May 12 Update

It's hard not to be depressed, but I swear I do try and Nevaeh, the light of my life, helps more than I can say. Her interaction with my nurses is something to behold. She has learned how to do all the peripheral things, (the bloodpressure cuff and stethoscope, the finger BP tester, the thermometer reading,) and it's so cool. They even let her initial the reports. She swears she is going to be a doctor...but she's only five so who knows.

We play a lot. She has face paint so at various times last week, I was red and blue, purple and green, blue and yellow, and various other colors thrown in to make it interesting. She said I looked beautiful. Who could hear that and be depressed? She loves to make jewelry so at times I would be wearing three or four necklaces and bracelets or an anklet or two.

Last week, Uncle C got her her first 22. She picked it out herself, a Keystone Bolt Action 22 LR Chipmonk made right here in PA, so been teaching her how to do it right. She can break it down, clean it, put it back together like a pro. He has to get her some Mickeys before she goes to the range, but they're going to film it all so I don't miss anything.

She also had her first ballet recital last weekend and even though I couldn't be there physically, I was there with her every second. She looked and performed like an angel. I could get maudlin and tell you all the bad stuff that happened last week, but it's Mother's Day and today. that's kind of all I care about.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

May 4

Dear Everyone,

This was the original article on a thread titled "Long story Short" which was the explanation for why I had just spent over 20 days in the hospital, (most of it in intensive care,) why I was asking for your help, and explaining the reasons why FRiends put up donation pages for me while I was still in the hospital.

Want everyone to know that I have received all donations and am so appreciative of the help and prayers.

A couple of years ago, I had no copays as my insurance was excellent. THIS time, I have thousands of dollars worth including medications insurance has discontinued paying for. Also had to pay an upfront fee to have oxygen installed which finally was just completed yesterday after weeks of waiting.

As noted on previous update, the whole blood transfusions continue. The next is May 8 preceded by new GI tests on May 7. Since I need to be transported by ambulance, there are copays for that as well and as of this time, there is no end in sight and no prognosis. I wait every day for news and maybe there is some truth in the old saying that no news is good news. I just don't know anything yet.

Scroll down for earlier update and donation links. While donations are more than welcome, without prayers, I don't think I would be here at all. So please pray for all who need it, those who don't, and add my name. Thank you.

Last update to Fund Me page yesterday.
Finally, finally my oxygen arrived this afternoon, What a difference! The forced oxygen therapy isn't as bad as what I experienced in the hospital. One hour with a full face mask and then six hours normal to clear my lungs and stop the choking, We'll see how that goes.
My feet seem to be healing although it was pretty bad yesterday. Not sure why, Need a third transfusion scheduled for the 8th.
Lots of medication, lots of sleep, as much food as I can manage.
Still a lot of pain but praying it eases up soon.
G-d willing, I will get through this yet.
Keep those prayers coming and thank everyone for everything.

Reposted by request: LONG STORY SHORT

First of all, I am nobody's hero. so please understand that even though it's nice to hear, I have never thought of myself in that way and to be honest, it's embarrassing. I have always prayed throughout my life that my sins would be few and for the strength to carry my own burdens however large or small. Not for the burdens to be lifted or somehow magically taken away, but for the strength and the courage to bear them and with G-d's help to overcome.

In my previous life, sparing you the trivia, every day was a 24/7 adrenaline inducing existence which I accepted by choice because as a Patriot, it was my firm belief that what I was doing was both necessary and for all the right reasons.

At some point, things changed and the reasons became blurred as new administrations introduced what, to my mind, were questionable guidelines that went so against my conscience that I found myself more and more reluctant to conduct 'business as usual'.

Those with whom I had worked very closely also began to question as new members were being assigned to us that we knew little about and the bonds of trust began to fade as we realized that some of these people were actually working at cross purposes within our own ranks, literally putting us in extraordinarily extreme danger.

Those of us who actively questioned our superiors were written up as 'uncooperative'. Our Patriotism was questioned even though we had commendations and citations which stated otherwise.

