Organizing for America (http://my.barackobama.com) will be counterprotesting the Seeing Red Rallies on Thursday. Yes the link for Organizing for America is my.barackobama.com. Why would our President set up a direct confrontation with the As A Mom organization? Currently 23 are registered for the Raleigh protest to support the nationalization of health care. Help us draw a line in the sand on Thursday by supporting the very spirit of the United States. 

Red for our Health.  Red for the Debt.  Red for our Anger.

Despite a FULL YEAR of debate, town halls and grass roots protesting, the Obama Administration is set to defy the will of the American people and ram Health Care Reform through Congress using shady deals and parliamentary gimmickry. Finding no traditional means to pass the sweeping legislation, President Obama has called upon the Democrats to walk the political plank, break Senate decorum and use a Machiavellian – by any means necessary – procedure to finalize its approval.

We the people, have now been put on 2 Week’s Notice; the Administration has called for a final vote by March 18, 2010. Such utter disregard for the people whom Congress is supposed to represent must be met with and equal and FINAL push back.

It is well past the time for our Representatives to listen to the people. Let’s show them, in a bold move of solidarity all over the country, that we fully understand the legislation, that we reject it, that we are angry and that we are serious!

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Bert Burnette from Oriental, NorthCarolina has come up with an ingenious plan guaranteed to get the attention of our politicians. The plan is simple and has a minimal cost associated with it: mail an empty milk jug to a politician with your message written on the outside. For our first North Carolina campaign, we want as many milk jugs sent to Sen. Kay Hagan at her Raleigh address. We have made it simple: download the PDF and follow the instructions. Read more »

The new movie Generation Zero will be available on DVD this month. It details four turnings and explains how we are entering the last turning:

The Fourth Turning is a Crisis, a decisive era of secular upheaval, when the values regime propels the replacement of the old civic order with a new one.

 The following excerpt is from theBurningPlatform.com: 

Political leaders and the mainstream media have been blindsided by the sudden mood shift of the country in the last few years. The reason they have been blindsided is they believe world history is linear. Liberals have now begun referring to themselves as progressives. These people think the world only progresses. The facts indicate otherwise. History is cyclical. History is replete with grand empires like Rome, Spain and Britain. It is also replete with Dark Ages, depressions and wars. Strauss & Howe have established that history can be broken down into 80 to 100 year Saeculums that consist of four turnings: The High, The Awakening, The Unraveling, and the Crisis.

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If you have not seen Andrew Breitbart’s speech at the Tea Party Convention, I strongly encourage you to watch it. I don’t have to tell anyone that our country is on a precipice. Fear mongering, partisan politics and race baiting are only distractions to moving forward. Unfortunately these distractions make news and incite further division in the country. Ever wonder how the United States became the most powerful country in history? Look no further than the “United” in our name. Division, or the more commonly accepted term diversity, is what keeps us separated and weak. Read more »

Do you think that these jobs are counted as jobs created by the Stimulus Package? I added the red highlights in this order. Read more »

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The North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is considering revising the way history is” taught” in our schools. They are proposing starting in the year 1877. This would obviously bypass the principles on which our country are founded. It seems that our history is already being rewritten. Here is an excerpt from our state’s library: Read more »

Our North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is trying to eliminate the teaching of history prior to 1877 in our schools. The DPI is allowing the general public to send their comments on this change through March 2, 2010 by emailing them to feedback@dpi.state.nc.us. If you want to copy NCFreedom on your correspondence, use DPI@NCFreedom.us for the cc or bcc. Please include your name and city/town and we will post the responses on the site like we did for the feedback to the community colleges for illegal alien admissions. 

 It seems that people like Hans’ letter so much that they are copying and pasting it into their feedback email to the DPI with their name and address. Any emails that we receive that reflect Hans’ sentiments will be added below in red with only the name and address. 

Good evening, ye who monitor the “feedback” -
From news reports I’ve learned you intend to move US history prior to the end of Reconstruction to a grade 5 curriculum.
I read the Phase 2 outline for social studies in grade 5 (ref http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/phase2/) and have the following changes for your consideration: 

• 5.C&G.1.1 Summarize the organizational structure and enumerated powers as stated in the body of the US Constitution.
• 5.C&G.1.2 Analyze reasons for separation from Britain as stated in the Declaration of Independence. Relate to current situation and events.
• 5.C&G.1.3 Discuss the “natural rights” of man and the influence of natural rights on the concept of “negative rights” in law.
• 5.C&G.2 Analyze life in a Constitutional Republic through the rights and responsibilities of its citizens.
• 5.C&G.2.1 Explain the distinction between rights of man, qua man, and privileges granted under law. Explain the distinction between privileges granted under the Constitution for Federal Territories and the rights of Citizens acknowledged in the Constitution for the United States of America.
• 5.C&G.2.2 Explain how the Founders intended to preserve the sovereignty and liberty of the individual from encroachment by the National government. Explain how States were to Interpose themselves between the National government and Citizens to preserve the liberty of Citizens.

