Constitutional Rally

February 10, 2010
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

South Steps of the Capitol Building in Jackson, Ms.

Come to the Constitutional Rally to show our state legislators that we need them to fight for our Constitutional Rights!

People in this state know that the federal government was instituted to secure the individual rights of our citizens and instead now threatens our life, liberty, and property through usurpations of the Constitution. We no longer believe that anyone in Washington is looking out for us, and so we turn our attention to our state, in the hopes that Mississippi will stand against the many Constitutional violations that threaten our freedom.

If not, the time is now! Grassroots groups within Mississippi are rapidly growing, and we need you to stand with us if our way of life is important to you.

George Washington’s troops, on Christmas Eve, marched in the snow, barefoot, with burlap wrapped around their feet to surprise the British and secure our freedom as a nation. Is it too much to ask that you take off work, or give up other plans to make a stand?

We don’t have much time left before it is too late to do anything but to submit to what the politicians in Washington dictate. Don’t expect others to do it for you.

It is time to stand up and be counted

RALLY RULES

First and foremost – this is a Constitutional Rally. We need to put forth a positive message and show our state legislators that we are serious about expecting Mississippi to stand up for us. At all times, behave positively and respectfully. We don’t expect any “crashers” but you never know, and we are the good guys!!!!

We will be responsible for clean-up, so please, leave the grounds just as we found them. Emulate the 9/12 March on Washington last fall, when not one scrap of paper was left on the grounds.

Be prepared to stay the day. The rally is from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Bring some bottled water and snack bars.

Make signs – they do not have to be professionally done – but should be positive statements about our Constitutional rights and what we want done. Some examples are:
UPHOLD OUR CONSTITUTION
PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
NULLIFY UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS
SAVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS
THE STATE OF MS IS OUR LAST HOPE AGAINST TYRRANY
WE NEED YOU TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS
OUR STATE LEGISLATURE IS OUR ONLY HOPE OF FREEDOM
USE THIS SESSION TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS
PASS LEGISLATION TO ENSURE OUR FREEDOM
Please stay away from negative phrases or phrases using “states rights”. We don’t want to come across as confrontational – but purely positive in support of our Constitutional rights and liberties.

Schedule a meeting with your local Representative/Senator sometime that day to tell them how you expect them to help us and/or call them and let them know about the Rally. Ask them to come and show support.

If you have any questions or want more information, call (601) 795-2699.

Be sure to pass this on to any and all--we need everyone!
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WE DID IT!!!!!

To All Our Leaders - Feb 8
From Jeppie Barbour
February 8, 2010

At the moment all five districts have exceeded their targets. Districts 1 and 2 and 3 all
have comfortable margins (over 22,000). District 4 has just over 20,000 and District 5 has over 21,000. There are several hundred more in the Clerks' offices in all 5 districts and the certified totals for all will rise. We can reasonably expect that every district will exceed 22,000.

A lot of you have done a lot of work and some of you have done very, very much work.
It took the teamwork of all of you and your volunteers and our friends from the Tea Party and the other Patriot groups to get this done.

I must ask you to round up every signature that is on a kitchen table or on the counter of a business. We owe it to the volunteers to get them turned in, even if there is not time to
certify them. Please send in (by mail or by hand) everything which you can find.

Also, please check with the Circuit Clerk and try to get all the petitions that are in the Clerk's office sent on to us. Please check whatever the Clerk hands you and be sure that they are ours and not from the Personhood group.

We want to get all petitions, certified and uncertified, in to Jackson headquarters this week.

Right now we plan to deliver our petitions to the Secretary of State at 2 pm on Thursday the 11th. You're welcome to come and to invite anyone who has helped. Let me say that we probably won't need your help in getting the petitions turned in but we will welcome your company.

To our College Republican leaders - you're included in this invitation. So are your helpers.

To all of you, all over the state, and from all groups - thanks for your work.

Jeppie Barbour

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Tea Party Alert – Special State Election District 36

For those residing in District 36, we wanted to make sure you were aware of the upcoming special election. District 36 contains precincts within Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds and Jefferson counties. The election is set for Wednesday, February 16th and one of the candidates running for the seat is Jimmy Strong. Jimmy’s wife's name is Ellen and they have three children and several grandchildren. Jimmy is a graduate of Utica High School and supports conservative principles. Should you wish to contact Jimmy to find out more about his platform or assist in his campaign, his email address is jestrong1@wildblue.net.

