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1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of “moral strength.”

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

Now, don’t tell me after looking through this list that this isn’t what’s happened to our culture over the last 50+ years!

That’s right, the majority  party in the state house that keeps telling conservatives they need to compromise is themselves unwilling to meet in middle with the state senate’s budget proposal.

For further details on why I’m telling you this, I share the latest portion of  state Senator Carrell’s newsletter – the Kitchen Cabinet – from the 28th Legislative District.

Yesterday, the majority party in the House of Representatives offered what they called a “compromise” version of their budget proposal. At a news conference yesterday morning, they claimed that it came a lot closer toward the goals that we have stated in the Senate. While not surprised by their last-minute proposal, I was taken aback by how little reform they included in their latest idea.

Based on staff projections, it appears that the new House proposal is not only unsustainable (meaning the state simply doesn’t have the revenue to pay for everything their budget would have us pay for), but it relies once again on one-time “band-aid” funds to get the state from this biennium to the next and no further. This is exactly the kind of problem that perennially gets the state into yet another budget deficit. In fact, under the House majority’s latest proposal, the state would be facing another billion-dollar deficit by this time next year. The “reforms” proposed by the House budget are really just watered-down versions of Senate proposals. The Seattle Times in an editorial today said, “We urge legislators to go for the full reforms, because they make the state budget more sustainable in the long run. This is the world of the 21st century, and legislators have to adjust to it. On the reforms: Do all of them, and in the full measure. Then, when you set the budget, you can be sure it is sustainable.” The Senate bipartisan coalition’s version of the budget has already compromised significantly – coming to the table over and over again, moving toward the House position with little compromise coming from the other side: · The Senate produced its first budget in early March. · After hearing concerns, the coalition came out with a revised budget proposal to address those concerns. · The bipartisan coalition has continually moved toward the other side, but the House hasn’t shown a similar desire to compromise. · The Senate has been flexible on the pension proposal, first removing the idea of closing PERS 2, then dropping the idea of skipping a payment. The current proposal is exactly the same one introduced by the governor last year and passed by the House Ways and Means Committee with 14 Democratic votes. · The coalition has been flexible on the K-12 education insurance reform bill, dropping the idea of creating a board similar to the Public Employee Benefits board, but keeping the ideas that will create premium equity for K-12 employees.

• · The bipartisan coalition has been more flexible on the level of spending if the Senate gets more movement on significant reforms.
  House also proposes:

- Reversal of 2011 welfare reforms (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF) requiring departments of Social and Health Services/Early Learning to seek non-custodial parent child support obligations for state spending on child care subsidies (HB 2828).
- Expanding collective bargaining to interpreters authorizing collective bargaining for interpreters for L&I medical appointments; requested by Gov. Gregoire (HB 2830)

The next steps at the Legislature

With just six days left in the 30-day special session – which ends April 10 (my birthday, by the way) – the House proposed their watered-down reform budget. What was the House doing for the first three weeks of the special session, and why weren’t negotiations more productive? Working around the upcoming Easter weekend, we’ll be trying to spend the next few days finding answers to those questions and trying to convince the House majority that we can’t afford more than we have to spend. If that can’t be done, I’m afraid we’ll be heading into another special session very soon.

If you’ve managed to read down this far, I want you to think about who your legislative representatives are. That’s right… Rep. Jinkins & Rep. Darneille. Now, while Jinkins is currently in her first term, Darneille, on the other hand, is an 11 year veteran in the state legislative house. But, what’s more scarey, Darneille intends to run for the state Senate to fill the vacancy of the retiring Sen. Regala.

Question: Do you want to promote this clearly liberal/progressive obstructionist? What has she done to promote business growth in our legislative district? I’d really like to know! As far as I can tell, NOTHING! In fact, I would even go as far as saying she’s voted for bills that have actually restricted the growth of business during her incumbency.

Do  you really want to give her six years at a stretch to do more damage?

And why? The liberals controlling the house of the legislature with their majority are unwilling to grow up and stop kicking the can down the road with the state’s budget.

Late last Friday, the Senate moved forward to what is called the “9^th Order.” This is a well-known but seldom successful parliamentary rule to allow the body to relieve committees of consideration of certain bills and bring them directly to the floor for a vote. With 25 members in support of the motion, the Senate was able to pass a bipartisan, sustainable budget instead of the Ways and Means chair’s proposal which didn’t have enough support to pass.

The fact that the Senate delivered a budget to the House for consideration a week ago and it returned as a completely different budget three hours before the end of session signaled that the majority party in the House was unwilling to negotiate. It’s obvious, based on these facts that this is what has thrown the legislature into a special session; costing the taxpayers even more revenue the state doesn’t have.

The entire first half of the regular session was spent by the majority party pushing social issues – gay marriage was the most celebrated one – while it should have been trying to fix the real financial problems of the state. In order to put a stop to the fiscal bleeding that the state’s been suffering from for years, it needs to limit the amount of money being spent to what’s coming into the coffers in revenue. That will ensure that the state spends only within its means. Second, it must make sure the state doesn’t use money that isn’t really there, like pushing the $330 million K-12 school payment out into the next biennium by making the payment one day into the next month. Finally, it is critical to leave a reasonable amount in reserves so we don’t end up crippling our children with debt because of the state’s inability to control spending.

