Moccasin Creek Minutemen

As all of us know the local elections are upon us from our local towns to the school board. These past 2 years the school board has made great strides in higher SAT scores, lower suspensions, reducing spending without losing teachers. With that said we need to get out and support the candidates that support education, and not special interest of growing the administration, and unfunded programs that do not work. The new board and superintend found that a person given a contract for their job, hid $10 million, she/he resigned. How many more do we have in the school system that are stealing tax payer $ (remember that is your money) We need to help them continue fighting to educate our children so they grow to future of opportunity. Call Bessie Brantly and let her know what you can do at 919-210-6161 and leave a message she will get right back with you if she is not able to answer.

This was sent to me by a Texas friend. Not an endorsement by MCMM

In case you were wondering…………
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Who Is Rick Perry?

He is a fifth generation Texan, the son of hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers – Democrats but conservatives through and through. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.

He is an Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School , he attended Texas A&M, graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130 pilot.

Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th governor of Texas – a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of any governor in the nation.

He has never lost an election.

Rick Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an Independent.

Since he became its Governor, Texas – a right to work state that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains – has added more jobs than the other 49 states combined. In the last two years, low taxes and little regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation. Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in Texas . People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration growth.

Perry signed ground-breaking “loser pays” tort reform and medical litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors have since moved to Texas .

Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500 companies – more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of Columbia have done that.

Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value. California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas .

In this year’s Texas legislative season, Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous.

Perry scored points even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned – Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called “anti-groping” bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA employees living in Texas .

Perry jogs daily in the morning. He has no bodyguard with him, but his daughter’s dog runs by his side and he carries a laser-guided automatic pistol in his belt. Last year while jogging in an undeveloped area, a coyote paralleled his jogging route, eyeing his dog. He drew his pistol and killed the animal with one shot, leaving it where it fell. “He became mulch,” Perry said. Animal rights groups protested, but Perry shrugged it off. “Don’t come after my dog,” he warned them.

Recently, Obama asked Perry to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal in order to comply with the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Perry refused. Therefore Obama asked the US Supreme Court to delay the execution because it would damage US foreign relations. The Court refused 5-4 and Perry ordered the execution to go forward as scheduled. Over the howls of diplomats, politicians, and the UN, Leal was administered a lethal injection at 6:20 p.m. Before he died, he admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.

The case has special implications for Perry, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Even his critics resent federal interference in a Texas execution, which is related to a state, not a federal, crime – an alcohol and drug-fueled rape and murder 17 years ago by an illegal whose family brought him into the country 35 years ago as a child. The interference hinges not on the man’s guilt, which Leal’s advocates acknowledged, but on a technicality – failure to inform Leal that he could have gotten legal representation from the Mexican consulate in lieu of the court-appointed attorneys who represented him. Independent Texans saw Obama’s interference as another intrusion of federal power into the affairs of a state, which could cost Obama support in other states.

Needless to say, Perry is a hard-edged conservative and a ferocious defender of 10th Amendments rights (“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.”) – an explicit restriction of the federal government to only those powers granted in the Constitution. Perry accuses the federal government, especially the Obama administration, of illegal overreach.

Perry said “no thanks” to the feds whose stimulus offered taxpayer dollars for education and unemployment assistance. The strings on “free money” from Washington , he said, would restrict Texas in managing its own affairs. Perry even depleted all state funds to fight recent wildfires before asking Washington for disaster relief. His request has been ignored, which comes across as an unvarnished federal power play, further pitting Perry and Texans against the federal government.

Wake County School Board candidates need your help getting out the vote; can we help? This is our county, it matters.

Our New Dictator May Be In Deep Trouble…with Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court.

According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smack-down of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.

Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama’s major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government. Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election. The tongue-lashing clearly did not sit well with the Court, as demonstrated by Justice Sam Alito, who publicly shook his head and stated under his breath, ‘That’s not true,’ when Obama told a flat-out lie concerning the Court’s ruling. As it has turned out, this was a watershed moment in the relationship between the executive and the judicial branches of the federal government. Obama publicly declared war on the court , even as he blatantly continued to propose legislation that flies in the face of every known Constitutional principle upon which this nation has stood for over 200 years.

Obama has even identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his number one enemy, that is, apart from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and so on… And it is no accident that the one swing-vote on the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated recently that he has no intention of retiring until ‘Obama is gone.’ Apparently, the Court has had enough.

