Central Wisconsin Tea Party

Editor's Comments

02 Feb 2013

A BRAVE CITIZEN FROM SANDY HOOK SPEAKS OUT IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Elected Officials Are Fundamentally Dishonest

To the Editor:

This letter was forwarded to Barack Obama, John Boehner, Chris Murphy, Dick Blumenthal, Elizabeth Esty, and Harry Reid

I live in Sandy Hook, CT. My family and close friends weren't harmed on December 14. That day impacted 26 families with an indescribable, staggering pain and anguish. For most of Sandy Hook, it merely affected us with an inescapable intensity of sadness and grief.

Gun control has long been a focus of many in this country. Though I'm not knowledgeable of all the nuances of the Second Amendment, based on the Founding Fathers' circumstances, it had far more to do with enabling the citizenry to protect themselves against tyrannical government than against local psychopaths. It is about providing a balanced firepower so when King George's successor came knocking on your door, you could fight back. Government today is no less inclined to abuse its authority than it was then. Based on the absurd and ongoing power grab that is present day Washington, it's as threatening as ever.

That so many of you view the NRA with its resistance to further restrictions on firearms as intransigent lunatics has far more to do with how you conduct yourselves in office than it does with the NRA's actions.

You in public office are fundamentally dishonest people. You lead lives of deception at every turn, structuring your lives as comfortably as you can while governing with an indifference and arrogance that is absolutely maddening. When the country is reeling from financial disaster, you waste a trillion dollars on a health care bill we can't afford and you've never read. You claim it's critical because health care costs are killing this country... no they're not, you are! You are killing this country. You endorse the ongoing slaughter of millions of unborn children and whine when terrorists are water boarded. You can't lecture us right in Newtown High School about not doing enough to keep our children safe, while simultaneously slaughtering the unborn. You fabricate the intense, media laden drama of the fiscal cliff and lack the courage to do anything about truly reforming the obscene gluttony of government. You know you'll be out of office before the bill comes due… you don't care and have no integrity nor honor.

You lie whenever and wherever you need to to move forth your agenda. Were you able, you would purge the US of guns… every last gun in the country, if you could. So please forgive Wayne LaPierre and those of us who don't trust you as far as we can spit. You're a dishonest lot, motivated by a distorted worldview. If mass murder prevention were truly your goal, you would welcome armed security wherever needed. It is outrageous that we protect our money with far more firepower than we protect our children.

I have never owned a gun, nor wanted to as intensely as right now. You'll stop restricting guns when only you have them.

Brendan Duffy

4 Chestnut Knoll Drive, Sandy Hook January 8, 2013

23 Jan 2013

CWTP IS PLACING THIS BOOKLET BACK ONTO THIS WEBSITE BECAUSE OF IT`S EXPLANATION OF THE PRESIDENT`S STYLE AND AGENDA. THIS IS MADE AVAILABLE AT THE HOROWITZ WEBSITE, AND IS WRITTEN BY HIM, USING SAUL ALINSKY`S "RULES FOR RADICALS"...sej

http://frontpagemag.com/upload/pamphlets/Rules-for-Revolution-Alinsky.pdf

01 Dec 2012

Depressing essays and opinion pieces are appearing on internet sources. Here is one from a Lady who has lived under communism:

The Will of the People Has Spoken and America Died

Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Our Constitutional Republic died a peaceful death on November 6, 2012. Having reached the point of no return in a comatose state after years of progressive and illegal immigration assaults, the fabric of conservative society is now completely unraveled and Uncle Sam’s America is no more.The United States of America is now relegated to the dust bin of history as a “has been” empire. The Shining City on the Hill, the hope of so many millions since July 4, 1776, no longer exists. What rises from the ashes is a country that few of us will recognize, like, or learn to accept submissively. After 236 years of existence, a new country emerges today, run by secular progressives who rejected our Constitution, what we stand for, and who we are as a nation. The Supreme Court will be forever altered after its last conservative members will be replaced by the liberal academics who call themselves “progressives.” The rule of law will be implemented by Executive Orders, making Congress irrelevant. The communist motto “Forward” that resonated with so many ignorant Americans will plunge us into many years of darkness from which we will never be able to recover. We have proven our Founding Fathers right, they did give us a Constitutional Republic and we were unable to maintain it. The forces of the failed communist fundamental transformation that were driven underground in many places around the world, resurfaced with a vengeance in the United States and have now taken over. How long we will still have freedom of speech, movement, assembly, and control of our private property remains to be seen. Faith and churches will be driven underground; allowing secularism to prosper and take deep roots among the progressives whose God is Mother Earth. The welfare dependent Americans, unions, and illegal aliens have chosen for the rest of us the dark path of serfdom to big government and to socialist utopia. Who would have guessed that the very people who were complaining that the government is not extricating them from disaster or giving them the help they needed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, would vote for the very politicians who turned their backs on needy Americans after the lights went dark when the political photo opportunities ended? Who would have guessed that Americans were as ignorant and irresponsible as to choose fiscal destruction over fiscal sanity for their children and grandchildren, secularism and communism over faith, dependence over personal responsibility and self-reliance? Americans have been protesting for the last four years the dismal state of the economy and the direction of our country, the corruption of our politicians, and the loss of personal and economic freedom. Rallies in support of conservatism overwhelmed venues for Mitt Romney while rallies for our bumbling President became scarcer and scarcer. Yet, miraculously, at the ballot box, our President won all over the country. We lost seats in the Senate. Americans chose liars and cheats to be their Senators and Representatives, rejecting those who protected the Constitution. The candidate from Massachusetts who claimed direct American Indian lineage to Pocahontas is now a Senator, having defeated Scott Brown. Representative Allen West lost his seat by a narrow margin to the infamous Wasserman Schultz from Florida. Americans chose high unemployment, reduction of our military, communist indoctrination of their children, and loss of personal freedoms unlike we have never seen before in this country. I am saddened by the loss of millions and millions of American soldiers who have died to preserve freedom yet we lost it on November 6, 2012. Those buried in cemeteries around the world and at Arlington must be rolling in their graves today. We shamelessly allowed their sacrifice of blood and treasure to go in vain. We have no honor because we let down all the soldiers who fought in recent times and returned home limbless with lives shattered from physical and mental wounds of war. I mourn today the loss of my adopted country. I have fought hard over the last four years to prevent its overt and accelerated destruction but the darker forces stronger than many of us have overcome concerted efforts by millions of Americans to maintain the Republic. Mediocrity, sloth, godlessness, dependence, cowardice, using the law selectively or ignoring it, and hopeless corruption will define the new country. Only God can save us now with his mercy and grace.

"When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance becomes Duty." ~Thomas Jefferson

01 Dec 2012

PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED ARTICLE AND REVIEW THE VIDEO. A FAVORITE TRICK BY THOSE COMMITTED TO THE THEORY OF MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING ARE FEAR CAUSING IMAGES AND ALTERATION OF PUBLISHED REPORTS. sej

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/unprecedented_level_of_climate_fraud_dont_miss_this_stunningly_brazen_warmi/

29 Oct 2012

This is the most up to date article summarizing this fiasco. I believe the President is responsible. There is an unconfirmed report from a retired delta force member that elite soldiers do not paint a target with laser beams unless the strike force is immediately present. The fighter or drone was overhead, the laser beam identified the target. and the order fire was not given or rescinded. The truth will come out, but not from main stream media. sejohnson

Lack of strike force impeded Benghazi response

Africa Command, still in building phase, was missing rapid-response capability

By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES

As U.S. Africa Command waited for any order to rescue Americans on Sept. 11 at the besieged consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, it was missing a key unit that the Pentagon gives every regional four-star commander — an emergency strike force.

