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How to tell if your TEA Party or Occupy group has been usurped (Part 1 of 2)

4:47 pm in Uncategorized by Don Mashak

How to tell if your grassroots TEA Party or Occupy group has been usurped by a major political party (Part 1 of 2)

USURP
1. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
2. To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.

As the election nears, certain alleged and true grassroots political
organizations will soon become prevalent in the major media. As a result of this renewed media attention, many folks will renew their
affiliation with, or contemplate joining, a TEA Party or Occupy group.

Many of these folks will be getting involved in politics for the first
time in their lives. As political rookies, these folks may benefit from
the advice of more seasoned citizens, such as this writer, in navigating the plethora of political shell games the establishment of both political parties play.

One of those political shell games involves grassroots political organizations that appear to be true,
independent grassroots groups but which are actually are Trojan Horses (Astroturf) usurped by one political party or another. Rumors and allegations of this sort abound about both the TEA Party and the Occupy Movements. The conflicting rumors, allegations, duplicity and propaganda can be overwhelming, especially to a new comer to the political game.

In the first part of this two part article, we will provide you with a list of 25 easy questions to ask yourself about your current or prospective grassroots group. In part two of this article, we will suggest to you how to assess if your own answers about your particular grassroots group indicates whether or not it has been usurped by one of the major political parties.

This writer provides this tool for his fellow citizens to use, because your time is valuable and in short
supply.

This writer does not want you wasting your precious time because you are misled into joining and supporting an alleged grassroots organization that is not what it portends to be.

In this writers attempts to divine the truth from the propaganda, he has arrived at the following perspective.

In as much as it possible for this writer to discern, on the National and State Levels, both the Occupy and TEA Party Movements have been usurped by 1 of the major political parties. The National and State Level Occupy movements seemed to have been usurped by the Democrat party (primarily progressives) and the National and State Level TEA Party movement seems to have been usurped by the Republican
Party [e.g. Congressional TEA Party Caucus].

But the local, true grassroots TEA Party and occupy organizations run the gamut from fiercely independent true grassroots groups to merely extensions of 1 of the 2 major political parties. Yet, this writer deems the truly independent grassroots local political organizations as the most effective units of anti-status quo political organization and the place where an individual can have the maximum impact on the agenda and goals of the group.

With the duplicity of the political establishment and the complexity of this social and political dynamic in mind, this questionnaire is drafted to allow anyone to objectively determine if their preferred grassroots political group is a truly independent grassroots organization or simply a Trojan Horse cheer leading squad for one of the two major political parties.
Here goes:

  1. Has your group been in existence for more than a year, with no real
    elections in which others were encouraged to run for leadership
    positions? Is the ballot counting process transparent? Is the founder or
    leader closely associated as major “player” in a political party?
  2. ….

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Those were my thoughts.

In Closing:

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.

Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence http://bit.ly/ruPE7z ]

This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

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Keep Fighting the Good Fight!

In Liberty,

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Why You Must Go To Your Caucus This Year!

8:56 pm in Uncategorized by Don Mashak

[Unless you are a political party hack, then you can stay home]

Caucuses are the smallest, most grassroots meetings of the political party system.

 

This is the year you must go to your caucus, regardless of your political party preference.

Based on the State of the Nation, it should be clear that the people that have been attending the past caucuses haven’t made the best decisions.

In Minnesota, your caucus date is Tuesday, February 7, 2012.
If you live in a different state, Click here to find your Caucus/Primary Date – 2012 Full Primary/Caucus Calendar http://bit.ly/ysETxM

For far too long now, we rank and file Americans have dutifully voted for the candidates of our respective political parties. WE THE PEOPLE have chosen and remained loyal to our respective political parties because we believed in our respective party’s platform and were persuaded by the promises of our political party candidates before each election.

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But the reality is that the day after the election, our elected officials and political parties sell their votes to the highest bidder. Our elected official’s votes are not cast in the best interests of their constituents but rather based on who gives the biggest campaign contributions and/or kickbacks…

Our Elected no longer are content to represent WE THE PEOPLE. They now want to manage, manipulate and fleece us like livestock. (If you want to better understand how your Government manages and manipulates you need to learn about Edward Bernays. You cannot protect yourself, your perspective of reality nor your family from your Government if you don’t know about Edward Bernays http://bit.ly/nY9BjW) They manage and manipulate us to get our votes and to attempt to keep us from being upset by their betrayals of our trust.

Yet somehow these incumbents have convinced WE THE PEOPLE, their constituents, to keep reelecting them.

WHERE ARE WE AT?

But now, the USA is on the brink of economic and moral collapse.

