Monday, September 28, 2009

MARK SHANNON, EXPOSES MAYOR MICK AS TRICKY MICK?

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

+ ANNOUNCEMENTS

+ MORE ON OKLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL CITIZENSHIP FAILURE Taxpayers aren’t

+ going to pay for my new electric car? Unfair Unfair

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+ MARK SHANNON, EXPOSES MAYOR MICK AS TRICKY MICK?

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon meeting for Wednesday September 30 will be held at Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. We are going to show the newly produced documentary CAMP FEMA over the next two weeks as it is 90 minutes long and we will see half each week. I don’t know that I agree with everything in the video, but I believe it to be an important issue to look at the evidence to see if the federal government is preparing concentration camps to round up large numbers of American citizens should they determine there to be too much resistance to those who currently rule our nation. Come see it and make up your own mind.

+ ANNOUNCEMENTS

There is a lot going on into the first week of October, some of which needs to have reservations sent in a timely manner. I will give these in chronological order.

NORMAN AREA - Tuesday evening September 29th, 7:00 p.m. in the Kerr Auditorium at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, there will be a seminal event on the debate surrounding the evolution versus creation controversy.

The Ideas Club at OU is sponsoring the Southwestern Premiere, showing of the newly produced documentary, DARWIN’S DILEMMA - THE MYSTERY OF THE CAMBRIAN FOSSIL RECORD. After the showing, there will be discussions featuring Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of The Signature in the Cell: DNA Evidence for intelligent Design and Dr. Jonathan Wells, biologist and author of Icons of Evolution as well as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design.

This is a very important issue, so I hope as many can attend as possible. OU is a hot bed for radical professors who believe in evolution. I don’t believe these modern day “priests of humanism” will be able to allow this program to be held in their “temple of humanism”

without showing up to contend during the discussion time. It should be really interesting. For more information visit: ouidea@gmail.com, or www.darwinsdilemma.org.

TULSA AREA - Oklahomans for Sovereignty And Free Enterprise (OK-

SAFE) will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday evening, September 1st from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. at the Hardesty Library, 8316 East 93rd street in Tulsa. The thrust of the meeting will be about “citizen involvement in the legislative process.

TULSA AREA - One of the most valuable educational seminars available are the World View Weekend events. I have gone out of state to attend several of them. They have created a shortened version, called Code Blue Rallies, which only last several hours on one evening. On Saturday evening, October 3rd from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. there will be a rally at the First Baptist Church, 205 East A Street in Jenks Oklahoma. There is no cost to attend, but you must print out a ticket.

For information about the rally and to print out your ticket log on to www.codebluerally.com.

NORMAN AREA - There will be a Code Blue Rally on Sunday evening, October 4th from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the new Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center, 2501 Conference Drive in Norman. It will be held in the Oklahoma Ballroom. Again, there is no charge to attend but to print out your ticket and see the agenda of the meeting, log on to www.codebluerally.com.

PURCELL AREA - The John Birch Society will be sponsoring an introduction to activism through the JBS on Monday evening (1 week from this Monday) October 5th. The location will be the First American Bank, Conference Center (the building South of the bank) in Purcell.

The bank is located at Main street and Lester Lane and the time will be from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Any constitutionalist or conservative in the area ready to move from being a hand wringing worry wart to an effective activist should attend this meeting

OKC AREA - The Oklahoma Family Policy Council will hold their annual First Things Banquet on Tuesday evening October 6th, starting at 6:30 p.m. The location will be the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in OKC. The speaker will be Dr. Greg Smalley. For more information and reservations log on to www.okfamilypc.org or call

(405) 787-7744. You may also inquire through e-mail to info@okfamilypc.org.

+ MORE ON OKLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL CITIZENSHIP FAILURE

Last week I mentioned how poorly Oklahoma High school students did in regard to answering 10 of the questions from the citizenship test given to immigrants seeking citizenship. We took the test at our OCPAC meeting last week and most of those in attendance scored perfect on all 10, even though they had to write down the correct answers, unlike the high school students who were taking the test in the multiply choice format.

Most of those in attendance scored a perfect 10. The lowest score I was made aware of was 7 correct. Out of the 1,000 high school students, only 6 students got 7 correct and no student scored more than 7 correct. One thing I didn’t mention in last week’s e-mail was that 46 students couldn’t even get one correct answer, and remember, it was multiple guess! Many people have requested the 10 questions, therefore I have decided to list them below. Following my sign off at the end of the e-mail you will find the answers.

1. What is the supreme law of the land?

2. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?

4. How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

6. What ocean is on the East coast of the U.S.?

7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?

8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

9. Who was the first President of the United States?

10. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

While all of these questions are about important facts, really none of them measure the understanding of a person about the philosophical or ideological ideas behind our nation. To restore or nation, it is imperative we have well educated citizens in the principles of our heritage. The fact that 75 percent of students couldn’t name the first president, then couple that with the film footage of little school children singing a song about Barack Hussain Obama which surfaced this past week, it is imperative you consider getting your children out of the government schools. They are little more than stateist indoctrination centers. If you don’t you are playing spiritual, emotional and academic “Russian Roulette” with the lives of your children.

+ Taxpayers aren’t going to pay for my new electric car? Unfair

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Several years ago the “brilliant” lawmakers “down dere to the marble pork pen” at 23rd and Lincoln decided they would do some more central planning by trying to manipulate the economy. By creating incentives they hoped to cause more people to purchase electric cars. So they passed a law which allowed anyone purchasing an electric car to use the sword of government to require all the other folks in Oklahoma to pay taxes to amount to half the cost of the car for a person to buy such a car. I am sure the program had minimal success as the purchaser still had to fork over as sizeable sum for these overpriced golf carts.

Then along came Obama and his other socialist-fascist Democrat lackeys (Dan Boren was the only Oklahoma Congressman to vote for the stimulus) and they passed a stimulus bill earlier this year. In the stimulus bill was money, up to about $7,000 for people to receive as a tax credit for purchasing an electric car. As long as the super inflated price of the glorified golf carts (they added lights, turn signals, seat belts and a horn) doesn’t exceed about $12,000 to $15,000, then a person buying an electric car could access half the price from the taxpayers of Oklahoma and the other half of the price from the bankrupt federal government and get the new electric car free.

Even though they more nearly resemble a golf cart or a toy, rather than a usable mode of transportation, if you are giving them away, people who are ignorant of the fact that they are using the government to steal money from their neighbors will do so. Or perhaps they are of such low moral character that they don’t care if they steal and would justify doing so by pointing out that government made the theft legal. To understand this thought read the book THE LAW, by Frederic Bastiat, it is only 75 pages and can be accessed on line.

As a result of free cars being given away, people were getting in line to purchase them. Then along came those mean old spoil sports at the Oklahoma Tax Commission. They proposed a clarification to the existing rule, declaring that golf-type vehicles should not be eligible to receive the 50% cost rebate. While the governor must act on the proposal, people who have already purchased their “electric carts, (I mean cars) are upset. They, along with the dealers, manufactures and the people hoping to get a free “car” are whining about it being unfair.

In all reality it is unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game which effect everyone all the way back to the start of the game.

However, I have a hard time FEELING too sorry for any of them knowing they were using government to take tax dollars away from me and my principled friends, so they could have a cute little play toy. Those are tax dollars my family needs to buy a car, pay for a house, put groceries on their table, pay medical bills, take a vacation, or anything else we need or want to spend that money on.

Some might say, would a tax credit rebate program be morally correct if the rebate to the purchaser was not to exceed the amount of taxes paid to government? In many cases people receive tax credits when they pay no taxes and thus those tax credits are nothing more than welfare checks. The problem with receiving a tax credit which doesn’t exceed your tax obligation is that you are skipping out on paying your FAIR share of the cost of government and thus putting more burden on the rest of the people to fund government.

