August 1, Ohio Tea Party! - Speaker: Judge Andrew Napolitano!

[FrankRep]

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Ohio Liber-TEA Party with Judge Napolitano!

Aug 1, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM

Ohio Statehouse

On Aug. 1st, Citizens from across the state of Ohio will converge on the State House in Columbus for the first state wide Ohio Tea Party. The Ohio Tea Party will focus on promoting and initiating local action and Constitutional solutions to problems.


Update:


Complete: Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009

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YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ySpaDlMsY)

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YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-75RZuxIs)

[FrankRep]

Ohio Freedom Alliance - Forums

http://www.ohiofreedom.com/forum/

[FrankRep]

You might want to get there early. We should have over 10,000 at least.

[itshappening]

can you please post an update !

[FrankRep]

News found so far...


We had thousands, not "Hundreds" ... stupid media..


http://www.10tv.com/wwwexportcontent/sites/10tv/local/stories/2009/08/01/image_protest_280.jpg


Hundreds Assemble At Statehouse For TEA Party
NBC
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/hundreds_assemble_at_statehouse_for_tea_party/20232/

Groups Step Up Efforts Ahead Of Election
10 TV News
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/08/01/story_issues.html?sid=102

[angelatc]

Very cool. I wish I had noticed this - I would have driven down and brought my parents.

Way to go, Ohio


While many of the protestors identified themselves as being of a conservative political ideology, everyone who talked with 10TV said the protest was not about any one political party. They said they wanted leaders of all political persuasions to hear their message.

PERFECT!

[FrankRep]

Youtubes...

YouTube - Liber-Tea Party Columbus Ohio Statehouse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51B1Jp3pHQs)

YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wv5UsQWf7Y)

YouTube - Columbus Ohio Statehouse 043 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2CcBvmW7w)

YouTube - Linda Walker from Buckey Arms 2nd amendment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVsLQkL1JFU)

[angelatc]

Where's Napolitano 2?

[Epic]

YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano 2 Freedom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WDFhhIzFu0&feature=channel)

[Matt Collins]

The Judge's speech is transcribed here:


http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/08/02/a-great-moment-in-our-history/




Let me set down a couple of fervent beliefs that animate everything I do and everything I say.


I believe that God created heaven and earth and every single individual on the planet.


I believe that the God who gave us life gave us liberty and that freedom is our birthright.


I believe that the States created the federal government and not the other way around. And that the power that the States gave to the Federal Government - they can take back.


When we were colonists, and the King and the Parliament needed money from us, and they always seemed to need money, they devised ingenious ways to tax us. One of them was called the Stamp Act. The Parliament decreed that every piece of paper that the Colonists had in their homes; every book, every document, every deed, every lease, every pamphlet, every poster to be nailed to a tree had to have the King’s stamp on it. You think going to a Post Office is bad? You had to go to a British Government office and buy a stamp with the King’s picture.

Question. How did the King know that his picture was on every piece of paper in your house? The Parliament enacted a hateful piece of legislation called the Writs of Assistance Act which let the king’s soldiers write their own search warrants, and bang down any door they chose to look for the stamps or anything else that they were looking for.


It was the last straw.


We fought a revolution. We won the revolution. We wrote the Constitution. The constitution doesn’t grant power, it keeps the government off our backs.

When they were debating the Constitution in the Summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, there were two great arguments - one by the Jefferson and Madison crowd and one by the Adams and Hamilton crowd. Jefferson argued, though he wasn’t physically there in Philly, as he did in the Declaration of Independence that our rights are ours by virtue of our humanity. That as God is perfectly free, and we are created in his image and likeness, we too are perfectly free. The big government crowd - yes they had them even in those days - argued that you can’t have freedom without government, and that government gives us our rights, and therefore, that government can take them away. This is not an academic argument. Jefferson and the natural law argument prevailed because the Constitution was written to keep the government from interfering with our natural rights.


And so, your right to think as you wish, to say what you think, to publish what you say, to travel where you want, to worship as you see fit, to keep and bear arms to defend yourself against a tyranny. And, after the right to life, the greatest and most uniquely American of rights - and I say this in front of the seat of the government - is the right to be left alone.


