Days Of Rage: What’s behind it and why is it dangerous?

“You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?“ 

Matthew 7:16 – New Living Translation

10 years ago, America woke up to the most tragic news of the decade.  Terrorists had hijacked planes and used them to target three principle areas of the United States.  The economy, the military and the Government.  The first strike was again the World Trade Center, the second strike was the Pentagon, the final strike, though thwarted, as most annalists agree was to be the Capital Complex in Washington D.C.

One week after the 10th Anniversary a new form of domestic terrorism has taken to the street.  What is their target? Wall Street.  Again, an attempt to destroy America’s economy.  Is there also a threat to our government and military.  I guess that will depend on your point of view.  It happens to be mine.   After you read this you can decide for yourself.

The Occupy Wall Street or Days of Rage protests that started in New York and quickly spread through a massive organization effort.  By the time the first protestor set foot on the streets of New York, they were already networked together across the country.  Groups were being launched in every major city and in two weeks time groups were springer up in more cities.  The Occupy group that met in Harrisburg has a sitting Councilman as a sponsor of the group who played a key part in helping establish their first meeting.  While they talked about Revolution and the AFL-CIO offered their full support to provide them with anything they needed, the Patriot News had an article online within an hour after the meeting and conveniently left those critical parts of the meeting out of the story.  This is from the same “journalist” who has worked hard at “exposing” with negative article on the Tea Party having never attended a single meeting.    The Occupy Harrisburg movement had full media coverage and they stayed at the meeting for the full two hours.  How does this happen>  The answer to that one is simple if you’ve been paying attention to what has been happening  in the last year.

1) ACORN: In March, ACORN founder Wade Rathke announced plans for what he would refer to as  “days of rage in ten cities around JP Morgan Chase.”  Rathke was president of an SEIU local in New Orleans.  After supposedly being dismantled after being defunded for deliberate violation in voter registration ACORN simply regrouped under different names.  IT was simply the rebranding of ACORN.  The Boston Chapter is playing a critical role in the “Occupy movement” through New England United 4 Justice. It’s the same crooked group with the same general mission and president; just a different name. It is headed by Maude Hurd, the former president of ACORN and ACORN Housing.  PROJECT VOTE was begun through the ACORN organization and is playing a role in in the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Francis Fox Pivens is on the board of PROJECT VOTE.  Barack Hussein Obama was a supporter and Advocate for ACORN working with them and defending them.

“I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.” – Barack Hussein Obama

2) SEIU: As already mentioned Wade Rathke of ACORN was a president of an SEIU chapter.  Stephen Lerner, also involved with SEIU took Rathke’s proposal of “days of rage in ten cities around JP Morgan Chase.”  and in March of this year began to build on it’s possibilities.  Steven Lerner said, back in March as he proposed his plan for the economic destabilization of the country, that it would appear in stages.  In the plan he laid out:  A)  20%  of homeowners deliberately default on their mortgages to destabilize mortgage companies. B)  Bring down the Stock Market, Destabilize Wall Street.  Plans would begin in the first week in May to begin a ground swell movement that could be generated through Student Mobilization to move as early as September.  C)  Have Unions fund and develop this movement in the background making it appear as a grassroots movement.  During this part he specifically used the phrase to “throw a boot in the wheel”.  The origin of the word sabotage comes from the French Luddites who threw their wooden clogs into powered looms to clog the machinery during the Industrial Revolution.  Sabot is French for wooden shoes.

“I’ve spent my entire adult life working with SEIU. I’m not a newcomer to this. I didn’t suddenly discover SEIU on the campaign trail.” – Barack Hussein Obama