The real problem is that government is interfering with the free market. These programs are fascist or socialist in nature, because lawmakers don’t trust free market economics. Or in most cases, some special interest entity has persuaded lawmakers to create such a program.

So why does the tax commission care? My thoughts are pure speculation so judge them as such. State revenues are way down and tax commission employees are paid from those revenues. Less funds threaten furloughs or perhaps reductions in the work staff. With this program bleeding scarce revenues far more than anyone ever considered, that will mean there will be even less money to go around for government employees.

Another possibility is that they are receiving pressure from lawmakers. During this past session House Speaker Chris Benge (R-

Tulsa) and Senator Brian Bingman (R-Sapulpa) authored legislation which amended the bill which provided the tax credit (rebate) for electric cars to also include a tax credit to convert an existing vehicle or purchase a new vehicle which runs on compressed natural gas (CNG). The electric car program was asleep until the feds got involved (more manipulation of the economy). Now it has really taken off, providing free carts to the purchasers.

When lawmaker amended the old legislation this year I don’t believe they wanted money going to purchase supped up golf carts. The natural gas industry in Oklahoma is a very powerful special interest and prices are depressed. There is a glut of gas on the market. Thus, any legislation which would create incentives to cause people to purchase more of their product would be good for their industry. Senator Bingman is in the oil and gas business and some of the wealthiest people in the state have also pumped tens of thousands of dollars into lawmaker coffers as well as Republican PACs. I believe lawmakers want these subsidies to go toward making more market for the CNG industry, not for the electric golf cart industry, masquerading as viable transportation.

I want to make it very clear. I am not against the oil and gas industry, it is a very important part of our economy. I am also in favor of using CNG as a fuel to help reduce the amount of oil imported from foreign governments. I am not opposed to electric cars or trucks on our roads if they are real vehicles which travel at a reasonable speed and have a reasonable range. I am not against electric golf carts masquerading as autos, as long as people purchase any of these before mentioned vehicles with their own money, and not with tax dollars. That is the free market and moral economic system.

It is unfair to declare that a tax rebate will not apply after a person has already purchased one of these electric carts under the good assumption that is would apply. It would be unfair to pull the rebate out from under those who have already purchased. But it is also unfair and morally wrong to use government to force the rest of us to purchase a vehicle (any kind of a vehicle) for someone else. Just remember, two wrongs never make a right. I just don’t have a lot of sympathy for those caught up in thievery who are afraid of having their legalized thievery shut down.

+ MARK SHANNON - EXPOSES MAYOR MICK CORNETT AS TRICKY MICK?

I can’t say enough good about the quality and content of Mark Shannon’s evening drive talk radio program heard weekdays from 4 to 7:00 p.m. on KTOK 1000 AM. In my opinion Mark has reached that perfect blend of talk about national issues of which we are all interested in, but hear all day on the nationally syndicated programs, and local issues. This market has been woefully lacking on local talk in the afternoons for some time until now.

Two particular issues of importance are the Industrial Areas Foundation, a leftist group out of Chicago that has moved into the OKC area to infiltrate local churches with their Marxist ideology. The other issue is the vote in December on the next Maps 3 project (777 million dolar project) along with the appearance of a major conflict of interest involving OKC Mayor Mick Cornett.

I will be writing much more about the Maps 3 project in future e- mails, but at this time I just want to say I believe Mick Cornett would have no problem with a conflict of interest based on his value system. That is, unless his value system has changed from the what is was when he first ran for Mayor.

Let me explain. When he decided to run for Mayor he came to the Northwest Republican Club for one of his first campaign talks. I asked him this question, Mick, when you are faced with a difficult decision what is the moral code you use, what life philosophy do you come from, do you believe in the philosophy that the “end justifies the means”?

His first 2 attempts to answer the question were political answers, I would stop him and just kept asking the question of him. On the third time, he admitted that the “end justifying the means” was his moral code. I believe his answer shocked almost everyone present in that meeting.

He had agreed to participate in a candidate forum at an OCPAC meeting about 2 months after the previously mentioned meeting. On the scheduled day for the candidate forum he arrived an hour early and told me he couldn’t attend but wanted to come by early and see if there were any questions I might have.

I proceeded with the following: Mick, I asked you about your philosophy of the end justifying the means a couple of months back and you have had some time to reflect on that. Do you still hold to the same philosophy today? He answered with, why is that important to you Charlie? I then said, Mick, I could have asked the same question by saying, do you believe in “moral relativism” or “situational ethics”

because they are all the same thing. It is important, because if that is your life philosophy, anytime you believe the end of a matter is good, you can justify lying, cheating or stealing as the means to what you perceive to be a good end. He responded by saying, “oh I see” and he turned around and walked off.

With that kind of a value system, I don’t believe he would have any problem with receiving a big pay check with his new private sector employer and at the same time have that new employer do business with the city, of which he is the Mayor. There may be no laws broken, it just has a huge problem passing the ethical smell test. I will have a lot more to say about Maps 3 in the future and try to have a forum between a proponent and a opponent at a future OCPAC meeting.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday.

Charlie Meadows

charliemeadows7@gmail.com

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

INTERVIEW DETAILING OBAMA’S MARXIST, SOCIALIST AND COMMIE TIES

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
+ HUGE THANKS TO EVERY ONE OF OUR MEMBERS READY TO WASTE A TON OF MONEY
+ ON HIGH SPEED RAIL?
+ INTERVIEW DETAILING OBAMA’S MARXIST, SOCIALIST AND COMMIE TIES


+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday, September 23rd will be held at Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. The main part of our program this week will have our members taking a little test. The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs commissioned an organization to test 1,000 Oklahoma High School Seniors to see if they were well enough educated to pass the test immigrants have to take for citizenship. For an immigrant to obtain citizenship they have to score 60% or above on the test. Only 2.8% of our Oklahoma high school students passed. To be more detailed, only 6 students could answer 7 correct out of 10 and 22 students got 6 out of 10 correct. None of the students got 8 or more of the 10 questions correct. On top of that, they were multiple guess questions. When we take the test you will have to write in the answers, so bring something to write with.

Vladimir Lenin said, if you can cause a people to forget their heritage, they are easily persuaded. May I suggest the easy persuasion he was talking about might be labeled “hope and change.” So here is a question, with only a 2.8 percent passing rate, have our schools been a total failure? Or, if the “education industry” (I call it an industry because its primary function is about power, wealth and re- making America), has as its goal to dumb down America, have they been a phenomenal success? We will have some discussion on those questions.
If time allows we will view a small part of a newly produced DVD titled, CAMP FEMA - AMERICAN LOCKDOWN. Part of the production of this film was done in OKC during the Freedom 21 Conference about a month ago where I was interviewed during that time. I really don’t have much information about FEMA camps. However, I got into the 10th Amendment and states rights issues and those comments made the cut.

+ HUGE THANKS TO EVERY ONE OF OUR MEMBERS

In last week’s e-mail I said that we needed 6 more people to join by this past Wednesday to take full advantage of the $600 matching membership challenge. Nine people responded by paying dues to become an official member of OCPAC.

When we started the year, I wasn’t sure how we would do with the economy slowing down and people becoming more cautious with their money. The record number of people joining in a non-election year was
153 during 2007. Our all time record number of members was in 2008 with 203 dues paying members. Not only have we blown past the non- election year record, we surpassed our all time record as we now have
211 dues paying members.

We will probably have a few more memberships trickle in, though toward the end of the year they slow down as all memberships expire on December 31st other than those who have their checking accounts drafted on a monthly basis. Ultimately the purpose of our memberships is to raise funds for conservative candidates, conservative incumbents and our accountability efforts.

As a point of interest, while the majority of our dues paying members live within a 60 mile radius of OKC, we have dues paying members from Poteau, near the Arkansas border in East central Oklahoma to Sayre, near the Texas line in West central Oklahoma. We have members from the panhandle in the Northwest down to Broken Bow in the far Southeast part of the state. We also have members from Newkirk, Ponca City and the Tulsa area in the North to Duncan and Lawton in the Southern part of the state.