The Roberts Court has signaled, in a very subtle manner, of course, that it intends to address the issues about which Obama critics have been screaming to high heaven. A ruling against Obama on any one of these important issues could potentially cripple the Administration. Such a thing would be long overdue.

First, there is ObamaCare, which violates the Constitutional principle barring the federal government from forcing citizens to purchase something. And no, this is not the same thing as states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance, as some of the
intellectually-impaired claim. The Constitution limits FEDERAL government, not state governments, from such things, and further, not everyone has to drive, and thus, a citizen could opt not to purchase car insurance by simply deciding not to drive a vehicle. In the ObamaCare world, however, no citizen can ‘opt out.’

Second, sources state that the Roberts court has quietly accepted information concerning discrepancies in Obama’s history that raise serious questions about his eligibility for the office of President. The charge goes far beyond the birth certificate issue. This
information involves possible fraudulent use of a Social Security number in Connecticut, while Obama was a high school student inHawaii, double citizenship, natural born…and others.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Third, several cases involving possible criminal activity, conflicts of interest, and pay-for-play cronyism could potentially land many Administration officials, if not Obama himself, in hot water with the Court. Frankly, in the years this writer has observed politics, nothing comes close to comparing with the rampant corruption of this Administration, not even during the Nixon years. Nixon and the Watergate conspirators look like choirboys compared to the jokers that populate this Administration.

In addition, the Court will eventually be forced to rule on the dreadful decision of the Obama DOJ suing the state of Arizona. That, too, could send the Obama doctrine of open borders to an early grave, given that the Administration refuses to enforce federal law on illegal aliens.

And finally, the biggie that could potentially send the entire house of cards tumbling in a free-fall is the latest revelation concerning the Obama-Holder Department of Justice and its refusal to pursue the New Black Panther Party. The group was caught on tape committing felonies by attempting to intimidate Caucasian voters into staying away from the polls. A whistle-blower who resigned from the DOJ is now charging Holder with the deliberate refusal to pursue cases against Blacks, particularly those who are involved in radical hate-groups, such as the New Black Panthers, who have been caught on tape calling for the murder of white people and their babies. This one is a biggie that could send the entire Administration crumbling–that is, if the Justices have the guts to draw a line in the sand at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I was reading my e-mails and this article is worth passing along to the MCMM. A Litany of Obama Administration Failures

By Christopher G. Adamo,

By now everybody who regularly receives e-mail “forwards” has seen the one showing Barack Obama ostensibly standing in front of a devastated landscape that clearly is meant to represent the United States under his stewardship. The caption reads, “My work here is done.” Accusations of partisanship and racism aside, the message conveyed is so profound because it succinctly reflects the determined efforts of the Obama White House to radically change America over the past two and a half years.

The Standard and Poors downgrade of America’s credit rating during this past week, and the market upheaval that has followed are certainly not the first financial fiascos fomented and overseen by the current administration. Unfortunately, they are not likely to be the last. Nor has the country fared any better in other areas, whether on the diplomatic front, the culture war, or in regards to America’s dwindling technical prowess.

So fast and furious have been the concerted assaults on the institutions and foundations of the nation that the erosion and destruction is no longer easy to assess from the perspective of individual events. Rather, in retrospect it now appears more as a grim and depressing blur of havoc inflicted continually on the nation in the past thirty-two months, with little immediate relief in sight. Nevertheless, some (but certainly not all) of the more reprehensible milestones need to be revisited, in order to maintain a proper evaluation of this administration and the danger it continues to pose with each passing day.

The financial upheaval of the past week is only a snapshot of efforts, begun even before Obama’s inauguration, to radically transform the nation’s economy from one of free markets and individual initiative to a collectivist autocracy in which the resources of the people are controlled and dispersed by the ruling elite. The recent anxieties experienced by everyone from professional market watchers to average citizens on Mainstreet are fully warranted. If this administration is able to achieve its ultimate goals, the former means of pursuing individual livelihoods and exercising freedoms will be soon eradicated, and the nation’s place on the world stage ultimately eliminated.

From the first days of the Obama White House, an anti-capitalist, anti-western agenda was clearly being implemented. Among Obama’s first acts after being inaugurated was the removal of a statue of Winston Churchill (a gift to America by the government of Great Britain) from the Oval Office. But the item was not merely relegated to some lesser location. It was sent back to the British government as an obvious insult against a staunch and reliable ally.

