Banning guns and the Second Amendment is supporting criminal activity

"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding." - Jeff Snyder

Senator Ted Cruz not only Swept the floor on the Gun Control Hearings..he took out the trash

Wow!  Wow!  Wow! These hearings define some of the “ignorance” of some of those who support “gun control” in an effort of the Liberal “know-it-all” who really know little about weapons but wish to destroy our Second Amendment. - OscarY. Harward

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wi6gZU01yF8

‘Gang of Eight’ US Senators pursuing ‘freedoms for criminals’

By Oscar Y. Harward 

Do Capitol Hill legislators and/or the main-stream Medias have any respect for over 600,000 American men and women who have given their lives in the Military and/or the millions who have served in defending our Constitution, our American Flag,  and our freedoms?  Someway, we must stop President Obama and Capitol Hill legislators from granting ‘freedoms to criminals’. 

Now, President Obama, and the US Senate ‘Gang of Eight’ are attempting ‘freedoms for criminals’, including Sen. Robert Menendez who employed Luis Zavaleta in his Senate office; an ‘illegal immigrant’ and a registered sex offender.  The Miami Herald  reports “FBI agents late Tuesday night raided the West Palm Beach business of eye doctor Salomon Melgen, left, suspected of providing free trips and even underage Dominican prostitutes to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. — who has denied what he calls the “fallacious allegations.””  Homeland Security instructed federal agents not to arrest Zavaleta until after Election Day. 

Sen. Menendez is not being forced out or openly implied by his fellow Senate colleagues that he must resign from his US Senate office or even any Senate  Democrat Party Committee. 

The ‘Gang of Eight’ consists of Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).  They are joined by Republicans Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ). 

Anytime Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Robert Menendez, and/or Sen. Dick Durbin are leading legislation(s), it ‘ain’t’ good for Republicans.  Their voting records will sustain this accusation.  What and why are Republicans so intense in support of the Democrat Party Platform and a disgrace to all Americans who have served and/or died to defend our Constitution, our American Flag,  and our freedoms?  Instead, support the Republican Party Platform on ‘immigration’, and nothing less. 

Illegal immigrants are invaders of the USA as they purchase and/or steal an American identity; Social Security number, Driver’s License, etc., and often survive off the government for subsidized housing, food, education, healthcare, etc.; all at American taxpayers’ expense.  The USA currently has some 11 million to 12 million Latino ‘illegal immigrants’.  Some suggest another 11 million ‘illegals’ from the Middle East and North Africa, a breeding ground for ‘terrorists’. 

Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-AL) says, “A large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the national debt over time, accelerate Medicare’s and Social Security’s slide into insolvency, and put enormous strain on our public assistance programs.” 

President Obama and every Capitol Hill legislator should be asked, “Who, when, and how is our increasing ‘National Debt’ to be paid; currently approaching $16.5 trillion of debt?  Are you willing to force (y)our child(ren), (y)our grandchild(ren), and further generations to be hopelessly burdened with your created debt?” 

Without a ‘stoppage’ and ‘reduction’ of our rocketing National Debt and a newer form with higher cost on ‘immigration’, President Obama and every Capitol Hill legislators are driving our policies achieving in the direction of retaining bank robbers and employing these corrupt individuals as police officers and/or bankers. 

Enforce current ‘immigration’ laws first.  Law-abiding Americans welcome ‘legal immigration’.  Criminal Americans support ‘illegal immigration’. 

Do not be hoodwinked allowing Liberal Democrats and RINO Republicans to grant ‘freedoms for criminals’ or other Constitutional freedoms to repetitive offenders.  Do not believe it when main-stream Medias tell you that ‘legal immigration’ is broken.  It is not!  It has been legal, fair and equal, honorable, and successful for more than 200 years.  Many elected and/or appointed officials are, themselves, violating our Constitution, US Code, and our enclosed ‘Immigration Laws”. 

If ‘illegal immigrants’ love America’s freedoms so much, they will seek to obey the laws of the USA that have been so privileged by many for more than 200 years.  Legal Americans deserve our jobs and our freedoms. 

Do not permit President Obama and Capitol Hill legislators to provide ‘freedoms for criminals’.

Boehner, McConnell, and RINO Republicans; ‘NO MORE’ to illegal immigration or spending.

