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A Declaration of Reascendance

A Declaration of Reascendance
In 1776, our Founding Fathers faced a crisis of tyranny in their own government, and lacking our good fortune of having them in their past, they found themselves left with no other option, than to issue the Declaration of Independence, which of course began with:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Fortunately for us however, because of their actions, and their later efforts almost two decades later, which resulted in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we no longer need to dissolve the political bands which connect us with one another, we only need to reassert them.

First and foremost, we should reassert that:

  • –We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
  • –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

And amend the next phrase to:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter ***or to abolish*** it, ***and to institute new Government, laying*** reaffirming its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

That is the job of our legislators to perform, and to see to it that it is held to. But even more than that, it is our responsibility as citizens to see to it that our representatives are reminded of their responsibilities and of our awareness of that.

Through the creation of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and further acts of Congress, we have an agency of the government, the Internal Revenue Service, which has been acting in rebellion to both the Constitution, the laws of the land and its own charter, abusing its power, intimidating the people of our land, and doing so while operating directly under the supervision and oversight of the Commerce Dept, the Justice Dept and the President of the United States of America.

As such, it has become self-evident that neither of these entities can any longer be trusted with managing or investigating that which they have already so completely lost control of.

As our representatives in Congress, We The People insist and demand that you, our Senators and Representatives, shall see to it that there be:

  1. an immediate halt to normal operations of this IRS
  2. an immediate hiring freeze
  3. an immediate investigation by an independent prosecutor
  4. an immediate halt to any plans that this agency be given oversight of any area of our healthcare system

For when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, (H/T Dana Loesch’s “Defund the IRS” and Jim Hoft “Now is the time to Speak Out“):

IRS, Labor Department Audit Businessman on Obama’s Enemies List

Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained

IRS Faces Class Action Suit For Theft Of Health Care Records

IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo

IRS to Tea Party Group: “Provide Details of Your Planned Event With NEWT GINGRICH”

IRS Asked For Facebook Posts, Thoughts

POLL: Most Want IRS Officials Fired or Jailed

Top Obama Official Illegally Revealed Conservative Group’s Tax Status in 2010

Obama Campaign Attacked Romney With Leaked IRS Documents

Pro-Israel Z Street Group: IRS Told Us We Might Be Funding Terrorism

Democrat Senators Demand IRS Scrutinize Tea Party Groups

Though it is our right, because we have you, our Senators and Representatives, representing us in government, we do not need to do as our Founders did, and throw off our Government, we only need to re-apprise you of your duty to institute reliable Guards upon it for our present and future security.

–And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Find your representative here.
Find your senator here.
Contact:
John Boehner
Eric Cantor
Mitch McConnell

On Twitter: #DefundIRS

Signed,

We The People of the United States of America

(Blogodidact – GGI – The Bell News)

Where Do We Go From Here?

Where do we go? What do we do?
A friend if mine, @PoedPatriot really served the meat and potatoes:

First I would prepare for economic collapse for at least two reasons:

#1 No country can withstand the kind of reckless spendin

g that this country has been doing for the last five..History shows it has to come home to roost if it is not stopped.
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#2 There are those (many) in Government who wish to see the Capitalist Market (I would say free market but it hasn’t been that in a long time) collapse here in the United States. They are doing everything they can to over load the system and force it to collapse…and now for the next four years there isn’t much that will prevent them from doing just that. (Excessive taxation, high unemployment and reckless government spending is going to collapse the system nicely.. since it all feeds into each other like a snow ball rolling down a hill.)

Second, I would prepare to defend certain important areas of the country. Now yes I do mean stock up on firearms and ammo and no I’m not a nut job. Here is why..

The Communists (Aka uber Progressives) have a long history of violently taking over nations in times of crisis. When a nation collapses (financially or otherwise) chaos reigns as people realize their ‘normal’ lives are no more and the leadership that was in place becomes (usually) useless. The Communists actually have plans in place to step into that void left by the previous leadership (Or at least be teamed up with the uber progressives that do). Now they aren’t going to call themselves “Communists” Hell it will prob be lead by a well known politician and or they’ll do it ‘peacefully’ by having the President issue “orders” so that they will get control of the country (As in “Oh Capitalism failed so now we have to do this etc etc…”). Either way history has proven this is how drastic and radical change is forced on a country by Communists…(Granted the past 100 years they have done a good job in pushing the country their way gradually but historically that is new for them.) And after reading and watching the Communists for the past 5 years..I know for a fact that they are hoping and praying for such a collapse. (By the way this is not a push for civil war or some kind of threat.. it’s just observations based upon historic facts and it needs to be said. No law against preparing to defend yourself.. this is not a call to arms.. So DHS bugger off..)
Third thing I would do is get involved as a citizen journalist or something in that realm. As it stands right now the Internet is our last “Free” place on the planet for ideas. Besides we can do the most good by not only researching and informing ourselves but sharing what we have learned with others. The internet is our Front Lines and right now we are in dire need of reinforcements. Btw..Don’t expect to make money doing this because it’s not going to happen. You do this because it needs to be done..

