My Dear Fellow Patriots,
I hope this posting finds all of you well. I want to talk to you about all of the accusations and lies that have been coming from Washington, and groups like surgeUSA.org (TPN-you know who you are), and all of those lovely political consultants on all the networks that portend to KNOW who we are and what we are attempting to do. Why don’t we sit down for a moment and have a chat about a phrase I learned from my father, “Call a Spade a Spade”. All it means is that we should be honest and true to ourselves and what we want to accomplish. This is a challenge in an atmosphere of negativity and conflicting view points. One day you may hear how everyone is so excited about going to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville and in the next breath, you see three articles from the Associated Press, MSN, and even the Washington Post that the cause may be in danger of falling to pieces. What is the truth? Please allow me to clarify and enlighten everyone.
First of all, we need to go back to the history books and look at where it all went wrong. For the last one hundred-fifty years, (more on this subject to come in future from our dormant blog, link coming soon as well-haha) our country has become riddled with a cancer. This cancer has a name, actually several names. You can call it Socialism, Marxism, Populist agendas, or the Progressive Movement, but when you look at the bottom line, you find that the message is inherently the same: the Government knows best when it comes to your life, they want Isolationism in trade, citizens should rely upon entitlement programs to solve their life problems, and that everyone is no longer an individual with free thoughts but must be assimilated to fit into the agenda, and any time this plan does not work, simply change the name and keep the evolution of change going. This is the true face of what we are up against. It happened beneath our noses and before we knew it, all of their dreams came to fruition in the Administration we have now. In case you wonder where you fit into their plans, I may bum you out when I tell you that we are all serfs. We are pawns in a power game. However, they were counting on the serfs to keep to the fields or believe that there was nothing to be done and it was too late to save our country. They believed that we were ignorant, lazy, and too unorganized to fight. They were wrong.
When We the People saw what the game was and knew the score, we started talking. We began to network and use new sources to communicate and coalesce to form groups that believe in one bottom line: we believe in States’ sovereignty, small Central Government, Free Market solutions (we do have a Capitalist economy), the Bill of Rights, responsible stewardship of tax payer money, cutting spending to pork projects, release of the hold of special interest groups on our representatives, Conservative values, the two party system (no we DO NOT want a third), and a return of our nation to the guidelines and parameters set forth in our Constitution by our Nation’s Founders. We want our country back. This may seem to be a lot to demand, but the reality is that this is the bare minimum we should require of our government as citizens of the United States. These beliefs are the common denominator of the organizations that have cropped up across this nation. It is a Movement of the Common Man BY the common man. We believe that as citizens, we should be able to use whatever tools are available to us to share the reality of the state of affairs in our country. That may mean for some that it is to donate money to fund a cross-country tour, others donate their time to helping people of like minds join together to form a group online to discuss what ideas they have to change the direction of our nation, others may work on campaigns to help elect delegates who TRULY represent our needs, and still others (like myself) may contribute writings and thoughts as pseudo-philosophers. It makes no difference what our backgrounds are because this Movement of the Common Man is not about one leader or one person; it functions as a true democracy, a group of organizations formed by us for us. Question these things and test groups before you join them. Essentially, know what you are getting into before you dip your toes in the water. If you do not feel that the organization represents what you feel and know to be true in your heart, then keep searching and you will find the one where you fit. Believe me. It exists and there is a job for everyone to do and you can be as creative and free as you like working towards REAL change. Don’t be afraid to say what you feel because it is your right to say it in any manner and no Administration, no matter how powerful they THINK they are can take this right of free speech away from you, the citizen. Use your freedoms as tools for change, especially your freedom of speech. For as George Washington once said, “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” This Administration would love for that very thing to happen TO YOU.
This Administration wants you to believe that the Movement of the Common Man is fracturing. They want you to believe that it is a blip on the radar of politics, which is why Robert Gibbs downplays everything that we have accomplished. President Obama must have been pretty upset when more people showed up for the Tax Day Tea Party than his inauguration. The more they talk us down, the more sure you can be that this cause is WORKING. They are afraid. I suppose they never read Thomas Paine who once said, “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” They used thug tactics to coerce people to go along with the agenda because when the rhetoric was no longer keeping people in dark, they had to resort to more desperate measures (see my posting on the American Liberty Alliance-Alabama for more details). This Administration has never been good at calling a spade a spade. They point to the past or find some poor patsy to take the fall (Eric Holder you may be next!) but never look to themselves as the TRUE problem. As activists, we hold the mirror to their faces and the sham reflected causes their stomachs to churn. This is why they try to frighten you and tell you that our cause is an attempt to tear our country apart. They demonize us to keep you complacent and silent. But remember: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”- Thomas Jefferson
Posting By: A.D. Gamble