Many of the folks who live in the more distant areas may never or rarely be able to attend one of our meetings, but they understand that we are trying to elect conservative candidates all over the state.
Another reason many have chosen to support OCPAC is our consistently conservative position on issues and our willingness to honor lawmakers who hold to those positions as well as point out those who stray from conservatism, no matter the name of such a lawmaker. In addition, all of our members and officers are volunteers, so your dues are not burned up paying salaries, like occur with the fund raising efforts of the party or the many Republican PACs. As such, we have very minimal expenses, which means you cannot find a more efficient organization to support for your dollars to go toward making Oklahoma a more conservative state.

This is not a complaint or an attempt to evoke sympathy, but I spend a lot of time and resources trying to make OCPAC effective. However, it is well worth it, as I first believe it is worth the effort to turn our state and nation back to its Biblical and founders principles. I also sense a calling to do this. On top of that, it is one of life’s highest privileges to meet and associate with some of the finest people in Oklahoma, and I really mean that. You folks are tremendous.

On another note, I was out of state on Wednesday the 9th for a funeral. During my absence, there was a full blown conspiracy hatched at our meeting to expose me this past Wednesday for having had a birthday on the 10th. While having a birthday is better than the alternative, turning 63 was not nearly a cool as the days long ago when I turned 36.

The giant yellow cake with chocolate icing and lots and lots of candles was really nice, especially with such neat overalls (made of
icing) as the decoration. For those who have never attended one of our meetings, This past July recorded 35 years for me to be in the window cleaning business and as such, I wear overalls to hang squeegees, razor blades and such in the loops and pockets as well as having clothes that don’t have to be pulled up every time I bend over (which is often). Rather than change for our meeting and then have to change back, I wear them to our meetings. I knew something was up before the meeting started as people who never wear overalls showed up in them and Richard brought a large number of cloth strips so people in suits or street clothes could hang them over their shoulders. I feared that blowing out the candles with ease would lead to evidence that I am little more than a windy blowhard. None the less, thanks to everyone who gave such a hearty applause at my dispatching of the candles and also those who signed the card. I really mean it, thanks to everyone for your friendship and support.

+ READY TO WASTE A TON OF MONEY ON HIGH SPEED RAIL?

Monday and Tuesday of last week the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) held meetings in OKC and Tulsa for public input regarding high speed rail service between Tulsa and OKC. ODOT is planning on requesting about $2,000,000,000.00 (2 billion) in stimulus money from the federal government (which is already bankrupt) with the vast majority of that money going to the line between Tulsa and OKC. If completed, it would require an estimated $22,000,000.00 (22
million) each year in subsidies, probably provided by state government as well as the cities of Tulsa and OKC, all of which are in severe shortfalls with the struggling economy.

I am not against a high speed train running between the two cities as long as it is established and operated by BNSF, UNION PACIFIC or some other PRIVATE sector entity doing so without any government subsidies.
May I say, there really is a better chance of an ice cube remaining frozen in hell than some private sector entity building and operating such a train. The reason is simple. There is NOT a market for such a train. Meaning, not enough people willing to pay several hundred dollars for a ticket which would put enough money into the bank account of a private entity who had to lay out the enormous amount of capital for establishing the line, acquiring engines and cars and then run them at a minimum of a 5 to 8 percent profit margin on investment.

In my opinion, the people attending these meetings clamoring for this big pink elephant boondoggle aren’t petty thieves, but rather big time thieves trying to commit grand larceny. Most of them would be too cowardly to go door to door with a gun demanding people fork over 2 billion dollars to establish the venture and then each year going door to door with a gun seeking 22 million to keep the loser running.
However, they are brave enough to plead with a third party (the
government) to do their thievery for them. There are proper functions of government for which we are to pay taxes, or in the case of roads, user fees. A government owned and subsidized train isn’t one of them.

It is estimated the train, with stops, will take 72 minutes to travel from one end of the turnpike to the other. It currently takes about 90 minutes in a car, so we are talking about spending a huge sum of money, that the federal government will have to print, to save 18 minutes per trip? That is insanity. On top of that, train riders will have to drive to a departure point or have someone take them and then have someone pick them up to go where they want to go upon arrival. It is highly unlikely the train will pick them up or drop them off where they want to be. However, an auto does that perfectly. Only a handful of people will ever ride the train, or at least more than once, and yet all the people will have to work and pay taxes to keep the fiasco operating.

Oklahoma residents have until this Friday, September 25th to comment on this project. Those comments will be included into the request for funding. If you are against this horrific spending project, you need to let ODOT know. You may send your comments via e-mail to Bridgewater@odot.com. Or send your letters to ODOT Rail Division, 200 Northeast 21st, Room 3-D6, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105. Do it now as the deadline is the 25th.

+ INTERVIEW DETAILING OBAMA’S MARXIST, SOCIALIST AND COMMIE TIES

This is a little long but well worth the read. A commentator by the name of John Charlton with the Post & Email, interviews a New Zealander by the name of Trevor Loudon with the firm, New Zealand Research Associates. Much of this information is similar to information the John Birch Society has been warning Americans about for 50 years now. At one point in the interview, Mr. Loudon briefly touches on the influences of Communists regarding Islam and terrorism.
On November 12th of this year Mr. Art Thompson, CEO of the Birch Society, will be in OKC for a detailed presentation on the influence of Moscow upon Islam and terrorism. Please mark that on your calendars as it will be a very important presentation. I will give more details on his talk later on. Now for the interview:

Mr. Trevor Loudon(Sept. 14, 2009) — Revelations that Obama was not just chummy with Marxists and Socialists throughout his life, but even may have been recruited by the KGB, first surfaced with Tom Fife, the physicist’s testimony (see www.rense.com for audio file).
More recently, a New Zealand researcher has obtained documents which connect the dots, and seemingly confirm the Fife testimony.
To get a better understanding of the Communists network in America, I requested an interview with Trevor Loudon, of New Zealand Research Associates, who has spent much of his life investigating international Marxism and its operatives. Such is Loudon’s authority, that Media Matters recently named him the “Bolgger who nailed Van Jones.”
What follows is a highly informative interview with Mr. Loudon, which is a must read for all thoughtful American citizens in the present national crisis.
The Post & Email interviewed Mr. Loudon by email, at his residence in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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MR. CHARLTON: I asked your for this opportunity to interview you on the basis of a research article you recently posted on the Internet at your blog, The New Zeal, regarding the Communist Network in Chicago a generation ago. But before we discuss it, can you tell me something about yourself, for the readers of The Post & Email, who might be unfamiliar with Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand researcher.

MR. LOUDON: I have been researching communism since the 80s-when our own Moscow aligned Marxists turned New Zealand anti-nuclear and destroyed the ANZUS Alliance.
My special interest is the ability of the far left to infiltrate and manipulate “moderate” political parties and institutions to influence public opinion and alter government policies.
I began studying the US communist movement after observing the strength of the Anti-Iraq war movement.

MR.. CHARLTON: What was it that lead you to investigate the Communist Network in Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: General research into the Communist Party USA led me to stumble on a reference to Obama and his communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis in early 2007. It piqued my interest-even at that stage I could see he was marked for high office. The more I dug, the more I found-ties to Democratic Socialists of America and Committees of Correspondence and direct evidence of Communist Party support during his 2004 Senate campaign.

MR. CHARLTON: What importance did the Communist Network in Chicago have among the Communists in the U.S.A., before, during and after WWII?

