October was a good month for The Federalist

Obamacare has been good for Blogging

By Gary;

Comrade Obama and his merry band of Marxist thugs have been a curse on the United States but a boon to us Bloggers. 

Everyday there is some brand new Leninist horror being foisted on the American people . . . sometimes there are so many news stories in one day that no one but Drudge can begin to give them the coverage they need.

But one wonders in the dead of night if there is anyone left out there who cares.  Is the Republic dead?  Is all we are seeing is the twitching of a still warm corpse?

In any case, October was a good month for THE FEDERALIST with an upward surge to 47,798 page views.  Plus we are closing in on the magic one million page view mark.

Bit by bit this Blog has grown.  We started in May, 2011 with a "massive" 834 page views for the month.  (Frankly, I was shocked that it was even that high.)  But the growth in viewership was rapid from the start reaching 5,532 the next month in June and shot up to 11,823 for the month of October.
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Monthly readership has kept growing and growing peaking at 71,021 for the election month of November, 2012.
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All of us Bloggers dream late at night about being Matt Drudge. Deep down we know that will never happen. But it has been gratifying that readers keep coming back.
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Still, Bloggers must be doing something right. Governments all over the world are scared shitless that we even exist. Scared to the point that Bloggers are arrested and their sites blocked.
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In my own way I try to share stories with you from a Constitutional Federalist point of view that is often ignored by the Elite Media.  A point of view that has nearly vanished in a modern Socialistic Big Brother world.
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So here we are over 2,219 posted news stories later.  Thank you all for coming by this Blog.  Keep the flame of Liberty burning.  See you down the Internet road.

Dr. Michael Savage takes over Sean Hannity's radio spot

Hello Doc . . . Goodbye Sean

I for one am sick and tired of Sean featuring

Karl Rove almost daily.

Talk hosts like Hannity and Rush have their uses.  But I have had it with this brain-dead cheerleader act of Democrat is bad and GOP is good that goes on for hours, weeks, months, years and decades.

That is why I came around to independent Conservative hosts like Dr. Michael Savage who fearlessly ripped into liberals like George Bush while the Hannity-Rush crew knee jerked their support on a daily basis.  After all, just because a liberal asshole like Bush happens to have an "R" after his name, it does not change the fact that he is a liberal asshole.

Calling it the "biggest shake-up in talk radio history," conservative talk show host Savage announced Wednesday night that his program, "The Savage Nation," will take over Sean Hannity's 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. eastern drive time slot on Cumulus radio stations in January.

Savage will be broadcast on major stations such as WABC (770 AM) in New York, Dallas (WBAP), and Washington (WMAL).

In August, Savage told his listeners that he predicted he would take over the Hannity time slot: “I predict, right here, right now, that I Michael Savage and the Savage Nation is going to take over The Sean Hannity Show time slot by the end of the year,” Savage announced. “I am the heir apparent to afternoon drive on the east coast and around America on Cumulus stations, which have the most powerful stations in the radio world.”
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(New York Daily News)


Dr. Michael Savage
Announces he's taking over Sean Hannity's radio spot on Cumulus! - September 25, 2013

Press Release

UPDATE (Thurs., Sept. 26, 9:01 a.m.): This is now official:

ATLANTA, September 26, 2013 – Cumulus Media Networks, with more than 5,500 affiliate radio stations reaching 129 million listeners every week, announces that Michael Savage’s The Savage Nation® will move to the highly coveted 3p-6p ET timeslot beginning in January 2014 – bringing his unique brand of “News, Views and Reviews” to drivetime on top radio stations nationwide.

The Savage Nation® will air on more than 200 affiliates of Cumulus Media Networks, including 60 stations owned and operated by Cumulus. Some of the cities where The Savage Nation® will air during drivetime include: New York (WABC), Chicago (WLS), Dallas (WBAP), Washington(WMAL), San Francisco (KSFO) and WJR (Detroit). 

Legendary conservative spokesman Michael Savage’s The Savage Nation was ranked as the third most listened to radio talk show in the nation by Talkers Magazine. He is the author of 28 books, including six New York Times bestsellers. He was awarded the coveted Freedom of Speech Award by Talkers Magazine and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Republican Liberalism & Talk Radio.

Rumsfeld, Ford and Cheney back in the day.

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By Gary;

The GOP Gerald Ford Administration was filled to overflowing with big government loving clowns like Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.  All of them fought tooth and nail against we Ronald Reagan Conservatives out in the trenches.

