The American Tea Party Handbook - 1

The American Tea Party Handbook – 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Thursday, December 10, 2009

Thank you President Ronald Reagan for your thoughts, words and actions: #

Free Enterprise:
I think it is time everyone in business and industry in this country recognize that for the second time in this century, business and the free enterprise system are under assault by those who would change this system quite drastically. Nov. 10/72

What some of our people seem to have forgotten is the fact that America’s prosperity was not a gift from government or anyone else. Free Enterprise, not government, is the source from which our blessings flow. Speech, Dec. 14, 1974

It is old-fashioned, even reactionary to remind people that free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs up by democracy. Speech, May 4, 1972

Freedom:
Under our system, we are all public servants. Yet, at what point does government become the dominant force in the economy? When does government become the master, instead of the servant? When government takes almost half or more than half of the people’s earnings, freedom is clearly threatened. Speech, May 16, 1973.

History makes it plain that unless restrained, government proliferates to a point where its cost bankrupts the people at the same time it robs them of their freedom. Speech, May 16, 1973.

It is time we realized that profit, property and freedom are inseparable. You can not have any one of them without the others. Speech, Oct. 15, 974

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself. This is an eternal truth as valid today as it was in 1791 when Edmund Burke said, “Men are qualified for civil liberty in the exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites …” May, 2, 1974

Freedom is indivisible – there is no “s” on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep “some freedoms” while giving up others. Speech, May 4, 1972

Free Market:
The tragedy is that our inflation problems are not the fault of the free market system. We stumbled into inflation because we strayed too far away from the free market concept. Speech, Oct. 15, 1974

# - The Quotable Ronald Reagan, compiled by Joseph R. Holmes, JRH & Assoc. / 73
George H. Kubeck

CATHOLIC WRITERS ARE ON THE HOT SPOT!

CATHOLIC WRITERS ARE ON THE HOT SEAT!
Pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8/09

The Catholic writers have a duty to study the voting records of Catholic-label politicians in the Senate who are deciding whether or not abortion coverage will be included in the national Health Care Program. If they vote for abortion coverage and take away the conscience protection from doctors and healthcare workers; there is no reason for the Catholic-in-name-only politician to use the Catholic label to run for office in 2010. For decades, the CINOP have been getting away with murder. It would be an act of fraud and deception for him or her to use the Catholic-label to run for reelection. Please read on.

Last Sunday’s program at 6 P.M. on EWTN had the regular one about the “Apostle of Common Sense” – G.K. Chesterton. One question covered was: What is the definition of Truth? I took notes and here is what they said. It will help Catholic writers who are going to have to take a stand, explain and educate their position to their readers with the Truth.

1) Truth is consistent. Truth is always the same in all parts. 2) Truth does not change. It does not depend on the day of the week. It does not wear out. 3) Truth is distinctiveness. A lie deemphasizes what is important. It draws attention to the outlines of the truth. 4) Truth is wholesome. Heresy is part of the truth. One-half truth is a lie and is not satisfied with the whole truth. 5) Truth is good. It gets very little publicity. Truth is unpopular.

Truth makes us uncomfortable. A lie is uncharitable… Wisdom and charity fight each other. G.K Chesterton pulls the virtues together. Affirm is good and true. Be unafraid to speak the truth. Fiction is to suit ourselves. Truth is real and good.

Some might take a stand for truth. It should be exhilarating to defend what you love. Enjoy truth and defend it. Lies are like weeds. Truth is sacred. If you say it more often you will be hated. Doubt is usually reactionary and shallow. Doubt has led the war in the modern world.