The new command’s lack of such a unit is another piece in the unfolding Benghazi timeline that shows an overriding theme: As radical Islamic extremism swelled in the chaotic coastal city, U.S. security assets in Libya diminished.

From the State Department’s denial of diplomats’ requests for more security in Libya to Obama administration officials repeatedly saying the military-style attack on the consulate resulted from “spontaneous” protests, the events before, during and after the Benghazi assault reflect the political, diplomatic and military confusion that is post-Gadhafi Libya.

Each U.S. geographic combatant command, whether it be in the Middle East, the Pacific or, in this case, Africa, is entitled to a special operations rapid-response team — a group of Green Berets to perform instant combat in situations like the Islamist militants’ attack on the U.S. Consulate.

But on that day, AfriCom, the Pentagon’s newest geographic combatant command, which is still in the building phase, lacked what is called the “commander in-extremis force,” said a senior special operations official.

“All geographic combatant commands have one allocated to them, except AfriCom,” the senior official said. “AfriCom’s is in the process of being established.”

The gap shows that while North Africa has become a growing battleground for Islamic extremists, the U.S. regional command in charge of operations there is still not at full strength.

“We cannot discuss the availability of specific capabilities in order to protect our operational security,” AfriCom spokesman Benjamin Benson said.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on national security, told Fox News that Army Gen. Carter Ham, who heads AfriCom, received no request from any government entity to intervene in Benghazi during the seven- to eight-hour fight.

As it turns out, some special operations troops, likely from U.S. European Command, were moved to a naval air station at Sigonella, Sicily, but were never ordered to go farther. The Pentagon has declined to say exactly at what hour they arrived in Sicily or whether the battle was over by then.

Perhaps most important is not the lack of troops going into Benghazi, but what security forces the State Department pulled out of Libya a month before the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his information officer, and two former Navy SEALs.

Signs of trouble in Benghazi

The story begins last winter, when the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli began reporting to Washington about the deteriorating security situation in Benghazi.

Mr. Stevens chose to spend much time there, the cradle of the popular uprising that ousted and ultimately killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

As pro-Western Libyans tried to form a fledgling democracy, al Qaeda-linked militant groups, as they have done in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, began emerging to exploit the power vacuum.

“Their presence grows every day,” Army National Guard Lt. Col. Andrew Wood would later tell the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “They are certainly more established than we are.”

That winter, Col. Wood commanded a 16-member site security team of Army Green Berets based in Tripoli. His men were in country because they wielded the kind of high-caliber firepower needed to combat militants armed with grenade launchers and mortars.

“Superior weapons and superior tactics,” Col. Wood said. “That’s what the [site security team] brought to the table. Those were the qualities and attributes and the bolstering effect that they added.”

Also troubling for the State Department’s Libyan stations: Neither the embassy nor the Benghazi compound met basic construction standards to protect diplomats.

“That was the major cause of concern, and that was the main physical security issue that we continued to raise,” testified Eric Nordstrom, the top diplomatic security officer in Libya.

By June, the Benghazi compound consisted of one wall and four buildings, and was guarded by up to five of Mr. Nordstrom’s personnel, a few Libyan private security guards and the Libyan February 17 Martyrs Brigade, which lived in a compound barracks and worked out of a nearby CIA annex.

The embassy watched as militants stepped up attacks.

Radical Islamists attacked the International Red Cross building repeatedly. A terrorist placed a homemade bomb at the consulate wall. Even though Libyan guards saw him, his time-delayed explosive went off and blew a huge hole in the wall.

Next, terrorists attacked a convoy transporting the British ambassador. Britain quickly evacuated, leaving the U.S. as the only Western power in Benghazi.

“When that occurred, it was apparent to me that we were the last flag flying in Benghazi,” Col. Wood said. “We were the last thing on their target list to remove from Benghazi.”

Security requests denied

The colonel and Mr. Nordstrom were fighting a long-distance battle of emails and phone calls with the State Department to maintain a large security presence.

