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Volusia group pushes for involvement
By RAY SANCHEZ, GUEST OPINION - Daytona Beach News-Journal
  August 17, 2010 12:05 AM
Posted in: http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion/editorials/guest-columns/2010/08/17/volusia-group-pushes-for-involvement.html

Ray Sanchez, of Ormond Beach, is the founder of the Volusia 912 Project.

Americans have an opportunity to make their voices heard at the ballot boxes. The Volusia 912 Project has been volunteering thousands of hours to help find good candidates at every level of government. Our fellow citizens have gathered since March 2009 to learn more about government, create candidate forums, work our local precincts and use the great mechanism our founding fathers gave us in order to secure the blessings of liberty. At the request of our fellow citizens, we have compiled a guide for this year's primaries at www.volusia912.org.

The list honors some candidates with "preferred" status, and others with "approved." We're hoping our work is recognized as the beginning of renewed citizen involvement in electing virtuous leaders.

Decades of work will be necessary to filter out the culture of corruption throughout our political spectrum, but, at least, this is a start.

The importance of voting cannot be overstated. On all levels of government, the American people need to become engaged. At Volusia 912, our original focus was on the national level. The course Congress and the White House have set for this nation should shake every American to the core. While disregarding the voice of the American people and the Constitution, this Congress has compromised our form of government. Our president, who should guard against bad legislation, is part and parcel of the same agenda.

They have capitulated to socialist agendas and radical ideologies. We have apathetically stood by. We continue to allow ourselves to be divided by party affiliation, race, gender and class. Their political games and use of media-driven propaganda are an insult to honest Americans.

Our elected officials have steered so far from the fundamentals of Americanism that the forces of tyranny are at hand. Unfortunately, this malaise is not restricted to our federal government. Our local and state governments have been infected as well.

If anyone out there is really paying attention, he or she will know this isn't just hyperbole or partisan rhetoric. Our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are being ignored. This is not about parties, nor about the color of the president's skin. This has been slowly happening for decades, and is now being accelerated in Washington by politicians of all colors. Under the name of progressivism, we have allowed our local, state and federal governments to confiscate the wealth, productivity and incentives of individuals in America.

This is about the essential ingredients missing in our republic right now. Virtue and knowledge are no longer revered and respected, but rather mocked and ridiculed.

Only a spiritual revival of American values can strengthen our political will. Wake up, America! Remember "In God We Trust." If we unite, educate and take action, we can restore our republic.

Reverend Wright Story Smothered, Evidence of Media Plotting Exposed: 
* Posted by Jared Law on July 20 -
http://www.the912project.us/forum/topic/show?id=2881797%3ATopic%3A1247540&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

Glenn Beck is covering this story live on his talk radio show as I write this. While the vast majority of our members realized this was going on, it's nice to finally have confirmation of what we weren't willing to discount. I mean, it's only logical that the radical leftist extremists in the media would protect their homeboy, despite their professions of impartiality, but now the evidence confirms our suspicions.

You've got to read this article, which would have stunned enough Americans, had they realized it was going on back during the 2008 election, to change the outcome of the Democratic primary. And while it wouldn't have stunned many of us, it WOULD have outraged many Americans who were deceived into voting for Barack Hussein Obama...at least...I would hope so!

But finally we have evidence of an actual conspiracy against the truth, to smother a story which may have derailed the Obama victory had it been covered with the intensity the story deserved. If only all America could know about this story, it would awaken many Americans, and the numbers of those willing to stand up to the Obama Regime would swell. I'll update this once the video is available to embed in this discussion thread. Until then...

...here's the story:

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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah W...
By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller 1:15 AM 07/20/2010

Jeremiah WrightIt was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama's political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher's rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama's campaign.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright's remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, "Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?"

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. "George [Stephanopoulos]," fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is "being a disgusting little rat snake."

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: "Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn't about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people."

"Richard Kim got this right above: 'a horrible glimpse of general election press strategy.' He's dead on," Tomasky continued. "We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease."

(In an interview Monday, Tomasky defended his position, calling the ABC debate an example of shoddy journalism.)

Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, "why don't we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?" Schaller proposed coordinating a "smart statement expressing disgust" at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama.

"It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort," Schaller wrote.

Tomasky approved. "YES. A thousand times yes," he exclaimed.

The members began collaborating on their open letter. Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones rejected an early draft, saying, "I'd say too short. In my opinion, it doesn't go far enough in highlighting the inanity of some of [Gibson's] and [Stephanopoulos's] questions. And it doesn't point out their factual inaccuracies …Our friends at Media Matters probably have tons of experience with this sort of thing, if we want their input."

Jared Bernstein, who would go on to be Vice President Joe Biden's top economist when Obama took office, helped, too. The letter should be "Short, punchy and solely focused on vapidity of gotcha," Bernstein wrote.

In the midst of this collaborative enterprise, Holly Yeager, now of the Columbia Journalism Review, dropped into the conversation to say "be sure to read" a column in that day's Washington Post that attacked the debate.

