Homocides debunk need for more gun control

Most homicides are by younger people.Under 18, guns are 8.1%; for under 36, most homicides are poison and arson. Most gun homicides are by multiple offenders; the highest activities are drugs and gangs.

Most homicides are committed by 14-24 young adults. The Department of Justice does not publish non-citizen murders (for a reason no doubt); however, many of the gang and drug shootings are by non-citizens. Most violent murders are not by firearms.

Most violent murders are by poison, arson, or other weapon (knife, hammer, or "other."

Gun control and registration would not save any of these victims, as these numbers include justifiable homicides wherein the person was protecting themselves lawfully.

Most murders were intraracial

From 1980 through 2008—

84% of white victims were killed by whites (figure 19). 

93% of black victims were killed by blacks.

Long term trends and patterns

In the last decade (since 2000) the homicide rate declined to levels last seen in the mid-1960s

The homicide rate doubled from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, increasing from 4.6 per 100,000 U.S. residents in 1962 to 9.7 per 100,000 by 1979 (figure 1). (See Methodology for information on rate calculations.)

In 1980 the rate peaked at 10.2 per 100,000 and subsequently fell to 7.9 per 100,000 in 1984.

The rate rose again in the late 1980s and early 1990s to another peak in 1991 of 9.8 per 100,000.

The homicide rate declined sharply from 9.3 homicides per 100,000 in 1992 to 4.8 homicides per 100,000 in 2010.

It Is Not The Guns; It Is The Agenda

Two percent of violent crimes are committed with rifles. None were military rifles with selective or fully-automatic firing capabilities.

The Ruger 22 is a classic example. It can look like a kid's gun with a simple wooden stock and iron sights. For a few dollars, it can look like an AK-47, an M-4, an M-16, or any number of other semi-automatic rifles. It is still dangerous; it is still the same rifle; it is still just another firearm used for shooting targets, firearms training, and small game.

The .223 is just a more powerful 22 caliber rifle that is either a bolt or a semiautomatic action. The most accurate and most destructive firearms are not usually semiautomatics. Rifles are only involved in 38 deaths, according to Feinstein, and the majority off fatalities were committed by three criminals who did not have legal access to the firearms.

Most shootings involving multiple victims are in "gun free" zones where legal firearm owners are prohibited to carry their lawfully purchased, possessed, and safe firearms. Had a CCW citizen been in the movie theater in Colorado, the mass shooting would have been stopped, as it was in Washington State, or the church, on the same weekend.

The shooting at the school ended when the first police officer with a gun arrived. Neither of these shooters were legal firearm owners. Both were criminals prior to their act. Both were identified as not being old enough, or their histories of behavioral and emotional disturbances would have prevented ownership.

The issue is not background checks. People are checked (100%) in stores and at the gun shows in accordance with ATF rules. ATF will not allow private transfers and sales to be reported, nor does the ATF allow people who are not in the business to apply for FFL license. They could fix this without any changes to the 2nd Amendment. Legal gun owners would flock for the permits.

The 2nd Amendment is about self-protection. During the Revolution, Civil War, WWI, and WWII, civilians had the best weapons. Colt was a civilian, the military did not want his rifles or revolvers. They used single shot weapons. A civilian invented the machine gun. An enlisted soldier invented the AK-47 in his spare time. The government has never been able to protect the citizens prior to a disaster. Most of the times, the enemy of the civilian was the government (Monarchies, Dictatorships, Despots, Presidents, and People's Committees, and more). Government could not protect us from the gangsters or the Mob. Government does not protect our boarders from drug gangs bringing their drugs and guns from MEXICO  to kill unarmed US citizens. Our streets are over-run with gangs and gang shootings. Where are the police? Where are is the protection?

Finally, ok, let us give up all of our guns, they day after the government gives up its guns - no armed police, no armed militia (reserves), no government selling of guns to gangs or foreign nations. Only a armed military that cannot use its arms in the US. Keep them over seas and keep them on the boarders. 

The End of The Constitution

News Note: States already have begun fighting back, and one state, Missouri, is looking at a plan that would simply cancel any “act, order, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government upon a personal firearm” and make any federal agency trying to enforce such limits guilty of a Class D felony. Read More

An Oregon sheriff says he will not enforce any federal regulation that President Barack Obama lays out in his package of gun control proposals Wednesday.

Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller joins several other public officials across the nation who have decided to square off with the White House even before it outlines what its plans are for expanded measures.

Mueller sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden this week saying he won't enforce any federal regulation "offending the constitutional rights of my citizens." He won't permit federal officers to come to his county to enforce such laws either, he said.

The Founding Fathers were heavily influenced by French philosopher Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu when drafting the Constitution, most notably in connection with the separation of powers.
Born on January 18, 1689, in Bordeaux, France, Montesquieu was trained in the classics as well as the law.  In 1722 he began his literary career when he published The Persian Letters, a famous, insightful satire of Parisian and French society.  Although he published other works as well, his most influential volume was The Spirit of the Laws (1748).

The Founding Fathers, most especially James Madison, drew upon Montesquieu’s theory of the separation of powers when drafting the Constitution.  Montesquieu argued that the best way to secure liberty and prevent a government from becoming corrupted was to divide the powers of government among different actors who would check each other.  For example, Montesquieu warned that “Were the executive power not to have a right of restraining the encroachments of the legislative body, the latter would become despotic; for as it might arrogate to itself what authority it pleased, it would soon destroy all the other powers.”

Madison and the Founding Fathers took heed of Montesquieu’s warning by establishing an independent executive (the President), legislative (the Congress), and judiciary (the Supreme Court) in the federal Constitution.  Madison masterfully protected the separation of powers by establishing a thorough system of checks and balances as well.

Obama has consistently bypassed the separation of powers by legislating and ruling from the executive branch of government. Cap&Trade did not pass a Democrat Senate and House. Obama's 23 Thesis (Executive Orders) has nothing to do with reducing violence. It is a 23 step plan to reinvent government, as Luther reinvent the Catholic religion. Luther did not throw out the Bible; Obama threw out the Constitution.