Following on the heels of that childish and petty act were a series of groveling visitations before foreign leaders who harbor unrestrained hostility towards America. At the expense of the nation and its reputation, Obama did his best to elevate himself above former U.S. policy and actions, on which he repeatedly laid blame for any simmering resentment among America’s enemies. Muslim despots and South American Marxists could count on warm embraces and adulation from him, while he repeatedly expressed scorn for this nation in their presence.

Meanwhile, he very proudly dismantled the nuclear shield that America had been establishing over Eastern Europe, thus leaving the entire region vulnerable to attacks from rogue middle-eastern nations and conceivably susceptible to the lingering musings of Russian expansionists. With cold deliberation, he took a situation that had been quietly moving towards stability and security, and shredded the protections it offered to potential allies. Meanwhile, amid empty platitudes and reassurances from his cabinet that America’s new outreach would garner stable and devoted friends in the Muslim world, the Iranians have stepped up their efforts to build both nuclear weapons and the missile technology needed to deliver them.

It is a sad testament that, on July 21, the final landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis at Cape Canaveral Florida signaled not only the end of that program, but the dismantling of America’s ability to even put a human being into orbit. Having cancelled the Constellation program, which was planned both as a successor to the Shuttle as well as a stepping-stone towards renewed American exploration of the moon and beyond, Obama decried it as excessively expensive and unnecessary. In this he reflected the attitudes of American leftists during the 1960s, who castigated the nation over the cost and aggressiveness of the Apollo program which, in a defining battle front of the “Cold War,” achieved President Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of that decade.

According to the liberal socialists of that time, that money could have been better spent back here on earth by handing it out in various social/welfare programs. Clearly, Barack Obama stands in agreement with them, having squandered $787 billion with the single stroke of his pen on February 18, 2009 when he signed his bogusly titled “Stimulus” giveaway. That incomprehensible sum was more than thirty times the cost of getting Armstrong and Aldrin to the moon’s surface. Yet now, barely two years later, the nation has absolutely nothing to show for that enormous raid on the nation’s coffers.

Elsewhere, Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama’s minion at the Department of Justice, saw to it that the nation’s top law-enforcement agency was henceforth mutated into a thoroughly politicized tool of the left. Most notably, by refusing to prosecute members of the “New Black Panthers” who interfered with voting in the 2008 elections, Holder has since made it clear on numerous occasions that, under his watch, the ultimate purpose of that organization is to advance the liberal agenda. Selective enforcement of “justice,” based on the political ideology of those in question, is no justice at all. But it is par for the course for the current White House.

While no discussion of the horrendous damage done to America by Obama and his cronies would be complete without mention of their crowning affront to the nation known as Obamacare, space does not allow a thorough examination of the manifold threats it poses. Nor can anything less than an entire volume be properly devoted to the many affronts to the Constitution in both its passage by a corrupt congress and the manner in which it is intended to be implemented.

Suffice to say that the devastation to the nation is real and ongoing. If America is to avoid the slippery slope facing it on so many fronts or, the catastrophic end game the current situation portends, at the next election, the government must be expunged of both this current administration and any remnant of the mindset that has enabled its abhorrent actions.

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Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com.

e young man from Wyoming hit the nail on the head.

The room was full, we had to bring in four more tables and then some still stood around the walls. Mitch Shaw, John Birch Society, made a great presentation and our group showed its enthusisiam.

Paul Coble announced he is running for the 13th District for Congress…Ole Uncle Jesse Helms is looking down on him and probably will be giving advice as Paul moves forward.

The MCMM will be involved in establishing new groups in Cary, Franklin County and Johnston County. The momemtum is growing.

I did not receive a call from Al Litton regarding Congresswoman Renee’s absence at the meeting due to a scheduling problem so I’m not sure if we can reschedule for a later date or not.

Thanks to everyone that made this meeting such a sucess…………We needed this for the fall run.

May God Bless the USA and watch over our troops that keep us safe and free.

Al Litton, Renee’s Chief of Staff, e-mailed me this afternoon and confirmed that Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has a conflict of scheduling and will not be able to make our meeting.

Don’t let this slow you down; we have a great meeting set up and the MCMM will move on.

