SWAMPFEST 2010 HOLDS BENEFIT CONCERT FOR FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS OUTREACH (“FSO”) TO HELP SEND MONTHLY “WE CARE” PACKAGES TO OUR TROOPS!

Holden Beach, NC – Red, White and Blue! Rocking this Memorial Day Weekend for the TROOPS at Cedar Landing Marina, Holden Beach, NC!!! The flags will be flying high as SWAMPFEST 2010 hosts a 2 day Benefit Concert to benefit Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, Inc. (“FSO”) in their mission of sending out monthly “we care” packages to our troops overseas!

This FREE two day “family friendly” event, is hosted by North Carolina’s very own, SwampDaWamp www.swampdawamp.info and will kick off at noon on May 29th and on May 30th, till whenever?????
Swampfest 2010 will include a host of vendors, bands, great bbq food and beverages, along with children’s activities!

“We are not only so excited and Blessed to be the recipient of such an amazing National Recording Artist Event, but to be in a state where so many of our recipients are from…….thanks to SwampDaWamp and everyone involved with Swampfest 2010, we look forward to bringing awareness to Holden Beach about our mission of sending “a little bit of home” to assure that our U.S. Servicemen and Servicewomen are not forgotten.” Says Lynelle Chauncey Zelnar, Executive Director and Founder of FSO.

For more information about Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, a national 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered with the State of Florida and the State of Georgia please log on to www.forgottensoldiers.org or call 561-369-2933.

For More information about this event or SwampDaWamp, please visit their website at www.swampdawamp.info or call 704-648-1855.

Regarding: Adam Kokesh
(a complete list of recipients can be found at the bottom of this letter)

We are writing to you to express our grave concerns about one of your fellow Liberty candidates, Adam Kokesh. More importantly, in view of these concerns and to the point of this letter, we are asking that you disavow Mr. Kokesh and distance yourself from him politically.

Mr. Kokesh has an extensive and well-documented history of affiliations with radical leftist groups. In concert with these groups, he has engaged in numerous anti-America and anti-military demonstrations and protests. Further, Mr. Kokesh does not appear to have any personal qualifications that would recommend him for serious consideration as a candidate for Congress, and he has a significant history suggestive of poor character and judgment.

Of primary concern to us is that Mr. Kokesh’s anti-military actions were designed to undermine our military during a time of war, and, more egregiously, were designed to undermine and impugn the honor of our soldiers who were fighting and dying on the battlefield. Most people would see these actions as having been dishonorable; many of us see them as being traitorous.

For those of you that are not familiar with Mr. Kokesh’s extensive history of affiliations with radical lefist groups, we have appended this letter with a brief review of those affiliations (see below, Appendix I). Additionally, there are a numbers of internet resources that you can utilize for your own research on Mr. Kokesh. We have also appended this letter with links to some websites that contain relevant information (see below, Appendix II).

Most of us are well aware of the devastating effect that the anti-military actions of the left during the Vietnam War had on both our country at large and on our veterans in particular. Many of us lived through that. We are well aware of the suffering of those veterans as they returned to a country that had been incited to impugn their honor and condemn them.

Be assured that there are countless numbers of patriotic Americans who vowed that never again would our soldiers be subjected to the traitorous assault of the radical leftist groups within our own country. We, the undersigned, are among those numbers. It is for this reason that we stand in solid opposition to Mr. Kokesh. We stand in total solidarity with our soldiers and veterans. We ask you to take the same principled stand. We ask that you disavow Mr. Kokesh and, by extension disavow the entire radical anti-America forces that are within our country, and that are seeking to destroy us from within. We ask that you stand in solidarity with our troops.

It is with great interest that we look forward to a response from you.

