Does it surprise you.......

View this email in your browser They are at it again! Continued assault on the Second Amendment.   What was it Rahm Emanuel  said...."You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." Well Washington is doing exactly that.  Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced "The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013" bill.  She said, "The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time."  Senator Feinstein also said, "It (the bill) will not effect hunting or sporting firearms.  Instead the bill protects hunters and sportsmen by protecting 2,200 specifically named weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes.  They are by make and model exempted from legislation."  The legislation should be about protecting all arms, not some.  This bill will "subject existing or grandfathered weapons (these are your currently owned guns) to a background check in the event the weapon is sold or transferred."  There is a mandatory registration in a national database for those weapons and an additional tax per gun on those you already own.   Shenanigans in the Senate Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying, with the help of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), to eliminate equal representation by each state.  Some proposals floating around are:   Stop the filibuster - change from 60 votes to close debate on a contentious issue to a majority of only 51 votes. Allow only four Senators to be able to offer amendments to legislation shutting out 96 Senators from the process. Allow the Majority Leader to add an amendment after debate is finished on a bill. Talk about a power grab.  This is unacceptable.     TAKE ACTION   It is very important that we stay on top of the issues our nation is facing and that we share our opinion with our elected representatives firmly and frequently!  Add this phone number to your contacts in your cell phone...then you can call your representatives whenever you find yourself with a moment to spare!   (202) 224-3121 Congressional Switchboard They need to hear from you! Light up that switchboard.   Thanks for all you do in keeping your eyes on public officials whether it's a phone call, e-mail, fax, going to their offices.  We need to keep their feet to the fire.  They think the Tea Party is going away.  Show them that we aren't going anywhere. Copyright © 2013 Sauk Valley Tea Party, All rights reserved. Thank you for being part of the solution! Our mailing address is: Sauk Valley Tea Party 3805 Freeport Road Sterling, IL 61081 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list   update subscription preferences

ALERT - GUN CONTROLLERS RALLY

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From: ISRA Notices [mailto:isranotices@isra.ccsend.com] On Behalf Of ISRA Notices
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Subject: ALERT - NEW LOCATION - GUN CONTROLLERS RALLY

 

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SPECIAL ALERT - NEW LOCATION FOR RALLY: GLENVIEW GUN CONTROLLERS PLAN RECRUITMENT AND ORGANIZATION RALLY

The ISRA has been notified that the location of this event has been moved due to "anticipated larger attendance".  The new location is the Glenview Police Station, 2500 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, IL 60026. The gun control movement is on a roll in the northern suburbs. They will be holding a rally to recruit and organize new gun grabbers into their campaign to take your guns away from you. IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ATTEND THIS RALLY! As a patriotic firearm owner, you have a responsibly to defend our Constitution by challenging those who would tear down our Bill of Rights. If the gun controllers are left unchallenged, then they and their friends in Springfield will walk all over YOUR constitutional right to keep and bear arms. EVENT DETAILS WHEN: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 2:00 PM WHERE: Glenview Police Station, 2500 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, IL (was: Wilmette Public Library, 1242 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL) WHO: This event is being hosted by a band of gun controllers including Mark Walsh of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence; Lee Goodman of Stop Concealed Carry Coalition and; Jennifer Bishop of the Million Mom March. These people are the real deal - the hard core top dogs of the gun control movement. These are the people leading the charge to raid your gun safe and confiscate and destroy your guns. These are the people who want to prevent you from carrying defensive firearms. These are the people who don't care if you or your family members are raped, robbed and murdered by violent criminals. They only care about one thing - disarming you. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRO-GUN PEOPLE 1. Plan to be at the Glenview Police Station between 1:00 and 1:30 so that you can get a seat. At past events like these, the anti-gunners try to play a game claiming that the room is "full" so as to deny entry to pro-gun people. Our aim is to ensure that there are more of OUR people there than THEIR people. 2. Be observant of abuses of your First Amendment rights by village officials. Get the name and title of any official who attempts to suppress your right of free association, assembly and speech. 3. If you have an I-GOLD t-shirt, hat, or badge, wear it! If you have an ISRA hat or an NRA hat, wear it! 4. If you see members of the media there, don't wait for them to come to you. Rather, actively approach them, tell them you are a law-abiding firearm owner, and then tell them that you adamantly oppose punitive gun control laws being proposed by the organizers, Obama, and Emanuel. Make sure the media hears our side of the story first, and often! 5. Bring your children, grand children, and other young people with you. They are the next generation of patriots. Let them see how effective grassroots organizing works! If there is a question and answer session, have your children ask the organizers why they want to leave kids and their parents defenseless against criminals. 6. Be polite, but be assertive. Do not let the anti-gunners shout you down. Defend your 2nd Amendment with passion. If you have a smart phone, video as much of the proceedings as you can. 7. Remember, this is our Lexington, this is our Concord. Be prepared to teach the gun controllers a lesson in Liberty. 8. Please share this Alert with your friends and family - encourage them to show up at the rally. 9. Please post this Alert to any and all Internet blogs and bulletin boards to which you belong. REMEMBER - YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PRESERVING YOUR FREEDOM - IF YOU DON'T DO IT, NOBODY ELSE WILL