It’s that time; our monthly meeting………Come early tomorrow night cause Mr. C Mitchell Shaw with the John Birch group will be speaking…….Paul Coble will be there (rumor has it he may be running for something other than County Commissioner).

Guess what………..Congresswoman Renee Ellmers plans to attend our meeting to update us on events in Congress and answer questions.

I plan to bring the portable stage to show you we actually have a stage. David Hawkins has done a wonderful job putting this unit together and he deserves an ataboy and a pat on the back. I think you’ll like what you see.

Bring everyone you can to this meeting. We have just a little over a year left to change Washington, Raleigh and the local elections and we must regain our enthusiasm and patriotism to save this Country. Everyone is busy trying to survive but put this as you priority and we can all celebrate on November 3rd.

May God Bless the USA and protect our troops that keep us safe and free.

I have seen this before but please take the time to read and think about this. Someway, somehow we have to wake up all conservatives and get ready for the fight of our life; if we lose, then we have a pretty good idea what will happen.

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn’t hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
“complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal’s – and they vote – then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.

This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic . Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn’t be more at stake than on Nov 2012.

Please take the time to read and understand what happened recently in the Wilmington GOP Convention. If you get the chance, compare the GOP to the Democratic platform and see why we need to fight like hell to support the GOP. Nothing in life is perfect but when you have choices, it gives you the freedom to choose.

North Carolina Republican Party
Adopted in Convention on June 3, 2011
Wilmington, NC
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Article I: Family

1. Our nation’s strength lies with the family. It is the first school of good citizenship, the engine of economic progress, and a haven of security and understanding.
2. The ideal environment for raising children is a two-parent family. We support policies that encourage a husband and wife to live in harmony in one home.
We recognize that single parents often succeed and that two-parent families sometimes fail. We praise the efforts of single parents who work to provide stable homes.
3. Government cannot legislate compassion. It should not preempt parental responsibility. Government should protect children from abuse and neglect, balancing parental rights with the protection of a child’s health and safety. We support private initiatives that provide services to dysfunctional families. Taxpayers should not fund benefit plans for unmarried partners.
4. We support federal and State constitutional amendments to limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman. We oppose adoption or foster parenting by same sex couples.
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Article II: The Economy

1. The free enterprise system is the most effective and just economic system. Economic freedom is essential to human liberty and dignity.
2. Government ought to provide an environment for individual initiative and enterprise unencumbered by excessive regulation and taxation.
3. Growth in employment requires expanding capital formation. We oppose the taxation of capital gains as ordinary income.
4. North Carolinians pay the highest tax rates in the southeast. Government spending should not increase more than population growth and inflation. We support zero-based budgeting and a taxpayer’s bill of rights.
5. We oppose bailouts and corporate welfare. It is contrary to the free enterprise system to recruit or retain businesses with targeted tax incentives when other businesses bear the full burden of taxation. Higher tax rates on the many to provide preferential treatment for the few is unfair. The best way to promote economic growth is to reduce our overall tax burden.
6. We support transition to a simpler, fairer, more efficient tax system that reduces the overall tax burden.

Article Ill: Individual Liberty

1. We embrace the vision for America established by our Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, including its Bill of Rights, and the North Carolina Constitution, including its Declaration of Rights.
2. The State must not interfere with freedom of religion. Public schools should not discriminate for or against any religion nor deny equal access to school facilities. We oppose efforts to remove the recognition of Almighty God from our schools, courts, currency and Pledge of Allegiance.
3. Government should treat all citizens impartially, without regard to wealth, race, ethnicity, disability, religion, sex, political affiliation or national origin. We oppose all forms of invidious discrimination. Sexual orientation is not an appropriate category.
4. The Second Amendment and Section 30 of the North Carolina Declaration of Rights guarantee the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. We support the ownership, sale, purchase and “lawful carry” of firearms by law-abiding citizens and elimination of statewide “no carry” zones.
5. Private property should not be taken by eminent domain except for a public use, and upon prompt payment of just compensation.
6. Annexation laws should be reformed to eliminate involuntary annexation.