Obama has consistently been against gun ownership by citizens, even as a state senator where he voted "present" on crime legislation. Obama said crime laws disproportionally effect a certain minority.

Arms Trade Treaty

In the months following the election or un-election of Obama, we are certain to see an effort to pass the Arms Trade Treaty. The Administration has already attempted to implement the treaty by the FAST and FURIOUS scam to blame gun shops for the government's plan to ship small arms over international borders to arm Drug Cartels!

1. The President and Attorney General appear to violate a number of international and US laws through their actions in Fast and Furious - but the senate and public does not seem to care;
2. The President and Attorney General appear to violate a number of domestic laws and exceed Constitutional power by misuse of Executive Orders and Executive Privilege;
3. The President and Attorney General appear to violate numerous Equal Protection and Due Process by blocking Congressional investigation powers, allowing friendly companies and individuals to be exempted from some laws and regulations while selectively enforcing laws and regulations against political opponents.

The Treaty appears to require signature nations to register firearm purchases and sales to the UN; requires registration; limits manufacturers, controls ammunition. Already, the Obama Administration has designed a program for  non-dealers who own or reload firearms to register with the Attorney General - bypassing the ATF!

Presidents, including Bush, have insisted treaties negate the Constitution. Unless we stop this treaty, there will be a significant test of the Treaty Powers of Article 2, Section 2 - and the Supreme Court that brought us Obamacare will make new law once again.

Obamacare violates Due Process & Equal Protection

·       As the President has granted numerous waivers and exemptions to states, government entities, and companies, the Supreme Court’s “tax” ruling has resulted in some concerns. We are concerned the health care tax (or penalty in deference to the President) will be levied in violation of our equal protection rights under the Constitution. The tax is clearly not progressive, but punitive in nature. All citizens, companies, municipalities, and states should have the taxes, or penalties equally applied, or equally exempted.  If they are progressively applied, they should be applied equally within each class.

·       The implementation of the health care bill, prior to, and subsequent to the Supreme Court ruling has been in apparent violation of the equal protection provisions of the Constitution, as stated above. My employer has already deducted the “premium tax” in 2012 in anticipation of full implementation in 2014. This deduction would appear to create an economic impact or “tax” deduction and a violation of the equal protection provisions, inasmuch, other tax payers, companies, municipalities, and states have been exempted, or by other construct have not had to pay the tax – deemed a penalty with equal application. 

·       If, as the President has insisted, the health care tax is a penalty, there is the concept of due process. The Constitution protects an individual’s rights by limiting government power and providing judicial review and certain procedural protections. Due process standards, either substantive or procedural refers to a requirement that laws and regulations be related to a legitimate government interest and not contain provisions that result in the unfair or arbitrary (unequal) treatment of an individual. The 5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States states that “no person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” This right was extended to the states by the 14th Amendment (1868). Fundamental to procedural due process are adequate notice before the government can deprive one of life, liberty, or property, and the opportunity to be heard (judicial procedure) and defend one's rights.

·       Evidence presented in state and in Congressional hearings, and statements from the Executive Branch of government have indicated a great deal of the unpaid health care costs have resulted from non-citizens who are not eligible to gain health insurance through employers. We are struggling to understand why the state or federal governments have not petitioned the parent country (ies) for payment. Further, this presents an equal protection concern, as non-citizens and the indigent are exempted by a non-progressive and equally applied tax to support public health care delivery. Public Health care delivery in Mexico is accomplished via an elaborate provisioning and delivery system instituted by the Mexican Federal Government. Public health care is provided to all Mexican citizens as guaranteed via Article 4 of the Constitution. Public care is either fully or partially subsidized by the federal government, depending on the person's (Spanish: derechohabiente's) employment status. All Mexican citizens are eligible for subsidized health care regardless of their work status via a system of health care facilities operating under the federal Secretariat of Health (formerly the Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia, or SSA) agency. 

·       As they are covered, why has the state or federal government not petitioned Mexico and other nations for reimbursement through the health care delivery plans guaranteed to their citizens?

November 2, End of the Republic?

A minority of Americans made the trip to the local voting booths on November 2, 2010. Electronic manipulation, the dead, illegal non-citizens, and candidates chosen by the Party Elites had already manipulated the votes.

Geo. Washington was right to warn us against political parties. They tend to be a cancer that eventually devours the host. Political parties are about money and power. Elections and candidates are bought and sold like penny stocks, or the coming carbon credits.

Will the Republicans live up to their name? REPUBLIC.

It is doubtful. On the eve of the election, even the Constitutional hopefuls were warning the resurgence of patriot voters and candidates NOT to be pure in their devotion to the Constitution.

In the next few weeks, we will see the beginning of the end of the Republic as the power elites, through compromise, scramble to grab all the power they can before the new Congress is seated in January. In January, little will be done to undue the damages already inflicted.

Who will the power elites choose to run in 2012?

Business, Income, Jobs Decline again

As Washington and State Capitols continue their assault on business, jobs, finance, health care, and individual liberty, people are afraid:

Facebook: Virginia Crossland-Macha KS Daycare owners: You are going to be forced out of business due to the unionization of the daycare & new regulations. Our children will be funneled into state run daycares & it will cost a fortune for taxpayers. REP OTTO..Is this what you call affordable daycare or is it you were to busy making YOU TUBE videos that you missed your committee meeting. It was your committee that wrote this bill.

ALR: “SB 3483 should be renamed the “Motor Carrier Destruction Act of 2010,” Sequoia Logistics, LLC Co-owner Theresa Benefield said Wednesday following Republican Olympia Snowe’s bill to protect rail carriers from the comparative low costs of trucking.”

William A.: "I can't find work and we have lost our home."

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The End of Liberty in KS

The top five state office holders are not elected, they are appointed. The Republican Party, infiltrated by a number of Democrats, now RINO's have led Kansas to one of the highest taxed states in the nation and have increased spending to levels that taxes cannot support.

