As a Tea Partier it has bothered me that we should jump through so many government mandated hoops to hold a protest. Should we allow them to place absurd conditions upon us with the potential and real possibility that we might not hold our protests? I know of at least 2 instances where we’ve canceled the idea of doing something because it was too expensive. At one event in Lynchburg we were required to pay more than $800 to hold an event. We had to pay for 2 portable toilets and hire off duty police (as if that was needed being that 1/3rd of our group was armed).

As of this writing the City of Richmond hasn’t charged the occupy protestors a dime. They didn’t ask permission to utilize their rights. Contrast that to the Richmond Tea Party who was charged over $10,000 for the privilege to protest.

Is something a right if you need permission to use it? It’s always irked me that we comply and get permits to hold a rally or protest. Notice that for the most part OWS gets a pass for over a week? It isn’t till the protestors make such a mess they become a health hazard or till crime and rape becomes a problem that they shut them down. Why? Cause the police and government KNOW that the 1st amendment gives them the right to peaceably assemble.

Those that might disagree with this would say: Does a protestor have the right to block a road,bridge, or impeded my travel? The answer to that is no. That person would be infringing on your Liberty. That’s not what I’m saying or advocating. But government, be it local,state, or federal has no right to dictate IF you can protest or the terms that will make it possible to protest (toilets,cops,etc). At some point a case could be made that a 2 week siege on a public park or damage from such a protracted protest to the park is infringing on my liberty to use that park. But all this gets into a broader topic of Liberty and it’s beyond the scope of this article.

When it comes to OWS there isn’t much I agree with them on. They are protesting what they think is capitalism. Try to educate them through their drunken, drug or public education induced stupor that they are wrong and you’d have better luck trying to have a conversation with a brick wall. However, we can agree that Crony Capitalism is bad. That bailouts are bad. That the FED (Federal Reserve) is a detriment to our economy. But they would rather we institute communist policies to counter these problems. I and others would institute free market policies to counter them.

But on this we can agree; you don’t need a permit to use a right given to you by God. Lets hope we remember this next time.

Kurt Feigel
Lynchburg Tea Party

Delegate Tim Hugo
Delegate Tommy Norment
RPV Chair Pat Mullins
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
Lt. Governor Bill Bolling
Ed Gillespie
Governor McDonnell
Key Elected Officials, Candidates, and others that will be attending:

• Tom Garrett
• Scott Garrett
• Steve Newman
• And More

I’m writing to express my disgust at what took place at City Hall in Lynchburg on Tuesday night. Round 2 of the hearings to decide if the building inspectors should be given police powers ended with a 4 to 3 vote in favor of the idea. This in spite of the overwhelming opposition from residents. This was not a Tea Party issue, it was a constitutional rights issue. The Fourth Amendment is our God given right against “unreasonable” search and seizure. It is an issue that crosses all party lines. Or should. I’m grateful to H. Cary, Jeff Helgeson and Turner Perrow who voted against.

Overwhelmingly residents spoke in opposition to this proposal. Yet “Mommy Knows Best” Mayor Foster had other plans. Not only does Lynchburg have the highest (11.5%) tax in the nation on food when you eat out. They also have property taxes almost 3 times higher than surrounding counties.

Now to top it all off Mayor Foster and her gang of tyrants has decreed that hither swarms of officers may now eat out your sustenance.

This bad bill has been made worse. A building inspector can now drag you before a judge. It bypasses the civil court system. It wastes your time. It gives power where the city deserve and need none.

It wasn’t enough that in the 70′s the city stole millions of dollars in revenue generating land through annexation? Now all those residents that used to live outside of the reach of this nonsense must now submit to tyranny?

To that I say: Campbell, Bedford and the surrounding counties are open for business.

Lynchburg has some really nice neighborhoods and lots of history. It’s a shame that council members are more interested in their agendas than in representing the people. We are working to flip the Virginia Senate this year. Over the next few years it is time we flipped the Council! Joan Foster,Ceasor Johnson, Mike Gillette and Randy Nelson we look forward to removing you in the years ahead.

Kurt Feigel – President
Lynchburg Tea Party

Agenda:

I. Welcome

b. Visitors Minute
c. Invocation
d. Pledge
e. Reading From The Constitution
f. Upcoming events

II. 22nd Senate district endorsement

a. Explain Endorsement Process
b. Guest Speaker: Tom Garrett
c. Plan for impacting the primary

III. Report on Steering Committee Changes (Jay)

Changes in personnel
Treasurer, Membership & Communications
Upcoming needs
Sammye introduction (Sammye)

IV. 2011 Election Importance (Jay)

V. Close Meeting

For now take a look at the news coverage the issue got.