There is no way I can further elaborate on this except to say that I was pushed into 'resigning' or accepting assignments almost designed as suicide missions. I 'resigned' under duress and it was 'accepted' with the Sword of Damocles hanging over my head which is still there today.

Most of my time since then, except for Nevaeh who is now five years old, has been spent in virtual solitude but it didn't stop me from being a hunter/seeker using every technological tool at my disposal to still find some very bad actors who are now no longer wasting good air.

A few years ago, all the adrenaline years and various injuries caught up with me and my heart simply exploded. For four days I thought I Had a pulled muscle in my back but when the pain kept getting worse, finally called 911. Was rushed directly to the heart trauma center and had open heart surgery that same day. It was only afterward I was told the damage was so bad I should have been dead and none of the doctors could figure out why I wasn't. They called me a miracle patient.

Having already been a member of Free RepubLic since 2008, I drove my nurse crazy for sneaking onto my computer in the middle of the night because you guys were my oasis even then, and except for Hardraade who was my partner in Junipersec, I never told a single soul about my illness all the way until now...and this is just scratching the surface.

It didn't end there. Lots of bad stuff happened in between then and now that I also kept to myself, always believing there were so many other people who had it so much worse than I did, it was easier to pray for, and try to help, other people rather than have pity parties for myself.

My savings had completely been used up, and what little Hardraade could advance me for Junipersec diminished as well as his troubles with his ex employers became exceedingly worse because of his association with a "JEW" spy and finally they forced him out altogether. His income became very limited as well so mine was erratic and less than subsistance.

The stress was overwhelming and a little over a year ago, my heart just gave out sending me to the hospital close to death yet again. Surviving that was by sheer will with heavy emphasis on prayer, and within weeks afterwards, I received notice that my home was being repossessed...which sent me straight back to the hospital with congestive heart failure.

Got through that and had to find a place to move with no vehicle and not a bloody red cent to my name, called every single government agency I could think of for help only to be told either I enter a hospice, or nothing. I chose nothing. But I figured G-d had never let me down yet and sure must not have wanted me to die or I would have, I started looking in the rental ads in the local paper and calling everywhere in town until I actually found someone who said they would not only pick me up to see the rental, but that if I liked it, we could work something out somehow.

It turned out to be a beautiful house on a corner lot in a great neighborhood with a huge fenced in yard that I just knew there was no way I could afford. But what this man, who is in the construction business and a Rolling Thunder Conservative, did was to offer to seal off one room and use the address as a separate office, and told me to speak to my 'boss', (Hardraade,) to see how much he could afford to advance me which was practically nil. I never thought in a million years he would accept it, but lo and behold, using his one room as a business address, I became a tax write off for him and we signed the lease that afternoon.

To this moment, I don't know how he did it, but Hardraade managed to send me enough to rent a uhaul which was less than a hundred dollars and two volunteers from a local church packed me up and moved me virtually overnight. Miracles happen. Decent, wonderful people still exist. Faith works.

That should have been the end of the story. Unfortunately, it wasn't. It was the beginning of a new one.

A week after moving in, trying to get things in order, my legs went into the most severe cramps I had ever had in my life. My whole body cramped and I looked like the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Vaeh was scared out of her wits, but I managed to call 911 and they called my bil from the hospital, and there I was again, an eyelash away from death. But I knew G-d was going to throw me back, so no fear. None.

When I got home that time, my capacity to function was greatly diminished but I was put on a waiting list for a heart transplant.

Nearly a year went by and I regained a pretty good amount of strength, but the stress stayed very high mostly for the same reasons as before. Could not settle my case against my former 'employer' which has been in the court system for years because they will not allow it to move forward, so no steady income, erratic and inconsistent at best, shutoff notices and robbing Peter to pay Paul.

On March 13, I was on the phone with Hardraade and I felt perfectly fine. Suddenly, I felt the kind of stomach cramp you get when you just need to get to the bathroom...quick. Told him to hold on and tried to run down the hall to the bathroom. By the time I got to the commode, I was already blacking out. I fell on the floor, jammed between the door and the toilet and was vomiting and the other thing but I could not move nor could I speak. It was over an hour before I could muster the strength to scream for help. ONE scream was all I was good for. Didn't know if anyone even heard me.

