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GOVERNMENT EXPENSES    read here   by 912er Suzan Gauthier

ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY AND THE CURRENT ACTIONS OF
         OUR GOVERNMENT     read here    by 912er Suzan Gauthier

WHY AMERICA NEEDS THE BIBLE  read here   by 912er Suzan Gauthier

Barack Obama did not create a movement. A movement created Barack Obama. read here
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Misc articles and editorials from our members....
 

The Winds of Real Change in America
 
Dear Volusia 9.12 Project members and friends,
 
Thank you for all your dedication throughout these extraordinary times.  We have just witnessed an amazing event in American history.  Many Americans cannot even fathom the true meaning of the election results of November 2, 2010.  America has just managed to push back against the darkness of Marxism, thanks to efforts of groups like ours throughout the entire country.  We can relish this moment and write our stories for future generations. The fight, however, has only just begun.
 
Who would have ever imagined, when we began this journey, that we would face such an overwhelming task.  Various voices throughout our country sounded the alarm and we responded in droves.  With maximum energy but minimum knowledge, we shouldered what seemed to be insurmountable odds. The halls of Congress were being controlled by progressive socialists and our Executive Branch harboring Marxists. The maddening truth only strengthened our resolve as we rose to the occasion. We united with others, educated ourselves and took action!  We helped expose the enemies of our Constitution and began the process of rejuvenating the Republican Party.  Our hope is to see them return to the principles, values and the American way.  We must continue to cleanse the already infected RNC.  We now realize what is ahead of us. We will never give up; the future of America is at stake.
 
There is much satisfaction in the victory we just realized.  Nancy Pelosi losing the gavel, President Obama's socialist agenda rejected, Grayson and Kosmas ousted in Florida are all exhilarating, but there's so much more to do.  We now look ahead to the challenges we face.  The areas where the Federal government continues to abuse power, such as education, agriculture, property rights, energy and health care will be our primary focus.  We will also gain leverage as lobbyists in Tallahassee and Washington D.C.  Through our networking on the National and State level along with a strengthening of our local power, Volusia 912 will continue to be leaders for the right change in America. We will soon begin strategy meetings, recruitment efforts and action committees.  Until then, we can all bask in the glory.  A big thank you to each and every one of you. No matter how small you think your contribution may have been, it adds up to be significant in the bigger picture.  Keep it up; let's double our efforts and encourage others to join.
 
Congratulations and hallelujah!
 
In Liberty,
 
Ray Sanchez
Volusia 912 Project

9.12 groups: It's all about voter education
By FRANK FERNANDEZ, Staff Writer send an email to frank.fernandez@news-jrnl.com
  August 22, 2010 12:05 AM

Keith Wilson is so tired of accusations that the tea party movement is rife with racists that he has added this tagline to his e-mails: "We are not racist. We are not violent. We are just not silent anymore."

The 59-year-old DeLand resident was silent for quite a while. He didn't vote until 2004.

"I was too busy to be concerned with it, and see where that got me," Wilson said.

Where it got him is a mushrooming federal government that, according to Wilson and other tea party members, sounds like a malignancy.

"We had a hundred trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities from Medicaid and Social Security," Wilson said.

Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security need to be fixed, because the status quo can't continue, he said.

"It's almost like a pyramid scheme," Wilson said.

He doesn't suggest doing away with Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security.

"I don't see how that can happen," he said. "There are too many people depending on it. We can't have people starving in the street."

He said it would take a miracle for the country to extricate itself from the massive debt.

"I believe in miracles," Wilson adds.

Wilson, a computer engineer and leader of the DeLand 9.12 group, is also a member of the national Tea Party Patriots. Wilson said 9.12 groups and tea parties are very similar.

"The main difference between us and the tea party is the name and we are much more educational than flag-waving," Wilson said. "The tea party, they are much more into the protest and we are more into educating voters."

Wilson was born in Tampa and said neither he nor his late father, William Arlo Wilson, who was a Baptist minister in Plant City, was politically active. Nor is his mother Marie Wilson, 88. Wilson is not a fan of Obama but he said he wasn't that happy with Bush either. And he voted for John McCain. "I voted for McCain but I don't see much difference between McCain and Obama," Wilson said.