But Charlene Lamb, who was in charge of international programs for the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, rejected their requests. State wanted to create a picture of normal operations in Libya.

“We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11 for what had been agreed upon,” Ms. Lamb told the committee, noting that five diplomatic security officers were in Benghazi, the number that had been requested.

But further firepower was missing. On July 9, the embassy sent a cable to State seeking at least a 60-day extension for SST and other security personnel. It was denied.

By August, Col. Wood and his three site security teams were out of the country, even though Gen. Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, agreed that they could stay as long as they were needed.

Col. Wood said those men could have accompanied the ambassador in Benghazi or responded from Tripoli when the assault occurred.

Also gone were three of the State Department’s mobile security teams requested by Mr. Nordstrom, who left Libya July 26.

Col. Wood said the State Department restricted officers on the mobile security team to training Libyans, not providing security. Still, their absence meant a smaller pool of security personnel able to respond to Benghazi.

Ms. Lamb testified that she “backfilled” to replace team members.

“I made the best decisions I could with the information I had,” she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this month.

Mr. Stevens, a career diplomat who considered his mission in Benghazi as bringing together various tribal factions and Islamic groups, had been reporting to State on increased violence.

In June, he wrote of “Islamic extremism” and al Qaeda flags popping up on government buildings in eastern Libya.

On Sept. 11, in what appears to be his last words to Washington, Mr. Stevens said Libya commanders “expressed growing frustration with police and security forces” unable to control Benghazi.

Under fire

Ms. Lamb said the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi began at 9:40 p.m. local time, or 3:40 p.m. Washington time.

The first messages from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, which said the conflict had begun just after 9 p.m., reached Washington at 4:05 p.m. EDT, when the Pentagon, White House and State Department operation centers would have been fully staffed.

“The diplomatic mission is under attack,” said the embassy email, which was sent to the White House National Security Council office, as well as to the State Department. “The 17th of February militia is providing security support.”

Two hours later, the embassy reported that Ansar al-Shariah, an al Qaeda-linked militant group that also is backed by some Libyan government officials, claimed responsibility. That was a tip to Washington that this was a terrorist assault, not part of Muslim protests in the region over an American-produced anti-Islam video.

As it turned out, only three February 17 Martyrs Brigade members were at the consulate, along with five U.S. security officers. Outmatched, they proved unable to stop scores of militants storming through a gate, firing grenades and using diesel fuel to set fire to the compound.

Mr. Stevens sought safety in the living quarters, which became engulfed in flames.

A nearby CIA base, identified by the State Department as one of its annexes, sent a rescue team of martyrs brigade members and at least one former Navy SEAL, Tyrone Woods. They collected all the staff they could find amid fires and gunshots, and returned to the annex in armored cars — minus the ambassador, whose whereabouts was unknown.

Now close to midnight in Libya, the CIA officers sent urgent radio messages to headquarters in Langley asking for the military to send help, Fox News reported Friday. It said the CIA had ordered the officers not to attempt the rescue, but they went anyway.

No military help was sent.

An unmanned spy aircraft, whose video signal could be relayed to policymakers in Washington, buzzed overhead during part of the raid. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says a 50-minute recording exists, but it has not been provided to Congress.

At the White House during the attack, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta met in the Oval Office.

Seven hours later, a rescue contingent from Tripoli, with Libyan personnel, made its way from the airport to the annex, which then came under mortar fire.

Mr. Woods and fellow former SEAL Glen Doherty, whose job was to guard the CIA officers, had been killed.

The team learned that Mr. Stevens had been found dead, presumedly from smoke inhalation, and was taken to a hospital.

The new mission: Gather the living and dead, and escape to the airport.

After the attack

The next day, the Obama administration began blaming the attack on a “spontaneous” protest sparked by the anti-Muslim video.

That assertion apparently was based on an instant assessment by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who oversees the nation’s civilian and military spy agencies.

