Proper Government Would End ‘Occupy Wall Street’
November 7, 2011 at 3:52 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | Leave a commentTags: Individual Rights, Johann Hari, Nathan Espinoza, Occupy Wall Street, Property Rights, tea party
"They can afford new windows." - overheard at Occupy Oakland in reaction to the vandalism of Whole Foods.
by Walter Hudson – PJ Media – November 11, 2011
Tea Partiers are used to being called anti-government. When we stood opposed to President Obama’s state-run healthcare law, we were labeled “anti-government.” When we called upon Congress to risk a 2011 shut down in pursuit of real budget cuts, we were marked “anti-government.” When we refused to raise the debt ceiling without systematic fixes to the budget process, we were branded “anti-government.” Even now, as we stand in contrast to the genuine anarchists and violent revolutionaries rallying under the militaristic term “occupy,” it is we who remain “anti-government.”
Try this on for size. In some respects, we need more government. Public servants nationwide must assert their rightful authority to end Occupy Wall Street.
PETA Worried About Heightened Criminal Penalties For Trespass, Theft, and Fraud
April 27, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: animal cruelty, Factory Farms, Farmers, Farming, Farms, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, HF 1369, minnesota, NewsReal Blog, PETA, Property Rights, SF 1118
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Is it possible that PETA, an organization which has equated the eating of animals to the lynching of black Americans, has something in common with the Tea Party? I wondered when I received an email from a fellow Tea Partier which had originated from the radical animal rights group.
House File (HF) 1369 and Senate File (SF) 1118, which are currently making their way through the Minnesota State Legislature, could subject whistleblowers to criminal prosecution for their efforts to expose animal abuse on factory farms. If passed, these bills would penalize those who report and expose cruelty to animals and would put them at risk of being charged with a misdemeanor or even a felony, sentenced to pay heavy fines, and ordered to serve jail time. This legislation is a desperate attempt by agriculture industry giants to prevent consumers from learning the truth about how animals on factory farms live and die.
As PETA presents it, these bills appear to attack freedom of speech. By saying they “penalize those who report and expose cruelty to animals,” PETA makes it sound like speaking against a factory farm will become a criminal offense. Were this true, the Tea Party would indeed find itself allied with PETA against these bills.
Arrest of Koran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones Brings Freedom of Speech Into Focus
April 26, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Bill of Rights, Dearborn, Disturbing the Peace, First Amendment, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, islam, Koran, Michigan, NewsReal Blog, Pastor Terry Jones, Property Rights, Protest, Terry Jones
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
The freedom of speech is perhaps the most popular among those cited in the Bill of Rights. The ability to express yourself without fear of fine or incarceration is essential to the maintenance of a free society. Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, a prolific author on the topic of Islam, has an important article at Human Events suggesting that free speech may be endangered.
On Good Friday in Dearborn, Mich., the notorious Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones was jailed and fined for the crime of refusing to pay a so-called “peace bond” to cover the costs of extra police protection for Jones’ planned demonstration outside the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Judge Mark Somers also ordered Jones to stay away from the massive Dearborn mosque for three years.
Spencer points out that Jones was not the threat to public order that Dearborn authorities treated him as. Rather, the threat to public order was the prospect of violent reaction from Muslims.
… if Jones and his fellow protesters were not being violent themselves, wouldn’t the responsibility for any disturbance be upon those who decided to react to whatever Jones was doing by causing the disturbance?(…)
Oberstar “Clean Water” Bill Is Massive Federal Power Grab
October 7, 2010 at 1:44 am | Posted in Political | Leave a commentTags: America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act, Don Parmeter, federalism, Jim Oberstar, Mille Lacs Tea Party Patriots, North Star Tea Party Patriots, Property Rights, states rights
The following is an essay by Don Parmeter entitled “A Clean Water Fallacy.” Parmeter will be speaking on this issue this Saturday, October 9th, at the Princeton Library -100 4th Avenue South, Princeton, MN – hosted by the Mille Lacs Tea Party Patriots.
There are several disturbing aspects about H.R. 5088, America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act, authored by Minnesota Congressman James Oberstar and introduced in April.
There’s the bill itself, arguably the biggest federal power grab in American history, given the proposed change in language to the 1972 federal Clean Water Act. Mr. Oberstar’s bill would replace the term ‘Navigable’ with ‘Waters of the U.S.,’ which would include: all waters currently used, used in the past, or susceptible to use in future commerce; all interstate and international waters; and all other waters and their tributaries, including intrastate lakes, rivers, streams, mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, ponds, meadows and sloughs.
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Ruling Against Arizona Immigration Law Speaks to Castle Doctrine and Property Rights
August 1, 2010 at 8:10 pm | Posted in Political | 2 CommentsTags: arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, Castle Doctrine, conservative, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Registration, Guns, Home Invasion, illegal immigration, Immigration, libertarian, Make My Day, minnesota, NRA, Property Rights, SB1070, Susan Bolton, Texas, US Supreme Court
by Walter Scott Hudson
One of the fundamental concepts underlying our American system of government is the idea that people lend their power to public servants. In theory, there is nothing the government is empowered to do which We the People may not. That is to say, the reason government has power is because we with inalienable rights consent to be governed, not because of an inherent right some among us have to govern. Such was the thesis of the Declaration of Independence.
A century of “progressive” indoctrination has culminated in a political counter-culture, now largely in power, which believes the opposite. The Left minimizes the individual, denies their inalienable rights, and regards government as a source of power judiciously lent to the people.
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