9/12 Project: Three Year Anniversary9 Principles, 12 Values, 10 Essential Issues

9/12 Project: Three Year Anniversary Tuesday March 13, 2012 marked the three year anniversary of the 9/12 Project, a volunteer based, non-partisan movement focused on rebuilding and uniting communities to restore them to the place they were pre-September 11 9 Principles, 12 Values, 10 Essential Issues & T.E.A. Party: Taxed Enough Already Creed   The 9 Principles   1. America Is Good.   2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. God "The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."  From George Washington's first Inaugural address.   3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. Honesty "I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."  George Washington   4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. Marriage/Family "It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family." Thomas Jefferson   5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. Justice "I deem one of the essential principles of our government equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political." Thomas Jefferson   6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness "Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence." Thomas Jefferson   7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. Charity "It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer." George Washington   8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. On your right to disagree "In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking." George Washington   9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. Who works for whom? "I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation." Thomas Jefferson   The 12 Values   * Honesty * Reverence * Hope * Thrift * Humility * Charity * Sincerity * Moderation * Hard Work * Courage * Personal Responsibility * Gratitude   My Stance on 10 Essential Issues   1. Speech, Assembly, Press, Internet, and Property Rights   Government should not restrict speech, press, media or Internet. The rights of free citizens who don't violate other people's rights must be respected and protected at all times. Exercise of eminent domain should be extremely limited and its use avoided whenever possible. Private property and privacy rights should be protected at all times.   2. Guns   The Second Amendment to the Constitution clearly protects the right of all individuals to bear arms. Government regulation of guns is a violation of the Second Amendment. Having the right to self-defense is meaningless without also having the means to defend yourself. An armed society is a peaceful society, is the best defense against criminals, and serves as a deterrent against government tyranny. Gun control has encouraged society to become lax and negligent in teaching and training on the safe handling and maintenance of weapons by individuals.   3. Homosexual Marriage   There should be no laws regarding either heterosexual or homosexual relationships among consenting adults. Marriage of any kind is a private, contractual matter between free, private individuals that should not be regulated.   4. Foreign Policy   "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none," said President Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address. America's interventionist policies over the past 100+ years have done little or nothing to reduce international instability, have led us into an endless series of wars, and have cost us dearly in American lives and money. The best defense of our borders is to defend our rights and liberty, not to sacrifice them while constantly growing our gigantic military, led by a parade of Presidents who repeatedly stick our nose into other countries' affairs. That being said We were attacked on 9/11 if we don't militarily wipe out terrorism, the terrorists will wipe us out. We must resolve to win no matter how long it takes. It's better to strike now than to pay the ultimate price later for our inaction.   5. National ID Card   There should be no national ID card. Period. The issuance of required National IDs controlled via interconnected databases will effectively end all privacy in this country.   6. Corporate Welfare   End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business.   7. Trade and Money   End government barriers to international free trade. The regulation of trade tends enrich selected interest groups and industry captains at the expense of everyone else. We must move away from the inflationary approach of the Federal Reserve by re-adopting a hard money approach and dissolving the Federal Reserve System. Ever wonder why prices of everything (including real estate) keep going up over time? The Federal Reserve System is the culprit. President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, regretted his decision three years later saying, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."   8. Social Security   Let people control their own retirement and they'll retire richer and better off. The Social Security system is already bankrupt, despite what the politicians and bureaucrats keep telling us. Allow individuals to choose for themselves whether to opt out of the Social Security system. If we force everyone to remain in its pyramid scheme, the end result will be disastrous. We must act now before Social Security becomes completely insolvent.   9. Health Care   Government regulation of health care is the main cause of the health care industry's upward spiraling costs. The FDA, EPA, Medicare, and a host of other bureaucracies have created mountains of regulations that have led to the deaths of thousands and even millions of people who were denied needed treatments and resources. The cost of creating new treatments is also out of control because of this regulation. The only way to make health care affordable again is to get government out of the health care business.  Another reason that health care costs are spiraling are due to lawsuits. We need to place caps on these suits while avoiding socialized medicine. Where possible, we should reduce regulation to save money. The rising cost of health care is primarily the fault of big government politicians and lobbying groups.   10. Taxes, Spending, and the National Debt   Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more. This will have an incredibly positive impact on the economy starting at its very lowest and smallest levels. The national debt must be paid down rather than endlessly increased, or we'll soon face national bankruptcy.   T.E.A. Party: Taxed Enough Already The T.E.A. Party is made up of patriotic Americans who are decidedly peaceful people -- so much so that the only time you'll see violence at any of their protests is when progressive liberals bus in their union thugs to foment it or to masquerade as conservative participants. The only time you'll hear about racism at one of their events is when progressive liberal leftists trump up the charge and fabricate events. The T.E.A. Party is made up of patriotic Americans who believe in the American ideal, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility, originalism, the rule of law, blind justice, equal protection under the law, strong national defense, limiting government to its assigned constitutional functions, the Second Amendment, the nondiscriminatory application of freedom of speech and expression, the free exercise clause, a reasonable -- not unduly expansive -- interpretation of the establishment and commerce clauses, protection for the unborn, judicial restraint, federalism, the separation of powers, the free market, racial colorblindness, the existence of good and evil in the world, equality of opportunity rather than of outcomes, law and order, immigration control and border protection, motherhood and apple pie.  That's a fair summary of a typical T.E.A. Party Patriot's credo. By definition, then, in America at least, T.E.A. Party Patriots are not extremists. For approximately two times as many American voters identify themselves as conservatives than as progressive liberals, and conservatives mostly believe in those things I've referenced.   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. 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