Miracle of miracles, the bil had just arrived with Vaeh.

911, ensuing chaos, dead in the ambulance. Brought back barely. Needles, tubes, something stuck down my throat through my nose, oxygen, more needles, more tubes, then Intensive Care.

Tests after tests. Massive lung infection and not tens but hundreds of ulcers in my stomach and bowels, heart failure.

Full face oxygen mask to force oxygen into my lungs for over ten days. No food, drink, or body movement without help. I can't even describe how terrified I was. Just kept talking to G-d the entire time.

From March 13 to March 26, that was the way it was except for the full oxy mask. After that, it was just the tube, for which I was very grateful. I was allowed liquids, and finally, on the 27th, honest to G-d food. Home on Easter Sunday, but unable to walk much, shaky and wobbly, but now getting therapy from a visiting home nurse.

Saturday, (yesterday,) a beautician cut off most of my hair. It had been pretty long, but they had it in some kind of knot in the hospital and it hadn't been brushed or washed or anything because I couldn't raise my arms high enough or long enough to do it myself. My hair hasn't been this short since I was a baby. But at least it's clean and I can manage it now.

Thanks to the donations so far, I might have enough to maybe get the oxy I need and my doctor has set an appointment for me to see if my hearing, which is almost completely gone from previous injuries, can be surgically restored. If not, then maybe hearing aids which will still be a major miracle.

Bad news is I have been removed from the heart transplant list because I am simply too weak right now for them to even attempt it. Don't know if ever. But certainly going to try to regain as much strength as I can. Time. Everything takes time.

Next bad news is I must pay for my own oxygen which would be next to impossible. Other bad news is I have just been informed via gov form letter that my gov insurance which is part of Damocles Sword, now no longer covers my ulcer medication, my nitroglycerine patches, my blood thinner, and a couple of other things that are essential to my survival.

I am telling you these things because if I am desperate enough to ask for your help, which I am, you deserve to know why. This is literally a fight between life and death for me and I AM asking for your help, although I do understand that these are not the best of times and even without donations, your prayers are still needed.

Today, I am fighting for my very survival and asking for your help which is a desperate last resort that a few short weeks ago I would never have contemplated.

To Springfield Reformer, who started the Fund Me page, my undying gratitude because I would never have thought of doing it myself. Pride goeth before a fall, but this is one fall I promise you, I don't want to take.

To Hardraade, who asked you for prayers for me while I was in the throes of this battle, I can never, ever repay for all he has done.

To those of you who sent prayers, I know they worked because here I am, so thank you all from the bottom of my weak, but still beating heart.

To those who sent donations, I don't even know how to explain the myriad of emotions I have felt because it was so unexpected and so overwhelming.

So there you have it. That's it. That's me. And Free Republic is still the greatest place on earth. Thank you all for everything.

April 26 Update

Not quite sure where to even begin after the tragedies that have affected all of us this month. My prayers go out for our country, so in need of healing, so far beyond my personal problems, it almost seems trite to post about myself when so many others are suffering. However, so many people have asked that I sort of feel guilty for not responding and guilty FOR responding at the same time.

I know it sounds a little goofy, but honestly, I am on so much medication right now, it's a wonder that I make any sense at all...if I do. No guarantees.

Trying to maintain a sense of humor and a modicum of dignity gets harder and harder as the days go by. Don't want to feed my depression so I throw myself into other current events with a vengeance as if there is any way at all I can help, somehow it helps build my stairway to heaven should the worst happen. At least I am on the side of the angels...or so I hope.

So here goes.

My doctors, (and there are a ton of them,) give me no reason to really hope I am going to make it out of this. My hope remains my faith and the fact that when I sleep, I actually wake up for which I am more than grateful. The first words out of my mouth are, "Thank You, G-d." Every single minute is so precious, every breath of air such a gift. Even the pain is a gift because I still feel and I am alive to feel it.

Every day that goes by, I know they are trying their best to find ways to fix me, but it's hard because no one can seem to find the reasons for the problems that keep cropping up.

When this last episode began, I weighed 105 pounds soaking wet. Today, I weigh 73 pounds and can't seem to add even an ounce to that.