3) George Soros: George Soros is connected to the U.S. Day of Rage aka Occupy Wall Street through The Ruckus Society. The Ruckus Society receives funding from the Tides Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Institute provides grants to Tides, including a mere $4.2 Million in 2008, the last year figures were made available. Several paragraphs down on the Days Of Rage website they called for the hopes for a Robin Hood tax, and rewriting our U.S. Constitution, among other little Marxist dreams, including violence since “fiscal reform” probably won’t do the job.  These are all elements of The Ruckus Society. Cass Sunstein, one of Obama’s top advisors also called for a re-writing of the Constitution. In 2004, Sunstein penned a book, “The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’S Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever,” in which he advanced the radical notion that welfare rights, including some controversial inceptions, be granted by the state. His inspiration for a new bill of rights came from President Roosevelt’s 1944 proposal of a different, new set of bill of rights.  In 2005, Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled “The Constitution in 2020,” which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year. George Soros is bankrolling and heavily supporting the Constitution 2020 movement. He staunchly believes that the Constitution is a living, breathing, evolving document. He believes in a new and improved Bill of Rights. His Open Society Institute and the Center for American Progress sponsored the Constitution 2020 conference in April of 2005.  Eric Holder sat on the board of a Soros-funded group pushing the same “progressive” constitution in the Constitution 2020 movement. Also sponsoring the April 2005 conference was Center for American Progress, which is led by John Podesta, who served as co-chair of Obama’s presidential transition team.  Podesta’s Center is said to be highly influential in helping to craft White House policy.  The Recent National Popular Vote movement, which is seeking to eliminate the electoral process, is being funded by George Soros through his son.

“But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical.  It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.” – Barack Huseein Obama

4) Van Jones:  Recently Van Jones has publicly expressed praise for the Occupy Wall Street Movement.  And right that he should since he was advocating for it for a very long time.  Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) was a book by Van Jones that got him in trouble with the White House leading to his removal from office as the “green jobs czar”.  The STORM document is about the history of a communist group that Jones led and whose members traveled to Cuba. He has, however, tried to leave his communist past behind as he reinvents himself as an American patriot trying to “rebuild the American dream.” At almost every stage of his career, he has been supported by money from Soros.  While Jones has tried to distance himself from the label “Communist” others are reluctant to allow him to relinquish that role; not just conservative mind you, but Communists who are ever thankful to Van Jones forr his work on their cause.   Joelle Fishman of the Communist Party USA talked about Jones’s leadership in this new phase of the progressive movement and how the conference welcomed socialists and communists. She said the Communist Party, which usually fields a presidential candidate, will not run anyone against Obama in 2012. Judith LeBlanc, who runs a group called Peace Action and is one of the vice-chairs of the Communist Party, was introduced on stage as one of Van Jones’s “partners” in the “rebuild the American dream” movement. Jones had said in an “Uprising Radio” interview in 2008 that his goals were a “complete revolution” to “transform the whole society” away from capitalism.  John Podesta, President & CEO of the Center for American Progress, says, “Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country…[At the White House,] Van was working to build a common-ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work.”  Podesta, who rehired Jones after he lost his White House job, co-chaired the Obama presidential transition team that filled many administration jobs. The other co-chair was Valerie Jarrett, an Obama adviser who publicly talked about how “we” in the administration had followed Jones’s career and wanted him to serve in the administration.

“We will not rebuild our economy on the old model of bubbles and busts. (The “old model” is Capitalism) We’ll only climb out of the current crisis by creating a new, sustainable foundation for our economy’s future” – Barack Hussein Obama

5) Working Families Party: The Working Families Party was formed in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions and community groups as a way of prodding Democratic candidates to pay more attention to the organizations’ needs.  WFP is a New York-based, left leaning political party that had strong ties to ACORN and also receives substantial financial support from large unions like SEIU.  The WFP is paying protestors to particiapte in Occupy.  Running ads on Craiglist the WFP states that pay is between $350-$650 per week.  From thier ads: We offer substantial paid-training provided by senior leadership on advocacy, public speaking, mobilizing, networking and organizing. We invest in passionate people with excellent communication skills and a full benefits package is offered to those candidates that qualify. In addition, there is opportunity for advancement and travel to our satellite chapters and out of state affiliates. Working hours are from 1 PM to 9 PM. Work environment is team-oriented, casual but professional.