Do you understand the significance of the differences between your original text and the alterations I propose?
The proper instruction of the philosophy of the early United States is absent from your curriculum, and is conceptually beyond the capabilities of a 5th grade student.
Your proposal will effectively eradicate the teaching of Founders vision and philosophy. The high school curriculum for American History post 1877 will only serve to indoctrinate teen age minds with the roots and expansion of American Progressivism.
I realize this is precisely your goal. I’m writing to state on the public record that your goal is evil.
Hans
Raleigh, NC 

I share the following concern expressed in an email that I’m sure you’ve already received. A copy is pasted below. 

Sincerely, 

Andie Brownlow 

Pikeville, NC 

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Dear NC DPI,

  I’m writing to voice my outrage over the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s recent proposed changes to the Public School Curriculum. Changes are proposed for all grade levels.  I heard a very disturbing report in the national news last week that the curriculum for U.S. History for high school students will cover the period beginning in 1877 to the present, effectively eliminating teaching the entire period of our country’s founding right through the Civil War.
 
     This bold attempt to erase our national history and identity is appalling and must be stopped. Let’s call it what it is, yet another incremental step in the Progressive movement to abandon the principles on which our nation was built and replace it with a deity-free, Marxist/Socialist society. By not teaching our children the unique and special form of government our founders created in our republic, the reasons our ancestors came here to escape the bonds of monarchy, dictatorship and religious persecution, they won’t know their fundamental rights have been insidiously taken away until it’s too late.  They will no longer be Americans, but ‘citizens of the world’ governed not by a government chosen by  ‘We the People’ as intended, but some possibly nefarious world entity.
 
     You may ask, how can one make the leap between removing the history of our founding in our state high school curriculum to Marxism/Socialism and a one-world government?  Obviously, my reaction and the reaction of many of my friends and neighbors at this proposed change doesn’t occur in a vacuum, but in the context of the current incredible political, economic, and national security melt-down.  The current Administration’s blatant disregard for our republic’s Constitution and attack on our citizen’s unalienable rights is frightening.  I’m disgusted, but not surprised when  I read that both the NEA (National Education Association) and Obama’s Organizing for America both suggest  Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” on their recommended reading list for our teachers and the high school interns the President hopes to inspire to join his national ‘army’. 
 
     This is not what the majority of North Carolinians or Americans want from their government, whose brave ancestors fought to gain and preserve our precious freedom.  We must stand against these attacks on liberty. We look to all of our elected officials from our local school boards to the White House to uphold the oaths they pledged when taking office. Or we look to replace them as we’ve begun to do across the nation.
 
     I urge you to please take the necessary action to oppose the State Department of Instruction’s latest curriculum proposal and stand up for our children and nation.
 

Sincerely,
 
Toni Tabb
328 Mason Lane
Moyock, NC 27958

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To Whom It May Concern:

I have been told that the NC Dept. of Public Instruction is considering dropping from our schools the teaching of US history prior to 1877. I strongly oppose this move for reasons that should be obvious to even the most casual observer. The story of the founding of the United States of America, the first country in history to base its power in the people and not in the hands of royalty or any government-controlled entity, is one that should be told not only in all American schools, but also in the schools of any country on earth whose people are striving for freedom. The state of public education in the United States today is truly pathetic. Please don’t make it even more so by robbing our children of the opportunity to learn what it took to build the greatest nation on earth. Many children today (and many adults, too, who have gone through our public school system) are unaware of the sacrifices that must be made to maintain the level of freedom we have in this country. The story of our founding is but one example of such sacrifices.

The history of the Civil War also illustrates what extreme measures must sometimes be taken to ensure freedom and liberty, especially for individuals who some in society see as somehow less deserving. It would be virtually impossible to celebrate future Black History months with any grain of understanding without knowing not only the circumstances in which blacks found themselves during this time period, but also the valiant sacrifices that millions of people made to right the wrongs of slavery.

While there is much more to US history prior to 1877, these two events alone are worth keeping that part of our story in the curriculum, and I strongly urge you to do so.

