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Last time I wrote for Florida Voices, I was ready to lay into President Barack Obama on his staggering hypocrisy on sequestration and drones, but was waylaid by the Medicaid expansion.

Fortunately for Floridas taxpayers, the Florida House did the right thing to potentially kill it before it gets started.

I had intended to mock the Presidents flip-flop on sequestration, but the heroic filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul did far more to expose the hypocrisy and the deep divisions on the left by asking some basic questions.

Is a drone strike on Americans on American soil without due process constitutional?

Remarkably, the President and the U.S. Attorney General couldnt formulate a response. Oh, they gave a depends on what the definition of is is response, but lets be honest how hard of a question is that to answer?

For months I have been saying that the Tea Party isnt as dead as folks kept hoping, and Wednesday night (March 6) was a stunning display of what the liberty movement stands for. Alas, at the outset of our movement in 2009 we didnt have the most articulate of Tea Party speakers.

No, wait, thats not true at all.

What is true is the media, acting as the publicity arm of the White House, selectively showed what they believed were the worst elements of Tea Party activists. Democrats, not applying what they believe is their higher intellectual capacity, rushed right in to call us racists.

What the media refused to show was those who stood in town halls and rain-soaked rallies and articulated these very points. Its what has bound us together more that policy issues.

We have expressed a concern that our form of government was slipping into a dangerous form of a benevolent dictatorship, regardless of the name of the President.

See the article here:
Paul filibuster shows Tea Party still strong

A few words on the death of Elwin Wilson.

He passed last week in a South Carolina hospital at age 76. Wilson had endured heart and lung problems and had suffered a recent bout with the flu.

There is little reason you would know his name, but as a young man, Wilson made a virtual career out of hatefulness. He was a Klan supporter who burned crosses, hanged a black doll in a noose, once flung a jack handle at an African-American boy. In 1961, he was among a group of men who attacked a busload of Freedom Riders at a station in Rock Hill, S.C.

In none of those things was he unique, so no, his name should ring no bells.

As it happens, Wilsons passing coincides with a significant anniversary. It was 50 years ago today that 65 Negroes set out from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and seated themselves at the lunch counters of five department stores. Rather than serve these customers, workers at four of the counters closed up shop. One store -- Britts -- called police and 21 demonstrators were hauled away.

It was the opening gambit of what became the signature moment of the Civil Rights Movement, that tumultuous spring when the world watched a town blast human flesh with high-pressure hoses capable of stripping tree bark, rather than allow Negroes to use public facilities. The protesters called it Project C, for confrontation. History knows it by the name of the Alabama town where it took place, a city so thoroughly segregated there was a law on the books banning blacks and whites from playing checkers together: Birmingham.

Though everyone has seen footage of the hoses and snarling dogs by which that city embarrassed itself in 1963, one suspects most of us know little about the rationale of the demonstrations, the reason the movement asked its people to accept such outrageous abuse without striking back.

In a 1965 speech, Martin Luther King explained the philosophy of nonviolent resistance. He could have been speaking to Wilson. We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, he said, because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. So do to us what you will and we will still love you.

That defiant love, he said, would survive jails, bombs, beatings, threats and lies. But be ye assured, he warned, that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves. We will so appeal to your heart and your conscience that we will win you in the process.

Here, then, is what makes Wilson memorable. Four years ago, he vindicated that prophecy. In old age, it seems, the things hed done as a young man had begun to sit on his conscience like stones. He once told an interviewer about a friend who asked him, If you died right now, do you know where you would go? Wilson did. To hell, he said.

Read more from the original source:
Proof that love can overcome evil

Council needs help

To the Editor,

As we make our weekly grocery lists this week and wonder what to do with leftovers crowding our refrigerator, let us not forget those seniors and disabled among us in Osceola County who do not even understand those issues because their refrigerators are almost bare and they never make a grocery list.

The Osceola Council on Aging has been forced due to fiscal cuts to establish a Waiting List for Meals on Wheels. That translates to seniors in wheelchairs or walkers trying to make a peanut butter sandwich or warm a can of soup and calling it dinner. Could you cook a meal without standing up?

It seems like only yesterday that the Council on Aging was crowded each morning with senior volunteer drivers anxious to deliver their routes and see the waiting faces of their regular clients. Perhaps it cost them $2 a week for gas to deliver a few days each week. Most of those wonderful, generous volunteers have had to forsake this daily activity when the cost of gas went to $10 or $12 a week and their own Social Security has not gone up to compensate. The list of clients has grown with the downturn of the economy and the aging of our residents. There are still volunteers but the demographics have changed drastically. The council has solicited generous corporations to allow employees to deliver Meals on Wheels during paid working hours and many younger unemployed are doing what they can to help as well, but the staff of the Council has had to fill the gap.

We need the entire community to be made aware of this pitiful situation. Men are still paying $300 for a suit and women are buying $150 shoes and having weekly manicures and pedicures and our unseen seniors cant get a hot meal or a pint of milk every day because there arent enough dollars to provide these basic services. These arent people who have squandered their money. Most have had illnesses which wiped out their savings, have no local families to see to their needs, have outlived their peers, and are too proud to yell help when they need it so badly.

So, on their behalf I appeal to you. If you are a stay-at-home mom or temporarily unemployed and can donate an hour and a gallon of gas one day a week, let the Council know youd like to deliver. If you are an employer who can spare even one employee or more as little as one day a month, your help is needed. The needs are so great and the funds are so short. The councils No. 1 priority is providing nutrition to those who cant properly feed themselves.

Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Osceola County have some of the most generous people on earth. I believe they simply dont know how much need there is for their generosity through donations of time and money to the Council on Aging. You dont have to win the lottery to do good works for people. $5 buys a hot delivered meal. Save one shopping trip and use that gas to deliver a route once a month. Good things start in small measures. Think of those frail seniors who cant stand at their doors and plead for your help as you speed by. They are really there..... behind those closed doors.

Pat Scarborough

Kissimmee

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Letters to the Editor for April 6, 2013

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