The Sustainability Scam Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 11/06/10

Hear Richard Rothschild, elected as Carroll Co Commissioner, speak about the pitfalls of Sustainable Development and the changes we can expect with new legislation.

Did you know small communities like Carroll Co are included in UN's Agenda21? Carroll Co even has its own Sustainability Director. This is coming to a community near you too!

Bring your questions for Richard Rothschild!

When: Friday November 19 beginning at 7:00pm.

Where:  Save-a-Patriot (SAP) / LWRN Hall, 12 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157 next door to Carroll Solar. We may park in the parking lot of Grace Lutheran Church on Carroll St [on the same side of the street as SAP Hall] - http://www.gracelc.org/map.

RSVP: PLEASE email suzannemhill@yahoo.com to let me know you will attend. Thank you!

Thank you!

- Suzanne Hill

Carroll County coordinator

Campaign for Liberty

443-676-7721

Small Business Startups Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 10/24/10

Thanks to all who attended the October Carroll County Campaign for Liberty meeting!

In November we'll meet on Friday the 19th at 7:00pm at the SAP/LWRN Hall in Westminster to hear Richard Rothschild speak about Agenda 21 and the UN initiatives for sustainable development and how the UN is involved in small communities like Carroll County. More scary stuff. 

Thanks to Doug Howard -  who runs BDG Entrepreneurial Services [a CPA business in Carroll County], Start-Up [free entrepreneurial services for small businesses], CATS [Carroll Area  Transit Services], and also is candidate for county commissioner in District 5 -  for speaking to us about opportunities for opening successful small businesses in Carroll County.

Doug mentioned that at the Yorktown battlefield many feared the battle for freedom was over. Back then the fight was more direct, more visual. Today our battle for freedom is harder to see: it's a battle to stop the slow erosion that's threatening our liberties.

So how do we get back to our Founders' vision?

Doug believes small business is where will fight for freedom. Loss of liberty in the small-business environment is just like our loss of liberties everywhere else in our lives; but small business leads to innovation and can help grow the economy. Many more people want to start businesses because today they feel they have nothing to lose.

It used to be smart to work for a big company and have them "take care of you" most of your career. But no more. Today it's much more risky to work for a big business or large company than it is to simply work for yourself.  A small business will be successful based on your own skills and efforts not the whims of the decision maker of a big company.

Most of the small businesses that Doug helps are successful [about two-thirds].

How to get started:

Have a plan. Making a plan helps you understand what it will take to be successful.

The plan must show how you financially will cover three responsibilities:

1.     For you to survive

2.     How you will pay back the bank if you borrow money

3.     How you will fulfill the demands government will place on the business

If you see the plan, know what you are up against, and still are dedicated to start your business, then you are an entrepreneur!

Why Doug started Start-Up:

In Carroll County, it was very disjointed for small business owners to figure out how to get started. Because he was involved with the Chamber of Commerce, Doug struck up a partnership with Carroll Community College to offer classes. A competing economic bureau run by the government - the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) - was not interested to help him (but they are no involved in business anyway and don't know how to give sound business advice).

You heard that right. Doug's privately-run service helps small businesses get started successfully. A government-run agency operates in Carroll County in competition with Doug's enterprise. Doug's advice comes from years in business and because he has made many mistakes. He knows how to survive. He knows that not all good ideas translate to good business ideas. He's especially interested to help small businesses start out without taking on debt. The government entity, conversely, is not run by people with private-enterprise experience but is able to give out government loans.

What works against small business start-ups:

1.     Taxes: Taxes are little more than a way to control a process that is designed to make us free [small-business-ownership]. The best way for government to help a business is to get out of its way. Unfortunately, that's not the way it currently works. We are pressured to hate people who are rich and successful and to redistribute their wealth.

2.     Regulations: For instance, there are too many disincentives right now for banks to make loans because of regulations. Every bank was scored; any outstanding lines of credit were held against them. So the banks took away the ability for people to get credit. But this is crazy because small businesses generally do not default on their loans.

As another example, businesses do not like uncertainty. So the uncertainty of what lies ahead with healthcare costs and unemployment costs make it difficult for them to plan on expanding or hiring more employees.

As another example, Maryland zoning regulations make ridiculous impositions. If you want to put a banner on your own private property to advertise your business, someone must come out to analyze your property to determine the size you are "allowed" to display. If you build houses, you must plant two trees for every house. If you want to put up a building, you must plant enough tress to hide it. If you already have plenty of trees, you must join a tree bank and buy a corresponding piece of land to make up for the trees you don't have to plant that could possibly cost up to $10,000. Your land could get re-zoned or re-classified to prevent you from opening your business at all. If you fight these decisions, taxpayers pay for the state's end of the lawsuit and for the attorneys.