Fourth.. don’t give up on the Future and make sure you educate your children.. what I have written above may not happen in our lifetime (I know I’m dreaming) but it is imperative that we train our replacements. Looking to the future is where we have failed and the Communists have not. We think it’s our job to fight so our kids can live “normal” lives.. that is a crock.. normal is about defending your Liberty and training those future generations to defend theirs. It is NOT about watching TV, going to Disney World or buying the latest new “gadget” … without Liberty none of that is going to mean squat since you will be too busy doing the Governments bidding. Besides if you do not teach your children your values.. someone will teach them theirs….and the Communists are more than happy to teach them theirs.

Anyway.. that is my short answer.. “shocking” as it maybe.. honestly I’m tired of people not saying what needs to be said. Am I violent.. No.. do I wish harm on others.. No.. but only a fool fails to prepare for what history teaches us will probably happen.

And if it doesn’t happen then we will all laugh about it later.. and you can call me quack for the rest of my life.. a name I will gladly wear with pride.

In otherwords, prepare yourselves. There is nothing silly about stocking up on non-perishables. Canning and jarring is simple and smart. (tutorial to come)

It is easy to stock up on a three week supply of food, water, and toiletries…including a makeshift toilet. Think about this…what if a quake hit, a perfect storm, unrest, whatever. Food on your shelves rotates out, so you never lose the investment. Even better, if you are like me, I hibernate-ish in the cold of winter. That food supply allows me to shop if and when I choose. It really is nice to have your own private grocery store. It doesn’t matter if it is a cultural, social, economic collapse. What matters is you be prepared for anything. Remember Hopkin? What about Superstorm Sandy?

Another point, keep books…not only to pass time, but more importantly, to educate your children. Curriculum are cheap…and you avoid indoctrination.

One final diamond in the rough…stock up on booze and tobacco, as well as small toiletries…great battering items.

Lastly, most importantly, trust in the Lord. He is our refuge, He is our strength. All things are Him (even if it is to press into him in the wake of a tragedy). THAT is the key to survival. Trust in God and speak to Him daily. Open your ears. Gird your loins!

And never, never forget who we are, what we are doing and why we must.

Godspeed and Shalom.

Four O’Clock Flipper Flash Mob #WinMOSen

TIME: 4:00

PLACE: 7th and Market in front of Peabody Coal

REASON: Today we are going to protest the Senator Claire “Flipper” McCaskill’s War on Coal and MO Jobs.

They call her Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No one you see, is sma

rter than she,
And we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder,
Flying between Missouri and D.C.!

Some of you may remember the 60s TV Show “Flipper!”

Today we are gathering in front of Peabody Energy to protest “Flipper” McCaskill and her War on Coal and Missouri jobs.

You can read at the Gateway Pundit about her vote to keep in place the MACT Rule, which provided the EPA with Cap and Trade type authority as well as her misrepresenting her position about such policy to the voters of Missouri on the SAME DAY.

Here is a link to the MACT Roll Call Vote in the Senate. A Nay Vote is a vote to keep the rules which would bankrupt coal producers and shut down coal power plants in place.

FACTS:

  • Peabody Energy is the LARGEST private-sector COAL company in the WORLD.
  • COAL fuels approximately 10% of the energy generation in the United States. One in 10 homes or businesses runs on coal.
  • COAL provides 81% of Missouri’s electric power generation.
  • Missouri 11th in the nation in energy affordability. Due to COAL.
  • COAL is directly responsible for thousands of union and non-union jobs.
  • At AmrenUE out of its 16,546 megawatts of electric generating capacity, 64.8% comes from COAL. These are generated at power plants such as Labadie Energy Center (Franklin), Meramec Energy Center (St. Louis), Rush Island Energy Center (Jefferson County), and Sioux Energy Center (St. Charles).
  • “Flipper” McCaskill’s votes, which give legislative force to her “I hate coal” comments will have a negative effect on the jobs at those plants and the economies of those towns and regions and Missouri as a whole. These policies and support of the MACT rule will cause YOUR “electricity rates to necessarily skyrocket.”