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FYI: TEA PARTY PRINCIPLES Our purpose & mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens within the State of Mississippi to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of: • Fiscal Responsibility • Constitutionally Limited Government • Free Markets MSTP is a non-partisan grassroots organization of individuals united by our core values derived from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. We recognize and support the strength of grassroots organization powered by activism and civic responsibility at a local level. We hold that the United States is a republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted "unalienable rights" by our Creator. Chiefly among these are the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The MSTP stands with our founders, as heirs to the republic, to claim our rights and duties which preserve their legacy and our own. We hold, as did the founders, that there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual. Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject it's citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Runaway deficit spending compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations. Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The MSTP, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law. Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business. _____________________________________________________

September 12, 2009 – A Singular Event in U.S. History

On September 12th people from Mississippi joined the million plus others who arrived that day at the foot of the Capitol to represent you in Washington. Obama said he was calling out anyone who disagreed with his health plan and we showed up to say two things. “Ok Mr. President – we are out” and “Can you hear us NOW????

People from every state and of differing ethnicity and economic status came with a clear demand that Congress and the President stop their Socialist agenda and kill the healthcare reform bill. They proved that American courage and resolve has not died.

Obama’s response was to send Axelrod out to say that not one person of the people there that day represented main street America or the mood of the people and that they were wrong.

The Socialists now running the Whitehouse and Congress thought that by ignoring freedom loving patriots they could hide Freedom’s Light. They thought that by calling true Americans hateful names they would be throwing waters of discouragement on the flame of freedom burning in our hearts. They thought that the heat of their arrogant intimidation tactics would cause our hearts to melt with fear.

Well my friends, their ignoring became a magnifying glass. Their water of accusation became gasoline. And their fire of intimidation has tempered the courage of our hearts. Their attacks and disrespect have not caused these lovers of Freedom to quiver with fear and melt away. They have forced what were once individual flames of passion to join in a single inferno of anger and determination. They played with fire and now they are the ones being burned. They thought that through their grip on power they could smother us, but we are taking deep breaths of Liberty’s air and there is the smell of battle in it. The giant they hoped was dead is alive and on the attack.

I have watched with great admiration as thousands of people in Mississippi, have risen with genuine courage to face this deliberate attack on America. Mild mannered, polite people who have never protested before have become organizers; sign carrying protesters, letter writers, demonstrators, and wear the media given labels of “mob”, “political terrorist”, “disrupter”, “right-wing extremist”, and many others with pride. These good people who love their country and the freedoms and responsibilities that American blood has bought for them have stood up to face the wickedness in DC as the voice of “We the People.” And, having stood up they have pledged their lives, their comfort, their convenience, and their resources to resist tyranny.

The full importance and impact of September 12th may not be recognized for years to come. But it is a day of singular importance in American history when a truly self motivated grassroots movement of this scale steps forward into the great issues of the day with such resolve that their voice cannot be drowned out.

You can be so proud of the many Mississippians who participated in DC and simultaneously in several cities around the state. They honored you with their conduct, their civility, their fervor, and dignity. I salute each of them for they have gained my highest regard. It is my life’s greatest honor to serve such people. But let us remember, the work and the hottest battles are still before us.

In closing, please remember that “It IS about our fundamental values."

Roy Nicholson
President

Now that you've become a member of the Mississippi Tea Party, how else can you get involved? Below are suggestions, laid out by head committee member Roy Nicholson. Does this inspire you to action? Talk about it here on the site in a blog post or a discussion in one of our groups!

MISSISSIPPI TEA PARTY CALL TO ACTION

PRAY FOR OUR NATION AND HER LEADERS AND ORGANIZE PRAYER GROUPS
If God does not intervene, turning the hearts of our politicians and opening the hearts and minds of the citizens, then all is lost.

Invite your neighbors and friends to a prayer meeting at your home or church to pray for the country. It can be as general or as specific as you are led to provide.

The group should pray in ways that they share the most agreement.

If your group sees situations and issues differently than we do, pray anyway. Do not be afraid of any honest prayer. The Father is able to hear our hearts and answer with what is best in His sight.

GET INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS
Register to Vote AND Vote.

Vote only for candidates who are of genuine good character that will honor their pledge to support and defend the Constitution and who will not go along with the Socialist agenda coming out of Washington.

Become an active member of your party but stand up for your beliefs and serve on committees and in leadership positions.

Campaign for good candidates who have real character and who will only vote or administrate according to the U.S. Constitution.

Write editorials for your paper, websites, and blogs.

Run for office.

GET ACTIVE AND BE WILLING TO SERVE
• Petition your federal, state, and local governments
Phone them
Visit them
Send them E-mails
Send them letters
Send them petitions with signatures
• Attend every event you can
• Volunteer at events
• Make posters and signs, greet people, do whatever needs doing

BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND EDUCATE OTHERS
Educate yourself on our history, our form of government, the history of other types of political philosophies, the political process in your area.