Doug believes we need to get out the message to the public that self-employment is the way to go [not dependence on government handouts]. When you own a business, you take an interest in your neighborhood and your neighbors; you have control over your destiny. He wants to help change the business environment in Carroll County. He is running for county commissioner in District 5. He wants to fight the evolution toward our loss of freedoms and help restore our original vision: individual property ownership and individual business owners.

-Suzanne

 Carroll Co coordinator

Campaign for Liberty

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/usa/MD/Carroll

concerned that entrepreneurship is being stifled ? Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 10/14/10

Are you concerned that entrepreneurship is being stifled in the U.S.? Hear about our local small-business environment from expert Doug Howard.

(Please pass this along to your contacts) –

Our next speaker is Doug Howard, owner of BDG Entrepreneurial Services, Inc. [and candidate for county commissioner], who was recently featured in Carroll Magazine discussing successful business start-ups in Carroll County. Hear about the state of local small business and entrepreneurship.

Who: Doug Howard, who heads Start Up Carroll [a free service for small businesses in Carroll County] will talk to us about the rise of entrepreneurship he has noticed locally.

Why: Entreneurship is essential to the vitality of our economy. But the image persists that government regulations and restrictions create pitfalls that make it difficult for small businesses to operate successfully, as in this article from RealClearPolitics http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/04/the_real_jobs_machine_107410.html. Bring your questions for Doug Howard!

When: Friday October 22 beginning at 7:00pm. Where: Save-a-Patriot (SAP) Hall, 12 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157 next door to Carroll Solar. We may park in the parking lot of Grace Lutheran Church on Carroll St [on the same side of the street as SAP Hall] – http://www.gracelc.org/map.

RSVP: email suzannemhill@yahoo.com to let me know you will attend.

Thank you! 

- Suzanne Hill

[a Ron Smith Fan]

Carroll County coordinator

Campaign for Liberty

Operation Defuse wrap-up Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 09/25/10 Last updated 09/25/10

September 25, 2010 

Hi all! Thanks to everyone who attended the September Carroll County Campaign for Liberty meeting.

In October we'll meet on Friday the 22^nd at 7:00pm at the SAP Hall in Westminster to hear Richard Rothschild  speak about Agenda 21 and the UN initiatives for sustainable development and how the UN is involved in small communities like Carroll County. More scary stuff. 

Thanks to Julie Sandhaus, the Maryland Coordinator for Operation Defuse, for speaking to us about the information government collects from surveillance of innocent citizens and organizes in Fusion Centers.

Maryland has a fusion center in Woodlawn.

You can read about Maryland's fusion center at www.publicintelligence.net.

Maybe you've noticed highway overhead signs that say to report suspicious activity call 1-800-492-TIPS - this information is reported to Maryland's fusion center.

There is no simple answer to who funds fusion centers or under what authority fusion center operate. Is it the state? The federal government? The Department of Homeland Security? The city? Julie Sandhaus has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Maryland Fusion Center and had it returned because the request should go to the federal government not the state. This means Maryland's Fusion Center is run by the feds. Other fusion centers in other states are run by the state itself.  Some fusion centers exist only for the city, for example New York City or L.A. or D.C.  So we can see that there is a deliberate blurring of jurisdictions which makes it difficult to determine whether or not the feds are trying to control local law enforcement. Simply put, the Fusion Center is a murky entity.

Supposedly fusion centers exist to collect information about crimes and terrorists. Federal law says the information cannot be shared unless there is suspicion of criminal activity. But what is the evidence that they are following this law. Indeed we seem to be in a total surveillance state.

1.     Are Fusion Centers being encouraged to survey ordinary citizens?

2.     Are they use Data Mining?

3.     With what government entities are they sharing information on average innocent citizens as they go throughout their normal daily activities?

Fusion centers are inherently secret. There is very little transparency. They monitor citizens by police who suspect people's motives or by citizens who call in to report "suspicious activity" by other fellow citizens. Who are they held accountable to? Who is to say this is a trustworthy or warranted decision-making process?

For example in 2006 the Maryland State police investigated citizens - those on both the political left and right - who were protesting the death penalty. These were peaceful activists. All they were doing was espousing their political points of view. They were put on a terrorist watch list.

