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Greetings Fellow Patriots!

The next meeting If the Franklin County Patriots is Thursday, July 22nd at 6:00 P.M.

It will be held at the F.C. Library in Rocky Mount upstairs in the main meeting room

 Special Guest Speaker

Melvin Adams,  President of Renew A Nation

Melvin will be sharing his personal perspective on political trands in America.  Having lived about half of his life overseas in a country that became socialist while he was there and having spent 8 years in the former Soviet Union, he has a unique and informative perspective.  He will also share what he believes is TOP PRIORITY in correcting the course of the country.

There will be time for questions and answers.

Don’t misss this important meeting as we will be sharing some very exciting upcoming events,  discussing plans for oue participation and signing up for the Patriots 9/12 March on D.C.

• Its time to get moving again! 

• Time to stand up and be counted! 

• Feet do your duty our country is trouble! 

Inaugural Virginia Tea Party Convention

Friday & Saturday, October 8-9, 2010

The Constitution Still Matters

• Nationally Known Speakers 

• Seminars

• Congressional Candidate Forums   

• Friday Night Freedom Lovers Extravaganza    

The Virgina Tea Party Convention will be held at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 North 3rd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219

and will run from 9 a.m. to 5 pm both days.

Activities and Event Will Include:

Both Days

• Nationally Known Speakers

• Seminars to educate , motivate, and activate you to be more effective in your communities and in the Tea Party movement.

  • Three Tracks

    • History/Constitution
    • Public Policy
    • Grassroots Training

• Friday Night Freedom Lovers Extravaganza with networking, a live band, dancing and more!
• Friday: Congressional Candidate Froums for every Viginia Congressional District, ALL cnadidtates are invited.
• Saturday:  Presidential Straw Poll.

 Convention and “Freedom Lovers Extravaganza” Ticket Options:

• 2-day Ticket  (Friday & Saturday)
  • $50 (or $45 early bird price before July 31st, 2010)
• 1-day Tickek (Friday OR Saturday)
  • $40 (or $35 early bird price before July 31st, 2010)
• Freedon Lovers Extravaganza, Friday October 8th 7PM to 10PM at the Richmons Marriott Hotel
  • $20

Go to Virginia Tea Party or email for more details.

Ticket Information

To order tickets go Virginia Tea Party (credit cards accepted), or send a check* to:

*Checks must be received 2 weeks prior to the event.

Sponsorships Available

The Tea Party Convention is going to be a major event with thousands in attendance.  Convention and seminar sponsorships are available.  For More Information visit Tea Party Convention or email.

The Franklin County Patriots are a member of the Virginia Tea Party Patriots.  The Leadership Committee encourages each and every one of you to make plans to attend this event.

Organized by the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots, comprised of Tea Party and Patriots organizations form across Virginia.

“I do believe this nation has been portrayed for too long a time to the people as being energy poor, when it is energy rich.” Ronald Reagan

Reagan’s mission as President was to rein in a government he considered an obstacle to economic opportunity and human liberty. He complained the federal government had over-spent, over-estimated and over-regulated.

Supporting Gore, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid; Perriello voted in 2009 in favor of “Cap & Trade” or better known as “Cap & Tax”, the largest middle class energy tax increase in American History!

It  appears now that the Senate is gearing up to pass a ‘Cap & Trade’ travesty, forcing American Businesses to purchase carbon credits at a price now under negotiations, but orginially estimated to be as much as $100 billion. This price will be passed on to YOU, the consumer, in higher utilitiy bills, gasoline prices, services and everything manufactured or transported to include FOOD. Please visit the American Thinker and read the effects of this outrageous bill will have on you and your family.

Since the BP oil disaster, Obama has refused help from other countries to help clean up and possibly stop the oil flow. The President says he’s trying to take political control of this crisis and that’s seems to be exactly what’s he has done…in his political bureacratic gobbledygook that is. He’s using the oil spill to futher his radical agenda to pass Cap & Trade, just as he’s using the drug trafficing, (by doing nothing) along the borders to pass his immigration bill.  BP has said time and time again they will pay for all clean-up and make full restitution for damages. But in the Obama fashion: ‘never let a crisis go to waste’, they  want to seize the opportunity to take CONTROL. Obama wants the money BP would pay in damages put in escrow. (Control is what Obama’s all about.) Can you imagine all the red tape this administration will put those who lost their jobs and businesses through?  And let’s not forget the blood sucking vampires (AKA – the IRS) that want to make everyone pay taxes on the money they would receive. When all is said and done, those harmed by the oil spill will be lucky to get a dime. This is a good example of that ‘Hope & Change’.  Obama’s hoping he gets the money and you get the change.

