APRIL 17, 2010
MARCH AND RALLY FOR
LIBERTY, FREEDOM
AND THE RESTORATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION
A NATION REBORN
When free men and women are ignored and abandoned by their government and their rights are threatened and even taken from them by those who purport to represent them, it is incumbent on all who treasure liberty and freedom and who abhor and reject tyranny and oppression to defy that government and make every effort to bring it back into harmony with its citizens by all appropriate and necessary means.
We are now living in such anxious and precarious times. We are ignored by those who claim to speak and act on our behalf and for our benefit despite our objections to those actions and the laws behind them. By the very decision to pay no heed to our wishes, we are reduced to the status of children by a political paternalism completely alien to our history, our rights and our traditions.
Our government has used its power to tax us beyond human endurance. It has amassed a collective debt so huge that it will rob our posterity of their birthrights. It will forcibly subjugate us to a state of denigrating dependency upon government with regard to virtually every vital aspect of our daily lives. Our state verges on bankruptcy as special interests refuse to compromise and make a shared sacrifice so that the commonwealth can survive and recover. While an empire state collapses, its political leaders look the other way, increase the budget and raise taxes on a shrinking population.
Our freedom of speech is suppressed by a culture of political correctness that threatens to destroy not only our values but also acts to distort and falsify our history. Political correctness is corrosive to the national psyche and corruptive to the national soul. When allied with apologists for militant Jihadism, it represents an existential threat to world civilization. If it is allowed to plague us without any resistance, our descendents will never know what the country conceived and promised to all Americans for all time by the founders was or is supposed to be.
Our freedom of religion is assaulted by those who in the name of preventing the establishment of a state religion have effectively established a secular state non-religion.
This tyranny of a virulent minority aided by a cynical government has made our public life devoid of tolerance and contemptuous of faith. Most importantly it has violated the rights of every person who privately practices religion but is forbidden under penalty of law to do so in the public square.
Our right to bear arms, which is an ancient and critical necessity for any free people, is increasingly denied by civil authorities who first seek to disarm us so that their control over us can be made more expedient and more complete.
Our right to assemble and petition our leaders is hindered and thwarted by rules and regulations designed to keep us from expressing a collective opposition to the misrule of government at all levels. These legal barricades exist not for the benefit of the people or for the perpetuation of public safety and public order. Rather they exist for the perpetuation of the power and privilege of elected and appointed officials who have ceased to be the servants of the people and who instead believe the people have become the servants of them.
Our educational system, which was once the envy of the world, has now descended into mediocrity. Propaganda is substituted for fact and ideology far too often trumps objective debate. From the primary level through the universities, our children are subjected to indoctrination formulated by zealots pushing radical causes and disturbing beliefs. Children in the early grades are “taught” about sexuality against the wishes of their parents and contrary to the religious beliefs that only their parents have the right to impart. We are treated to the spectacle of grade school students singing hymns to the President that are disturbingly reminiscent to totalitarian regimes of the past and present. Children graduate with diplomas they cannot read and unions and the politicians who are subservient to them block reform as generation after generation undergoes educational genocide. The pursuit of excellence is ignored amidst the clamor for “self esteem” teaching each generation how to become a victim instead of how to become educated, well rounded and self reliant. All of the above is done in the name of “tolerance” and “progress” and “fairness”. All of it leads to a bleak future of dependency.
The very nature of our governance has historically been a limited federal system of government designed to protect individuals and not groups. It has been dedicated to Jefferson’s eloquent proposition “that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This is now under attack as a problem both internationally and domestically because it doesn’t guarantee equality of outcomes, merely equality of opportunity...
Those who strive to erase our history and expunge our constitution by fundamentally altering it are as dangerous than those who 147 years ago sought to make “one nation, indivisible” divisible and separate for reasons that were as abhorrent and contradictory to our national purpose then as they would be today. Those who seek to divide and separate us by hyphenating our status as Americans and then demand restitution in the name of victim hood and a false justice seek to destroy the American dream and end the American story.