 

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Lunch Alert!

Lunch Alert View this email in your browser Sales Tax Referendum Meeting Dixon Schools   The  Dixon school board will be meeting TONIGHT at 6:30 pm at Reagan Middle School to discuss the 1% sales tax increase question they are trying to put on the ballot. Copyright © 2013 Sauk Valley Tea Party, All rights reserved. Thank you for being part of the solution! Our mailing address is: Sauk Valley Tea Party 3805 Freeport Road Sterling, IL 61081 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Where Do We Go From Here?

Where Do We Go From Here? View this email in your browser I would like to thank everyone who attended our leadership meeting!  We had a small, but dedicated group with a few new faces!  Hopefully we will have more people attend next month! I laid out some ambitious plans and we still need many more volunteers to make them possible!  For starters, I wanted to re-familiarize everyone with our SVTP Mission:   The Sauk Valley Tea Party's mission is to engage local citizens in our electoral process and advocate for the election of those who will protect our God-given rights and individual liberties while promoting personal responsibility, sound fiscal policies, constitutionally limited government and free market principles. That mission encompasses a LOT--which requires a lot of volunteers working on many separate projects!  So, I am counting on a few more of you stepping out of your comfort zone and sacrificing a little bit of your valuable time!  This is SO important!  I believe that we are dangerously close to the point of no return! Our Republic is at stake and our Children and Grandchildren are counting on each and every one of us to do what we can to preserve and restore it! READ OUR RE-COMMITTED FOCUS FOR 2013 AND LEARN WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU!   Second Amendment News Newly re-elected Democrat Senator, Bill Nelson has posted an assault weapons poll on his website      VOTE NOW   Glenn Beck and Dave Grossman Discuss How to Stop the Next Sandy Hook Massacre   Piers Morgan used Alex Jones to paint all gun owners as crazed conspiracy kooks...but he made a big mistake when he had a long conversation with Breitbart's, Ben Shapiro Watch Shapiro Destroy Morgan's Anti-gun, Anti-logic Rhetoric Obama Wants to take OUR guns, But Signs Bill to Give HIMSELF Armed Protection For Life I want to live in Wyoming!  Wyoming Lawmakers Propose Bill to Nullify Federal Gun Control   Did you know...? The US is #1 in the world for gun ownership (88 guns per 100 people), yet ranks #28 for gun homicide.  Yemen is #2 for gun ownership at 54.8 guns per 100 people.  Britain has a total gun ban.  They also have the second highest overall violent crime rate in the EU with 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people per year--higher than South Africa!  Watch a Cincinnati newscaster shatter the myth that more guns = more crime   Let's Keep Their Phones Ringing Off the Hook!!! So many calls to make...so little time! IL General Assembly Switchboard 217-782-2000 Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121 Find a list of IL Representatives and Senators HERE or Don't know who to call?          Find Your IL Representatives HERE Find Your FEDERAL Lawmakers HERE Religion and Life in the News Alabama Supreme Court Rules Unborn is a 'Child' in Drug Prosecution Cases  READ MORE HERE ILLINOIS HEADLINES Illegals in the Driver's Seat Lawsuit Filed Against Comptroller's Office No Wonder We're a Laughingstock! Three IL Lawmakers Facing Charges Why Do They Want to Track Precious Metals Purchases???  Read the Legislation HERE Why hasn't the Media Reported on This? Federal Government Update So Much for Promises!  13 Tax Hikes Hit Middle Class Key Votes In Congress This Week Fiscal Cliff Deal is a Disaster Farm Subsidies are Harmful  $Trillion Coin -- More Deceit, Debt and Dereliction of Duty   Tell Your Senator NO on Jack Lew for Treasury Secretary Journalists Being Trained on How to Report on Obamacare! Non-Partisan Voter Information SaukValleyVoter.com Previous Emails & Alerts Find them HERE Copyright © 2013 Sauk Valley Tea Party, All rights reserved. Thank you for being part of the solution! Our mailing address is: Sauk Valley Tea Party 3805 Freeport Road Sterling, IL 61081 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list   update subscription preferences

Please Join Us for Donuts and Coffee Saturday!