Dale Johnson

Flat Rock, North Carolina

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I understand that there is a proposal to stop teaching history prior to 1877 in our public schools.  Why would you want to do that?  The entire history of our country is important, not just some of it.  That is like reading only the last couple of chapters of a novel.  Without the whole story, it doesn’t make any sense. Why would you not want our students to know about the founding of our nation and the brave men and patriots who formed and founded it?  In fact, we SHOULD be teaching courses about our Constitution and how it came to be.  The National Center for
Constitutional Studies (NCCS) has some great courses on this.  Instead of teaching less history, I would suggest teaching more.  History is a great
teacher.

T.R. Reid
Fayetteville, NC 

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We recently learned of proposed changes during a segment on Fox News.  This is yet another example of why public education needs real competition from charter and private schools.  Children in North Carolina need to understand the totality of our nation’s history so as to appreciate it; a lesson obviously not learned by those proposing this change. 

Robert and Vivian Armstrong

510 Red Fox Court

Hendersonville, N.C. 28792  

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 To whom it may concern:  I cannot adequately express my bewilderment at why anyone would think it a good idea, to NOT teach US history beginning with the founding of the country.  I do not want to feel this way, but it smells of a politically motivated decision.  There is no other USofA in the world.  Our beginning is so unique, and such a testament to the natural yearning of man to be free, why would you omit that from the teaching of young citizens?  What could possibly be the answer to that question?  If you proceed with this decision, you will only succeed in further alienating the electorate, your consumer, from the education elite.  Do not go down this path. 

J Deaver

Rutherfordton, NC

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Dear Sirs and Madams:

             I recently learned that you have proposed to cease teaching American History in the North Carolina school system prior to the year 1877.  Such a proposal defies all rational thought and flies in the face of the basic concepts of American education.  I could not believe it was true until several people confirmed it for me. 

             The early history of this country is not only vital to the creation of an educated public but is also essential to an understanding of the modern world.  To omit our history prior to 1877 would be to deny the spirit of independence and courage which gave rise to its creation and birth but also ignore principles of liberty, equality and justice which have shaped the legal systems and aspirations of the entire world.  To ignore our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, our philosophical break from the old policies of European aristocracy and our creation of a society based on merit rather than status would deprive our youth of the very understanding of the meaning of liberty and justice for all.  To ignore our early history, both the rights and the wrongs of it, our foreign wars and our own Civil War undercuts the importance of America to ourselves and our world.  The revolutions in France, the limitations of monarchies in European nations and the rise of the middle class throughout the entire world are ultimately all based upon what our ancestors did here in the forests of North America. 

             The first member of my family arrived in this country in 1805 seeking a new life and a future away from European restrictions and prejudices.  All that followed came for the same reasons and brought the same desire for adding to and establishing the American ideals and system which was unique to the known world.  They fought for their country in every war from 1812 to the present day except for the Mexican War and the Spanish American War during which no males of the appropriate age where available.  They suffered through every depression and economic setback while adding to the wealth of the country as they could and exercising their God given American rights to act as free people and make their own way to the future they desired.  They passed this heritage on not only to their own children but to all those from other families, legal and illegal, who came here seeking what they had sought.  To deny this same heritage, this complete and full knowledge of our roots, efforts, ideals and history as Americans to the present day children of North Carolina not only ought to be illegal but is clearly immoral.  It should not be done!  I implore you to abandon this dangerous and ignoble effort.  

 Sincerely, 

John William Mayer, JD 

Lt Colonel, USAF Ret. 

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I support the comments of others who have communicated their firm support for  teaching our children the unaltered history of this great country. I have included excerpts from two of the messages below.   

My personal reaction to each of you as individuals is, “How dare you!  It is what it is!  Our history is our history.”

Janet Mohnkern,

Mills River, NC

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To whom it may concern:  I cannot adequately express my bewilderment at why anyone would think it a good idea, to NOT teach US history beginning with the founding of the country.  I do not want to feel this way, but it smells of a politically motivated decision.  There is no other USofA in the world.  Our beginning is so unique, and such a testament to the natural yearning of man to be free, why would you omit that from the teaching of young citizens?  What could possibly be the answer to that question?  If you proceed with this decision, you will only succeed in further alienating the electorate, your consumer, from the education elite.  Do not go down this path.”

J Deaver

Rutherfordton, NC

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Department of Public Education,

I firmly agree with the specific clarifications of instruction that Hans has included in his letter found below. 