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We:

• Meet regularly to Reload
• Order supplies in bulk
• Share knowledge
• Share the costs of dies and equipment

We need experienced people to join our group as well as beginners.

Have you got equipment collecting dust that you would like to donate or loan to our club?

Wanted:

• Tumblers
• Calipers & Other case measuring tools
• Presses
  

One of our members has a large 2 car detached garage that serves as our base for reloading days. The garage has a wood workbench from one end to the other.

We currently have 2 presses: Hornady ProJector progressive press (Download the Manual here) & RCBS Rock Chucker single stage press.

George Caylor was kind enough to loan us a large amount of reloading equipment. Over 10 different die sets (mostly rifle), Case Trimmers, Rock Chucker Press

The members of the club have been working with one another to order the necessary dies and shell holders needed to begin reloading.

Wendell Walker has loaned us a Lyman Tumbler for cleaning shells. It would be a good idea to get 2 more to speed up case prep. Tumbling takes around 6 hours per 100 shells.

All expenses such as dies/presses/etc will be shared by the club members.

Individual needs/wants/etc such as bullets/powder/primers/shells are the responsibility of individual club members.

Want to know what your supplies would cost you?
http://www.handloads.com/calc/loadingCosts.asp

If you had 1000 .40 cal shells cleaned and ready to reload you would need to buy:

primers ($32)

bullets ($96)

powder ($29)

Savings of Almost 50% over factory ammunition.

The LTP Reloading Club usually meets the First Saturday of every month at the McDonalds on Timberlake. We then head over to do some reloading. Alternate times may also be added as needed whenever members would like to reload.

Club Membership: No cost to join others for bulk orders.

Where to buy supplies:

• http://www.vaguntrader.com (need used brass?)
• http://www.midwayusa.com (Discount Codes)
• http://www.cheaperthandirt.com
• http://www.natchezss.com/
• http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/

As I said before, these people are nuts.

The discredited work of Dr. Paul Ehrlich, population prophet of doom, and Obama’s lunatic Science Czar, John Holdren, are referred to in U.N. population studies, and Ehrlich was cited in Agenda 21’s Biodiversity Assessment Report under “Gender Perspectives.” That’s right; the feminists have a special perspective on global warming too.

What was that someone said about women and talking?

So the pretext doesn’t matter. They will always find one, because in their minds the solution to everything, poverty, overpopulation, environmental degradation, or even who should win Dancing with the Stars, is Socialism. And the way they get there is by creating a crisis.

To promote their socialist nightmare, Marxists must use deceptive language and tactics. In “Sustainable Development” they have found a magic mantra. It has allowed them to insinuate all their socialist fantasies into our legal code, under our noses, with little or no fanfare, scant public debate and graveyard noises from our treacherously AWOL mass media, right down to the local level – with our permission. Agenda 21, a UN initiative that was never endorsed by the U.S. Senate, as all international agreements must be, has penetrated into the ordinances of county and city governments all over America. (Click Wild Lands Map for Detail)

They have accomplished this through a little-known (to us) vehicle called the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) – Local Governments for Sustainability. Quoting ICLEI documents from this article(emphases added):

Our campaigns, programs, and projects promote Local Agenda 21 as a participatory, long-term, strategic planning process that addresses local sustainability while protecting global common goods. Linking local action to internationally agreed upon goals and targets such as Agenda 21, the Rio Conventions, the Habitat Agenda, the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation is an essential component.[Sic]

Chapter 3, Section 1 states, “The eradication of poverty and hunger, greater equity in income distribution and human resource development remain major challenges everywhere. The struggle against poverty is the shared responsibility of all countries.”

As explained in Tuesday’s article, this project has everywhere and always been about socialism. They don’t even hide it too well.

In his opening statements at the 1992 Earth Summit, billionaire U.N. bureaucrat and compulsive totalitarian Maurice Strong (also Al Gore’s partner in their carbon credit business), said:

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.

This is perhaps the most concise statement of Agenda 21’s real goals.

Do I have to repeat myself? These people are nuts!

Strong echoes the sentiments of former Soviet leader and secular messiah Mikhail Gorbachev, who said:

Do not do unto the environment of others what you do not want done to your own environment…My hope is that this (earth) charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a ‘Sermon on the Mount’, that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century.