Been back to the hospital several times now for various tests. They took marrow from my spine and tell me my blood isn't making enough new blood to sustain me so must have transfusions of whole blood. What they don't know is why.

Back for GI tests. Largest ulcer does not seem to want to heal. Should have surgery but am not strong enough to undergo it. Trying something different but it makes me sick. Nothing is perfect, I guess.

Woke up this morning with my feet on fire, swollen, red, skin splitting and bleeding. bleeding under my skin. Happened out of nowhere.

Nurse called the doc. Doc called in new prescriptions. Wrapped my feet and attached a compressor to my calves and ankles to even out the bloodflow to my feet and legs. Two nurses hovering around me all day long. Both are just great and do everything they can to keep me going. Am grateful to both for their patience and kindness.

Forced oxygen therapy begins Monday.

The good news is my heart seems to be holding up through this. BP is staying just above being too low and isn't jumping wildly like it was before. So that's a plus.

Am deeply grateful for everything you all have done. Please keep the prayers going for everyone and if you see fit to mention my name, that's icing.

I have tried to keep this as unemotional as I could. Don't want to overstep into self-pity. Hope I didn't do that.

Thank you all for your concern.
Mesta

TELL EVERYONE YOU LOVE THAT YOU LOVE THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY

And HaShem went before them by day in a pillar of cloud,
to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire,
to give them light; that they might go by day and by night:
the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night,
departed not from before the people.

Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed,
and keep My covenant,
then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples;
for all the earth is Mine

MENSA Syndrome: (excerpt)
Extreme degenerative brain disease
Profound Neural dysfunction

Cause
Erroneous belief that one is somehow more superior to all others because they were mistakenly programmed by those who equate POTENTIAL VS ACTUAL knowledge and wisdom to IQ scores to believe they are absolute in their superiority.
This causes repeated instances of *Massive Extreme Neural Synapses Abuse* by those seeking to act on this unprovable, even dangerous, doctrine.

Examples:
barack hussein obama
Every "reporter" on JournoList

**************

......

BILL CLINTON BACK IN THE WHITEHOUSE
Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case.

Countdown to Inauguration Day 2013

To Honor a Dear Friend

5月は、平和がどこに行くあなたを見つける

We are facing the most significant threat to our Freedom since the Revolutionary War. Our way of life, everything our Forefathers fought and died for, is on the line. Freedom itself is under seige by the enemy within. I do not feel that is an overstatement.
None of us are immortal. We pass our Freedom to our children...but in order to do that in these days of upheaval, we must hold fast to the belief that FREEDOM is worth dying for.
I pray it does not come to that. But I fear it as never before.
IF it comes, and I pray it does not, I vow to be an adversary that will bring hell to the enemy's doorstep. Whatever it takes, how ever long it takes, my children will remain free.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We paid a very high price that day. Our troops have paid a very high price for it ever since.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
IMPEACH OBAMA.

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 2001

March, 2010

NO GREATER LOVE

HELLO FREE REPUBLIC AND WELCOME TO AN EXCLUSIVE FREE REPUBLIC CALL TO ACTION

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We have all been frustrated and angry at the way we have been treated by the political elite in this country. They have ignored us, belittled us, overlooked us, and singled us Conservatives out for their special brand of contempt.
It is bad enough when liberals and Democrats do it, but the betrayal of our Constitution and of our whole system of Conservative values and morals at the hands of the party we built and supported for lo these many years has been the ultmate blow to Conservatives both those of us here at Free Republic, and to Conservatives in the grassroots across our country.

THEY HAVE TAKEN US FOR GRANTED!!!
The RNC and the Republican Party have helped the liberal vampires in this country to sink their fangs into the very heart of our nation, and have joined in the cause of the slow bleeding and painful death of everything that made America the freest, greatest land on earth.
They have become the enemy within.

HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH???
ARE YOU MAD AS HELL???

How about it, Free Republic?
When was the last time you didn't go to bed and wake up angry?
When was the last time you yelled out loud at the television?
A minute ago? An hour ago?

