Beating Back the Extremist Assault

Published in the April, 2014 edition of The New Lynchburg Ledger. The Republicans lost Virginia last fall because they nominated the wrong person for governor. Over the past decade, Virginia has become much more liberal politically and a Republican-like Cuccinelli never had a chance. The nominee should have been Lt. Governor Bill Bolling who came to an agreement with Bob McDonnell four ago that McDonnell would run in 2009 and Bolling in 2013. Bolling would have been much less of a lightning rod than Cuccinelli and would have had a much better chance of winning. So what happened? The Republican Party of Virginia was taken over by the radical right wing of the party. For some reason, they hated Bill Bolling and changed the nominating process from a primary election to a convention, which favored Cuccinelli. They essentially broke covenant with Bolling by breaking the previously made commitment. As it turns out the epicenter of this radical right wing movement in Virginia is right here in Campbell County. Behind it is a person I have mentioned several times in past columns, Rick Boyer. Boyer previously served on the Board of Supervisors. I observed he cared little about the concerns of his constituents and only about the power the position gave him. He used that position to publicly attack fellow Republican, Senator Steve Newman. Boyer did not run for re-election because he entered Liberty University Law School. When he graduated he resumed pursuing his political goals. He is an excellent political operative, and I would applaud that if his motives were honorable, but they are not. Besides being responsible for fielding unelectable statewide candidates, he used Chicago-style political tactics to elect two of his disciples to the Board of Supervisors. Once they began serving their terms, it became obvious that they represented a real threat to the county. Boyer now has three of his loyal followers on the seven member board. By taking just one more board seat, he would have political control of the county by proxy. The speculation was that if that happened, they would appoint Boyer County Administrator (a position he is unqualified for), and Boyer would then have the power and the paycheck he so desperately covets. Politically active people across the state fear Boyer because of his extreme political philosophy and Chicago-style tactics. He has taken full advantage of the Tea Party movement and has been able to manipulate sincere, but gullible people into following his political lead. People from across the state have constantly asked us if we can do anything about Rick Boyer because he is destroying the Republican Party. We came 11 votes short of doing just that two years ago in the bi-annual Republican Mass Meeting, which is the time when the local parties reorganize themselves. This year, however, the situation was different. The actions of the two new supervisors alarmed so many that we were able to form a coalition in an attempt to end Boyer’s reign. Boyer, although no longer a resident of Campbell County, had been calling people on his list regarding the 2014 Mass Meeting for two months. He already knew the pre-filing date for the meeting, but we didn’t find out about it until just about a week before the filing deadline. We had just one week to organize. It was a frantic week but in the end, Boyer doubled the people he turned out two years ago, while we tripled our number. Consequently, we were able to take control of the Mass Meeting by electing our own Temporary Chairman who appointed all the committees to run the meeting. The vote was 308 to 240. Realizing we had a clear majority, they tried to cut a deal. They would concede the chairmanship if we would nominate everyone who filed to be local party members and attend the 5th Congressional District and State Republican conventions. We quickly declined as we were sure we would win the chairmanship anyway. If we did not have an initial voting majority in the local party, having the chairmanship would have been meaningless. 5th District Congressman Robert Hurt took the unusual step of publicly endorsing his choice for chairman as the Boyer crowd was pushing someone totally unacceptable. It was our intention to support Robert Hurt and nominate only those who supported his choice. I as appointed chairman of the Nominations Committee. The way the process works is that those wishing to apply for party membership or to be delegates to either or both conventions had to have pre-filed an application with the party chairman by March 3rd for the March 20th meeting. It was the responsibility of the chairman to process those applications by producing certified usable lists of nominees. When I approached the chairman asking for the lists, I was horrified to learn that there were no lists prepared. In my nearly 30 years of political involvement, I have never witnessed such incompetence. We had an administrative disaster on our hands. The only thing the chairman had was seven manila envelopes stuffed with letter-size envelopes containing the submitted forms that had been pre-filed, and he really didn’t have them. Now where do you suppose they were? Why they were in the possession of none other than Rick Boyer who was not a delegate at this Mass Meeting, but an observer. He read the tea leaves and realized he was going to lose possession of the forms. Since he knew no lists of those who filed existed, he and his team were frantically pulling open envelopes and hurriedly writing down names for him to use for his own personal political purposes. This was completely unethical and as an attorney, he should know that. I literally had to wrestle the materials out of their hands and nearly had to call for the sergeant at arms for assistance. I asked Boyer for the lists he was compiling, and he flatly refused. He could care less if people got to go to the conventions just as long as he was able to mine the material for names. Members of my committee were finally able to convince Boyer to give us a copy. It was physically impossible to process the forms there at the meeting as it would have taken hours, and we had only minutes to prepare a list of nominees. Fortunately, I had prepared a list of those who we knew had pre-filed, but that was probably less than five percent of the total. We combed over the data we got from Boyer, even though it was third party and not certified in a desperate attempt to add qualified nominees. We presented our nominees to the meeting, and they were voted in. One of Boyer’s disciples made a motion that all who applied be approved, and that motion was rejected. Our candidate, John Ferguson, was elected chairman by a vote of 301 to 189. The meeting then adjourned but the fight was not over. Many applicants were very upset that they were not nominated and elected, and rightly so. Even 59th District Delegate Matt Fariss was not nominated because his name was not put forth by the party. When we went to collect the forms submitted that evening by about 300 people, we discovered they were missing. There is one witness who overheard a former party chairman and Rick Boyer discussing the fate of these forms. Just as Barack Obama keeps blaming George W. Bush for everything, Boyer and his crowd immediately started blaming us for their colossal administrative blunder. I am sure they are going to appeal, cry and moan and certainly lie. They have already started doing that. And who said politics is dull and boring?