But that instant assessment was not unanimous.

The Defense Intelligence Agency on Sept. 12 briefed the Pentagon that the attack likely was carried out by Ansar al-Shariah, The Washington Times has reported. The Defense Intelligence Agency made no mention of protesters.

The Associated Press reported that the CIA station chief in Tripoli also blamed militants.

Mr. Panetta, in his first public remarks Thursday on why the U.S. military did not send in a combat rescue team, or use air power to strike the attacking militants during the seven- to eight-hour battle, said the military did not have sufficient intelligence.

“The basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on, without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,” he said. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. [Martin] Dempsey, [Joint Chiefs chairman], and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”

Asked why the existence of a firefight at the Benghazi annex did not provide a clear picture, Mr. Panetta said: “This happened within a few hours, and it was really over before we had the opportunity to really know what was happening.”

By Sept. 16, the national intelligence director changed his assessment. Mr. Clapper abandoned the “spontaneous” explanation and told the White House that the attack was a planned terrorist operation, a U.S. intelligence official told The Times.

No longer in Libya at the time of the attack, Mr. Nordstrom and Col. Wood later tried to assess the bureaucratic battle they fought to retain more security assets in Benghazi.

“We were fighting a losing battle,” Col. Wood said. “We couldn’t even keep what we had. We were not even allowed to keep what we had.”

Mr. Nordstrom recalled a phone call with a regional director asking for 12 additional agents.

“His response to that was, ‘You’re asking for the sun, moon and the stars,’” the security officer said. “And my response to him,‘You know what makes the most frustrating about this assignment? It’s not the hardships. It’s not the gunfire. It’s not the threats. It’s dealing and fighting against the people, programs and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me.’

“And I ended it by saying, ‘For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the building,” Mr. Nordstrom said.

05 Oct 2012

August 2, 2012 BY SIDNEY JOHNSON, M.D., MEMBER CWTP.

EDITOR`S COMMENT: THE CENTRAL WISCONSIN TEAPARTY HAS BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 21 PROGRAM FOR THE UNITED STATES WHICH IS NOW INFILTRATING THE UNITED STATES UNDER DIRECTION OF THE WHITE HOUSE`S "SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM" AND "BUILDING ONE AMERICA" PROGRAM. THIS IS NOT BEING REPORTED BY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA, NEITHER ON TV NOR IN PRINTED MEDIA. 46 STATES ARE PARTICIPATING IN THESE PROGRAMS WHICH INVOLVES EDUCATION SYSTEMS, TAXATION LAWS AND REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

SPREADING THE WEALTH Bleeding the Suburbs to Pay Reparations to City Dwellers, BY STANLEY KURTZ

James R. Holland

BOOM REVIEW FOUND ON AMAZON.COM

Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities (Hardcover)

This book was admittedly released at this time because Stanley Kurtz the author, feels that the facts included in it will awaken the voters in the suburbs to how Obama plans to abolish their communities and put them, their taxes and their schools under control of the Democrat big city mayors.

Kurtz details how Obama has long believed that the residents who fled the cities are racists and need to be dragged back into the cities to help solve the problems festering there. If Obama's plans for this forced redistribution became common knowledge, then it would be cause his re-election campaign to crash and burn.

Six short and to-the-point chapters entitled "Abolish the Suburbs, Manhattanizing America, In Up to His Eyeballs, Saul Alinsky Radical, A Suburb of the Mind, Redistribution Revolution, Fooled, Ruled, and Schooled" and "Obama in a New Light" plus lots of sources and notes and a good index make up the guts of this tome.

For those naïve suburban voters who have only been paying attention to mainstream media, if following the news at all, they don't realize that the so-called trillion-dollar stimulus plan was really just a poverty program that was intentionally mis-named to fool the voters. That's why it had almost no effect and certainly produced no improvements.