When was the last time you saw a RINO on television betraying you to your face? Today? Yesterday? Five minutes ago?

When was the last time you went to work, IF you still have a job, and managed to stay in good spirits for more than five minutes as you have been faced with the consequences of liberal policies that RINOs helped put in place?
Affirmative action hires that don't work so you have to work harder, but you can't say anything.
You can't DO anything or you risk losing everything.
You hear them in your offices, in your assembly lines, and in your rest areas snickering at you, calling you names, and making fun of you behind your back because you believe in something. Because you value life, liberty, equality, morals, ethics, family, and GOD.
Because you support our brave Warriors,including Law Enforcement Officers who put their lives on the line every damn day for them and us.
Because you honor those brave men and women who fight today and have fought in the past for our freedom while they openly disdain them almost as if they are deliberately trying to pick a fight with you personally.

Don't they just LOVE pushing your buttons?

They know EXACTLY where to stick the knife, but all you can do is endure the pain in relative silence because there is nobody to watch your back.
You know the RINOs who sold us out are to blame for ALL of it.
Without the RINOs, what you see happening today would have been impossible.

ARE YOU TIRED OF IT???
ARE YOU SICK TO DEATH OF HEARING THAT THE PARTY YOU ONCE TRUSTED TO UPHOLD CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES IS A BIG TENT THAT ADMITS ANYONE WHO BELIEVES IN NOTHING IF THEY DECIDE TO WEAR AN R AFTER THEIR NAME???
ARE YOU WILLING TO PUT YOUR MONEY AND A FRACTION OF YOUR TIME TOWARDS ENDING THIS CYCLE OF MADNESS???

TELL THEM ABOUT IT!!!

Take five minutes, ten minutes, an hour of your time, grab a pen and a piece of paper and write it down and SEND IT!
Type a letter and print it out and SEND IT!

Not an email. Not a fax. Not a phone call. We already know they will ignore them.
We want to flood their headquarters with letters they can't ignore, as many letters as is humanly possible. Write a letter, make ten copies, sign your name, buy some stamps and send them!
Have your friends and family send as many letters as they can.

TELL THEM ABOUT IT.
No more contributions to the RNC, not one cent, if they insist on supporting RINOs who don't adhere to core Conservative principles and values.
Tell them in your own words that you will support individual candidates of YOUR choosing on their own merits, and not the party hacks they want to jam down our throats like Dede Scozzafava and Arlen Specter.

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING SCREWED???

TELL THEM ABOUT IT!!!

We don't need bullhorns to get their attention! The value of ONE handwritten letter with words inscribed from the heart, is worth more than ten voices screaming at the top of their lungs. Nobody writes letters anymore.
Voicemail can be erased or never listened to. Emails get lost in the system and many are not taken seriously because anybody with a gripe can send an email. It's just that easy, and it makes it that much easier to ignore.

MAKE THEM FEAR US!!!

MAKE THEM THINK TWICE AND THINK AGAIN BEFORE THEY TRY TO PUT A RINO OVER ON US!!!

Let them know you are serious. Tell them why they have reason to fear us. They won't if one or two letters trickle in. We need thousands.

They might receive contributions from the party elite, but those people have only ONE VOTE, no matter how much money they contribute.
We have millions.

TELL THEM ABOUT IT!!!

If they send you one of their stupid plastic cards, don't just send it back in their prepaid envelopes anymore. Enclose it whole with a personal letter using your own envelope, your own stamp, and SEND IT!!!

GOT IT???

DO IT!!!
DO IT TODAY OR TOMORROW, BUT DO IT!!!

This is a Jim Robinson endorsed initiative as it appeared on THIS THREAD, suggested to Jim on THIS POST endorsed on THIS REPLY.
Permission to use Free Republic as the sponsor was asked on THIS POST, and permission was granted on THIS REPLY FROM JIM.

The committee that put this initiative together is DJ MacWoW, who came up with this ingenius idea, with contributions from ~Kim4VRWC's~, hiredhand, bcsco, and MestaMachine.
We have all worked hard to light this fire. Help us turn it into the bonfire that burns their tent down!