Where is the outrage?

Published in the March, 2014 edition of The New Lynchburg Ledger In colonial times, the British government repeatedly violated the rights of the colonialists, who were British subjects. After many attempts to resolve the wrongs being inflicted upon them, it became clear that the British Crown no longer considered them worthy of the rights of free Englishmen. They called it tyranny. Tyranny is defines as “cruel and oppressive government or rule.” It was the pulpits of colonial time that spoke out most forcefully against tyranny. Pastors and preachers of the day were outraged by the lawlessness of the king and were not afraid to say so. They were not afraid to be “politically incorrect.” Up to now, we have been a government of laws built on a Constitutional framework. However, we are rapidly regressing from a government of laws to a government of man. This occurs when those we elect to office simply chose to ignore the laws and the Constitution, much in the way that King George did just prior to the American Revolution. Attorney General Elect Mark Herring was administered the Oath of Office on January 11, 2014 in which he swore to “Support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia.” However, just 15 days later, broke his oath to the people of Virginia. On January 26, 2014, Attorney General Mark Herring refused to support the Constitution of Virginia by announcing he would not defend the Marriage Amendment to the Virginia Constitution in court. The people of the Commonwealth of Virginia amended their Constitution by the method described in Article XII, Section I of the Constitution of Virginia in 2006. this amendment declared that marriage in Virginia was only between a man and a woman. When Mark Herring took the oath of office, he obviously knew of the lawsuit that had been filed challenging Virginia’s position on marriage and it is safe to say he knew exactly the course of action he planned to follow. In short, he lied. I am outraged over being lied to but I don’t see a whole lot of others being outraged. Attorney General Mark Herring has met the qualifications for Impeachment under Article IV, Section 17 of the Constitution of Virginia by neglecting his sworn duty to support Virginia’s Constitution. So where is the outrage from the Republican-controlled House of Delegates? There is at least one person who is outraged over Herrings refusal to defend Virginia’s Constitution.