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Then comes along the George W. Bush Administration, better known as Gerald Ford, Part III.  Bush simply recycled the same lib Ford Administration losers like Cheney and Rumsfeld that we Reaganites had fought against.

In comes the so-called "Conservative" media. 

George H.W. Bush
The lib Gerald Ford Administration
Part II

The Hannity-Rush crew of radio and TV talking heads obediently fall into line and beat the drum that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were "Conservatives" who must be defended. 

For years the talking heads make excuse after excuse to defend big government liberalism because the clowns in the White House and Congress happen to have an "R" after their names.  It was all ratings driven.  Cheerleading for cold hard cash.    

It was also right-wing George Bush worship (no different from Obama or Clinton worship).  Put your brain in neutral.  Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.  The Bill of Rights out the door.  Must vote for the idiot with the "R" after his name.

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This liberal, statist insanity drove me out of the GOP and into the radio arms of independent thinking Conservatives like Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Jerry Doyle and Alex Jones.

 

In 2004 I was so damn pissed off at the Leftist Bush regime that I did the previously unthinkable - I voted for the Libertarian Party for President. 

 

In 2008 I made the mistake of voting for that neo-fascist prick John McCain. In anger at the GOP, in 2009 I re-registered into the Libertarian Party for two years.  I voted Libertarian for Governor of California in 2010.  I then registered back in the GOP to support Ron Paul in the 2012 primary, but then I voted Libertarian for President in November in disgust at Romney, the author of socialized medicine. 

 

Being a resident of California my Conservative vote has no meaning anyway.

 

Though still technically registered in the GOP, I consider myself a member of the Federalist Party.  The downside is all my party leaders are dead.

 

So I sit back and watch in horror as the GOP votes to grow government, re-distribute the wealth, rack up more debt and centralize an unconstitutional Police State.

 

Today I am a man without a party. . . . but the ratings driven "Conservative" media still beats the GOP drum telling me I have to care.    



Mark Levin - The Liberty Amendments

Mark Levin

"An Exercise in Political Masturbation"

A more honest title for Levin's new book.

Book Review

By Gary;

Mark Levin is a true patriot, an ally in the war against Statism and a defender of the Constitution.

But that being said his newest book is mostly a waste of time.  The book fails to address the one real problem in America today - the lack of free elections.

We would not be having this conversation if the politicians had any fear at all of the voters.  They don't.

Levin talks about passing new amendments to the Constitution. But that means nothing when the entrenched politicians financed by a bottomless pit of big Beltway money simply ignore the existing ones.

It is a little know fact that up until 1940 the U.S. was a multi-party Republic.  The people could easily form brand new political parties to overthrow the corrupt Elites in D.C.   Power came from the bottom up.  From the People.

We saw many parties elected to Congress:  Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, National Republicans, Democrat, Anti-Masonic, Free Soil, American, Republican, Greenback, Populist, Progressive and more.

Until free elections are restored we are doomed as a nation.

Levin has proposed a number of amendments he claims will save the county.

Term Limits

Levin proposes term limits as a cure for D.C. corruption.  Sorry.  That one is totally dead on arrival and misses the point that we no longer even have free elections.

As a resident of the People's Republic of California we have had term limits.  It has done absolutely nothing to change the corrupt nature of government.  The reason is, term limits does not change the way politicians are elected.

California resembles the US House of Representatives with monster, huge legislative districts.  900,000 people for the State Senate and 450,000 for the Assembly.  In a special election for State Senate last month both parties spent about $5,000,000 on the race.


Nathaniel P. Banks
Speaker of the House, American Party.
Banks was a Democrat, then the American Party,
then a Republican and finally Liberal Republican
Party.  With small House districts new political
parties can easily rise and fall striking FEAR
in the hearts of the D.C. Elites.
(Nathaniel P. Banks)

Because districts are so huge only millionaires or those willing to be bribed with millions in corrupt outside special interest cash get elected. 
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Our "representatives" do not represent the People.  They really represent the big money cartels of unions and corrupt businesses wanting "payback" for their campaign money investment. 

Until the common man can again afford to run for office there will be no changes.

REFORM  -  Levin is wasting his time with amendments.  If there is any hope at all in saving the nation then we need to restore free elections. 

Here is a reform that only takes a majority vote of the US House - vastly expand the House of Representatives to help restore the Republic.

Article One, Section 2 of the Constitution says, "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand." 

Everyone could easily meet their Congressman face to face with next to zero campaign costs.  The House has ignored that number for 200 years causing the current House seats to balloon up to 700,000 people and increasing campaign expenses to the insane level.

