Medford Holds Tea Party Rally (Medford Transcript)

Medford Holds Tea Party Rally
(From the Medford Transcript)

Medford — If you asked Medford resident Bernie Green why he was standing on the corner of Salem Street and the Fellsway last Thursday afternoon, his answer would be simple and straightforward: “The sign says it all.”

Green, the chairman of the Medford Republican City Committee, was referring to the sign he was holding as part of the Tea Party demonstration on April 15. The hand printed sign featured a quote from President Thomas Jefferson, which read, “When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.”

“That’s why we’re here today,” Green said. “Our government is becoming more and more intrusive in our lives and with our liberties, and people have had enough.”


— For more on this story, check out this week’s Medford Transcript April 22 edition.

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Demonstrations abound in area

A large number of Tea Party rallies and demonstrations are planned across the country including several in local communities in the area. A large rally is planned on the Boston Common on April 14th. Called the Tea Party Express, several notable speakers are scheduled to appear on the Common including Governor Sarah Palin. The Boston event will take place between 10AM and 1PM near the intersection of Charles and Beacon streets. Attendees from across the region are planning to attend with several travelling by buses to the site.

Medford will be the host City for one of several Tea Party demonstrations that will be held across the State on April 15th. Residents and neighbors from other communities are expected to converge at the heavily traveled intersection of the Fellsway (Rt 28) and Salem Street (Rt 60) between 4PM and 6PM. The largely non-partisan demonstration attracted a sizable number of Republicans, Democrats and Independent voters when a similar protest was held at the same location last year. The purpose of the event is to show the continued and large opposition to changes in the laws by Congress allowing increased government intervention in the lives and liberties of all citizens. Members of Republican Committees and Tea Party Groups in other communities have been advised about the demonstration hoping to further increase participation.

Members of a group calling themselves the 'Lucidicus Project' are planning a protest demonstration in front of Congressman Ed Markey's District Office in Medford Square on April 16th.

Chairman's message: Tea Party standout 4/15

Barry Greenspan is leading our effort to organize another Tea Party standout at the corner of Salem Street and (Rt 16) the Fellsway. He has sent out 'Press Releases' to several local papers announcing the "Standout" on April 15th. The event is announced to begin at 4:00PM and end at 6:00PM.

Hand-made signs are great, a few sticks are available. Barry has some topics and phrases for those who need assistance. A few tri-corner hats (if inexpensive and available) would garner attention! Additional suggestions are welcome.

Spread the word - Medford on April 15th.

Bernie

Would the Founders Love ObamaCare?

Daniel Henninger
Wall Street Journal

The resistance to ObamaCare is about a lot more than the 10th Amendment.

The left-wing critics are right: The rage is not about health care. They are also right that similar complaints about big government were heard during the New Deal and the Great Society, and the sky didn't fall.

But what if this time the sky is falling—on them.

What if after more than a century of growth in the national government, starting with the Progressive Era, the American people are starting to push back. Not just the tea partiers or the 13 state attorneys general seeking protection under the 10th Amendment and the Commerce Clause. But something bigger than that.

The Democratic left, its pundits and academics criticizing the legal challenges to ObamaCare seem to be arguing that their version of our political structure is too big to change.

That's not true. The American people can and do change the nation's collective mind on the ordering of our political system. The civil rights years of the 1960s is the most well-known modern example. (The idea that resistance to Mr. Obama's health plan is rooted in racist resentment of equal rights is beyond the pale, even by current standards of political punditry.)

Powerful political forces suddenly seem to be in motion across the U.S. What they have in common is anxiety over what government has become in the first decade of the 21st century.

The tea party movement is getting the most attention because it is the most vulnerable to the standard tool kit of mockery and ridicule. It is more difficult to mock the legitimacy of Scott Brown's overthrow of the Kennedy legacy, the election results in Virginia and New Jersey, an economic discomfort that is both generalized and specific to the disintegration of state and federal fiscs, and indeed the array of state attorneys general who filed a constitutional complaint against the new health-care law. What's going on may be getting past the reach of mere mockery.

Constitutional professors quoted in the press and across the Web explain that much about the federal government's modern authority is "settled" law. Even so, many of these legal commentators are quite close to arguing that the national government's economic and political powers are now limitless and unfettered. I wonder if Justice Kennedy believes that.

Or as David Kopel asked on the Volokh Conspiracy blog: "Is the tax power infinite?"

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To help make this working group as productive as possible, MassDOT is asking interested individuals to fill out a brief application to be considered for membership on the GLX Design Working Group. MassDOT is seeking individuals who live in the three project corridor municipalities (Cambridge, Somerville and Medford), are familiar with the neighborhoods around the proposed facilities, and are users of the MBTA system. For more information and a copy of the application, please visit the Green Line Extension project website here. Hard copies of the application will also be available at your local library or town clerk’s office or can be requested by calling or emailing Regan Checchio (617-357-5772, rchecchio@reginavilla.com).

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