By Oscar Y, Harward 

The USA is in a recession and/or a depression.  Many Americans are searching for jobs in the ‘private sector’, yet Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and many Republicans In Name Only (RINO) are coordinating with Capitol Hill Democrats to scrap a near perfect ‘legal Immigration’ system; new legislation to open more ‘illegal immigrants’ to take more of our American jobs while these same ‘illegal immigrants’ are increasing American taxpayers’ more cost for their education, food assistance, healthcare, housing, etc. 

Speaker John Boehner, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and Republicans should be focusing on requiring the lawless elected and appointed government officials to obey the Constitution, our US Code, and our ‘legal immigration’ laws; not ignoring and/or disobeying our laws.  For now, these GOP leaders are following and granting more ‘lawlessness’, rather than leading Americans under our Constitution and US Code. 

Please explain to me and many others.  What is wrong in requiring ‘illegal immigrants’ to follow our ‘immigration’ laws that have worked very well for more than  200 years; and to stop ‘illegal immigrants’ from stealing and/or purchasing a fraudulent Social Security and/or Driver’s License, etc., prior to and/or after their arrival? 

Furthermore, how are Boehner, McConnell, his RINO Republicans, and his Liberal Democrats going to prevent more ‘terror’ from being approved to relocate and live in our neighborhoods? 

Back on the economic issue, under the Obama administration’s ‘political policies’, our economy may get even worse with increasing unemployment and more snowballing inflation;  however, Obama can always blame it on G.W. Bush and the main-stream Medias will follow. 

Speaker John Boehner, Sen. Mitch McConnell, his RINO Republicans, and his Liberal Democrats continue to spend as if America has ‘unlimited Federal funds’.  Boehner, McConnell, and his RINO Republicans continue to negotiate away more of taxpayers’ Federal money and our Constitutional freedoms.  They say one thing, only to continue to negotiate and spend (y)our taxpayers’ money on a ‘credit card’ leaving more and more debt to our children, their children, etc. 

Conservative Republicans all across America are becoming more disgusted with the Senate and Congressional Party leadership.  The GOP leadership of today is joining Democrat Party’s policies by duplicating their Liberal political policies in more recent years. 

It is time to say ‘NO MORE” to Liberalism.  Quit negotiating with Liberal Democrats as if you are defenseless and indecisive children.  Save our nation!  Americans are waiting!

Gun Control for Dummies - It's Common Sense

Learn more of defending the “Second Amendment” to protect all other Constitutional Amendments. - Oscar Y. Harward

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F584p5kJL-U&feature=youtu.be

Second Amendment’s intent was and is to protect Americans from a mutinous government

By Oscar Y. Harward 

The radical ‘left’ in politics and the ‘mean-stream’ Medias are manipulating Americans on proposed changes in laws to outlaw our rifles, shotguns, pistols, and its’ accessories.  Their ill-promoted campaigns are to deceive Americans that all hunters, sportsmen/sportswomen, and/or others will not be affected by their legislation; but only to eliminate victims of all guns. 

Our Founding Fathers were well aware most men were hunters who went out to kill wildlife in providing meat to feed themselves and their families.  Hunting for food with guns was no concern for creating the Second Amendment. 

Read the US History http://cap-n-ball.com/fathers.htm! The primary purpose of the Second Amendment was and is to make sure Americans were never to be denied adequate weapons to compete in a battle against a ‘mutinous government’. 

Who should or would want to own a weapon with a magazine that holds 40 cartridges?  Anyone who wishes to protect himself/herself, his/her family, our Constitutional freedoms, and wishes to maintain whatever is necessary for these protection(s), and/or when any of us foresee the potential(s) who may decide to overrule our Constitutional freedoms and when mutinous government official(s) have weapons with a magazine that holds 40 cartridges.  This is when you and I must demand that we, too, be allowed to compete in the battle with weapons against any individual(s), group(s), government(s), etc. for the protection of our lives, our families, and our Constitutional freedoms. 

Look around. Talk to your family, friends, and neighbors.  Many are now in fear of a potential mutinous government right here.  Many elected and appointed officials are ignorant, ignoring, and/or disobeying our Constitution, US Code, and many other laws as they choose; without even being investigated, arrested, and/or prosecuted. 

Do not be misled by the ‘left’ in politics and/or by the ‘main-stream’ Medias.  Become more educated by our Founding Fathers. http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndfqu.html 

We must keep and protect our Second Amendment.  It was and is intended to protect Americans from a mutinous government. 

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL!  The Second Amendment’s intent was and is to protect Americans from a ‘mutinous government’, not just allowing sportspersons to hunt for wildlife.

