Video: Man Refuses Police Entry into Home
Who has a right to come into your home whenever they want? Can the police search your home at the slightest suspicion? The man in this video knows his rights under the law and isn’t afraid to exercise them. Unless the police have a warrant, he decides who gets to enter his private home.
Self-Governing Citizen Places Board Members under Arrest
It’s a story of self-governance at its finest. The Park District Board of Clark County, Illinois, refused to allow 30 community members to express concerns at their May 2014 meeting, so one man put them all under a citizen’s arrest for violating the Illinois Open Meetings Act. The Open Meetings Act requires elected bodies to […]
Tactical Urbanism: City-Dwellers Not Waiting for Government to Get Act Together
How many times have you tried to find parking in the city, only to end up standing there, scratching your head at the confusing sign that explains when the space is available? Is it Monday between 8 and 9, a leap year, or is it even legal to park here? Some enterprising citizens of New […]
Standoff at Nevada Ranch: America Is Ready to Resist
Protesters at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada faced off with federal agents this past weekend, sending the message that overreaching government power can be resisted. You’ve seen the news: A video showing the protestors at the Bundy ranch taking on federal agents went viral. A dispute about grazing fees had been escalating for over 20 years […]
Spreading the Message on the Radio
“How much?” Glenn M. Pav couldn’t believe his ears when the representative from a large broadcast syndicate quoted him the price for a sixty second radio commercial. Pav had never been politically active, though he “always voted correctly.” However, when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, he knew it was time to do more. When the TEA […]
Breaking Free from Liberal Stereotypes; Getting Things Done
It was a typically sunny March morning in Glendale, California, the third largest community in greater Los Angeles at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley. People showed up early, coffee in hand, and chatted in a long, meandering line outside the civic center’s door. The community center hadn’t opened, but these California citizens […]
Standing Up to Big Government and the IRS for ALL of our Rights
In 1980, a dark cloud hung over America. Under President Jimmy Carter’s leadership, the U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympics, the Iranian hostage crisis had lasted for over 400 days, and gas prices skyrocketed passed $1.00 per gallon for the first time. Lines of cars stretched for blocks to get rationed gasoline, the military was drastically […]
Too Young to be Intimidated?
Gavin Rollins looked out into the audience and saw few familiar faces. The city council chamber was packed with people listening attentively as his opponent presented his ideas for city government. “I have thirty years of experience in business, creating budgets,” Rollins’ opponent said. Some of the audience members nodded in approval, and Rollins’ throat […]
Bluegrass and Grassroots in Tennessee
It was July 2012 – a hot month in Tennessee for both weather and politics – and the members of Tennessee Center for Self Governance were facing their toughest challenge ever. Only seven months old at the time, the TCSG was created to help Tennesseans rediscover, own, and preserve their civic authority. They weren’t concerned […]
The Nor Cal Tea Party
The Beginning… Nor Cal Tea Party was originally Colfax Tea Party at the beginning of the Tea Party movement; begun by an ordinary couple who wanted to take back their country, like so many others. Colfax Tea Party quickly outgrew its location, its original vision and its name. Consequently, we moved to a new, much […]