Join Us for Coffee and Donuts!  Saturday, Jan. 12, 9am at the Sterling Public Library View this email in your browser PLEASE join us for the Sauk Valley Tea Party Leadership Council Meeting 9:00 am Saturday, January 12th at the Sterling Public Library.    This meeting is for EVERYONE who feels that this nation is headed in the wrong direction.  If you are concerned about out-of-control government spending, assaults on religious liberty, infringements on our right to keep and bear arms, the non-stop narrative of class-warfare, the collusion of big businesses and big government, increasing tax burdens in a struggling economy and the ever-growing mountain of debt being piled on the shoulders of our children and grandchildren, then it is time to step off the sidelines and GET INVOLVED!  This has been a long-fought battle and we are all getting tired, but it is time to catch our second wind and jump back in the fray!  I have tried several times to get more of you directly involved in planning and organizing SVTP activities over the past few years, but this time, we have a very specific plan for the coming year.  I have felt a strong sense that this is the direction we need to move in and now I am counting on you to help me get those things done!  Even if you are not sure if you are up for the challenge, please come and hear us out! We need YOUR help to make sure that we are able to continue to educate, inform and mobilize liberty-loving folks to protect our way of life against government over-reach both today and in the future! The Public Library is located at 102 W. 3rd Street in Sterling between County Market and Taco Bell Let's Keep Their Phones Ringing Off the Hook!!! So many calls to make...so little time! IL General Assembly Switchboard 217-782-2000 Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121 Find a list of IL Representatives and Senators HERE or Don't know who to call?    PLEASE CALL  AND WRITE THEM NOW! Find Your IL Representatives HERE Find Your FEDERAL Lawmakers HERE   "How Strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words."                      --Samuel Adams There is a lot of talk about what the second amendment means or doesn't mean.  For an accurate interpretation, we must always look to the context in which it was written and to the words of its framers.  Consider these gems of wisdom: "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature.  They 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." --Thomas Jefferson (quoting Cesare Beccaria) "A free people ought to be armed." --George Washington "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."                        --Thomas Jefferson "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." --George Washington "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."                    --Thomas Jefferson "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense." --John Adams "On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Consttitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."  --William Pitt "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."        --George Mason "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country. --James Madison "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." --Richard Henry Lee "The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."                     --Samuel Adams "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.  Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.  Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.  Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined...the great object is that every man be armed.  Everyone who is able might have a gun." --Patrick Henry So Much News to Wade Through!  Here are some of the stories that I have found especially informative! Is a Third Obama Term in the Works? Despite Security Concerns IL House Committee Advances Driver's License Bill for Illegals No Climate Change for HOW long? Sad or Hilarious--You Decide! Glenn Beck and Dave Grossman Discuss How to Stop the Next Sandy Hook Massacre Senate Filibuster Rule Changes Stalled Son of Gun-Control Taskforce Member Convicted of Plotting School Massacre No Lame Duck Gun Bill in IL House Feinstein Gun-Banning Bill to be Introduced January 22nd A Bit of Background on Bobby Rush (IL-1) Joy Behar Laughs About Working for Al Jazeera Former Marine Tells Feinstein an Unconstitutional Law is Not a Law Gun Control by Executive Order? EPA Tries to Declare Water a Pollutant Reality Check on Anti-Gun Statistics National Geographic Writer/Producer Insults Tea Party While working on a National Geographic special based on Bill O'Reiley's "Killing Lincoln", Erik Jendresen incredibly claimed that Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, could be "a poster child for the Tea Party," implying that the Tea Party is a de facto terrorist organization committed to murdering political opponents. Read More HERE Contact National Geographic's Executive Vice President of Programming Michael Cascio by phone at 202-912-6762 or by email at mcascio@natgeotv.com to let them know that despite the deranged fantasies of the liberal left and Mr. Jendresen, the Tea party is comprised of patriotic grassroots Americans--it is not the hub of crazed, would-be-assassins.   Copyright © 2013 Sauk Valley Tea Party, All rights reserved. Thank you for being part of the solution! Our mailing address is: Sauk Valley Tea Party 3805 Freeport Road Sterling, IL 61081 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list   update subscription preferences