Even implementing these changes would leave the 5th grade student, who has not the life experience needed to comprehend the profound importance of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, at the mercy of slick tonged con men and women selling the impostors of God given rights and liberty. Not only political con men and women, but educational con men and women, as well as any others who would attempt to enslave mankind under the rule of the few, the self glorified elite. 

In California law has just been put in place to provide parents with a recourse when the government education union fails in their teaching responsibilities. As I understand it, with a 50% parental petition, teachers and principles can be fired; schools can be switched from government control to charter control; or the school can simply be closed down for failure to perform. North Carolina is currently considering such a law. We are quite fed up with inadequate government education, and will not tolerate the intentional, manipulative, progressive agenda brain washing of the NEA. 

Your North Carolina Essential Standards education outline needs repair. For your survival, I hope you will take it upon yourselves to correct the errors in your educational vision. 

Charlie Stoddard
Raleigh, NC

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Dear NCDPI,

     I am a retired teacher of twenty-seven years experience who came to North Carolina seven and a half years ago.  Since moving here, I have worked in the Asheville City Schools as a substitute.  I am still vitally interested in being involved in some way with the public education system.  I wholeheartedly agree with the following e-mail that you already received from Toni Tabb of Moyock, North Carolina.  It so represents my thoughts completely that I decided to forward it to you.

     I’m writing to voice my outrage over the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s recent proposed changes to the Public School Curriculum. Changes are proposed for all grade levels.  I heard a very disturbing report in the national news last week that the curriculum for U.S. History for high school students will cover the period beginning in 1877 to the present, effectively eliminating teaching the entire period of our country’s founding right through the Civil War.
 
     This bold attempt to erase our national history and identity is appalling and must be stopped. Let’s call it what it is, yet another incremental step in the Progressive movement to abandon the principles on which our nation was built and replace it with a deity-free, Marxist/Socialist society. By not teaching our children the unique and special form of government our founders created in our republic, the reasons our ancestors came here to escape the bonds of monarchy, dictatorship and religious persecution, they won’t know their fundamental rights have been insidiously taken away until it’s too late.  They will no longer be Americans, but ‘citizens of the world’ governed not by a government chosen by  ‘We the People’ as intended, but some possibly nefarious world entity.
 
     You may ask, how can one make the leap between removing the history of our founding in our state high school curriculum to Marxism/Socialism and a one-world government?  Obviously, my reaction and the reaction of many of my friends and neighbors at this proposed change doesn’t occur in a vacuum, but in the context of the current incredible political, economic, and national security melt-down.  The current Administration’s blatant disregard for our republic’s Constitution and attack on our citizen’s unalienable rights is frightening.  I’m disgusted, but not surprised when  I read that both the NEA (National Education Association) and Obama’s Organizing for America both suggest  Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” on their recommended reading list for our teachers and the high school interns the President hopes to inspire to join his national ‘army’. 
 
     This is not what the majority of North Carolinians or Americans want from their government, whose brave ancestors fought to gain and preserve our precious freedom.  We must stand against these attacks on liberty. We look to all of our elected officials from our local school boards to the White House to uphold the oaths they pledged when taking office, or we look to replace them as we’ve begun to do across the nation.
 
      I urge you to please take the necessary action to oppose the State Department of Instruction’s latest curriculum proposal and stand up for the  children of North Carolina and our great Republic.

Sincerely,

Marguerite P. Thompson

48 South Griffing Blvd.

Asheville, NC 28804

i find this disgusting. what made and separates this country is what happened in our history, mainly the time of our founding fathers. the things they accomplised, fought for, make us what we are now. and unless we are dealing with a progressive agenda here, (being the thought that the constitution is a “living and working document”) the principles and guideance of the constitution is our laws and framework. certain parts of our history should not be glossed over or not taught at all. columbus discovering america, the pilgrims, constitution, civil war, etc are all important parts of who we are. not just wilson, teddy, fdr and the world wars. a tactic like this will only serve to anger the general public, and cause even more distrust in our government run schools.         

carl young  

1525 olive branch road 

roxboro nc 27574

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 This is not what the majority of North Carolinians or Americans want from their government, whose brave ancestors fought to gain and preserve our precious freedom.  We must stand against these attacks on liberty. We look to all of our elected officials from our local school boards to the White House to uphold the oaths they pledged when taking office. Or we look to replace them as we’ve begun to do across the nation.
 
  I urge you to please take the necessary action to oppose the State Department of Instruction’s latest curriculum proposal and stand up for our children and nation.

