Citizen Newsletter #240 Mon, January 10, 2011 10:10:52 AM

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The Citizen Newsletter

Issue # 240 January 10, 2011

The Conservative Voice of Henry County

Contact The Citizen at hc.citizen@hccitizen.org Your comments and submissions are always welcome!

In This Issue
Winter weather slams South with snow, icy roads

• Who is John Galt?

• Liberals Demonize Opposition
• Tucson Rampage
• Republican Women of Henry
• There You Go Again
• Butts County GOP
• Your Voice
The Hack Line; Tom Jefferson; Cobb SPLOST
• Cobb SPLOST: Comments at MDJOnline Who is John Galt? When he says he will stop the motor of the world,
• The Changes of Christmas is he a destroyer or a liberator?

The rights to Rearden Metal are not for sale.

How much will you take for it? I am in a position to speak of

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large sums of money. Government money. The State Science
Institute represents the best brains of the country, Mr.
Rearden. Surely you do not pit your own judgment against
theirs.
It’s only a matter of time. Just a temporary delay. Just to give
our economy a chance to stabilize.
It is the social impact of a product that must be considered. We
are thinking in terms of the country as a whole, we are
concerned with the public welfare and the terrible crisis of the
present moment.

At a time of desperate steel shortage, we cannot afford to

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permit the expansion of a steel company which produces too
much, because it might throw out of business the companies
which produce too little, thus creating an unbalanced
economy.
The sale of the rights to Rearden Metal are not open for
discussion.
You are using ugly, unnecessary words, Mr. Rearden. I am
endeavoring to keep the discussion on a friendly plane. We are
offering you a check on what is, as you realize, an unlimited
account. What else can you want? Why do you want to
struggle for years squeezing out gains in the form of pennies
on the ton?

Because it’s mine. Do you understand the word?

Good day, Mr. Rearden. I think I must tell you that the State
Science Institute may issue an official statement condemning
Rearden Metal.

Ayn Rand wrote ATLAS S HRUGGED and acknowledged Aristotle and her
husband, Frank O’Connor. “I knew what values of character I wanted
to find in a man. I trust that no one will tell me that men such as I
write about don’t exist. That this book has been written – and
published – is my proof that they do.”

Government money used to stabilize the economy? Take-overs of

entire sectors of manufacturing, finance and banking, healthcare have
created a US national debt over $14 Trillion.

In order to work out her story, Ayn Rand had to understand

fully why the prime movers allowed the second-handers to live
on them – why the creators had not gone on strike throughout
history – what errors even the best of them made that kept
them in thrall to the worst.

The American Experience was conceived on Liberty. American citizens,

if nothing else, revere freedoms born of an individual’s intrinsic value.
Errors and misplaced judgment have placed our Citizens in thrall to
 the Government, the second-handers, such as a slave or serf who is
held in bondage.

Thank you for your support and participation

POLITICAL HACKS WASTE NO TIME TO DEMONIZE POLITICAL OPPOSITON

Political hacks have wasted little time in exploiting the tragic shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to
demonize their political opposition despite the gunman’s motivation being completely unknown at this time.

Huffington Post has already blamed the shooting on second amendment activists who held a meeting last year to
discuss ways of politically defeating Giffords. They are also hyping speculation that a semi-automatic weapon was used.

Before it was even clear whether or not Giffords had survived, neo-lib statists were already shamelessly milking the shocking
events for political gain. Our forum members also report that CNN’s David Fitsimmons is using the shooting to demonize
“fringe” politics.

http://www.infowars.com/political-hacks-waste-no-time-in-shamelessly-exploiting-giffords-shooting-to-demonize-political-
oppositon/

Tucson rampage

The Left has produced an expected and consistent response to the tragedy: place blame, make accusations and act self-
righteously.

It is true that Arizona has seen political turmoil amid failures of the federal government to secure our borders; incursions by
drug cartels; violence and economic adversity. It is also true that huge growth of central government is opposed by a
majority of Americans – and ObamaCare is one of several key issues.

But we must be also appalled by the news template that fosters animosity and fuels a false Us vs. Them atmosphere.

Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was among lawmakers who reported 42 threats or acts or vandalism in the first
three months of 2010, a big increase over the previous year, law enforcement officers said. Nearly all the threats dealt with
the massive health care bill that Giffords and other Democrats enacted over fierce Republican opposition.

In March, someone kicked in or shot out a glass door and side window at Giffords' office in Tucson, a few hours after the
House passed the health care measure with her help.