Most Economists agree no nation’s debts should exceed 60% of Gross Domestic Product GDP & never exceed 90%. US is at 105% & rising http://bit.ly/yCFnHs
http://bit.ly/wFNtOV

“In about 20 years, the corrupt incumbent ruling class took the US from undisputed world Super Power to the brink of collapse.”Don Mashak, the Cynical Patriot

Why Robert Redford won’t run for public office http://bit.ly/sSy66m

USA Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level http://bit.ly/urMZBb

WE THE PEOPLE can no longer afford to be blindly loyal to our political parties and political party leaders. Things must change or we will forever lose our freedoms and standard of living.

Your politicians and the major media are not being truthful with you, my fellow citizens. Our Country is on the brink of collapse. Just because they are not printing it as a headline each day and down play it in the presidential debates, does not mean that crisis is not imminently upon us.

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Finally,

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.

Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last sentence, US Declaration of Independence ( http://bit.ly/ruPE7z)]

Next, it has came to this author’s attention that many local papers will not run letters to the editor, Op Ed pieces and articles that do not conform to the perspective of the local “Powers that be”. If you have a letter to the editor that relates to this article, feel free to post it as a comment, noting that the local news source refused to run it. As long as it conforms with general decorum and is plausible, very rarely will we refuse to publish it. If you have unrelated subject matter and/or video and/or audio that you believe we would be interested in based (based on our prior articles), email it here .Send video/audio in common Internet formats or with Youtube.com links. Do not send video in Public Access TV and/or Cable formats. Our philosophy is that more open public dialogue is better than less public dialogue.

This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

TellMyPolitician http://goo.gl/1FWfz

Keep Fighting the Good Fight!

Those were my thoughts.

In Liberty,

Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot
http://twitter.com/dmashak
http://www.facebook.com/don.mashak

WE THE PEOPLE TAR
http://WETHEPEOPLETAR.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR

Republic for united State of America #RuSA
http://republicfortheunitedstates.org

End the Fed(eral Reserve Bank System)
National http://bit.ly/ta3Rju Minneapolis http://bit.ly/tjZJKF

Examiner.com – Express Yourself -
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Lawless America / Get A Grip America
http://LawlessAmerica.com http://getagripamerica.us

Justice in Minnesota #JIM
http://JusticeinMN.com

Bring Home the Politicians #BHTP

http://BringHomethePoliticians.com

Get out of our House #GOOOH
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Committees of Safety
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Food Freedom
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Critical Thinking Notice – This author advises you as no politician would dare. Exercise Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve) in determining the truthfulness of anything you read or hear. Do not passively accept nor believe anything anyone tells you, including this author… unless and until you verify it yourself with sources you trust and could actively defend your perspective to anyone who might debate you to the contrary of your perspective.

If I were running for President of the USA… Part 1 of 3

11:10 am in Uncategorized by Don Mashak

I sometimes wonder what planet or alternate reality our major media is allegedly reporting on. I listen to the debates, hear the polls and watch the news and just shake my head. I believe that by the time you, the average rank and file citizen, is done reading my agenda, you also will begin shaking your head whenever you hear major media spin its perspective on the politics of our country.

In my humble opinion, the single issue of highest importance to voters this year should be:

“Do you want to be managed and manipulated by the politicians like cattle, trained seals and/or Pavlov’s Dog or; Do you want to be represented like sovereign citizens of the country as the Founding Father’s intended?”

In short, I believe the rallying cry of WE THE PEOPLE should be:

Hell no! No more status quo!”

As I sit down to write this article, I cannot help but wonder how all persons running for president do not write and publish a similarly intentioned article as one of their first acts in making their bid for president. What better way to set the tone of their campaign? What better way to lay out to WE THE PEOPLE their vision for our country? What better way for a candidate to demonstrate their intent to keep their word? What better way for WE THE PEOPLE and the candidates themselves, to measure their success or failure than by having their vision, promises and pledges reduced to writing? Isn’t this just Common Sense?

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Instead, America is subjected to some bizarre political Shivaree. During the course of this dragged out shivaree, the political parties and major media “frame” the election and attempt to convince WE THE PEOPLE that the issues the “powers that be” want us to base our voting decisions upon are, or should be, the most important to the majority of WE THE PEOPLE.