Thank you, Sen. Berger for your leadership

By Oscar Y. Harward 

N.C. Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger doesn’t need me in defense of erroneous charges; however, may I offer my observation? 

Sen. Phil Berger, a majority of the GOP majority NC General Assembly does support Voter ID, a process to stop and/or prevent Voter fraud. 

Voter fraud is a problem as each counterfeit vote actually diminishes every voter’s rights, and voter fraud does not characterize the skin color of the fraudulent voter(s).     Free and open voting elections are one of the most precious freedoms under our Constitution.  Voter fraud is a Constitutional violation of one of our freedoms; an open election by qualified voters to have their votes entirely counted.  Based on political polls in NC, upwards of 70% to 80% of our citizens support Voter ID legislation. 

All education in NC is one of the most important activities, be it be public, private, church, charter, home, or otherwise.  Collecting National Education Association’s (NEA) Labor Unions dues is not and should not be any responsibility of NC Government. 

Public Education results have been declining for years all across the USA.  For many years, the USA ruled the world in education our children.  Not so any more.  Labor Unions in education are and have continued to downgrade our public education in our children.  With 56 nations tested, the USA finished number 30.  Based on the National Center for Education Statistics, and with 8th graders with MA having the highest score of 299, DC having the lowest score of 260, NC finished in 22^nd place scoring 286. 

Sen. Berger and almost all others believe teachers’ pay must be associated on evaluations  with educational results; not just on tenure. 

NC is blessed with Right-to Work laws which allow workers to join a Labor Union if they choose, but does not require Labor Union membership to any.  Labor Unions have demanded more wages, salaries, and benefits in the private sector that have required many businesses to relocate or close. 

In NC, everyone in need of healthcare is allowed to receive help as necessary in the private sector or the public sector.  As a patient with failing health, NC and the USA have the best healthcare system in the entire world. 

Again, Thank you Sen. Phil Berger for your leadership.

Open Letter to the President Barack Obama

http://tlinexile.blogspot.com/2013/01/open-letter-to-president-barack-obama.html 

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Mr. President

Today, there are families who question the direction of the nation. There are fathers and mothers trying to figure out how to pay the bills, to put children through college, to just get by everyday when wages have been depressed by overwhelming unemployment. I know it is at 7.8%, but that doesn't tell the whole story. Your economists understand what I am saying.

We are a nation saddled with many bills and deficits that are not realistically ever going to be repaid. For example, the treasury receives around 2.3 trillion dollars in revenue every year, but spends nearly 5 trillion, or 5,000 billion dollars. There are concerns that to continue to operate the federal government, social security, medicare, medicaid, etc., the government is going to have to devalue the dollar. QE 1&2 didn't do it. The Stimulus package went largely to government entities as grants and such. This is not a criticism, but it is a fact. That money did not filter down to small business.

I believe that at some point the government is going to have to crash the dollar to pay off some of the bonds already held in order to borrow more money to pay the bills. This is not radical, I think it is something you already know is necessary. I think you proved that by excercising Quantitative Easing 1& 2. It will be an accounting correction to you and the federal government, but it will destroy the lives of millions of Americans. I will cede that the damage was not done by you alone, far from it, but it will fall to you to make that fateful decision.

Under your predecessor, George W. Bush, at a time of national crisis, we ceded some of our rights to the federal government believing that the only way to keep terrorists from attacking our homeland was to give a little when it came to privacy. But, even though it was Bush who got us into it, you have done nothing to restore liberty now that Al Qaeda, in your words is "on the run." When will these temporary violations of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments going to be restored and what is your plan to restore them and in what degrees?

It might have gone unnoticed in the pomp and circumstance of inauguration that there is an oath tied to the admitting of one to office. It asks if the office holder is willing to affirm that they will abide by the Constitution, to "protect and defend the Constititution against all enemies foreign and domestic" without coercion or intent to deceive. With everything aside, I mean the fact that so many voted for you; that popularity and media adoration are a given to someone of your background who has attained such high office and the support of African Americans, who are hungry for representation; that Hollywood is in your corner; that labor unions and a lot of people who have not found their place in American society as you have done look to you for inspiration; given all of that, are you willing to swear on your honor that you will protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic without coercion or deception? I ask this, because you have not done so in the first four years of your presidency.

Despite what you have been taught and what the legacies of other administrations have been shown, the Constitution is not a document to be further defined. Even in legal language terms such as "shall not be infringed" and "Congress shall make no law" are pretty definitive, even if they are legalistically worked around. For citizens like me, the words of the Constitution are all they need, they don't need legal scholars to explain "shall not" or "make no law."