Along with the founders, the other great contributors to the success of this story have been those immigrants who came here and still come here by the millions to escape oppression, seek religious freedom and obtain equal opportunity to be free and prosperous. They asked and still ask only to be allowed to succeed by the sweat of their labor and the creativity of their intellect. All we ask of them in return is to come here legally, assimilate into the great American melting pot, learn our common language, show fidelity to our laws, history and traditions and be loyal only to this flag and this country. We are a nation of immigrants and we can no more turn our backs on “those yearning to breathe free” then we could refuse to help the victims of war, famine, pestilence and natural disasters. We as one people, under one flag have fought more wars in faraway places not for conquest but for the freedom of human beings whom we did not know than any nation in history.
At the great moments in our history…moments that were often achieved by sacrifice that Abraham Lincoln described as “the last full measure of devotion”, Americans have rallied not just to our flag, our country, our constitution and our history. They have also rallied to the dream of America that Dr. King envisioned and spoke of with perfect clarity and absolute truth. As we gather in groups across the nation to demand our rights and to stop the erosion of our freedoms let us do so in the name of that dream so that the “elites’ who mock us and the intolerant who seek to silence us understand that we will never let them make us subservient to an omnivorous and omniscient state. They should understand without any ambiguity that the state that seeks total control over our lives will not succeed because we will fight them to the death.
Today we live in a nation of bailouts that achieve dubious results, stimulus bills that cannot demonstrate job creation and energy schemes that do not unleash the vast potential resources that would make us both prosperous and safe. We have economically disastrous health care plans forced upon us that intrude in life and death decisions made between Doctor and patient and which must ration health care in order to succeed. We have a foreign policy seemingly built upon the premise that America is the problem and thus we must atone for all past mythical sins. To expiate those sins we must apologize for our generosity and cease to be vigilant, resolute and strong. Our allies are either ignored or ordered to do things inimical to their national interests and even dangerous to their survival. Our enemies are courted and fawned over. We look weak to friend and foe alike because we are rapidly becoming weak and our weakness will create a void that will be filled by those who seek the total destruction of western civilization and America in particular.
Charles Dickens opened his great masterpiece “ A Tale of Two Cities” by proclaiming that …”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..“. As Dickens recognized then so should we recognize now that all ages have their great moments of peril and confusion when only moral clarity and common sense can be a true guide to overcoming danger and evil. In this modern time of moral and cultural relativism we have seen moral clarity and common sense turned on its head. When a nation or its people cannot differentiate between good and bad, how are they expected to recognize the difference between good and evil? Ultimately this abandonment of values and judgment accompanied by its “footservant” political correctness has evolved into the greatest enemy we face today. A government who worships at the shrine of relativism is a government who cannot protect your rights, wealth and safety because in their world view you either do not deserve them or it doesn’t want to offend those who wish to take them from you.
All throughout this nation, citizens are now awakening from a long slumber to discover that the country they knew and loved is in danger of ceasing to exist. They are asking each other and their government how did this happen and what must be done to restore the natural relationship between free men and women and their democratic institutions. The asking of the central questions of this present crisis is what brings Americans from all walks of life together in protest. The answer to these central questions is what will wisely and expeditiously guide the direction of our mutual struggle until we are once again in control of our government, our nation and our lives. What is undeniable however is that as free men and women we must act now before it is too late. Edmund Burke the great English parliamentarian said “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [persons] do nothing”. This is common sense indeed!
We as a people stand at the precipice of history. If we continue down this path of ever rapacious. government, unsustainable debt, weakness in foreign affairs and political correctness, our country will cease to exist as we have known it. Most Americans do not want to travel down this road. Why is it then that we have allowed a small dysfunctional minority to undermine our freedoms and our prosperity in the false name of equality?
The world we have lived in since September 11, 2001 is both lethal and chaotic. Unrelenting vigilance is the only path to relative safety. Overwhelming strength and dogged determination are the best weapons we can bring to bear against enemies at home and abroad who fervently believe that their culture of nihilism and death is the answer to modernity and western democracy. Others have put it more succinctly…if you want peace, then prepare for war! Moral and intellectual clarity devoid of self defeating and self loathing ideology must become the pragmatic road map through the political minefield that both our political leaders and our political enemies have built to trap us.
We have become yet another American generation with a rendezvous with destiny. What we do in the here and now is critical. We are at a crossroads and time is running out. Most importantly we must act to save those who will inherit this country after we are merely dust and faded photographs. In the words of Thomas Paine “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace”.
