This
is a MUST ATTEND MEETING
The
following contains short and long versions.
Short
Version:
The
short version is get to our July meeting and hear Our Speaker, David Bailey. He is
co-author of Shock & Alarm: What
it was really like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. He is Delaware Director of
‘ACT! For America’ and will speak about Islam
vs Western Society. It is very important that we drag someone
extra to the meeting.
Long
Version:
Fellow
Tea Party identifiers, we have a sixteen month adventure looming in our
path. For the remainder of 2015 you will
be bombarded with pros and cons of possible presidential candidates. We need your help, voice, questions, and
thoughts. Foreign affairs are a major concern regarding who we select to be our
President. Foreign affairs are not the
only concern. On our home front we have
impacts to the national economy. The
impacts range from our national debt to; employment, government over control or
indulgence, to personal privacy.
The
July Speaker will provide information regarding a major portion of foreign
affairs. Shock and Alarm: What it was really like
at the US Embassy in Iraq is a riveting behind-the-scenes exposé of daily life
at the Baghdad Diplomatic Compound in 2009, providing an insightful look at the
culture clash taking place between the Islamic world and the West. Our Speaker is
the co-author David Bailey telling the story of Hugh Iwanicki's personal story
of the eleven months served as a performance auditor for the Office of the
Inspector General at the Embassy. Benghazi brought up close! Iwaniicki’s
journal of unforgettable
experiences juxtapose the mundane with the bizarre, moving from discussions of
constitutional law with Sharia attorneys to several near-death experiences, as
well as the strange bedfellow’s tale of a regional embassy housed in a Shiite-owned
"Temporary Marriage Honeymoon Hotel." For comic relief, there are
also the misadventures of the Blackwater contractors, Marines, diplomats, and
plumbers who inhabited the Green Zone and made the best of the Coalition
embassy parties, where the women, though far outnumbered, were in full control
of the men. And then there’s the story of how the Embassy got an unlimited
supply of free beer, thanks to a Sharia law against alcohol. Iwanicki’s
startling autobiographical account brings to light the human, the brutal, and
the bewildering sides of life among the Iraqis, Jordanians, and Kuwaitis, as
well as the mind-bending ironies and paradoxes encountered by the jumbled crew
that lived within the confines known as the US Embassy in Iraq.
Since our early start of 2008, the Tea Party has been the
Voice of Conservatives. We are experiencing a slowing pace of participation.
The Gloucester County Tea Party since 2013, has provided speaker forums for
such subjects as: Tax, Firearm control,
Constitution and the move to hold a Constitution Convention. Speakers included:
·
Jerome
Huyler, Seaton Hall University, subject: Welfare State.
·
All
the candidates for local offices
·
Nora
Craig, Faith and Freedom, subject: Dr. Eck's free clinic program to reduce
medical costs
·
George
Gellenthin, Woodbury, subject: Eminent Domain abuse
·
Jack
Scheidell and Jan Lennox, subject: Common Core
·
Eileen
Hart, Gloucester County resident who objected to the high reassessment of their
property, had their guns confiscated and was charged with making threats.
(Guns restored and charges dropped)
·
Robert
Najmulski, FAIR Regional Coordinator, subject: immigration
·
Frank
Flamingo, 2nd Amendment Society, subject: gun control in NJ
·
Alexander
Roubian, NJ2A (NJ 2nd Amendment), subject: Senator Sweeney recall
·
Peter
Boyce, Faith and Freedom, Nullification
·
·
Gerry
Grabinski, subject: Agenda 21
·
Dennis
Mahon, Liberty and Prosperity, subject: school funding reform
We have experienced highs of thirty people in attendance.
Recently attendance has waned. For your Tea Party to be effective, review your
schedule attend and participate. We are working on evaluation of the upcoming
Presidential Candidates based upon their adherence to our principals. Come to
the July 2015 meeting. Provide your first opinions and questions
regarding who should be endorsed or supported. Provide your ideas how to best
influence and achieve the objective of a proper best presidential candidate.
This is: “the time for all good citizens to come the aid of their country”.