Which brings us to the point. I am a Second Amendment advocate, I make no apologies for that, but I am also a First Amendment advocate and down the line. I believe that the Bill of Rights were that, a bill from the government to the people of certain rights, not privileges, not exceptions, not waivers, hard and fast rights, inalienable to us all on birth in the United States of America. So, when I say I am a Second Amendment advocate, I don't hold that right any greater than any other, except to say that it is the last refuge to maintain other rights that may have already been alienated by clever lawyers and Supreme Court Justices.

On this issue let me be blunt: after the many abuses of our rights through the decades, not just your administration, but others even more egregious, we have come to a point where we have had enough. We have let your agents grope our children and grandmothers, steal from our luggage, laugh at our naked images on X-ray machines that deliver who knows how much radiation, all in order to get on an airplane and not disappoint family and friends; not lose business our employers expect; not be late for weddings and funerals; not infuriate others in line at security checkpoints in airports and etc. These practical allowances have not been taken in the spirit which they were meant, i.e. as an accommodation to a nation suddenly under attack by violent and hateful terrorists willing to put our children on the front lines of a deadly and persistent war against the West.

Sandy Hook Elementary was a devastating blow to America; it broke our hearts to think that children would be targeted in such a vile and vicious way. But, instead of handling this incident with the mind of a president eager to quell the fears of a nation, your response was to launch an attack against gun owners of all stripes, from the hunters, to sportsmen to the families forced by economics to live in violent neighborhoods where break-ins, rapes and murders are not as uncommon as they should be, whose only viable defense against the violence is self-defense in the form of a firearm. Yes, some of those threatened have needed five, six, or twenty bullets to defend themselves. There is no certain number that will do the trick, just as there is no certain number of assailants who will enter one's home.

In an attempt to be brief, I will get to the point. Your intent to do as much as you can to disarm the American public is apparent, either as legislation you support or Executive Orders you have signed. Your emotional appeal to the American public via surrounding yourself with children does not ring logical to the American family, because the defense of one's own children is often the sole purpose to own firearms. I can point you to innumerable instances where this has been the case and the total swamps by millions the twenty children you claim to represent with these orders.

Here's the fact of the matter: we have had enough.

We will resist at all costs your efforts, because we know the result. The result is Washington D.C. and its murder rate; Chicago and its murder rate versus Wyoming and its murder rate and I mean by per capita, not totals.

The bigger point, however, is that without the Second Amendment none of the others can be enforced by the people themselves. Now, I understand that you have armies; you have federal officers. I do not underestimate the power of the federal government, or its agents. I do not mean to call them out, but neither shall we yield to that raw force that you represent with guns and tanks.

We do not believe that you have the law on your side. As is typical, you are likely to attack me on legalities and what the Constitution says or doesn't say as defined by Stare Decisis and such, or what some Supreme Court Justice wrote once in a big book. What I am telling you is that there is a breaking point, a point at which we will go no further and will die to prove it.

I know the response from your spokesperson might be that we are suggesting going to war with the federal government, with law enforcement. That is not the case. In fact, we expect most of them to be on our side when you finally overplay your hand as you have so recently proven you are willing to do. Some people, yourself excluded, care about the oaths they take and the promises they make and I believe there will be a lot of soul-searching in the hearts of those you expect to carry out your orders against their neighbors, relatives and acquaintances.

You are welcome to ask me how many I am willing to kill to retain my rights as soon as you are willing to answer my question: How many are you willing to kill to get them?

Protect our Second Amendment

By Oscar Y. Harward 

Based on our Second Amendment freedoms, it should be ‘unconstitutional’ for law-abiding citizen(s) be required in any state to complete any government form(s), other than a ‘legally valid’ Photo Identification (ID), prior to purchasing any hunting rifle, shotgun, or pistol. 

An ‘instant’ National Instant Criminal Background Check System investigation should and would immediately ‘qualify or deny’ each individual’s right to purchase a hunting rifle, shotgun, or pistol. 

Use of a hunting rifle, shotgun, a pistol, etc., was addressed by our Founding Fathers only as “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. 

Many left-wing elected and appointed officials, and other activists who yearn in abolishing the Second Amendment often refer to these armaments only as hunting guns; rifles, shotguns, and/or pistols, but their characteristic descriptions are not metaphors from our Founding Fathers. 

