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State Legislative Efforts to Restore
Our Constitutional Republic

The Federal Government has overreached its lawful duties as outlined in the Constitution of the United States, forcing states to adhere to rules, regulations and taxes have the right to impose, in clear and blatant violation of the 10th Amendment.   The time has come for states to take serious and effective action to resist Federal intrusion of their lawful rights and duties. First, the legislators call for the passage of a comprehensive package of 10 key pieces of legislation that will reclaim state sovereignty by nullifying regulations illegally imposed by the Federal Government. Second is to establish a "Sheriffs First" program allowing county sheriffs to reaffirm and uphold their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.   Third is to call on the people of the United States to support these efforts and to help pass such legislation in state legislatures across the nation. (The above was taken from the DeWeese Report and the American Policy Center.) These are three statements that should be presented to every person running for office in Ravalli County and the state of Montana, whether it is for State Representative, State Senator, County Commissioner or sheriff The State of Colorado is already doing some of this according to Tom Tancredo and petitions are circulating to
place the following state constitutional amendment on the Nov., 2010 ballot. Colorado Initiatve 42 reads:"The people of Colorado declare and request that all elected public officials in the state, including all state legislators, governor, attorney general, secretary of state, United States Representatives and United states Senators, oppose by all means available to them as elected officials it does not the adoption or ratification of any United Nations treaty or other binding international agreement which impairs, restricts or other binding international agreement which impairs, restricts or regulates the right to keep and bear arms protected by section 13 of this Bill of Rights."
                                                                                          Rosemarie Neuman, Grassroots for Multiple Use Board Member

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Glen Beck makes it very clear why that is the case. He connects the dots. It doesn't matter what the left calls itself. It is what they do and what they want to do to the American system of government that is the problem. I find it particularly irritating to hear a person on the political left proudly announce that they are progressive. Of course they have bought in to the sugar coated myth that young people are fed about liberalism/progressivism.      It happens in the schools and universities and the media. I remember an earnest young man who ran for political office a few years ago. He proudly informed people that progressives were responsible for the success of the Civil Rights struggle. He is a Democrat and totally unaware of the Democrats who abandoned the Democratic Party because they were totally committed to segregation of black Americans. Those southern Democrats became known as Dixicrats.     Strom Thurman (D) (SC) was a Dixicrat. So was Robert Byrd (D) (WV), who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. How do young people come to believe that the Democratic Party stands for virtue and the American way? Public education is controlled by the left. Universities are filled with radical leftist tenured professors. Black Studies, Women's Studies, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Studies Departments are all under the control of radical leftists. These programs are in existence to indoctrinate students. American History has been revised and history books are written to change the society into what these people want America to be.       Radical educators speak of social justice, a particularly repulsive notion based in Marxist ideology. It is based in the belief that all wealth, including property, should be controlled by the government. In that weird ideology government takes control of whatever wealth the individual can generate and decides how much of that wealth should be given to people who did not create wealth.     Beck exposes the fanatical self-described Marxists/Communists that Barack Obama has chosen to advise him. By appointing them as advisors it is not necessary for them to be subjected to Congressional scrutiny. Barack Obama has surrounded himself with Communists, Muslims with ties to terrorists and radicals of every stripe. All of these people are noted for their questionable backgrounds.     Glen Beck is hated by the political left. Beck shows video clips of the bizarre individuals Obama is affiliated with. These people are speaking on camera. That is irritating because it is irrefutable. At CPAC Glen Beck entertained. He brought out the blackboard he uses to "connect the dots." In one example he visually connects the people who created ACORN, with its criminal activities and SEIU, the international service worker's union.

Progressives can not stand the truth about who they      are.       They can not allow the American people to know their        history or  their plans for America. Glen Beck, sneakers with       suits  aside  provides a vital service to Americans and to        America.        ©Gene Williams ______________________   People, Please Vote               America is at a crossroads. Since the great        depression there  has not been a time that America has         faced financial ruin the    way that it does today. Our        children and        grandchildren have    been left in crushing        debt.              Voting, or possibly not voting, has gotten us to where        we are now We are in serious trouble as a nation.        November is coming. Please participate in the political        process and vote. Voting can get us out of the dismal        situation we are in now       Gene Williams       Editor, The First Edition

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When I think about having been a hard-core political Leftist for most of my life, the difficult process through the last several years of dealing with the reality of that long-term political indoctrination and self-imposed intellectual dishonesty, pretend­ing to be an independent thinker instead of the standard Leftist conformist that I and my friends were, there is the perception that knowing how the Leftist agenda actually works can help us as individuals to continue doing the right stuff for advancing our country.
While the specter of the Left undoubtedly helps to keep us on our toes, to minimize any tendency toward becoming cor­rupt, (a universal human tendency, it seems) provide an ongoing example of what doesn't work in the political/economic arena, and to give us creative energy for solving our problems... it pro­vides enemies to fight against that would, if they had their way, create a political environment that is regressive, and historically destructive.
But when, as rarely happens, a situation arises whereby we as a people are in serious danger of losing our liberty and way of life, with most of the freedoms that we take for granted com­ing under siege, then we must use that
threat (from the Left) for motivation to once again diminish their power over us, put them in their place and restore the country to its historically successful mode of operation.

