Coastal Carolina
Taxpayers Association
COASTAL CAROLINA TAXPAYER ASSOCIATION (CCTA)
CCTA Business Meeting, May 13, 2013, 6:00 pm
at Highland ParkChristian Church, 905 Carolina Avenue,
Trent Woods, NC
Monthly Public Program
May 21, 2013, 7:00-9:00 pm
The Truth About Islam--Speaker: Ralph Scott
AND
Update on Immigration Reform--Speaker: Mary Delaney
Bridge Pointe Hotel, 101 Howell Rd., New Bern, NC
COMMING SOON-- CCTA STORE
Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1043, Havelock, NC 28532
Phone (252) 649-0525
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A Message From Our Chairman, Rick Hopkins
2013 Chairman's Theme:
Fix the Foundation, Restore the Republic!
I’m looking forward to a promising New Year. CCTA has proven its effectiveness as a Grass Roots organization in making changes and garnering the attention of local and state leaders. We have made a difference and now is not the time to falter. We are poised for growth and we must press forward. This year we will focus on education, communications and relationships that will insure a steady growth in our organization and an understanding of the values and principles that made this republic the greatest form of government the world has ever witnessed. Ordained by a Sovereign God and built on the courage and sacrifices of our forefathers, we will endeavor to replicate their diligence and adopt their values and pledge to sacrifice as they did to insure a nation of freedom from tyranny and government intrusion for our children and future generations.
Our task is demanding and relies on the contribution of every American citizen and Patriot. We call on you to step up to the challenge and help us get the job done. By His grace we will be victorious and return this nation to its rightful place to be once again a shining beacon to the world.
So Help Us God
Rick
WHAT DOES CCTA DO?
CCTA monitors and reports on key issues to you-the taxpayer.
CCTA pushes for government accountability of how our tax dollars are spent.
CCTA singles out expenditures that are not in the interest of citizens, for resolution.
CCTA sponsors community events to inform citizens and elected officials through peaceful TEA Parties, Educational Seminars, and Candidate Forums.
CCTA fights for the Constitution. It's the Law!
CCTA helps educate the public on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and our History.
Help Us Help You
Join or contribute today!
CCTA relies solely on citizen support to advocate for your concerns.
It's not about Left or Right. It's about Our Liberty....Our Constitution....and Our Freedoms!
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."-----John Adams
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CCTA's Scholarship Fund
Dear Members & Friends,
We’d like to introduce you to a program that we’re offering to support our mission, and you’re invited to help.
Because of the recession’s negative effects, many nonprofits are partnering with commercial companies in order to make fundraising easier. After careful consideration, CCTA has chosen to partner with Shaklee Corporation in a new program. It will make it easy for our supporters to help us raise funds to provide a Hillsdale College scholarship.
The way it works is for each of us to redirect some of our regular spending. Shaklee quality products can easily replace products used every day in our homes. Shaklee has excellent cleaning products, vitamins, health and beauty aids, and the like. These products are backed by an unconditional money-back guarantee, so we have nothing to lose, and CCTA has much to gain.
When we make purchases from our online Shaklee store, our scholarship fund will benefit. The program is being set up for CCTA at no cost to us, and we will get a check each month based on purchases made through the website.
To order from our online store, simply go to ccta.myshaklee.com. You’ll find everything you need to know about the program and Shaklee products there. Please tell your friends, neighbors, and family members about the program, and perhaps email them a link to our online fundraising store.
I’m looking forward to trying some new things and helping our Hillsdale Scholarship fund at the same time. “See” you at the store?
Sincerely,
Raynor James
Hillsdale College Scholarship Fund Committee Chairman
P.S.
If you have questions about how the program works or need a Shaklee catalogue, please contact Gladys Suessle. Gladys is a member of the scholarship committee and is our liaison with Shaklee. Her phone number is 252-728-2118. Her email is gsuessle1@aol.com.
