President to speak out against the foreign policy of a successor President in an overseas venue.  What made that violation of established US protocol for former presidents was that his criticism overseas was specifically directed at a US President who was administering not one, but two, wars.  Such an egregious failure to uphold time-tested tradition concerning past presidents, in general, and criticizing the US in time of war overseas, earned Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize, a prize he coveted, like his neighbor’s wife, and one that had eluded him for any substantive performance in his own right.  As a former White House consultant during the early months of the Carter Presidency, one who saw Carter’s character flaws early and then exited, I commented that former President Carter had reached a new low in what has always been his major flaw, a general lack of class and an all-powerful personal ambition that overrode whatever spiritual principles he says he lives by, though his spirituality is not obvious to even the most casual observer and, to the more interested observer, like myself, it never has existed.  I can attest to that based on my experience with him on a softball field in Plains, Georgia in 1975  — he has no heart.

Now, the America who does not want socialism, they know this is not about race.  Even Rachel Maddow, who constantly says it is about race, knows it is not about race as she played on her program recently a montage of all of the “right-wing nuts” and “reactionary organizations” that confronted the same socialist agendas of Roosevelt, Truman, JFK, Carter and Clinton, and now Obama.  So, Maddow says it is racist and then says “it has been the same for every democrat President.  So, which is it Rachel?

Now, the racism charges are working to lower Obama’s ability to govern even more than the mistrust he has garnered through his repeated distortions in his public utterances about what was actually in HR 3200, or what he called, though non-existent, his “health care plan.” 

People used to trust government.  Now, the middle class knows it only rewards the rich and the poor.  The great middle is paying for subsidizing the rich’s mistakes in banking, insurance and automobiles while providing ACORN, Van Jones’ green jobs organization, and other pseudo-welfare organizations with tens of billions of taxpayer money that is being used to subvert the great middle class as evidenced in the ACORN videos being released over the past week. 

Now, to be robbed and then called racist, that is the unkindest cut of all, as Bill Shakespeare would intone.  And Americans, real Americans who believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, are fed up.

 Paul Porter of the Paul Porter Show

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How did the US Constitution expand upon the basic ideas about government that the colonists had developed up to the time of the Constitutional Convention?

Mayflower Compact, the Magna Carta, the Social Compact theories of JJ Rousseau. All of these ideas were seized upon to create a document that would elicit a guaranty to the people of a certain framework of government. Each state had a charter, compact or eventually constitution which specifically embodied not only a framework of government, but individual rights.

These were the things not guaranteed by any sovereign to commoners up to that point.

Up to that point, the peerage, or those who were in gentrified service to the crown, had some rights.

Under the concept of the social compact, the rise of constitutionalism; personal rights became paramount. The concepts of equality, as rough and bigoted as it was for its time, still was quite broader than what was available at the time.

I need to know when US Constitution was first drafted, how was it supposed to protect the interests of the states since the states gave up a significant part of their sovereignty?
Carolyn – yes but the Bill of Rights protects more the individual liberty. My question is since the states gave up a huge portion of their sovereignty because of some provisions of Constitution which would reflect the interests of states rather. What were those provisions?

The dates should be easily accessible in your textbook.

It’s true that they gave up part of their soverignty but many states wouldn’t ratify it without the Bill of Rights which guaranteed more protection than the actual Constitution. Plus, they realized that the Articles of Confederation did not give the federal government enough power so changes had to be made.

Are you asking what provisions of the Constitution actually took rights away from the states that they originally had in the Articles of Confederation?