All taxes are based upon economic activity, and liberals (Democrat and Republican)cannot seem to grasp the theory.

* Property taxes are falling because wages and ability to buy or maintain property is in a downward spiral.
* Retail taxes are falling because personal wages and jobs are in a downward spiral. Before one argues KS is not feeling the unemployment like the rest of the country, KS is. Unemployment is high, but lower than the national average, because workers are going where the jobs are. Companies are moving out of the state. People are crossing the borders to shop to save on costs. Gas is as much as 10 cents cheaper with a ten minute drive. No where do you spend 11 percent on taxes.
* With spending and taxes at their highest rates and schools failing at record levels, one third district candidate claiming to be a conservative has led the committee that has led the state down the road away from fiscal responsibility and state sovereignty toward statism and the California syndrome.

One tparty group claiming to be the "umbrella" under which the others are organized appears to be supporting the weakest candidate in an effort to assure a RINO is elected.

At best, we will have "no more moore" to chant in two years. At worst, we will have a RINO voting with the OBAMA machine continuing to claim he is a "blue dog."

Memorial Day - Lest We Forget

When I first boarded the USS Horne, DLG 30, and headed west out of San Diego during the Vietnam war, I was idealistic.

My father's ship was hit by a Kamikaze off Okinawa; my grandfather and his machine gun crew held a crucial Rhine River bridge stopping a German counter attack. My grandmother's uncles fought in the Civil War at Gettysburg and many other battles. Our family fought in the Revolution and the French and Indian War.

My wife has an uncle that never came home from Guadalcanal and her father carried shrapnel from his service there.

During my service, I boarded Russian and Chinese merchant ships, was an electronics warfare specialist on ships shadowing Russian submarines and service "intel" ships. In the 1990's, I saw service in Korea (the end of the armistice) and Kuwait (Operation Northern Watch). Since the nineties, I have seen service in Kuwait, and was disabled in the months after September 11.

In each of these deployments, people died serving their countries, to contain oppressive governments and to protect their liberties and freedoms. Service men and women were told they were sent to protect South Korea's border from North Korea; South Vietnam's border from North Vietnam; Kuwait's borders from Iraq; Kenya and Afghanistan's borders from terrorists organizations without borders. The problem in Afghanistan is drugs - opium, etc. That part of the world which has adopted an economy based on drugs and the violence of trafficking.

The idealism is still there. The ideal of protecting Liberty and Freedom are the only reason citizens should go to war, to send our men and women into harms way.

It is time to protect our border with Mexico - not from legal immigrants and Latino citizens, but from that part of the Mexico which has adopted an economy related to drugs and the violence of trafficking.

Twenty one people are murdered in the United States every day by illegal aliens from Mexico; Phoenix is the kidnap capital of the nation, but you don't care; the Kansas State Legislature does not care; the Kansas City City Council and Mayor does not care; Obama and Congress does not care. Over 3,200 US citizens have been killed in the United States this year alone by illegal alien murders bent on invading our homes, filling our streets with violent gangs, and our schools with illicit drugs from Mexico, South America, and Afghanistan.

Arizona cares - those protesting the Arizona law have not read it -for a reason. It tells law enforcement it must have probable cause, that they cannot profile. The protesters object to the parts of the law that holds the attorney general and employers accountable for hiring illegal aliens. The rancher shot and killed a few weeks ago, just miles from where I was born and spent a great deal of my childhood, was killed by a drug cartel murderer bent on revenge. The rancher had turned in an abandoned vehicle filled with drugs meant for US buyers. Eighteen other states care. Not you; not Kansas; not Kansas City.

Obama, H. Clinton, Pelosi, Feinstein, and others claim the drug cartels are armed with guns that came from the US. They are right! The State Department sold the guns to Mexico, and they sold/gave them to the drug cartels!!

You are to blame for three reasons - First, you lost your idealism. Careers, kids, grandchildren, leisure, and the "lake" replaced ideals and commitment to beliefs. Everyday in my classroom, I see kiddos who have no ideals. They see the drugs and the unrestrained gangs as the source of power and money. Idealism, is dead. Put up an American flag and your neighbors and co-workers will ridicule and torment you as naive and worse, a bigot or homophobe.

-Second, you stood by and did not walk your neighborhood and spread the word and message of liberty. "Never talk about politics or religion," we are told by those who will give up liberty and freedom for the sake of "getting along." My neighbors and family know exactly where I have served, why I have served, and my commitment to keep my oaths as a peace officer and sailor to defend and protect the Constitution. You would be surprised how many agree. I say what I mean and mean what I say. I keep my word and have little time for the Charletons that sugar-coat or say one thing and do another. Recently, I ticked off one person running for Senate, another for Congress and a perceived TParty leader. Each say one thing and do another.

-Third, we did something the Founders warned us against, we trusted those we elected and have given them too many rights and liberties, and power. They have used these non-Constitutional rights, liberties, and power to take ours.

I am guilty of all the above, until the Statist decided to take what little else I had.

We made a great income prior to September 11, then the bottom fell out when I was recalled and the company my wife worked for closed. It was two years after my injuries suffered after 9-11 allowed me to work and I returned to teaching after the financial services company eliminated my position upon my return from the Navy.

I have the honor of paying the Navy back $26,000 for injuries suffered at a check point, in order to get DAV benefits. With 22 years service, I was denied retirement benefits. Moore, Brownback, McCaskill, and Roberts each agreed on one thing - fixing this oversight was "not their area." Still it was not until Cap&Trade and Obamacare that we got involved.

We do not want sympathy or help - we are responsible for ourselves. Now we are resolved to throw out every rino and hypocrite who is not dedicated to individual liberty and the Constitution. We need to protect and defend every US citizen as an individual with individual rights - Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, and those from all of the other cultures in the world. If we protect individual rights guaranteed in the Constitution, we protect everyone.