Please send replies to:
americanpatriotsagainstkokesh@gmail.com

Signatories:

The Band of Mothers
http://thebandofmothers.com/

Move America Forward Freedom PAC
http://www.mafpac.org

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America
http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/

Gathering of Eagles
http://www.gatheringofeagles.org

Warriors For Congress
http://warriorsforcongress.com/

Illinois Tea Party
http://illinoistea.org/

American Patriots Against Kokesh
http://americanpatriotsagainstkokesh.wordpress.com/

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APPENDIX I - Review of Mr. Kokesh’s history

Affiliations with radical leftist groups

Mr. Kokesh joined the Iraq Veterans Against War (IVAW) in February 2007, at which time he was 25 years old. The IVAW was formed by the Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW), the now infamous group formed by John Kerry in 1970, and responsible for the fraudulent maligning of our Vietnam veterans at the Winter Soldier Conference in 1971. It will be recalled that John Kerry now stands exposed as having repeated false accusations from that conference, during his Congressional testimony in 1971. Similar to the VVAW, the IVAW is a virulently anti-military, anti-America group. It holds the view that our country is an imperialistic and expansionistic “One World Order” government, and that our military is but a tool of this government. Further, they believe that our soldiers are little more than marauders and murderers who, in the words of John Kerry, behave “in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan”.
Mr. Kokesh was active in the IVAW from 2007 to 2009, at which time he announced his candidacy for Republican Congressman from New Mexico. There are no indications that he has revoked his affiliations with the IVAW. As an active member of the IVAW, Mr. Kokesh was involved in numerous anti-militaryactivities and actions. While executing these actions, Mr. Kokesh knowingly made common cause with a wide array of other well-known, radical anti-America and communist groups. The list of these other groups includes, but is by no means limited to, the following:

SDS
Code Pink
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
United for Justice and Peace
Communist Party of America
Muslim Brotherhood
Black Panthers

In cooperation with the above-named groups and the IVAW, Mr. Kokesh: participated in multiple anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC, and other cities throughout the country; organized and incited violent demonstrations at military recruiting stations; participated in an initiative to encourage active duty soldiers to desert their military post; and, organized and participated in a Winter Soldier Conference 2, an effort designed to malign and undercut the morale of our soldiers who were fighting and dying on the battlefield. Even a most cursory search of the Internet will yield a plethora of documents attesting to the veracity of these assertions.

Character Issues

Mr. Kokesh’s personal accomplishments and achievements appear to be limited to his having served in the Marine Corps from 1999 until 2006, and his subsequent work as a political activist with the IVAW from 2007 until 2009. His MC service was basically unremarkable, in terms of citations, medals, and commendations, and it was ultimately marked by a demotion in his discharge rank from Sergeant to Corporal, and a downgrading of his discharge status from honorable to general. Mr. Kokesh’s tenure with the IVAW has been noted above and need not be repeated here.
There are no indications that Mr. Kokesh has ever maintained any private sector employment. Unless otherwise proven, it might be assumed that his ‘work’ with the IVAW was financed through contributions to that organization, finances that often originated in radical leftist organizations such as MoveOn.org.
There are no indications that Mr. Kokesh has achieved any notable academic standing. This fact, coupled with his young age and his otherwise lack of personal accomplishments, leave little that would recommend him for serious consideration for Congress.
There are numbers of incidents in Mr. Kokesh’s personal life that suggest that he employs poor judgment. Examples of this include the following: he smuggled a gun home from Iraq, and then was apprehended when he bought it onto a college campus; he has incited protestors to engage in violent actions against military recruiting stations; and, he incited unrest on a college campus by hanging racist poster around the campus, having signed the posters as being from members of the college’s conservative Republican
organization.

APPENDIX II Internet resources

Internet Resources:
Websites:
This Ain’t Hell – blog site – extensive archives on Kokesh
http://thisainthell.us/blog/

American Patriots Against Kokesh – informational website on Kokesh
http://americanpatriotsagainstkokesh.wordpress.com/

Links:
Kokesh + IVAW – Google search
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=Kokesh+%2b+IVAW
Kokesh + Code Pink
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=Kokesh+%2b+Code+Pink

Kokesh + ANSWER
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=kokesh+%2b+answer

Kokesh + World Workers Party
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIC_enUS220US220&q=Kokesh+%2b+World+Worker+Party

http://www.holidaydmitri.com/kokesh.html

http://www.ivaw.org/node/787

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/17/adam-kokesh-when-injustice-becomes-law-resistance-becomes-duty/

http://www.ivaw.org/node/639

Kokesh in Germany:
http://www.ivaw.org/node/787

ivaw encourages war resistance:
http://us.oneworld.net/node/152427

War Resister Camilo Mejia Elected to Chair Iraq Veterans Against the War, Group Encouraging War Resistance (august, 2007 – during which time kokesh was an active member of IVAW)
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/23/war_resister_camilo_mejia_elected_to

Complete Listing of “Liberty Candidate” Recipients of this Letter

AL
Paul Lambert

AZ
Brian Miller

Nick Coons

CA
Carlos Rodriguez

Edward Gonzalez

Gail Lightfoot

John Dennis

Michael Benoit

CO
Rob McNealy

CT
Dan Reale

Peter Schiff

FL
Alex Snitker

Craig Porter

Eddie Adams, Jr.

