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The House Shreds 1st Amendment
Published June 24, 2010 | 
All three Arkansas Democrats Vote to erode your privacy
Earlier today, the House of Representatives shredded the First Amendment by voting 219-206 to pass H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act.
As hard as it is to believe, they made the bill (which should really be called the Establishment Protection Act) even worse in the hours leading up to the vote by including more provisions to benefit their Big Labor pals and to obtain further details on those opposed to their power grabs.
Thanks to the actions of TEA Partiers like Citizens for the American Agenda and the Garland County TEA party, as well as other freedom-minded activists across the country, the vote on H.R. 5175 came down to the wire and was much closer than expected. Your pressure reminded them that we are serious about holding our elected officials accountable for their actions.
Matter of fact, your calls made such an impact that some freedom fighting organizations were even mentioned on the House floor during the debate!
This vote is by no means the end of the fight, and the battle to protect Americans’ right to free speech and to keep the federal government from gathering even more information about us now moves on to the Senate, where the bill faces many challenges.
There are several steps you can take to ensure the Establishment Protection Act is decisively defeated in the Senate.
First, contact your senators right away and make sure they know we have not given up on this critical issue. Click here to find their contact information and urge them to oppose H.R. 5175 and all other attempts to curb free speech.
Next, call the NRA headquarters at 1-800-672-3888 and their Legislative Action group at 1-800-392-8683 and tell them to drop their compromise and actively oppose H.R. 5175.
Without their special deal with House leaders, DISCLOSE may have been stopped in its tracks before ever reaching the House floor in the first place.
Finally, please forward this email to your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers so we can spread the message about the threat posed by the Establishment Protection Act.
We TEA Partiers have enjoyed more success than the statists ever imagined possible, and they would love nothing more than to shut us down by going after our donors.
Let’s show them that the Freedom movement will never back down.
Time for High Gear
Published June 18, 2010 |
Keep the Pressure On!
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
You have kept the pressure on Congress in order to defeat H.R. 5175, the “DISCLOSE ACT,” and it has worked.
For now.
Nancy Pelosi has canceled today’s scheduled vote on H.R. 5175, but our sources on the Hill tell us Pelosi and her statist cronies are biding their time in the hopes you will forget about their all-out assault to silence groups like C4AA, the Garland County TEA Party, PAL, AFP, American Majority, and more; and attempt to sneak this bill through Congress sometime next week.
It is more vital than ever that we keep the pressure on. We need to drive a stake through the heart of this bill and make sure it does not rise from the dead. Remember when everyone said ObamaCare was finished when Scott Brown got elected?
If you have not yet called or contacted Congressman Ross, please do so NOW. We have a small window of time to work with, but we need to make sure HR 5175 will be DOA. So please take a moment to contact Congressman Ross and demand he oppose H.R. 5175. Even if you have called one or more times, PLEASE take a moment to send a loud, clear message again today.
Call Representative Mike Ross at 202-225-3772 right away and INSIST that he uphold your First Amendment right to free speech and vote against H.R. 5175, the Establishment Protection Act (also known as the Disclosure Act). Then, please sign the petition by following the link below.
Please note: From time to time we work with other groups. On this occasion, when the incumbents who deserve to be tossed out via the ballot box are trying to protect their seats through HR 5175. One of the groups has a petition set up for you to sign. Signed petitions will be hand delivered to Congressman Mike Ross. We must stop HR 5175, so please click here to sign the petition. Thank you and God Bless!
The Fight for YOUR Freedom is On!
Published June 16, 2010 |
This has been verified by the Wall Street Journal as well. From time to time we work with other groups. On this occasion, when the incumbents who deserve to be tossed out via the ballot box are trying to protect their seats through HR 5175. One of the groups has a petition set up for you to sign. Signed petitions will be hand delivered to Congressman Mike Ross. We must stop HR 5175, so please click here to sign the petition. Thank you and God Bless!
Dear Defenders of Freedom,
Once again, free speech and political liberty are under attack in Congress. And this time they have a surprising (to some) assailant — the National Rifle Association.
In a minute, I’ll give you links to the sorry story and ask you to tell the NRA and your congressman you OPPOSE the freedom-killing DISCLOSE ACT, with or without the NRA’s deal.
You see, if there is one thing the establishment hates, it is watching its hand-picked candidates be held accountable for their records on liberty issues.
They want their Big Government power grabs to go unnoticed.
After watching some of their favorites go down in flames in race after race these past few months and seeing their statist schemes like Cap and Tax grind to a halt as a result of a massive uprising by liberty-loving Americans like YOU, they plan to strike back.
In a move that has dire consequences for our First Amendment right to freedom of speech and for our ability to fight for our freedoms, incumbent politicians have colluded with a super-sized establishment lobbying group, the National Rifle Association, to push H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE ACT, or as I like to call it, the “Establishment Protection Act,” through the House of Representatives as soon as this week.
According to Politico, the NRA bargained for an exemption for itself and other large, established groups while trampling the rights of private citizens, new groups (Citizens for the American Agenda and the Garland County TEA Party), and small organizations. Organizations such as American Majority, Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works will be in the cross hairs of the establishment too.
As John Bresnahan reports, “The proposal would exempt organizations that have more than 1 million members, have been in existence for more than 10 years, have members in all 50 states and raise 15 percent or less of their funds from corporations… The NRA, with 4 million members, will not actively oppose the DISCLOSE Act, according to Democratic sources.”
RedState’s Erick Erickson mentions one of our Regional Conference sponsors when saying, “I support Gun Owners of America, which is a consistent and uncompromising defender of the second amendment, not a weak little girl of an organization protecting itself while throwing everyone else under the bus.”
Another pro-gun organization friendly to us, the National Association for Gun Rights, said in a national email, “And frankly, this craven deal by the NRA will damage our gun rights and our free speech rights.”
As we hold politicians accountable and put them on record with our issue discussion program, the Establishment Protection Act will force organizations like C4AA, AFP, FW, GCTEA Party to turn over the names of their “top” donors for exercising our First Amendment rights.
You see, they are targeting groups like ours because they think their “right” to hold office is more important than YOUR rights to privacy and free speech.
Citizens for the American Agenda and the Garland County TEA Party has experienced tremendous growth this past year, and the establishment knows we are out there every day fighting back against its statist power grabs.
They watch as we inform you which candidates support the Constitution and which candidates refuse to take a stand on liberty issues.
And they know we won’t play their Washington game of trading principle for power. They want to silence us once and for all by going after our donors.
We will not be silenced, and we will lead the fight against the Establishment Protection Act so you have the right to speak freely without your name and personal information being turned over to Big Brother.
Call Representative Mike Ross at 202-225-3772 right away and INSIST that he uphold your First Amendment right to free speech and vote against H.R. 5175, the Establishment Protection Act (also known as the Disclosure Act).
After you contact your representative, call the NRA headquarters at 1-800-672-3888 and their Legislative Action group at 1-800-392-8683 and let them know how you feel about their move to stab freedom organizations in the back.
Please note that when you call the NRA legislative group, they give you an option to listen about HR 5175. When you listen, they make you think that they are not throwing us smaller groups under the bus. However, they ARE!
Thank you so much for joining the fight for our freedoms.
Glenn Gallas
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