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Vertaal na Afrikaans |Translate në shqip | ترجمةإلىالعربية | Թարգմանելհայերեն| Azərbaycan Tərcümə | Euskal Translate| Перавесці на беларускай| বাংলাঅনুবাদ | Превод на български| Traduir al català | 转换为中文(简体)|翻譯到中國(傳統) | Prevedi na hrvatskom | Translate to Czech | Oversæt til dansk | Te vertalen naar het Nederlands | Tõlgi eesti | Isalin sa Filipino sa| Käännä Suomen | Traduire en français | Traducir a Galego | თარგმნეთსაქართველოს| Übersetzen auf Deutsch | Μετάφραση στα ελληνικά| ગુજરાતીઅનુવાદ | Tradui kreyòl ayisyen | תרגוםעברית | सेहिन्दीअनुवाद| Fordítás magyar | Þýða til Íslenska | Terjemahkan ke bahasa Indonesia| Aistrigh go Gaeilge| Traduci in italiano | 日本語に翻訳| ಕನ್ನಡಗೆಭಾಷಾಂತರಿಸಿ | 한국어번역| Translate to Latine | Tulkot uz latviešu | Latvian Tulkot uz latviešu| Versti į lietuvių| Преведете на македонски| Terjemah ke Bahasa Malaysia| Ittraduċi għall-Malti| Oversette til norsk |ترجمهبهفارسی| Przekłada się na polskim | Traduzir para Português | Traduceţi în română |Перевести на русскую|Преведи на Српском | Preložiť na slovenský |Prevedi v slovenski | Traducir al español | Tafsiri kwa Kiswahili | Översätt till svenska | தமிழ்மொழிபெயர்க்கவும்| తెలుగులోఅనువదించడానికి | แปลเป็นไทย| Çevir Türkçe>| Перекласти українською| اردومیںترجمہکریں | Dịch cho người Việt Nam| Cyfieithu i’r Gymraeg | איבערזעצןצוייִדיש|

Political Party Questionnaires are generally multiple choice with generic answers and no opportunity to choose “none of the above” or suggest a different priority from those suggested. And then major media follows the lead of the political elite and proceeds to frame the debates and the elections accordingly.

In this format, elections become more a matter of almost subliminal manipulation and management of WE THE PEOPLE with Edward Bernays http://bit.ly/nY9BjWstyle techniques rather than elections reflecting the will and best interests of rank and file Americans. And, in reflection, all of these machinations can be seen to be actually intended to maintain the corrupt, tyrannical status quo.

That having been said, let this candidate suggest that all candidates draft and publish a statement of priorities such as this. If for no other reason than because it well serves the best interest of WE THE PEOPLE, the rank and file sovereign citizens of America and allows us to hold our elected officials accountable. (And imagine how many commercials you would not have to see to determine how to vote if every candidate, followed this candidate’s lead in reducing their vision and priorities to writing)

But if you prefer the current status quo of being manipulated and managed like cattle, trained seals and/or Pavlov’s Dog, stop reading now.


CRITICAL THINKING NOTICE

This candidate advises you as no other politician would dare. Exercise Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve) in determining the truthfulness of anything you read or hear. Do not passively accept nor believe anything anyone tells you, including this candidate… unless and until you verify it yourself with sources you trust. And then, only after you could actively defend your perspective to anyone who might debate you to the contrary of your perspective.

OVERVIEW


In my administration, the priority will be to protect the 300 million citizens of our country from corrupt elected officials and government bureaucrats, rather than protect a few corrupt elected officials and government bureaucrats from the legitimate grievances of WE THE PEOPLE. In my view, systemic corruption permeates all levels of our government. And it is the cumulative effect of this systemic corruption which has caused the financial and moral bankruptcy we are facing.


I am not running to be popular;

I am not running to the most exciting, most lovable or the most colorful president;

I am not running with an eye toward enjoying the accoutrements of aristocracy;

I am not running with an eye toward personal wealth;

I am not running with an eye toward re-election;

I am running to represent WE THE PEOPLE.


I am running to save our country from collapse, to pursue the long neglected best interests of rank and file Americans and to restore America to its former position as the undisputed cultural, socio-economic, military leader of the world.


AGENDA AND PRIORITIES


As president, I would look to roll back all of those small incremental encroachments of liberty, trespasses of the Rule of Law and expansions of Government Power which are easily obfuscated by the ruling class, but whose cumulative effects are easily recognized when published together in the proper context.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations…

James Madison – Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution

1) United We Stand;

2) Restore Adherence To The Constitution And “Certain Unalienable Rights” Guaranteed By Natural Law, The Constitution And The Bill Of Rights;

3) Government Transparency, Accountability and Reform (TAR);

4) Judicial Transparency, Accountability and Reform (TAR);

5) Citizen Anti-Corruption Committee;

6) Race;

7) Repeal and rescind legislation and policies which caused economic downturn and job loss;

