CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MINUTES OF
6 MARCH 2012
Meeting held at Golden Corral, Morehead City, NC
Meeting called to order by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH at 6:05pm
Pledge of Allegiance led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Invocation by HARRY THOMPSON
RUTH PARKER said she felt we should all remember and pray for Andrew Breitbart’s family. It was a terrible lost to the Conservative movement. BOB said yes, and at a critical time in our history. ERNIE GUTHRIE said he still felt that there was something suspicious about his untimely death. He was only what 43? Several agreed, and said they would not put it past some of the liberal/Chicago crowd to have been involved. There are all kinds of ways to initiate a heart attack. HOWARD GARNER said, ‘Let’s wait and see if his information he told us about gets published. That should give us more of an indication as to what happened.” BOB said yes, he understood there were tapes that supposedly were going to change the election; but he wished the tapes had been kept secret until closer to the election. He said the day after Breitbart died they announced about the tapes and that they were planning to release them in about 10 days on the Hannity Show. He felt that if Sean Hannity had keep quite last time about all he knew about Obama (ie Rev. Wright, etal) until closer to the election instead of March and April, it would have made a big difference. He hopes they do not release the tapes until later on this summer a little before the election.
BOB announced that a lady from the Cape Lookout School was supposed to be here tonight, to present the facts about what occurred at Cape Lookout School and why their charter school license was initially renewed in December and then revoked a month later; but hopefully she will show up later.
BOB announced the titles of the books now to be loaned out in the TEA Party library. Anyone wishing to read any of them may check them out and return when finished reading. Many interesting books are now to be utilized from our increasing inventory from ‘My Bond is My Freedom’ by Fredrick Douglas (a black man who was one of Lincoln’s personal friends) written in 1855 to (a recent publication) ‘TEA Party Patriots’ by Mark Meckler.
He recognized RUTH PARKER, (a waitress at Cox’s during the day and joked with her about her night time occupation,) and thanked her for her generous donation to our cause tonight.
HOWARD said, speaking of contraceptives, that Fluke girl was a plant. Everyone agreed. Discussed how her testimony even came out. Denied by ISSA, picked up by Pelosi and Crew. She went to a Catholic University, BOB felt, just to stir up controversy. All agreed as to why should we pay for her birth control when she can, if she really cared, could already probably either get them free or for about $9.00 per month at Wal Mart or Target. Most there agreed that Rush Limbaugh pretty much pegged her. Most thought Rush should not have apologized since the liberals had called Sarah Palin almost every nasty name in the book and no one in the liberal media had ever called for an apology for her. Much discussion on this issue continued. BOB said he only had one question – where were the girls like that when he was in school????
BOB said he wished they would get off this subject and get back to the pressing needs of our country. The Democrats are trying to get as much air time as they can from stuff like this and keep off the really important things. PEGGY GARNER said only problem is once this does die down, the Democrats have some more of this same mess waiting in the wings. They do not want Obama’s record to be discussed because it is so bad.
BOB asked STEVE BEST to talk to us about his theater problems. STEVE said he normally served pop corn and hotdogs at each event; but next time they were going to have turkey. Bring a side dish. He said his projector had burned out and was looking to get another but he needed help. He hoped the TEA Party would either pay for a new one if they could or at least help buy another. He had checked and a new projector would cost around $400.00. BOB said he didn’t think the TEA Party could afford to just buy a new projector, but he felt we would be willing to chip in $100.00 and maybe he could pass the hat and some here would be willing to help out. He had looked into a used projector on Ebay, but had not found anything he felt would be suitable. BOB told those in the audience that STEVE showed religious movies and any movies that the TEA Party was interested in. STEVE said on the 31st of March he would be showing ‘The Passion of Christ’, (the Mel Gibson movie) right before Easter. GLADYS SUESSLE said she had seen the movie “Agenda -Grinding Down America” at his movie theater a couple of weeks ago and if you have not seen it, you really need to. It is amazing. She had gotten so excited she went on Amazon and ordered a copy. PEGGY said she had gotten a copy also. She hoped to get the Ladies group at her church to set up a time to show it and felt like it would definitely something for the high school groups to watch. If it was not allowed in the schools, maybe we could work something up like a field trip. It is about the Communist (50, 60, 70 years ago) and their agenda as to how they were going to tear down American. They have fulfilled almost every single thing they set out to do. If you get chance to watch this movie, you need to.