We need to follow Arizona and protect our borders. We need to protect Kansas jobs and our citizens through low taxes and limited government. We need to give our money, time, and talents to the hand full of candidates that pass the smell test and devour those who do not. There is only one rule now - the rule of Constitutional law.

We start by remembering those who are serving, those who have served, and those who have died in the service of saving, defending, and protecting the Constitution of the United States.

Obama Administration Crosses the Line

Obama is in his worst week, if one has any sense of the rule of law and Constitutional authority. Fox News described him as a "stern" father-figure try to keep the miscreant kids together.

When he joins a foreign nation to condemn a sovereign state protecting itself from murdering illegal drug dealers from that foreign country; when that country refuses to secure its own border and calls for the US to ignore its boarder; Obama has failed to defend and protect the Constitution and the country from enemies foreign and domestic.

He has forced Obamacare against a majority; He is forcing companies to move overseas with Obamacap & Trade; He has made appointments and forced legislation in opposition to legislative rules and the Constitution's authority.

If the government refuses to recognize and obey the rule of Constitutional law, choices for Constitutional patriots are few. To save the republic, November's election must be taken seriously. Change must begin there, our economy and liberty are at stake. Vote with care.

The US Turned Upside Down

Immigration:

Schools send schools to compete in athletic events in China, but bar them from competing in Arizona;

Pelosi tells Catholic Bishops to preach Immigration from the pulpit, but the Constitution provides separation of the state from the Church;

H. Clinton says we must restrict gun ownership, but it is the guns the US government sold to Mexico that keep coming back.

Obama et al says it is about jobs, but every major legislation proposed cuts jobs and send industries overseas.

EITHER we have elected idiots, or we are the idiots by ignoring what the statists are trying to do.

Republican Hypocrites

Kansas Republicans seem to have a hard time keeping to the platform the Republican Party and reconciling the platform and stated beliefs of the party. When shifts are seen in voting patterns, three considerations should be made:

Is there a potential for a governor veto to provide cover for liberal/Rhino Republicans to cast seemingly conservative votes?
Is there a change of personal direction in terms of political career or office?
Is there really a maturation process and commitment to the rule of the Constitution and Individual Rights?

hypocrite:
hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai

Date: 13th century

1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings: Example: Rep Yoder, Republican, KS.

KS Republican Platform: Every innocent human life is sacred. Every human being, born or unborn, has an inalienable right to life which cannot be infringed. We believe life begins at conception. The Kansas Republican Party will lead our nation toward a culture that values life—the life of the elderly and sick, the life of the young, and the life of the unborn.

All unborn children, regardless of ability, have a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. Kansas Republicans, therefore, affirm our support for a Human Life Amendment to the U. S. Constitution (as stated in the Republican National Platform), and we endorse legislation to make clear the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection applies to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues for abortion and funding organizations which advocate it.

We examine one KS politician who seems typical of many Republicans who claim to be conservative, yet appear to support liberal and statist positions. All material below is from public sources.

Key Votes:
SB 389: Partial-Birth/Late-Term Abortion Law Amendments
Mah Amdt

Issues: Abortion Issues, Health Issues, Reproductive Issues
Date: 03/17/2008

Representative Yoder voted NO

Read statements Representative Yoder made in this general time period.

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt an amendment to SB 389 that would require abortion providers to provide the Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment with reports and documentation of certain procedures.

Highlights:

- Requires abortion providers to report the medical basis for their determinations of [Sec. 2(b)]:

- The gestational age of the fetus/unborn child
- The viability or inviability of the fetus/unborn child
- The diagnosis that continuing the pregnancy would jeopardize the life or long-term health of the pregnant woman

Key Votes: SB 218 Issues: Abortion Issues Date: 04/03/2009 Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Bill Passed (House) How members voted (82 - 43)

Representative Yoder voted YES

Read statements Representative Yoder made in this general time period.

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires doctors to report on the necessity of each late-term abortion and allows civil action if an abortion is believed to have been performed illegally.

NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTED BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED.

Official Synopsis:

House Sub. for SB 218 would revise current law regarding late-term abortions. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) would be required to adopt new forms as well as rules and regulations to collect certain information from physicians who perform abortions and to publish certain data annually.

In short - he was against it before he was for it. What changed? Two things: Assurance the bill would be vetoed and he would run for Congress.

Representative Kevin W. Yoder repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff.

Education

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Date	Bill Title	Vote	Outcome
02/12/2009	Budget Amendments SB 23	Y	Conference Report Adopted - House (70 - 51)
02/05/2009	Budget Amendments SB 23	Y	Bill Passed - House (74 - 48)
03/27/2008	Repealing In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants Rhoades Amnd.	Y	Amendment Rejected - House (51 - 70)
03/20/2008	Budget Revisions HB 2947	Y	Bill Passed - House (71 - 51)
03/20/2008	Capital Improvements Funding HB 2936	Y	Bill Passed - House (87 - 35)
02/29/2008	Employment Incentive for Teachers HB 2870	Y	Bill Failed - House (59 - 63)
02/28/2008	Changing School Finance Formula HB 2605	Y	Bill Failed - House (62 - 63)
02/28/2008	Teacher Scholarship Program Ward Amnd.	N	Amendment Rejected - House (50 - 71)
02/27/2008	Per Student Public School Funding McKinney Amnd. A to HB 2760	N	Amendment Rejected - House (50 - 70)
04/30/2007	Maintenance for State Colleges and Universities Sub HB 2237	Y	Conference Report Adopted - House (102 - 20)
05/09/2006	School Finance SB 549	N	Conference Report Adopted - House (66 - 54)
03/24/2006	School Finance Sub HB 2986	Y	Bill Passed - House (64 - 61)
03/21/2006	Math and Science Academy SB 139	Y	Bill Passed - House (76 - 48)
03/07/2006	In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants Amendment Amend HB 2615	N	Amendment Adopted - House (63 - 58)

2005 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Kansans for Life 80 percent in 2005.

2008 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Americans for Prosperity- Kansas Chapter (formerly The Kansas Taxpayer's Network)'s position, Representative Yoder received a rating of 83.3.

