The Civitas Institute is sponsoring their annual
Conservative Leadership Council in Raleigh, NC. This year’s event will be held on the 28th
and 29th of March. As usual,
they have a number of outstanding speakers scheduled. One particular speaker has made headlines for
her activism. Catherine Englebrecht
appeared before a congressional hearing to testify about the misconduct and harassment
by federal agencies and a U.S. congressman.
She also appeared on national television describing the efforts of the
federal government to punish her for having the audacity to be a civic minded
citizen.
Democrats continuously declare there is a war on women. I would have to agree. It is being waged by Barack Obama, his administration and the Democratic Party.
North Carolina conservatives welcome Catherine
Englebrecht. After all, this state has a
history of embracing patriotic women.
One only has to remember the Edenton and Wilmington Tea Party of the
revolutionary period. Their reception by
the powers-that-be is reminiscent of Congressman Connelly’s conduct in the aforementioned
hearing.
News of the Edenton
Tea Party quickly reached Britain. During the 1770s, political resistance
was common. But an organized women’s movement was not. So, the
Edenton Tea Party shocked the Western world. From England, in January 1775,
Arthur Iredell wrote his brother, James Iredell, describing
England’s reaction to the Edenton Tea Party. According to Arthur Iredell,
the incident was not taken seriously because it was led by women. He
sarcastically remarked, “The only security on our side … is the probability
that there are but few places in America which possess so much female artillery
as Edenton.” The Edenton women were also satirized in a political cartoon
published in London in March 1775. Even though the Edenton Tea Party was
ridiculed in England, it was praised in the colonies. The women of
Edenton represented American frustrations with English monarchical rule and the
need for American separation and independence.
I believe the States are in need of separation and
independence from an overbearing federal government. Just like the U.S. Constitution meant it to
be.
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