BOB called on HARRY THOMPSON to tell us about March 17th and how that was developing. HARRY said he found out today that we only had nine people signed up to attend the workshop. If anyone is interested in attending and have not registered, please do so, before it is cancelled for lack of interest. Please spread the word and try to get your friends to attend also. It is the second part of the seminar we had last year on the Constitution…..this is on the Federalists Papers. It is scheduled to be held at Joslyn Hall at the Community College.
HARRY also told us about a workshop now being held at Hillsdale College (on line), a college presentation called ‘Constitution 101’. Yesterday or today was the third week (but you can go on line and pull up their archives – which they have available for two or three weeks), so you can go back and begin at the beginning. You listen to a 40 minute lecture/video and they usually have a little test afterward. They also have some special reading for each session, four or five little short letters written by some of the founders. It is very good and gives you a great insight on the founders’ thinking. This is a free course also.
Discussion on emails and regular mail asking for money. Several said most of the emails they received; somewhere in the data it mentions request for donations. One member said she had gotten a dun saying that was her third notice and RUTH said she had gotten some also. BELVA MANNING said she had gotten notices in the regular mail. BOB said he got an email today and had sent it to KEN LANG to send out as a BLAST to our group looking for donations of $10.00, $20.00, $30.00 or whatever you could afford to help pay for this rally going on in DC on the 24th. They are hoping to raise something like $50,000.00 over the next several weeks. BELVA said she had read that the government was going into the TEA Parties and checking on what they are doing with the money they are getting. BOB said organizations like ours, the money we make off the shirts; the profits, whatever we are doing with that would be what they are interested in. HOWARD said VERNON THOMPSON had passed around an article on what the government was doing checking into the TEA Parties funding. PEGGY said they were asking all kinds of questions, not just about money. FRED asked if we had ever decided where we planned to send our donations (profits from the tee shirts and hats) since we had talked about not sponsoring the Wounded Warriors any more. BOB said the last conversation we had we are probably going to give the money to Sam Sanford’s ’We Care’. The guy that prints our shirts wants to know also who to send their portion of the profits to….they contribute $4.00 for every shirt that they sell to us and they too are going to back out of the Wounded Warrior Project (due to the head man making such an outrageous salary). HOWARD said he gets begging letters from the Wounded Warriors right regularly. Somehow they got our names and address.
BOB said speaking about the event on the 17th, we have the Constitutional Workshop at Joslyn Hall, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm, with a break for lunch. Then on the 24th we have the TEA Party Rally in Washington, DC on the east lawn facing the Supreme Court. That’s the week the Supreme Court starts hearing arguments on Obamacare, (making a decision sometime during the summer months on the Constitutionality of Obamacare). The TEA Party Patriots wants to have a big demonstration (and from what he has heard a big crowd is planning to show up. They have a large group from the West Coast coming.) He does not think we have enough time to organize a full bus load. He asked how many people here tonight want to go to DC on the 24th. RUTH has a six passenger van and she is planning to go if anyone would like to go with her and help with the gas and driving. If we have more than six wanting to go, then maybe we can get another van and fill it also. STEVE said he was thinking about renting a 16 passenger van. HOWARD said he thought once you passed a 12 passenger, then you had to have different driver’s license (a commercial license).
BOB said apparently the lady from Cape Lookout School is not going to show up. She must have forgotten.