On the other side of the county in Ormond Beach, Tom Gion said he took a stand as the country listed left under the weight of Nancy Pelosi, George Soros and President Barack Obama. He said they and others are driving the country to ruin.

"That's why we are all up off our couches and protesting," Gion said.

Gion is a member of Volusia 9.12 and the Tea Party Patriots. A 46-year-old web designer who lives in Ormond Beach, he said most 9.12 and tea party members are just like him, regular Joes and Janes.

"Most of our group is just your average everyday citizen, small-business retired, that paid attention to politics but weren't active," Gion said.

The financial meltdown and housing crisis were not the fault of Wall Street but of the government, he said.

"It was the government that caused the financial meltdown with their laws and rules and regulations," Gion said. "The housing crisis was caused by the government making the banks give out loans to people who couldn't afford them. They would not have given out those loans had the government not said 'hey, don't worry about it. We got your back.' "

Gion said a progressive agenda has permeated the nation's educational system.

"They do not teach our children our American history anymore," Gion said. "They don't teach why America is different from the rest of the world and why we are not Europe.

"Political correctness is destroying our society because people are afraid to speak out and speak their minds and that's not what America is about," Gion said.

Multiculturalism is running amok, he said. "No nation in history has ever survived multiculturalism," Gion said. "It dilutes out their culture until they disappear." Gion rejects the accusations that the Tea Party is racists as flat wrong. He adds that the accusations show the Tea Party is effective. "We feel that we are making some noise when people start attacking us," Gion said. He said his 9.12 has listed an African American candidate, Deon Long, a Republican in the hunt for the District 24 seat which is now held by Democratic Rep. Suzanne Kosmas.

Tea & Taxes
Partiers seek to change nation's direction
By FRANK FERNANDEZ , Staff Writer send an email to frank.fernandez@news-jrnl.com
  August 22, 2010 12:05 AM

The hat bristled with pins, bejeweled with red, white and blue stones of eagles and elephants, the GOP and Old Glory. Marco Rubio got a nod on the hat in the form of a supportive sticker and President Barack Obama got some attention as well with a red, white and blue pin reading "NOBAMA."

The hat sat on the head of Deborah Ringhaver Lane, a mother, homemaker, businesswoman and self-described patriot and tea-party member, who was in Palm Coast recently for a candidates forum sponsored by the Flagler County Tea Party.

And if Lane's hat was something to set donkeys on a stampede, her Cadillac sport utility vehicle could make any Democrat go ballistic. It was plastered with magnetic bumper stickers, many less kind to the leader of the free world than anything on her hat. One sticker with a hammer and sickle read "Czarist White House" and another "Obamageddon."

Lane said she had never been politically active until she attended a tea party rally in DeLand in April 2009. That's when the Crescent City resident discovered many people thought just like she did.

"I was feeling kind of alone but when you realize that there are millions out there that feel like you do, you realize this is a fight worth taking on," Lane said. "It's winnable."

Her sentiment is common as the tea party movement washes across the country, drawing out many people who hadn't been involved in politics before and others who had never even voted. But now they are talking Federalist papers and the Constitution and organizing groups like the tea party and 9.12.

The movement is an attempt to find a simple answer to a complicated problem, said Stetson University political science professor Wayne Bailey, who has attended eight Democratic National conventions as either a member or delegate.

"When there is a crisis, there is a tendency to rise up and, in a sense, revolt against power and, of course, one of the easiest sources of power to identify is the government," Bailey said in a phone interview.

He questions the timing of the tea arty's growing popularity.

"I can't quite discern," Bailey said. "I didn't see all this rhetoric during the George W. Bush period when the initial deficit was burgeoning."

But to Tom Lawrence, 68, leader of the Flagler County Tea Party, the movement's growth reflects growing concerns.

"There are a lot of people in this movement that are very worried that the direction this country is going is very detrimental and we are fearful of what effect it's going to have on our kids and our kids' kids," Lawrence said in a recent interview.

'OBAMA WOKE US UP'

A New York Times/CBS poll released in April found that 18 percent of Americans say they support the tea party. Those tea party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45, according to the poll. But a Gallup poll released in late March, while finding that supporters were mostly male and conservative, also found that other characteristics of tea partiers -- age, education, income and race -- roughly mirror the nation as a whole.

