ACTION ALERT: North Central Florida 9.12 Project

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Florida Legislation - We need to Act!

The Florida Legislature is in session and many bills are either working their way through committees are already on the floors of the House and Senate. I am going to give a brief overview of some of the important bills and the action steps you can take. To receive alerts from the Tea Party Network, go to: http://theteapartynetwork.org/ and sign up on the right hand side of the home page. To keep up with what John Hallman is doing in Tallahassee, go to: www.johnhallman.org You can sign up for his newsletters on that site as well. To follow the bills in Tallahassee go to either: www.flsenate.gov or www.myfloridahouse.gov and type the bill number in. It is very important that they hear from us during the next month!

SB 92 - "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act" - Please go to: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e172e9269c2454cc2eb40064c&id=ea7ad75555&e=963fc4a42d and read what is said about this bill. Phone calls need to be made early tomorrow morning (4-4). ASK THEM TO REMOVE LINES 35 - 37 BEFORE VOTING FOR THIS BILL!

SB 584 - "Purchase of Land by a Government Entity" This is a bill designed to limit the Agenda 21 land grabs in the state of Florida. Please go to: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e172e9269c2454cc2eb40064c&id=2e2216542b&e=963fc4a42d to read the information that Dan Peterson , property rights watch dog, has sent out. This bill was scheduled to be heard in the Environmental Protection & Conservation Committee last Tuesday, but it was postponed. Follow the action steps and keep up with where this bill is.

SB 878 - "Education Accountability" COMMON CORE! Please go to: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e172e9269c2454cc2eb40064c&id=05b9787d96&e=963fc4a42d to read more about the status of this bill. Please do some research on the Common Core Curriculum; inform parents, teachers and anyone else you know who may have an interest n the Education of our children!

There are many other bills being considered in Tallahassee. Email me (shiggins@windstream.net) with any updates you have so that I can inform the members. Working together we can make the changes that are needed!

Federal Legislation - Things to Do!

Most of us have Ted Yoho as our U.S. Representative. He has been very receptive to listening to his constituents and he needs to hear from us. Go to: https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=100175&c=FL03TY and read his most recent newsletter. It gives the locations of his upcoming Town Hall meetings. Sign up to receive this newsletter so that you can stay in touch with him.

Ask Representative Yoho to Support H.R. 75 to Get US out! of the UN! This year Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) reintroduced the
bill that Ron Paul had introduced many times under
the number H.R. 1146. This time its number is H.R.
75. Help keep America independent. Contact your
representative and ask him or her to cosponsor H.R.
75. Ask your senators to introduce a companion bill in
the Senate.

Ask him to Oppose the TPP and TTIP Trade Pacts
President Obama is hoping to conclude negotiations
by the end of 2013 on a new trade deal with 10 other
Pacific Rim countries known as the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP). He has also launched negotiations
on a trade pact with the EU known as the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Contact your
senators and representative in opposition to these free
trade deals on the basis that political integration follows
economic integration. We have witnessed how the
economic integration brought about by the European
free trade agreement between sovereign European
nations has led to the political integration of these
same once sovereign nations into the European Union.
We need to keep America independent by rejecting
the TPP and TTIP. See also “Moving Toward World
Government Via Free Trade Plans”

Ask him to Support Audit the Fed Act of 2013
Back in 2012 one of Ron Paul’s signature bills, “Audit
the Fed,” passed overwhelmingly in the House by a
vote of 327-98, but was never brought to a vote in the
Senate. Since Ron Paul has retired from Congress,
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) has reintroduced
Paul’s Audit the Fed bill as H.R. 33, Audit the Fed
Act of 2013. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) cosponsored
the bill. Last year’s partial audit of the Fed by the
GAO revealed many disturbing loan activities of the
Fed involving trillions of dollars that would surely
justify the full audit that would be authorized by H.R.
33. Contact your representative and ask him or her to
cosponsor H.R. 33. Ask your senators to introduce a
companion bill in the Senate.

Thanks to the John Birch Society for this information. They are working tirelessly to "restore less government, more personal responsibility, and with God's help, a better world" For more information on these issues and many others, go to www.jbs.org, click on Issues and you will find great updates and action items.

April 11th Meeting Features Paul Henry

Paul Henry will be our guest speaker at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 11th at the Taylor Building located at 128 SW Birley Ave. in Lake City. Paul has been lobbying tireless in Tallahasse regarding the issues that threaten our liberty. He recently formed Paul Henry & Associates and this is what he says about the new business: Paul Henry & Associates was launched to fill the need for liberty lobbying that has existed in Florida's Capitol for many years. We've seen law after law passed that directly or indirectly impacts our freedom and liberty. Paul will be bringing up up-to-date information on the legislation in Tallahassee and explaining his lobbying efforts and what it takes for him and John Hallman to do what they do in Tallahassee to help keep us updated on all that is going on. If you have a certain issue or Bill that you would like Paul to address, please email me (shiggins@windstream.net) and I will ask Paul if he can address it. We will have copies of the American Patriot Newspaper, tickets for our gun raffle, an update on the County Commissions, and other information that will help you keep up with what is going on. Please make an effort to attend this meeting. Invite your family and friends. We need more and more people to get involved to help us make a difference in our country!

American Patriot Newspaper

We are printing and distributing the American Patriot Newspaper bi-monthly. Thanks to everyone who is helping with the printing and distributing of the newspaper. We will have a list of the places we are able to put them in an upcoming newsletter. A special thanks to Pam H. for doing the "local insert"; if you have any articles you would like to see in the local section, please let me know and I will pass it on to her. Right now we have locations in Lake City, Live Oak, and Branford. We are always on the lookout for new places to put them, please let me know if you know of any places or if you can help with this endeavor! We will have copies of the papers at our meetings. Bob Root is doing a super job of finding great articles for the national and state sections. They have started a website: http://www.americanpatriotnews.us/ It is in the works so check back often. Right now you can read back issues of the paper at www.agenda21today.com; click on American Patriot News and scroll down!

Smith & Wesson Gun Raffle

Ticket sales for our big fundraiser are going great. If you can get a book (or more) of the tickets to sell, pick them up at the meeting, or call Sharon 386-935-0821 and I will get some to you. Many thanks to the people who helped out at the gun show last Saturday. Jewel, John L., Ed H., Ed and Judy F. They sold 70 + tickets that day! (we understand that Judy was a super-salesperson!) If you know of other places that we can sell tickets, please let us know. Our group has many projects in the works and all take time and money!! We really appreciate the donations that are given at our monthly meetings. This money is going to pay the rent for the building, pay for the newspaper supplies and all of our other activities.

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What is the North Central Florida Tea Party?

The North Central Florida Tea Party is a group of citizens who are concerned about where our nation is heading. We are a grassroots, nonpartisan group opposed to wasteful deficit spending and infringement of our natural rights. We do have a well-defined and uniform slate of principles on which we center our advocacy and support for political candidates. These principles include, first and foremost, advocating for Essential Liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free-enterprise, national defense, and traditional American values. Our goals are to educate ourselves on the issues facing us today, act on what we learn, and motivate other like-minded people to become involved. Find a way to become part of the solution instead of just complaining about the problems! For more information go to: NCF Tea Party; check the website out for information about our group, information on the issues, and contact information. Visit the blog - read the articles and leave your comments. We need your input to make our website a better place to visit! Click below on "Become a Friend" to receive Facebook updates. If you find something in this newsletter that you think should be shared, please pass it on to your friends and relatives. Invite someone to come to the meeting with you! Working together we can bring this country back to its Constitutional roots.

Thomas Jefferson said....

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

*Don't you wish he was around today?