EULA PARKEN asked us if we remembered about her talking to us about her personal experience with her Turkish maid and her engagement and potential marriage which had turned into a nightmare and EULA’s husband had given the maid a one way bus ticket to escape to stay with an uncle who lived far, far, away to avoid marriage. She kept thinking about what that lady had gone through 55 years ago, and wondered why she, EULA, had developed this obsession about Muslims and what is going on in the world today. Ironically, she happened to turn on TV and National Geographic was showing a two hour special called ‘Inside the Koran’. Then she remembered taking notes on that very subject many years ago and realized that was the beginning of her obsession. There were things that just stuck out like porcupine quills. One of the things in Saudi Arabia, they have the ability to publish 10 million Korans in Arabic and 44 other languages, and can distribute all around the world at well below cost and freight in some cases. An excerpt from the Koran says ‘the way of those of whom you have bestowed your grace is not the way of those who earned your anger, such as the Jews, nor of those who went astray such as the Christians.’ ‘And make ready against them all you can of power including steeds of war, tanks, planes, missiles, artillery.’ (And this is in the Koran???) She read several more passages. All these passages makes the Koran the perfect model for warfare. Jews and Christians believe the Bible is authored by men and inspired by GOD. Muslims believe the Koran is the word of God as dictated to Mohammad. In 1972, 20 potato sacks filled with Korans were found in an attic. Seven years later a German carefully separated the pages and found that they had been written between 705 and 715 AD or seventy years after the death of Mohammad. Individual words may have as many as 30 different meanings so verses and whole chapters have been changed over the years. Since the subject had come up as to why none of the pastors or preachers have brought this subject up, ironically this past Sunday at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church our rector spoke about ’Take up your Cross’ and the consequences that if you took it up the possibility of death and he brought out the fact that 150 thousand Christians are murdered every year. We are just sitting here like ducks or deer in the headlights waiting for something to happen. We have to think seriously about our Christianity.
One other thing EULA told us was she was a survivor of cancer and had been asked to sell luminaries and if anyone would like to buy one please see her. The paper luminaries with the person you wish to honor or in memory of are $10.00 and there are a couple of more expensive ones. FRED asked if we had a team participating. Several thought that might be a good idea. BOB asked STEVE to chair that committee and get volunteers to participate. STEVE said he would.
Last thing from EULA, she will be having a special event next Sunday, the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts, at the History Place in Morehead City. (She has her 50 year pin.) Please stop by and check out her display. 99% of the items on display belong to her. She is real proud of it.
JAMES LAWVER questioned where EULA got the 150 thousand Christians murdered each year. She said she had understood her preacher to state that fact during his sermon and she felt that he would not use a figure in his sermon that he could not verify. BOB said chances are he Googled that data. EULA said she was pretty sure he had stated 150 thousand but would verify if she had heard right and get back to us. JAMES said he seen a lot of studies about actual numbers of death and heard a lot of quoted facts about J’hadist Extremists and things like that and he didn’t want to rub anybody the wrong way but when he says this “Your actual chances of dying by one of those people are – you have a better chance of dying by a honeybee or a champagne cork hitting you in the eye. Those statistics come from people like American Scientists and things like that. That is why he was wondering where she got her statistics.” BOB said he knew a lot of Christians in Egypt are being killed, and then the massacres in Lebanon. Most of the Lebanese here are Christians that fled Lebanon. EULA said just last week they destroyed the last Christian Church in Afghanistan. BOB said Franklin Graham was talking on a talk show last week about all the people being murdered and schools being burnt down and even after they had rebuilt them, were burned again. HARRY said this stuff is happening all over the world and he thinks EULA is not talking about people here in the US. It is happening all over the world, Burma, Thailand, and all those other countries over there. Many Christians are being persecuted, killed and churches being burned, they are being run out of their countries, If you go on line, Robert Spencer is a good source on this J’had stuff. HARRY said it is not a problem in this country yet, but it is coming this way and that is a guarantee. There is nothing made up about it, it is getting more and more obvious – Sharia Law is beginning to take a foot hold in this country and when it does, you better watch out. JAMES said he was not arguing that it was not realistic, that it is not true or anything like that, but wanted to know where the statistics had come from. BOB said it is good to ask for facts. HOWARD said we have already had some judges here in the US rule on some cases based on Sharia Law. Another member of the audience (didn’t catch the voice) said ’Another thing good about these people they don’t just discriminate. There was a family in Texas where their daughters went out with Mexicans and the Muslim father executed his own daughters…considered an honor killing. They don’t discriminate, they kill anyone who doesn’t agree with them. BOB said that was not the first honor killing in this country either.