The technology already exist to clean the oil spill, so why isn’t it being used?

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a policy to curtail surface mining in a six-state region, by reducing the practice of filling valleys with excess waste. In March , the EPA proposed to block a ‘mountaintop’ coal mine in West VA  regardless of the company’s federal permit. West VA is a democrat state so what will happen now with the passing of Robert Byrd? Will another democrat take his seat who is 100% for Obama’s solicalistic agenda or 100% for the people who rely on their mining jobs to support their state and families.

“When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know, under my plan of a Cap & Trade System, electricity rates would not necessarily skyrocket.” Barack Obama.

Coal, a fossil fuel, is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity worldwide. We use coal-generated electricity for numerous things including: heating, cooling, cooking, transportation, farming, and industry. Coal is a versatile fuel, can be used as a solid fuel and can be converted to a gas to replace expensive imported fuels. In terms of supply, the U.S. has over 300 billion tons of recoverable coal. That’s enough to last for 300 years. At this time, coal provides 45.2% of Virginia’s power, 97.8% of West VA’s, 93.1% in Kentucky, 85.8% in Ohio, 94% in Indania and 94.5% in Wyoming.

In the U.S., 23 out of 25 electric power plants generated by coal have lower operating cost than those producing electricity from natural gas. This means lower costs to homeowners and businesses.

In 2008 Obama said, “What I’ve said is that we would put a Cap & Trade System in place that is more – that is aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else’s out there…so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s been emitted.”

While speaking to a voter in Ohio, Joe (foot-in-mouth) Biden said firmly, “we’re not supporting clean coal.”

The West VA’s  Coal Association’s president and others in the coal industry say they’ve received mixed messages about Obama’s coal-fired power because both Obama and Biden have stated they would support finding cleaner ways to burn coal. Let me clear that up for you…… 

Obama has said he wants to bankrupt the coal industry and it has been reported that no new coal mining permits have been issued since he took office. His plans for coal mining would place tens of thousands out of work. In Pennsylvania there are 264 mines, 282 mines in West VA, Kentucky has 417 and Virginia with 118. That’s a lot of jobs! Obama must feel  it’s okay to add a few extra thousand to the unemployment lines as long as his socialistic agenda gets passed.

I’ll be the first to say Obama has a team of writers who know how to manipulate and sugar coat the facts, But the truth is, if you take a cow pattie and sugar coat it, in the end…. it’s still dung.

For even more information on the Cap & Trade Tax system please go here .

 SEIU Starting Third Party In North Carolina

(The Plum Line)

In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates, part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor, I’m told.

SEIU officials setting up the new party, called North Carolina First, are currently on the ground collecting signatures to qualify as a state party, SEIU officials tell me, adding that there are around 100 canvassers on the ground right now. The goal: To have the party up and running so candidates can run in this fall’s elections.

It won’t be lost on political observers that three House Dems who voted No on reform are from the state: Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, and Larry Kissell.

The new project is an outgrowth of SEIU’s earlier vow to hold House Dems accountable for voting against heatlh reform and against labor’s interests in general. That said, presuming the party qualifies at all, it remains to be seen how much clout it will wield.

For instance, it’s unclear which districts the party might field a candidate in, and what the criteria for picking those districts will be. A lot of these things will be determined by availability of candidates and other local political concerns.

It’s also unclear what kind of cash SEIU national will put into this effort — which will also include SEANC, the state employees’ union — and what this will do to relations between labor and the national Dem establishment. But this challenge appears to be a serious experiment in reshaping the landscape of Democratic politics, and it bears watching.

Here’s an example of how  SEIU works, 2009                                           

Obama promised to “Paint the Nation Purple with SEIU” and bragged of working with the Illinois-based Service Employees International Union helping them become more powerful. “SEIU, I’m glad you’re with me,” he declared. “Let’s together Change The Country.” Visit to read article and see video.