2007 Based on a point system, with points assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Americans for Prosperity- Kansas Chapter (formerly The Kansas Taxpayer's Network)'s position, Representative Yoder received a rating of 91.7.

2006 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Americans for Prosperity- Kansas Chapter (formerly The Kansas Taxpayer's Network) 30 percent in 2006.

2005 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Americans for Prosperity- Kansas Chapter (formerly The Kansas Taxpayer's Network) 56 percent in 2005.

2004 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Americans for Prosperity- Kansas Chapter (formerly The Kansas Taxpayer's Network) 15 percent in 2004.

2006 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Kansas Association of School Boards 70 percent in 2006.

2005 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Kansas Association of School Boards 80 percent in 2005.

2004 Representative Yoder supported the interests of the Kansas National Education Association 67 percent in 2004.

2007-2008 Based on a point system ranging from 0 to 10 for the House and 0 to 9 for the Senate. Points were assigned for actions in support of or in opposition to Kansas Natural Resource Council's position, Representative Yoder received a rating of 2.

2008 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2008, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund assigned Representative Yoder a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

Gun Issues
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Date	Bill Title	Vote	Outcome
04/26/2007	Concealed Firearms HB 2528	Y	Veto Override Passed - House (98 - 26)
03/21/2007	Concealed Gun Regulations HB 2528	Y	Bill Passed - House (107 - 17)
05/10/2006	Conceal and Carry HB 2118	Y	Conference Report Adopted - House (93 - 24)
03/23/2006	Concealed Weapons Permits SB 418	N	Veto Override Passed - House (91 - 33)
03/14/2006	Concealed Weapons Permits SB 418	N	Bill Passed - House (90 - 33)

2006 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all state legislative candidates in 2006, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund assigned Representative Yoder a grade of C- (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

2004 In 2004 National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund gave Representative Yoder a rating of D.

Sponsors and Co-Sponsors: Yoder
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Date	Bill Title	Type
02/08/2010	Health Care Amendment HCR 5032	Sponsor
01/09/2006	DNA Sampling in Felony Cases HB 2554	Co-sponsor

Yoder did not vote on either bill he sponsored.

Kansas - State of Crisis

With the exception of Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook and one or two others, Kansas legislators are placing the State of Kansas in a State of Crisis. Democrat liberals and statists have renamed themselves moderates (in the Dennis Moore fashion) and have joined the Republican Party.

One can look to the pulpits on Sunday to help identify the problem. "Faith and Works" is the sermon. In short, is what one believes and say say reflected in what one does? In short - are the votes cast in Topeka consistent with party affiliation and action?

Look at the Republican Platform:

2010 Republican State Platform

Preamble

The Kansas Republican Party affirms the Kansas Constitution in stating that “We the people of Kansas [are] grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges.” Since man is created in God’s image, each person’s dignity, freedom, ability, and responsibility must be honored.

- We believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age, or disability.

- We believe in free enterprise and that individual initiative has brought this nation opportunity, economic growth, and prosperity.

Yet, KS has voted the largest spending budget and tax hikes in history in the middle of an economic crisis where businesses and people are fleeing the state and unemployment and failing schools are crushing communities.

Topeka has suppressed state sovereignty by voting for it in a non-binding resolution, then adopted Obamacare. see note below. They claim to be against tax hikes then vote them in when the public is not looking.

They have taken a page from John Kerry, "I was for it before I was against it."

- We believe government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.

Republicans continue to Tax and Spend with Democrats growing government 26% in the past three years and raising taxes 18% in 2010.

- We believe the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.

Topeka legislators continually take away individual rights to perform "fluff" for special interest groups and selective interest projects.

- We believe that government at every level has grown too large and is now a threat to the very rights it was designed to protect. We call on every elected official to eliminate government programs and reduce government spending at every opportunity.

Republicans and Democrats continue to tax, spend, and grow government at an alarming rate.

Every innocent human life is sacred. Every human being, born or unborn, has an inalienable right to life which cannot be infringed. We believe life begins at conception.

Topeka continues to violate KS Law by ignoring late-term abortion laws and failing to
pass laws that force institutions to abide by existing laws. Kansas continues to allow
abortions after 22 weeks and is the leading abortion state in the US.

The Constitution Under Attack

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 on Sunday night to socialize health care in the United States, making the government the paymaster of, and giving it sweeping regulatory authority over, the U.S. health care industry which represents one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

The legislation also enacts a dramatic and unprecedented diminution in the individual liberty of citizens. It does so by mandating that all Americans buy a government-approved health care plan while redistributing wealth on a massive scale by promising annual federal insurance subsidies to all Americans who earn less than 400 percent of the poverty level, which is currently $88,200 for a family of four.

Attorney Generals from Virginia and South Carolina will both file law suits protecting the people of their States by challenging the federal government's overreaching action in passing and signing mandated health insurance on individuals.

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Claiming a statistical majority in the Senate and House allows Democrats to "make the rules as we go," the legislation ignores congressional rules and the Constitution. The health reform legislation mandates citizens to purchase and states to manage health insurance under a combination of the commerce clause and a "we can do whatever we want" attitude of Democrats.

The commerce clause does not apply because federal law prohibits and continues to prohibit buying insurance across state lines - interstate commerce.

How did we get here?

The Republican Party lacks principles and integrity!

Rhinos support Democrat policies and principles and are frequently former Democrats who "bought" the Republican label. They vote for expanded state and federal centralization of power, abortion, and vote for tax and spend policies. They are not liberals. Liberalism today means, through Democrat actions, to destroy and work around the Constitution.

Liberals are traditionally against strong federalism and place the Constitution as the benchmark to their liberalism. The Constitution was founded and is a product of "classical liberalism." Any government mandates, abortion (in the health reform legislation), purchases of commercial goods and services are not sanctioned under the Constitution.

Republicans can be liberals without violating the conservative and constitutional principles the party has developed as their platform. There are no punitive actions against Republican candidates and office holders who routinely violate the platform planks.