The ‘right of the people to keep and bear Arms’ discussions were referenced by our Founding Fathers only as a form of protection for individuals, their families, and a protection ‘from’ a lawless and mutinous government. 

Any and all ‘elected and/or appointed’ government officials, who require, create, and/or command a recorded public record of purchasing, owning, and/or possession of a weapon, as defined, are themselves the ‘lawless’ in creating and recording additional illegal and unconstitutional freedoms, legislations, and/or regulations.

UNION COUNTY, NC GOP POLITICS – THEN, NOW, AND TOMORROW

A “reprint” of March 27, 2006 

March 27, 2006 

UNION COUNTY, NC GOP POLITICS – THEN, NOW, AND TOMORROW 

At the age of eight years old, I became interested in partisan politics. A few things Dad always provided included a stay at home mother and six kids with plenty of good food, a roof over our heads, warm clothes, indoor plumbing including a bathroom, a good radio, and the Charlotte Observer. With the radio, no TV, and the newspaper, I could listen to and read the news. In 1952, I listened to the GOP National Convention and heard what I heard from and about General Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was at that time when Republicanism became implanted as a part of my life to come. 

 

In 1965, Marshville’s Irvin Griffin and I went to the UC Board of Elections to register and vote. In those days, you had to be twenty one years old. In the 1966 Primary Election and General Election, I was privileged to volunteer and work at the Marshville Precinct on election days. 

 

It was September 1976 when I attended my very first official Union County GOP Executive Committee meeting which was moderated by Attorney and UC GOP Chairman Don Perry at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce. Earlier along the way, I volunteered on Jesse Helms’ original campaign in 1972 and all of his following campaigns. It was an honor learning and working on other political campaigns with some very professional campaign managers. Few of the locals may not know that Governor Ronald Reagan won his first Presidential Primary right here in North Carolina in 1976. President Gerald Ford won the 1976 Republican Party nomination; only to be defeated by former Governor Jimmy Carter in the General Election. Ronald Reagan went on to become the GOP nominee, was elected President in 1980, and reelected in 1984; to become one of the most popular and most successful presidents in US history. Roger Austin was elected UC GOP Chairman in 1977 and I as GOP Secretary in 1977. I was then elected Chairman in 1979. 

 

Marshville’s Roger Austin was our GOP nominee for US Congress in 1978. Actress Elizabeth Taylor visited our Eighth Congressional District on behalf of Roger Austin for Congress. I served as “Austin for Congress” Chairman in the fall of 1978. Talking with Roger Austin recently, he reminded me of my volunteering for GOP Gubernatorial nominee Jim Gardner in 1968. 

 

Until much more recent years, Union County Republicans voted sparingly in primary elections which usually allowed the activist to choose our GOP nominees. Then and now on General Election days, the registered Republicans turn out massively voting for GOP nominees. 

 

Even back then, we knew we had a message the massive numbers would welcome if they could just hear us. Some of this changed with the addition of Reporter Gene Stowe of the Union Observer, a change in the Managing Editor at the EJ, and the purchase of Jim “The Fox” Reddish of WIXE. All of these changes allowed avenues for Conservative Republicans to communicate through the media to the citizens of Union County. 

 

In the early days, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in registration by more than ten to one. Oh, how times have changed since the old days. The local Democrats use to joke about the UC GOP was to hold our county conventions in a telephone booth; not anymore! 

 

We must pay tribute to some of the local folks who freely gave so much and were always there when the GOP called. A short list includes Don and Edie Perry, the late Boyd Keziah, the late Col. Paul Wrenn, who personally funded a political mailer one year, Janet and Tommy Thompson, the late John and Angie Davis, Dick and Virginia Pierce, Virginia Carpenter, Earle and Shirley Goode, Gwen and the late Al Pittman, the late Wriston Green and his daughter Candace, Charles and Doris Greene, Darren Greene, Donnie and Melvin Ledbetter, Gaston and Hazel Dutton, Roger and Beverly Austin, Paul and Peggy Dvorak, Lula and David Moore, Carolyn McCorkle, the late Tom and Georgia Winchester, Francis and Mitchell Arant. It was Mitchell Arant who provided us the idea in 1980 which led to the election of Senator John East,  the late Hazel Giles and family, Rebecca and the late Joe Medlin, Jim and the late Jake Plyler, both who were always there for financial resources as needed, and Jim and Shirley Bossbach. Shirley Bossbach probably personally registered more Republicans than any others, ever.  We must remember John W. Newman and his late wife Idella, Clayton Loflin, Jim Baucom who provided window space for advertising at Unionville Grocery, Donnie and Jane Baucom, Mike Hogan, Lynne Hayes, Bill Davis, Fern Shubert, Curtis and Audrey Blackwood, Eddie Goodall,  Irene Brown, the late Don and Kathy Griffin, Mike Kloc, Ruby and the late Bill Poole, Louise and the late John Mullis, the late Mary Crowell, John and Jeannette Haynes, John Feezer, and Vance Benton who always served as our cheerleader. We must remember the late Olis and Carolyn Wynn who lived on a fixed income but always gave at least one dollar for any fundraising and always worked within their own neighborhood to get out the vote for GOP nominees, and a list too long to list. I just hope each of you will forgive me for all omissions and/or corrections in failing to personally mention so many important individuals along the way who made a positive difference in the UC GOP. 