Obama’s purple Tie. Secret signal of SEIU Support.

SEIU and Moveon.org. urge members to support Flag ban.

Communist Party USA Honors SEIU and AFSCME leaders

Their view of future America

Fmr ACORN head calls Tea Parties “bowel movement” and claims they’re coming after you!

Several Senators have reported hearing of a possible plan by the Obama Administration to grant amnesty to illegal aliens by use of executive order if  he is unable to muster enought votes for a bill.    The story and copy of the Senators’ letter to Obama can be read here 

Executive orders  have been in use since 1789,  usually to help officers and agencies of the Executive Branch manage operations within the federal government.   They have often  come under criticism for exceeding the President’s authority and have been subject to legal proceedings concerning the validity or justification behind the order’s issuance.   Congress may overturn an Executive Order by passing legislation in conflict with the order or by refusing to approve funding to enforce it.  While the President retains power to veto, Congress may override a veto by 2/3’s majority.

The Article can be found here.

Essentially the justices on the Supreme Court have referenced an UN treaty THAT HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED BY THE U.S. Senate  as part of the basis for their ruling in a case in Fl. involving a child sentenced to life for armed robberies when he was 16 and 17.  They also say that the sentencing violated part of the 8th Amendment regarding “Cruel and Unusual punishment”.

The text of the 8th Amendement and related Commentary can be found here:

This is just another example of the work of an activist court and damage they are causing to our founding document and the principles and values at the heart of this country.

Please call, write, tell you Senators to support and become a sponsor the Senate Resolution 519  preventing the “Rights of the Child Treaty” to be sent to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

Let’s all see this as a “shape of the things to come” night. 

The longest serving (and I was that word loosely, I my opinion Spector has served no one but himself for quite a while) in Pennsylvania history is no more!!

Spector thought he had escaped this kind of fate by switching parties from Republican to Democratic in 2009.  That move wasn’t too worrisome to a lot of people as Spector made no bones about being a RHINO anyway.  But he truly didn’t think this would happen.

The polictial machine of the White House (Obama), The VP, Biden and even PA’s governor couldn’t keep humpty-Dumpty Spector from falling off the wall! 

Oh and by the way Biden,  THIS IS A BIG DEAL!! (I won’t use his words as they are truly unbecoming and certainly unprofessional to say the least but more importantly not Christian).

The new democratic Senate candidate from PA. Sestak, is somewhat of a conservative Democrat, especially on foreign and military policy.  Some say his primary win may actually be a boon for the Republican come November.

Spector made no bones about the fact that he switched parties solely to insure re-election and a get ticket back to Washington.  This had been conveyed more than once in press conferences, so “he could avoid a primary fight with Republican Pat Toomey”.  Instead the voters of PA. Gave Spector a One-Way ticket home.

It had been rumored that if Sestak would pull out of the race he would be given a “high-level government position”.

This again shows that this administration will stop at nothing to advance their agenda.

PA. Governor Ed Rendell said that he “Had never seen such a level of anti-incumbent sediment”  Gee Ed …. What were expecting,  this administration, your party and the bulk of those presently in Congress are driving this country in the ground!!   And WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING ALONG FOR THE RIDE!!!

BUT PLEASE, TAKE A LITTLE TIME AND WATCH THESE VIDEOS!!!

Go to Our Caucus   and watch Article Two through five. 

The information that is here will blow you away.   This is eye opening and sickening at the same time.

I keep asking myself, it seems now more than ever …. What have we allowed to happen to this country?? 

The corruption is so bad………..  Please take a little time.

• If you signed up to go at our Jan.14th meeting and need a ride. 
• If you are planning to drive and would be willing to take others with you.
• If you did not sign up to go but would now be willing to go

She can be contacted at  (540) 483-4325 or doctormarrietta@aol.com

For us here in the 5th district Congressman Perriello has signed on as a co-sponsor; Senator Webb has signed on as a co-sponsor; as of yet Senator Warner refuses to be a co-sponsor.

We must keep the pressure up on our elected representatives so they do not cave in to the pressure put on them from the elite in Washington. They must answer to their real bosses…….The People!