Inform, educate, and motivate your community, neighbors, friends, family

Invite them to attend events, Send them letters & e-mails, call them, invite them to visit web sites, open your house to your neighbors and friends to hear a speaker or review information.

Distribute flyers, put up posters in stores, hand out flyers and pamphlets on the street.

Organize a group to work together doing these kinds of things.

STAY FOCUSED AND STAY IN THE GAME! This is not a one time pep rally or a short term effort. We have to push until we have completely won. We have to continue to sacrifice until our country is restored.
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THE MISSISSIPPI TEA PARTY PRESENTS:
“Governing by Principle” by
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
March 29, 2007
Governing Principles

1. Government exists to protect rights, not to create them.

2. The legitimate power of government begins and ends with the people, while its authority comes from the Creator.

3. Just because a problem exists doesn't mean government should try to solve it.

4. Long-term and cumulative consequences should be considered more carefully than short-term benefits.

5. Government has nothing to give anyone except what it first takes from someone else.

6. Individuals are ultimately responsible for governing themselves and for the consequences of their decisions.

7. Free enterprise, not government, is the engine of personal economic prosperity.

8. The free market should not be distorted by government-designed dictates or advantages.

9. Government has a responsibility to protect the foundational institution of society: the marriage based, two-parent family.

10. Parents, not government, are responsible for the education and upbringing of their children.

Principles provided by: Mississippi Center for Public Policy
http://www.mspolicy.org

Adopted and Promoted by: The Mississippi Tea Party
www.MSTeaParty.ning.com

To read MCPP’s book on the 10 Principles please go to:

http://www.mspolicy.org/mcpp_reports/mcpp_reports_view.php?entryID=105

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Were you confused on the recent events in the MS legislature regarding the 10th amendment? Below is a concise explanation of how it has gone through the legislature and where it is now.
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In drafting the U.S. Constitution, our founders were concerned about the federal government collecting too much power. The solution that was reached was to limit the authority of the federal government to only those powers specifically named and to divide or separate those powers among the three branches provided for in the Constitution. Among the safeguards included in the Constitution were the 9th and 10th amendments, contained in the Bill of Rights.

The 9th Amendment addresses the rights of the people that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution and says:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other retained by the people."

The 10th Amendment addresses the rights retained by the states and the people and says:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Since the 1930's, all three branches of the federal government have been steadily working to erode the rights promised under the 9th and 10th amendments. As the federal government has become larger and larger, the freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution have been compromised. In the past year, the federal governments expansion into areas not authorized by the Constitution have dramatically increased, threatening the continued survival of our nation and our way of life.

In response, at least 35 state legislatures have introduced resolutions affirming the 10th amendment and requesting that the federal government cease infringing upon the constitutional rights of the states and the people. Many of those state legislatures have also affirmed the importance of the 9th amendment.

Mississippi is among the states considering similar resolutions. On Thursday, May 7, 2009, the House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 69, which affirmed Mississippi's 10th amendment rights. Unfortunately, in passing the resolution, the Mississippi House of Representatives permitted several amendments to the resolution which took away from the purpose of the original resolution and some which actually contradict the 10th amendment. The passed version of H.C.R. 69 sends mixed signals to Washington and is bad legislation. Prior to closing the session, a motion to reconsider H.C.R. 69 was made, but that motion has not been voted on yet. Since the motion to reconsider is still pending, H.C.R. 69 has not been transferred to the Senate.

On the same day that H.C.R. 69 was passed, the Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 630. S.C.R. 630 affirms the importance of both the 9th and 10th amendment and was passed without harmful amendments. S.C.R. 630 has been transferred from the Senate to the House. In order for the House to vote on S.C.R. 630, the House Rules committee will have to allow it out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. Even then, S.C.R. 630 will face an uphill battle as those who proposed and voted for the harmful amendments to H.C.R. 69 may try to vote in those same amendments to S.C.R. 630.

The Mississippi Tea Party supports the passage of S.C.R. 630 and can make a difference in this fight. We need to be letting our representatives in the House hear from us, particularly those members of the House rules committee and those members who voted for the harmful amendments to the H.C.R. 69. In the coming days, we will be posting sample correspondence and talking points, along with the names and contact numbers of key representatives. Please check back and make a point to commit to letting our representatives hear from you. In all of your contact with members of the legislature, please be respectful, but firm in your conviction. Remember that today's opponent can be tomorrow's friend!
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