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By Franz Emmanuel Kebreau

I have done extensive research on the subject because at one point, I was a Democrat. A few years ago, I was confronted with a fact that I knew to be false but after an investigation into the point, it turned out to be true. It was that Martin Luther King was a Republican.

This of course forced me to extend my research into other areas. What else could this Political Science Major be unaware of? The Truth became stranger than fiction. The list is quite long so here we go.

President Kennedy had little intention of enacting a Comprehensive Civil Rights Law during his 2 years in office. Tensions in society were running so high due to the riots and such that by the 1963 State of the Union address he had no other choice but to enact some kind of Law. Mind you, for the previous 100 years, it had only been the Republican Party who had supported any Civil Rights Legislations (I was not aware of these facts until I was 35 years old);

13th Amendment: 100% Republican Support Abolished Slavery
23% Democratic Support

14th Amendment 94% Republican Support Slaves to be Citizens
0% Democratic Support

15th Amendment 100% Republican Support Right to Vote for All
0% Democratic Support

CRA 1866 Enacted by the Republican Party Equal Rights

CRA 1871 Enacted by the Republican Party Anti-KKK

CRA 1875 99% Republican Support Anti-Discrimination
0% Democratic Support

———–It took another 82 years until the next Civil Rights Act———
———–The Democratic Party blocked every attempt to equalize citizens of color—–

CRA 1957 Enacted by the Eisenhower (R) Administration
Then Senator Kennedy Voted against this Bill
Filibustered by Democrats

CRA 1960 Enacted by the Eisenhower (R) Administration
The final version was watered down by then Senator LBJ
Filibustered by the Democrats

CRA 1964 82% Republican Support
63% Democratic Support

CRA 1965 87% Republican Support
Voting Rights 75% Democratic Support

I do not want the “government” to treat me any differently than any other citizen. Therefore, I consider equality of opportunity and equal voting rights to be the summation of Civil Rights in America. If anything extra is afforded me or anyone else merely due to the color of their skin, I consider that to be an entitlement and patronizing.

Given my above statement, the Democratic Party, even if you sectionalize them by North and South, has never outvoted the Republican Party in any Civil Rights Law…Ever. The actual numbers play out like this;

Lifetime Republican Party support for Equal Rights for all Citizens: 94%
Lifetime Democratic Party Support for Equal rights for all Citizens: 35%

Now to the point of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was a proposal that the Republican Party, during the Eisenhower Administration attempted to put forth but alas, their efforts resulted in the first Civil Rights Law in the previous 82 years…The Civil Rights Act of 1957 formed a Commission on Civil Rights. The Plan of the Commission was to eventually enact the very Comprehensive Law of 1964. Remember, this was the Bill that Senator JFK voted against, for political aspirations I’m sure.

JFK had his Justice department write the original Bill in early 1963. The first version passed the House but stalled in the Senate. Everett McKinley Dirksen (R), the minority leader in the Senate took it upon himself to REWRITE the entire Bill. It took him 1 weekend and he had 2 helpers, 1 Democrat and another Republican.

The final version of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was written by a Republican which means that since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, every Civil Rights Law was written by a Republican with more Republican support than Democratic Party Support.

Due to Dirksen’s tenacity, a cloture vote was successful and the Senate passed the Bill. It then passed the Houses and became Law.

Some notes about its passage;

Robert Byrd (D) filibustered the Bill…the longest filibuster in American History
William Fulbright (D) voted against the Bill. He was Bill Clinton’s mentor.
Al Gore Sr. (D) voted against the Bill

Speaking to two Governors on Air Force One, then President LB Johnson was quoted saying, “”I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” according Ronald Kessler’s Book in relation to the Law.

So now let’s explore the Dixicrats. This has always been misrepresented. I wrote about it in my book, and I also made a video of it. Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJsPsU55PM

The big question is, did the South really turn “Red” after the CRA of 1964? Well, I researched that also and found the following conclusions.

Presidential Elections (covering “The Solid South”)
The 11 Former Confederate States

Year Blue States Red States

1964 6 5
1968 6 (Segregationist Wallace took 5) 5
1972 Landslide
1976 Landslide
1980 Landslide
1984 Landslide
1988 Landslide
1992 4 7
1996 4 7
2000 0 11
2004 0 11
2008 3 8

At least in Presidential elections, the Solid South wasn’t so “solid” until at least the year 2000 or 36 years after the CRA of 1964.