Ironically, while Republican and Democrat alike rush to embrace sustainable development at the local level, even quasi-socialist states like Great Britain are abandoning it. From the London Telegraph:

Hurrah! Our useless Coalition government has finally done something useful by axing one of its more pointless and hateful quangos, the Sustainable Development Commission.

Recall from Tuesday’s article that Agenda 21 was imposed on this country when Bill Clinton, defying the U.S. Senate’s will, created our own version, the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, by executive order.

The Telegraph article pulls no punches:

“Sustainability” is not nearly as politically neutral as its cuddly, warm name sounds. A bit like “multiculturalism” or “diversity”, “sustainability” is one of those weasel concepts which has been foisted on our language and culture by the hard left, linguistically masquerading as something unimpeachably caring and reasonable while in fact advancing a policy agenda designed to increase state control, remove property rights and liberty, and brainwash the gullible into ceding more and more of their democratic rights to UN and EU bureaucrats.

Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center, a leader in exposing the radical goals of “sustainable development,” has called Agenda 21 “the greatest threat ever perpetrated against the American ideal of liberty.”

Here is a list of the more than 600 U.S. cities, towns and counties currently participating in ICLEI’s Local Governments for Sustainability.

ICLEI has succeeded in implementing the sustainability agenda through something called the Delphi Technique. All activists need to understand the Delphi Technique. Originally created by the Rand Corporation as a consensus building methodology for scientists, Delphi has morphed into a subversive tactic for imposing malevolent leftist agendas on an unsuspecting public who would never agree if they understood.

A key feature of the Delphi Technique is to identify the “good guys,” i.e. those who go along with the predetermined agenda, and isolate the “bad guys,” thereby removing any obstructionists. It is a sophisticated application of Alinksy’s Rule #13: pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

In order to motivate the “good guys,” ICLEI has created a rating system for counties based on how well they implement Agenda 21. King County, Washington has become the proud test bed for this new system. Listen to this bloviating county executive:

“We are honored to be selected and look forward to piloting this innovative efficiency program,” said King County Executive Dow Constantine. “The Pacific Northwest and King County have a lot to gain by protecting the climate, and I am happy we are going to be using all available tools to measure how we make a difference.”

Note that local governments receiving a poor rating can now be identified as “bad.” For the young “enlightened” couple seeking a place to settle, such a place obviously won’t do. The city/county is also much less likely to receive “sustainability” funds available from federal and state government, so while they are on the hook to adopt Agenda 21 initiatives, they will have to fund it themselves. The rating system thus creates strong financial incentivesfor local governments to compete to be the “best” and serious consequences for those who do not.

And the above-referenced article about King County, perhaps inadvertently, has exposed the radical nature of this organization:

The STAR Community Index ™ (STAR) is a groundbreaking software tool being developed by ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability USA, in partnership with the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the National League of Cities, and the Center for American Progress. (Emphasis added.)

You may recognize the Soros funded Center for American Progress. It is run by John Podesta, Clinton administration Chief of Staff and Obama Transition Team director. Podesta is also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, formerly run by Green Jobs Czar, self-described communist, Van Jones.

CAP has been described by Weather Underground Obama supporter Mark Rudd as Obama’s “government in waiting.” Members include Open Society Institute President and SDS founder Aryeh Neier, Van Jones and a laundry list of other radical leftists. The National League of Cities isn’t much better.

Here is another example of the Delphi Technique in application and a revealing illustration of where they are attempting to go with it. The Baltimore County government’s Office of Planning devotes an entire section to developing the concept of a “Green Transportation Hierarchy,” kind of an upside-down takeoff on Abraham Maslow[1]’s “Hierarchy of Needs.”

They identify those transportation modes that contribute to “global warming” ranked from least (pedestrians) to most (our cars).

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who are the “bad guys” here. It is interesting to note that taxis are preferred over high occupancy vehicles. Do taxis carry more people? Usually not, but taxis are not privately owned, like carpool vehicles using the HOV lanes usually are. The thrust clearly favors public transportation and the ultimate goal is walking and biking, the common modes of transport in communist China.

Yes, they want our cars too.

This is made explicit in the push for “20 minute neighborhoods.” Portland, Oregon is taking the lead in this initiative. Here is there justification (emphases mine):

Desires for sustainable living: increased energy conservation, support for local businesses, active and healthier lifestyles and improving community connections and equity has led to an interest in fostering the development or redevelopment of walkable communities, or 20-minute neighborhoods, in Portland.