MR. LOUDON: Chicago was the birthplace of US communism — the party was founded there in 1919. Chicago and Detroit were the centers of Midwest communism into the 1930s. The communist influenced “Black renaissance “ movement was centered in two places-Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Chicago’s advantage in communist terms, was that the industrial South Side with its large working class white, black and Latino populations was bordered by the more affluent Hyde Park area, and the thoroughly communist infiltrated University of Chicago. The Marxist academics of the UC had half a city of proletarians on their doorstep to experiment with and practice on. Hyde Park has been a major center of Socialism and communism ever since. I believe it is no accident that Obama based himself there.

MR. CHARLTON: First, for those who may be unfamiliar, can you say something about Communism, Marxism, Leninism? What’s their origin and what’s the difference between them?
MR. LOUDON: Marxism is the collectivist political philosophy developed by Karl Marx in the mid 19th century. Basically it states that class struggle is the motive power of social change and that the working class is destined to overthrow capitalism and establish a classless, communal society-communism.
Leninism — developed obviously by Lenin, father of the 1917 Russian revolution — is simply a philosophy and series of interlinked tactical strategies for achieving power for one group at the expense of all others.
Marxism-Leninism is the use by Marxists, of Leninist strategies to achieve power.
Most modern communists pay lip service only to Marxism, which has been well and truly discredited. Leninism on the other hand has proven highly successful and has been used to take power in dozens of countries.
Most communists today are Leninists in practice, Marxists in name only.

MR. CHARLTON: What role did the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics have in spreading Communism internationally? And in organizing Communist parties world-wide?

MR. LOUDON: From the late 1920s to the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was unquestionably the leader of world communism.
Soviet defector and former KGB operative Anatoly Golitsyn, claims that even the Sino-Soviet split of the early 1960s was faked in order draw the US closer to China.
I support that view.

MR. CHARLTON: Can we discount claims that the USSR backed communist organizations in the West, since communists existed in the West before they did in Russia?

MR. LOUDON: Once the Russian revolution was consolidated, the Soviet Union became the supreme ruler of the world communist movement.
All direction came from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the Khrushchev era, when more ‘independent” forms of communism were introduced.
While some parties were nominally more independent and even critical of Moscow in some instances, the Soviets still maintained their central coordinating role.

MR. CHARLTON: What were the goals of the American Communist Party?

MR. LOUDON: A socialist/communist America — (and they) still are.
From early on the US communists put great emphasis on infiltrating the labor unions, the Democratic Party, the US government and the “civil rights” movement.
While hugely reduced in size the US communists and their allies in Democratic Socialists of America, Committees of Correspondence and the wider “progressive” movement have huge influence on the more than 70 strong Congressional Progressive Caucus, the AFL-CIO and several large black and Latino organizations.
These are being used to break down and alter the character of US society.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the early leaders of this party in the U.S.A.
in the inter war years (1918-1939)?

MR. LOUDON: William Z. Foster and Earl Browder were the main leaders in this period.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the ringleaders, movers-and-shakers of the Communist Network in Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: In post-World-War-II Chicago you had prominent leaders like William Patterson and his wife Louise, later it was Jack Kling, the Childs brothers (both later revealed to be FBI agents) Claude Lightfoot, Ishmael Flory, Milton Cohen, Abe Feinglass, Richard Criley, Frank Wilkinson, Frank and Bea Lumpkin and Ted Pearson-today its John Bachtell, Scott Marshall and his wife Roberta Wood.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the prominent African Americans in the Chicago network?

MR. LOUDON: In the 40s they included William and Louise Patterson, Ishmael Flory, Claude Lightfoot, Frank Marshall Davis and Oscar Brown. Vernon Jarrett (father-in-law of Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett) and future Chicago mayor Harold Washington were close to the network as was future Obama friend Timuel Black and close Obama associates:
former Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer and one term Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun.

MR. CHARLTON: Can you tell me something about the Jarrett family?

MR. LOUDON: Vernon Jarrett was a prominent Chicago journalist who used his columns to promote Barack Obama during his 2004 Senate run (Jarrett died soon after).
In the later 40s Jarrett worked in at least three communist influenced or controlled organizations in common with Frank Marshall Davis — the two worked together on the publicity committee of a communist controlled Packing House Workers strike support committee in 1948..
After that Vernon Jarrett ran a black oriented radio program in partnership with Communist Party member Oscar Brown-later a famous jazz musician.
The Jarretts were family friends with the Bowman family and Valerie Bowman became Valerie Jarrett through a five year marriage to Vernon Jarrett’s now deceased son.
Valerie’s mother Barbara Taylor Bowman runs the Erikson Institute in Chicago. Tom Ayers, father of Weather Underground terrorist leader and Obama associate Bill Ayers served on the Erikson board as did Bill Ayers’ wife Bernardine Dohrn. Bill Ayers claims to be a friend and Hyde park neighbor of Barbara Bowman, who incidentally is an adviser on early childhood education to the Secretary of Education.
Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle Obama for a Chicago City job in the 90s and became a close friend and advisor to both Michelle and Barack, leading to her current job in the White House.

MR. CHARLTON: Can you tell me who was Frank Marshall Davis? And what were his connections to the Chicago Network?

MR. LOUDON: Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent Chicago journalist and poet in 1940s Chicago. He was member of the Dorie Miller Club of the Communist Party, but never publicly admitted membership.
Davis left Chicago for Hawaii in 1948, where he worked on the Honolulu Record, a paper controlled by the communist ‘owned’ International Longshoremen’s Worker Union.
Davis was an active, but still covert Party member in Hawaii and went underground with the Party in the mid 50s-after a Senate Inquiry into communist activities on the islands. Davis was one third of a three member underground cell with his wife Helen Canfield and one other comrade. At one point the FBI observed Davis photographing obscure Hawaii beaches, leading to speculation that he may have been involved in intelligence gathering. Davis was marked by the FBI for immediate arrest in the event of war with the Soviet Union. Like many of his comrades Davis was an official in the Hawaii Democratic Party. In 1970 Davis was introduced to a 10 year old Barack Obama, by Obama’s grandfather-who was Davis’ friend and drinking buddy. The Davis/Obama relationship endured until 1978 when Obama left for college in Los Angeles. Frank Marshall Davis was listed as an endorser of the well documented Communist Party front-Committee for Protection of Foreign Born until at least 1974. Davis died in 1987.

MR. CHARLTON: Why did Davis go to Hawaii?

MR. LOUDON: It was reportedly at the suggestion of both the singer/ activist Paul Robeson and ILWU boss Harry Bridges-both covert party members.

MR. CHARLTON: Did Barry get help from Davis to go to Occidental? To get into Columbia or Harvard?

MR. LOUDON: No evidence

MR. CHARLTON: Did the Chicago Network invite Barack Obama to Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: Obama claims that he was inspired to leave New York for Chicago in 1983 after the election of the city’s first black mayor Harold Washington-who was involved in Party fronts well into the 1980s.
It is important to note that Obama attended “socialist conferences” at the Cooper union while in New York.
Cooper Union was the usual venue of the annual Socialist Scholars Conference which was organized by Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA) — the US’s largest socialist/Marxist grouping.
Chicago DSA allied with the Chicago CP to elect Harold Washington and Carol Moseley Braun.
DSA endorsed Obama in his 1995 Illinois State senate run.
Obama joined the Chicago New Party at that time. The New Party was a coalition of ACORN, DSA, Committees of Correspondence and SEIU activists Obama worked closely with several DSA members in Chicago, a well as with come cadre from Committees of Correspondence — a Communist Party splinter group.
Several of Obama’s close friends, neighbors and colleagues were involved with DSA including Saul Mendelson, Quentin Young, Timuel Black, Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jackie Grimshaw, Leon Despres and Congressmen Danny Davis and Jan Schakowsky.
Of those Mendelson was an ex Trotskyite, Young is an ex Communist, Despres was an ex Socialist Party member and Trotskyite, Black is also a member of CoC and Davis has ties to both the Communist Party and CoC.