We wrote a Constitution to ensure that the government would never interfere with these rights. Think about it - if rights come from the government, then the government, by ordinary legislation, or presidential decree can take them away. But if the rights come from our humanity, then unless we violate someone else’s natural rights, the government cannot take our rights away.


This is not just a democrat, upper case D, or a republican, upper case R, problem. It’s a problem with government today. There’s a republican version of big government just as assaultive to our liberties as there’s a democrat version of big government.


We fought a revolution because British soldiers could knock on our doors and demand that we house them, and demand that we turn over property to them because they could write their own search warrants. In the Patriot Act, the most hateful piece of legislation since the Alien and Sedition Acts, a republican congress and a republican president authorized federal agents to do the unthinkable - to write their own search warrants. And the republican administration didn’t even let members of the House of Representatives read the Patriot Act before they voted on it.


Why should the government be able to spy on us? We should be able to spy on them!


When some judge is rationalizing away our liberty, or some congressman is plotting to take away your freedom or your tax dollars, we should know what they do every minute that they do it.


I was speaking to a group of congressman from a neighboring state - I won’t tell you which state it was, but they don’t play football there - and they came up to me and said “this is the first time we have heard that the Patriot Act allows federal agents to write their own search warrants.” Remember, in the Constitution, we put in the 4th Amendment, the right to be left alone, to make sure that if the government had a target, no matter how guilty the target, no matter how widespread is the belief in the guilt of the target, no matter how dangerous is the target, the government has to go through a neutral judge with a search warrant before it can get to that target. These members of Congress said, “we didn’t know that the Patriot Act allowed the government to bypass the courts and write any search warrant they wanted.” Then I asked them a question I knew the answer to already - did you read the Patriot Act before you voted on it? The answer - no. What were you voting on? A summary we received. Let me guess who wrote the summary - some lawyers in the justice department, right? Of course.
Would you hire anybody to run your business that committed you to a violation of the very reason you’re in business if they didn’t even the document by which they were making that committment? Of course not.
The camera is the new gun. There’s nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing, whether it’s on a street corner, or in there, or in Washington D.C., we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it, and when they do it, and how they are taking our freedoms.


I have another one of my basic core beliefs. The individual has an immortal soul. Every individual is greater than any government.

Your government is based on fear and force. You don’t have to take my word on it. The 2nd president on the United States, John Adams, said “Of course the government is based on fear.” And the first president, George Washington, said “Government is not reason, it is force.” I think they knew what they were talking about.


Now fast-forward to modern times. Whenever the government wants something, it scares us. During the civil war, Lincoln tried civilians in this state where no battles occured, by military tribunal. After he died the supreme court invalidated everything the military tribunals did. During the first world war, the Wilson administration locked up 2000 people called anarchists - same thing as enemy combatants. No trial, no charge, just jail for the duration of the war. In world war II, FDR locked up 150,000 Japanese Americans, people born in the United States, who got no trial and had no charges, and when the war was over were given $25 and told to go home.


Today we have federal agents. You know I get in arguments with my friends at Fox News, and one of them, I don’t have to tell you who it is, but is truly the most irascible person there. And he said to me, you know you have a problem with Guantanamo Bay, and you have a problem with the Patriot Act, what will you do if I get sent to Guantanamo Bay, will you visit me? And I say, Bill - no, because they’ll probably keep me there as well.


Government likes to say that it’s taking an oath to uphold the Constitution. In the years that I was on the bench, it seemed that every time government lawyers were in my courtroom, if the government was prosecuting someone who was legitimately guilty or whether it was a mistake, or whether somebody was suing the government because government contractors or government doctors, or government workers made a mistake - the government doesn’t come in to the courtroom to enforce the constitution, it comes into the courtroom to evade and avoid it. That, ladies and gentlemen, must be stopped.


This is a great moment in our history. A crowd of this magnitude on a beautiful day, in the boiling sun, in the most middle-American of great middle-American states…comes together not because the president is a democrat, not because his predecessor was a republican, not because a war is just or unjust, not because the Fed is stealing or printing - you’re here because you believe in human freedom.