Now let’s take a look at the Governorships.

Governorships since 1964
(The 11 former “Confederate States”)

State Blue Red Years until a “Red” Gov. was elected

Georgia 7 2 39 years
Mississippi 8 2 28 years
Alabama 9 3 23 years
Louisiana 6 4 16 years
Texas 5 4 15 years
South Carolina 5 5 11 years
Arkansas 9 3 9 years
North Carolina 7 2 9 years
Tennessee 5 4 7 years
Virginia 7 5 6 years
Florida 7 5 3 years

Total 75 39

That’s almost 2 to 1 Blue over Red. I looked at the facts and not the rhetoric. The facts point to a different conclusion all together. The South did not become “Solid Red” after the CRA of 1964.

After finding out that both Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were Republicans, I tend to deal only in facts and not with what I’ve been told.

Last Points

My former party, The Democratic Party says that they are for the “minority”. In this case, I’ll just say “blacks”. I believe in neither black nor minority but I defer to their thinking for this discussion. If that’s the case, then how could the following piece of history have been erased?

Ninety-nine percent of the country does not know the name Hiram Rhodes Revels. Here is his story and why the Democrats are not for “black” people.

At the end of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was captured and subsequently imprisoned for 2 years. Prior to this time period, Mr. Davis was a Senator from the State of Mississippi. In 1870, the State of Mississippi filled the vacant post of Mr. Davis with one Hiram Rhodes Revels. The curious fact behind this exchange is that now Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels did not only replace the President of the Confederacy, but he was also the First Black Senator in U.S. History…and virtually nobody knows his name.

One last point to explain this lack of universal knowledge…Jefferson Davis, The President of the Confederacy was a Democrat and his replacement, Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, was a Republican. Democratic leadership today will never share that history with their constituents of which I once was. That led me to believe that the Democratic Party is more interested in my vote than the Truth.

It gets bit deeper. 13 former slaves became members of Congress between 1870 and 1901. We as a nation killed our own citizens in a Civil War to FREE 4 Million slaves. 13 of those freed slaves became members of the U.S. Congress and the history books are silent to this fact. 640,000 Americans died in that war and the result was transformational yet, this groundbreaking and profound history is never taught in “left” leaning schools because it does not serve their agenda. All 13 of the former slaves were Republicans. I had to sift through the Library of Congress to reveal the following information…here it is for you in a video;

My belief is that the Party’s did not change. The tactics changed. They went from Pro-Slavery to Pro-Segregation to Pro-Entitlement, all of which results in nothing beneficial for the prosperity of an individual and is considered by many of my ilk, “Plantation Politics”.

All I want is the Truth and to be treated as an equal, no more and no less; as an equal. I do not need the Democratic Party telling me that I’m “black” or that I’m a minority who needs their assistance. I am not a color. I am Frantz Kebreau, an American Citizen.

For the Democratic Party, it has always been about “Control” over Freedom. Keeping the Truth from it’s constituents in order to maintain control over them is not what I want from my “Party”

Frantz Kebreau
CEO, Stolen History
Author of Stolen History
www.Frantzkebreau.com
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“The Truth Shall Set You Free!!”

Texas Alliance for America Legal Defense & Education Fund

Sovereign Man
Notes from the Field
Date: November 23, 2010

Reporting From: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Military tacticians and historians often make use of the term ‘tip of the spear.’ It refers to a combat force that is used to puncture the enemy’s initial lines of defense, to be quickly followed by concentrated forces which destroy any remaining threat.

Tactically, the tip of the spear is a bit of a blitzkrieg– an unexpected onslaught of firepower and destruction that takes the enemy by surprise, scatters his resources, and fractures his morale.

I’m convinced that what we’re seeing right now from the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is the tip of the spear in the government’s battle for increased control of the public.

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The Brownsville Area TEA Party Association has agreed to host an emergency meeting at the New Workout on Thursday Nov. 18 at 6 PM.

The agenda is:

1. What can be done to preserve the election of County Judge Cascos?
2. What can be done to restore our election system to a system we can trust?

Signed Phil Deering

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. 

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. 

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. 

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could it be any simpler than that ??

