NC Conservatives Welcome Catherine Engelbrecht

The Civitas Institute is sponsoring their annual Conservative Leadership Council in Raleigh, NC.   This year’s event will be held on the 28^th and 29^th 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.

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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.