I suspect what will happen during this 30 day special session is that the liberals in both the Senate & House will engage in stall tactics and obfuscation to push the business to the last 24 hours – what they’ve done in the past sessions – and in the meantime put pressure on various key legislators to change their minds, by either enticement or threat of some sort.

It appears the only difference between organized crime & liberal legislators is that one of them didn’t swear an oath to uphold & defend the state’s constitution.

Following Eyman’s piece is Senator Mike Carrell’s (R) from the 28th Legislative Dist. just distributed “Kitchen Cabinet” email which provides his perspective on what went down & why.

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The 27th Legislative District’s “pooled caucus” had approximately 650 people gather at Freighthouse Square’s Foss Hall. The ability for helpers to process through people coming to attend their individual precinct caucuses was so overwhelmed that a decision was made to allow individual precinct leaders, or elected chairs, to verify attendee’s driver’s license & voter registration within their groups. This allowed those who didn’t know their precinct number, or didn’t have a voter registration card, to be processed with a much smaller number waiting in line.

District Leader Jon Higley conducted the proceedings and the Tacoma Sea Scouts from ship 110 were on hand to present & post the colors. After the pledge of allegiance, Mike Lonergan gave the invocation – a reading from the diary entry of Abraham Lincoln on the same day in 1862 – from Psalms 91.

Candidate Shahram Haidian (R) for Governor, was present to speak to the pooled caucus, while others representing various other candidates for President shared their remarks about why they’re supporting them. At just after 10:30 AM, as per the caucus rules for the county party, individual caucuses began discussing issues & electing delegates & alternates to the county convention later this month.

The numbers were so great that the few exterior doors in the hall had to be opened to relieve the increased temperature from all the attendees. Discussion amongst members of the precincts were civil, orderly, and sometimes “lively”, but business was conducted in a decent and respectful manner by all.

Here are the results for the 27th L.D. straw poll:

Gingrich = 51

Paul = 99

Romney = 142

Santorum = 95

Other = 0

Undecided = 15

The pooled caucus ended @ 12 noon, with all precinct packets delivered to the Pierce County Republican Headquarters in Lakewood by 1:30 PM for tallying.

Pierce County’s Convention is scheduled for Saturday, March 24th, to be held at the Tacoma Convention Center in downtown @ Broadway & 16th. See you there.

Earlier this month, while working in downtown Seattle, I was able to overhear & witness the Occupy Seattle group holding their meeting in a public setting. Also present were two Seattle police, obviously assigned the job of monitoring their activity. I spoke briefly with them to verify this. The interesting thing was that every time one, or both of them, got up to move, or talk on radio or cell phone, one or more of the Occupiers would immediately use their cell phones to begin videoing their every move in apparent hopes that the police would do something that could be used against them.

While passing by the area where they were conducting their meeting, I heard a member of the  Tacoma Occupy camp introduce himself and ask for Seattle’s support in fighting their pending eviction from their camp in downtown Tacoma by showing up to increase their dwindling numbers in hopes of averting it.

My passer-by observation also revealed that although their “Mike Check!” method of maintaining some kind of order in their group discussion process, they are clearly loud, abrasive, rude, vulgar and highly disrespectful; even to each other whenever some type of disagreement happens. Their loosely organized “community” has no real structure or coordination; at least on the surface.

A paper was also passed around amongst the 20 or so attendees. Later, after the group had vacated the area, I made my rounds past the same tables and found one of them left there. Looking at it I read the title: A Call for Mass Action Against the Suppression of the Occupy Movement. It was a two sided article which was apparently reprinted from the Revolution newspaper on www.revcom.us. The summary of the article is “The repression of the Occupy movement must not stand. Act!” Underneath the end of this article was an announcement about a weekly discussion of the topic titled, “A Reflection of the ‘Occupy’ Movement: An Inspiring Beginning… And the Need to Go Further” to be hosted by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA at the Revolution Books store in downtown Seattle.

This evidence that the Communist Party, USA is behind this movement doesn’t surprise me since others have made the same claims. In fact, the claims go further that George Soros is financially backing the movement indirectly through his multitude of organizations like the  Center for American Progress, A.C.O.R.N. & the  Apollo Alliance, to name only a few.

After a few weeks passed, I attended the Rick Santorum rally held at the Washington State Historical Museum in downtown Tacoma only a block away from the location of Tacoma’s Occupy camp. While there I met a friend who informed me about a video that had been taken of a visit to that camp only an hour before the rally began. I urge you to view all four parts of this documentary, as it’s very informative about how the liberals in power in Tacoma are supporting this occupy camp.

Within minutes of learning about this, a police officer from the Tacoma P.D. was sharing with me that the Occupy camp was to be evicted from the state’s D.O.T. land where they were set up. This verified what I’d hear weeks prior in Seattle from the Tacoma Occupy member speaking to the Seattle group.