MR. CHARLTON: What history is there between Obama and the Communist Party since his arrival in Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: Obama’s main documented links to the Chicago left were through DSA, Committees of Correspondence and the New Party.
Prominent CoC leader Manning Marable wrote in Britain’s Socialist Review of November 2008:
What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years… That said, both the Chicago Communist Party and Young Communist League campaigned for Obama in his 2004 Senate race and both organizations overtly campaigned for Obama in 2008.
Communist Party leader Sam Webb recently described Obama as a ‘friend.”

MR. CHARLTON: What does Obama mean by “Change we can believe in“? Who is this “we”, and what is this “change”?

MR. LOUDON: We is the broad ‘progressive movement” which includes the Communist Party, Democratic Socialists of America, Committees of Correspondence, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, ACORN, AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Demos, Institute for Policy Studies, Center for American Progress, Campaign for America’s Future, George Soros’s Open Society institute, United for Peace and Justice, Jobs with Justice, Economic Policy Institute, US Action, Apollo Alliance, the more than 70 strong Congressional Progressive Caucus, Progressive democrats of America, the wider Democratic Party…..etc, etc and their allies in the MSM, academia and government.
The change is towards a unionized, centralized, oligarchic “progressive” society where the values of the left reign supreme and traditional American values are demonized and all opposition is marginalized-by whatever means necessary.

MR. CHARLTON: Was Obama ever a Communist Party Candidate? A Socialist Party candidate?

MR. LOUDON: I doubt he was ever that silly. The New Party which Obama did join was established by DSA, CoC, ACORN, SEIU and the far left Institute for Policy Studies, but it was leftist, rather than openly Marxist.

MR. CHARLTON: Who in the current Obama Administration has ties to the Communist or Socialist parties?

MR. LOUDON: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has ties to the Communist Party, DSA, Socialist International and Cuba.
David Bonior (formerly number two Democrat in Congress) who is working for Obama to re-unite the AFL-CIO and Change to Win is a paid up DSA member.
Carol Browner (Energy/Climate change) has ties to the Socialist International-which despite its name now includes several ‘former’
communist parties — and China as an “observer”.
David Axelrod was mentored by two Communist Party linked activists, Don Rose and David S Canter in his early days in Chicago. At one point Canter, an importer of Soviet literature was required to register as an agent of the Soviet Union.
Van Jones, was of course involved with STORM and the Bay Area Committees of Correspondence.
New manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom is an anti-capitalist with some links to DSA There are others who I’d rather “keep my powder dry” on at this time.

MR. CHARLTON: Is there any significance in the kind of authority or power he has given to each, regarding the “Change” that he wants to introduce?

MR. LOUDON: Take “manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom — I predict that he will push for card-check to increase union power.
He will also push for single payer health care. He will run the argument that to make US industry competitive, industry must be relieved of the health benefits burden. It must instead be loaded on to the taxpayer to get “industry’-unionized industry only of course-“back on its feet.
All the Czars have, I believe, been picked to centralize and socialize their particular sector of US society — or to provide camouflage for their underlings who will do the real work.

MR. CHARLTON: What significance do you put on the evidence you have gathered?

MR. LOUDON: That’s for my readers to decide.

MR. CHARLTON: For the record, from your research, can you say if there is any kind of collaboration or alliance between international Communism and Islamic Fundamentalism?

MR. LOUDON: That goes very deep. It is nothing new-the communists have been infiltrating Islam since the twenties, just as they have Christianity in the west and Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia.
There are numerous links between Middle Eastern communist parties and the PLO and other radical Islamic groups. The same in the US-the left has bent over backwards to defend Islamic radicalism and attack all US efforts to defeat militant Islam.

MR. CHARLTON: Does China have any role in the Communist Party in America?

MR. LOUDON: Yes-the Communist Party USA has developed extensive ties to China in recent years. The Russians haven’t been forgotten though.
Party leader Sam Webb was in Moscow a couple of years ago.

MR. CHARLTON: Why should free peoples everywhere, be wary about Communists after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

MR. LOUDON: Because China has 70 million party members and the movement is very strong in Europe, Japan, Latin America, Southern Africa and of course Russia.
You also have 70 members of the congressional progressive caucus, most of whom would be very comfortable in a European socialist or communist party.
You have a president who…….
Your media tells you little of communist/socialist strength overseas and nothing of your internal threats.
The big advantage that modern communists and socialists have over their 1950s counterparts is that today they have virtually zero governmental or media opposition.
Until Fox news that is.

MR. CHARLTON: What kind of Communist infiltration is there in the Main Stream Media in the West? Is their editorial policy based on this?

MR. LOUDON: The left infiltrated the journalism schools very early in the piece-turning budding reporters into “social change agents” rather than objective news gatherers.
Add to that a craven fear of being labeled a “McCarthyist” and a deliberate policy of infiltrating leftists into key media positions and you have a big problem.
The MSM practically went through Sarah Palin’s underwear drawer — which is perfectly legitimate as every candidate for high office deserves scrutiny — but gave Barack Obama and Van Jones a free pass.
MSM bias is blatant. Thank god for the internet and Glenn Beck.

MR. CHARLTON: Is there anything you would like to add?

MR. LOUDON: Thanks for the opportunity to address your readers.

MR. CHARLTON: Thank you for your time and availability Mr. Loudon; it has been a pleasure to speak with you about the Communist ties of Barack Hussein Obama.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday.

Charlie Meadows
Charliemeadows7@gmail.com

Monday, September 14, 2009

GIVING HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
+ ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ TAKE THE TEST - HOW ARE YOU BEST DESCRIBED?
+ GIVING HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE
+ 3 MORE DAYS FOR OCPAC MEMBERSHIP CHALLENGE


+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday, September 16th will be held at Italiano’s restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. There is a special election for House District 55 in Southwestern Oklahoma. The former representative recently resigned to serve in the Obama administration which has brought about the need for the special election. The Republican nominee is Todd Russ from Cordell. The Democrat in the race is from Sentinel, the place I was born, though I basically grew up in OKC. Todd Russ was a senate candidate in 2006 and lost by less than 100 votes. Had he won in 2006 the Republicans would have controlled the Senate 2 years earlier than now. As an irrelevant point of interest, a few years ago, Todd and a senior partner purchased the bank in Burns Flat owned by my step mother and a few years prior to that the Democrat candidate purchased the office building in Sentinel where my dad had his law practice. I still have relatives living in both Sentinel and Cordell. A Republican has never held this seat, but the way Western Oklahoma is trending, Mr. Russ has a good chance of winning. We did support him in 2006. I am also going to try to get someone who attended the tea party in Washington to come and give a brief report.

+ ANNOUNCEMENTS

TULSA AREA - The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) is sponsoring a banquet on Thursday evening September 17th, which is Constitution Day. It is being billed as a Liberty Gala, with the speaker being Dr. J. Rufus Fears, a world-renowned author, lecturer, and inspiring professor of classics at the University of Oklahoma. The event will be in the Doubletree at Warren Place in Tulsa, with a reception beginning at 6, dinner at 7 and the program will begin at 8:00 p.m.. For more information please call (405) 602-1667 or log on to www.ocpathink.org. I would urge you to do so quickly as they will need to know a number to plan for the dinner.

+ TAKE THE TEST - HOW ARE YOU BEST DESCRIBED?

We have an OCPAC member, Mr. Donald Wade, who crafted this excellent allegory, which does a great job of defining every person in society.
There is a question at the end of this story. After you read it, evaluate yourself and be honest as to who you really happen to be!

STAND FAST In The Liberty
Millions of ordinary American people are wondering what on earth is driving the insanity that is sweeping over this nation. With illegal immigration, federal takeover of the banking system, federal takeover of private businesses, government health care, trillions of dollars in Un-audited federal give-a-ways, the unsupported theory of global warming with cap and trade taxes and the tsunami of other progressive schemes there is evidence of an out-of-control government in the hands of lawless politicians. It may help to look inside this “progressive”
movement and understand the simple little plan that drives this pervasive madness which has taken the wrecking ball to our Constitution, our economy and our American way of life.

