Lady Libertas reached out to the Leaders of the Austin area Tea Party groups to get their official statements on Joseph Stack and to confirm … once and for all (this means you moonbats) … that Joseph Stack is NOT A TEA PARTY MEMBER and his actions are condemned unequivocally by everyone involved in the Tea Party.
Lady Libertas would like to extend thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Joseph Stack attack. The suicide of this disturbed man and the death and pain that he has caused are heart wrenching. It is being reported that there was one additional death as a result of Joseph Stack flying his plane into the building to achieve his own suicide.
Lady Libertas was stunned and outraged by the coverage of the Joseph Stack attack in the liberal blogosphere and then the main stream media. Headlines began appearing claiming that Stack was a Tea Party member and that the violence that he wreaked was a hallmark of the Tea Party movement. Donald, on Right Pundits, quickly broke the story (see full story here) of the Fake Facebook account attributed to Stack and set up by the mysterious Emily Waters. Donald provides links to the screenshot of that facebook account and how it was set up by Emily Walters with the Gadsden Flag and the Liberty Tree quote by Thomas Jefferson (and seen below). This facebook account and the distortions by liberals are nothing more than smear campaigns seeking to deface the Tea Party movement and prove some imagined violent agenda. The violent agenda of the Tea Party movement does not exist except in the fevered imaginings of the far left and the liberal media.
Somehow, this deranged girl thinks that misrepresenting a dead man and the Tea Party is all about her free speech. Facebook removed the fake Stack Facebook account she created and her account so she has had her boyfriend open another Fake Stack Facebook account and filled it with more lies. We can expect her to be writing for Huffington Post by the weekend, I am sure. People are dead and Emily Walters is getting her 15 minutes of infamy by smearing Tea Party. How Very Progressive of Her.
By Thursday evening, the mainstream media began to report the liberal blogospheres rantings that Joseph Stack was a Tea Party member as truth. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Lady Libertas reached out to the leaders of the Tea Party groups in the Austin, Texas area to get their reaction and to ask if Joseph Stack was a member of any of their groups. Leaders from the various Tea Party groups in the Austin area and a 912 group all confirmed that Joseph Stack was not and has never been a member or affiliated with any of their organizations.
Lady Libertas spoke by phone with Greg Holloway, Member of the Board of Austin Tea Party Patriots and Co-Founder of Common Sense Texans. Greg’s wife, Judy Holloway is the Founder of Austin Tea Party Patriots. Greg and I had a heartfelt conversation about the Joseph Stack incident. I asked Greg what his reaction was when he heard that this man had flown a plane into a building in Austin.
“The biggest thing that we found today in Austin, no matter what political affiliation Joseph Stack had, is the human tragedy. We are sorry for him and the people hurt today. This is a personal and community tragedy. Our prayers go out to the victims and to the family of Joseph Stack.”
Greg confirmed unequivocally that Joseph Stack did not belong now or ever to Austin Tea Party Patriots.
“Joseph Stack is not on any lists and was not a member.”
We discussed his view of the Tea Party and why anyone would think Joseph Stack was a member.
“Why would he be a Tea Party member? It could have easily been said he was a member of any group. They are just ridiculously mistaken by saying he was a member of Tea Party. Tea Parties are designed to help people, to bring people back to the Constitutional Principles. We want to make the country a good place for all people, not just a select few. We use civil mechanisms, the rule of law, elections, legislation to achieve our goals. Violence has no place at all in what we do.
These are real people. There was a real tragedy. How these left wing blogs are behaving has nothing to do with what happened today.
I hope there are plenty of friends and family available for the victims and the Stack family. If there is anything that Austin Tea Party Patriots can do for them, we are here to assist.”
Lady Libertas also reached out to Head Organizer, Heather Liggett of Austin Tea Party. Heather provided me with the following statement:
“I can say with affirmation that Joseph Stack was not a member of the Austin Tea Party nor was he a member of The Tea Party Movement. Within Mr. Stack’s own writing, one can see clearly that are no shared values or principles with the Tea Party.
After reading Mr. Stack’s February 18, 2010 statement, it is evident he supported anarchy. The Tea Party movement does not advocate anarchy. The Tea Party movement believes in our founding principles so eloquently written in our Constitution.
Mr. Stack repeatedly showed disdain for free-market principles in his statement. The Tea Party movement knows that every American success is rooted in the freedom of our capitalist principles.
Mr. Stack did not believe in paying taxes. The Tea Party movement believes in taxes for the defense of Our Great Nation; however like the majority of Americans – be they Democrat, Republican or Independent – we all believe in reform of the current tax structure. We only differ on the type of reform that is best.