Miss Giffords, a Democrat congresswoman, was shot in the head during a public meeting in Tucson, Arizona.

Gabrielle Giffords: Tea Party Target … Yahoo! News

A lone gunman, described by witnesses as being a white man in his late teens or early twenties …

The Republicans hired this HITMAN to kill Giffords so that a Tea Party member can take her place and the horrible
Republican agenda can be … New York Post

Giffords won a close race against Republican Jesse Kelly in November. Kelly was a Tea Party favorite … CNN

Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva denounced a political environment poisoned by "anger, hatred, and division." …
Mother Jones

Giffords … eked out a win for a third term over Tea Party-backed … NPR

Gabrielle Giffords' father: 'The whole Tea Party were her enemies'

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said tonight investigators are "not convinced" alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner
acted alone when the 22-year-old shot Giffords and killed six others outside a Tucson Safeway this morning.

Newly elected House Speaker John Boehner said he was horrified by the shooting.

"An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no
place in our society," Boehner said. "Our prayers are with Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, all who were injured, and their
families. This is a sad day for our country."

Establishment Media Demonizes Tea Party and Constitutionalists After Giffords Shooting
 Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com

Get ready for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to be used in a serious way against the Tea Party movement. MSNBC,
CNN and the rest of the Mockingbird media are now attempting to portray millions of Americans as violence prone anti-
government radicals.

In the hours following the shooting liberal bloggers blamed Sarah Palin’s mid-term election rhetoric for the Gifford shooting.
Palin’s campaign organization, SarahPac, posted an ad targeting Democrat Giffords for defeat during the election. The
liberal blogosphere is directly accusing Palin of stoking hatred against the Arizona Congresswoman that led to the shooting in
a Tucson parking lot.

Daily Kos and FireDogLake have taken up the charge and are blaming Palin directly. Sarah Palin is not an anti-government
radical; “she is part of the establishment Republican party and to accuse her of calling for the assassination of Gifford is
ludicrous.

The word target is a well established part of the Democrat-Republican political lexicon.

In a Tweet, suspected CIA operative Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos wrote sarcastically: “Mission accomplished, Sarah
Palin.”

Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva denounced what he describes as a political environment poisoned by “anger, hatred,
and division.” Grijalva blamed the Tea Party movement: [When] you stoke these flames, and you go to public meetings and
you scream at the elected officials, you threaten them “you make us expendable you make us part of the cannon fodder. For
a while, you’ve been feeding this hatred, this division you feed it, you encourage it. Something’s going to happen. People are
feeding this monster. Some of the extreme right wing has made demonization of elected officials their priority.

In other words when citizens victimized by a predatory and arrogant government angrily confront their so-called
representatives, it is tantamount of calling for violence and assassination.

YOUR VOICE

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by Charles Mobley
Wild Eye Speculation
There is one announced candidate and one potential candidate I know of for District 1
post in Henry County, GA which is still two years away. They both are speculating sitting
Commissioner Warren Holder won’t be running for re-election. I have no clue if Holder is
or is not going to seek re-election and it [...]
Read more of this post: http://charlesmobley.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/wild-eye-
speculation/

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow
up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up
homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Cobb SPLOST opponents throw down the gauntlet

94-A Woolsey Road
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770-946-0043
By Tony Cain
Opposition to the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) has emerged to the
consternation of Cobb commissioners, mayors and contractors hoping to make millions
from government projects.
With just cause, people believe they have been taxed enough already.

We need your help whether or not you live in Cobb. Contact the opposition groups
mentioned in this article and volunteer. If you know a Cobb resident, please pass on this
information.

The Cobb 2011 SPLOST will probably cost taxpayers at least $600 million. It can be
 defeated.

Read comments to this article at www.mdjonline.com

Read the article from the Marietta Daily Journal:

( HTTP ://WWW.MDJONLINE.COM/VIEW /FULL _STORY/10895722/ ARTICLE-GROUPS-WORK-TO-PASS--DEFEAT-
SPLOST

~~~~~~~~~~~

Tonycain wrote:

The $492 million estimate that a new SPLOST would bring in over four years is the
number given by Cobb government officials. They have deliberately underestimated
what SPLOST will bring in.$584

Currently, the Cobb SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) brings in $146
million for the Cobb govt. and the school SPLOST brings in the same amount, since both
are 1% taxes on all purchases and utility bills.

Let's do the math:

$146 million x 4 years = $584 million

That is almost $100 million more than the Cobb govt. estimate.

Could it be they don't want to say this SPLOST will cost taxpayers more than half a
billion dollars?

REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF HENRY COUNTY

NEW MEETING DATE
NEW MEETING TIME
NEW MEETING PLACE

Please take note:

RWHC will now have their regular monthly meetings on the Second Thursday of each month New meeting place for
regular meeting will be The Golden Corral on Jonesboro Rd New meeting time will be 6:30 pm.

Next meeting is Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:30 pm at The Golden Corral on Jonesboro Rd McDonough.

Guest Speaker will be Mayor Lee Stuart talking about his newly released book
"Boomer." Lee will also be signing books at this meeting. Come out and bring a friend and start out the New Year
right. Come join the friendly, conservative ladies of the RWHC who are working hard to contribute some small part in
taking back our country.

In addition to the regular monthly meetings, RWHC will also have a luncheon meeting on a quarterly basis, on the third
Thursday of the month, with the first luncheon for the year to be held on Thursday, March 17, 2011 (St Patrick's Day),
11:30 am - place to be announced.
We plan on having the luncheons in different locations each quarter with special guest speakers TBA.

Thank you,
RWHC
Vicki Temple, President
704-517-0977

Eleanor Toppins, Vice President

ejanddick@hotmail.com

There you go again....

I always hope that your contributors will actually speak of the issues; you know, "I don't like President Obama's
stimulus plan because, in spite of the fact that an overwhelming majority of economists say it was necessary and
successful, I have this data that I find important..." You know - facts.

On a local level, they usually do; on a national level, I'm usually disappointed.

For instance in Newsletter #239, Under "Incompetence", I could practically hear the contributor squeal with delight as
he offers some sort of proof of the President's incompetence: that very few of Obama's cabinet have been in "a real life
business, not a government job".

Good Lord....

First of all, if you'd look a little bit past comedian Glen Beck, you'd find that the person who reported that data - Michael
Cembalest, the chief investment officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank - has admitted that the report is flawed to the point
that he'll never try anything like that again. He did it wrong! It's not accurate! It doesn't mean anything!

Second - did you REALLY say that someone who has only had a government job "has never had one"? You did, and I
think you owe an apology to every soldier, sailor, police officer, fireman, postal employee, teacher, mental health
worker and bureaucrat that has ever handled any of your life on paper.

This is the part that really bothers me - my father-in-law was career Army - twenty years. That's a government job,
right? As opposed to a "real life business"? Should have he forsaken his work for the government and instead been in
an employment line? If he and others like him had, we'd be speaking Russian by now. Never had a job? Really?

You insulted all of those people based on a flawed study probably reported to you by a comedian. Your arrogance as
you play this "gotcha" nonsense offends me and makes me feel sorry for you. Talk about policy if you want to talk
about politics, not what you heard on the radio. Surely you realize you have no business criticizing people who go to
work every day - just as you do - doing what they can to provide for their families. For instance, the firefighter who
might save your life next week doesn't do his job any differently based on who the president is, but he will put HIS life
on the line as you speak up for the millionaires and throw people like him under the bus because he's dedicated to
helping people as opposed to generating profit.

Is that all of YOUR superior business experience talking? If so, I'll take the wisdom of community organizers any day.
At least they don't insult working people like my father-in-law.

Mike

Butts County GOP meeting

We will get back on track & down to business with our next Butts County Republican Party meeting Thursday, January
20th, 2011, at 7:00 PM.

It will be held in the Butts County Administration Building located at 625 W. 3rd St., Jackson.

The guest speaker will be our new State Representative Andy Welch III!

In March next year we will be electing new officers for the Butts County Republican Party. The County Conventions, held
statewide, will be Saturday, March 12, 2011 also at the Butts County Administration Building. You MUST be there by
10:00 AM!

Positions up for election in Butts County:

• Chairman - Chairs meetings and overseas party business, as well as complies with state mandates.

• Vice Chairman - Assists Chairman with party business

• Treasurer - Maintains the treasury

• Secretary - Maintains meeting minutes and party records, assists with candidate qualifying for 2012 County
candidates, as well as complies with state requirements.

Only those attending this County Convention can vote for Butts County party officers. Also, only those attending this
County Convention can vote for and/or be selected as the Delegates to send to the District and State Conventions.
There will be also be elections next year for new officers for both the District and State levels of the Georgia GOP.

The District Convention will be April 16, 2011.

The State Convention will be May 13-14 in Macon.

Any questions, please contact me.

Debbie Moon
Chairman, Butts County Republican Party

Cobb SPLOST: Comments at MDJOnline.com

The citizens of Cobb County know a good rip off when they see it, and they are looking at one with the SPLOST tax.
That money would be better left in the pockets of the taxpayer rather than in the pockets of the politicians in Cobb
County. " AX THE TAX AND VOTE EARLY !! "

~~~~~

Sir, the Tea Party is not against taxes. Tea Partiers understand that some taxes are necessary. The questions are, how
much government do we need and want? And how much should that government cost?