The tea party locally and statewide has had some growing pains and the lack of political experience has bitten some of them. In Deltona, the Volusia Tea Party patriots only lasted a few months before one of its organizers, Diane Kepus, lowered the flag. The group folded after a brouhaha over its request that candidates participating in a planned town hall meeting contribute some money to help stage the gatherings.

Beyond Volusia and Flagler counties, the tea party is involved in a fight over, well, the tea party. Some tea partiers say the tea party name has been hijacked by allies of Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson who hope to help him by splitting conservatives. The allies deny it and fire back that their accusers are working for the state Republican Party, according to News-Journal archives.

But in Flagler County, the tea party appears to be skating along without such pitfalls. It recently packed a Palm Coast City Council meeting with more than 100 members, many wearing Tea Party shirts, to emphasize to the council that it did not want taxes increased. The council has proposed keeping the tax rate the same.

The Flagler County Tea Party also held a candidates forum on Tuesday which organizers estimate was attended by about 1,100 people and many of the candidates or their representatives.

Jill Sommer, a 63-year-old retiree who lives in Palm Coast, was a tea party member at the candidates forum. She said she had never been politically active before and only gave candidates and their political ads a passing glance until she joined the Tea Party in 2009. She used to read only novels. Now she mostly reads books by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Carl Rove, Dick Morris.

"I would like to see the country be a little more like it was," Sommer said in a recent interview. "I just feel like we are losing it. There is so much socialization of everything. In all honesty, I feel Obama is a socialist. But the problem is not just Obama, it's been around for a long time. I feel like McCain would have taken it in the same direction just slower. But Obama woke us up. He put it in hyper drive."

Lawrence, leader of the Flagler County Tea Party, does have political experience. A Republican, he has run for the Flagler County Commission twice -- losing in 2004 to Jim Darby and in 2008 to Barbara Revels. Lawrence also served on the Palm Coast City Council earlier this decade

Flagler County Tea Party boasts more than 700 members and counting. Members are mostly older and fiscal conservatives but not all Republicans, said Lawrence, a retired business man and grandfather.

'WHEN AMERICANS WERE AMERICANS'

Closely related to the tea party are 912 groups. Keith Wilson, a computer engineer, leads the 912 group in DeLand. Wilson said he had not voted until casting a ballot for George W. Bush in 2004.

"I didn't think you could make a difference," Wilson said. "I didn't think my vote counted."

He said he didn't like the way the nation was moving.

"I saw the way the government was going and was getting a little upset about it," Wilson said.

The 9.12 movement was started by cable television personality Glenn Beck. The numbers signify several things: 9 principles, 12 values and the day after Sept. 11, 2001, Wilson said.

"That's when Americans were Americans and everybody was flying the flag," Wilson said. "That's why we call it 9.12, because we want that spirit."

Wilson said he is also a member of the tea party, and he said the groups are not racists, as some have accused, and the groups won't tolerate any racists.

"If there is any racism or violence, we want you out," Wilson said.

Another 9.12 member is Tom Gion, a 46-year-old website developer who is a member of the Volusia 9.12 group.

"We want to get the government back to our constitutional-type government: limited government, personal responsibility and private property rights," Gion said.

Bailey, the Stetson professor, questions whether tea party adherents grasp another principle promoted by the founders -- concern for community.

"They talk about rights but not very much about responsibilities," Bailey said. "There are obligations of citizenship. We have rights but we also have obligations."

Gion sees a looming crisis that needs immediate attention.

"We think all the governments are out of control: the federal government, the state governments and the local governments," he said. "Too much taxing, too much spending and too many laws, too many regulations and rules."

Volusia group pushes for involvement
By RAY SANCHEZ, GUEST OPINION - Daytona Beach News-Journal
  August 17, 2010 12:05 AM
Posted in: http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion/editorials/guest-columns/2010/08/17/volusia-group-pushes-for-involvement.html

Ray Sanchez, of Ormond Beach, is the founder of the Volusia 912 Project.