Understanding the Progressive Plan
Person "A" and Person "B" agree to give Person "C's" money to Person "D". Sounds like a little Harmless, feel-good socialism”. But here’s a closer look at the players and their playbook:
The Progressive Person "A" is the Autocrat (self appointed ruler) who, together with his “support team”, ie, the World Banker, the Super Wealthy, the Tax and Spend Politician, most Judges and Bureaucrats and Person “A’s” personal civilian army, the Community Organizers, all believe that he should run the world. It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. It's not easy to sell this plan in it’s raw form to the common man who will have to fund "A’s" ambition and then live under the tyranny of his coming “new world order”.

“A” knows how to use money to turn the Elected Statesman into a Career Politician and control the Political Parties with token handouts. He will use a natural or contrived crisis (the great depression, wars and rumors of wars, global warming, flu virus outbreaks, financial melt-down, etc.) to create a need for which he and his support team have the only possible remedy. He will never let a good crisis go to waste, and, you can be sure that the “remedy”
will always expand his power base while eroding the liberty of the common people.
Progressive Person "B" is the self-styled social Benefactor. This could be the left-leaning Academic, Educator, Church Leader, Journalist, Hollywood Elite or Environmentalist who wants to end all of the world’s misery and create a utopian society (using “C’s” money, of course). He can't do it without help because the conservative minded masses of "C’s" won't relinquish their liberty or their money without a fight.

Stand Fast In The Liberty
Person "B" can’t turn to God for help (even though he likes to be seen at church from time to
time) because, in the arrogance of his higher critical analysis of things, he has relegated a relationship with God to the ash heap of an inconvenient truth. So "B"
teams up with "A" because "A" is amassing the political strength sufficient to enforce all of "B's" great social schemes for good. "A"
tolerates "B" as a partner because "B”’s “intellectual”, “environmental”, "humanitarian", “religious”, or "journalistic"
credentials cloak "A's" self-serving and sinister scheme to run the world.

Since "A" is compulsive and driven in his quest for power, he knows he can always keep "B" in line because "B" is the intellectual or celebrity elite who just wants to be recognized for wanting the best for everyone. And any convictions “B” might have are easily swayed by the popular social mantras of the day (save the trees, save the planet, kill the babies, etc),. "A" knows that "B" will be easily satisfied with the crumbs of “public adulation”, or “tenure” at the university.

Person "C" is the Common man who bows his knee to the Father God of creation and His son, Jesus, who purchased freedom for the people by His substitutionary death and resurrection, for all who care to receive it; “C” is a Conservative in terms of personal responsibility; and a defender of the Constitutional Republic as America’s God-inspired form of civil government.
“C” is a hard working, family oriented individual (or couple) who believes he can make a difference if he can just work a few more hours each week to pay that rising cost of living and that rising tax bill that goes to support Person "A's" veiled transfers of huge sums from the Treasury into the private, global coffers of the “progressive cause”
together with the high
maintenance cost of “A’s” support team (the politician/tax collectors, the bureaucratic enforcers and the community organizers) who require copious infusions of cash from the public trough to support their upscale lifestyles; “C” also covers the cost of Person “B’s”
tenure at the university or church and Person “D’s” life support system.

Person “D” (the Dependant who is trying to survive on government
subsistence) will become
a Person "C" if he ever rises above his poverty status. It's better for him to just stay poor and stay on the receiving end even though his welfare status is just a different form of slavery.
And sadly, Person "C" is "progressively" becoming a Person "D" as “A’s” career politicians and bureaucratic enforcers extract more of “C’s” income through ever increasing taxes and more of "C’s" freedoms through ever increasing regulations in order to construct “A’s” brave new world order. And all the while "progressively" diminishing “C’s”
opportunity and ability to
voice dissent. (Now we know why it’s called “progressive-ism”. A more honest name might be “incremental regressive-ism”).

This is a self-perpetuating matrix (devised by "A" of course). "A" is confident that "B" will continue to support him even if "A’s" ruthless ambition is sometimes offensive to "B’s"
sophisticated sensibilities because "B" sees this as the only expedient path to his utopian dream.
And the inevitable erosion of individual freedom is just the necessary price that has to be paid.
The "D’s" can be counted on to continue to vote for "A"’s progressive politician/tax collector just to be assured that they will receive their next stimulus/ subsistence check.
The "C's" are running so hard to keep it together they haven’t had time to look up and see what "A" and "B" have done to them. "C’s" don’t mind that "D’s" are getting help and they don’t even mind that they indirectly provide that help via their hard work and high taxes, but sometimes they would like to have a hand in administering that benefit directly so "D" knows it came from "C" (as an expression of God’s love) instead of “A’s”
progressive politician/tax
collector getting the credit (and the vote).

This mechanism becomes irreversible over time because it encourages a large and growing sector of "D's" at the bottom who eventually outnumber (and out vote) the "C’s" ("A’s" only opposition). Until that happens "A" may have to import a few (20 million or so) "D’s" from third world societies by allowing illegal immigration and then granting amnesty, along with voting rights, in order to reach the tipping point in the next election.
And rather than lose control to the misguided believers in a constitutional government (Of the people, For the people and By the people), ordained by God (In God We Trust), Person "A" will even send out his “army of mercenaries” (community organizers) to skew the census and the vote if necessary. Whatever it takes, because his progressive battle plan is “too big to fail”, and “losing is not an option”.

From those lovers of liberty who still believe that God (not
government) has endowed the
unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, from these men and women can still be heard freedom’s cherished battle cry, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor 3:17) “Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free” (Gal 5:1).

Stand Fast In The Liberty
SELF TEST

Discover Where You Stand In the Coming New World Order

I See Myself as Being or Becoming The Following Person In This Progressive Brave New World (CHECK ONE) PERSON “A” The Progressive Autocrat (self appointed ruler) Who Desires To Rule The World I believe I am uniquely qualified to be in charge of everything
because:
I do not owe loyalty To God or any Sovereign Nation or any man.
I have been known to possess Messiah-like personality traits.
People want to serve me. Sometimes I think they worship me.
With my charismatic personality I can persuade people to do about anything.
I am gifted to be able to choose the ideal role by which each person can serve me.

PERSON “A’s” SUPPORT TEAM
I am a World-Class High Roller. I don’t need more money but I will pay the price to sit at the table with the group of people who will rule the world.
I am a Career Politician who depends on support from Person “A” or his backers.
I started out to be a Statesman but the cost was too high and the rewards too low.
Now my job is to make sure the taxes keep growing and flowing so “A”
can fulfill
his destiny and continue to support my upscale political career.
I am a Judge. The Constitution changes with the times. And times they be a changing’.
I’m an Un-Elected Bureaucrat. Perhaps a better title would be “Enforcer”.
I’m a Community Organizer. I will be your worst nightmare.

PERSON “B” The Progressive Benefactor Who Wants A “Feel Good” Utopian Society For All I believe I am a great humanitarian Benefactor because:
I am a socially conscious Academic who is intellectually elite and therefore sees the need to re-distribute the wealth from the have’s to the have-not’s so everyone can have a little, and live in the glow of the perfect society (and I can keep my tenure at the university).
I am a liberal Church Leader who wants to fulfill the great commandment to help the poor.
Didn’t Jesus say, “sell all and give it to Caesar so he and his friends, after they have had their fill, can gather up what’s left over and give it to the poor”, or something like that?
I’m a Journalist with a tingle running up my leg. I just want a job.
You call it, I’ll spin it.
I am a Hollywood Celebrity who is guilt-ridden over the obscene income I am paid for the sleazy work that I do. I couldn’t live with myself if I were not able to support a government that can tax the masses and re-distribute the wealth to the less fortunate. Now I feel better.
I am an Evolutionist/Environmentalist to whom the concept of God is an inconvenient truth.