The lower houses districts in Canada and Britain run about 100,000 in population and they are both multi-party democracies with free elections. 

About 100,000 is a good number for the US House.  Back when House seats were that size we had free elections with new political parties rapidly being formed, getting elected to Congress and often vanishing just a fast.

With huge districts the political class has no reason to fear the people at election time.

Taxes, Debt & Spending

Levin proposes a limit on spending, taxes and debt which includes a 60% vote of Congress to override.

Once again Levin is lost in intellectual theory la-la-land.

Since 1978 California had a two-thirds (66%) requirement to pass a budget.  The minority GOP had a total veto over all spending and debt.  What happened?  The Republicans simply cut deals with the Democrats to keep the spending-debt machine running at full blast.

Levin's amendment is a joke.  The GOP has the power to freeze or cut spending now with a 50% + 1 vote, but Republicans have not voted to cut even one cent from the budget since the 1920s. 

The money machine gets them re-elected.  Levin's amendment changes nothing.  Only election reform (above) will do that.

Supreme Court Term Limits

If find it interest that Levin attacks the one part of the Constitution that still operates just as our Federalist Founding Fathers wanted  -  the Federal Courts.


Justice Clarence Thomas
Mark Levin wants judges like Thomas
to be term limited.  Sorry Mark, I want
Thomas in there until he is 90 years old
and the EMTs have to pry him out of
his seat.

Again Levin demands those somehow "magical" term limits for those horrible men in black with their "evil" lifetime appointments to the Federal Courts.  Never mind that this is what the Federalists wanted when they wrote the Constitution. 
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Our Founders wanted a judiciary as far removed from the tug of everyday politics as possible.  The Founders wanted judges to be appointed for life by a variety of Presidents to reduce the danger of dictatorship.

Both Conservatives and Liberals take their turns in attacking the Court.

The Conservatives praise the Court when it votes their way on cases like guns or voting rights and curse them with equal fervor when they dare to vote different. 

The same goes with the libs.  This standard hot air political BS has not changed since the founding of the country.

Also the last thing you want is a judge being term limited at age 60 instead of serving for life.  The judge could easily rule on cases looking ahead to being hired by the very firms or politicians he is making rulings on.

A New Constitutional Convention

Levin is correct that a new Constitutional Convention called by the states is needed.

The Federal government has become a bully dictating everything in our lives from school lunches, to local zoning laws and health care.  A new Convention could draw up an amendment putting serious limitations on the Federal Dictatorship.

Still, we have a 10th Amendment now and neither party pays attention to it.  Would a new amendment be any different?

For political junkies like myself Levin's book is a fun read.  But as a guide for political action I suspect it will be ignored by both parties.



SHOCK - 750,000+ Views for The Federalist

"The Federalist" Has Broken a Record:

750,000 + Pageviews

By Gary;

Wow.  Thank you everyone.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think even 5,000 people would bother to log on to The Federalist Blog.  Now we have just shot past the 750,000 pageview mark and we closing in rapidly on 1,000,000.

When I started this site back in May, 2011, I figured very few people in the "modern" statist and increasingly socialist U.S. would be interested in hearing about true small government Constitutional Federalism and Liberty.

In addition the Internet was totally saturated with web-sites on news and politics. But from my point of view, most of those web-sites love to knee-jerk and pander to the non-thinking party loyalty of members of both political parties.  Independent, rational thinking was and is rare.

But from the start I have been pleasantly surprised by the reaction of the Internet community.
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We started off in May, 2011 with a "massive" 834 pageviews for the month.  (I was shocked it was even that high.)  But the growth in viewership was rapid from the start reaching 5,532 the next month in June and shot up to 11,823 for the month of October.
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Monthly readership has kept growing and growing peaking at 71,021 for the election month of November, 2012.
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All of us Bloggers dream late at night about being Matt Drudge. Deep down we know that will never happen. But it has been gratifying that readers keep coming back.
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Still, Bloggers must be doing something right. Governments all over the world are scared shitless that we even exist. Scared to the point that Bloggers are arrested and their sites blocked.
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In my own way I try to share stories with you that are often ignored by the Elite Media. Stories from a Constitutional Federalist point of view. A point of view that has nearly vanished in a modern Socialistic Big Brother world.
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So here we are over 2,000 posted news stories later.  Thank you all for coming by this Blog.  Keep the flame of Liberty burning.  See you down the Internet road.

TSA morphs into Obama's National Police Force

A New Federal Police Force

TSA VIPR Teams have vastly expanded the reach of the Federal government to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals.

As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.

The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.
      