It was brought up again about the girl that Rush Limbaugh was talking about (Fluke). She was also talking about the government paying for sex changes. That is not a life or death thing, what ever they choose to do is their own problem not ours. BOB said to him it was cosmetic surgery.
STEVE said he had heard about a new movie that was coming out, by the people that made Jurassic Park. It is supposed to come out some time this summer, but no release date has been stated yet. Supposedly it is about Obama’s life.
HOWARD said a couple of things we need to bring out (1) Kirby Smith spoke to us the other night and said on a scale of 1 to 10 he was about an 8 for conservatism. When one of our members looked him up on the internet; most of his donations have been to liberal Democrats. BELVA said she saw a vehicle coming down here tonight that had an Obama sticker with a Kirby Smith sticker right next to it….
DENNIS TOMASO asked if we had anything planned for Tax Day, April 15. BOB said as far as he knew nothing had been planned right now. PEGGY said BOB’s committee he had appointed had let him down. Nothing has been decided yet whether to have a rally or a fundraiser. BOB said KEN LANG was leaning toward a fund raiser rather that a rally which will cost us money. BOB talked to the guy that owns the White Swan at the Reagan Day Dinner that they catered. He told BOB that they could put together meals (sort of like Smithfield does) for $3.00 a piece. We could sell them for say $6.00 each. Only thing he could see that would cost us is the advertising costs to get people out to buy. HOWARD said he thought that would be a lot simpler than us trying to do all the cooking and serving ourselves, which is what he and KEN had been discussing. He doubts that we could put it all together ourselves for that price. HOWARD said the food served at the Reagan Day Dinner was pretty good food. There he collected tickets as you went through the line and then charged for the number of tickets he collected. BOB said he did not pursue how long the feeding would last but obviously they have a time frame for the food to be served. We need to determine the length of time we want to use for the event. The shorter the duration the more advertising we need to have out in order to make sure people got there during serving time. We will have it at the Fort Benjamin Park, so we need to start making arrangements for its use also. FRED said the Newport Pig Cookin’ is the last of March and HOWARD said there were already two other food fund raisers scheduled in Newport this month, the Methodist Church and the Moose Lodge. We want to have ours somewhere around the 15th of April. Question was raised about having two food fund raisers at the same time on the same day, one here in Newport and the other in the western part of the county. Some discussion followed. BOB said he would go back and talk to the owner of White Swan and feel some of the questions raised out with him. Question was also raised about selling tickets in advance and having the plates already made and maybe even make deliveries. Cape Carteret community building was mentioned as a place for the food delivery there. HOWARD said when he checked into use of Benjamin Park, we need to make arrangements early because the manager there does not have the authority to let us use it. He thinks he was told it would have to come before the county manager, Russell Overman. (The Park belongs to the county, not Newport.)
BOB said KEN LANG was working on trying to get Larry Land and Terry Franks to attend our meeting next week. HOWARD said he had talked to Harry Taylor about coming to talk to us next week also.
JAMES asked when they had the precinct meeting a couple of weeks ago, he noticed a lot of slots for delegates were not filled Was it too late to fill one of the delegate slots. BOB said yes. You had to be at the precinct meeting in order to volunteer. Time has expired for submission.
Meeting adjourned at 7:00pm
Minutes submitted by PEGGY GARNER, Secretary