PERSON “C” The Common Man
L-i-b-e-r-t-y! Is there anyone out there that can hear my cry? L-i-b-e-
r-r-r-t-y-y-y-y....:

PERSON “D” The Dependent who is trying to survive below the poverty level.
This dependency feels a lot more like slavery than slavery ever did.
Does anyone have a
better plan? What was it that Person “C” was trying to tell me?
Something about Liberty.
If you don’t feel good about the box you had to check above, join the growing number of those who love Liberty, common folk who honor the Lord and remember Liberty’s battle cry. Get out your CONSTITUTION and your BIBLE. These will be the weapons of your warfare. Follow the drumbeat of your heart. The battle is drawn.

+ GIVING HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE

Sometimes the legislature wants to fund projects, but rather than being up front with who they direct taxpayer money to, they send money to a state agency such as the department of Commerce. That agency will in turn send the money to another entity with instructions to fund a project or a number of projects.

One such effort was to send “pass through” tax dollars to a group known as the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG). I believe it was County Commissioner Rob Cleveland from Cleveland County along with Mark Sharpton of Logan County that stood against this practice and were successful in stopping the practice, as least for now. This may be the first time local elected officials have stood up to the Governor and leadership in the legislature, who I believe want this money to get to where they want it to go. (It may or may not be unconstitutional to directly fund certain projects).

As a result of his stand, Commissioner Sharpton from Logan County sent out a letter to fellow ACOG Directors explaining his perspective on the proper role of government. He sent me a copy of his letter, along with a small book he included with every letter he sent out. The book was the, NOT YOURS TO GIVE story about Davy Crockett, when he was a congressman from the state of Tennessee. Commissioner Sharpton’s letter is as follows:

“Dear Director

I wanted to send you this booklet in order to share with you what I believe to be the intent of our nation’s constitution. I believe my oath of office as a county commissioner and public servant requires me to be vocal about upholding the constitution.

We as regional board members do not always have the opportunity to invoke control over huge ‘donations’ given away by lawmakers. Normally we must deal with the system handed to us by the lawmakers, a system with which I do not always agree. We normally find ourselves placed in a position to ‘use it or loose it.’ Currently, as members of the board, we are in a situation where we have been given control over ACOG’s destiny of being pack mules of legalized plunder or maintaining the credibility of ACOG by being above politics and doing the right thing. I feel if we decide to pass money through ACOG, a subject of recent controversy, we are simply circumventing the legal fact that the legislature cannot directly ‘donate’ money to businesses and organizations. I am sure these organizations are both fine institutions in their respective fields, but it comes down to simple questions that at a personal level would be like someone stealing your lawn mower because their neighbor needs help. It isn’t right on a personal level and it is not right on the governmental level. It is purely legalized plunder.

We have an opportunity to say no to the legislature and to say please do not use this respected board to do the bidding of special interests. We can avoid tarnishing the image and integrity which ACOG has built in its mission of being a straight forward regional planner.
I do not feel ACOG’s purpose is to be a conduit which enables legislators to advance their careers by committing to expenditures that they cannot directly make without the aid of others. I ask you to read the booklet that I have personally provided to help you understand why I feel so strongly about this issue and which I hope will invoke consideration on how you vote on this matter. And let me assure you that however you do respond, I pledge myself to unbiased and fair decisions on other business which comes before the board and will decide every issue based on its merits. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely

Mark Sharpton”

Commissioner Sharpton is “right on” when it comes to the proper role of government and is taking a principled stand. For that he deserves respect above any other elected official who does not take principled stands regarding the proper verses improper functions of government.
Good job Commissioner Sharpton!!!

+ 3 MORE DAYS FOR OCPAC MEMBERSHIP CHALLENGE

We have until Wednesday to take full advantage of matching funds for people who become a dues paying member of OCPAC. The challenge is for every person joining by September 16th a donor will contribute $50 up to a total of $600. So far, during the time limit, we have had six new members join and need 6 more folks step up and join to take full advantage of the challenge. If you have considered joining, but just haven’t done so as yet, please do so now. If we get 6 more new members we will easily break our all time membership record of 203 dues paying members and will have raised the largest amount of PAC money ever in an off election year. This will be our last matching membership challenge this year, so please act now. As long as your check is dated on or before Sept. 16 and the envelope is postmarked by the 16th it will count toward the 6 we need. Instructions on joining follow my sign off. Thanks in advance for your support.

I look forward to seeing everyone this Wednesday.

Charlie Meadows
Charliemeadows7@gmail.com

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

MARK SHANNON SPEAKING THIS WEEK & POLL ON GOVERNOR’S RACE

+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING
+ ANNOUNCEMENTS
+ OCPAC VOTE
+ POLL ON GOVERNOR’S RACE
+ OCPAC MEMBERSHIP


+ AGENDA FOR THIS WEEK’S MEETING

Our 12 noon luncheon for Wednesday 09.09.09 will be held at Italiano’s Restaurant, 4801 North Lincoln in OKC. This will be a busy week leading up to TEA PARTIES all over the United States. The hoped for largest one will be held in Washington D.C. but there will also be activities in Oklahoma. Our main speaker this week will be KTOK radio’s afternoon talk show host Mark Shannon. Mark in on air from 4 until 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday at the 1000 AM marker. Mark and I have had our differences in the past and will probably do so in the future, but our differences are on only about 10% of the issues so it really makes sense to join hands on the majority of issues and oppose the serious threats to our nation.

If you listened to Mark’s program last week your heard him do a super job of exposing the rats in Oklahoma County Government that got their little rats nest upset by newly elected County Commissioner Brian Maughn. Commissioner Maughn forced them out into the light after they ignored his motion to reject their annual salary increase without voting to accept that increase. Maughn had the audacity to speak on Shannon’s show about the issue and in turn he got the Brent Rinehart treatment from some of his fellow Budget Board members. If we were giving out a whiney-butt cry baby award to the one who squealed the loudest it would go to Commissioner Ray Vaughn’s best bud on the budget board, County Assessor RarelyInHisOffice. Oh excuse me, I mispronounced his name, the former RINO nominee when he was in the legislature is none other than Leonard Sullivan. Of course, if we had given out the above mentioned award in the past he would have won it at least another time or two.

In addition, I believe it was Shannon that first blew the lid on President Obama’s plan to speak to the lil school chiln of America, tomorrow on Tuesday. Shannon had a video clip on his web site of the hard core propaganda piece made by a menagerie of Hollywood court jesters that serve at the feet of King Obama. A fellow with a lot more technical skills than I, has transferred it from Mark Shannon’s web- site to a DVD and I was able to see it at a luncheon on Thursday with a group of about 35 patriot pastors. Obama may well tone down his actual talk now that Americans have awakened to another attempt at a power grab by the Prez. I want to make 3 comments about the pro-moe piece. First, its production will really appeal to most of the young minds full of mush that occupy the government school rooms. Second, it is just one more effort to turn the next generation young adults into thoughtless little environmental Nazis. Third, it will be very effective at turning our schools into “political groupie factories”
for President Obama.

There is a scripture in the Bible which says there is nothing new under the sun and it sure holds true with the Obama administration. In the book of Daniel, chapter 1 verses 1 through 5 we see a description of a historical event. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (modern day
Iraq) captured Jerusalem with part of his spoils being some of the most gifted and talented young sons of Israel. He ordered his servants to teach and educate them in the culture of the Chaldeans and to prepare them to be future servants of the King. That is much the same goal of Obama. In the New American Standard version of the Bible, the words teach and educate are actually used. I would say President Obama has little desire to educate children, but rather to indoctrinate them to be good little Marxists and future soldiers to complete his efforts to fully change America from a nation of rugged individuals into a nation of Stateists. Many are suggesting to keep your children at home on Tuesday. That would be a good move; however, a far better move would be to get your children out of the government schools forever if at all possible.