Francisco Rodriguez

John Annarumma

Thomas K. Snider

Troy D. Stanley

GA
Chuck Donovan

Michael Frisbee

Valerie Meyers

ID
Chick Heileson

IL
Alton Franklin

Christian Falconer

David Ratowitz

Michael Labno

IN
Rachel Grubb

Kristi Risk

KY
Rand Paul

MD
Collins Bailey

Robert Broadus

Russ Braden

MI
Linda Goldthorpe

MO
Bob Parker

Jonathan Dine

Greg Cowan

MS
Joe Tegerdine

MT
Mark French

NC
B.J. Lawson

Dan Eichenbaum

Mike Beitler

NH
Tom Alciere

NJ
William Kern

NY
Anthony Tolda

Logan Bell

NV
Edward G. Klapproth

OH
David Ryon

Eric Deaton

OK
Howard Houchen

Nathan Dahm

R.J. Harris

OR
Delia Lopez

Jaynee Germond

Marc Delphine

PA
Dan Frank

Scott Pigeon

Jake Towne

SC
Mike Vasovski

TN
Lenny Ladner

TX
Bruce West

Bryon Severns

David Smith

John Jay Myers

Mike Taylor

Sam Brannon

UT
Mike Lee

VA
Douglas Hutchinson

Michael McPadden

WA
Craig Williams

David Hedrick

WI
Michael Krsiean

Rob Taylor

Terri McCormick

Tim Nerenz

FOUNDER – Gigi Bowman - Gigi@liberty-candidates.org

Albert Snyder, of York Pa. lost his son.

Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, killed in Iraq, was buried in 2006.
There was a massive turnout for the funeral.

Also present was the Phelps family of Topeka, Kansas: the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. In case you're not familiar with the Phelps, they travel the nation looking for military funerals at which they can protest.
While families mourn the loss of sons and daughters who gave life for their country, they have to bear the scorn and disrespect of the Westboro Baptists.

Have you had to lay to rest a loved one? Imagine how you would have reacted had a group of people attended the funeral with signs saying thank God your loved one was dead - that your loved one deserved to die.

That has been the burden of hundreds of military families in the last decade - to bury their dead while enduring the jeering mockery of ingrates standing on American flags.

Albert Snyder fought back. He sued the Phelps family - and won.
Well good! we said. Justice served! We celebrated.

But ....
from the Baltimore sun:
Marine's father ordered to pay Westboro's court costs

Lawyers for Snyder say the Court of Appeals has ordered him to pay $16,510.80 to Phelps for costs relating to the appeal, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the Court of Appeals' decision.

The high court agreed earlier this month to consider whether the protesters' message is protected by the First Amendment or limited by the competing privacy and religious rights of the mourners.

from the York Daily Record:
What the Supreme Court sees in Snyder v. Phelps

in which pompous intellectuals hone their babbling skills on the finer details of constitutional law.

The original decision for Snyder was overturned based on the abused 1st Amendment right of free speech, and Phelps was awarded over 16 grand - to be paid by the family of the fallen Marine.

Somehow, those five words "...abridging the freedom of speech..." have been twisted into "Scum like the Phelps have a right to scream and holler, wave evil signs, stand on your flag and make fun of your dead son."

How did everything get turned backwards and upside down?

I have many suggestions in mind that I would love to propose, but my freedom of speech is, without a doubt, not as holy as the Phelps'. So I'll just relay the following:

A better ending to this chapter of the story:
Rumor is that FOX News' Bill O'Reilly has covered the costs of the Snyders court case.

Comment of the Day
A comment by 'Headhunter' in response to following article provides a glimpse of the evil intent behind some of Obama's mystifying decisions.
» Obama Nominates NY Times Chief Accused of Leaking National Secrets for Army General Counsel
The author of the article, in seeming bafflement, states that

There is no reason for this to be happening. It is as if someone in the Administration is purposely taunting the GOP with the most absurd nominees that one can drum up.