 

In 1981, Shirley Bossbach was elected UC GOP Chairman, and then reelected in 1983. Mrs. Bossbach led our local GOP nominees in 1984 which were headed by President Ronald Reagan for reelection, Sen. Jesse Helms’ reelection for US Senate, and Congressman Jim Martin as our nominee for NC Governor. On the local level, the GOP commission nominees were headed by Attorney Larry Harrington and New Salem’s Bill Davis for Union County Commissioners. President Reagan won reelection, as did Sen. Helms for US Senate. Congressman Jim Martin became the second Republican Governor in modern history. Bill Davis and Larry Harrington were the first elected Republican UC Commissioners in modern history. 

 

It was in the early to mid 1980’s when the voter registration started to change and make a real difference. Under other county leaders such as John W. Newman, Shirley Bossbach, Clayton Loflin, and others, voter registration of Republican voters started to outnumber Democrats, and it grew even wider as time moved forward. 

 

Clayton Loflin was elected UC GOP Chairman in March 1985. Larry Harrington as UC Commissioner was the one who made the GOP click for voters in Union County. Commissioner Harrington with the assistance of Commissioner Bill Davis and Democrat commissioners corrected a few wrongs within our local government, and working with the Democrat majority, guided the Board to bring our citizens the then new Union Memorial Hospital, started the development of the now countywide EMS which at the time was all ambulances with first aid training operated by the City of Monroe. We must thank the City of Monroe as it was the City of Monroe taxpayers, if I correctly remember, who funded almost the entire earlier system. Beyond that, volunteers in some three VFDs did fund, supply, and operate ambulance services with some limited medical training. These somewhat rural volunteers must be remembered and thanked for their personal time and money to train, supply, and operate these volunteer ambulance services.

 

Politically speaking, most of all, Larry Harrington moved the Democrat majority of the Board to more adequately fund our local educational system, yet controlling growth in taxes. That is when the voters of UC then started voting Republican consistently. 

 

In 1990, as I remember, Parker Mills won a seat on the UC Commission. In the successive budget years, Commissioner Mills voted for tax increases of 14%, 10%, and 12%. In his fourth year, Commissioner Loflin gained the support of a majority to stop the growth at 0% or 66 cents per $100.00 valuation. With Mills as a UC County Commissioner representative on the UC Fireman’s Association, it was alleged that while the Fireman’s Association would present a proposal to Commissioner Mills for presentation to the entire UC Commission. Commissioner Parker Mills would refuse to even present the volunteer firemen’s proposal to all commissioners for the full Boards’ consideration. The issue at hand for the volunteer firemen was to construct a Fireman’s Training Tower. UC community construction volunteers later built the Training Tower at very little expense to the taxpayers.

 

In 1994, a small group of us were working behind the scenes with some UC Commissioners and with a “very large group” of Union Memorial Hospital employees who wanted a change in their UMH management leadership. These UMH employees had vented their justifiable reasons for change. With all working together and winning three UC Commissioners, we were able to obtain this objective. What a positive difference we have seen with this change. Under the old management, UC taxpayers were paying some $50,000 annually to the Union Memorial Hospital mortgage building payments. Under the change in leadership at Union Regional Medical Center, now renamed Carolina Medical Center-Union, the turnaround was the building mortgage payments were paid by CMC-Union and the taxpayers immediately started receiving in excess of over $1,000,000 annually. It was UC Commissioner Chairman Parker Mills and Commissioner Paul Standridge who fought this change and these two who fought for the group “Keep Health Care Local” under Union Memorial Hospital and the old hospital management. Commissioner Mills was soundly defeated for his reelection in the following GOP Primary. 