We will, as we are now doing with major grass-roots action, react positively with resolve in the best interest of a vast majority of the people, come together to make it happen and begin to change the dangerous shift in power that has been happening in basic and varied ways over a long period of time. This power shift has happened bit-by-bit from the inside of all our major institutions. As far as I can tell, this is not an example of political (or cultural) evolu­tion, as people of the Left would have us believe, but a long-term cynical power grab. What we are seeing here is enormously dangerous for us as individuals and for our country.

A perfect example of this process has to do with the national problems of health care. The legislation that is being pushed by what I call a traditional Chicago style gangsterism, against our majority's

desire, is not about health care...it's all about control. Without the Left pushing its plan of control on every level by the State, (having taken power since 2006 and especially since November, 2008) being in our face and awakening the slumber­ing and indulgent giant which is us, we probably would not have been motivated as individuals and as a people to begin solving our real health care problems and to begin the rapid dismantling of the present historically unprecedented, destructive administra­tion...within the solid Constitutional guidelines that have been there for us from the beginning.
So thank you (sort of) to Leftist America for trying so desperately and relentlessly to bring us to our knees...and for awakening us to the danger that you have always, in one form or another, tried to impose on us.
When Crocodile Dundee was deal­ing with a life and death situation fac­ing evil people in the wilds of Australia, his girlfriend said, in her moment of fear and concern, "Mick, this is not a game!" And he said, "It is to me."
And of course, we who watched that scene know how difficult it was (and is) to triumph over the evil of the mo­ment, but also that we, like our hero, must never shrink from those moments. Otherwise we're dead already...and that's a critical part of the game.

Pete MacLachlan, Stevensville, MT

The Easter Season is nearly here. A renewed spirituality may awaken in us. Time to think of those who may be less fortunate than ourselves. They need our prayers, so remember .......someplace..... there is a MISTER Pelosi!
Nancy and Harry, main proponents of the National Health Bill, along with our own Senator Max, need to be advised that there is no vaccine for arrogance, defiance,  stupidity and selective hearing!
There is a saying that, "You are what you eat." There is another; "You are what you step in." Let's go with Number 2. It not only applies nationally, but to local politics, as well. The three Commissioners who selected the least qualified applicant for the Ravalli County Board of Health were asked their reasoning. The two la­dies responded in a timely manner. Forty five days (and counting) have passed with still no response from Rokosch-B'Gosh. Granted, he may not have been in the office long enough to get the 28 January email. The others did. His commission

attendance history has more holes than a screen door. Rokosh is just not up to the job of representing the folks and main­taining dialogue with them. He may not yet have come to the realization he was selected and elected as a FOB puppet. His, and their, term in the Commission will end this year, as he is replaced. Best wishes on another line of work.
Former Commissioner, Alan Thomp­son, has written some very factual
and candid comments in recent Letters to the Editor, in which he relates a few observations and positions during his ten year service in that office. Check it out.
With the 15 March filing date for po­litical offices now passed, things will begin to shake out. County Democrats have no contested primaries. Local Republicans are not that organized, as usual, but will make substantial gains. Take that to the bank. Libertarians and Constitutionalists are scattered intermittently throughout the political process like coprolites.
Politics in Washington D.C. continues

to make the sleaze news with the antics of the Party of the Gay and Horny politi­cians. Elton John and Tiger Woods could be Party Chairmen. John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, and Congress­man (Tickle Me Elmo) Massa. Ring a bell? The electors of this nation should do better.
A certain paranoia regarding Question 9 on the 2010 U. S. Census has surfaced. Concern comes from the same folk that have seen Black Helicopters passing silently overhead on dark and stormy nights. These folk appear to think there is some kind of conspiracy behind the race or ethnic background question. It did
not bother me, personally. I admit be­ing gullible and naïve, but not with this. However, recent government actions are programming the public to be suspicious. BarackO ran on a platform of transparen­cy. That has come to pass. More people now see clearly thru him, each new day.
Dave Hurtt