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” – Barack Hussein Obama

6) Free Speech TV:  Free Speech TV has been promoting the “Occupation of Wall Street” protests and also distributes Al-Jazeera. The head of Free Speech TV is Don Rojas, former press secretary to communist Maurice Bishop, the leader of the Caribbean island of Grenada before President Reagan ordered its liberation by American troops in 1983.  Rojas was captured, arrested, and then deported from Grenada by U.S. forces. Today, however, his channel is called the “anti-Fox” network and claims carriage on 200 cable affiliates, Dish Network and DirecTV, reaching 35 million homes.  Rojas says he has applied for cash from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute (OSI).  Free Speech TV fits perfectly into the Obama model for media as explained by Anita Dunn.  Anita Dunn, Obama’s Communications Director, the same woman who said her “favorite philosopher” was Mao Zedong, says in a conference “Movimiento por el Cambio Obama” (Movement for Change – Obama) in the Dominican Republic how they controlled the media to spin what they wanted out there. She explains how the Obama campaign controlled the spin and “worked” the Mainstream Media. Whoever controls the media controls the masses and the spin like true totalitarians. This Administration has been pushing net neutrality which is just another one of those phrases that sounds good until you look into it.  Net Neutrality has nothing to do with the government taking on neutral role in Internet regulation.  It has the government taking an aggressive position of doing what is possible to topple the free-market driven media and replace it with a government regulated media that would deliberately choose who is punished and who would be rewarded.

“”I’m committed to having the FCC review what our current policies are in terms of media diversification. And part of what I want to do is to expand the diversity of voices in media, or have policies that encourage that .” – Barack Hussein Obama

7)  AFL-CIO:  The AFL-CIO is also throwing in their support to Occupy Wall Street.  When John Sweeney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, became president of the AFL-CIO, the communists and their fellow travelers were officially welcomed in. He hired veterans of the Venceremos Brigades such as Karen Nussbaum and Karen Ackerman. These were the groups of radical young people who had gone to Communist Cuba for indoctrination sessions back in the 1970s.  Some went for training in guerrilla warfare. The trips were arranged by Bernardine Dohrn of the terrorist Weather Underground.  Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is in charge of getting the unemployed to the ballot box on November 2 in order to prevent a conservative takeover of the U.S. Congress. Nussbaum, who served under Sweeney at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), has refused to talk about her time in Cuba and the media won’t ask her any questions about it.  Richard Trumpka is the Chief of the AFL-CIO and has had privileged access to this administration. Trumpka lobbied for and won the support of the President for the appointment of Hilda Solis as the U.S. Secretary of Labor.  For 2010, Solis’s agenda was to enact some ninety new rules and regulations intended to grant more power to unions and to workers  In February 2011, as impassioned debate carried on over Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to limit that state’s public employee unions’ collective bargaining rights, and similar proposals were made in other states, Solis spoke out strongly and emotionally against such moves.

“We’re ready to play offense for organized labor. It’s time we had a president who didn’t choke saying the word ‘union.’ A president who strengthens our unions by letting them do what they do best: organize our workers”  – Barack Hussein Obama

8) Alliance for Global Justice:  In a recent email complaint from the Occupy crowd this was cited “Some $60,000 or more in donations to Occupy Wall Street are currently being held back,” the call to arms read. “This company is a sub-contractor to Authorize.net which, in turn, is a division of CyberSource Corporation which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Visa–a New York Stock Exchange traded company.”    The confusion began Friday morning when the Alliance for Global Justice, the nonprofit soliciting online contributions for Occupy Wall Street, sent out an alert to its supporters. “This is too much of a coincidence to believe it is not intentional,” Chuck Kaufman, AfGJ national coordinator, is quoted as saying in the alert. Kauffman has gained notoriety in Latin American Countries by advocating  with the Latin America Solidarity Coalition on how to better confront US militarism.  The AfGJ launched an online Activist course with provided alternative to militarism in Recruiting in Schools.  The notion is to build a student coalition of resistance that functions as a political force to that has the same force of military powers.  Does that sound familiar?  Defending the actions of  Kauffman’s involvement in these Latin American Countries is Bruce Nestor, of Minneapolis, Minnesota and past President of the National Lawyers Guild .

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve” – Barack Hussein Obama

9) National Lawyers Guild:  Providing legal assistance to the Occupy Movement  “dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system . . . to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.” Originated in the 1940’s. The National Lawyers Guild played a critical role in the defense of the Communists during the “McCarthy era” hearings of the 1950’s. The Guild is also connected to the 1960’s Days of Rage.  Bernardine Dohrn (later to marry Bill Ayres) got her law degree and went to work for the National Lawyers Guild at the same time she was involved with the SDS (Students For A Democratic Society).  As the Weather Underground would move from city to city to plan attacks against America, Dohrn would set up a law office to provide legal defense for any of the often violent protestors arrested in that city. The mission was two-fold, first to mobilize the youth in that area and then to channel their anger at specific targets through aggressive protests coaching them on how to get arrested to draw media attention for their cause.  Their actions were safeguarded by the National Lawyers Guild defense of them. Dorhn and Ayers were part of the violent and aggressive Weather Underground.  Dohrn and Ayres were close friends of the Obama family.  In spite of denials, it was later revealed that the Ayers babysat his children, were frequent callers to the Obama Home and launched Obama’s campaign from their own home.

