If you feel you have been Taxed Enough Already then we encourage you to meet us on July 4, 2009 on the Brentwood, Northern California City Hall steps at noon to help us communicate that we are “TEA’d” off! We are tired of consistent tax increases, wasteful spending, pork barrel spending and earmark spending and we are willing to take a stand to say it.  We are hoping to bring all of Contra Costa County and more to our event.  Email us at brentwoodtea@gmail.com to let us know if you want to come to our event, join our group, or just give a donation or help us with ideas, we will be glad to hear from you.

Letter to the Editor

6/7/95 - Arlington, Washington Times

During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.

First of all, “Nazi” was gutter slang for the verb “to nationalize”. The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was “The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany”. Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.

Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After der fuhrer’s election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press. Being a Nazi was politically correct. They called themselves “The Children of the New Age of World Order” and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler accrued more power, he referred to his critics as “The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred”. Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a “Conservative Reactionary”. Joseph Goebbels, minister of communications, proclaimed a “New World Order”.

The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the “New World Order” and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn’t fall into the hands of “terrorists and madmen”. Right wing fanatics of the “Old Order” who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for “fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people”.

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an “Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act” through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the “jack-boots” (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals’ service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.

When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.

The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.

Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as “right wing fanatics”.

Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the “peacekeepers”.

Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren’t Republicans, or “right wing”, or “patriots” or “militias”. They were Socialist monsters.

Don Mashak posted on the wire of the group “Free and Equal”:

“First, may I suggest we implement What I have coined as the 80 rule ?

I think we should avoid issues that will cause internal conflict and alienate others that would be with us in the most important issues such as: abortion, gun control, gay marriage, nuclear power, school prayer, affirmative action, etc.

On June 20, 2009 MIKE HOLOKA said:
DON-With all due respect i strongly disagree! Tea parties are about the values and principles of the founding fathers. screw political correctness. that is why we are in this mess. WAKE UP! Everything is ok except for what is right. Well no more. By the way we already have citizens grand juries and politicians have been indicted by them over 100 times.. What I don’t know is whether the authorities are doing anything about it. If the prosecutors don’t do anything then what can the citizens do. I believe it was Jefferson but I could be wrong who said a people that would trade off some liberties for some securities is not worthy of freedom and will end up losing all their liberties. We can be neither timid or shy about what we believe-that is how a Hitler takes over a people-not on my watch. with all due respect Don-we have to say-if we want our liberties-not to fear any man or any sacrifice-
but fear God. And yes i used the G word. Let’s wake up-every state constitution references God or the Almighty or the Almighty God or words to that effect. I am not about to let voodoo science make a monkey out of me. The politicians don’t hesitate to insult us with the rwextremist labels- calling us a threat to the country while they destroy it. You can take your 80% rule and govern yourself accordingly. I am 100% American-100% conservative and 100% ticked off at the powers to be-but most of all to all those who let 2-3 generations be misled with miseducation while we have been fleeced by the Government on both sides of the aisle. I say be a Patriot or stay home. We can’t afford to compromise with political ideology-it is destroying America and it has gotten us no where. Let’s hope we have elections in 2010 and not Iranian style.
If you are feeling comfortable in your own skin let me suggest you are not doing enough for your country!
It is not about comfort or how we feel-it is about life, liberty and whether we can ever get back what we once had-it is about what is right-what is lawful-what is moral-family- and personal responsibility.
The power people are the true threat to our country and the nonsense of political correctness is a shame on the American people for letting it happen. Either we stand up for what we believe or we stand for nothing.
Let’s get with it-honesty is the best policy-and this notion we ahve to agree on evrythingor we can’t work together-where did that come from. there are 30 major league baseball teams-yet baseball fans can peacefully discuss players, stats etc without being in agreement. the founding fathers were in 2 camps federalists and anti- federalists. didn’t stop them from putting their name on a death warrant called the declaration of independence. There were many other differences but all recognized that the present system was not working. So let’s agree to disagree respectfully as mature individuals. Let’s focus on the true enemy of our country without selling out our souls on some artificial representation that we all agree on everything-
Iron sharpens iron. Meaningful discussion means something. You can’t have true education without it-and you can’t get to the real issues by ignoring an enumerated set of issues that are taboo.

Corruption is the rotting of our great nation’s foundation. The values and principles that our founding fathers risked their lives for have been thrown out like yesterday’s trash and are treated as merely a nostalgic piece of history.

The media, which are nothing more than cheerleaders for Marxism, tells us what to believe and anyone willing to have an opposing view or call them out on their bias are type casted as hate mongers or right wing extremist. To have one of those media opposing views or to disagree with our Socialism obsessed President is to be labeled as a “right wing extremist, more likely to commit domestic terrorism (per Janet Napoliano of Homeland Security).

As our President so proudly proclaims us “one of the biggest Muslim Nations in the world” nary a whisper comes from the 75% Evangelical Christian Americans. God, yes I said God, was rooted in the very foundation of this country and even as many of you are now cringing at the thought of bringing Him into this discussion the facts of His influence cries to us from our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. God is everywhere in the beginning and creation of this great Nation and no matter the attempts to silence His existence, a trip to Washington D.C and a real open mind would leave little doubt.