So there you have it. If you are at the end of your rope and think there is nothing left to do, for all of our sakes, TRY THIS. IT WON'T HURT A BIT!!!
AND IT JUST MIGHT SHAKE THE RNC TREE. AT THE VERY LEAST, IT WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE!!!

Open Letter to the RNC, DNC, Independents, and Lurkers

PART I.
THIS IS WHO WE ARE!

We are contributing members of the Premiere Conservative Forum, Free Republic, (FreeRepublic.com.) Our members are known by the term, FREEPERS. We have been engaged in Conservative Activism since 1996.
Founded in September 1996 as a sole proprietorship by Founder, Chairman and President James C. "Jim" Robinson, of Fresno, California, Free Republic opened to the general public in February 1997. Robinson filed for LLC status on September 11, 1998. (an auspicious date when you recall what September 11 has now come to represent in our history.) It has always been a for-profit company and donations have never been tax exempt.
This bears mention for the fact that Free Republic operates SOLELY on contributions from our members, although it costs nothing to join or participate. We are self-supporting and self-sustaining. The tie that binds us all is Conservatism at its finest.
It is also worth paying attention to because what we can accomplish in ONE fundraising event on this site can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, IF we decide to pick and back a candidate.
Free Republic's membership spans the entire Fifty States of the United States of America, scattered members from other countries around the world, and includes Americans from all walks of life and all different faiths.
We proudly boast members representing our Military, (some on Active Duty around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan,), Law Enforcement, First Responders, accountants, authors, journalists, Veterans from many wars going all the way back to the Korean War, grandmothers and grandfathers, mothers, fathers, husbands and wives, sisters and brothers, and a new generation of the children of original members who have chosen to follow in their parents' footsteps.
In other words, our constituency comprises Conservatives who joined Free Republic because of its basic core principles which have not changed since the day our doors were opened.
At the time of its founding, Jim Robinson and a handful of like minded Conservatives became so concerned with the direction our country was being taken by Bill Clinton, they felt compelled to raise their voices by organizing the FIRST March for Justice in Washington, DC, which attracted at least 3000 Patriotic Americans and was broadcast live on Halloween 1998 by C-SPAN. Featured speakers included Alan Keyes, Bob Barr, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson of B.O.N.D. and Larry Klayman. Ann Coulter, Lucianne Goldberg and Matt Drudge also attended. Other Free Republic events over the years have also been televised by C-SPAN.
Over the years, Free Republic has been a major force in many political events which usually are not mentioned when referring to us, since we have become anathema to left wing blogs and organizations such as Democratic Underground, MoveOn.org, MediaMatters, Think Progress, etc., which are more interested in pointing out some of the negatives during our growing pains, BECAUSE of our influence in thwarting their left wing agenda.

PART II.
THIS IS WHY WE MATTER!

Free Republic and its members have been instrumental in making sure our rights were not trampled and justice prevailed.
Examples of this have been:
1. The exposure of Al Gore's participation in the Clinton fund raising scandals.
2. The unprecedented, and often overlooked, "ex-communication" of Joe Lieberman by the Orthodox Jewish Rabbis who comprise a judgmental body known as the Bet Din, for using his claimed orthodoxy to promote the Gore pro-abortion policies as Gore's VP running mate, which has not been lifted to this day.
3. The design and release of the "Sore Loserman" posters and bumperstickers which caught the attention of all of America and were so successful that they might well have changed the course of history.
4. The protests against the Florida recount, a blatant attempt by Democrats to steal the 2000 election and reverse George W. Bush's victory. We organized successful counter-protests in opposition to the organized DNC protests and demonstrations by their union sympathizers.
WE were the ones who stormed the locked room where democrat operatives were trying to conduct their recount in secret and exposed their disregard for the rule of law. That action stopped the illegal count and changed their planned outcome.
5. The exposure of John Kerry's true background as a Vietnam "war hero" as well as his extensive connections to our Communist enemies in North Vietnam. The book, "Unfit for Command," was coauthored by one of our members.
6. The FIRST exposure of the Dan Rather/CBS Bush National Guard documents as forgeries, along with Powerline blog which eventually led to the firings of those involved.