A message from our Chairman:
While the issue of Gun Control is at this moment an extremely Hot topic, I would like to take this opportunity to speak on this issue. I as many others, feel that this subject should be a settled issue as our founders had already sufficiently addressed it in the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution as well as the framers of the Constitution of the great state of North Carolina in Article I section 30. In both of these historical documents, it is stated that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. The intent is further clarified by being preceded with this declaration, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State,”. It did not state, imply or in any other way infer that this right was necessary to insure our food supply by protecting our right to hunt. It was short, sweet and to the point and should have been easily understood by the least educated of us to the most scholarly. It was conceived and authored by men of a noble and principled desire to insure our Liberty and protect our Freedom by clearly defining our God given rights in these founding documents.
In no way did they ever perceive that the day would come when the President of this great land would be quoted as saying “that depends on what the definition of is is” and that the electorate would accept such a ridiculous proclamation without demanding his immediate removal. These great men new that what they had built was fragile and would only survive if Godly and principled men were elected to our highest offices. This however is only possible as long as you have a Godly and principled electorate. In this day of technology where every word an action is recorded by video, photographs and electronic documents all being distributed worldwide in a matter of seconds and plainly documenting what is actually said and the lies that follow at another time in another venue, it is difficult to understand the actions of the people wielding the power of the vote in this past election.
In light of the current actions and attempts of some to redefine the meaning of“shall not be infringed”, or to totally ignore it and attempt to overrule it with the stroke of a pen wielding a power they do not hold, it is necessary that We The People rise in unity to defend and protect our rights given to us by God and reaffirm the Constitutions of our Country and our State by having our voices heard that we will not tolerate any attempts to tread on our rights as free men and will not accept even the slightest attempt at endangering our Liberty by unconstitutional means such as executive order or legislation that cannot pass the test of Constitutionality.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
- Adolf Hitler
More info: Lynn Childs, 252-528-0500 or email, lynn.ccta@gmail.com.
Our Public Program is presented every 3rd Tuesday at the Bridge Point at 7:00 pm.
Members: Our Business Meetings are now being held on the 2nd Monday of the month, 6:00 pm at the Higland Park Christin Church, 905 Carolina Ave., Trent Woods, NC.
PLEASE COME OUT AND JOIN US!
Once again we have the silver one ounce "Don't Tread On Me--Boston Tea Party" Coins available for sale! They are not only beautiful, but a great investment. Call 252-649-0525 for more information.)
CCTA presents Friday Family Fun Night!
(Two Friday nights a month)
May 10th and May 24th, 7:00 pm
Highland Park Christian Church, 905 Carolina Avenue,
New Bern, NC
(take Trent Road to Highland Avenue, go 1 block and turn lift on Carolina Avenue).
Special activities for the whole family! Fun, games, refreshments, and suprises!
FOR A COMPLETE CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS JUST CLICK!
JOINS US AT THE JACKSONVILLE GUN SHOW, SATURDAY MAY 18 AND SUNDAY MAY 19 AND GET YOUR PERFECT 2ND AMENDMENT SHIRT!
Our Study Group on the Principles of Freedom Continues!
"5,000 Year Leap, A Miracle that Changed the World
Principles of Freedom 101"
W.Cleon Skousen
meets every Saturday at 10:00 am at Highland Park Christian Church.
Learn where the founding Fathers got their ideas for sound government and how a return to these ideas can solve our nation’s problems today. Discover the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom. These beliefs have made possible more progress in 200 years than was made previously in over 5,000 years. Thus the title, "The 5,000 Year Leap".
If you are intersted please contact Nancy Murdoch at
252-665-2679 or email nancyccta@hotmail.com
COMING SOON--7 WEEK CONSTITUTION COURSE!
Highland Park Christian Church, 905 Carolina Avenue, New Bern, NC (take Trent Road to Highland Avenue one block and turn left on Carolina Avenue).