+ ANNOUNCEMENTS

TULSA AREA - Tuesday September 8th will be primary elections for multiple positions for the city of Tulsa, including mayor. Oklahomans For Sovereignty and Free Enterprise (OK-SAFE) produced a 40 question survey for the 41 candidates running for the various offices. The survey along with the responses can be viewed at:
http://www.ok-safe.com/Website/Default.aspx?id=5&pageid=61.

In addition, the conservative Tulsa Area Republican Assembly had an endorsement convention this past Saturday where all of the Republican candidates for office were invited to speak and field questions. It takes a two thirds super majority to win an endorsement. Here are the
results: Chris Medlock was endorsed for mayor, James Mautino for council district 6, Bill Christiansen for council district 8 and Rocky Frisco won the endorsement for council district 4. In addition, Preston Doerflinger won the endorsement for the city auditors race.

The conservative newspaper, The Tulsa Beacon has the same endorsements with one exception. They did not endorse Bill Christianson in the district 8 race and in fact made no endorsement for that seat. You may have reason to differ with these endorsements, but if you haven’t researched the issues and candidates, then I highly recommend these endorsements.

I will say this, Dewey Bartlett is the dictionary definition of a RINO (Republican In Name Only). He will be very difficult to beat without a run-off system as he has high name recognition and the liberal Tulsa Republicans love him and will support him. He was a huge supporter of the disastrous Democrat Mayor, Kathy Taylor and has said as much as, he will continue in her efforts to lead Tulsa. Shame on you, if you vote for Dewey.

TULSA AREA - Wednesday September 9th the Tulsa County Republican Men’s Club will meet for lunch, 12 noon, at the Hong Kong Restaurant,
7315 South Memorial Drive. Any of the Republican candidates who won in their respective primaries the day before will be invited to speak.

OKC AREA - After a Summer break, the Business and Professional Chapter of the John Birch Society will start up their 2nd Wednesday of each month early morning breakfast meetings. A breakfast buffet is ready at 7:15 and the program starts at 7:45 a.m.. The location is the Character First Center at 520 West Main in downtown OKC. Speaking at this month’s meeting will be Tom Vineyard, pastor of Windsor Hills Baptist Church. Tom was a missionary to 3 different countries on the African continent covering a 15 year span of time. He experienced Muslim extremists first hand as all 3 of those nations experienced civil wars during his time there. In his last mission, he was nearly killed by roving thugs intent on robbery. Come hear his amazing testimony about his experiences. The buffet breakfast is $6 and the fellowship before the meeting is always great.

OKC AREA - The Sooner Tea Party has chartered a bus to go to Washington D.C. for the big Tea Party at the U. S. Capitol. I received an e-mail that they still have about 5 seats left on the bus. They will leave Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. from OKC. The cost is $250 for the ride, an expected $50 for motel (multiple occupancy) and figure on $100 to $150 for personal expenses. If you are interested, please contact Al Gerhart at al@thecarpentershop.net or call (405)
412-6233 for more information.

EASTERN OKLAHOMA - Thursday, several of our members from here will be going to Stegler Oklahoma in Haskell County to visit with some of the local business leaders as well as present an OCPAC Proclamation (assuming our members vote to approve the proclamation) to the Haskell County Commissioners. They have been steadfast in their desire to be able to express free speech guaranteed by the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution (see the content of the proclamation under OCPAC vote). If you are interested in going, please contact Clark Curry
(405 348-9991) during normal business hours.

ADA OKLAHOMA - The organizers of the Ada area Tea Party are having their event on Friday evening, September 11th, starting at 6:30 p.m..
It will be held in the Pontotoc VoTech Auditorium in Ada. Part of the program will feature a candidate forum. All of the candidates for governor or a representative were invited to speak and field questions. Senator Randy Brogdon (R-Owasso) will be there along with a person representing Drew Edmondson (Democrat Attorney General). At least two other candidates will be present, Dr. Johnny Roy (5th district congressional candidate) from Edmond and R.J. Harris (4th district congressional candidate). Several of the organizers and those who attend this tea party live in either of these districts. For more information contact Catherine White at (405) 941-3381.

OKC AREA - The Sooner Tea Party folks are hosting a Tea Party-Watch Party on Saturday, September 12th from 11:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. in the Auditorium on the Metro Tech campus which is about 1 mile South of the OKC Zoo. You will be able to watch Glen Beck’s Program, MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. on a big screen TV. 912 organizer Casey McDaniel will emcee the event.

I will put out a special e-mail Thursday evening with information about the solidarity march and the big tea party on Sunday afternoon, September the 13th. This time the tea party will be on the North steps of the Capitol. I may also have information about other tea parties in the state.

OCPAC VOTE - I asked OCPAC Vice Chairman Richard Engle to produce a proclamation honoring the County Commissioners in Haskell County for their tireless efforts to be able to display a monument on the courthouse grounds honoring the 10 Commandments and their significant impact upon the history of our state and nation. Our members attending Wednesday’s meeting will vote yes or no as to this becoming an official proclamation issued by OCPAC. The content is as follows:

Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners of Haskell County Oklahoma did properly approve the request of a private citizen to express freedom of speech in the erecting of a monument depicting the Ten Commandments on public property near the county courthouse in 2004, and

Whereas, the event dedicating the monument was met by remarks favorable to the monument by numerous members of the community as is proper in a nation in which freedom of speech is a paramount public virtue, and

Whereas, in August 2006 an ACLU sponsored case against the Board of County Commissioners resulted in a ruling that affirmed that constitutionality of the action by the Board to permit the private sponsorship of the monument, and

Whereas, the public property near the county courthouse also includes monuments commemorating veterans of military actions, as well as a monument concerning unmarked graves, a monument celebrating the Choctaw Indian Tribe, and numerous others commemorating events of significance showing that the privately sponsored Ten Commandments monument is consistent with the nature of the courthouse property being recognized by the Board of County Commissioners of Haskell County as an area proper for the exercise of free speech rights, and

Whereas, members of the Board of County Commissioners of Haskell County allowed the monument because of its historic significance and that those Commissioners have communicated that other historic monuments would be allowed regardless of the religious nature of any such monuments or of the religion of persons applying to place such monuments, and

Whereas, a three judge panel overturned the ruling affirming the constitutionality of the action of the Board of County Commissioners to permit free speech, and

Whereas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to uphold the free speech rights of the citizens of Haskell County on an evenly split vote, and

Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners of Haskell County Oklahoma are continuing to serve their constituents by advancing an appeal of the split decision of that court.

Therefore, the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee does this ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Nine commend the actions of the Board of County Commissioners of Haskell County Oklahoma regarding their steadfast resolve to uphold their responsibilities to their constituents, and their responsibility to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma in protecting the free speech right of its citizens by continuing to permit this private display on public property despite overwhelming adversity and opposition by well funded persons and entities not representative of the good people of Haskell County Oklahoma.

+ POLL ON GOVERNOR’S RACE

A group out of Stillwater is conducting an unscientific poll on the Governor’s race. If you want to vote for the candidate of your choice log on to: http://stillpolitics.com/. There are four candidates, Mary Fallin, and Randy Brogdon on the Republican side as well as Jari Askins and Drew Edmondson representing the Democrat (notice I didn’t dumb myself down and use the word democratic, which speaks of process, and is not an adj.) side of the race.

+ OCPAC MEMBERSHIP

We are in our final matching membership challenge for this year. We have a target of 12 additional members regardless of which level a person joins. For each person who joins, a donor will contribute $50.
The cut off is September 16th, so if you haven’t joined as yet, please don’t procrastinate. Fill out the information below and send your check or money order, postmarked no later than September 16th. Please help us to reach this goal and thus make our campaign war chest larger than ever before.

Don’t miss this Wednesday’s meeting.

Charlie Meadows
Charliemeadows7@gmail.com