TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY, ONE CITY AT A TIME

Last night the ground shook in shock: a City Council in Huntington Beach, Orange county, California, did what no other government body has done in recent decades--it took action reflected by the will of the people and repealed the plastic bag ban.

Over a year ago, four members of the HB City Council: Jill Hardy, Connie Boardman, Joe Shaw and Jim Katapodis, imposed their (Shaw's words) "progressive, personal agenda" to install an intrusive, micromanaging, unnecessary law banning plastic bags in grocery stores in HB. I blogged about the facts in some depth previously, (you can read it here) but suffice it to say that all the rhetoric about "pros" of plastic bag bans are false. The economic rationale: false. The environmental rationale: false. Forcing the people to be "good environmental activists?" False.

This past election, there were many good, solid candidates running for HB City Council on the platform of getting Big Government out of the citizens' lives, and back to doing what Government is supposed to do: infrastructure and security. Four of these people (Mike Posey, Erik Petersen, Barbara Delgleize, Billy O'Connell), joined existing councilmember Dave Sullivan and committed to putting power where it belongs--in the hands of the people

Too many have been brainwashed into thinking government is supposed to govern every aspect of our lives--evidenced by the many students from The Pegasus School who spouted false facts, opinion not backed up by full research etc. They weren't the only ones, and I'm not picking on them particularly, other than to lament that students from this particular school, which prides itself on a rigorous curriculum, evidently does not teach the skills of logic, research and debate.

In a day and age where campaign promises don't mean anything, it was refreshing to see that the four candidates-turned-city-council members actually lived up to their promise and started taking back our country and our city, one regulation at a time, straight off the bat. This was the first "real" City Council meeting, as the first one of the month in January is chiefly ceremonial--outgoing/incoming thanks and platitudes, recognitions etc.

And it is truly horrific that a government entity acting to reflect the will of the people (you know, that little part of the Declaration of Independence) is considered a bad thing (according to the many carpetbaggers who spoke in favor of keeping the ban). Many of those wanting to keep the ban didn't even want to allow the citizenry to vote on repeal. Quote "did we vote for helmets? Did we vote for cigarette bans? No, we just let our government tell us what was good for us, so why should a vote be allowed for something like a bag ban?" Endquote.

BE ALLOWED? BE ALLOWED?? BE ALLOWED???

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? This person is my age. The decades of brainwashing it takes, and is being done in our schools, to get someone to believe that the right to vote is something that is allowed not something that is a right under our form of government. Because not allowing THE PEOPLE the right to vote is called a DICTATORSHIP and TYRANNY. Did you flunk basic civics class? Or did you just never bother to take it, because the government told you not to bother?

Thank God 10,000 patriots sounded the war cry and in November installed intelligent, freedom loving people, intent on governing with the consent of the governed, to the Huntington Beach City Council. 

Someone famous when asked why he was backing off national politics said, "because it is more effective to work at taking back our country one city at a time, one county at a time, one state at a time."

He is right. And last night--we did. One if by land, two if by sea. Patriots: the battle is on.