For decades, when in power and when out of power, Republicans have continually worked across party lines to support statist and unconstitutional spending and mandates on citizens and states. The question is, "Can Republicans be trusted to find their roots" when it comes to the Constitution, classical liberalism, and modern conservativism?

Why America’s Parents Need Greater Choice in Education

In most American communities, students are assigned to schools according to where they live. Parents of young children often take this into account when deciding
where to live: They choose places where their children can attend good schools. Consequently, families who can afford higher housing costs gravitate toward neighborhoods with higher-quality schools.

Because lower-income families can’t afford that choice, they have little power to decide where their children will go to school. They have to settle for whatever school government assigns, regardless of whether it is safe or effective. As a result, we essentially have two education systems—one for families who can afford to live near good public schools or pay for private school (after paying taxes to support public schools) and the other for families who can’t afford to choose where they live.

Slowly but surely, this is starting to change. In recent decades, more states and communities have adopted policies that let families choose the best school for their children—no matter where they live. School choice is expanding the horizons of tens of thousands of students. Soon it should be the reality for all American students.

Will the Constitution Go Quietly into the Night?

g.n.benefield, Ph.D., MS, MA

The problems with the Tea Party movement and libertarians, author included, are we are creating and are active in many splinter groups with divergent goals and visions and efforts. We must look back to see forward. We are dissatisfied with both political parities while the prospects of creating a third party will work into the hands of the statists forcing an all powerful centralized statistist federal government. Washington and De Tocqueville led the way for today’s struggle by warning us, like in Scrooge, by warning us about the sins of our ways.

The movement must unite in defense of the Constitution. Groups like RagingElephants, the Hope for America Coalition, American Majority, Red State, and Political Chips are linked in this unity. Each advocates, supports, and educates the movement in the tactics to retake school boards, city councils, state legislatures, and Congress. We will win by politically taking back the diverse local and state power a centralized government has taken from us.

The diverse rights protected in the Constitution have been successfully taken away from corporations, from individuals, and the states. The taking of these rights do not to serve local and state powers or a more democratic base, but to empower the federal government and the executive branch as the sovereign. Almost all charitable establishments have more or less fallen into the hands of the central government. The federal government has exclusively taken the role of giving bread and shelter to the hungry, aid and refuge to the ill, and has made itself the reliever of all miseries of citizens and non-citizens.

Reflection upon the causes that are undermining our Republic, it occurs as matter of serious concern the role of parties and their manipulations by geographical and population discrimination: Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.

“One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburning which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”

“Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts…” President George Washington expressed that Liberty is the binding thread of the Republic. His remarks were in the Farewell Address of 1796. Washington defined the role of government, “The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.”
The Republic was not made for majority rule. The system of checks and balances was to protect and defend the Constitution and its limitations on centralization of power in the federal government and the executive branch and the tyranny of the majority. Citizen sovereignty is the foundation of power. State’s were given the most power of any government entity by retaining powers not specifically given to the federal branches of government.

Education has clearly become a national concern with children being taken from the parent choice of schools, control of funding and education quality. The federal government has undertaken political action to consolidate all schools, public and private through No Child Left Behind and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that did not provide adequate funding to states while establishing impossible outcome standards. In 2010 the testing standards require 87% of students pass state math and reading standards at 85%. In the near future, the requirement will be 100%. General education and special education students are measured by the same assessment in most cases. Only 3% of special education students are allowed to take the alternate assessment. Schools now teach benchmarks, facts that are identified to be in the required state assessments mandated by the federal government.

Are all democratic peoples instinctively drawn toward centralization? Examination of democracy in Europe would suggest centralization is the destiny of democracy, though the citizens have not lost all independence. The trend toward centralization in Europe and Canada may be explained from their history of having never known freedom, or that it has not known freedom for a long time. It was in this environment that equality and liberty has been attracted to the flame of old habits, traditions, and doctrines of centralization.

The early English settlers discovered a society rooted in democracy and liberty in their New World settlements. They had the structure of justice, the jury. They had new freedoms – freedom of speech, of press, and individual freedom. These settlers secured their independence and built free institutions and sustained their liberty through many internal and external trials.

For the United States of America, freedom is old. Equality is relatively new. As Christmas Eve departed and the New Year entered with 2010, the Democrat peoples government has presented the Republic the form of one lone central power – the federal government. Checks and balances provided in the Constitution have fallen to a one party system. The two party system has failed in two respects.

The party of the Republic, the GOP was drawn to the flame of centralization, leaving the courtyard of liberty through the illusionary gate of equality. In the contemporary definition of equality, certain groups of people are selected to have protected status and additional rights in the name of equality. Equality is no longer of opportunity, but of outcomes. The protected classes and outcomes are defined and administered by the central government with the support of nearly one-third of the GOP (rhinos).

How did this turn from liberty and the spirit of independence change course so radically? This change is not result of natural evolution of democracy, but through the institutions and manner in which equality is defined and administered.
The revolution was founded in a struggle against aristocracy. To prevail, a central government was established to repulse the aristocracy and to protect the new confederation of colonies. First articles, then the Constitution, government centralization, weak as it seems in present light, was strong enough to protect the country for forces without, but not the sense of liberty within. Following the Civil War, the centralization of federal government was further increased.

As the aristocracy before it, the centralized Democrat government has developed its own aristocracy that dreads the petty tyranny (independence) of the people. The Constitution establishes sovereignty in the people, a situation that threatens the Democrat aristocracy as much as liberty threatened the British aristocracy in the 1700’s.

In what was perceived a classless society is now a system of classes. The Democrat peoples party, in the name of the people, established a permanent poverty class – the result of a declared war on poverty. They have established a near permanent ruling aristocracy of the rich – the result of a selection and tax system that prohibits the poor and the middle class from reaching the aristocracy.