These positions are EXTREME!

They are not supported by the people of Missouri.

Join us in our protest of “Flipper” McCaskill today and let your voice be heard!

WHAT TO BRING:

YOURSELF AND YOUR VOICE!

SIGNS which protest Claire McCaskill’s “War on Coal” and her support of the MACT rule which provided a backdoor Cap and Trade rule for the EPA.

DOLPHINS in the form of Balloons, Stuffed Animals, Pictures, Costumed children etc. to amplify Senator McCaskill’s inner “Flipper” like nature.

RAINCOATS AND UMBRELLAS. It might rain, but the event will go on RAIN OR SHINE. We are no sunshine patriots, a little water doesn’t bother Flipper and it won’t bother us either.

The GGI Team To You: What Matters Most?

With Primaries steaming along, leading up to, perhaps, the most relevant election in recent history, the GGI Team would like to know what issues are most important to you, at this point in the 2012 Election Cycle?

We do not want to hear the major talking points, as they are echoed throughout the main stream media, but rather, your true passions, your true concerns. . .please feel free to submit them, and we may just feature your entry on a future post.

We are looking to gear together are “Real People’s” forum of issues and debate, and really want to challenge the future of leadership and direction of our Nation.  Let us know what you would like dissected, discussed, and changed the most on not only the National level, but State and Local as well.

Please be sure to utilize the following hashtags with your submission, for ease of reference for all followers and subscribers:

Local: #iSTLTIP

State: #iMOTIP

National: iUSATIP

*Note: The “i” at the head of each hashtag stands for issue. . .not to be confused with #iTIP, the official hashtag for Individual Initiatives.

Happy posting!  We look forward to your submission.

 

A Diamond in the Rough? “Liberty’s Kids” May Be the Real Deal for Kids.

Cry Liberty may have just stumbled upon a great new find in regards to family programming. Liberty’s Kids, originally a PBS funded program, looks to bring an accurate historical depiction of the Ameri

can Revolutionary War as told by an American teen-aged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters under the employment of Benjamin Franklin.

Check out the first half of first episode The Boston Tea Party:

Or see Cry Liberty’s review here for more details.

If Pop Culture is truly the gateway to the hearts and minds of the young and impressionable, this certainly seems like a great place to start!

Individual Initiative #4: A Very Merry USO Christmas! #iTIP

What started out as a woman thinking aloud in an email thread has become our fourth Individual Initiative. GGI charter member Virginia Kruta called the USO to make sure they would be open on Christmas Eve so she could bring baked goods to any troops

who may have found themselves stranded at the airport, as they were desperately trying to get home to their families for Christmas.

As many fellow patriots jumped on the bandwaggon, the idea took off. “I thought to myself, we are going to be driving right by Lambert around 3 pm on Christmas Eve anyway. These men and women selflessly put their very lives on the line for us everyday. We should be waiting in line just to hug them.” explained Jen Ennenbach, another member of Gateway Grassroots “Even if there is only one soldier there, that worth it for me.”

Please take the time this weekend to remember our troops, and bring a bit of Christmas to them at your local USO. It could mean the difference between a lonely, frustrating weekend and a treasured Christmas memory. Afterall, that is the least these brave men and women deserve.

For more information, contact Jen Ennenbach at 314-200-5860 or Virginia Kruta

***UPDATE***: Word is already coming in of leaders organizing Scout Troops to head out to the USO on Christmas to bring Christmas to troops!

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Residents of Belmar, NJ are rallying to help a homeless man who was assulted by a 17 and 20 year old who recorded the incident so they could upload it to YouTube.  The offenders have been caught and are being prosecuted for the offense.

You can watch video of the assault at the link below.

Asbury Park Press, linked to above:

On Tuesday, residents, businessmen and officials in Belmar and Wall Township began collecting money for Ivins. The owners of the Belmar Inn on 12th Street donated a room for Ivins until Jan. 3.

“In the end of the video you hear one of the assailants yell, ‘And have a Merry Christmas.’ It was mocking,’’ said Belmar Mayor Matthew Doherty. “So we want to make it up to him. We want to give him a Merry Christmas.’’

Doherty said he went to the Belmar Inn room to see Ivins and shake his hand.

“I got a chance to meet him and apologize to him. Clearly this was just a horrible incident that no one should be a victim of,’’ Doherty said. “We’ll do everything we can to help improve his current situation.’’

As conservatives we applaud the individuals of Belmar and Wall for taking the initiative to be charitable and of service to a fellow resident.