It is the essence of our existence that we should be free. But remember this: the government hates freedom. It is an obstacle to every one of their designs. Whenever they write laws, whenever they take your tax dollars, whenever they regulate your private behavior, whenever they tell you how to spend your money, whenever they tell you what medicines to take, whenever they tell you what food to eat, whenever they tell you with who you may or must associate, they are taking away your freedom and they love to get away with it. And they cannot get away with it any longer.


In the long history of the world, very few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its maximum hour of danger. This is that moment and you are that generation! Now is the time to defend our freedoms.


Jefferson was no saint but he was the greatest of our American presidents. He believed that the individual was greater than the state. He believed that the states were greater than the federal government. And when he wrote that our rights come from our creator, and that our rights are inalienable, he forever wed the notion of natural rights to the American experience and the American experiment. We must be vigilant about every right that the government wants to take away from us.


You’ve heard the president say, present president and his predecessor, “my first job is to keep you safe.” He’s wrong! His first job is to keep us free. It is his only job to keep us free.


Shortly before he died, Jefferson lamented, that in his view of the world that is was in the natural order of things for government to grow and freedom to be diminished; how ardently he wish that that wouldn’t happen. And in order to prevent it from happening he had a very simple remedy, “When the people fear the government, that is tyranny. When the government fears the people, that is liberty!”
(http://www.amazon.com/Dred-Scotts-Revenge-History-Freedom/dp/1595552650/tenthamendmentcenter-20/)
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[FrankRep]

Complete: Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009

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YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ySpaDlMsY)

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YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano- Columbus Ohio Tea Party, August 1, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-75RZuxIs)

[angelatc]

I see Alicia Healy had a speech too! Even if you don't want to watch the whole video, the opening shot of the crowd is awesome.

YouTube - Alicia Healy, Candidate at Columbus Tea Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6OCg1UuakA)

[FrankRep]

I see Alicia Healy had a speech too!

Alicia Healy (http://www.votealiciahealy.com/) is awesome.
If you live in Columbus, vote for her (Columbus City Council).

This speech was from a previous tea party.

[FrankRep]

Alicia Healy speaks Aug 1st at the Ohio LiberTEA party in Columbus

YouTube - Alicia Healy speaks Aug 1st at the Ohio LiberTEA party in Columbus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv7Kd43ZS60)

[FrankRep]

bump.

[FrankRep]

Video:

Ohio Tea Party on 10 TV News


http://columbusdispatch.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/columbusdispatch-x10tv-pub01-live/current/launch.html?playerId=10tvmain&referralPlaylistId=e07aeec746ba418844f894bd897902c 46281ff98&referralParentPlaylistId=20a712fba28b4c9da4e8b8c09 1297a019f5a7f06&referralObject=7673767&referrer=copylink

[FrankRep]

Judge Napolitano interviewed by Glenn Beck on Ohio Tea Party!


YouTube - Glenn Beck Clips 08-03-09 Seg5- Judge Napolitano: Media Lied About Tea Party Numbers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVsijhypq4)

[FrankRep]

Anti-tax activists stage protest
Group slams federal, state, local government at Statehouse (http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/02/tea_party.ART_ART_08-02-09_B3_1GELDJE.html?sid=101)


Columbus Dispatch
August 2, 2009


Cheering messages of limited government, lower taxes and states' rights, thousands rallied yesterday at the Statehouse, hoping to continue a movement that began in the spring with nationwide tea parties.

The enthusiastic crowd took aim at government bailouts, rising national debt, "socialized" health care and even Columbus' proposed income-tax increase.

If approved, the tax would increase from 2 percent to 2.5 percent and generate $90 million to $100 million a year. City voters will decide the issue on Tuesday.

"That's $1 billion over the next 10 years taken out of wallets and given to an institution right over there that has proven to us that they can't manage our money at all," City Council candidate Matt Ferris told the crowd while pointing toward City Hall.

"Say 'no' to this massive tax."