For more than two decades, Obama and his fellow radical community activists, agitators have been working toward punishing all those people who voted with their feet and fled the cities and left them filled with only poor and minority residents. "Suburbs are for sellouts...For Obama, the suburbs are a defect in the very structure of American life. That is why the president backs his old friends' movement to abolish them."

"'We are battling apartheid in America.' So said Obama's onetime organizing mentor Mike Kruglik in 2005, explaining the philosophy behind his crusade for regional equity. At the the time, Kruglik was directing the regionalist efforts of the Gamaliel Foundation, a national network of community organizations that Obama himself had helped launch in the mid-1980s. Today Kruglik leads the Gamailied offshoot Building One American, which fights for regionalism in partnerships with the Obama White House, although few Americans have any idea that this is the case."

To the radicals, those suburban racists deserve to have their wealth taken away from them and given to the less fortunate but Obama can't publicly proclaim the details of the regulations to abolish the suburbs because, "Much of Obama's base, to say nothing of independents, would be alienated by the regionalist agenda; this explains the president's reticence. Openness about his antisuburban goals would expose Obama as standing to the left of many of his supporters. Middle-class African Americans and modestly successful suburbanites now disposed to vote for the president might think twice if they knew what Obama had in store for them."

"Kruglik and Obama plan to overcome this liability by splitting the suburbs against themselves, creating an alliance between cities and the relatively less well-off inner-ring suburbs."

They hope to achieve this basic change in America by expanding cities into regions that will all come under the control of the nearest cities. Obama and his allies consider everything about the suburbs to be bad. That's where the money has fled. That's where the SUV's and autos pollute the environment. That's where valuable farmland and forests are absorbed to build more urban sprawl. The suburbanites need to be dragged back into the cities and their love affair with the car crushed.

Mass transit is intended to stop the building of highways in order to help eliminate the use of automobiles. The health care laws are really designed to help bring about the redistribution of wealth from the suburbs to the poor.

This is an important goal of Obama and the leftists and if Obama serves another term, he will be able to punish the middle and upper class residents living outside the problems of American cities.

Kurtz was blunt about what this book was intended for. He wants to awaken the voting taxpayers to the hidden agenda that is being concealed from them. He wants this information to become the coffin nails in the upcoming Presidential election because Obama can't win the next election without the suburban voters being ignorant of his planned power grabs.

He also knows that this information will be totally ignored and hidden from the general public by the so-called mainstream media that has so much invested in the candidate they foisted upon the nation to prove that they weren't racists. Now they don't want to admit what they did and how much damage it has already done to the nation.

Tell your friends about this book, because they won't hear anything about it from the news media.

This volume is exceptionally easy to read. The author doesn't leave any doubt to how he feels or how he arrived at his conclusions, which he has shared in this short book. Even the book's cover seems to beautifully illustrate Kurtz's beliefs about the current President of the US.

20 Sep 2012

WHY ARE WE AFRAID?: A 1400 YEAR YEAR OLD SECRET.

BY DR. BILL WARNER, COPIED FROM THE WEBSITE AMERICAN THINKER. HE PRESENTS WHAT HE CLAIMS TO BE OVERLOOKED HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT ISLAM.

PLACED ON THIS WEBSITE BY S. E. Johnson. M.D.

http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2012/09/why_we_are_afraid_a_1400_year_secret_by_dr_bill_warner.html

08 Sep 2012

8SEPT 12. LIBERTY COUNSEL HAS RELEASED THIS VIDEO MESSAGE REGARDING THE PRESIDENT`S ISLAMIC BACKGROUND.THIS HELPS TO EXPLAIN HIS STATEMENT THAT AMERICA IS NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION, AND HIS FAILED MID-EASTERN POLICIES.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/QXEoQJ7ZMZs?feature=player_detailpage

08 Sep 2012

A MESSAGE FROM GEORGE KANTZ DISTRIBUTED AT THE MARSHFIELD CENTRAL WISCONSIN FAIR:

The Tea Party Movement –– What is it? Who are we? August 2012

AUTHOR: George Kantz, CWTP BOARD OF DIRECTOR MEMBER

Many people still don’t understand that the Tea Party is not a political party; it’s a movement. It consists of people in localities across this nation who are tired of Big Government, Big Budget Deficits, and Big Regulations foisted upon us to control our every action by the Big Brains in our nation’s capital.