MARCH AND RALLY FOR
LIBERTY, FREEDOM
AND THE RESTORATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION
A NATION REBORN
When free men and women are ignored and abandoned by their government and their rights are threatened and even taken from them by those who purport to represent them, it is incumbent on all who treasure liberty and freedom and who abhor and reject tyranny and oppression to defy that government and make every effort to bring it back into harmony with its citizens by all appropriate and necessary means.
We are now living in such anxious and precarious times. We are ignored by those who claim to speak and act on our behalf and for our benefit despite our objections to those actions and the laws behind them. By the very decision to pay no heed to our wishes, we are reduced to the status of children by a political paternalism completely alien to our history, our rights and our traditions.
Our government has used its power to tax us beyond human endurance. It has amassed a collective debt so huge that it will rob our posterity of their birthrights. It will forcibly subjugate us to a state of denigrating dependency upon government with regard to virtually every vital aspect of our daily lives. Our state verges on bankruptcy as special interests refuse to compromise and make a shared sacrifice so that the commonwealth can survive and recover. While an empire state collapses, its political leaders look the other way, increase the budget and raise taxes on a shrinking population.
Our freedom of speech is suppressed by a culture of political correctness that threatens to destroy not only our values but also acts to distort and falsify our history. Political correctness is corrosive to the national psyche and corruptive to the national soul. When allied with apologists for militant Jihadism, it represents an existential threat to world civilization. If it is allowed to plague us without any resistance, our descendents will never know what the country conceived and promised to all Americans for all time by the founders was or is supposed to be.
Our freedom of religion is assaulted by those who in the name of preventing the establishment of a state religion have effectively established a secular state non-religion.
This tyranny of a virulent minority aided by a cynical government has made our public life devoid of tolerance and contemptuous of faith. Most importantly it has violated the rights of every person who privately practices religion but is forbidden under penalty of law to do so in the public square.
Our right to bear arms, which is an ancient and critical necessity for any free people, is increasingly denied by civil authorities who first seek to disarm us so that their control over us can be made more expedient and more complete.
Our right to assemble and petition our leaders is hindered and thwarted by rules and regulations designed to keep us from expressing a collective opposition to the misrule of government at all levels. These legal barricades exist not for the benefit of the people or for the perpetuation of public safety and public order. Rather they exist for the perpetuation of the power and privilege of elected and appointed officials who have ceased to be the servants of the people and who instead believe the people have become the servants of them.
Our educational system, which was once the envy of the world, has now descended into mediocrity. Propaganda is substituted for fact and ideology far too often trumps objective debate. From the primary level through the universities, our children are subjected to indoctrination formulated by zealots pushing radical causes and disturbing beliefs. Children in the early grades are “taught” about sexuality against the wishes of their parents and contrary to the religious beliefs that only their parents have the right to impart. We are treated to the spectacle of grade school students singing hymns to the President that are disturbingly reminiscent to totalitarian regimes of the past and present. Children graduate with diplomas they cannot read and unions and the politicians who are subservient to them block reform as generation after generation undergoes educational genocide. The pursuit of excellence is ignored amidst the clamor for “self esteem” teaching each generation how to become a victim instead of how to become educated, well rounded and self reliant. All of the above is done in the name of “tolerance” and “progress” and “fairness”. All of it leads to a bleak future of dependency.
The very nature of our governance has historically been a limited federal system of government designed to protect individuals and not groups. It has been dedicated to Jefferson’s eloquent proposition “that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This is now under attack as a problem both internationally and domestically because it doesn’t guarantee equality of outcomes, merely equality of opportunity...
Those who strive to erase our history and expunge our constitution by fundamentally altering it are as dangerous than those who 147 years ago sought to make “one nation, indivisible” divisible and separate for reasons that were as abhorrent and contradictory to our national purpose then as they would be today. Those who seek to divide and separate us by hyphenating our status as Americans and then demand restitution in the name of victim hood and a false justice seek to destroy the American dream and end the American story.