Organized by the Ohio Liberty Council, people arrived by the busload and expressed anger over issues such as taxes and government intrusion.

Some collected signatures in hopes of eliminating Ohio's estate tax with a 2010 ballot initiative. Many wore or carried messages with them, such as a sign that read, "Grow your own dope plant a politician."

"I want the right to drive a gas-guzzler and choose my own health care," said Amy Chauvette, 45, of Toledo, who held a sign that read, "America home of the free? Not lately."

"Government is losing sight of what they are really there for. They are not there to run car companies or health care. They are there to keep this country free."

The featured speaker, Andrew Napolitano, a New Jersey Superior Court judge and a Fox News commentator, got the crowd into a "freedom" chant and blasted the expanded government authority and lack of oversight contained in the Patriot Act.

"Remember, the government hates freedom. It is an obstacle to what everyone there desires," said Napolitano, whose speech ended with Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It blasting from the speakers.

Though there was plenty of anti-Obama sentiment in the crowd, speakers took aim at both parties.

Liberty Council co-founder Mike Wilson asked everyone to punch the numbers of U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and George V. Voinovich into their cell phones.

"If they have voice-mail, I suggest you blow them up today."

Jason Rink of Clintonville, a member of the Liberty Council, reminded the crowd that President George W. Bush got the ball rolling by approving the federal bank bailout.

"Now that Obama is in office, all of the Republicans oppose the bailouts," he said. "They are born-again fiscal conservatives. That's convenient."


SOURCE:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/02/tea_party.ART_ART_08-02-09_B3_1GELDJE.html?sid=101

[Barney]

Why isn't there an effort to draft the Judge for Congress? Is there a better candidate for the US legislature than a Constitutionalist Judge?

[FrankRep]

Ohio Group Protest Federal Government Power

Associated Press / Fox 8
August 2, 2009


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A rally at the Ohio Statehouse protested federal government power under President Obama and called for the passage of a measure to assert states' rights.

The newly formed Ohio Liberty Council staged a rally Saturday to protest what the council views as the usurping of power by the federal government in areas such as health care and energy.

The council called for the passage of an Ohio Senate resolution to assert states' rights in areas the U.S. Constitution does not grant the federal government the power to oversee.

The council consists of groups including Americans for Prosperity, the Buckeye Firearms Association and the Ohio Freedom Alliance.

A handful of states, including Florida, have introduced measures to assert states' rights.


SOURCE:
http://www.fox8.com/news/sns-ap-ohiogovernmentpower,0,7726634.story

[FrankRep]

Marion men attended protest of fed power

The Marion Star
August 3, 2009

Concern about the growth of government drew two Marion men to a Columbus rally Saturday.

Tom Hardy and Steve Romshe joined others at the Ohio Statehouse as the newly formed Ohio Liberty Council staged the Ohio Liber-TEA Party.

The event protested what the group calls a takeover of power by the federal government. It also called for passage of a measure to assert states’ rights.

“Mostly, I’m concerned about the growth of government and the intrusion into our lives, especially at the federal level,” Hardy said. “Local governing is getting trampled by Washington.”

The Ohio Liberty Council is a coalition of grassroots groups including the Ohio Freedom Alliance, the Buckeye Firearms Association and Taxed Enough Already organizations. The council was formed to “get all liberty-minded groups and individuals in Ohio connected and communicating on issues and activities,” according to the council’s Web site.
...

Full Story:
http://www.marionstar.com/article/20090803/NEWS01/90803026

[FrankRep]

Jason Rink Interview - Tea Time in Ohio (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536560,00.html)
with Greta Van Susteren

Fox News
August 04, 2009


YouTube - Greta: Tea Parties Grow in Ohio [FOX News] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIdqN7AgABA)


This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," August 3, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A tea party protest erupts in Columbus, Ohio, thousands of protesters gathering at the Ohio statehouse on Saturday, some chanting, some making speeches protesting government bail-outs, the exploding national debt, proposed health care reforms and more, the protests organized by the Ohio Liberty Council. Jason Rink is a member of the Liberty Council and joins us live.

Jason, first of all, what is the Liberty Council?