Claims are being made that the Occupy movement is planning a massive action this spring & summer that “will make the summer of ’68 in Chicago at the Democrat Party convention look like a picnic.”

A week after the rally, at this writing, no action by the state’s D.O.T. or any other authority, has been taken against the occupy  camp.

Finally, to quote Dr. Thomas Sowell…

“The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.”

One of the current “hot” issues is the funding of education. Now, having recently spent 30 years teaching full-time in the public classroom, I believe my experience gives me a bit of insight & expertise into this issue. So, I thought I’d share some of my observations about it here.

While the legislature has done nothing as of this posting to deal with the state’s budget, they have, nevertheless, passed a bill which will more “adequately” fund education after the court case decision regarding this very issue.  The general consensus of most legislators is that throwing more funds at public education is going to improve the deplorable state of affairs with student’s performance in the state. But will it?

Before going into any further details regarding this issue, I must first point out that what this is mostly trying to address is the western, urban portion of the state’s schools; where the majority of its population resides. Therefore, for the sake of clarity, I should point out that the smaller, rural community schools are not what we’re addressing here.

Through the decades I taught at all three levels of public education – elementary, middle & high schools – I witnessed the economy go through various phases of economic prosperity & recession. All through this same period, the state teacher’s union continually pushed for more & more funding. This, it was asserted, was for increased teacher’s salaries, lower class sizes, more staff to work with special needs students, etc. At the same time, several modifications were gradually implemented; curriculum, assessment, grading, standards, along with others.

Yet, with this continual effort to improve academic instruction, results did not improve. In fact, they continued to decline over those same years. It seemed as though no matter what I did to modify my instruction to make the content relevant to the student, learning for the majority of them didn’t happen. Why?

The longer I taught in the classroom, the more I realized that I was attempting to compete with a force much more influential than my direct contact with them. Its steady progress, I now see in retrospect, made it extremely difficult for me to captivate my students attention and motivate their interest in applying themselves to striving toward excellence.

This stronger force, I now realize, is a combination of several powerful factors which won the struggle. The mass media of television, the advent of the Internet, cellular phones & iPods are, in my opinion, probably the greatest contributing factors. This medium continually conveyed the “You deserve it!” message through advertising commercials and the culture of being “cool” by having the latest & greatest. This brought about the recently dominant “entitlement” mentality which permeates our younger generation. No longer do we have students who are grateful for what they have, but expect, if not demand, that they get the newest & best of whatever the marketplace offers. And, sadly, most parents cave to their children’s demands.

Over the years, the teacher’s ability to captivate student’s attention was gradually stripped. Combined this with the gradual shift in parent’s attitudes of increasingly apathetic involvement in their child’s educational progress. Too often, it was the student who was failing badly who lacked the parent who bothered attending conferences when scheduled.

Yet, today our legislature is still buying the W.E.A.’s lobbying efforts that throwing more money at the poor performance of today’s student will somehow improve test scores. In my view, the only thing which will make a huge impact on changing this problem for the better is when parents act on their responsibility of putting their child’s learning as a priority over leaving it up to the system which has now become more of an indoctrination center for political correctness than anything else today.

To anyone who understands children, it is the lack of parental attention & guidance that our youth today crave so much. As I continue substituting around today, student’s lack of any social skills is glaringly apparent in my interaction with them. Attempts to teach them any of these is usually met with disdain & looks of confusion, or that I have three heads.

For those parents who already understand this, homeschooling has flourished in our state to compensate for the negative influence so prevalent in public schools toady. It most likely will continue to do so into the future at the rate things are going.

No, legislators are by nature are more concerned about satisfying the misguided demands of their constituency in order to get re-elected, rather than stand on principle.

For the sake of brevity, let’s just list those things which California is doing, or has done, that caused them – the fifth largest economy in the world – to become insolvent and see how many of them point to any parallels for Washington.

Democrat Left dominated government run by & for the public employee union? Check!

K-12 schools which have more administrators than teachers, smaller class sizes, lower test scores, higher dropout rates with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago? Check!

Passage of gay marriage after being told by the GLTB community a few years ago that all they wanted was to be treated equitably by having the “everything but marriage” act? Check!

Constant attempts at passing an income tax, or raising taxes to balance their out-of-control spending and growing the number of public sector employees? Check!

Cramming rapid transit systems projects that go way over budget even after the vote of the people has made it clear they aren’t willing to pay for it down our throats? Check!

Hating the evil, greedy rich – except for the inner circle of rich liberals who run, or support, environmentally friendly companies – and demanding that they pay their “fair share” in taxes. The problem here is, who defines what “fair” is? Check!

Protection of illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities? Check!

Environmental groups which have successfully shut down any possibility of utilizing natural resources in an environmentally safe & clean manner? Check!

Regulations on businesses which make it nearly impossible to stay in existence, let alone make a profit? Check!

Unless our state’s direction is changed to allow its citizens & businesses to become productive, employed & moving forward to use modern technology to protect our environment responsibly, Washington state will end up in just as bad a condition as California is now.

Source: Roger Hedgecock

And now, for an insightful speech by someone who’s experiencing our country’s future.