These are mere highlights, but by no means all we have accomplished with our dedicated researchers and activist chapters throughout the country.

Most if us were, at one time, registered Republicans. We supported you, RNC, through thick and through thin with our dollars, our volunteers, our dedication to OUR core principles which you espoused.
We watched, as over the years, you turned away from those principles and led our party to defeat after defeat by becoming a duplicate version of the Democratic party, rejecting one after another, the planks in your platform in favor of your "big tent" approach, putting party over principle, party over the morals and the family values you claim to represent, but do NOT.
After fighting every single day everywhere in the country to elect a Republican Majority to the Senate, we were shocked to our core when RINOs went behind closed doors and agreed to "Power Sharing" which we considered a bargain with the devil. WE were right.
After the hard fought 2000 election, we watched in utter dismay as OUR president partnered with Ted Kennedy to extend government control into our families and over our childrens' lives with the "No Child Left Behind" bill.
As if that was not enough, YOUR candidate for the past election, John McCain, teamed up with one of the most liberal Senators in history to give us McCain/Feingold, which Bush promised to veto, but didn't.
After 9/11, we were stunned yet again when Republicans allowed the delay of the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security and allowed the Democrats to politicize it by making it just another boondoggle and a home away from home for their constituent semi-literate and illiterate union workers.
To add insult to injury, the Republicans used it as a repository for deficient small r politicians as political favors. The highest offices were replete with hacks who paid more attention to their interior decorators than to the security of our country.
Since then, it has evolved into simply another dysfunctional, out of control bureaucracy, which has now actually put into writing that CONSERVATIVES in this, our own country, were somehow subversives and potential terrorists.
We have seen RINOs like Jim Jeffords hand over our hardwon majority to the democrats in the Senate. We watched Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins "cross the aisle" to defeat Conservatives and give victories to liberal bills we have abhorred.
We watched the insanity of trying to provide amnesty for illegal aliens disguised as "Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
We watched Republicans spending us into oblivion, but NOTHING on earth prepared us for what Bush did upon leaving office with the help of RINOs in our Congress, and John McCain, our "nominee," the TARP bill handing Obama total countrol over our Treasury.
It was the final blow and a smack in the face to anyone and everyone who supported Small r republicans disguised as Conservatives and which put us on this path to our own destruction, the wholesale dismantling of our beloved Constitution, and the end of Freedom and Free Market Capitalism as we have known it.
We watched as you withheld OUR contributions from Conservative candidates from local offices to federal offices in favor of liberals with small rs who betrayed us once they were elected.
You held your noses when McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, but you must also note that before her candidacy, the RNC AND John McCain couldn't raise enough money to run a presidential campaign. When Sarah Palin joined the ticket, the Conservative coffers opened wide. NOT for John McCain, but for Sarah Palin, whom you continue to try and diminish.
Some of you might have heard of us. Those who haven't soon will because today, the world as you have known it changes. Today we are delaring our emancipation from party politics as usual. Today is the day that as Conservatives, we declare that in OUR PARTY, we will accept NO MORE RINOs!

PART III.
FREE REPUBLIC DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have disregarded Conservative Family Values and Morals to the detriment and exclusion of its Conservative base

. Such as the adaptation of insidious legalese designed to dupe its base into accepting unacceptable moral conduct, including homosexual activity by legitimizing such behaviour as a human right, thereby endangering our children in their schools, us in our workplaces, forcing our Military to accept openly gay homosexuals by aquiescing to the "Don't ask, don't tell" philosophy, and endangering innocent children by allowing them to be legally adopted by homosexual couples which forces them into the gay lifestyle;
. Such as the acceptance into the Party of, and supporting the elections of, pro-abortion advocates knowing full well that abortion murders human babies in the womb;
. Such as accepting and overlooking adultery among its elected officials as an "error in judgement" when it is abundantly clear that if you cannot keep your marriage vows, you cannot be trusted to keep any vows and a prime example of this is none other than Newt Gingrich;
. Such as overlooking, and often engaging in, corrupt practices whether through actions by colluding with, or granting special favors to, corporate lobbiests, wealthy constituents, profiteering in the granting of government contracts to wealthy donors, or simple graft and porkbarrel theft of taxpayer monies;

Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have espoused ultra-liberal, even suicidal, policies to the exclusion and detriment of common sense

. Such as continuing to espouse the myth that Islam is a "religion of peace" knowing full well that Islam has declared war, by word and by deed, on the entirety of Human Civilization;
. Such as politicizing our Military by forcing them into politically correct policies that endanger our Troops' lives both at home and on the battlefield;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have allowed themselves to fall prey to extreme environmental psuedoscience

. Such as the notion that CO2 is a danger to humanity and the planet;
. Such as the paying lip service and legitimizing the myth of manmade global warming;
. Such as the acceptance of extremist environmental jujitsu that forbids us from utilizing our own natural resources which GOD has blessed us with in abundance, which has caused energy prices to be artificially high, making us beholden to our sworn enemies;
. Such as allowing extreme environmental policies to interfere with how we live on, and use, our own private property thereby running farms out of business, forcing businesses like logging and coal mining to shut down causing the wholesale destruction of entire communities and sending great swaths of middle class citizens into poverty, and even regulating how much water we can use in our own toilets;
. Such as mandating unnaturally high CAFE standards and over-regulation of our automobile industry forcing them to make vehicles the public did/does not want, and would not buy, ending decades of America's unparalleled world leadership in innovation, class, and style, eventually destroying the entire American automobile industry.
. Such as over-regulating and over-taxing American manufacturing sending millions of jobs out of our own country.

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have aquiesced to the distortion of the First Amendment of our Constitution by participating in removal of GOD from the public square instead of defending our Constitutional RIGHT to Freedom of Religion, not freedom FROM religion;

. Such as taking Christ out of Christmas;
. Such as disallowing our right to openly wear symbols of Christianity or Symbols of Judaism in our workplaces while allowing those who practice Islam to not only wear the symbols of their ungodly religion, but allow them special rights for footwashings in special areas, in special basins built at taxpayer expense in our public colleges, forcing employers to grant them special breaktimes in the workplace to conduct their prayers while disallowing our right to pray in any venue because it might cause offense to anyone who doesn't believe as we do;
. Such as disallowing the Holy Bible to be read or taught or even spoken of in government schools, while forcing our children to be indoctrinated into Islam under the guise of "diversity;"

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have helped to incrementally deprive us of our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms by advocating for one regulation after another designed to make legal firearms ownership as difficult as humanly possible and making criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have colluded with liberals in mandating that instead of English being the official language of the United States, our children are forced to learn Spanish in government schools, and employers are forced to hire non-English speaking aliens or be charged with civil right violations;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have committed these and many other offenses to society at large and Conservatives in particular

Whereas: NO Republican can be elected without wholehearted support of the Conservative Base

WE, the Members of Free Republic,in keeping with the concept under which Free Republic was born, along with the Founder of this Conservative Forum, Jim Robinson, and more generally, the majority of Conservatives of the United States of America, do hereby make and agree to this Delaration of Independence from party politics as usual.
We affirm our independence by delivering our support to only those individuals within the Republican Party, who aspire and inspire our core Conservative beliefs and Values.
If the Republican Party does not field, or will not recruit Conservative candidates, and support them in every way possible, count us out.
We will no longer trust you to pick and choose our candidates with impunity while you wilfully disregard us even as you take our support for granted.
Those days are over.
Your time has come and gone.
We are Americans who still believe that the Constitution is the set of rules that we live by and die for.

In our in our founder's own words:

We are fed up and mad as hell! We grassroots Americans are delivering a message to the ruling class: NO MORE!!

No more big government! No more high taxes! No more government bailouts! No more government takeovers! No government healthcare! No more corruption! No more global baloneyism!!

We're sick and tired of liberals and RINOs running roughshod over our God given Liberty!

We want our country back! We want our freedom back! We want it all back!!

No more socialism!!

Cut the taxes! Cut the spending! Cut the government!

Restore the constitutional limits on government! Restore our freedom!!

And not only no, but HELL NO to liberals and RINOS!!

Free Republic will not support RINOS!!

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