I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” – Barack Obama

10) Public Allies: Obama had been organizing the cadre of his personal, civilian national security force — his “shadow army” — at fifteen fully-staffed and populated indoctrination centers since 1992. through an organization called  Public Allies, modeled after Alinsky’s “people’s organizations,.”  Prior to his election as President it was revealed that it was operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama and it had a ton of money — more than $75 million per year — and an impressive list of donors.  Naturally, it also received grants from federal, state and municipal sources.  Its mission was to produce “community organizers” — baby Obamas — and its process is replicable and repeatable — continually producing more apparatchiks in “the community,” where these people are perceived of as leaders.  They answer to only one person — Obama.

Through these community organizers,  constituencies could be, at the touch of a button, into political actions — mobs in the streets — to influence public opinion and the political process — real visual stuff that Obama’s water-carriers in the media will broadcast 24/7.

The appeal to back the president was made in an email and video sent out by “Organizing for America,” the organization which morphed out of Obama’s campaign machinery to push his agenda when he entered the White House.  In the video, Mitch Stewart, the director of “Organizing for America,” urged the president’s supporters to take part in the “Organizing for America Pledge Project.”

David Plouffe says that “Organizing for America” is not aimed at twisting the arms of members of Congress but meant to keep activists engaged on issues such as health care, energy and the economy.  When Obama’s people control health care, energy and the economy, they pretty much have you by the shorts.

According to a Fact Sheet About Public Allies, President Obama was a member of the founding advisory board of the non-profit organization.  Michelle was the founding Executive Director of Public Allies Chicago from Spring, 1993 until Fall 1996.  Much of the financial support came in the form of grants (tax payer funded )

While Public Allies disappeared as an official organization after the Presidency,of Barack Hussein Obama, it did not go away.  Like ACORN it just rebranded and mobilized building and strengthening through off-shoots and empowered by the cabinet members and agency appointments that brought Marxism solidly to the White House of the United States of America.  The Public Allies organization was well-documented and while people like Breitbart tried to bring this to the public attention, every major media outlet in America choose to ignore it.  Occupy Wall Street is the Child of the radical associations of a President who brought those people and others sympathetic to his Marxist Ideology into the  White House.

“Political discussions, the kind at Occidental had once seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union” – Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)

11)  The Liberal Press:  Even before the Occupy Wall Street movement began, the Press started to cover it.  The Liberal Media outlets immediately began the spin painting these protestors in the most positive light especially compared by those same media outlets coverage of Tea Party rallies.  More on this in the following summary:

As you can see, each of these organizations is inter-related.  All of them have direct ties to this Presidential administration so it is no wonder that many of the Occupy Wall Street protestors are adamant supporters of Barack Hussein Obama.  It is fair to state that the firing of Van Jones came  as a result of pressure originated by blogger Trevor Loudon.   Loudon broke the story of Jones’s communist background, saying he first came across his name in a socialist publication and discovered his affiliation with STORM. He then discovered that the far-left Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration’s “ideas bank,” had published a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending Jones for a top government job. Collins offered “Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center, to direct the Commerce Department’s new ‘green jobs initiative.’” Loudon added, “I researched Jones again at that point and found he was a fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP).” In the end, Jones left CAP and was appointed as a “special adviser” at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

“It didn’t take more than a few keystrokes to realize that STORM was very influential in the San Francisco Bay Area and had ties to both the Cuban and South African Communist Parties,” Loudon said. “Jones’ group and particularly Jones himself had ties to two former Weather Underground supporters — Jon and Nancy Frappier and the Bay Area branch of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Jones was the keynote speaker at a CCDS fundraiser in Berkeley as late as February 2006.”

Loudon’s reporting was first picked up by Glenn Beck, then with Fox News which was followed by other embarrassing and damaging revelations from other conservative bloggers. It came out that Jones had called Republicans “assholes” and had signed a letter appearing on the website of 911Truth.org demanding an investigation into whether the Bush Administration “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.” The implication was that the Al Qaida terrorists who hijacked the planes that struck New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon were part of a much-larger U.S. Government plot.