Before the 1920s, when autos were rare and few people had access to a car on a regular basis, most people lived in 20-minute neighborhoods by necessity. As cars became more available, proposals to preserve 20-minute neighborhoods entered planning literature. In 1929, the “Neighborhood Unit” by Clarence Perry described successful neighborhoods as those that offer accessibility to the spectrum of day-to-day human needs. He proposed defining these neighborhoods in terms of a one-quarter mile walk.

Despite well-recognized interest in keeping 20-minute neighborhoods in the late 1920s, and beyond, during the second-half of the 20th century, the trend across the United States was toward providing auto-oriented residential and commercial environments.

Yep, autos, the villain. So here’s the pitch:

However, increased interest in improving sustainability—responding to challenges posed by climate change by reducing car trips and decreasing energy use in general, the need for affordable housing and to reduce housing-related costs, the need to stay physically fit and live healthily and wants to support local businesses—has renewed interest in walkable environments or 20-minute neighborhoods.

Walkable communities are defined specifically, too:

Some studies have shown that a 20-minute walk equates to approximately 1 mile walking at a fast pace; however, the average person could walk between ¼ to ½ a mile under safe, conducive walking conditions, (e.g. sidewalks and short blocks).

To emphasize the importance of short distances for walking, we used an analysis area with dimensions of 500 by 500 feet and used the frequency of intersections and the presence of sidewalks as factors in walkability.

They want to herd us into ¼ mile neighborhoods. And population density is specified as well: a minimum density of 12-18 households per acre. Welcome to the Soviet Union!

How many times do I need to say it? These people are nuts!

The country is awash in this crap. The Maryland State government is virtually bursting with “Sustainability” initiatives like Governor O’Malley’s Smart, Green and Growing. The state Department of Natural Resources hosts a Sustainability Network page, where you can link to organizations promoting sustainability in every county in the state.

The Maryland state government created a new “Sustainable Growth Commission” in 2010. The year before, it passed the “Smart and Sustainable Growth Act of 2009,” which requires county planning officials to take a special course. You can see the study guide here . The guide is a road map to the “sustainable” future, which will force us all into cities, crowd us close to public transportation, bike paths and into “walkable neighborhoods”:

“…encouraging shorter drive times, locating housing closer to work, minimizing shopping trips, and giving our kids real options to walk and ride bikes to school, parks and playgrounds…” while reducing our “carbon footprint.”

But the drive to push us into cities would not be complete without an equally aggressive effort to chase us out of the country.

Earth First! is a radical environmental group branded by the FBI as domestic terrorists, a fact they are proud of. Believe it or not, Dave Foreman, Earth First’s co-founder who pioneered in the use of tree spikes (left), has been an intimate partner in development of the “sustainability” agenda.

His “Wildlands Project,” now called the Wildlands Network, was adopted by the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty. Here is what he has to say:

We must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects… We must reclaim the roads and plowed lands, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.

This is getting old: these people are nuts!

The goal is to make 50 percent of the land in every state inaccessible by man (except, of course, the “good guys”.) According to Tom DeWeese, much has been accomplished already:

Today, there are at least 31 Wildlands projects underway, locking away more than 40 percent of the nation’s land. The Alaska Wildlands Project seeks to lock away and control almost the entire state. In Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana parts of North and South Dakota, parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Utah, and more, there are at least 22 Wildlands Projects underway. For example, one project called Yukon to Yellowstone (Y2Y) – creates a 2000 mile no-man’s land corridor from the Arctic to Yellowstone.

An excellent video by Dr. Michael Coffman explains it all. The six minutes are worth your time. Just click on the picture:

If I haven’t convinced you, Dr. Coffman’s video should. (link to Taking Liberty) The metastasized cancer of Agenda 21 must be ripped out root and branch from our body politic. Local governments and state legislatures must be confronted and forced to repeal the myriad laws, ordinances, zoning codes and regulations that advance this globalist agenda. It simply must be tackled now. This is a perfect issue for local Tea Party groups and must become a focal point of our efforts to reclaim our country. .

The Wildlands map is particularly stunning, showing exactly how they plan to herd the entire U.S. population into tiny urban centers and put most of the country completely off limits (except for the “good guys” of course.)

Question: Can we fit?

Next: Agenda 21 Part III: Globalist Totalitarian Agenda Demands the Extinction of Man – Except for the “Good Guys”

Here are some videos of the debate if you missed it.

Thanks to our communications Vice Chair, Kurt Feigel and his company Central Virginia Studios for taking the time to edit these videos down and get them online. More are being added HERE