“The T.S.A., huh,” said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. “I thought they were just at the airports,” reports the New York Times. 

      

With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.

      

T.S.A. and local law enforcement officials claim the teams are a "critical" component of the nation’s counterterrorism efforts, but some members of Congress, auditors at the Department of Homeland Security and civil liberties groups are sounding alarms. The teams are also raising hackles among passengers who call them unnecessary and intrusive.

“Our mandate is to provide security and counterterrorism operations for all high-risk transportation targets, not just airports and aviation,” said John S. Pistole, the administrator of the agency. “The VIPR teams are a big part of that.”


TSA starts stopping people on US highways without warrants or probable cause 

TSA Invades Roads Highways With VIPR Checkpoints
Without search warrants the Feds search all trucks on a public highway.

 

      
TSA RIDICULOUS checkpoints WAR on TERROR in YOUR COFFEE

 

      

Some in Congress, however, say the T.S.A. has not demonstrated that the teams are effective.
Auditors at the Department of Homeland Security are asking questions about whether the teams are properly trained and deployed based on actual security threats.

      

Civil liberties groups say that the VIPR teams have little to do with the agency’s original mission to provide security screenings at airports and that in some cases their actions amount to warrantless searches in violation of constitutional protections.

      

“The problem with T.S.A. stopping and searching people in public places outside the airport is that there are no real legal standards, or probable cause,” said Khaliah Barnes, administrative law counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “It’s something that is easily abused because the reason that they are conducting the stops is shrouded in secrecy.”

The VIPR teams were started in 2005 by GOP Preident George Bush and fully funded by the Republican Congress.
      

The program now has a $100 million annual budget and is growing rapidly, increasing to several hundred people and 37 teams last year, up from 10 teams in 2008. T.S.A. records show that the teams ran more than 8,800 unannounced checkpoints and search operations with local law enforcement outside of airports last year.

      

The teams, which are typically composed of federal air marshals, explosives experts and baggage inspectors, move through crowds with bomb-sniffing dogs, randomly stop passengers and ask security questions. There is usually a specially trained undercover plainclothes member who monitors crowds for "suspicious behavior". Some team members are former members of the military and police forces.

      

T.S.A. officials refused to say if the VIPR teams had ever foiled a terrorist plot or thwarted any major threat to public safety, saying the information is classified.

In 2011, the VIPR teams were criticized for screening and patting down people after they got off an Amtrak train in Savannah, Ga. As a result, the Amtrak police chief briefly banned the teams from the railroad’s property, saying the searches were illegal.
      

In April 2012, during a joint operation with the Houston police and the local transit police, people boarding and leaving city buses complained that T.S.A. officers were stopping them and searching their bags.



The Bipartisan Police State
The 1984 Big Brother Surveillance State is fully and eagerly funded by the Democrat Senate and the GOP House.

26 GOP Senators refuse to defund Obamacare

 

Ted Cruz acts to Defund Obamacare

26 GOP Senators refuse to become co-sponsors of the bill.

Constitutional Federalist Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, along with 19 other Senate Republicans, has introduced the Defund Obamacare Act of 2013, which would fully defund Obamacare, in the wake of the recent string of bad news surrounding the law.

Only 19 out of 46 GOP Senators signed on to Cruz's bill.  That tells you all you need to know about "Conservatism" in the Republican Party.

"The Administration's recent announcement to delay the onerous and unpopular employer mandate until after the 2014 election, coupled with its announcement to delay income and health status eligibility requirements in favor of an honor system for the most expensive entitlement for our generation, confirms what has been obvious from the start--this law is a colossal mistake," Cruz said in a press release.

Cruz is joined by Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., who introduced companion legislation in the House. Graves has introduced similar legislation before, in March of 2013, and also in the 111th and 112th congresses.

List of Senators:  U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced legislation to fully defund Obamacare.

Co-sponsors of the bill include Sens. Lamar Alexander, (R-TN), John Barrasso (R-WY), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Dean Heller (R-NV), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Pat Toomey (R-PA), David Vitter (R-LA), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).


(Washington Examiner)

Sarah Palin for U.S. Senate

Go Sarah Go

Former Governor Sarah Palin (Constitutional Federalist - Alaska) said on a Tuesday night’s Fox News broadcast that she has considered a run for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

Go Sarah.

You have stood tall for Constitutional Federalism while the slimeball GOP establishment has embraced Karl Marx.

“I’ve considered it because people have requested me considering it, but I’m still waiting to see what the lineup will be,” she said, to Fox News host Sean Hannity.