In the 2008 Campaign for the President, revelations of Barack Hussein Obama’s involvement with the most radical elements of the Progressive/Marxist movement were revealed.  Most liberal media outlets dismissed these stories just as they are now praising the Occupy Wall Street movement.  These people are not stupid.  They know exactly what is going on, who is behind this movement and their failure to report on the truth and give the background of this dangerous movement should reveal to everyone that the liberal media in complicit to the movement.  They are part of the problem.  They knew exactly what was going as they used their media outlets to campaign for Barack Hussein Obama.  They knew about the history of each of his appointments but again dismissed what was happening.

Everything was there and as alternate  conservative media outlets began to discover the dangerous background of this presidential candidate records began to be sealed.  Everything from his Kindergarten  through his College records.  When it was revealed that websites of Communist Parties in America endorsed him, those web endorsement disappeared although several bloggers had the foresight of saving the pages as image files anticipating just such a response.

In less than three years, this administration and the liberal Press are responsible for the dismantling of this country through class warfare, economic sabotage, and an open hostility to the Constitution of the United States of America.  Together they have combined efforts to intentionally deceive the American people of their goal of completely undermining every fundamental principal of the founding of our Nation to turn us from a nation built upon the rights of the individual and replacing that ideology with the collective salvation ideology advocated in the Pulpits of Liberationists like Jeremiah Wright. The most tragic part of this story is that this was no shrouded conspiracy.  A conspiracy by its very nature is a hidden agenda through secret negotiations.  All of the groups and people mention in this pamphlet have been out front and open to public scutiny.  They’ve written books and newspaper articles,  they appeared in public and spoken openly about their goals and aims.  The America People simply were not listening.

When Barack Hussein Obama’s ties to radical Progressive/Marxist elements of society was exposed, we were told by the liberal media to ignore it.  We were told that it did not matter.  They lied to us.  That lie was intentional.  Those ties did matter and those early influences on the life of this Marxist would be dictator spread through his administration giving exclusive places of honor to other Marxist anti-Americans in the office that is supposed to be the central office for the upholding of the Constitution of the United States of America to provide security and protect us from the very people who are now running this Administration.

Like a cancer, it has spread its disease rapidly among us.  Under no other administration has the abuse of the Executive Branch been felt so ominously in the deliberate dismantling of America.   The founding principle of the Consent of the governed has been trampled on through by-passing the legislative branch of our government by the abuse of this president through his appointed leadership in the agencies under his administration.  They have implemented laws through mandates, regulations and punishable fees without the consent of Congress and therefore without the consent of the governed.

During a speech on July 2 of 2008 Barack Hussein Obama deviated from his pre-released script and performed without the teleprompter net saying,

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

The entire plan is breathtaking in its scope. Then Senator Obama aimed at tapping into the already active volunteerism of millions of Americans and recruit them to become cogs in a gigantic government machine grinding out his social re-engineering agenda. It was Orwellian-like, with the social activist’s mentality at the helm.

It is clear now that he was saying that the security of the nation is as dependent on its community service providers as it is on its military personnel.   His point: national security begins with civilians; what we finding out now os that it could end with them as well.   Hasn’t this been the constant theme of the protests in Wisconsin.  Consider that he added this:

”Because the future of our nation depends on the soldier at Fort Carson, but is also depends on the teacher in East LA, the nurse in Appalachia, the after-school worker in New Orleans…”

Voters haven’t paid much attention to his “Service” plan because the news media has ignored it. The news media is still ignoring it just as they ignored his radical Marxists friends and family.  When Obama said that the “civilian national security force” would be just as “well-funded” as the Armed Forces most thought he was talking about an actual Civilian Military Presence.  They couldn’t see how America could possibly get there.  Perhaps now they can.

More than 100 years ago Abraham Lincoln stood before the American people and said this:

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?– Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!–All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

 

We stand now at the edge of the precipice.  Like lemmings running towards their own demise we have reached the edge of the cliff.  Do you jump with other lemmings?  Do you stop and watch as the lemming leap to their certain demise?  Do you turn around and warn the others of their impending doom?   Isn’t this the question the patriot Patrick Henry once asked other Americans when he said “I know not what course others may take but as for me, Give me Liberty or give me Death?”

