+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
+ ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ GREAT NEWS FOR OCPAC MEMBERSHIP
+ U.S. CONGRESSMAN TOM COLE, KING OF POLITICAL SLICK!
+ SPEAKER BENGE HAD AN ANSWER FOR HIS RE-DISTRIBUTION SCHEME!
+ IS THE TRUTH EVIDENT, ARE THE REAL HATERS THE HOMOSEXUALS?

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
When I was in Wisconsin last fall I saw part of a documentary DVDcalled “INNOCENTS BETRAYED.” It is produced by Aaron Zelman, Directorof Jews For the Preservation of Firearms and Ordinances. I purchasedit and have seen it in full but because of the graphic nature of someparts I wrestled with showing it at OCPAC. However, the subject ofwhat has lead up to the 8 major genocides during the 20th century isjust too important for us to ignore because of difficult images. Thisis particularly true with the Democrats in control of Congress andeven in our own state with the Republicans in control, they arefailing to pass important laws to prevent innocents from beingbetrayed right here at home. This is particularly true with so manycitizens getting concealed carry permits or buying firearms fromregistered gun dealers who must create a paper trail to those whopurchase from them. I urge folks to attend. We will have 2 peopleexplain important legislation at the capitol with each having 3minutes, the DVD is just under 1 hour long, so we will try to get themeeting started by 12:00 noon sharp.

+ ANNOUNCEMENTSOKC AREA

It is still not to late to make your reservations to hearMr. John McManus, President of the John Birch Society, on Tuesdayevening MAY 12TH. Mr. McManus lives in Boston, but will be in OKC fora dinner and presentation about the root problems which have broughtus such an unstable economy and the need to print trillions of paperdollars to give to irresponsible investment banks and others to keepthem afloat. The program which will be from 6:30 until 9:00 p.m. willbe at the Character Fist Center, 520 West Main in downtown OKC. Thecost to attend is $20 per person which also includes the dinner. Forreservations, please call (405) 348-9991.TULSA AREA Week before last we had Owasso Pastor Jason Murphy (notto be confused with Representative Jason Murphey) speak briefly to ourgroup. What a well balanced fire brand he turned out to be. Heinformed us he has just began conducting a year long teaching titledOUR FATHERS INTENT at his church for his Sunday evening service. It isa study for our Father’s intent for this nation, his people and ourConstitution. He indicated Catholics, Mormons, Baptists and others areattending to learn. If you live in the Tulsa area, check it out. Ibelieve the information may be of great value. For more informationlog on to www.newlifeowasso.com or call (918) 371-5111.

+ GREAT NEWS FOR OCPAC MEMBERSHIP

We have had two people put up $500 each for a $1000 matchingmembership challenge for the month of June. Therefore, anyone joiningOCPAC during the month of June will have their membership dues matcheddollar for dollar. If you have not joined as yet, please considerdoing so now. Instructions for membership are at the end of this e-mail. Also, I had to send a corporate check back as they are notallowed by law, but assuming that will be replaced with a personalcheck, we finished April with 151 dues paying members, just 3 shy ofbreaking our record for an off election year. All I can say is thanks,your contributions are helping to make Oklahoma a more conservativestate.

+ U.S. CONGRESSMAN TOM COLE, KING OF POLITICAL SLICK!

Early last month I was working in Purcell and found out RepresentativeTom Cole was going to be there having a town hall meeting thatevening, so I decided to attend. As I entered the meeting room thefirst thing to strike me as unusual was that his pleasant youngstaffers were passing out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution. Adocument I never thought Cole paid much attention to during the timehe has been in the U.S. Congress, at least when it comes to spending.The main theme of his talk was about the excessive spending by theDemocrats in Congress with the full approval and prodding of the Obamaadministration. I had an opportunity to ask the first question and Iwant to say, I just failed to word my question in such a way toprevent the Congressman from slicking out an answer.My questions went something like this: Congressman Cole, I along withothers are a little angry over what many political experts believe wasthe big spending ways of the Republicans during the first 6 years ofthe Bush administration which has led us to the place where PresidentObama and the Democrats in Congress are now in control.If I were to ask the people in this room if they wanted to have theirtaxes raised by $50 billion dollars or have the federal governmentborrow $50 billion to send to Africa to fight AIDS, few if any wouldfavor that effort. So my question is, why did you vote to send $50billion dollars to Africa to fight AIDS and do you believe youviolated your oath to uphold the Constitution when you voted for such?Without the blink of an eye, without a deep breath, without even anexpression on his face other than his standard smile, He responded,“no I didn’t violate my oath to the Constitution” and he went on tosay he voted for the bill out of humanitarian reasons and the value weget in terms of security from Africa being a more stable place.I should never have asked if he thought he had violated his oath tothe Constitution, of course he wouldn’t admit to that. I should haveheld up one of the pocket Constitutions his staff was passing out andasked him to point out the article and section in the Constitutionwhere he had the authority to vote to send $50 billion to Africa,especially for humanitarian reasons.Here is an idea, I will give $50 to the first person who can find theauthority in the Constitution to send $50 billion to Africa to fightAIDS? I will make it $100 if it is Congressman Cole or one of hisstaffers!Kenneth Rice asked him where he found the Constitutional authority tofund $700 billion for the TARP bailout? After beating around the bushfor a while about what a tough decision it was for him, he pointedback to the difficult times Oklahoma went through following the oilbust of the 1980s. Congressman Cole talked about the large number ofbanks in Oklahoma that closed and that we led the nation inbankruptcies and foreclosures. He said the tough times lasted severalyears and he just didn’t want to see the nation have to go throughsomething like that.Now folks that all sounds good and reasonable. What he said it true,it was tough times in Oklahoma. However, we made it through thosetough times and I believe we are better off for it. One of the reasonsour banks in Oklahoma aren’t in trouble today and one of the reasonswe didn’t see the run away rise in property increases in Oklahoma isbecause of some of the lessons we learned through those tough times.I say they are lessons that our nation as a whole needs to learn.Before the economic decline our federal government and many businessesas well as people had become intoxicated on a runaway borrow and spendcraze. In natural economic law, excesses always call for corrections.Rather than allow for those corrections to take place, CongressmanCole and other central planners and economy manipulators are simpledoing more of the same which got us into this problem in the firstplace.Congressman Cole was a big spender under President Bush and to takehim as seriously concerned about the big spending ways of theDemocrats is rather foolish in my mind. Cole may have severalRepublican challengers in 2010. R.J. Harris of Norman has alreadyannounced and Kenneth Rice from Lawton may do so in the future. Republicans should really evaluate these other candidates and supportthem if they are more conservative and be willing to uphold ratherthan ignore the Constitution . Of course there will always be theRepublican Kool-aide drinkers who will blindly support Cole becausethey think he is wonderful. Sadly, he is actually so slick as toconvince many he is a conservative when he is not.

