The Jefferson Area Tea Party
presents
The Contemporary Threats to Our Founding American Principles
The Economy May Be the Least of Our Worries
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building
401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Featured speaker is Michael J. Del Rosso, Senior Fellow for Homeland and National
Security at The Center for Security Policy and Research Fellow in National Security
Policy at The Claremont Institute.
This forum will examine our founding American principles as
embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the US
Constitution, and the rights and obligations of American citizens.
The Totalitarian Doctrines of America’s contemporary threats,
domestic and foreign, will be examined from the perspective of their
conflict with American principles and the immediate dangers they
present to the Republic.
If you think America’s existence and your peace and prosperity are
guaranteed, think again. In the past one hundred years totalitarian
forces in many incarnations have threatened America’s existence. Unfortunately, this is
still the case today. What is different today is that America may be at a greater
disadvantage than ever because we are unable to or unwilling to identify our enemies,
their doctrines and their objectives. More troublesome, Americans have steadily been
growing more ignorant of our own American principles and doctrines. We are ignoring
Sun Tzu’s 2600 year old admonition to “know your enemies and know yourself” at our
own peril. In many ways we presently know neither, and as the rest of the quote goes “if
you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.”
The mission of The Claremont Institute for the study of statesmanship and
political philosophy is to restore the principles of the American Founding to
their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.
The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization
that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are
vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject
of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized
policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general
public.
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