I submit to you that a take-off and landing strip for model airplanes is not a necessity. That was a SPLOST project until
it was publicly exposed.

I submit to you that "dark box" theater for the flunked out Barnes, Mabel House Amphitheater is not a necessity. That
was a SPLOST project until it was publicly exposed. (The Barnes Mable House fiasco cost nearly $10 million to build and
loses about $1 million annually).
I submit to you that covering a flood plain with artificial turf and calling it a park is not a necessity. That was a SPLOST
project until it was publicly exposed.

And the list goes on and on.

Sales taxes affect everyone, yes they do. If you are over 62 and drawing social security, like my mother and father, it
affects you. Better think about that.

Vote NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

~~~~~

I knew it wouldn't take long for a proponent to say that the guaranteed result of a failed SPLOST vote is raised property
taxes. Guess what, my property taxes went up last year with no change in value assessment.

I cannot directly control how much property taxes I pay, I can have direct input by voting NO on the SPLOST.

Signing up to pay additional taxes for items that should be covered in the general budget is idiotic.

The Changes of Christmas

By Pastor Louie Stanley

Has Christmas become a cult or has it been one all along? Let me define cult. A cult is giving regard with great
respect; to revere a particular figure or object, such as a new religious movement whose beliefs or practices are
considered strange and given to ritualistic practices. Personal belief is emphasized. The differences between mainline
religions and cults is just that, one that is either recognizable or one that is not distinguished or perceived as Christian.

The argument is not whether some movement is religious or not. No, the matter at question is whether it is Christian
or not. The monotheistic belief system based on the life giving sacrifice of the Savior, Jesus Christ being the only
efficacious remedy for reconciling God with man is known as Christianity. That this Jesus was God in the flesh, come to
save mankind from sin’s penalty and eventual destiny in eternal fire is greatly propagated as intrinsic to this religious
system. Christmas was to be the celebration of His advent.

As Jesus is core to the beliefs in Christianity, Santa Claus has become core to Christmas. Is Christmas possible without
either or both? That would depend on one’s particular bend toward truth or fiction, and one’s psychology toward the
necessity in believing, whether in fact or fantasy. And maybe Christmas has become the alternative to Christianity in
that Christmas has taken on a novel and unusual identity; it exists with a spokesman and not a savior. Its frontman is
Claus, not Christ.

Christmas is now associated with seasons and times. It is a date on the calendar and not an event. It is a respite from
labor or work much like that of a federal holiday, which is not a holy day but a day of festivity or recreation away from
one’s workplace made into a public observance. December 25th is an official public holiday. It affects people
worldwide, not as a particularly religious occurrence, but that of a financial fixation.

Christmas is a traditional holiday in that many traditions have come to surface because of it being observed in many
different ways. Lights and trees decorated, meals and banquets prepared, gifts and presents exchanged, charity and
donations shared unlike any other time, emotional highs and lows, expectations and disappointments in family and
friends, and that festive feeling that comes because its Christmas are all part and parcel of this ceremonial experience.
And now add the many other religious entities that want a piece of the action, and the outpouring is an elixir for the
demise of the Christian’s speculative ideal that Christmas is Christian.

So, what is all of the hype and headlines about the real meaning of Christmas? If anyone really knew, would they
celebrate any differently? Would it affect them differently when no one is looking, when the Christmas season has
ended and the rest of life is lived? Can Christians be Christian in their attitudes and activities away from the spotlight of
Christmas?

Christmas is not an occurrence, it is an event; an event worth celebrating because Christ changes people; He gives life
where death prevailed; He gives hope where despair presumed; He gives appeasement where sin prescinded; He is the
Gift given by God. And all of the hubbub about Christmas doesn’t change that at all.

So, has His coming changed you? If so, then don’t wait for a number on a calendar to celebrate, or a season in
December to have the joy of Christ exude from your heart; honor His advent every day and expect His return with
greater expectation.

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Larry Stanley, Editor
899 East Lake Road, McDonough, GA 30252
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