Mr. Stack saw churches as corrupt entities and called them “monsters of organized religion.” He spoke of being “brainwashed to believe that there is freedom” and declared “violence is the only answer.” The Tea Party movement believes in God, and we know the valuable contributions our churches make each day to our communities across this land.
Thousands of Tea Parties have been held nationwide, a million Tea Partiers marched in our nation’s capital, and not a single act of violence was ever committed by a Tea Party supporter.
There is a common thread that ties every Tea Party across this country to the Austin Tea Party, and that thread is our eternal optimism in America. Tea Partiers believe in the American Spirit, the American Dream and the freedom of the people to peacefully assemble and use the powers granted in the Constitution to restore our nation. Mr. Stack was void of optimism. It is ironic that some members of the media are void of integrity and would try to make an association where one does not exist, as spelled out by Mr. Stack himself.”
Lady Libertas touched base with Toby Marie Walker, the Head of Waco Tea Party. Toby Marie also confirmed that Joseph Stack was not listed on their membership list and condemned the violent attack and sent an official statement over for me to use.
From Toby Marie Walker, President: “The Waco Tea Party does not condone or advocate acts of violence, the person who committed this violent act was not a member of the Waco Tea Party nor have we had any contact with him. Our thoughts and prayers are with the the victims and their families. We would like to thank the first responders and others in law enforcement for their service and dedication to the community.
“The Waco Tea Party promotes fiscal responsibility, free markets and Constitutionally limited government. We are not an anti-government or anti-tax group, we are an advocate of our taxes being spent wisely and levied reasonably. Suggesting that the tea party movement is somehow connected to the incident is ludicrous, the perpetrator’s own statements in his manifesto suggest he had far different beliefs than those in the Tea Party Movement.”
“Those responsible for trying to drag the tea parties into this tragedy must be desperate. “Never let a good tragedy go to waste” is their mantra, and that is obvious here. At a time when decent Americans are shocked and praying for those affected, they were gleeful in creating misinformation to pin on a principled movement (in reference to Emily Walker who created the facebook account). She should be ashamed of herself.”
Lady Libertas, with the assistance of SarahInTx (awesome #Twister in Austin!), reached out to one of the 912 groups in the Austin area. Sarah is an active member of the Caldwell County 912 Project and she contacted the leadership on my behalf regarding the Joseph Stack attack. Sarah forwarded me the statement that came back to refute all liberal misrepresentations that Joseph Stack embodied Tea Party principles or behaved in a way that is endorsed by Tea Parties. This is the statement that I received from Sarah that came to her fromTracy Forester of the Caldwell County 912 Project:
“Joseph Stack was not a member of the Caldwell County 912 Project. To the best of our knowledge, he was not a member of any 912 or Tea Party group. His actions were deplorable and are contrary to everything that the 912 Project and the Tea Party movement stand for. There is no justification for violence, no matter the grievance. The following question must be answered by each member before they join as a member on our meetup site: “Do you agree to be a peaceful and open minded member of this group?” You will also find our mission statement [on the site}. Our goals are education, information and involvement.
Lady Libertas has yet to find an authentic Tea Party Group or Tea Party Member that endorses or agrees with the horrific actions of Joseph Stack. We all knew that.
A few, final thoughts.
Thank you to Greg and Heather, Marie, Sarah and Tracy. I reached out and you responded immediately. You are all True Patriots and I salute the work that you are doing on behalf of our Republic.
Lady Libertas has been involved with the Tea Party Movement for almost a year. I have met some of the most amazing human beings through participation in the Tea Party. It is an amazing group of individuals from every imaginable walk of life, socio-economic level, and political party affiliation. We are white, black, brown, yellow, and red, white & blue. We have joined together not because we are all exactly the same in our beliefs but because we all love our country and we believe that it is in trouble. Tea Party is unique in its uniqueness. Each group is different but there has never been violence condoned or performed in the name of Tea Party. Only the terminally misinformed would mistake our passion for aggression.
One person’s insane actions, no matter what they believe does not define a movement. And that goes for Amy Bishop too.
The next few days will be immensely difficult for everyone involved as they attempt to recover from this unexplainable tragedy. Let’s hope that the left can leave off their political machinations, smear campaigns and fake facebook accounts to allow the victims, families and people of Austin time to wake up from this nightmare and begin to heal.
Here is a great video that takes the complicated issue of Cap and Trade and reveals it for what it really is, an enormous new revenue stream for the government. This video comes courtesy of our friends at Tax Foundation.