JASON RINK, OHIO LIBERTY COUNCIL: Greta, the Liberty Council is basically just an organization of a lot of grass roots leaders, just regular people who want to just stop complaining and start doing something about, you know, what we see wrong in this country.

VAN SUSTEREN: How many people showed up, do you estimate? And I realize that -- that, you know, it's sort of a -- it's difficult to estimate. But what do you estimate?

RINK: We estimate there was between 8,000 and 10,000 people there, a great turnout. Families came out with kids. It was a good time. We had a lot of great speakers, including Judge Andrew Napolitano, representatives from a lot of different organizations who were a part of it. And the Ohio Liberty Council is really just dedicated to promoting constitutional principles and wanting to hold our representatives accountable to that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have a job, sir?

RINK: I'm -- I'm -- I do have a job, yes. I'm trying to make a living in this economy, just like anybody else.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do you do?

RINK: You know what? I'd rather not say. I'm actually just working in the financial world, and you know, I -- I do this organization on the side. It's something I do because I want to preserve America.

You know, something happened to three years ago to me. I read the Constitution, something I recommend that all our representatives would read themselves because they vow to uphold and defend it. And so, you know, in my spare time, I go out there, I try to energize and encourage people to stop complaining, take action. And we're actually getting ready to do another event in September in Cincinnati, September 5th. And we're already in the works, trying to double the number of attendees that we had at this event.

The other thing is...

VAN SUSTEREN: Besides...

RINK: ... is this is not an anti -- this is not an anti-Obama rally. It's not an anti-tax rally. It's a pro-liberty rally.

VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Besides Judge Napolitano, who was there -- that sort of is interesting to me because he's a colleague here -- who else showed up? You know, what were there, community leaders, or were they just people who -- you know, citizens who are just interested? How do you -- how do you sort of describe your -- the crowd that showed up?

RINK: We had a lot of different people. We had, you know, Libertarians, Republicans, independents, Democrats. We had Senator Tim Grendell (ph) of the Ohio Assembly came there. We also had Jarrod Martin (ph), who's a representative here in Ohio. And you know, our speakers had words for the Republicans who violate the Constitution. You know, it was the Republicans who -- President Bush who got the first bail-out pushed through, and you know, also, you know, Republicans have pushed their share of bills through Congress without reading them, so it's not just the Democrats.

We really just want to unify people. The American people -- we're ones who are paying the price, and we just got to bring our representatives back in line with the Constitution. That's what we're really all about.

VAN SUSTEREN: And Jason, I didn't mean to put you on the spot (INAUDIBLE) job, I was just sort of curious just to put context into sort of, you know, what might be -- you know, what might be your interest, and you know, people come to these demonstrations with all (INAUDIBLE) different interests. So I didn't mean to put you in the hot spot. But thank you for joining us, and good luck, Jason.

RINK: Hey, no problem. Please visit the Ohio freedom Web site at Ohioliberty.com.

VAN SUSTEREN: I'm going to Ohio sooner than you think, but for other reasons. Anyway, thank you, Jason.


SOURCE:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536560,00.html

[FrankRep]

Marietta 9/12 Group Travels to Columbus

The Marietta Register
05 August 2009


Forty-two members of the Marietta Ohio 9-12 group boarded a chartered bus on Saturday, August 1 and traveled to Columbus for a Tea Party, sponsored by the Ohio Liberty Council.

The Marietta group joined approximately 10,000 others from Ohio gathering at the front of the Capitol building cheering speakers who discussed topics such as limited government, lower taxes, and states’ rights.

Several busloads convened at the Capitol expressing anger over socialized health care and the government’s increasing interference in their personal lives.

Featured speaker Judge Andrew Napolitano, a New Jersey Superior Court Judge, blasted the expanded government authority. “Remember, the government hates freedom. It is an obstacle to what everyone there desires,” he said.

The event was non-partisan, taking aim at both parties. Anti-Obama sentiment was visible on signs carried by participants. Criticism of George W. Bush included his approval of the federal bank bailout.


SOURCE:
http://www.mariettaregister.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1198&Itemid=33