"Sen. Mark Begich has got to be replaced,” she said, Breitbart reported. “He has not done what he has promised to do for the people of Alaska, and that was to represent what it is that the nation needs in terms of energy development and so many other natural resource development issues that are near and dear to an Alaskan’s heart. Because he’s on the wrong side of the aisle, he has to go along to get along with his Democrat leadership, and that’s a shame. That’s a waste of opportunity for our nation.”


Ted Nugent on hunting and... Sarah Palin





DOMA and Voting Rights - Constitutional Federalism in Action

The Supreme Court Supports the 10th Amendment

The Court upholds the right of the states to control their own

affairs in the areas of election and marriage laws.

By Gary;

The Supreme Court must be doing a good job.  In one week they have managed to both piss off and bring praise from Liberals and Conservatives.

The Court is the last properly operating fragment created by the Federalists at the Constitutional Convention.  So naturally both Big Government Liberals and Conservatives will be angry at the Court at different times for daring to be the third branch of government and operate the way Alexander Hamilton and Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall wanted them to.

Gay Marriage  -  Yes and No

The pro and anti Gay marriage sides along with the media missed what I consider to be the main points of the DOMA ruling.  The ruling represents a victory for the cause of state's rights and the 10th Amendment.

 

The Supreme Court for the first time said the Federal government couldn't discriminate against same-sex couples if their marriage is recognized by a state.

Conservatives argued Gay Marriage
from a religious not Constitutional
point of view.  America is not a
Theocracy where the courts exist
to support Holy doctrine. 

In the case before the court, New York resident Edith Windsor would have been exempt from a Federal estate tax of $363,000 had her late spouse been male.  The Court was simply upholding the marriage laws of the state of New York and equal treatment under the law for all groups.

Ms. Windsor will now get a refund from the IRS of $363,000 plus interest.

Conservatives attack the ruling from a religious, not a legal, point of view. 

The United States is not a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, Iran or Vatican State.  The courts to not exist to support Sharia, Biblical or Buddhist religious teachings.  The U.S. is a secular society with many different points of view from atheist to dozens of very different religions.

Voting Rights

Here is was the Liberals turn to scream at the "evil" Supreme Court for overturning the key elements of the oppressive Voting Rights Act.

Liberals (including most Republicans in Congress) were more than happy to keep fifty year old voting law restrictions in place against selected states.  That way both parties could parade themselves before the voters at election time and boast how "progressive" they are.

Under the Constitution and the Civil Rights Acts passed in the 1860s and 1870s the Congress has the right to protect the rights of the people from oppression by dictatorial state governments.

The Supreme Court rightly decided that using 50 year old data to control selected states for political purposes was unconstitutional.  Again, this was a victory for the 10th Amendment right of states to control their own affairs.  If that power is used to oppress a group then the Federal Courts are there to seek justice.

The 10th Amendment
So-called "Conservatives" are beating the anti-gay marriage drum.  So bet it.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion . . . on a state by state basis that is.  The Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA effectively upholds the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. 
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The Court is saying that an All-Powerful Federal Government cannot discriminate against or unfairly tax people legally married under state laws.  This is yet another case where so-called "small government" Conservatives want the Federal Government to dictate policy to the states.  The ruling is actually a victory for Constitutional Federalism.

The Federalist Papers #78
"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body."
Alexander Hamilton

Democrats try to ban Tea Party from public event

 

Maryland Tea Party group banned from public event with Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen after Dem officials accuse them of having “violent tendencies”

• Remind me again, how many violent tea party rallies have there been?

Carroll County Maryland Democrats have reportedly attempted to use the Sheriff’s department to keep members of a local Tea Party activist group from attending a “meet and greet” with their congressional representative, Chris Van Hollen, on Monday June 24 at Caroll County Community College (CCCC).

Michelle Jefferson of We The People (WTP) Carroll County had sent out an email to her group encouraging them to give Congressman Van Hollen a “WTP greeting” at the event.

Jefferson says that upon returning from the Audit The IRS rally in Washington on Wednesday she spoke with Major Tom Long of the Carroll Count Sheriff’s Department.

She learned that Don West, the recording secretary for the Carroll County Democratic Central Committee, had called CCCC campus security, the county Sheriff’s Department, and the State Police expressing concern about WTP attending the event with their congressman because of their “violent tendencies.”

Since its inception, the Tea Party, a loose affiliation of groups promoting Constitutionally limited government, has been peppered with unsubstantiated accusations of violence and racism, so West’s behavior should be recognized by many as standard operating procedure.

Via Weasel Zippers.