Headhunter's comment:

Ohhhh there are reasons bro, just not ones comprehensible to the honest and upright and good hearted folks such as yourself. Now an evil, lying, sneaking, conniving, self gratifier like ME can understand it. Let me try to explain…

Ya see if I want to further MY annointed power there is only one remaining bastion I’m gonna have to subvert and compromise left really…The Military. I mean, I’ve pretty well got the other major areas in hand, and can get around the old guys on the supreams. The CINCs are a problem. I got Hillary, the DOJ and some others working on them. DHS has got the ones off active duty and we’ll get the Feebs after the other naysayers soon enough.
It’s the hangers on to the old ways who are holding things up and I gotta push them out.

In order to do that I have to infiltrate as many useful idiots as possible across the board to help thin the ranks of hawks and independants who might resist the vision. Since most folks want a retirement check, to stay out of jail, and maintain the perks we give em like; food, housing, electricity, running water, TV, cell phones and the internet, stocks, and health care, education for their kids, cars to drive, and the like we have some pretty good leverage going but it’s not quiet enough. Never will be but I digress..

Since that old outdated document the constitution keeps getting thrown in my face, and worse those DAMNED military rules and regulations, my next line of attack needs to be undermining those things any and every way I can with MY CHOSEN ONES. I’m not to worried about November for a number of reasons and even less concerned with 2012 for even more. The time is NOW to stop hoping and keep changing and my boy Sully What 4, or one just like him, will ‘guide’ the lost along the path to MY righteousness.

So you see David YOUR BELOVED, MISUNDERSTOOD, LEADER, has your best interest at heart, and those old party of NO sayers just haven’t gotten the message yet.

You should read the whole article, including the comments. It's yet another eye opener - even for the moderate among us - that the future of a free America cannot afford to allow Obama OR his tyrant congress to continue their systematic destruction of the Republic. Not even another week, much less November, and certainly not 2012.

As another commenter said "I hear you! I hear that clock tickin’ too."

James Bancroft of the Connecticut GOE has taken a mighty stand for truth. He dares to identify the wolves in sheep's clothing - the traitors wearing 'conservative republican' suit and tie.

It's a long read. Get comfortable, pop open your favorite beverage, absorb and enjoy.

We'll do a follow-up on this sometime next week (if and when the dust settles from the Hellth Scare fight over the weekend).

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Laptops For Wounded Warriors

Schedule for Presentation
March 19th 2010
Friday..5:00 PM

The Gathering of Eagles will presented laptop computers to six Wounded Warriors at the Mologne House
6900 Georgia Ave, NW..Bldg 20 ..Wash DC
at 5:00 PM..,I will arrive at 3:00 PM and I can arrange entrance into Walter Reed ...my cell # is 910-393-7044 .

I will also be at the main gate of Walter Reed to stand with Free Republic to honor our wounded at 6:00 PM
I will accompany Wounded Warrior Nickolas McKensey, and his Mother
Please plan to join us if you are in the DC area.

To find me in a crowd...just look under the ...Vietnam Ball Cap . I will be standing next to Jamie..the Red Haired.. Child Bride

George & Jamie Samek
Gathering of Eagles NC

Military Appreciation Day 5 is just around the corner. In preparation, the annual fund raising poker run has been scheduled for April 17, 2010.

Below is a cropped version of the official poker run flyer. Contact Emmit Morehead at emmit27893@yahoo.com for additional info.

Note: You dont have to ride a bike to participate .

An Open Letter to the Republican Party
Regarding Adam Kokesh

We are writing to you, to express our grave concerns about Adam Kokesh, who is aspiring to become the Republican nominee for US Congress from New Mexico’s 3rd district. Mr. Kokesh has an extensive and well-documented history of affiliations with radical leftist groups. In concert with these groups he has engaged in numerous anti-America and anti-military demonstrations and protests. Moreover, Mr. Kokesh does not appear to have any personal qualifications that would recommend him for serious consideration as a candidate for the Republican Party. He has a significant history suggestive of poor character and judgment, and he has notable incidents of direct activism against Republican office holders.