Columnist Joe Conason weighed in with suggestions. So did Slate contributor David Greenberg, and David Roberts of the website Grist. Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, helped too.

Journolist members signed the statement and released it April 18, calling the debate "a revolting descent into tabloid journalism and a gross disservice to Americans concerned about the great issues facing the nation and the world."

The letter caused a brief splash and won the attention of the New York Times. But only a week later, Obama – and the journalists who were helping him – were on the defensive once again.

Jeremiah Wright was back in the news after making a series of media appearances. At the National Press Club, Wright claimed Obama had only repudiated his beliefs for "political reasons." Wright also reiterated his charge that the U.S. federal government had created AIDS as a means of committing genocide against African Americans.

It was another crisis, and members of Journolist again rose to help Obama.

Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to "particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media" who were members of the list.

The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all. Instead, "It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country."

Hayes castigated his fellow liberals for criticizing Wright. "All this hand wringing about just
how awful and odious Rev. Wright remarks are just keeps the hustle going."

"Our country disappears people. It tortures people. It has the blood of as many as one million Iraqi civilians — men, women, children, the infirmed — on its hands. You'll forgive me if I just can't quite dredge up the requisite amount of outrage over Barack Obama's pastor," Hayes wrote.

Hayes urged his colleagues – especially the straight news reporters who were charged with covering the campaign in a neutral way – to bury the Wright scandal. "I'm not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don't think he's worthy of defense, don't defend him! What I'm saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable," Hayes said.

(Reached by phone Monday, Hayes argued his words then fell on deaf ears. "I can say 'hey I don't think you guys should cover this,' but no one listened to me.")

Katha Pollitt – Hayes's colleague at the Nation – didn't disagree on principle, though she did sound weary of the propaganda. "I hear you. but I am really tired of defending the indefensible. The people who attacked Clinton on Monica were prissy and ridiculous, but let me tell you it was no fun, as a feminist and a woman, waving aside as politically irrelevant and part of the vast rightwing conspiracy Paula, Monica, Kathleen, Juanita," Pollitt said.

"Part of me doesn't like this shit either," agreed Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent. "But what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals."

Ackerman went on:

    I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.


    And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.


Ackerman did allow there were some Republicans who weren't racists. "We'll know who doesn't deserve this treatment — Ross Douthat, for instance — but the others need to get it." He also said he had begun to implement his plan. "I previewed it a bit on my blog last week after Commentary wildly distorted a comment Joe Cirincione made to make him appear like (what else) an antisemite. So I said: why is it that so many on the right have such a problem with the first viable prospective African-American president?"

Several members of the list disagreed with Ackerman – but only on strategic grounds.

"Spencer, you're wrong," wrote Mark Schmitt, now an editor at the American Prospect. "Calling Fred Barnes a racist doesn't further the argument, and not just because Juan Williams is his new black friend, but because that makes it all about character. The goal is to get to the point where you can contrast some _thing_ — Obama's substantive agenda — with this crap."

(In an interview Monday, Schmitt declined to say whether he thought Ackerman's plan was wrong. "That is not a question I'm going to answer," he said.)

Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman's strategy. "I think it's worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he's trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he's not going change the way politics works?"

But it was Ackerman who had the last word. "Kevin, I'm not saying OBAMA should do this. I'm saying WE should do this."

Keith Wilson heads the DeLand 912 group. Thanks Keith!
The News-Journal printed this on Saturday, May 1 .
For more information see www.deland912.org .

The Times They Are a-Changin

   I have lived in Volusia County for 50 years now. I am not proud of the fact that I have only voted in two elections in my entire life. So I have no one to blame but myself. I have never seen anything like what we are facing today. As a small business owner I have seen my friends, my customers, and other business owners out of work or struggling to make it in this economy. I often wonder if I will survive this economy myself.

   Like they say, you must first understand the problem before you find the solution. As a computer engineer I always need all the pieces to fit correctly and to perform in a system. It didn't take me long to see that our government was out of control on a local and national level.

   I got involved with the Tea Party and 912 groups in Volusia County last year. I went to the 9/12/09 march in DC. I had never been in a crowd of a million people before. They were just average Americans that loved their country. When I saw how little news coverage that event received, I knew the media was a very big part of the problem also.

This started my hunt for the truth. In the 912 group I was introduced to the Constitution, the Federalists Papers, the books "The 5000 Year Leap", "The Law" and many others. I listened to speakers and watched videos of a history that I was never taught. I came away with one clear idea after my studies. Our founders setup the most perfect form of government that has ever existed, period! They thought of everything and even warned about the evil of amassing debt that your children and grandchildren would have to pay back, the dangers of a currency that wasn't backed by gold or silver, and many more of the errors we have committed. If you hear that the Constitution is an old, outdated document that was written by a bunch of dumb farmers, don't believe it. Read the Federalist Papers and then see if you can find a politician today that would be their intellectual equals.

