So began our beloved State of Texas! Have you
ever read our Declaration? Here is the beginning
four (4) paragraphs:
"When a government has ceased to protect the
lives, liberty and property of the people, from
whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for
the advancement of whose happiness it was
instituted, and so far from being a guarantee
for the enjoyment of those inestimable and
inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in
the hands of evil rulers for their
oppression."
"When the Federal Republican Constitution of
their country, which they have sworn to
support, no longer has a substantial existence,
and the whole nature of their government has
been forcibly changed, without their consent,
from a restricted federative republic, composed
of sovereign states, to a consolidated central
military despotism, in which every interest is
disregarded but that of the army and the
priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil
liberty, the everready minions of power, and
the usual instruments of tyrants."
"When, long after the spirit of the
constitution has departed, moderation is at
length so far lost by those in power, that even
the semblance of freedom is removed, and the
forms themselves of the constitution
discontinued, and so far from their petitions
and remonstrances being regarded, the agents
who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and
mercenary armies sent forth to force a new
government upon them at the point of the
bayonet."
"When, in consequence of such acts of
malfeasance and abdication on the part of the
government, anarchy prevails, and civil society
is dissolved into its original elements. In
such a crisis, the first law of nature, the
right of self-preservation, the inherent and
inalienable rights of the people to appeal to
first principles, and take their political
affairs into their own hands in extreme cases,
enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a
sacred obligation to their posterity, to
abolish such government, and create another in
its stead, calculated to rescue them from
impending dangers, and to secure their future
welfare and happiness."
Re-read those short paragraphs. Does any of this
sound familiar? Let me ask you two serious
questions:
- 1) has anything
changed?
2) are you ready to effect that change?
Today, Texans are voting in the primaries of
the two largest political parties, and we must
ask, to what end? For more government run health
care? For more federal environmental control? For
more federal government run education? For more
federal gun control? For more federal paper
money? For more OSHA? For more BATF? For more
wiretapping of citizens? For more what?
Let's be honest, no political party that has been
in "power" over the last 50 years has done one
thing to honor the agreement between the states,
otherwise known as 'The Constitution for the
United States'.
Our Texan forefathers met on March 1, 1836 and
made history.
Convention of 1836
(1 March 1836)
Fifty-four delegates of the Convention of 1836
began meeting on March 1 at the village of
Washington-on-the-Brazos. Each of the settlements
of Texas were represented by delegates elected
one month earlier. Richard Ellis was elected
president of the convention and Herbert S. Kimble
secretary.
With very little time to accomplish its mission,
delegates of Convention of 1836 wrote and adopted
the Texas Declaration of Independence, prepared a
Constitution for the newly formed Republic, and
organized an an interim government. These actions
were accomplished amid almost daily reports of
the invasion on Texas soil by Mexico, and the
collapse of the Alamo and destruction of its
defenders.
The ad interim government that was created by the
delegates took office at the close of the
convention, and served until the following
October, when general elections could be held.
Officers of the newly formed Republic
included:
* David G. Burnet,
President
* Lorenzo de Zavala,
Vice-president
* Samuel P. Carson, Secretary
of State
* Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of
War
* Bailey Hardeman, Secretary of
Treasury
* David Thomas, Attorney
General
With their mission accomplished, the delegates
and the newly formed government of the Republic
of Texas adjourned in haste during the early
morning hours of March 17, following news of the
approach of Santa Anna and the Mexican army.
(
http://www.lsjunction.com/events/conv1836.htm)
Our Texas Declaration was made public March 2,
176 years ago! It's time to rally round the flag
and sign up.
Here's the bottom line, if you keep doing the
same thing yet expect different results, you are
fooling yourself and experiencing the definition
of insanity.
Let's make Texas history today by doing three
things:
- 1. Do not vote in
today's primary because once you vote in
today's primary, you can not become a delegate
nor can you sign our ballot access
petition;
2. Grab our precinct convention document
HERE and get your local county
organized and ready to go;
3. Donate and join the party
HERE so that our message of
Freedom and Liberty can be spread statewide!
We are on the verge of history, just like
our forefathers and I pray that you will be a
part of it with us.
As the saying goes in the historic movie 'Field
of Dreams': Build it and they will come!
We must build the political party that embodies
our Texan heritage of Freedom and Liberty - we
are the Tea Party Party!
Join with us today.
For God, Family and the Republic,
Bryan Malatesta
Chairman
Bryan Malatesta, Chairman
Constitution Party of Texas
www.cptexas.us
chairman@cptexas.us
http://www.youtube.com/ConstitutionParty