Affiliations with radical leftist groups
Mr. Kokesh joined the Iraq Veterans Against War (IVAW) in February 2007, at which time he was 25 years old. The IVAW was formed by the Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW), the now infamous group, formed by John Kerry in 1970, and responsible for the fraudulent maligning of our Vietnam veterans at the Winter Soldier Conference in 1971. It will be recalled that John Kerry now stands exposed as having repeated false accusations from that conference, during Congressional testimony in 1971. Similar to the VVAW, the IVAW is a virulently anti-military, anti-America group. It holds the view that our country is an imperialistic and expansionistic “One World Order” government, and that our military is but a tool of this government. Further, they believe that our soldiers are little more than marauders and murderers who, in the words of John Kerry, behave “in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan”.

Mr. Kokesh was active in the IVAW from 2007 to 2009, at which time he announced his candidacy for Republican Congressman from New Mexico. There are no indications that he has revoked his affiliations with the IVAW. As an active member of the IVAW, Mr. Kokesh was involved in numerous anti-military, and by explicit extension, anti-Bush/Republican activities and actions. While executing these actions, Mr. Kokesh knowingly and gladly, made common cause with a wide array of other well-known, radical anti-America and communist groups. The list of these other groups includes, but is by no means limited to, the following:

SDS
Code Pink
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
United for Justice and Peace
Communist Party of America
Muslim Brotherhood
Black Panthers

In cooperation with the above-named groups and the IVAW, Mr. Kokesh: participated in multiple anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC, and other cities throughout the country; organized and incited violent demonstrations at military recruiting stations; participated in an initiative to encourage active duty soldiers to desert their military post; organized and participated in a Winter Soldier Conference 2, an effort designed to malign and undercut the moral of our soldiers who were fighting and dying on the battlefield. Even a most cursory search of the Internet will yield a plethora of documents attesting to the veracity of these assertions.

Character Issues

Mr. Kokesh’s personal accomplishments and achievements appear to be limited to his having served in the Marine Corps from 1999 until 2006, and his work as a political activist with the IVAW, from 2007 until 2009. His MC service was basically unremarkable, in terms of citations, medals, and commendations, and it was ultimately marked by a demotion in his discharge rank from Sergeant to Corporal, and a downgrading of his discharge status from honorable to general. Mr. Kokesh’s tenure with the IVAW has been noted above and need not be repeated here.

There are no indications that Mr. Kokesh has ever maintained any private sector employment, and unless otherwise proven, it might be assumed that his ‘work’ with the IVAW was financed through contributions to that organization, finances that often originated in leftist organizations such as MoveOn.org.

Other than an undergraduate degree in Psychology, there are no indications that Mr. Kokesh has achieved any academic standing that might, given his young age and his otherwise lack of general accomplishments, recommend him for serious consideration for Congress.

There are numbers of incidents in Mr. Kokesh’s personal life that suggest that he employs poor judgment. Examples of this include the following: he smuggled a gun home from Iraq, and then was apprehended when he bought it onto a college campus; he has incited protestors to engage in violent actions against military recruiting stations; and, he incited unrest on a college campus by hanging racist poster around the campus, and signing the posters as being from a member of the college’s conservative Republican organization.

Finally, there is no documented evidence that Mr. Kokesh has been supportive of the Republican Party prior to his campaign announcement in 2009. Yet, there are notable prior incidents in which he has joined with radical leftists in protesting Republican office holders. These include: a high-profile media mocking of Alberto Gonzales’s testimony to Congress regarding the dismissal of the U.S. attorney’s; interrupting John McCain’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National convention; and; participating in a radical left anti-war march on the Bush home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Given the above, it is our position that Mr. Kokesh is in no way qualified to represent the Republican Party in Congress. In fact, if his history is any indicator of his future performance, it is most likely that he will behave in a manner that is antithetical to the positions and values of the Republican Party. In our view, a Kokesh candidacy will at best, precipitate much conflict within the Republican Party, and, at worst, invite derision from outside of the party.

Like you, we are interested in maintaining the integrity of the Republican Party. We understand that this is a time when the party leadership is striving to reconcile disparate ideas within the party, and to clarify its unified voice. A Kokesh candidacy would be completely at odds with those strivings and ideals.

We are urging the Republican Party to withhold any endorsement of a ‘Kokesh for Congress’ candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you.