Tolerance of all opinions: provincial bigots claiming to be important: Truth is saying things right. He says the things right. Truth suffers under Pontius Pilate. You can’t be neutral about the truth.
Jesus Christ is the truth, the same today, yesterday and forever. We are called to defend the truth. We have no better writer than G. K. Chesterton. Now for

Scorecard of Catholics in Congress – Catholic Advocate – Morley Institute …
Let’s take a look at the voting records of Senators Tom Harkin (IA), Dick Durbin (IL), Barbara Mikulski ((MD), Jack Reed (RI), Maria Cantwell (WA), and Patty Murray (WA). In the 108th and 109th Congress, they voted against the
CATHOLIC POSITION 100% OF THE TIME ON THE FOLLOWING:

1.) Funding of overseas of pro-abortion organizations (109th): 2.) Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810) (109th): 3.) Child Custody Protection Act (S.403): passage (109th): 4.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (109th): 5.) Federal Marriage Amendment Act (109th): 6.)HARKIN AMENDMENT TO ENDORSE ROE V. WADE (108TH): 7.) PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2003: PASSAGE (108TH): 8.) Abortion in military medical facilities (108th): 9.) Feinstein Substitute Amendment (single-victim substitute) (108th): 10.) Unborn Victims of Violence: passage (108th):

George H. Kubeck – please e-mail this letter or send by mail to all U.S.A. writers.

WHO ARE YOU SENATOR TOM HARKIN?

WHO ARE YOU SENATOR TOM HARKIN?
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009

I guess the same thing could be said for Senators Dodd, Durbin, Kerry and the eleven other Catholic-in-name-only Democratic Senators who voted to remove weeks ago the conscience protection clause for doctors and health care workers. Today, there are several life and death issues being debated on the Senate floor.

First I want to credit the Catholic-label Democratic Senators for the overall wonderful work they have done in the past on behalf of the poor. They have made wise prudential decisions. Today, they need to avoid any intrinsic evil decisions.

They seem to be blind to the absolute evil issues of abortion and infanticide, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, assisted-suicide and euthanasia. One observes that in their own State they are often completely neutral, or for the above evils. I don’t understand how you can call yourself Catholic. They believe in buying the union label. Why should we buy their Catholic label in 2010?

There have no need to fear. They can do the right thing, speak out and be reelected, Why?

Thanks to President Barack Obama, we are now a solidly pro-life center-right nation. About 40% or more of the country is Conservative, 36% Moderate, and 20% Liberal. About 65% of our country does not want ABORTION COVERAGE IN ANY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

Abortion coverage is an absolute evil. So what is your problem Senator Harkin and others? Again, did I read correctly that Catholic-label Democrat Senators took away the CONSCIENCE CLAUSE? WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? THIS IS AN ATROCIOUSLY PUBLIC SCANDAL! REALIZE THAT IN 2010; IF YOU RUN FOR OFFICE USING THE CATHOLIC LABEL, YOU ARE A PUBLIC HYPOCTRIC.

ALSO THESE CATHOLIC-LABEL DEMOCRATIC SENATORS MUST BE AWARE THAT SOCIALISM AND CATHOLICISM ARE IRRECONCILIBLE FREE ENTERPRISE AND FREEDOM ARE PART OF THE AMERICAN TRADITION. SOCIALISM IS NOT ON THE AMERICAN RADAR SCREEN. IT IS ON THE EUROPEAN RADAR SCREEN. WE ARE AMERICANS!

LET’S WATCH SENATORS ON CSPAN FOR EXAMPLE, AND FIND OUT WHETHER THEY CAN USE THE CATHOLIC LABEL IN RUNNING FOR REELECTION IN 2010.

George H. Kubeck – the above also refers to the CINO politicians in Congress.

Proud to be an American - 2

Proud to be an American – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jefferson was addressing Christians. His entire argument about people having “unalienable rights” is contingent on the existence of God, and One who cares deeply about each and every individual. As Jefferson asked rhetorically on another occasion. “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that their liberties are the gift of God?”…

If the life of an individual amounts to no more than a flicker in history, then the perpetuation of the state, society, or empire becomes the overriding political concern. This was Hitler’s philosophy, and it is the driving ideological force behind communism. Inherent in collectivist political systems is the idea that the interests of the individual must be subordinate to the supposed (and I must stress) interests of the whole. We begin to hear phrases like “national purpose.” “world government,” and “social theory” – ideas completely at odds with what America’s founding fathers had in mind…

Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the 19th century was commissioned by the French government to travel throughout the United States in order to discover the secret of the astounding success of this experiment in democracy… Tocqueville reported: “I do not know if all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion – for who can know the human heart? – but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable for the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole rank of society.”

