Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Congressional District 21.

I am Dan Zavorka. At the age of 49 and as a former school teacher, I am running for the House of Representatives, Congressional District 21.

Biography:

I was raised on a farm in Wyoming. My father was a WWII veteran, a farmer, and a hard worker with little formal education and my mother was an artist and housewife.  I am blessed with two sisters and one brother. As a family we worked together in the fields, growing, irrigating, and harvesting crops, milking cattle and fixing fence, shearing sheep, repairing and welding machinery. It was a great life and a hard life.  I farmed only a limited time after high school, due to the fact that President Carter at the time used the “family farm” (in a very general and global sense) as a wedge against the Soviet Union. With his grain embargo, prices plummeted, and it was too hard to hang on as a new farmer.

I worked for a mining company, running heavy equipment and hauling bentonite (a type of dirt used in oil drilling for circulation), until I could pay off enough debts to go to college.

I attended the University of Wyoming, was a member of the Young Republicans, and met my bride of 23 years, Sheila Williams.

Sheila and I were married in 1984, moved to Texas in 1987 and have been busy raising 3 beautiful children, Sara, Gina, and Dana. I later received my MA at the University of Incarnate Word.

My wife, the girls, and I are Christians; we have a small home church, study from the King James Bible, and strongly believe in God’s grace. Each of us has been baptized into Jesus the Christ by immersion (Rom 6:3-4). We believe that our God is a fair and loving God, but we also believe in a God of Judgment.

Beliefs and Comments:

When God’s chosen people, of the Old Testament, refused to repent, what happened to those people? There are very serious consequences. As a nation we need to adhere to our Godly beliefs. We also need to adhere to the beliefs of the founders that had the insight to make our nation a REPUBLIC, not a democracy, not a monarchy.

Today, as a nation we have a problem. Too many people look to the government for answers, they look to the government for protection; they look to the government for their paychecks. We seemed to have lost the understanding of the role of the federal government, the role of the state and the role of the local governments. We have given up our liberties by putting our “faith” in the government. Have we made the government our god? 

When reviewing the miracle of the republic, we find warnings from the founders, because they knew that keeping a republic would be a hard task that required diligence and work.

James Madison stated, “the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America -- a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

Has our spirit become so debases, that we, as a country, is prepared to tolerate, “anything but liberty”. When God’s chosen people of the Old Testament were not steadfast, they found themselves in captivity. What kind of captivity are we headed for?

Please let me restate, the founders of our nation were inspired to develop a Republic. They understood all too well that government, “seeks to devour”, and to prevent a powerful governmental body, developed “checks and balances”. Their actions to develop a Republic with controls, was nothing shy of a miracle. 

Since that time, there have been forces at play to develop something a bit more ominous.

Thomas Jefferson stated that government shall,

“restrain men from injuring one another”
“leave them [the citizens] otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry”
“not take from the mouth of labor the bread it [the citizenry] has earned."

Does this sound like the government we now have?

The U.S. Government managed to operate prior to the early 1900’s without an income tax, it can once again, lean itself of the fat to run without one. How dare a government get so large that it requires the citizens to pay a tax on “the bread it has earned”.

More insidious than the fat of the Federal government, is the desire of individuals to do away with our Constitution and to relieve our citizens of our rights so they can rule through the United Nations, as they welcome in the “New World Order”.

September 11, 2001 was a terrible day, we, as a nation, lost good people, families, loved ones, a sense of security, and unfortunately many of our freedoms.

That day has been used as a rallying call to instill such anti-American legislation as the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act. Phones are tapped, citizens are under surveillance, and governmental “authority” has been turned over to the international powers, as the United Nations grows and become more prominent, at the expense of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States.

Using the rallying call of “Security” our government has made efforts to remove our liberties and our freedoms. Let us recall what Benjamin Franklin stated, “Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty”.

Liberty, a concept that our children will know of - only as something discussed in the history books. Will they read the following quotes, and query their parents as to their meaning?

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” - George Bernard Shaw

As citizens, we cannot let this happen. It is time to draw the line in the sand.

Texas voters may wonder, why, I am running against such a seasoned representative as Lamar Smith. This is the reason. The Honorable Mr. Smith has supported the protection of the citizens of the United States. This is appears to be a noble cause. But why do we need to give up our rights? Is it because our imperialist government wants to keep military bases on foreign soil? Could it be that a people that are raised without freedoms, are easier to herd into the corals of the United Nations, and the “squeeze shoots” of internationalism?

Mr. Smith’s motives may be quite honorable, but I would rather enjoy liberty than control and a false sense of security. As along as the nation’s borders remain generally unchecked, we have no real freedom regardless of the size of toothpaste tube you can take onto an airplane.   

The dollar is declining, food and oil prices are soaring, and middle class is disappearing.

There was a quote in which the author eludes me, but goes something like this:

“A hungry nation is a submissive nation”.

My years spent on a farm, more than likely makes me sensitive to the USDA’s desire to implement the NAIS. National Animal Identification, in some states, a steer cannot even be sold without one of these chips implanted. Why?

Could it be that the USDA has only one policy for removing a potential infection?

That being a 10-km kill zone around an infected animal. Not only are the chips expensive and the program extensive and controlling, but the potential cost of having an animal in a national database could be financially devastating to the farmer or rancher. The family farm is under attack, and the NAIS system is just one policy of attack, that has been advocated years before the worry of “mad cow disease”.

Additionally, I see the breakneck speed in which our bureaucrats drive toward the formation of the North American Union (NAU), the selling of our highways and bridges to foreign entities, the tolling of existing highways and the land grab for the NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY are all part of a plan to destroy our rights, do away with the middle class, and give power to the internationalists.

Terri Hall, of the Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF), reminded a number of voters in a recent meeting, how we depend upon road access to get to work, the grocery store, and to pick up our children. How submissive will we become to the  foreign powers that will control our roads?

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) attended by President Bush, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in August 2007, was a meeting that set the foundation for the removal of American borders and the development of an organization similar to the European Union.

We are fighting a war in Iraq that may spread to additional neighboring countries. This is a war that hasn’t been declared, a war in which we are borrowing monies from foreign nations to fund. Representative Ron Paul has stated, “Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations”. We must remember what George Washington stated about foreign policy, “It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”

The battle cry “no more Vietnams”, has long lost its effect with the American citizens but we must admit, we have learned nothing. Every time we go to war with the United Nations as our “ally” we lose authority as a nation, and the United Nations gains some. Every time we have gone to war under a United Nations protocol, we have not won. The Congress has the authority to declare war. Ask yourself why we are losing our loved ones on just another undeclared war.

“A vote for me is a vote for change” – what a cliché! I would be only one of 435 representatives, but I would be one that loves the constitution, one that dislikes the United Nations, and one that is tired of our road to internationalism.

I stand against, big government, excessive taxes, the United Nations, the North American Union, The Federal Reserve, and internationalism.

I stand for free enterprise, rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to everyone, including the pre-born, a gold/silver backed monetary system, and one country under GOD.

May God bless this republic and the citizens that make it so.

Dan Zavorka