Appeasement is not the answer, there is no compromise to the demands on America anymore.  Appeasement might offer a temporary form of peace but that peace is an illusion.  We could surrender and not a single drop of blood might occur but there would occur, through this surrender,  the most tragic death of all.  The death of America as the beacon of Light and Liberty to the world;  Death at the hands of the most virulent disease to the true cause of Liberty and the Natural Rights endowed upon us by our Creator;  Death by the cancer of socialist Marxism.

This is Treason.  Is this President, his Administration and those seeking to overthrow the United States and replace it with socialist Marxism protect by the first Amendment right of Freedom of Speech?

 

Consider:

Article 1: Section 6

They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Article 2: Section  4

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article 3: Section 3

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.  The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted..

Article 4: Section 2

A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

 

The actions of this President, his Administration and yes, even the Occupy Wall Street Protestors is beyond simply the role of Freedom of Speech or the Right to Peaceably Assemble.  It is perversion of the original intention to think that the protections provided in the first Amendment would also include the blocking of traffic, business and egress of others in an attempt that has publically proclaimed it’s intention is to topple Capitalism and crush Wall Street.

You can say it.  You can go out in the street and proclaim it but actually stopping the rights of others and turning the speech into a physical action, especially concerning treason,  actions is no longer Freedom of Speech.  It is an  act of Aggression against the United States of America.

If you do not like an particular aspect of the Constitution or you feel a right is neglected there is an amendment process.  That process requires following a legal course of action, not public disturbances in the streets.

An Act of Civil Disobedience, at least as far as our Founders saw things, was allowable when the Government was acting in violation of the Constitution of the United States of America.  An Act of Civil Disobedience for the purpose of overthrowing the Fundamental Principles of America and her Constitution is Treason.  To place in motion a course of action intended to replace the form of Government, not the people in Government but the actual form of Government, is an act of Treason.

Acts of Treason are not rights, nor are not protected in the Constitution.  They are punishable by due process which allows you to make a legal case establishing the principles of your cause.

The Constitution defines Treason as “only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

What we see now is a group who have waged a Political War against the very founding Principles of our Government in establishing a fundamental Transformation that seeks to replace the Constitution and Bill of Rights within the next 8 years empowered by accomplices to this cause giving aid and comfort.

Marxist Socialism and Democracy are not compatible forms of government.  We are also not a Democracy.  The Constitution provides the assurance of a Republican Form of Government

Article 4: Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it state or provide for the United States as a Democracy.  The word is never used.  In fact, many of our Founder’s spoke very negatively about Democracy as a form of Government.  Having broken free from the feudal form of government, likewise they rejected any form of socialism, most assured they would have rejected Marxism.  Any attempt at implementing it is, plain and simply, TREASON!

 

In 1787, founder John Adams penned the following.  It demonstrates the incredible foresight of our founders in understanding the dangers of a mob-ruled Democracy fueled by an entitlement mentallity.

 

“Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet,’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.”

 

 

 

 

The Perfect Storm

(Note: The following blog is an opinion based on speculation and is not a set course.  It is only intended to suggest a possible scenario of what might come if we are not prepared.  I do believe the groundwork for something like this has already been laid out and I do believe that the words of many advising this administration reinforce this as a possibility.  You don’t have to agree with the supposition, I’m not sure that I agree with it all myself,  I am simply stating a possibility based on observations that are occurring all around us.  There are other observations out there.  The real purpose of this is to draw your attention to things that are happening and how this impacts our daily lives.  If it concerns you enough to try and stop what is happening than it has served its purpose.)

     If trends continue it looks as though there will be a Republican Majority in the House and Senate as well as a Republican President in the White House.  Many Republicans are rejoicing at the news even though the election is still a little more than a year away.  In fighting in the Republican Party is only going to get worse and a lot can happen between now and then.  I long to be optimistic but my realistic nature argues with me.  Lately that realistic nature is winning that argument.

     I’ve always been a little conspiratorial and maybe I’ve gone off the deep end but I am really concerned about the future of America.  When I started this blog I called it the edge of the precipice for a reason.  I believe that is exactly where this country is right now.  We have states and municipalities being held hostage by the Federal Government to comply with unconstitutional regulation out of fear of losing all federal monies.  All around us, we can see the evidence of an orchestrated movement to topple America as a Republic and it’s reliance on the Constitution as a Rule of Law.  We have a Congress who is afraid to stand up to abuses of the Constitution because it would mean the willful sacrifice of the investors to their high priced campaigns.  It is the disease of both parties.  The seeds of unrest have been planted everywhere and the sowers are waiting for the right moment to harvest their crop.