 

In the last four years, UC Commissioners Stone, Sexton, and then Standridge who did not run for reelection in 2004 was replaced by Roger Lane. It seems to me this is the time when these commissioners ideology started to go astray to the left. Just two to three months ago, our UC Finance Officer presented a plan as to how solid our financial solid in UC was. No mention was said about the fact that our Commissioners Stone and Sexton had led the way earlier and passed a twenty percent tax increase along to Union County taxpayers. In one year, taxpayers were faced with a local 20% tax increase. I ask either of these three “tax and spend” commissioners as to what effort either of you did to save the higher paying manufacturing jobs of Square D, Pennsylvania House, Schrader Automotive, or anyone else? Did the manufacturing jobs leave because of the tax increases? Why did these three commissioners insult the local management of Yale Security for making an honest mistake? Why could you not consider these errors were as presented by management to be pure honest accounting mistakes? With that attitude and these excessive huge tax increases, is there any other reason for these higher paying manufacturing jobs and others to leave Union County and be relocated elsewhere? How many other manufacturing jobs in UC are currently considering leaving? How many? When will these “tax and spend” commissioners recognize this? 

 

Union County citizens have some certain assets which should not be up for sale. One is educating our children. It seems to me these commissioners, who control the tax monies, have been cheating the students at Union Academy. I ask any elected board member to truly identify the Monroe School System in which Union Academy has been funded under. There is no Monroe School System as it was merged into the Union County School Board system many years ago.

 

Union County has only one school district. Union Academy students should have always been funded equally as the Union County Board of Education students were. 

 

A second asset which should not be for sale is our local hospital (Carolina Medical Center-Union. Is it a fact, that within the last one year to eighteen months, one of these aforementioned elected commissioners and/or the County Manager did an inquiry about selling our local hospital? After finding our hospital could probably not be reasonably sold as it is under an additional eighteen year lease, did the question then become; “can we tax it”? 

 

Under the Stone – Sexton session along with either Standridge or Lane on the UC Commission, their fix was to insult our citizens and dismiss all current board members, then replace with ones whom these commissioners believed would support them on their own personal and political agendas. Remember the Board of Adjustments and remember the Planning Board? 

 

In the last few years, it seems something has gone wrong within the Republican Party leadership. I have been criticized and/or chastised within the UC GOP leadership for my endorsing of Democrat Monroe City Councilman Bobby Kilgore for Mayor in a non-partisan election. In my October 2005 endorsement, I said “Bobby Kilgore was a young policeman rising to become Monroe Chief of Police, a member of Monroe Civitan Club being chosen as Citizen of the Year, an Executive of the Year as the Bicentennial Chapter of Professional Secretaries International, a Man of the Year for Union County, and the list goes on. Rotary International, Masonic Lodge #244, Deacon/Trustee/Sunday School Class President at Oakland Baptist Church, Member-Library Foundation, NC Governor’s Crime Commission, Habitat For Humanity Nurture Committee, Union County CrimeStoppers, and there is even more, a list too long to mention. Bobby Kilgore has now served on the Monroe City Council for eight (8) years as Councilman. Bobby Kilgore is now asking for your vote to become Mayor for the City of Monroe”. 

 

I continued “I have considered Bobby Kilgore to be a very good personal friend. Bobby Kilgore is one you can always talk to about any issue. What a choice for the citizens of Monroe in electing Bobby Kilgore as your Mayor. What a victory having Bobby Kilgore as Monroe Mayor for the people and the entire surrounding area”. 

 

On November 2005 election day, Bobby Kilgore was elected by more than three to one over his opponent who was a registered Republican. This opponent, Paul Standridge, who just before the 2005 municipal election had an editorial printed in the local newspaper(s) and who had to recall the editorial and apologize for some of his statements which were less than accurate. 

 

It was this same opponent, Paul Standridge, who just recently called on the UC Commissioners to provide the UC employees a “Veterans Day” holiday. UC Commissioner Standridge is one UC Commissioner who voted to take away the “Veterans Day” holiday and to make it an “optional” holiday. Then Commissioner Standridge, along with Commissioners Richard Stone and Hughie Sexton, then voted just a few months ago to totally eliminate the “Veterans Day” as a holiday at all. 