Americans have an opportunity to make their voices heard at the ballot boxes. The Volusia 912 Project has been volunteering thousands of hours to help find good candidates at every level of government. Our fellow citizens have gathered since March 2009 to learn more about government, create candidate forums, work our local precincts and use the great mechanism our founding fathers gave us in order to secure the blessings of liberty. At the request of our fellow citizens, we have compiled a guide for this year's primaries at www.volusia912.org.

The list honors some candidates with "preferred" status, and others with "approved." We're hoping our work is recognized as the beginning of renewed citizen involvement in electing virtuous leaders.

Decades of work will be necessary to filter out the culture of corruption throughout our political spectrum, but, at least, this is a start.

The importance of voting cannot be overstated. On all levels of government, the American people need to become engaged. At Volusia 912, our original focus was on the national level. The course Congress and the White House have set for this nation should shake every American to the core. While disregarding the voice of the American people and the Constitution, this Congress has compromised our form of government. Our president, who should guard against bad legislation, is part and parcel of the same agenda.

They have capitulated to socialist agendas and radical ideologies. We have apathetically stood by. We continue to allow ourselves to be divided by party affiliation, race, gender and class. Their political games and use of media-driven propaganda are an insult to honest Americans.

Our elected officials have steered so far from the fundamentals of Americanism that the forces of tyranny are at hand. Unfortunately, this malaise is not restricted to our federal government. Our local and state governments have been infected as well.

If anyone out there is really paying attention, he or she will know this isn't just hyperbole or partisan rhetoric. Our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are being ignored. This is not about parties, nor about the color of the president's skin. This has been slowly happening for decades, and is now being accelerated in Washington by politicians of all colors. Under the name of progressivism, we have allowed our local, state and federal governments to confiscate the wealth, productivity and incentives of individuals in America.

This is about the essential ingredients missing in our republic right now. Virtue and knowledge are no longer revered and respected, but rather mocked and ridiculed.

Only a spiritual revival of American values can strengthen our political will. Wake up, America! Remember "In God We Trust." If we unite, educate and take action, we can restore our republic.

Reverend Wright Story Smothered, Evidence of Media Plotting Exposed: 
* Posted by Jared Law on July 20 -
http://www.the912project.us/forum/topic/show?id=2881797%3ATopic%3A1247540&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

Glenn Beck is covering this story live on his talk radio show as I write this. While the vast majority of our members realized this was going on, it's nice to finally have confirmation of what we weren't willing to discount. I mean, it's only logical that the radical leftist extremists in the media would protect their homeboy, despite their professions of impartiality, but now the evidence confirms our suspicions.

You've got to read this article, which would have stunned enough Americans, had they realized it was going on back during the 2008 election, to change the outcome of the Democratic primary. And while it wouldn't have stunned many of us, it WOULD have outraged many Americans who were deceived into voting for Barack Hussein Obama...at least...I would hope so!

But finally we have evidence of an actual conspiracy against the truth, to smother a story which may have derailed the Obama victory had it been covered with the intensity the story deserved. If only all America could know about this story, it would awaken many Americans, and the numbers of those willing to stand up to the Obama Regime would swell. I'll update this once the video is available to embed in this discussion thread. Until then...

...here's the story:

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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah W...
By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller 1:15 AM 07/20/2010

Jeremiah WrightIt was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama's political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher's rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama's campaign.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright's remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, "Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?"

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. "George [Stephanopoulos]," fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is "being a disgusting little rat snake."

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: "Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn't about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people."

"Richard Kim got this right above: 'a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.' He's dead on," Tomasky continued. "We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease."

(In an interview Monday, Tomasky defended his position, calling the ABC debate an example of shoddy journalism.)

Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, "why don't we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?" Schaller proposed coordinating a "smart statement expressing disgust" at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama.

"It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort," Schaller wrote.

Tomasky approved. "YES. A thousand times yes," he exclaimed.

The members began collaborating on their open letter. Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones rejected an early draft, saying, "I'd say too short. In my opinion, it doesn't go far enough in highlighting the inanity of some of [Gibson's] and [Stephanopoulos's] questions. And it doesn't point out their factual inaccuracies …Our friends at Media Matters probably have tons of experience with this sort of thing, if we want their input."

Jared Bernstein, who would go on to be Vice President Joe Biden's top economist when Obama took office, helped, too. The letter should be "Short, punchy and solely focused on vapidity of gotcha," Bernstein wrote.