+ SPEAKER BENGE HAD AN ANSWER FOR HIS RE-DISTRIBUTION SCHEME!

In the e-mail from last week, I suggested someone attending theOklahoma County fund raising event ask Speaker Benge why he supportedlegislation to force people in Oklahoma County as well as the rest ofthe state to go further into debt to fund low water dams on theArkansas River in Tulsa. Especially since the people of Tulsa countyhad voted against taxing themselves for such a project. It wasreported to me his answer went something like this:It wasn’t the people of Tulsa that defeated the measure, it was thepeople in towns surrounding Tulsa but still in the county thatdefeated the measure. However, the project is good for economicdevelopment and what is good for Tulsa will be good for Oklahoma.Wow, with that kind of ability to justify re-distribution of wealthschemes, I believe Speaker Benge could become an economic developmentexpert in the Obama administration once he is out of office next year.Help me to understand such logic. Since the people surrounding Tulsaweren’t willing to tax themselves for the project, Speaker Bengedecided to use his power to force the taxpayers throughout the rest ofthe state pay for the project?Since this isn’t a revenue bond and the people of Oklahoma will nothave an opportunity to vote on the issue, is this measure un-constitutional? I believe so. However, since the citizens of Oklahomaalways seem to vote to retain our State Supreme Court Justices, Ithink those Justices feel pretty much free to turn a blind eye as tothe constitutionality of these kind of bond issues as they have beendoing for many years now. I wouldn’t look to the court forconstitutional help.Please understand, Speaker Benge is a likeable fellow and he has votedand supported many good measures this year. However, Oklahoma will notmove up to the next level of good government conservatism until ourelected officials become more consistent in their understanding of thedifference between the proper role of state government verses what isimproper. They must also have the convictions to say no to that whichis improper.

An understanding of the content of the little book, THE LAW - THECLASSIC BLUEPRINT FOR A FREE SOCIETY by Frederic Bastiat along withthe historical account of Congressman Davy Crocket titled, NOT YOURSTO GIVE would go a long way in helping elected officials determinewhat government should fund verses what should be left up to theprivate sector. I gave both of those little books to Speaker Bengelast year. Hopefully he will get around to reading or at leastunderstanding them before he leaves office next year.

+ IS THE TRUTH EVIDENT, ARE THE REAL HATERS THE HOMOSEXUALS?

By now most people following the news believe Miss California, CarriePrejean, angered a homosexual judge in the Miss USA Pageant andfinished second rather first in the contest. She had the conviction tostand up for her values when she answered the question as to whethermarriage should be between a man and a woman rather than have marriageredefined to allow for homosexuals to marry.Since that time that judge has called her the B…. word, the C… wordand others in the media and elsewhere have derided, mocked, andvilified her with some of the most cruel and condescending commentsthey could muster. Anyone with any intellectual honesty or discernmentwill easily see that it is the homosexual community and their leftistallies who are full of hate toward anyone who happens to disagree withthem, no matter how kind a person may be with their differentopinion.Sources close to the Miss Oklahoma Pageant tell me it will be verydifficult for any young woman to win our contest if they are put onthe spot with a question or perhaps support a purity issue that wouldrun counter to the thinking of what some believe are liberal orhomosexual influences in the Oklahoma contest. I am not saying theyoung women who have won in the past support perversion or impurity,they simply may have escaped being put directly on the spot on theissue such as happened to Miss California.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday.

Charlie Meadows
Charliemeadows7@gmail.com