It’s time for each patriot to return to personal responsibility and to take a stand for what is right. Americans have become complacent and apathetic and that is what these TEA Parties are about~ to end apathy, get up off of the couch, roll up our bags of potato chips and get involved with our political system. It is time for Americans to rise up and say “It is time for real change” not the empty promises given to us on a campaign trail. Americans need to go back to what they know is right and great about this country.

We will make our voice heard again! We will vote for America and we will fight back not with hatred or weapons but with our voices, with our votes and with our presence at the Tea Party Rallies! If we don’t accept personal responsibility for what has happened to this nation, we can’t create the change that is needed.

There will ALWAYS be corruption, no matter what we do and no matter the type of government. There must be laws based on a higher morality which can only come from the recognition of God. If we base it on our own views, then chaos rules because everyone’s views are different. That is what is happening today. Truth is different for everyone and so real Truth doesn’t exist without God. It becomes every man for himself, and no one follows the laws. Only when Truth becomes absolute can society trust it’s own laws and begin to trust it’s government. Our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution based on God’s truths and if it was good enough to follow then, it is good enough to follow now.

On the campaign trail, our President is noted saying, “We live in the greatest nation on the earth. Please join me in changing it”. After witnessing some of this change, I say “keep your change” Mr. President because as natural born citizens with original documents to boot, we will make the changes that are needed.

Please e-mail us if you can help with any of these tasks.  This will be a busy week for all of us.  Let’s Rock! info@brentwoodteaparty.org

June 21-July3:
Continue sign making for day of protest and day before to get the word out on street corners, sidewalks, where ever…

June 27- What a Country Challenge Booth-From 8am-4pm people to run the booth. 

June 27-Farmers Market: info handout led by Sean Ackley
Sean will be at the Brentwood Starbucks to gather people to go over to the market at 8am.

June 21-25 Insurance solidified-Jill’s task- any ideas??

June 22- Allison and Jill are going to City Hall at 1:00 pm to map out event. Anyone is welcome to come give input. We will then go into Parks and Rec to discuss insurance and electrical issues.

June 23- 7:00pm Planning Meeting at Jill’s house
         109 Cardinal Lane, Discovery Bay
         Kids welcome!

American capitalism gone with a whimper….from the Russian columnist, Stanislav Mushin, for the Pravada.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

Hip! Hip Hooray for truth!

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

Thomas Jefferson:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -Thomas Jefferson October 11, 1798

Samuel Adams:
“ He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.” “American Independence,” August 1, 1776. Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia

“ Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity… and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.” October 4, 1790

John Quincy Adams:
• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day the Fourth of July?” “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity”?
–1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.

“The Law given from Sinai The Ten Commandments was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.”
John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61

Elias Boudinot:
“ Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers . . . and judge of the tree by its fruits.”

Charles Carroll - signer of the Declaration of Independence
” Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure…are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.” Source: To James McHenry on November 4, 1800.

Benjamin Franklin:
“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech

“In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered… do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?” Constitutional Convention, Thursday June 28, 1787

In Benjamin Franklin’s 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach “the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.”

In 1787 when Franklin helped found Benjamin Franklin University, it was dedicated as “a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone.”

Alexander Hamilton:
• Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:
(1) Christianity
(2) a Constitution formed under Christianity.
“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”

On July 12, 1804 at his death, Hamilton said, “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.”

“For my own part, I sincerely esteem it the Constitution a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.” 1787 after the Constitutional Convention

“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”

John Hancock:
• “In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, …at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness… Resolved; …Thursday the 11th of May…to humble themselves before God under the heavy judgments felt and feared, to confess the sins that have deserved them, to implore the Forgiveness of all our transgressions, and a spirit of repentance and reformation …and a Blessing on the … Union of the American Colonies in Defense of their Rights for which hitherto we desire to thank Almighty God…That the people of Great Britain and their rulers may have their eyes opened to discern the things that shall make for the peace of the nation…for the redress of America’s many grievances, the restoration of all her invaded liberties, and their security to the latest generations.
“A Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, with a total abstinence from labor and recreation. Proclamation on April 15, 1775″

America IS a Chistian nation, Obama. I don’t know what America you thought you were in.

It was great fun to work with everyone seeing the variety of ideas and how everyone used the different materials provided. An extra “thank you” to everyone who brought materials. It was especially kind of Jill to offer the use of her home for this event with fresh fruit and water for the comfort of our participants. Thanks to Bonnie for the fresh baked blueberry muffins!

All the fun aside, this was an important event. We had a lot of creative ideas flowing that will be sure to bring the latest current events to the public’s attention on the 4th of July with the numerous creative slogans put to the signs. We’ve posted some images of the event  at brentwooteaparty.org and will be posting more of the signs themselves soon!

We are so excited to have Mike Holoka speak at our TEA Party!!! He is a  lawyer and an excellent speaker.  He is flying out here from Chicago, Illinois to speak at our event and we are so excited about hearing what he has to say.  Thank you Mike!  Anyone who is a member of this site and the groups associated with it should be very familiar with what Mike stands for!  Come on July 4th to hear his speech!