8) Election Reform;

9) End or Nationalize the Federal Reserve Bank System;

10) Balanced Budget without additional debt;

11) Social Security and Medicare ;

12) Legislation must say what it means and not be a potpourri of pork, earmarks and/or unrelated legislation;

13) Line Item Veto

14) Elimination and Restructuring of Cabinet Departments;

15) Internet – Government Hands off and Libraries;

16) Public Education Reform;

17) Health Care;

18) Expanded Whistleblower Protection for Government inspectors and Subcontractors;

19) Welfare Reform – Negative Income Tax

20) Anti New World Order (NWO) aka One World Government (OWG) Policy

21) Anti Balkanization Policy

A) English as the Official Language

B) Border

C) Immigration

22) Diversity Synergy;

23) Conservation;

24) War on Drugs;

25) War on Terror;

26) Military;

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.

50) Additional Recognition Ceremonies

51) Encourage Absolutely Voluntary Standard Prenuptial agreements

52) Encourage Abosolutely Voluntary Standard Pre-Coital Agreement for unmarried relationships in event of pregnancy and/or STD’s

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96) Civil Unions;

97) Abortion;

98) Amnesty and expungement – for all persons with up to 2 non-violent convictions for drug related offenses related to personal use (as defined by the DOJ);

99) Frontiers.


THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

1) UNITED WE STAND

It deeply saddens me to have our elected officials and political parties whip various groups of WE THE PEOPLE into a frenzy against other groups of WE THE PEOPLE. This all for the selfish purpose of dividing and conquering WE THE PEOPLE as part of their strategy to get re-elected and maintain power and control. Worse yet, our elected officials have caused and/or have been unable to resolve most of the difficult issues facing our country. Often the political parties deliberately drag issues out just because they so great a source of campaign contributions.

With this in mind, I begin with the premise that WE THE PEOPLE, the rank and file sovereign citizens of America are more alike than the politicians and political parties would wrongfully have you believe we are different. And with this premise, I would seek to tap into the wellspring of synergy residing in the minds of our country’s some 300 million fellow citizens. Further, in so doing, I would hope to unify WE THE PEOPLE and fundamentally alter the current culture of negativity and non-constructive debate which degrades each citizen’s quality of life.

There is a technique known as Nominal Group Process (NGP) which is used to bring consensus and unity in organizations with discord and acrimony………

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In Closing,

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.

Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last sentence, US Declaration of Independence (http://bit.ly/ruPE7z )]

Next, it has came to this author’s attention that many local papers will not run letters to the editor, Op Ed pieces and articles that do not conform to the perspective of the local “Powers that be”. If you have a letter to the editor that relates to this article, feel free to post it as a comment, noting that the local news source refused to run it. As long as it conforms with general decorum and is plausible, very rarely will we refuse to publish it. If you have unrelated subject matter and/or video and/or audio that you believe we would be interested in based (based on our prior articles), email it here. Send video/audio in common Internet formats or with Youtube.com links. Do not send video in Public Access TV and/or Cable formats. Our philosophy is that more open public dialogue is better than less public dialogue.

This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

TellMyPolitician http://goo.gl/1FWfz

Keep Fighting the Good Fight!

Those were my thoughts.

In Liberty,

Don Mashak
The Cynical Patriot
http://twitter.com/dmashak
http://www.facebook.com/don.mashak

WE THE PEOPLE TAR
http://WETHEPEOPLETAR.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR

Examiner.com – Express Yourself – Write for Examiner.com
Just Click here http://exm.nr/ljgfmD

Republic for united State of America #RuSA
http://republicfortheunitedstates.org

End the Fed(eral Reserve Bank System)
National http://bit.ly/ta3Rju Minneapolis http://bit.ly/tjZJKF

Lawless America / Get A Grip America
http://LawlessAmerica.com http://getagripamerica.us

Justice in Minnesota #JIM
http://JusticeinMN.com

Bring Home the Politicians #BHTP
http://BringHomethePoliticians.com

Get out of our House #GOOOH
http://GOOOH.com

Committees of Safety
http://committeesofsafety.org http://committee.org/ History of here http://bit.ly/qscBHc

United States Militia #USM
http://UnitedStatesMilitia.com

Food Freedom
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com

Critical Thinking Notice – This author advises you as no politician would dare. Exercise Critical Thinking (http://bit.ly/ubI6ve) in determining the truthfulness of anything you read or hear. Do not passively accept nor believe anything anyone tells you, including this author… unless and until you verify it yourself with sources you trust and could actively defend your perspective to anyone who might debate you to the contrary of your perspective.