!!!Norfolk 7 December UPDATE!!!

VIA EMAIL!!!
Subject: New Updates:
Right now it looks like the event will take place off base (on public property), just outside one of the main entrances to Naval Station. Like I said, I am completely unfamiliar with the area, so any help as to where we need to setup would be greatly appreciated.

We are still trying to find out the exact time that the arraignment will take place so we can plan on centering the event around that time. Unconfirmed reports have said that it is expected to being sometime around 10:00am EST, but I will update everyone once I know for sure.

Also, it is expected that the arraignment will go fairly quick, so I'm guessing a 1-2hr rally would be perfect.Since the gathering will be taking place on public property, the City of Norfolk requires us to have a permit if there are more than 50 people.

Right now I am working on nailing down a special events insurance policy so we can get the application submitted for the permit. We're cutting it close, but the City of Norfolk is working with us to get it done.

Some of you may have noticed that I changed the name of the event from "Protest" to "Support Rally". I want us to take the focus off protesting and instead shift it to better represent what our purpose is; supporting these SEALs. The last thing we want is to bring negative attention to the coverage surrounding these guys.

With that said, I ask that we do our best to make this event as peaceful as possible, while expressing our support.I have contacted several local news stations in the area and so far, WAVY-TV 10 will have a news crew out to cover the rally. Please take the time to notify every media outlet you can; the more coverage, the better.

If You Cannot Make It To Norfolk on Monday 7 December

Where is Jethro Gibbs when you really need him?

Sometimes that's when justice must be served and I understand perfectly. Write or call and let the Navy know how you feel about this.

PLEASE, even if you cannot make it because it’s just too far or you have other commitments, invite everyone on your friend list and encourage them to do the same. We have one week to get the word out and we need this to reach the right people.

Voice your opinion by contacting the following:
To file a citizen complaint regarding the treatment of these Navy Seals, please call 813-828-4976 on Monday...
or send emails now to holly.silkman@soccent.centcom.mil
US Navy
Judge Advocate General's Corps :
The Office of the JudgeAdvocate General :
Public Affairs :
1322 Patterson Ave., Suite 3000 :
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5066
Comm: (202) 685-5493 :
Phone Numbers: Washington Navy Yard: (202) 685-5190 :
Pentagon, Room 4C642:
(703) 614-7420 :
AJAG, Military Law :
1254 Charles Morris St., SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5047
Comm: (202) 685-7053

For God and Country I Lend You A Life

I Am A Warrior and This Is My Song

Last week when I first looked at this, there were a little over 2,500 views. There are now over 65,000 views. I think we need to keep this in view.

Putting A Lock-Out Tag on the Political Machine

Campaign season is officially open. Local politics will be the focus for the next 3 months and then we move into the 2010 campaign cycle. We had some great candidates in 2006 and 2008, but the political machines at the local levels prevented some of them from getting on the ballot and others were outspent.

We can’t let that happen in 2010. It’s time to take over the process and show the machine we know where the shutdown switch is.

This is where grassroots conservatives need to exert the most influence. We need good solid conservatives.

Qualifications for Candidates

This blog will give first consideration to any veteran who wishes to declare his or her intention to seek an elected office, especially here in the Commonwealth. The leadership skills and the oath to defend the Constitution are the qualifications needed to insure our Nation remains the reality the Founders envisioned.

Iraq Vets for Congress has great resources.

We need a good candidate for VA-03. It’s time for Mr Scott to retire. The good folks in southeast Virginia deserve someone who is more in tune with the grassroots and is familiar with the Navy and veteran’s issues. Someone with experience in the VA and DoD.

9-12 and Tea Parties

On 13 March 2009 Glenn Beck introduced us to the 9-12 Project. He prefaced this introduction with a history lesson. He reminded us of the greatness that is America and her citizens.

He then introduced a lot of Americans to the one person who, in my mind anyway, personifies the American spirit, American courage, and the way we should all strive to be.

That person was Marcus Luttrell, former Navy SEAL, member of SEAL Team 10, and part of Operation Redwing, the deadliest mission a SEAL Team has ever undertaken. The book "Lone Survivor" is the story of that operation. I urge everyone to get a copy and read it.

Glenn established the first rule of the 9-12 Project:

We Honor Our Military. We acknowledge the sacrifices made and we thank those who chose to defend us. We do so willingly, without reservation. We do it because it's the right thing to do.
We do it because the men and women who make up our Warrior class are worthy of the effort. They have earned it.

The Tea Parties were started by a reporter from the floor of the Chicago Board of Exchange. It was picked up and the tipping point was reached around the time of CPAC 2009. The Tea Party movement is about taxes and excessive government waste.

The 9-12 Project is about America's soul.

LA Man Stopped and Detained For Bumper Sticker

American Vision is reporting they received a call from a Lady in Louisiana:

"We just received a call from ******* in Ball, Louisiana alerting us that her brother-in-law was stopped by small town Louisiana police and detained by the roadside for half an hour. A background check was conducted to determine whether he was a member of an “extremist” group. Why? Her brother-in-law (name not disclosed for privacy) had purchased and displayed a conservative “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper sticker on his car.

The bumper sticker is based on the famous flag designed by American Revolution era general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. The yellow flag featured a coiled diamondback rattlesnake ready to strike, with the slogan “Don’t Tread on Me!” underneath it. Benjamin Franklin helped make the rattlesnake a symbol of Americans’ reluctance to quarrel but vigilance and resolve in defense of their rights. By 1775 when Gadsden presented his flag to the commander-in-chief of the Navy, the rattlesnake was a symbol of the colonies and of their need to unite in defense of threats to their God-given and inherited rights. The flag and the bumper sticker symbolize American patriotism, the need to defend Americans’ rights, and resistance to tyranny’s threats to American liberty. Those threats included—and include—illegal taxation, profanation of Americans’ rights, and violation of the fundamental principles of American law.

The notorious Department of Homeland Security memo, which was apparently based on the infamous Missouri State Police Report that described supporters of presidential candidates Bob Barr, Ron Paul, and Chuck Baldwin as “militia”-type potential extremists and potential terrorists, is not the first effort of leftist radicals to slander their political opponents as “extremists.” Some observers have noted that similar “reports” emerged during the Clinton administration. But “liberals” and other leftists have been calling defenders of traditional American limited, constitutional government, free enterprise, and individual liberty “extremists” since at least the 1964 election.

The political left’s attempts to establish a false equivalence between genuine left wing extremists and those who oppose the left’s assault on our culture, law, and liberty is more than propaganda to fool the ignorant and manipulate public opinion. Combined with the power of government, it is an attempt to harass, intimidate, and silence all political opposition—and probably an attempt to demonize them as a prelude to governmental oppression and persecution. Keep in mind that the First Amendment states,"

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I think I might have to go buy some more of those stickers.