Special Thursday Night Study Group Begins May 30th
Four Sessions
Islam in America with Ralph Scott
7:00--9:00 pm
Highland Park Christian Church, 905 Carolina Avenue, New Bern, NC (take Trent Road to Highland Avenue one block and turn left on Carolina Avenue).
CCTA ON THE MOVE!!!!
Dear CCTA Members and Friends,
Monday, May 6, twelve CCTA members carpooled to Raleigh, and there were at least as many more who wanted to go, but could not due to other obligations.
When we arrived, we met with Representative Michael Speciale (NC House District 3) in the auditorium at the state house. We got there just in time to see and hear Michael and Hazel Speciale giving instructions and stickers (identifying us as being opposed to House Bill 983) to some 400+ people. Wow! And what a nice group. For the most part, they were commercial fishermen. When it came time to form lines to sign in as attendees and to sign up to speak at the hearing, those of us with CCTA were approached by numerous fishermen who thanked us for being there to support them.
I enjoyed being appreciated, but got to thinking about it. There should have been all kinds of freedom loving people there from all over the state. Here is a group of self-supporting people who earn their living from North Carolina waters who are being told that fish that account for roughly 20% of their income will be put off-limits to them in favor of letting only sport fishermen go after these fish with rods and reels. The theory is that this change will beef up the sport fishing industry to a degree that will produce more income to North Carolina.
Can you believe it? This bill chooses to cut off the freedom of hard working citizens to earn a living as they are currently doing it (and in some cases have been doing it for generations) on the theory that the state will be more prosperous overall because of the change.
It sounded like the state's economic interest is more important than the economic interests of some of its citizens.
Didn't we institute government with the notion that its job is to protect our citizens and their God given rights? Apart from that, we delegated other jobs (such as fire protection) that we could do for ourselves, but were more practical and convenient to do collectively.
House Bill 983 gets at least two things horribly wrong.
It's an example of government attacking the rights of individual citizens while granting favors to other citizens. Some protection of rights that is. If that's the best government can do, I'd rather try going it alone.
None of us as individuals has the right to tell our neighbor how he or she can earn a living. Therefore, we could not have delegated that power to our state's government. Therefore, HB 983 is a very flawed, impertinent, arrogant proposal, and it deserves to be defeated.
When we got to the actual hearing, we heard two speakers who opposed the bill and two speakers who favored the bill each give prepared ten-minute statements.
Each of them was well spoken, and Jerry Schill who spoke "against" did a particularly good job.
Later, each person who had signed up got two minutes to speak his/her mind. The speakers were about 2 to 1 "against." (In terms of attendees, the odds looked better than that for folks who wanted to "kill the bill.")
Many of these talks were obviously heartfelt. We were hearing from folks whose livelihood is being threatened. Some were skilled speakers. Some were not, but some of them were among the most poignant.
From our CCTA group, Chairman Rick Hopkins, Hal James, and I spoke.
Rick began by welcoming our Representatives to The People's House, and thanked them for seeking to hear from us.
Hal reminded people of the way North Carolina had once referred to itself as "First in Freedom," and explained that CCTA supports individual freedom - that we favor minimum government and maximum freedom, and that we want free enterprise to flourish, and because of all those things, we support the commercial fishermen, and want this bill to be defeated.
I mentioned some of the ideas expressed in this email, said that I expected that the Representatives among us were probably surprised at how much controversy the bill had ginned up, that I thought there was a better way, and asked them to protect our freedoms.
The hearing wrapped up just before 4 PM. We went to visit with Michael and Hazel, and Rick presented Michael with a certificate of appreciation for his service to CCTA as its Chairman.
I believe Representative Speciale thought the hearing went well and that the bill may very well die in committee. IWe will keep you posted on HB 983.
Many thanks to all who participated! Check out the pictures below!
Sincerely,
Raynor James, CCTA's NC Watchdog Sub-Committee Chair)