For weeks I have wanted to write about Republican women and I couldn’t merge my scattered thoughts in a way that made any sense. Enter former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and her comments directed towards her GOP primary opponent, Assemblyman Chuck Devore. I’ll get to her comments in a moment, but first I must say that Republican women in politics often behave similarly to Democratic women when it comes to gender identity politics and, in doing so, they do Republican women a disservice.
In case you missed it, on November 23rd, Carly Fiorina, who is running in the GOP primary for US Senate in California, said in reference to Senator Barbara Boxer, “With all due respect and deep affection for white men — I’m married to one — but [Boxer] knows how to beatthem. She’s done it over and over and over.” Aside from the fact that Senator Boxer’s last opponent was an Asian-American, this comment made all my fellow conservative female friends shout collectively: Why does that matter, Carly?
Gender identity politics have become apparent in the Republican party. and not to our advantage. Strong conservative women see the inherent strength that comes from being a woman. We also see a cheap ploy in female politicians trying to bring male opponents down for their gender alone to inflate themselves. It cheapens the issues and tries to excuse away the natural strength that we possess.
The reality is, women are viable candidates without bringing our gender into the campaign. We don’t need to run a female candidate just because the opponent is female in order to win. Men can represent the values of women just as women can represent the values of men, as a candidate and a politician. Republican women don’t feel the need to blindly support a woman merely because we are of the same gender. If you seek to protect our families, country and constitution, we will support you.
I personally find it to be insulting to my sensibilities when politicians try to trap me into gender identity politics. Fiorina’s comments yesterday reminded me why; they result in attacks based on irrelevant premises and are tricks of the left and we, conservative women, can’t stand it.
We are simple: We stand for values and the founding principles of this country and we will stand with you, irrespective of gender.
At a time when world tension is high, the US is involved in a war on two fronts (at least), the economy is tanking and taking the world economy with it and we have innumerable psycho nations seeking nuclear capabilities, we have a President that is an obsequious toady and wants the world to love him.
Obama began his administration with World Apology Tour One. He paraded around Africa and the Middle East, insulting our allies and courting our enemies. Can anyone forget the BOW to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah? Or giving the Russians a big red button to “restart”?
State Department protocol has been that American Presidents do not bow…TO ANYONE. Our Founding Fathers fled religious and royal persecution over 200 years ago and one of the bonuses is that Americans do not have to bow. We do not recognize that we are subservient to ANY Monarch and that is what a bow signifies. Miss Manners agrees (see full article here) but of course, her opinion at this point is probably construed as rightwing extremism and bought her a spot on the Homeland Security watch list.
But symbolic subservience to a foreign ruler is worse. When Miss Manners sees American citizens delighting in bowing or curtseying to royalty, she tries to remind herself that they are just being silly, not treasonous. When an American official does it, we can only hope it was because he was noticing that his own shoelace was undone — and not that he recognizes the divine right of kings in general, or the authority over us of that king in particular.
George Bush did not bow, but it did seem that he formed his own protocol by holding hands with the Saudi Crown Prince…Lady Libertas was not quite sure what to make of that but at least it was more egalitarian than a bow.
Liberty-Minded Americans cringed over Obama’s submissiveness in Riyadh, but apparently that was just a test run. In his meeting with Japanese Emperor Akihito, Obama dipped deep AGAIN! We can be sure that the Liberal Obama Defenders will rush to protest that Obama was simply showing respect, but even in Japanese tradition, it was a sign of weakness.
Jake Tapper from ABC reached out to a “an old friend — an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama…” who made the following observations about Obama’s bow to the Emperor (see full article here):
“The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms….The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.”
Jake Tapper’s friend states that a bow to the Emperor is not unprecedented and he is referring to the Nixon bow to Emperor Hirohito (Akihito’s father) in 1971. Lady Libertas agrees that the Nixon bow was certainly not as deferential as Obama’s and lest the Liberal Defenders excuse that it was Obama’s height, there is only a 2 inch difference between Nixon and Obama. As well, no other heads of state feel the need to be as ingratiating as President Obama as evidenced by the 46 handshakes collected by UConn Republicans by other world leaders as they met with the Emperor.
Dick Cheney commented to Politico, ““There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone. Our friends and allies don’t expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.”
When Bill Clinton made what was interpreted as a slight bow to the Emperor in 1994, the NY Times slammed him:
“The image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.” The paper wrote that the “thou need not bow” standard in State Department protocol has been constant since the country’s founding.
But no such criticism has been forthcoming for Obama, only excuses. The mainstream media is tuned to the White House Message Channel all day, every day.
So what to expect next?
Tea and Cookies with Kim Jong-Il in North Korea?