And the Fusion Centers are increasing the use of private companies as a means to get even more information about citizens. Currently Maryland is networking all Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras that monitor citizens and their activities; the number is reported to be 7000 cameras. This information will be stored at the Maryland Fusion Center. Governor O'Malley is getting federal funding to double the number of cameras. What will this information be used for? Will private companies be roped into this effort?

Julie has been sending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to nearby Fusion Centers to find out more about them. She asks what databases are they using and where do they get their funding. The process has been arduous. A Fusion Center that has responded to her has requested very expensive funds in order to pay for their research time. Is all this designed to keep the average citizen from finding out more about the Fusion Centers and how they operate?

One reason the Fusion Centers are of concern is because all our rights and protections are suspended  during episodes declared times of emergency. A declaration of emergency becomes easier for the government to undertake as all these parts and controls are put into place. So we need to have an impact on how and why information is being collected. An attendee suggested that maybe our local sheriff would be a good resource to help citizens find out more about Fusion Centers, why some locales work with Fusion Centers and why some don't, why some accept federal funds and why some don't. Maybe a constitutional politician like Delegate Don Dwyer would be a good resource. Or maybe a U.S. Senator like Barbara Mikulski would intervene.

Read online about the ways we are being tracked, traced, and databased. Recently Jesse Ventura held a show about the Fusion Centers - watch it if you get the chance. Inform yourself! and inform others!

Remember: We patriots and conservatives need our own media sources; issues like the Fusion Centers do not get coverage from the mainstream media. Liberty Works Radio Network could be a valuable resource for liberty and constitution-oriented citizens and citizen-politicians. They are poised to buy up small stations and transmitters to extend their patriot-oriented programming to more of the east coast states and beyond; they've been working on it for years. They need your help and donations. Hear more: http://www.libertyworksradionetwork.com/jml15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131%3Alwrn-video-alt&catid=3%3Avideo&Itemid=24

-Suzanne  Carroll Co coordinator

Campaign for Liberty

[a Ron Smith Fan]

Hear about Operation Defuse Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 09/15/10

Are you concerned that our constitutional rights and freedoms are being eroded? Hear about Operation Defuse's vision for "a harmonious relationship between law enforcement and citizens that promotes peace while respecting liberty."

Who: Julie Sandhaus, Maryland Coordinator for Operation Defuse.

Why: Julie will talk to us about how the government is planning to use information collected from the increasing amount of surveillance of innocent citizens and organized by Fusion Centers. Learn about the role Fusion Centers play in both militarizing and nationalizing our police forces. Read more at http://www.operationdefuse.com. Bring your questions!

When: Friday September 24 beginning at 6:30pm.

Where:  Save-a-Patriot (SAP) Hall, 12 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157 next door to Carroll Solar. We may park in the parking lot of Grace Lutheran Church on Carroll St [on the same side of the street as SAP Hall] - http://www.gracelc.org/map.

RSVP: email suzannemhill@yahoo.com to let me know you will attend. Thank you!

Thank you!

- Suzanne Hill

Carroll County coordinator

Campaign for Liberty

443-676-7721

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Candidate Forum Aug 27 - Hear Brian Murphy & others! Posted by suzannemhill

Posted 08/19/10 Last updated 08/22/10

Who: Citizens, hear these liberty-minded candidates speak on the issues:

    Stephens Ruffner Dempsey  - U.S. Senate (R)

    Richard Shawver - U.S. Senate (Constitution)

   Brian Murphy- Governor (R)

    Susan Gaztanaga - Governor (Libertarian)

    Eric Knowles/ Mike Hargadon - Governor/ Lt Governor (Constitution)

    Michael Reed - U.S. House District 6 (Constitution)

   Dan Massey - U.S. House District 6 (Libertarian)

   Joseph Krystoforski - U.S. House District 6 (R)

   Dave Wallace - MD. House of Delegates District 5A (R)

   Kathy Fuller - Republican Central Committee

    Brian DiMaggio - Carroll Co Commissioner District 2 (R)

    Doug Howard - Carroll Co Commissioner District 5 (R)  

    George Harmening - Carroll Co School Board

When: Friday August 27 beginning at 6:30pm.

Where:  SAP Hall, 12 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157 [next to Carroll Solar]. Parking is available in the Grace Lutheran Church lot on the same side of the street as the SAP Hall.

Why: Hear what the candidates have to say. Ask a question.

RSVP: email me at suzannemhill@yahoo.com to let me know you will attend.