Cynthia Thomas
Charlotte NC

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The North Carolina State Constitution state in Article I, Section 2 that the people have the political power:

 Sec. 2. Sovereignty of the people.

 All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.

 This is not true: we have no political power in our state. Our politicians maintain the appearance of a democracy where we elect them to perform their responsibilities. In 2009, the general assembly could not even pass a budget on time: it took them an additional month. Our only legal recourse to institute change in our government is a ballot process to amend the state constitution as outlined in Article XIII, Section 3. The entire article is presented below since Section 3 refers back to Section 1.

ARTICLE XIII

CONVENTIONS; CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND REVISION

 Section 1.  Convention of the People.

No Convention of the People of this State shall ever be called unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each house of the General Assembly, and unless the proposition “Convention or No Convention” is first submitted to the qualified voters of the State at the time and in the manner prescribed by the General Assembly.  If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition are in favor of a Convention, it shall assemble on the day prescribed by the General Assembly.  The General Assembly shall, in the act submitting the convention proposition, propose limitations upon the authority of the Convention; and if a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition are in favor of a Convention, those limitations shall become binding upon the Convention.  Delegates to the Convention shall be elected by the qualified voters at the time and in the manner prescribed in the act of submission.  The Convention shall consist of a number of delegates equal to the membership of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly that submits the convention proposition and the delegates shall be apportioned as is the House of Representatives.  A Convention shall adopt no ordinance not necessary to the purpose for which the Convention has been called.

  Sec. 2.  Power to revise or amend Constitution reserved to people.

The people of this State reserve the power to amend this Constitution and to adopt a new or revised Constitution.  This power may be exercised by either of the methods set out hereinafter in this Article, but in no other way.

  Sec. 3.  Revision or amendment by Convention of the People.

A Convention of the People of this State may be called pursuant to Section 1 of this Article to propose a new or revised Constitution or to propose amendments to this Constitution.  Every new or revised Constitution and every constitutional amendment adopted by a Convention shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the State at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Convention.  If a majority of the votes cast thereon are in favor of ratification of the new or revised Constitution or the constitutional amendment or amendments, it or they shall become effective January first next after ratification by the qualified voters unless a different effective date is prescribed by the Convention.

Sec. 4.  Revision or amendment by legislative initiation.

A proposal of a new or revised Constitution or an amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be initiated by the General Assembly, but only if three-fifths of all the members of each house shall adopt an act submitting the proposal to the qualified voters of the State for their ratification or rejection.  The proposal shall be submitted at the time and in the manner prescribed by the General Assembly.  If a majority of the votes cast thereon are in favor of the proposed new or revised Constitution or constitutional amendment or amendments, it or they shall become effective January first next after ratification by the voters unless a different effective date is prescribed in the act submitting the proposal or proposals to the qualified voters.

NCFreedom has been collecting suggestions from people and groups to amend the state constitution since May 2009. Our future efforts will be focused on submitting ten amendments to the North Carolina State Constitution to the General Assembly to call a Convention of the People as outlined in Section 3 above. Each amendment on the ballot will be voted on independently of the other amendments. When the people finalize the ten amendments, each one will then have to be adapted to withstand legal challenges in the future.  We then have to find one representative or senator to introduce it in the general assembly in May. 

The following list of ballot initiatives has been submitted: 

1. Implement a limit of three terms in office for state representatives and senators.
2. Define and implement a method to allow popular referendums on an election ballot.
3. Define and implement a legal and impartial method for voting districts to be established.
4. Clarify the state’s responsibility for education as 1st through 12th grade. 
5. Prohibit admittance of illegal aliens to North Carolina state-funded community colleges, colleges, and universities.
6. Strengthen our state sovereignty as defined by the 10th amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
7. Implement mandatory felony prison sentences for voting infractions, including falsification of voter registration.
8. Revise Article 1, Section 4 in the State Constitution to allow North Carolina to secede from the United States if the Federal government violates the Constitution of the United States.
9. Define and implement a method to recall politicians.
10. Eliminate state subsidies for non-NC resident or non-US resident students in our State Universities or Community Colleges.
11. Pass “castle doctrine” legislation allowing NC home or vehicle owners to use any manner of force, including deadly force, against a criminal who forcibly enters or intrudes into his home or occupied vehicle.
12. Reform NC annexation law to prevent forced annexation.
13. Pass legislation to make the NC ballot more easily accessible to non-majority political parties.
14. Pass legislation to issue voter ID cards.
15. Pass NC Firearms Freedom Act exempting from federal regulation under the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in North Carolina.