The Democrat peoples party seeks to govern the people as a whole, not individuals with individual rights. Their centralized government systematically forces a one size fits all solution for any problem to protect the aristocracy. The “cars for clunkers” rewarded some and punished others. The executive order establishing Cap&Trade (Oct. 5, 2009) rewards the aristocracy (Al Gore, his cronies, and government), health insurance reform rewards the power of centralization while keeping the independence of citizens controlled by treating them as a whole.
The aristocracy of family and wealth ensures their continued dominance with a collaborated strategy. The wealthy helps the chosen who share the commitment to the aristocracy, the class system, and the commitment to a centralized government. The Democrat peoples party has through their system of patronage. The courts through a strict set of self perpetuating legal procedures protect the lawyers and the courts from oversight by the centralized government or the sovereignty of the citizens through the Constitution.

The Federal Reserve can trace its aristocracy to the ancient rich families of New England and England, even in contemporary times. The political party system dissuades usurpers like Sarah Palin from ascendency. She had committed no crime against the centralized aristocracy except professing independence and being from a modest, non-wealthy class. She was a threat to the aristocracy – the Democrat peoples party and the rhinos of the GOP.

George Washington advised us, “I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that, in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.”

intent of President Washington was that the aristocracy of democracy was liberty, not a class of people. The Constitution was sacred, founded in God by Christians and Jews. The Constitution was seen as written and adopted as sacred, behind Scripture and the Ten Commandments.

For those of us in the Tea Party movement, the” love of liberty” is present within “every ligament of our hearts as Washington said. We treasure unity to the Constitution and its limited powers as a main pillar of our real independence, the support (not to provide) of our tranquility at home, our peace abroad; of our safety; of our prosperity; and our liberty which we so highly prize.”

For we the people to be independent, our states must first be independent. As we patriots enter the political fight of 2010 as libertarian protectors of the Constitution, against the self-made class of aristocrats using democracy as the tool to be the usurpers of the Constitution’s power; we have to be clear – it is a battle of politics. The Republican and Democrat aristocracy is the enemy of liberty and libertarians in both parties. In Russian revolutionary terms, it is we, the non-political classes, the proletariat within each party that need to stand up against the oppressors. We the people in both parties must unite and revolt with our votes.

This is a political battle against impossible odds, much as the 300 Spartans who led the battle against tyranny and to give Athens and other Greek cities time to save their liberty. We need to capture 79 congressional districts from a nation where 19 cities elect a majority of Congressmen.

We need to first take back the party system. We need to take back the precinct party offices, local government and school boards. In place of a third party, displaced Republicans need to take back the party. JFK Democrats need to take back their party. We do not wish to replace one fascist party with another, but re-frame the debate over democracy back into the constraints of our founding document.

As Republicans, we need to take back 40 senate seats. There are only 8 seats to be gained, with a possibility of 20. Anything short of a 40 seat win is less than a victory in an off year election. Numerically, the senate seats offer the best opportunity, however, only 17 are up for election and only 8 are really attainable. We will win only when city, suburb, and rural voters unite under the Constitution and its conservative principles – independence and liberty.

As we make gains, there will be violence from the statists, as in Germany, England, France, and Russia. The think tank for the Obama, Pelosi, Reid counter-revolution against the Constitution and the attack on liberty is Harvard, Yale, and Princeton universities. In August, the Trilliteral group, a printing concern of these universities published and distributed The Coming Insurrection. The book calls for anarchists and leftists to rebel against the country, its institutions, and its people, the unprotected groups. The book led the insurrections of several years ago in France. If one watches carefully, this form of terrorism is beginning to be reported.

A second source of violence is from the president’s right arm, the union “thugs” that have physically beaten Tea Party patriots and created false images and blamed property and physical violence on the Tea Party movement, later found to be false. There has not been one act of violence by anyone in the movement.

There will be a time when the statists, those committed to the undoing of the Constitution, will witness they are losing and they will respond as members in Congress and the Administration have already threatened, “With any possible means.”
To avoid this violence, we need to remove the image of a people in rebellion against the central government. We need to take back local government and state government. We need to throw off the reins of federal mandates and funding that usurp state sovereignty. States like Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Wyoming, Utah, and others become politically self-sufficient and reject all federal monies. Federal projects within states should come with no reigns or conditions. States need fund their own budgets within their means.

France has had a number of constitutions since the revolution. The US is the longest standing democracy. The goal of Obama and the statists is clear now – fundamental change away from the Constitution. We must take him at his word, not like Rush and O’Reilly. Rush has gone on and on about the hypocrisy of Obama. Obama is only hypocritical if he is not usurping the powers restrained under the Constitution. When he says he will force Cap&Trade and Climate Change policies on the US, he did just that without legislative action or treaty or with the consent of the governed. He did it by executive order on October 5. When he says he may not run in 2012, I believe him. I believe he will try to change the system by then.

The thought everyone is having – in the Congress, the administration, and all sides aware of the nature and scope of this political battle is, when liberty is defeated, will the libertarians and Constitutionalists go quietly into the night? How long will the oath keepers remain neutral? Will the oath keepers go quietly in to the night?

Can Republicans Comeback?

Horizons Lost – The Republic Ends

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founders of the Republic said: “We have given you a Republic. It remains to be seen if you will be able to retain it.” What was he talking about? Why is a reversal of the 2008 election unlikely, and irreversible?

In this Republic, the supreme power is held by the people and is given to their elected representatives and president. This Republic provides a society with equality between its members. Within the Constitutional Republic, elected representatives should be of equal status with those electing the individual, but they are not. Alexis De Tocqueville warned of an aristocracy within democracy, which is what has occurred over the past century.