Unless law is anchored in moral absolutes, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall’s statement that the government of the United States is a “government of laws and not of men” makes no sense…

As a writer and constitutional scholar John Whitehead points out, the idea of the “Higher Law” is closely connected to “common law,” a legal term referring to Christian principles adapted to the legal structure of civil life. The phrase first entered the vocabulary of English lawyers of the 12th century, after King John of Runnymede was forced by Pope Innocent III, English landowners, and the “Army of God” to sign England’s first written constitution, designed mainly to protect property fights. Magna Carta, or the great Charter, is filled with such phrases as: “The King himself ought not to be under a man but under God and under the law,...

The Continental Congress of the United States on Oct. 14, 1774, issued the Declaration of Rights stating that the colonists of the several states were entitled to the protections of the common law of England…

George H. Kubeck – the above from Benjamin Hart’s book Faith and Freedom, 1988, Chapter 1

P.S. Our president Barack Obama stated on at least three occasions that we are not a Christian nation. So what kind of change in America is he talking about? Some of his biggest supporters are the “Hate America Crowd” and the “The Lovers of Castro and Ho Chi Min.” Maybe the President is in the wrong country. Help him realize that; with true American change in 2010. No! No! No! To ACORN.

Proud to be an American - 1

Proud to be an American – 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 4, 2009

Washington achieved legendary status early in life with his heroic exploits during the French and Indian War. He never sought fame however; in fact he spent all his adult years trying to shun the public life…

Washington was the Electoral College’s unanimous choice for President of the United States. He expected to serve only one term, but was told that if he did not serve a second term the new republic would likely collapse… For almost 40 years this American legend had been trying to return to the peace and privacy of Mount Vernon and his wife Martha…

The United States of America is the freest, strongest, and most prosperous nation in human history. We owe this miraculous development in large part to the life one man – his bravery in battle, his perseverance through hardships, his patience with those who opposed him, his wisdom while in power. What was astonishing about this gallant Virginian, who rode a white horse, was that he actually lived by the ideals of which he spoke…

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports” he (George Washington) said. “In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens? The mere politician, equally with pious man, ought to respect and cherish them… Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

Washington knew well that a nation’s laws spring from its moral and that its morals spring from its religion. And the religion of which Washington spoke was clear to all who knew him: “It is impossible to govern rightly without God and the Bible,” he said.

In his essay “What I Saw in America,” the great English writer G.K. Chesterton observed that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.” Chesterton was referring to the second paragraph of America’s founding document which states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created the equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...”

Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration, and believed it was sufficient to assert certain transcendent truths as self evident… He meant the God of the New Testament. Whether Jefferson was himself a Christian is in dispute.
But he understood the society in which he lived and who his audience was when he made the case for severing ties with Britain on grounds that England had “violated the laws of nature and nature’s God.”

George H. Kubeck, the above from Benjamin Hart’s book, “Faith and Freedom” Chapter 1.

P.S. President Barack Obama is mistaken if he believes that he can change our motto to the French and European one of Liberty – Equality – Fraternity. Class warfare, income distribution, and socialism have no foundation in our America. Let the reformation and education begin for the 2010 election.

Manhattan Declaration: Preamble and Declaration

Manhattan Declaration: Preamble and Declaration
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2009

Preamble:
Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering…

While fully acknowledging the imperfections and shortcomings of Christian institutions and communities in all ages, we claim the heritage of those Christians who defended innocent life by rescuing discarded babies from trash heaps in Roman cities and publicly denouncing the Empire’s sanctioning of infanticide…

After the barbarian tribes overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the Bible also the literature and art of Western culture. It was Christians who combated the evil of slavery: Papal edicts in the 16th and 17th centuries decried the practice of slavery and first excommunicated anyone involved in the slave trade; evangelical Christians in England, led by John Wesley and William Wilberforce, put an end to the slave trade in that country…

The great civil rights crusades of the 1950s and 60s were led by Christians claiming the Scriptures and asserting the glory of the image of God in every human being regardless of race, religion, age or class.