Article IV: Sanctity of Life

1. We believe in the sanctity of all human life.
2. Unborn children have Constitutional rights to life and liberty. We urge the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade. We support a human life amendment. We oppose efforts to mandate the provision of abortion or to fund organizations that provide or promote abortion services.
3. We support adoption through significant tax credits.
4. We respect parental rights and responsibilities. Informed consent and parental consent should be required before a minor receives family-planning services.
5. We support developments in biomedical research that enhance and protect human life. We oppose developments that do not treat each individual human as a locus of unique and irreplaceable God-given dignity, no matter how weak, immature, or dependent. We oppose procedures that intentionally destroy innocent human life. We oppose human cloning and the destruction of human embryos. We support adult stem cell research.
6 We support treating the infirm and elderly with love and respect, not as a burden. We oppose euthanasia.
7 We support the right of medical professionals and pharmacists to refuse to participate in abortions or dispense abortion-inducing drugs. We support the right of medical residency programs to refuse to provide abortion training.
8 We urge the recruitment and support of candidates who will work hard to protect all innocent human life.

Article V: State Government

1. We expect legislators to be efficient, effective, ethical, and responsive.
2. Legislative session limits must be accompanied by measures to ensure that policies are made by legislators and not by unelected employees.
3. Government should not discourage honest, productive work. We oppose gambling, including the state lottery.
4. Each level of government should fund the programs it requires of other levels of government.
5. No State funds should be spent without an explicit appropriation. We oppose “slush funds” as rewards for political support. Raiding of dedicated funds should not be allowed except in an emergency as determined by law.
6. Every bill heard in committee should receive a recorded vote. The budget bill should be made public at least two legislative days before the final vote in each house.
7. We support the issuance of a driver’s license or state identification card only to those who are lawful residents. Taxpayers should only pay for services for lawful residents, except in life threatening emergencies.
8. The mental health system needs to be reformed. The needs of patients must be the first priority. This requires diagnosis, comprehensive care, follow-up, and stiff penalties for those who abuse or exploit patients.
9. Government budgets should have full disclosure and access, including the compensation of employees.
10. Elected officials should not appear in “public service ads” during their election.

Article VI: Elections

1. We support photo identification to deter voter fraud. .
2. We support compact contiguous single-member districts that do not split counties or precincts, except as required by federal law.
3. We recognize the independence of the judiciary and oppose the appointment of state judges to full terms. To hold our trial courts accountable through direct elections is a valuable right.
4. Voters should have timely information on candidates’ campaign finances. We oppose funding election campaigns with public or foreign funds.
5. The party affiliation of judicial candidates should appear on the ballot.

Article VII: Education

1. Public education should be excellent. Parents should control their children’s education.
2. Choice and competition have served us well in higher education. We support tax credits for parents who relieve the burden on our public schools by lawfully educating their children in private or home schools. There should be no additional restrictions on parents’ options to privately educate their children.
3. The cap on the number of charter schools should be removed.
4. Education reform requires local control of curriculum, budget, textbooks and personnel. Parents must have access to all curricula.
5. Reform requires nationally normed testing, cutting administrative waste, and facilitating alternate teacher certification. Students must have the best teachers, whether physically present or by use of technology. Teachers should be paid, and promoted based on the quality of their work, not on longevity. Teachers should be trained in the subject matter they teach. Highly qualified teachers at low-performing schools should be paid more if their students show academic progress.
6. It is an appropriate goal for students to perform at grade level. Every effort should be made to ensure that all students learn to the greatest extent of their abilities.
7. Schools should encourage patriotism and other values of Western civilization. They should teach the facts of the foundation of the United States, including the Declaration of Independence and federal and state constitutions. Schools should teach economics and government so that students will be prepared to vote as informed citizens.
8. We support regular recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, display of an American and State flag and use of our national motto — “In God We Trust.”
9. We oppose sex education in public schools without parental consent. No birth control devices or drugs should be distributed in public schools. We support teaching abstinence until marriage as the expected norm for sexual behavior. Abstinence until marriage is the most effective way to prevent teenage pregnancies, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases, and to create healthy relationships and self-esteem. Public schools should not be used to teach children about homosexual behavior.
10. We support the right of students to pray in school and at public occasions without censorship.
11. We oppose the restriction of free speech and free assembly by public institutions on ideological or religious grounds.
12. We encourage expanding vocational curricula.