The Democrat Party has given up on the ideals and principles that brought John F. Kennedy. The Republicans have given up on the ideals and principles that brought Ronald Reagan. Both preserved sovereignty. Both kept their oaths to the Constitution. Republicans and Democrats have left principle and ideals for pragmatics, a philosophy where liberty, sovereignty, and socialism looks the same – a constitutional hurdle of negative rights. Obama's lack of principle and devotion to the pragmatics of the ends justify the means led him to take on redistributive justice, by saying the Constitution is a document of negative rights is not one of them. (see video below)

Equality is no longer an individual right. Equality is now a system where some are more equal than others. The evolution of equality began with the concept of a central bank (the Federal Reserve Bank) and its evolution through a system of family and heir aristocracy. Others became more equal with the creation of a progressive income tax system that rewards the slothful as well as the needy and disabled. Still others are more equal when it comes to victims of hate crimes. Political speech and candidacy have evolved from the simple postings of Common Sense to a point where only the rich, the more equal, and connected can run for office. The system is devised so only the rich or well connected remain elected. Federal and state representatives no longer need funding from constituents; campaign donations come from special interests, as do the draft policies they represent.

What was a limited state and federal system under the Constitution’s Republic is now totalitarian control over the individual. The totalitarian state controls the minds of its subject through “benchmarking” education practices to replace the teaching of principle. The totalitarian state controls business, finance, the means of production (that which has not been forced to leave the country through punitive taxes and regulation). A Republic founded in Christian and Jewish teachings, both are systematically being outlawed.

Equality is no longer a term for equal opportunity, but a mantra for holding some groups more equal than others in a socialist, or Marxist application of “each according to their needs.” Health reform does not give coverage, but takes political power and responsibility. The concept of an Liberty Republic has lost its horizons, horizons lost. The Republic no longer looks east to the past and the Revolution; the precepts are corrupted and lost. The Republic can no longer protect the rights of the individual. There is no place in the future for the individual or individual liberty. It was not decreed by the God, nor was it demanded by the citizens. It was imposed on Saturday night meetings and deals cut in back rooms.

The Obama regime has declared the ends justify the means as the threat and the use of force is used to quiet descent and gain votes. In 2010, there will be a valiant attempt by Tea Party Patriots and Republic Loyalists to regain a sense of Constitutional direction. The personal life is dead in America, the neo-revolution of the statists have killed it.

The Republicans need 60 votes in the senate, a swing of 20 senators; this is an unattainable number with only 17 Democrat seats up for election. Only eight seats are considered close enough for Republicans to win. This results in 48 republican seats and 50 Democrat seats. The Republicans can begin to block super majority votes, but with the rhinos, little chance to stop or undo the statist agenda of the totalitarian policies of the federal government. In the House of Representatives, Republicans need 40 additional seats. As it stands now, Republicans may win eight additional seats, if the Kansas 3rd District is included.

In short, a reversal of the 2008 election is at best unlikely, and most likely irreversible. Some will cling to the hope some gains will be made in 2010 and the counter-statist revolution will be won in 2012, but this is not likely. The president has learned he can rule by decree without judicial or legislative checks and balances guaranteed by the Constitution which are ignored. Executive Order 13514 of October 5, 2009 put “Cap&Trade” into effect. EPA regulations will come forward after the first of the year mandating Cap&Trade without one vote being cast, for or against.

The Republican Party has lost its devotion to the meaning of its name – Republic and its purpose – Liberty. The GOP is pragmatic and infiltrated with statists nicknamed “rhinos.” It has pragmatically chosen to fight over abortion, but not seriously, in place of fighting for the Constitution and all of the Bill of Rights.

The elections of 2010 and 2012 will bring challenges for the tyranny of the totalitarian federal state. True liberals will resent the reemergence of autocratic authority and regret the false pretenses that led them to support federal totalitarian policies. Anti-war leftists will resent the continuing war and continuing spikes of sending troops into Afghanistan and other countries to fight what will be seen as “colonial” wars. In Copenhagen, leftist radicals violently protested Obama and the industrialized nations at a time when Obama was trying appear to give them everything they wanted. In fact, he intended to give them nothing. He, Al Gore, and his cronies will make billions off of this money scheme that will not save the planet from global climate warming. Every American has the opportunity for medical coverage today! Disabled qualify under Medicare. Those who do not have care plans choose not to have them. Prior conditions and state lines, both manufactured by legislation intervention can be best repaired by legislators backing off. After all, they have ignored the problems for decades. Like global warming, government health reform is a means to an end. At what cost will the left give up their ideals?

Liberals will not be the only group resentful of the 2010 and 2012 elections. Conservatives, those who took their oaths to the Constitution, Tea Party Patriots, and libertarians will resent the reemergence of autocratic authority and will resent the false pretenses that allowed a minority to gain control of the Republic and replace the Constitution. The statists do not need to decree the Constitution unconstitutional; they already have by ignoring it through legislative and executive directives and mandates. The question becomes, at what cost will the Republic’s patriots give up their ideals? For the Republic to survive, all elected officials need to reaffirm their oath to defend and protect the Constitution and place it be for all others except God.

Is the US Lost?

Until the rich join the Patriot Rebel cause, we are lost. It was the rich that galvanized the American Revolution. Unless the Tea Party Patriots find focus in the Patriot Rebel cause, we are lost. The cancer is too deep and infected into too many vital organs. The president is correct in one case only, we do need fundamental change. We need radical surgery. Political correctness needs to be replaced with truth; facts with their intended and unintended consequences over opinion. Anti-Constitution and anti-capitalism forces need to be dismantled as Unconstitutional. “If we do nothing, peaceful reconciliation will fail, as appeasement has throughout history as a means to peaceful resolution.” (A. Lincoln) Resolution and Revolution are closely associated.


How is the United States lost? At some point, the leftists will realize the political spectrum has four corners. One, the left is liberal; the right is conservative. The top corner is libertarian (not party but philosophy); it is socially liberal and economic conservative. At the bottom is Statism, the new caste system. It controls society and economy. The Coming Insurrection will begin with the Leftists. The rich will pander to power, as did Philadelphia during the revolution and today. The right will respond. States will move from calling for state rights to dissolution from the Union. Texas, Alaska, and Montana may lead this movement decide to decline all federal monies to neuter federal laws regarding the commerce clause. Without the Elizabeth Dole and commerce “strings,” states will be free of federal control, at least temporarily. Secession attempts will follow.