 

Commission Chairman Standridge some two years ago said he did not remember he voted to provide “lifetime health insurance benefits” to UC Commissioners at taxpayers’ expense. Standridge’s personal signature was affixed about two inches from that portion of the UC Budget document. After a political uprising, “lifetime health insurance benefits” at taxpayers’ expense was reversed. Bobby Kilgore is an honorable man. I stand by my October 2005 endorsement. 

 

During the November 2005 UC Executive Committee meeting, the UC GOP Chairman has said that if you take the very “worse” of any registered Republican, they would be better than the very “best” of any registered Democrat. This, I do not believe. GOP Chairman McCollum should apologize and/or resign for such a radical and irrational statement. While I may have problems with many Democrats on Capitol Hill, there are many, many other very good people registered as Democrats around us right here in Union County and all over America. I am proud to associate with many of these Judeo Christian Conservatives regardless as to their political partisan affiliation. Political registration does not alone determine the character of any person. Again, I believe the GOP Chairman should apologize for that statement and/or resign as Chairman. Neither the GOP nor anyone else needs that technique of leadership. The disappointment is that a few others in the leadership of our Republican Party echo that same message. It seems to me that a few in leadership believe the GOP as a social club and anything goes. I believe the real GOP to be a group of individuals working together with a common goal to “practice and live by ideas of principle”; the GOP Plan of Organization and the GOP Platform which our party stands for. 

 

In the Republican Party which I have worked now for forty years, we practiced by encouraging any and all citizens to get involved in, participate in, and vote for our candidates based on “political policies, values, and integrity” which the Republican Party “political policies, values, and integrity” stood for and supported.  I am proud to have joined in an effort to participate in a minor part of “all” of Senator Jesse Helms’ winning campaigns, three President for Ronald Reagan, one for US Senate John East, one for US Senate “Lauch” Faircloth, and many, many others winning local elections along the way. We, in the UC GOP, have been blessed with political leaders such as John W. Newman and Shirley Bossbach to practice purity in political policies while teaching values and integrity. These two politicos are, among others, shining stars on morality in UC. 

 

Over the years, our old practice of persuasion has worked pretty well in Union County.  While I am now disabled, very much less mobile and unable to participate as I once did, I am still alive and making every effort to make America a stronger country based on “political policies, values, and integrity”.  These “values” are based in our Bible, our Constitution, and our GOP Platform. 

 

Over the years, we have climbed the mountain. We have seen what President Reagan said as “the dawning of a shining city”. As we move forward, we must pursue to achieve even brighter days, months, and years for the succeeding generations to come. To obtain even greater heights, we must promote the old time Judeo-Christian, Conservative, Republican values so many worked so hard for all to reach this level. 

 

Remember Plato, “In a Democratic society the price wise men pay for neglecting politics is to be ruled by unwise men.” 

 

God Bless America! 

 

Respectfully submitted, 

 

Oscar Y. Harward

 

Fox News Signs Dennis Kucinich As Contributor

Cancelling Fox News Channel!

Fox News Chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, has and is loading up so many radical left-wingers to express their “Obama style Socialism”, it is making me sick.  The last straw is the Fox News Channel hiring of former Congressman Dennis Kucinich from Cleveland, OH who represented probably the most radical Socialist or Communist ever on Capitol Hill. 

Time is more important than listen to this garbage.

 

There was a tear in my eye and a dagger in my heart as to why and how Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes has moved Fox News Channel to the left in the last year or so. 

I believe I will “switch” rather than listen to this left-wing rubbish.  May I encourage others to do likewise? 

Good day Fox News Channel!

 

Oscar Y. Harward

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fox-news-signs-dennis-kucinich-as-contributor_b162784 

 

 

By Alex Weprin on January 16, 2013 3:50 PM

 

Fox News Channel has signed former Congressman Dennis Kucinich as a paid contributor to FNC and Fox Business network. Kucinich, who was for years a liberal stalwart in the House of Representatives, will provide analysis and commentary across all of FNC and FBN’s programs, beginning with Thursday’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor.”

“I’ve always been impressed with Rep. Kucinich’s fearlessness and thoughtfulness about important issues,” said Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes in a statement. “His willingness to take a stand from his point of view makes him a valuable voice in our country’s debate.”

Kucinich represented Ohio’s 10th district in Congress for 16 years, officially leaving office earlier this month. He also ran for President in 2004 and 2008, seeking the Democratic nomination.

“Through 16 years in Congress and two presidential campaigns, Fox News has always provided me with an opportunity to share my perspective with its enormous viewership,” Kucinich said in a statement. “I look forward to a continuation of our relationship this time as a Fox News contributor.”