Article VIII: Justice

1. The first duty of government is to maintain law and order, while securing to its citizens the freedom to pursue the blessings of liberty and the fruits of their labor.
2. Premeditated and deliberate murder calls for the death penalty, which is directly proportional to the wrong perpetrated against its victim. We should drastically reduce the time between death sentence and execution in order to have an effective deterrent.
3. We support educational and treatment programs for drug and alcohol abuse. Those who drive while impaired and sell illegal drugs must face stiff punishment.
4. We condemn gratuitous violence and pornography in literature and music. We support mandatory labeling of these products. Laws should control obscene or sadistic materials.
5. We want stiff penalties enforced for abducting, exploiting or abusing children, including unborn children. We abhor domestic violence.
6. Prisons should focus on security, education, and labor. Inmates should be required to work, without competing with private enterprises.
7. We support tort reform, including a cap on awards for pain and suffering, and structured payments of awards for lost income.

Article IX: The Environment

1. We are stewards of our God-given natural heritage. We have a duty to protect the earth’s resources.
2. If regulation is needed to protect the environment, government should only proceed with evidence that the benefits warrant the cost. Humans are a critical component of the ecosystem. Regulations must ensure a balance between humans and the environment.
3. . We support energy security and a move toward energy independence. A comprehensive energy policy includes offshore and on-shore oil and natural gas, nuclear power, coal, solar, wind, and alternative fuels that do not adversely impact the food supply. These can safely improve our economy, prevent us from being held hostage to oil-producing countries, and provide jobs for our citizens. This will keep the cost of energy affordable. Energy policies should be determined by markets, not by subsidies for favored firms or industries.
4. We support federal revenue sharing with those states directly affected by offshore exploration and development in federal waters. This can be used to pay for research and development of alternative energy generation and distribution and to offset impacts on the coast.

Article X: National Policy

1. (We support peace through strength and stopping rogue nations from obtaining weapons of mass destruction. Americans owe our freedom and security to the brave men and women of our armed forces. The military should be provided the resources to maintain full combat readiness. Military personnel should be sufficiently compensated to support their families Denying necessary reinforcements to our troops is not “supporting the troops.”
2. An important responsibility of the federal government is “to provide for the common defense”. Our borders must be made secure. The Federal government should enforce its immigration laws.
3. Rules against sexual misbehavior in the military should be retained.
4. English should be the official language of the United States.
5. Our participation in any international body must never sacrifice the sovereignty of the United States. The United States does not need permission from the United Nations or any other international body to defend itself.
6. We recognize the need for treaties. We should withdraw from any treaty that compromises our sovereignty or undermines national defense. Foreign court decisions are not relevant to interpretation of the U.S. Constitution except when construing words used at the time of ratification.
7. We support a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Spending cuts are the right way to balance the budget. Tax rate reductions are the right way to stimulate the economy.
8. Social Security must be placed on a sound financial basis with a budget separate from the general fund. We need more choice and control over our own retirement security.
9. Wise health choices are best made by individuals guided by sound medical opinion. We reject socialized medicine and a governmental takeover of the health care system. Choice and information will allow a reduction in costs. We support medical savings accounts which combine personal responsibility with access to affordable healthcare. We oppose the “individual mandate” which compels us to purchase health insurance.
10. We support health care freedom to encourage disease prevention and to reduce costs. Legal barriers to competition among insurers and health care should be eliminated.
11. We call on Congress, the President, the courts and the state to abide by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. We oppose encroachments upon all rights which the Constitution has reserved to the states or to the people.
12. We oppose Federal “card check” legislation that denies workers a free and fair election with a secret ballot on the question whether they choose to be represented by a union. We support the right to work without being forced to join a union.
13. The Grand Old Party was born in the 1850’s out of the abolition movement. Slavery has been abolished in the United States but tens of millions of people around the world continue to live in bondage. Our foreign policy should encourage freedom from slavery for all.
14. We support the principle of a “sound money” policy to sustain a stable U.S. currency.

Respectfully submitted the 3rd day of June, 2011.

2011 Platform Committee:
Kim Cotten-West, Plymouth District 1
Jim Lee, Clayton District 2
Perry White, Nags Head District 3
BJ Lawson, Apex District 4
Buck Golding, Low Gap District 5
Julie Emmons, Mebane District 6
Jason Britt, Dublin District 7
Tim Watson, Rockingham District 8
Ken Nelson, Charlotte District 9
Jason Saine, Denver District 10
Bill Lack, Asheville District 11
Patricia Armstrong, Charlotte District 12
Jeff Morse, Raleigh, District 13
Pearl Burris-Floyd, Dallas Member at Large
Dena Barnes, Summerfield Member at Large
Paul Stam, Apex Chair