The Destruction of the Black Sub-Culture

Published in the February issue of The New Lynchburg Ledger February is Black History Month, and we will be hearing about various Black Americans who have made significant contributions to society, such as George Washington Carver, Charles Richard Drew and Alexander Mils, just to name a few. What we will not be hearing about is the decline of the black family and black culture over the past 50 years at the hands of the liberal Democrats. We will not hear it because that would be politically incorrect. In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Passage of this landmark legislation was far from smooth sailing with notable Democrats such as Senators Mike Mansfield (Senate majority leader), J. William Fulbright (mentor to Bill Clinton) and Al Gore, Sr. opposing the legislation. The Senate passed the bill by 73 to 27 with most Republicans supporting the bill and most of the opposition coming from Democrats. The Civil Rights legislation removed the institutional barriers to race equality in America. It could do nothing, however, about what is in the individual heart. That would take a couple of generations to work its way out. While the Civil Rights Bill was a benefit to black Americans, in the same year, Lyndon Johnson called for a War on Poverty in his January 8, 1964 speech which set in motion programs that have devastated American families in general and black families in particular over the past 50 years. We have poured trillions of dollars down a rat hole and in the process devastated the core of the black family in America. Prior to 1964, the black family in America was still fairly strong, even under segregation. However, the more that government inserted itself, the weaker the black family became. In 1965, the black “illegitimacy” rate was 24 percent, roughly one in four black children were born to a single mother. The rate in the white community was four percent. As government stepped in, the black male was pushed out, relegated to being nothing more than a sperm donor. So now, after 50 years, the black illegitimacy rate has almost tripled to 72 percent. No culture, or in this case sub-culture, can succeed with numbers such as that. The white illegitimacy rate has also increased and now stands at 29 percent. Other ethnic rates are 17 percent for Asians, 53 percent for Hispanics and 66 percent for Native Americans. A male is genetically predisposed to be a provider so when a government program steps in and renders him unnecessary, he looks for other ways to assert his manhood. Often, this brings him afoul of the law. In 2010, blacks were almost six times more likely to be in jail than whites and twice as likely as Hispanics. Liberals attribute this to a problem within our judicial system when, in fact, it is an endemic problem of crime in the black sub-culture. In fact, one in three black males expects to be incarcerated at least once in their lives. The custom of wearing pants low with underwear showing stems from prison life where inmates are not allowed to have belts, and their pants continuously drop down. When it comes to employment, black American unemployment runs about twice that of the white population. Again, the liberals blame the society but are blind to the real reason, which is far too many blacks are simply unemployable. The public school system has very low expectations for black students, especially in the inner cities where black unemployment is the highest. I would submit that the plight of black Americans is much worse today then it was 50 years ago. As a nation, we have made great strides in racial equality in the past 50 years. Today, the NFL and NBA are dominated by blacks. Blacks are well represented in entertainment with icons such as Oprah Winfrey and Bill Cosby commanding big audiences. Blacks are also well represented in politics. After all, we elected a black Democrat as president, twice. Although blacks are well represented throughout society, there still remains an almost permanent underclass that has become dependent on government for their existence. Self appointed leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, along with the Obama administration, continue to divide America along racial lines. Instead of holding up successful blacks as examples, such as Dr. Ben Carson and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, they continue to portray blacks as victims of white Americans such as in the Trayvon Martin case. Martin was a thief, punk and drug abuser who would probably be alive today had the criminal justice system not given him a pass. The solution to the problems within the black community lies within the black community itself. However, when influential blacks like Bill Cosby have spoken out about it, they have been all but shouted down by liberals. Even liberal Juan Williams, a Fox News contributer, has recognized the problem and has addressed it in his book, Enough. This too has been rejected by black leadership. When they talk about equal opportunities, what they really mean is equal outcomes. In today’s America, everyone has an equal opportunity. Our illegal immigration problem is proof enough of that. The liberal’s solution to equality is not to raise up the non-producers but to tear down the producers. Liberals have been very successful in silencing those who speak out by calling them racists. They even call those who criticize Obama policies, racists. Well, it is time to throw that right back in their faces and challenge them to drastically reduce unwed black births (not through abortion), reduce black crime, especially black-on-black crime, and challenge black youth to embrace education instead of rejecting it as being “too white.” Meanwhile, blacks continue to vote in overwhelming numbers for those responsible for keeping them a permanent under class. That is like chickens voting for Col. Sanders, and pigs voting for Jimmy Dean.