By Greg and Judy Holloway
Austin Tea Party Patriots 

Last year, we were not able to go to the 9/12 rally in Washington, DC, since Greg’s company held its annual retreat on the same day.  We did not want to miss this year’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” event, so we dug some airline and hotel points out of mothballs and made a trip of it with our 18-year old son. 

Here’s a short journal of our trip for those of you who might be interested. 

We left Austin very early Friday morning and (after the usual stop in another city that Bergstrom flyers are normally subjected to) arrived in DC around 1 pm.  We met Lily and Jim from the Bastrop Tea Party at Reagan National Airport and then headed over to the Washington Hilton.  When we arrived, our cabbie noted that “This is where Reagan was shot.”  Oh great. 

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By John Barham

The spring semester of 1968 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, was a time of tumult and tragedy.  As students, we were enlightened by such notable visitors to campus as John Kenneth Galbraith, Saul Alinsky, Robert Kennedy, Julian Bond and Eugene McCarthy.  And then, on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot down in Memphis.

A consequence of the death of Dr. King was an immediate nightly curfew in Nashville, where National Guard troops were quickly bivouacked around the renowned replica of the Parthenon in Centennial Park.  It was no little shock for us to see tanks and APCs in the park, which was only three or four blocks from the university’s campus.

As the curfew went into its second night, it was apparent that it was being enforced only in the areas surrounding Fisk University and Tennessee State University; in other words, only African-American neighborhoods were being affected by the curfew.

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I’ve heard it all folks. I’ve reached the top of the mountain, and there is nothing left to see.

Stan Raines publishes Nunnayerbizness, an unabashed liberal blog. Recently the local yokal unexpectedly moved to the right. He does not want his tax dollars paying for the Democratic Party or any private political party to use the county elections department to run their private primaries.

In an unfortunate rantabout tax dollars being involved in Texas primaries, Raines demonstrates his political awakening.

Okay, answer me this question: what is the legal justification for taxpayers paying to conduct primary elections? Political parties are not public entities, but private associations, aren’t they?

Yes, they are private to an extent. Generally one nominee of either political party will be elected to public office, it behooves a fair and open election in the primary to prevent violation of the people’s right to vote.

The Election Code, to my knowledge, requires political parties to pay for part of the costs associated with running their primaries. It’s not like they are getting some service completely for free. If he wants a legal justification, maybe he should contact any number of “in the name social justice” lawyers for his answer. I wonder if he has ever asked for a legal justification for government’s takeover the health care system. Raines continues.

Yet this morning I read in The Brownsville Herald that the county commissioners have voted to pay to defend election administrator Roger Ortiz in a suit filed by Ruben Peña to prevent the destruction of ballots from the recent Democratic primary runoff for County Judge. Why is Cameron County involved in this election at all?

Mr. Ortiz was running an election in his capacity as county elections director. His office running the primary run-off election was called into question. He should not have had to appear in court as the Democrat candidate who according to a more knowledgeable blogger namely Bobby WC mishandled his elections complaint. Nevertheless, Mr. Ortiz deserved our public monies to defend him.

How can Stan Raines call himself a liberal if he questions government involvement in one of the most democratic function of all – elections?

The question remains why has this Leftist not fallen on his sword or better turned to the darkside?

Breaking tonight, our Democrat Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz from Corpus Christi voted NO to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Does Ortiz hate gays, lesbians, and bisexual?

NRO at the 912 March – Mark Hemingway – The Corner on National Review Online.

Excellent description of the event by someone who was there.

Contributed by S. Goldberg

The following has been wrongly attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. According to snopes.com, “Mitchell Kaye, a Georgia state representative from Marietta, is not the originator of the piece. The famed ‘Bill of Non Rights’ was written in 1993 by Lewis Napper,a self-described amateur philosopher from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian.”

But it’s still a good read.

“We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.”

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From the Harlingen Tea Party (HTP):

One of our members, Dixie, has suggested that we take up the challenge that Mr. Zamora suggested at our meeting last Tuesday, and WRITE SNAILMAIL LETTERS to our elected reps, all at the same time.

She suggests that everyone jot their own thoughts about the HealtCare proposals, and mail them all over this weekend, so they will all flood their mail about the time the Congress begins taking up the HealthCare again.

A list of those addresses is on the RGVTP website, click on Harlingen logo, and then “Elected Officials” link.