    This administration, and the people who put him in power, believe in never letting a crisis go to waste and they have lived this to the hilt.    In the name of saving the country they have pushed the economy to the brink of collapse.  I have also come to believe the collapse in inevitable. Far too much damage has been done.  I believe more and more that we are about to see a depression sweep this country that will far surpass the depression of the 1930’s.  One of the real differences between this depression and the depression of the 1930’s is that the sense of community that carried many through those difficult times is almost gone now.

     The propped up President has a network of financial manipulators and progressive think tanks who are willing to risk everything to make sure that the coming collapse will not happen until after the election.  Win or lose, this collapse seems to be inevitable. I would be willing to bet that, if it comes, it will happen in the early part of 2014.  That is the supposition of this blog and a speculation of a possibility of events to come.  I am not stating this will happen but I do believe there is more than enough evidence to support the speculation and at least consider the possiblity.

      If Obama loses this election and the Republicans gain control of the House and Senate, 2014 will be two years into their administration.  An economic collapse would be complicated by unrest in the streets that is already growing being pushed by Marxist’s who have waited patiently for this day to happen.

     The loss of Obama might also drive a deeper racial rift in the nation which will be translated into more violence in the streets.  Realizing that an economic collapse will mean an end to entitlements, the poor will turn to violence for survival.

     The youth of America who have been indoctrinated to believe that education comes free with no sacrifice on their part will also turn to revolution.  An economic collapse will end free college tuition which aren’t really free but paid for by other means.  That means would now be gone.

     The illegal situation is also going to get worse.  Entitlements to illegals in an economic collapse would have to end.  Many illegals spent life savings to get here, without government entitlements, they will not be able to afford to leave while at the same time, the government will no longer be able to sustain them.  La Raza in America will revolt.

     These three aspects are already happening.  The stage is set and it is being tested to make certain the foundation for a coming revolution is already in place and can be mobilized through community activists.  That is not speculation, that is fact and it while the media struggles to downplay this, it’s obvious to anyone who is already watching.  Flash mob theft and violence, all orchestrated through social networking; protests organized with printed signs that happen in a few days notice; the Days of Rage; Organized Union protests; it’s all already happening and there is a common recurring and connecting thread…the Socialist Party in America.

     In an economic collapse, the protection of the Unions under this administration will be gone.  As industry closes the promises of unfunded pensions collapses as well.  Union members who believe they are entitled, since they see these as rights that were negotiated and promised, will quickly discover that it is a promise that can not be delivered.  They are already organized for violence.

     Taking a page from Margaret Sanger, the beloved matriarch of the Progressive movement, this community activist model she suggested has been expanded.  Her embracing of Malthusian Eugenics early in her career has also been embraced by many of the current Czars in this administration.  The progressive Marxists have implanted themselves within the above communities through the placement of useful idiots.  They believe they are fighting for social justice.  In an economic collapse social justice is no longer a possibility.  In order to establish social justice the scales of justice must be tipped to give an unfair and unearned advantage to one group while denying that advantage to another.  In a collapse, social justice is unsustainable.

      In Sanger’s work to infiltrate the Black community established through The Negro Project, Sanger began to lay a plan of bringing black ministers into the cause of population control. During this time she said:

“The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members”

     A revolution or insurrection is crucial to the final phase of the current Marxist regime working behind the scenes carefully planning their revenge to the so-called McCarthyism of the 1950’s.  While Joseph McCarthy’s tactics may have been wrong, his suspicions have proven to be incredibly accurate.  There were communists in this country and they were planning to overthrow the United States of America from within.  They weren’t just peaceful families sitting at home, smoking their pipes and reading the latest Communist publication and they weren’t just regular guys who only wanted to take their families out for an ice cream cone.  They had a plan. They infiltrated our Universities to make certain they taught those who would be our teachers.  They infiltrated our churches for the same purpose, through Seminaries which would produce our pastors.  They infiltrated our government to weigh down the cost of governance with social programs supposedly to help the poor.  They infiltrated our financial Institutions to control the economy.  They established regulatory agencies within government so they could by-pass the whole messy accountability to Congress regulations of the Constitution.  They infiltrated Congress so that they would not hold these agencies or the office of the President accountable.  They created the myth of the “Illuminati” to misdirect the anarchists to look for some hidden agenda so they would be distracted from seeing the totally obvious taking place right in front of them.  To paraphrase an old proverb, while looking for the trees, they missed the forest.