Along with the founders, the other great contributors to the success of this story have been those immigrants who came here and still come here by the millions to escape oppression, seek religious freedom and obtain equal opportunity to be free and prosperous. They asked and still ask only to be allowed to succeed by the sweat of their labor and the creativity of their intellect. All we ask of them in return is to come here legally, assimilate into the great American melting pot, learn our common language, show fidelity to our laws, history and traditions and be loyal only to this flag and this country. We are a nation of immigrants and we can no more turn our backs on “those yearning to breathe free” then we could refuse to help the victims of war, famine, pestilence and natural disasters. We as one people, under one flag have fought more wars in faraway places not for conquest but for the freedom of human beings whom we did not know than any nation in history.
At the great moments in our history…moments that were often achieved by sacrifice that Abraham Lincoln described as “the last full measure of devotion”, Americans have rallied not just to our flag, our country, our constitution and our history. They have also rallied to the dream of America that Dr. King envisioned and spoke of with perfect clarity and absolute truth. As we gather in groups across the nation to demand our rights and to stop the erosion of our freedoms let us do so in the name of that dream so that the “elites’ who mock us and the intolerant who seek to silence us understand that we will never let them make us subservient to an omnivorous and omniscient state. They should understand without any ambiguity that the state that seeks total control over our lives will not succeed because we will fight them to the death.
Today we live in a nation of bailouts that achieve dubious results, stimulus bills that cannot demonstrate job creation and energy schemes that do not unleash the vast potential resources that would make us both prosperous and safe. We have economically disastrous health care plans forced upon us that intrude in life and death decisions made between Doctor and patient and which must ration health care in order to succeed. We have a foreign policy seemingly built upon the premise that America is the problem and thus we must atone for all past mythical sins. To expiate those sins we must apologize for our generosity and cease to be vigilant, resolute and strong. Our allies are either ignored or ordered to do things inimical to their national interests and even dangerous to their survival. Our enemies are courted and fawned over. We look weak to friend and foe alike because we are rapidly becoming weak and our weakness will create a void that will be filled by those who seek the total destruction of western civilization and America in particular.
Charles Dickens opened his great masterpiece “ A Tale of Two Cities” by proclaiming that …”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..“. As Dickens recognized then so should we recognize now that all ages have their great moments of peril and confusion when only moral clarity and common sense can be a true guide to overcoming danger and evil. In this modern time of moral and cultural relativism we have seen moral clarity and common sense turned on its head. When a nation or its people cannot differentiate between good and bad, how are they expected to recognize the difference between good and evil? Ultimately this abandonment of values and judgment accompanied by its “footservant” political correctness has evolved into the greatest enemy we face today. A government who worships at the shrine of relativism is a government who cannot protect your rights, wealth and safety because in their world view you either do not deserve them or it doesn’t want to offend those who wish to take them from you.
All throughout this nation, citizens are now awakening from a long slumber to discover that the country they knew and loved is in danger of ceasing to exist. They are asking each other and their government how did this happen and what must be done to restore the natural relationship between free men and women and their democratic institutions. The asking of the central questions of this present crisis is what brings Americans from all walks of life together in protest. The answer to these central questions is what will wisely and expeditiously guide the direction of our mutual struggle until we are once again in control of our government, our nation and our lives. What is undeniable however is that as free men and women we must act now before it is too late. Edmund Burke the great English parliamentarian said “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [persons] do nothing”. This is common sense indeed!
We as a people stand at the precipice of history. If we continue down this path of ever rapacious. government, unsustainable debt, weakness in foreign affairs and political correctness, our country will cease to exist as we have known it. Most Americans do not want to travel down this road. Why is it then that we have allowed a small dysfunctional minority to undermine our freedoms and our prosperity in the false name of equality?
The world we have lived in since September 11, 2001 is both lethal and chaotic. Unrelenting vigilance is the only path to relative safety. Overwhelming strength and dogged determination are the best weapons we can bring to bear against enemies at home and abroad who fervently believe that their culture of nihilism and death is the answer to modernity and western democracy. Others have put it more succinctly…if you want peace, then prepare for war! Moral and intellectual clarity devoid of self defeating and self loathing ideology must become the pragmatic road map through the political minefield that both our political leaders and our political enemies have built to trap us.
We have become yet another American generation with a rendezvous with destiny. What we do in the here and now is critical. We are at a crossroads and time is running out. Most importantly we must act to save those who will inherit this country after we are merely dust and faded photographs. In the words of Thomas Paine “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace”.
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