People are tired of the class warfare, the tax mess (71,000 pages of IRS code and growing), the energy mess, the failure of the federal authorities to control our borders, and see as patently unfair that the federal government tries to pick winners and losers. We are “fed-up” with our non-representing representatives in Washington, D.C. looking out for the special interests and their own re-election instead of looking out for the health of the nation in general and their constituents in particular. We know America can do better…much, much better…if we will only embrace our founding ideals.

The Tea Party began in the spring of 2009, when many people across the country attempted to send the message to Congress that we were “Taxed Enough Already!” The acronym, TEA, stuck and gathered steam (no pun intended). Some likened it to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 when a group of colonists boarded the British ships that lay in the harbor and destroyed their cargo of tea by throwing it overboard in protest of the new Tea Act which taxed tea destined for the colonies. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, but especially because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives, i.e., taxation without representation.

People who support the Tea Party Movement are sick of self-appointed so-called “progressive” intellectual élites (who think they know how everything should be done) telling us how we should speak and act (political correctness), what we should eat (school lunch and dinner table fascists), controlling our health care and how much of our money we should give to the government (so they can redistribute it to their special causes.). Typically, they are supported by the media élites who try to sway public opinion toward the Progressive agenda and who castigate all those who oppose them.

The Tea Party Movement wants to restore Constitutional Government, i.e., a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We want to restore fiscal responsibility and stop the mortgaging of our future through excessive and recurrent borrowing (now 43 cents of every federal dollar spent!) Simply put: as a nation, we need to live within our means.

We embrace free enterprise, capitalism and entrepreneurship as the way out of the longest recession since the end of WWII. We want to reduce the size and reach of the Federal Government and return responsibilities that appropriately belong to the States. In short, we want to restore our inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness enshrined in the founding documents and protected by the Bill of Rights. We want to reverse the erosion of protections by autocratic administrations created an overbearing, expanded, inefficient and costly Federal bureaucracy.

In November 2010, with TEA Party support, 87 Congressman and women and six Senators were elected to help stop the madness. While they have been able to slow the progressive agenda, they are not yet a large enough counterweight to stop or reverse direction…but you can help!

The 2012 Presidential and Congressional elections will determine the future course for our country. If you don’t like the current economy and jobs outlook, if you think the energy mess in only getting worse, if you are tired of deficit spending (that borrows from future generations, devalues the dollar and drives-up the prices of everything from groceries to gasoline), if you are tired of the assault by the Federal Bureaucracy against the sovereign rights of the states and the Bill of Rights, then it is time to get involved and vote!

Our goal is to motivate our fellow citizens to learn about the issues and their elected representatives and to enable them to make their own decisions as to whether they are being properly represented. Then, to take action, instead of ‘just complaining’; to go forward and do something about it!

If this interests you, Join Us! We know America can do better…much, much better; that is our legacy and our future!

*** Visit us at cwteaparty.org ***

08 Sep 2012

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GUN RIGHTS HAS RELEASED THIS VIDEO EXPOSING THE CINTINUED EFFORTS OF HILLARY CLINTON, THE WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION AND THE UN TO DISARM AMERICAN CITIZENS. COLLECTION OF PRIVATEARMS IS THE FIRST STEP IN SETTING UP A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT, IN THIS CASE IN AMERICA AND THEM WORLD WIDE. WHY IS THIS PART OF THE UN AGENDA? WHY IS THIS PART OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION?

