Letter: Remembering the Bill of Rights

Recently, I was listening to a guest speaker on talk radio. She introduced herself as an African-American woman from Atlanta, Ga.

She said, "I only make note of this, so your listeners will realize I am black. I consider myself an American, in every sense of the word. I am educated, articulate, responsible and deeply concerned about the direction our country is going..."

She discussed her involvement with the Tea Party Movement. She compared it with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the work Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started. She explained how many of the opportunities she enjoys today is a direct result of his vision and perseverance, and willingness to risk life and limb for his beliefs.

She further compared the two movements, by stating the Tea Party isn't about equality for different races, and genders. It is about preserving the rights of all Americans, i.e. The Bill of Rights, guaranteed in the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.

I sincerely urge all of your readers to obtain a copy of the Constitution.They are in abundant in supply at most Tea Party meetings, and available at the Glenn County Republican Headquarters, 220 A Walker St., Orland.

Study your rights, and make informed decisions, at the polls Nov. 2. Join the movement to take back control of our country by holding our government officials accountable to the Constitution.

This is not partisan politics as usual, but rather, an effort to insure there will be a sovereign United States of America for our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, to enjoy.

I close with a quote from Thomas Jefferson, "In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Patsy K. Carter

Willows