Many of you receiving this message will recall the organization I created in 2007 called "Citizen Reform" - while many of you are new to the mailing list as well.  After a hiatus, I am bringing it back with new energy and purpose.  You will be seeing a number of new initiatives under the name Citizen Reform going forward.
 
With an out of control, tone deaf Congress — and President Obama and his band of czars — waging blitzkrieg on our freedoms, and spending us into bankruptcy– we cannot afford to sit on the sidelines any longer. Citizen Reform is a forum to share ideas and news items that resonate with a "Majority" that will be "Silent" no more!  Citizen Reform will be a source of messages and events that are important and provide a service of informing or alerting you, my friends, to current events, arguments, and information that is of value in navigating today's turbulent times.
 
Citizen Reform is also planning to hold events which encourage political and civic participation, idea and information sharing, coalition building, and support for key individuals.
 
Although, in the recent past,  I have sent messages from my personal email, I am returning to this format which I think is more professional and appropriate.  Please take advantage of the link at the bottom which allows you to be deleted from future messages if you do not wish to receive them.
 
I invite you to go to our website, www.citizenreform.org where these messages are posted along with many links to other sites I feel have relevance to today's political battles.

Sincerely,
Albert Strong

Saturday, I joined thousands of “forgotten Americans” on the streets of Washington protesting the runaway spending and the general tone deaf government that a growing percentage of Americans have realized must be reined in – and it can only be done by “We the People”.

My wife Susan joined me, my youngest son Michael, a freshman in college, and about ten friends.  We took our lunch, and stayed most of the day.

The walk up Pennsylvania Avenue, marching with wall to wall patriotic Americans singing and shouting, was an unforgettable lifetime memory.  The sound of cheering, which several times started way behind us and swept up the street and washed over us like thunder in a canyon, was a living force of nature and we felt an electrifying sense of excitement in the moment.

Congress and MSM, can you hear us now?  How about you, President Obama?  No, not yet.  We have more to do, more to endure, more to sacrifice, more to accomplish. Read More…

Camille Paglia is an authentic 1960’s leftist, but, is also an accurate commentator on Democratic and liberal vulnerabilities and missteps and is intellectually honest to give conservatives credit where credit is due.  I have found her often, to be a razor like stiletto in carving up conventional liberals and validating our concerns.  Read on…

 
Too late for Obama to turn it around? (excerpts)

By Camille Paglia

Sep. 09, 2009 |

 (emphasis in bold added)

As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration's strategic missteps this year. I suspect there had been private grumbling all along, but the media warhorses failed to speak out when they should have — from week one after the inauguration, when Obama went flat as a rug in letting Congress pass that obscenely bloated stimulus package. Read More…

Dear Friend,

We are continuing to build momentum for the September 12th March on Washington. Since we are only two weeks out, we thought we would provide some more detailed information about the 3-day event.
 
First, make sure you register for the FreedomWorks Liberty Summit on Thursday, Sept. 10. If you already have done so, there is no need to register again. In addition to advice on grassroots organizing and lobbying, the Liberty Summit will also feature educational panels on healthcare, the cap and trade energy tax and bailouts. Leading policy experts and conservatives in Congress will participate in these panels. The event will take place at the DC Armory, which is located right next to RFK Stadium (great for parking buses) at 2001 East Capitol Street Southeast, in Washington, DC. The DC Armory is also right on the Metro (you want the “Stadium-Armory” Metro stop accessible by either the Blue or Orange lines), which makes it a convenient location to hold such a large event. Read More…

Dear friends:

I offer a question for the 4th of July:

What is needed to create and sustain a Free Society*, in which the rights of citizens are protected and each person has the opportunity to reach his or her individual potential?

[The following is adapted with great admiration and appreciation from Os Guinness and a speech entitled:“The Cost of Forgetting the Framers' Foundational Conviction" ]

In a stinging rebuke to the Arch Bishop of Caterbury,  Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, insisted that migrants must obey the British legal system.  Meanwhile, Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, claimed any adoption of sharia would be "disastrous" for Britain.

In a shocking, ever further drift of liberal Christianity to accomodate Islamic fundamentalism, the Archbishop of Canterbury opened the door to accepting Sharia law as an alternative to British law in certain jurisdictions. Sharia is the Islamic religious law that operates in many Muslim countries around the world, including Libya and Sudan. Egypt's constitution also defines sharia as the source of its law. Some nations also have secular codes that operate alongside, but mostly subservient to, sharia.

Ramadhan Foundation chief Mohammed Shafiq welcomed the comments, advocating for such attempts "by both our great faiths to build respect and tolerance."

A terror plot was uncovered in which three Islamic radicals were planning an “assassination” of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the drawing. Although we sometimes criticize Europe for being less than robust in its defense of freedom, these newspapers deserve our respect and admiration. 

"We are doing this … to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend,"

Berlingske Tidende, was one of the newspapers involved in the republication by newspapers in Denmark. It said: "We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend," in comments reported by The Associated Press.Newspapers in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands also republished the drawing Wednesday as part of their coverage of Tuesday's arrests.

The strongest enforcement law in the country requiring business to not hire illegal immigrants was upheld! 

The judge, said that the law does not overstep the federal government's authority to regulate immigration. Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed the lawsuit in December.