   We don't necessarily need genius today; we just need honest people with common sense. This country was founded on a document that I have a copy of; it is 17 pages long and fits in my shirt pocket. If we are going to fix this country we all have to get involved. If we just let the politician with the most money win the election, we will get more of the same.

I have started a DeLand 912 group and I am heavily involved in passing on what I have learned about the American form of government. We are reaching out to other like minded people. I plan to vet many local candidates in our group meetings between now and the election by giving them a few minutes to speak and to answer questions from or group. When I see a good candidate, one that understands what made America great, I am going to get behind them. I have a few picked out already that are running for County Council. Who knows, I may be knocking on your door one afternoon passing out pamphlets for a candidate I believe in, or even making phone calls for them?

   I can never just sit back and complain when I know the problem and I know the solution. I will do my best to always have truthful information, but I will not be silenced. In our government the power was supposed to flow from the people to local and state government, and from the states to Washington. Washington should only have very limited, well defined powers, with most power reserved to the states and to the people. Can you see how upside down we really are today? Like they say; "all politics are local", so let's elect good people on the local level. Let's elect honest people, people that will stand up for us against our out of control local and federal governments, people that will stand up and protect our rights, people that will quit wasting OUR money. The true duty of all of our elected government officials, from the President of the United States to your local Police Chief is..to protect our God given, unalienable (can't be taken away) rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (property)".

Yes we can, fix this!

Keith Wilson, Partner

AAC Computers
829 East New York Ave
DeLand, FL 32724
keith@aaccomputers.com

Black Republican Rebukes Steele  http://www.lloydmarcus.com/
April 26th, 2010

RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that the GOP has not given blacks a reason to vote
 Republican. As a black conservative Republican, I ask, what is the GOP suppose to do
— serve soul food at Republican events?...
read more http://www.lloydmarcus.com/
 

Some ARCHIVES below...

Volusia 912 Causes Stir at Republican Executive Committee Meeting

On January 9, 2010, the first meeting held by the Republican Executive Committee of Volusia County, Florida for this year, was completely overwhelmed by the presence of the 912 Project. 

In an historic moment, Tony Ledbetter, member of the Volusia 912 and a Republican Executive Committee member, brought forth a motion for new business, but preceded his motion with the question "How many in this room are 912ers?"  A resounding majority of the approximately 70 people in the room raised their hands!  Even I was completely awestruck.  It was truly a moment for all of us to be proud and to understand the significance of our power.
 
The path to bringing forth principled candidates and forming an army of foot soldiers for the precinct battles ahead, is well on its way.  We will work within the party, but on our terms.
 
My congratulations goes out to all our members for the dedication and perseverance you have displayed throughout 2009.  Americas rising sun is coming in 2010!
 
We the People, shall be the special interest in the halls of Congress!
 
Your humble patriot and fellow 912er,
 
Ray Sanchez
The Florida 912 Project
www.volusia912.org

Letter from Ray: 1.05.10

Dear 912ers -
 
As we embark on 2010, I'd like to take this opportunity to offer my words of encouragement and vision for the road ahead.
 
However, before I can put those words forth, I must acknowledge a few of the realities we're facing.
 
America has awakened to the deception, corruption and odious legislation in government.  Our focus has been on Federal government, but we recognize this infection is not limited to Washington.  Unfortunately, it lives and breathes in the halls of our State Legislature and County offices as well.  This is not an easy fix, and the work ahead seems daunting.  The road is long, but our mission clear.  We will brick by brick, restore our Republic to it's rightful place.
 
Volusia 912 is dedicated to cleaning house in every part of government, but, for the time being, we realize the urgency of overturning the reckless and destructive Congress we now have.  We will make sure to put forth, or back, viable candidates.  We have been working closely with groups all throughout our State to make this a reality.  We have a great model to work with, but need boots on the ground for raising awareness and votes at the precinct level.  We will work hard to those ends, so nothing is left to chance come November.  In meetings ahead, Volusia 912 will show you how.
 
My commitment will not waver, and I'm asking the same of all our members.  Study hard, fight even harder.  Find your voice and gain influence with friends, family and co-workers.  Wake them up!
 
We have a Herculean task ahead of us, but I am convinced a new America is rising.  If any of you have read the story of Benjamin Franklin upon leaving the first Constitutional Convention, as he gazed at the gilded artwork at the seat of the presiding chair, he commented on whether the sun upon the relief was rising or setting.  After witnessing what had transpired within those halls, he felt confident that the sun was rising for America.  I see the same sun now, and know there are true Americans who understand freedom and what is at stake at this moment in history.
 
Please join us in our effort.  Come to our meetings, rallies, events and seminars.  We will give you the tools, but need your ideas, hard work and commitment for our success.  If you ever wanted to make a difference and be a part of something special, this is it.  Be a part of history and the American Comeback in 2010.  Let's stop waiting for someone else to take care of it.  Future generations need us to be those Americans.
 
God Bless and Happy New Year!
 
Ray Sanchez
Florida 912 Project