This same devotion to human dignity has led Christians in the last decade to work to end the dehumanizing scourge of human trafficking and sexual slavery, bring compassionate care to AIDS sufferers in Africa, and assist in a myriad of other human rights causes…

Like those who have gone before us in the faith, Christians today are called to proclaim the Gospel of costly grace, to protect the intrinsic dignity of the human person and to stand for the common good. In being true to its own calling, the call to discipleship, the church through service to others can make a profound contribution to the public good.

Declaration:
We, as Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians, have gathered, beginning in New York on September 28, 2009, to make the following declaration, which we sign as individuals, not on behalf of our organizations, but speaking to and from our communities. We act together in obedience to the one true God, the triune God of holiness and love. who has laid total claim on our lives and by that claim calls us with believers in all ages and all nations to seek and defend the good of all who bear his image…

Today the lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are severely threatened; that the institution of marriage, already buffeted by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is in jeopardy of being redefined to accommodate fashionable ideologies; that freedom of religion and the rights of conscience are gravely jeopardized by those who would use the instruments of coercion to compel persons of faith to compromise deepest convictions...

In this declaration we affirm: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing inherent rights of equal dignity and life; 2) marriage as a conjugal union of man and woman, ordained by God from the creation, and historically understood by believers and non-believers alike, to be the most basic institution in society and 2) religious liberty, which is grounded in the character of God, the example of Christ, and the inherent freedom & dignity of human beings created in the divine image...

To embrace our obligation – to speak and act in defense of these truths…that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence…
George H. Kubeck – http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration

Bishop Thomas Tobin on the O'Reilly Factor - 1

Bishop Thomas Tobin on the O’Reilly Factor – 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Preface: I believe that a public CINOP (A promoter of absolute evils of abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell, assisted-suicide and euthanasia) cannot run for office using the Catholic-label. If he does in 2010; he is a fraud.

CATHOLIC POLITICIANS MUST “QUIT YOUR JOB AND SAVE YOUR SOUL” RATHER THAN SUPPORT ABORTION

The above headline and story below by Kathleen Gilbert from Providence, R.I., Nov.25, 2009 – LifeSiteNews.com

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island clarified his reasons for denying pro-abortion politicians Communion on Tuesday, noting that such politicians are not forced to be Catholic – but if they choose to, they must then “understand what the Church teaches. Accept those teachings, and live that faith.”

“The most important commitment we can make is our faith, because that defines our relationship with God. Nothing is more important than that. And if you do your job, your profession, your vocation gets in the way of that, you have to quit your job and save your soul,” said Tobin in an appearance on the Fox Network’s “O’Reilly Factor” Tuesday night.

Bishop Tobin has been at the centre of controversy after it was revealed that he told the Catholic pro-abortion Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) in 2007 to refrain from receiving Communion. Kennedy originally sparked the feud by accusing the Catholic Church of fanning the “flames of dissent and discord” by opposing the pro-abortion House health care bill.

Tobin denied that his decision to ban Rep. Kennedy from Communion was a “punishment.”

“Every Catholic has certain obligations; it means something to say you are Catholic. No one is forced to be Catholic,” said the bishop.

“If you choose freely to a Catholic it means you do certain things, and you believe certain things, and I think all I am trying to say to Congressman Kennedy and others who might be involved, say: if you’re a Catholic, live up to your faith. Understand what the Church teaches, accept those teachings, and live that faith.”

Tobin also defended the Church’s basic right to intercede in public debate on behalf of universal moral principles.

“If the church, not just the Catholic Church, but the religious community – if we don’t bring these values, this spiritual vision to these discussions, who else will do that?” said Tobin.

The tenor of the interview starkly contrasted with Tobin’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews Monday night, in which the Catholic Matthews lectured the bishop and accused Tobin of using public policy as leverage in getting Kennedy to heed his authority.
George H. Kubeck