In the midst of this collaborative enterprise, Holly Yeager, now of the Columbia Journalism Review, dropped into the conversation to say "be sure to read" a column in that day's Washington Post that attacked the debate.

Columnist Joe Conason weighed in with suggestions. So did Slate contributor David Greenberg, and David Roberts of the website Grist. Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, helped too.

Journolist members signed the statement and released it April 18, calling the debate "a revolting descent into tabloid journalism and a gross disservice to Americans concerned about the great issues facing the nation and the world."

The letter caused a brief splash and won the attention of the New York Times. But only a week later, Obama – and the journalists who were helping him – were on the defensive once again.

Jeremiah Wright was back in the news after making a series of media appearances. At the National Press Club, Wright claimed Obama had only repudiated his beliefs for "political reasons." Wright also reiterated his charge that the U.S. federal government had created AIDS as a means of committing genocide against African Americans.

It was another crisis, and members of Journolist again rose to help Obama.

Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to "particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media" who were members of the list.

The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all. Instead, "It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country."

Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. "All this hand wringing about just
how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going."

"Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You'll forgive me if I just can't quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama's pastor," Hayes wrote.

Hayes urged his colleagues – especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way – to bury the Wright scandal. "I'm not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don't think he's worthy of defense, don't defend him! What I'm saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable," Hayes said.

(Reached by phone Monday, Hayes argued his words then fell on deaf ears. "I can say 'hey I don't think you guys should cover this,' but no one listened to me.")

Katha Pollitt – Hayes's colleague at the Nation – didn't disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. "I hear you. but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita," Pollitt said.

"Part of me doesn't like this shit either," agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. "But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals."

Ackerman went on:

    I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.


    And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.


Ackerman did allow there were some Republicans who weren't racists. "We'll know who doesn't deserve this treatment — Ross Douthat, for instance — but the others need to get it." He also said he had begun to implement his plan. "I previewed it a bit on my blog last week after Commentary wildly distorted a comment Joe Cirincione made to make him appear like (what else) an antisemite. So I said: why is it that so many on the right have such a problem with the first viable prospective African-American president?"

Several members of the list disagreed with Ackerman – but only on strategic grounds.

"Spencer, you're wrong," wrote Mark Schmitt, now an editor at the American Prospect. "Calling Fred Barnes a racist doesn't further the argument, and not just because Juan Williams is his new black friend, but because that makes it all about character. The goal is to get to the point where you can contrast some _thing_ — Obama's substantive agenda — with this crap."

(In an interview Monday, Schmitt declined to say whether he thought Ackerman's plan was wrong. "That is not a question I'm going to answer," he said.)

Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman's strategy. "I think it's worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he's trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he's not going change the way politics works?"

But it was Ackerman who had the last word. "Kevin, I'm not saying OBAMA should do this. I'm saying WE should do this."

Keith Wilson heads the DeLand 912 group. Thanks Keith!
The News-Journal printed this on Saturday, May 1 .
For more information see www.deland912.org .

The Times They Are a-Changin

   I have lived in Volusia County for 50 years now. I am not proud of the fact that I have only voted in two elections in my entire life. So I have no one to blame but myself. I have never seen anything like what we are facing today. As a small business owner I have seen my friends, my customers, and other business owners out of work or struggling to make it in this economy. I often wonder if I will survive this economy myself.

   Like they say, you must first understand the problem before you find the solution. As a computer engineer I always need all the pieces to fit correctly and to perform in a system. It didn't take me long to see that our government was out of control on a local and national level.

   I got involved with the Tea Party and 912 groups in Volusia County last year. I went to the 9/12/09 march in DC. I had never been in a crowd of a million people before. They were just average Americans that loved their country. When I saw how little news coverage that event received, I knew the media was a very big part of the problem also.

This started my hunt for the truth. In the 912 group I was introduced to the Constitution, the Federalists Papers, the books "The 5000 Year Leap", "The Law" and many others. I listened to speakers and watched videos of a history that I was never taught. I came away with one clear idea after my studies. Our founders setup the most perfect form of government that has ever existed, period! They thought of everything and even warned about the evil of amassing debt that your children and grandchildren would have to pay back, the dangers of a currency that wasn't backed by gold or silver, and many more of the errors we have committed. If you hear that the Constitution is an old, outdated document that was written by a bunch of dumb farmers, don't believe it. Read the Federalist Papers and then see if you can find a politician today that would be their intellectual equals.