2014, Time to Take a Stand

Published in the january, 2014 edition of The New Lynchburg Ledger The First Amendment to the U.S Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” So, did A&E violate Phil Robertson’s First Amendment rights when they suspended him from Duck Dynasty? The answer is, “No.” The first word in the First Amendment is “Congress” so only the federal government can violate the First Amendment. And it does so almost every day. Phil Robertson was exercising his First Amendment rights of “freedom of religion” and “freedom of speech” when he gave an interviewer from GQ magazine his personal beliefs on homosexuality, which are based on the teachings of the Bible. The reaction from the homosexual community was predictable (as I am sure the GQ interviewer knew it would be), and A&E caved quicker than a moderate Republican raising the debt ceiling. However, the backlash A&E received was not so predictable, because they quickly caved and restored Robertson to his popular show. I have never seen Duck Dynasty but I fired off an email to A&E in protest because, what they did was religious bigotry. The people who for years have screamed for tolerance turn out to be some of the most intolerant people on the planet. In fact, intimidation is used by the left to silence the critics and it is time to put an end to it. In 2014, my New Year’s Resolution is to take a stand against political correctness and exercise my religious and free speech rights. I was absolutely incensed when I learned that the Rose Parade this year would feature a homosexual wedding on a float. I vowed not to watch it, and I suggested to people I know to do likewise. I also contacted some of the sponsors of the Rose Parade (Honda, FTD, Taco Bell, Macy’s, Coca Cola, Farmer’s Insurance, Miracle Grow and Wells Fargo) to let them know my displeasure. Had I not been forewarned, I would have had that perversion come uninvited right into my living room. Perversion, isn’t that too strong? No, not at all as that is one word that God uses to describe extreme sexual immorality. I intend to be Biblically correct and could care less if I am politically incorrect and if some liberal is offended. Our culture is crumbling around us and if we do not start pushing back, it won’t be long before we will be unable to do so. One of the other freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment is the “freedom of the press” which the Founding Fathers found to be essential to good government. Government by “We the People” cannot function without an informed citizenry. Today the media is nothing more than a branch of the Democrat Party. They lie to support the liberal agenda and anyone who depends on them is a fool; they are being ill-informed, misinformed and are being fed a steady stream of liberal propaganda. The media, our public education system, Hollywood and even the Episcopal Church have succeeded in brainwashing the American people into thinking homosexuality is just a harmless alternate lifestyle. The fact is just the opposite. The biggest deception is the lie that homosexuality is genetic. Although there is absolutely no credible evidence to support this myth, many supposedly smart people, such as Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, believe the lie. They ignore the overwhelming evidence, testimonies from thousands of former homosexuals (ex-gays), that it is not genetic. For further information on former homosexuals go to pfox.org and sbministries.org. The homosexual lifestyle is fraught with serious health concerns. First is HIV/AIDS with over fifty percent of the cases among homosexual males. AIDS was brought to the U.S. by homosexual males and was first called Gay Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). As a frequent blood donor, I am confronted with a long questionnaire every time I donate. One of them asks if you have ever had sex with another male. If you have, you cannot donate. Homosexuals contaminated the nation’s blood supply before anything about AIDS was known and are responsible for the deaths of thousands of hemophiliacs who required blood transfusions. Many homosexuals are alcohol and drug abusers. To engage in some of their perversions, they need to self-medicate. Consequently, IV needles became contaminated, and AIDS quickly found its way into the IV drug culture, killing tens of thousands of drug addicts. AIDS is not the only health concern. According to the CDC, approximately 10 % of new Hepatitis A and 20% of all new Hepatitis B infections in the United States are among men who engage in homosexual sex. Since the homosexual population is only between two and three percent, they contract hepatitis five to 10 times more than the average population. Then there is Gay Bowel Syndrome. I won’t go into the details of that so I’ll leave it to the reader to Google for further information. While you are on line, check http://www.biblebelievers.com/Cameron2.html for “MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HOMOSEXUALS DO.” It is obvious our media is grossly negligent in performing their constitutional duty of truthfully informing the American people and that is just fine with the liberals.