Will Obama kiss Ahmadinejab on both cheeks and embrace him, ensuring Iran that Obama will throw Israel under the bus as Iran matches plutonium with a missile?
More secret notes from Hammas and censoring of Israel to the world?
Complete disarmament to please Russia while they return to a policy of proliferation?
Singing kumbaya with all the Communist regimes of the world? Maybe turn the Lincoln Memorial red and yellow this time?
The story is NOT that Obama bowed.
The story is that the President of the United States is weak, submissive and kowtows to our enemies.
The story is that Obama is far more interested in how our enemies view us than supporting our allies.
The story is that Obama is endangering all Americans as he makes excuses for prior American policy and presents a weak and ineffectual face to the world.
The story is that Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like a hardass.
Lady Libertas says:
Prep those underground bunkers, Patriots – at this rate, Obama will give away all of our nukes just as Iran and North Korea are ready to go nuclear. It’s going to be a long winter.
The time for political correctness is over. The frauds that run the House of Representatives have just voted to pass the most horrific piece of legislation in the history of the United States of America…and cheered as they did it.
They won the healthcare vote with FIVE votes. One of them is Joseph Cao – RINO and Junior Congressman. Step One of shedding Political Correctness is to make sure that the GOP “tent” is no longer welcoming to this Junior Congressman. Jospeh Cao is Benedict Arnold. Period. and his career is over within the GOP. Period. We cannot afford mistakes like this in 2010 and either the GOP is on board or they need to be voted out as well.
After a long day and evening of watching C-Span, Lady Libertas allowed a few moments of feeling defeat last night but no more. We are in the fight for our values, our liberty, our way of life. The liberal trolls parroted the good cheer of their leadership last night, completely clueless that this will affect them the same as everyone, no matter party affiliation. Taxes have no care for party affiliation.
As countries around the globe struggle to return right from years of hard left rule, America is sliding towards Socialism at an alarming rate.
This vote was not about healthcare – it was about the takeover of the American government, the expansion of Federal power, the extensive reach of the power brokers in Washington DC and the subjugation of the American people. Nancy Pelosi and her gang of bully boys do not care about the state of American healthcare; if they did, this would have been an issue much sooner than present day. What they care about is expansion of their own pork bellies and they have no problem stepping directly on at least half of America to take it.
The vote we witnessed last night was a desperate push by extreme Liberals to inflict their will on this country before they lose control. FIVE VOTES – certainly not a resounding endorsement for a majority. Obama has not been the success that they banked on to carry them on waves of victory to a complete takeover of the United States and this country overwhelmingly has no faith in their elected Representatives - In an October 29, 2009 Rasumussen poll:
Just 15% of voters now give Congress good or excellent ratings, while most (53%) rate the legislature as poor. Those ratings have held relative steady for the past few months but are noticeably worse than those found in May. At that time, 23% gave Congress positive ratings while 44% rated its performance as poor.
Forty-two percent (42%) of voters see most members of Congress as corrupt, the highest level measured in over a year. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say most congressmen are not corrupt, while another 21% are undecided.
Just 15% of voters believe most members of Congress are more interested in helping people than in furthering their own careers. Seventy-six percent (76%) think most congressmen put their own careers first.
As Conservatives, we have been ignored, marginalized or outright derided in the past months. Obama not only ignores the Conservatives but he and his Administration actively attack Conservative talk show hosts and FOX news and the Tea Party Movement. There is more divisiveness in this country than ever before. Obama the Unifier has become the Emperor with No Clothes and we will continue to point that out. Our rallying points though are strong and we cannot forget New Jersey or Virginia or even New York, where a Conservative running alone only lost by a few points.
The point that Lady Libertas would like to make to Patriots everywhere is WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN. We have had some victories and some losses but we cannot lose the will to keep fighting. The words of James Madison remind us: “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
There were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and their commitment to the fight for Liberty was astronomical:
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
The only question that remains is this:
Are we willing to make the same commitment that our Founding Fathers made?
Lady Libertas is willing to make that commitment…let the Seeds of Revolution be thrown to the winds to gain foothold in all corners of our great country. Let the Tyrants and those who would see Liberty be laid low or traded for slavery be put on notice – The Will of the American People is not to be ignored. We commit to the vision of the Founding Fathers and the preservation of the Constitution of the United States of America. We commit to the values and ideals that have made our Republic the most powerful in the world: less government, low taxes, free markets, strong national defense, individual freedom and personal responsibility. We commit to American exceptionalism. We commit to Action. From one Patriot to Another – I give YOU my commitment. Let the Revolution begin…