   We don't necessarily need genius today; we just need honest people with common sense. This country was founded on a document that I have a copy of; it is 17 pages long and fits in my shirt pocket. If we are going to fix this country we all have to get involved. If we just let the politician with the most money win the election, we will get more of the same.

I have started a DeLand 912 group and I am heavily involved in passing on what I have learned about the American form of government. We are reaching out to other like minded people. I plan to vet many local candidates in our group meetings between now and the election by giving them a few minutes to speak and to answer questions from or group. When I see a good candidate, one that understands what made America great, I am going to get behind them. I have a few picked out already that are running for County Council. Who knows, I may be knocking on your door one afternoon passing out pamphlets for a candidate I believe in, or even making phone calls for them?

   I can never just sit back and complain when I know the problem and I know the solution. I will do my best to always have truthful information, but I will not be silenced. In our government the power was supposed to flow from the people to local and state government, and from the states to Washington. Washington should only have very limited, well defined powers, with most power reserved to the states and to the people. Can you see how upside down we really are today? Like they say; "all politics are local", so let's elect good people on the local level. Let's elect honest people, people that will stand up for us against our out of control local and federal governments, people that will stand up and protect our rights, people that will quit wasting OUR money. The true duty of all of our elected government officials, from the President of the United States to your local Police Chief is..to protect our God given, unalienable (can't be taken away) rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (property)".

Yes we can, fix this!

Keith Wilson, Partner

AAC Computers
829 East New York Ave
DeLand, FL 32724
keith@aaccomputers.com

Black Republican Rebukes Steele  http://www.lloydmarcus.com/
April 26th, 2010

RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that the GOP has not given blacks a reason to vote
 Republican. As a black conservative Republican, I ask, what is the GOP suppose to do
— serve soul food at Republican events?...
read more http://www.lloydmarcus.com/
 

Letter from Ray: 1.05.10

Dear 912ers -
 
As we embark on 2010, I'd like to take this opportunity to offer my words of encouragement and vision for the road ahead.
 
However, before I can put those words forth, I must acknowledge a few of the realities we're facing.
 
America has awakened to the deception, corruption and odious legislation in government.  Our focus has been on Federal government, but we recognize this infection is not limited to Washington.  Unfortunately, it lives and breathes in the halls of our State Legislature and County offices as well.  This is not an easy fix, and the work ahead seems daunting.  The road is long, but our mission clear.  We will brick by brick, restore our Republic to it's rightful place.
 
Volusia 912 is dedicated to cleaning house in every part of government, but, for the time being, we realize the urgency of overturning the reckless and destructive Congress we now have.  We will make sure to put forth, or back, viable candidates.  We have been working closely with groups all throughout our State to make this a reality.  We have a great model to work with, but need boots on the ground for raising awareness and votes at the precinct level.  We will work hard to those ends, so nothing is left to chance come November.  In meetings ahead, Volusia 912 will show you how.
 
My commitment will not waver, and I'm asking the same of all our members.  Study hard, fight even harder.  Find your voice and gain influence with friends, family and co-workers.  Wake them up!
 
We have a Herculean task ahead of us, but I am convinced a new America is rising.  If any of you have read the story of Benjamin Franklin upon leaving the first Constitutional Convention, as he gazed at the gilded artwork at the seat of the presiding chair, he commented on whether the sun upon the relief was rising or setting.  After witnessing what had transpired within those halls, he felt confident that the sun was rising for America.  I see the same sun now, and know there are true Americans who understand freedom and what is at stake at this moment in history.
 
Please join us in our effort.  Come to our meetings, rallies, events and seminars.  We will give you the tools, but need your ideas, hard work and commitment for our success.  If you ever wanted to make a difference and be a part of something special, this is it.  Be a part of history and the American Comeback in 2010.  Let's stop waiting for someone else to take care of it.  Future generations need us to be those Americans.
 
God Bless and Happy New Year!
 
Ray Sanchez
Florida 912 Project