If you would like to assist in this initiative and donate to effort to help David Ivins, your donation can be directed to a local group Wall Helps Its People (WHIP) which is working with the local police department to coordinate donations.

You can mail your donation to:

WHIP, P.O. Box 1214, Wall, N.J. 07719.

WHIP will not accept clothing or food donations on behalf of David Ivins. Please indicate on the memo portion of your check “Assault Victim” or include a note indicating where you would like your donation to be directed according to wallpolice.org.

There is also a Facebook page dedicated to the effort called Support for David Ivins of Belmar, NJ

Please like the page and share it to spread word of this horrible incident and how others can help as well as offering your words of support for David Ivins.

If we want a conservative culture we must work for it. We don’t need government agencies to help the homeless, we just need each other.

Don’t forget about the blanket dive to help the homeless in our own community.  You can find out about that here.

The GGI Team

 

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Individual Initiative #3: Collaborative Book Effort by Ladies of Liberty | #iTIP

Calling all ladies who mistakenly got into activism! We need your story!

Read on about how this Initiative started:

I was thinking about what it would take to reach out to the woman that I used to be – like you, I was the woman who y

elled at the TV and knew that the country was heading in the wrong direction but felt like I didn’t have a voice. And if I did speak up, maybe no one would listen because I had no formal education.
I learned that the important thing is not your education so much as your willingness to learn. And you don’t need a large platform – if what you are saying makes sense, people will listen. I want to reach out and get more people involved, but I’m especially talking to the women out there who know wht the right thing to do is but are afraid that their one voice won’t make a difference.
Eventually, I want to compile enough local stories to put them together and publish sort of a guidebook – how to move from armchair activism to the frontlines. Because I did it. You did it. So many of us did it! And we all did it more or less by accident.

This Initiative will be headed up by Virginia Kruta

Please submit your 30-40 page write-up to: va.creeper79@gmail.com

Also, be sure to follow Virginia on Twitter @VAkruta for updates!

Book Club Giveaway! #iTIP

As reported earlier, our first Individual Initiative is under way, as being led by Van Harvey . Thank you Van, for stepping up to the plate. As an avid follower of Van’s blog, GGI is proud to hav

e his leadership in our efforts as an organization. Very well read, well worded patriot!

Andre Harper heard of our idea and agreed to donate 15 copies of his new book , The Citizen’s Guide to Defeating the Mainstream Media, for our book club. Five copies will be retained for our library collection (more to come on that shortly), and ten copies will be given away to winners of an essay contest.

Tell us, in 300 words, or less, what your first Initiative will be and why. All entries will be posted to the GGI website. Your name and contact information should be included and will be published, unless this is a solo Initiative. Contact information will be published for the purpose of individuals wanting to join into your Initiative.

Initiatives can be Individual(#iTIP), Local (#STLTIP), State (#MOTIP), National (#USATIP) or Pop Culture (#POPTIP). More categories are soon to come.

GGI will be rolling out TIPs with a big push in the first week of 2012, but we know freedom has no boundaries, so feel free to start entering today! Send your “My First Initiative”entries to Jen@gatewaygrassroots.com by January 15, 2012 for your chance to win.

If you just can’t wait until then to get an autographed copy of Andre’s new book in your hand, simply visit his website and order your copy today!

 

**Note: GGI reserves the right not to publish any content that does not fit within the mission of this organization.

 

Individual Initiative #2: Dr Jazz Blanket Drive | #iTIP

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e-577×1024.jpg” alt=”" width=”500″ height=”887″ />I was in Webster Groves tonight with my son, eating dinner at Dr. Jazz, a family run restaurant and old-time soda fountain. Next to us on the table was the flyer pictured above.

A cook has taken the initiative to collect blankets for the homeless this winter. Members of the Dr. Jazz staff will be distributing the blankets each week to those in need.

This is exactly the type of effort that is suited to be an individual initiative. It requires no organization, other than an individual making the effort to go to Dr. Jazz and donate a blanket, by putting it in their donation box.

“Warming bodies and souls at Dr. Jazz

29 North Gore, Webster Groves, MO 63119

If we age going to win the culture we need to encourage those who are performing acts of kindness and mercy, and engaging in a true act of charity.

If you can, please take some time and bring a new or gently used blanket to their donation box. Also, take some time while you are there and stop and have a great meal in a kid and family friendly environment. It is a favorite of our family. Perhaps it will become one of yours as well.

If you donate, let us know what you thought, and how the drive is going. This effort will be going on for at least the next few weeks at Dr. Jazz. Take the initiative and make a stranger’s winter a little warmer this year.

Scott