CONFISCATION OF SMALL ARMS

23 Jul 2012

23July12 member letter. Central Wisconsin TEA Party

Membership Letter, July 12, 2012

Meeting Schedule: CWTP Membership Meeting, July 17, 7 PM, Marshfield Eagles Club

CWTP Board Meeting, August 16, 7 PM, Marshfield Eagles club

CWTP Members Meeting, August 21, 7 PM. Marshfield Eagles Club

At the Board of Director’s meeting last Tuesday, Carl Mueller and Floreine Kurtzweil were appointed to the Board vacancies caused by the resignations of Heather Jones and Scott Noble. Ms. Kurtzweil will complete Scott Noble’s term, ending in April 2013, and Carl Mueller will complete the term of Ms. Jones ending in April 2014.

At the meeting, George Kantz was elected Treasurer and Floreine was elected Corporation Secretary.

One additional 2 year tern remains to be filled. Shirley Meyer was nominated to fill that position. Anyone with an interest in the position on the Board of Directors should notify Dennis Juncer or Florine Kurtzweil prior to the next Board meeting on August 14.

CHAIRMANS COMMENTS

The talking heads and the rest of the media, even including FOX, keep telling us the November election is all about jobs. The state of the economy and the horrible employment situation is certainly of grave concern to everyone who’s paying any attention to the world. However, we have to remember that these problems are symptoms of the disease destroying our country, not the disease itself. For the TEA Party movement, jobs is not what this election is all about.

The root problem of our country is too much government sticking its nose into our economy and personal lives. This is occurring at every level of government. Just check out the City and county’s support of Smart Growth and knee-jerk approval of anything labeled “green.” But the greatest and most serious burdens on the economy are being imposed by the Federal Government.

The great issue facing us, which may well be irrevocably decided in the upcoming election, is whether we want to allow the Federal Government to continue to grow in size and scope until we have a socialist central government, by the elite, for the “common good,” or force it back into the limited role designed and intended for central government under the Constitution.

The all-powerful socialist governmental growing in Washington is a cancer destroying our culture and society. It is the disease which is sucking the life out of our economy, as a growing cancer drains the vitality out of the body. More and more government programs (for our own good, of course) require more and more spending to support them. They also require more and more government workers, whose wages and benefits are the largest cost of most government programs. Obamacare, for example, starts by adding 16,000 agents to the IRS, to insure compliance with its individual mandate, and all the costs and penalties it imposes against every business in the country.

And when cuts are made by the present administration, it is cuts to the muscle of our military and enforcement of our laws, not to the fat being used to pay off political allies and cronies who contribute to the campaigns of the professional politicians of both parties. Consider the billions of dollars contributed to Solyndra and the company run by Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Look at the continual subsidy of ethanol over the last decade, which has still not produced a viable and efficient energy source. And by all means take a very close look at the concessions given to big labor unions in Obamacare and elsewhere.

Our socialist president’s answers to our country’s problems is to propose more stimulus, to pass out to his supporters and allies. If you don’t believe that, just try to find out who benefited from the last $870 billion stimulus boondoggle. His answer is new taxes and burdens on everybody, including primarily the middle class he keeps talking about with such concern. And all of it to first redistribute the nations wealth “equally” among everybody, regardless of effort or contribution. His intention, clearly established by his actions, is to replace our culture with a Big Brother society, to take control of our diet, the way we raise our kids and our own personal lifestyle, all of which is to be regulated “for the common good”, as determined by Obama’s Harvard and Yale elitist friends.

If that’s what you want for your kids and grandkids, rather than the freedom to choose their own individual life style which our parents and grandparents left to us, then maybe this election is about nothing except jobs. If you value the liberty to make our own choices, including being responsible for the wrong ones, that has made this the freest and most prosperous nation that ever existed, then this election not primarily about jobs. It is about voting for the most conservative candidates you can find, who will get government off our back, as intended by the constitution, to allow us to find the free market solutions necessary to restore our beloved country to prosperity and strength.