     This economic collapse could bring about a new shift in politics, the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2014 as a response to backlash against the Republicans might not be a Democratic takeover.  Those people will be Marxist.  They will push for the final collapse of the sense of a Republic and set fire to the United States Constitution.  I doubt the President and Vice President will finish their terms and the end of free election will come to America.  Do you think a backlash to support Democrats can’t happen?  It happened in 2006, then in 2010, just 4 years later, it happened to the Democrats.  It’s still happening.  An economic collapse changes the rules of the game.  people become desperate as they look for somebody or some group to save them.    This will especially be true in modern America where most have been indoctrinated to believe they no longer have the capability of providing for themselves.

      Fundamentalists, Zionists and the Tea Party would be identified as an enemy of the state. They would be rounded up. It is already firmly etched in many people’s minds that the economic collapse is solely the Republican’s fault.  With a major victory in 2012 which could be followed by the collapse, this could cement this notion as absolute truth.  Just to clarify, the Republican Party had also been infiltrated by useful idiots who did their bidding during the Bush years.   They contributed to the belief that the economic woes is their fault.

     Safety measures would be put in place “for the protection of the people.”  SOrt of a new expansion of the “Patriot Act.”  It happened before from a threat from without, why not from a threat from within?   Forced Sterilization, Forced abortions, and euthanasia of the elderly and physically handicapped; all implemented to insure there will be enough food and security for all.  In order to quell the insurrection, the civilian military forces could be implemented and the draft re-instituted.  Gun ownership would have to be removed to protect society.  People will default on mortgages and the government would have to take them over or people will be homeless.  Property rights would then disappear.

    The collapse of an American economy would bring about the collapse of the world’s economy.  There would also be handful who will profit from this, just as they are now profiting from the instability of the manipulated markets.  As the world’s economy topples the Sovereignty of all nations falls at risk and the world is finally ripe for the One World Government of a Socialist Dictatorship where population would be controlled, Industry regulated through forced employment where the Government feels it is necessary, Eugenics enforced in the name of compassion.  The needs of the collective always outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

     Long before these Progressives began to plan for collapse of the global economy, they had orchestrated a moral collapse.  That moral collapse has implemented the cause of social justice, which stands in complete opposition to actual justice.  Social becomes the defining word for justice and that means that under that belief, actual justice which is supposed to be blind to race, creed and economic station has the scales tipped so Lady Justice has lifted the blinds according to race, creed and economic station and has placed some weights on the scale to provide an unequal justice.  Through Social Justice they have enforced the indoctrination that you can live without any sense of personal accountability whatsoever.  Be irresponsible and keep cranking out babies, the government will pay for it.  Destroy your bodies with drugs, the government will take care of you.  Get laid off and the Government will provide for you for years of extended benefits, food stamps and other social services.  Why take a job that pays less if you can live off the government for free?   They will give you enough to make you comfortable, enough to keep you from wanting the break the cycle of poverty making you more dependent on the government.

     Those truly in need of help, the sick, disabled and the elderly who are no longer capable of providing for themself suddenly become a burden to society.  Grandma might just have to take a pill instead of further burdening society with medical treatments.  Hell, they elected a guy to the office of President who said that out loud, why wouldn’t people accept this in a crisis.  Something will have to be done?  What solutions will there be?  If you have to decide who will eat, won’t most people decide ME?

     You see a moral collapse, especially concerning the sanctity of life, was necessary to bring about the economic collapse.

     When an economy collapses, you will find a society in survival mode which will no longer be tolerant of irresponsible behavior.  We’ve seen this play out in history many times before.  People turn a blind eye to the deliberate purging of society from the so-called irresponsible elements of society which is straining necessary resources.  Many have already openly embraced the notion that the sexually irresponsible deserve to be sterilized and have their children taken from them.  In an economic crisis, that could quickly become the majority view.  But how did we get here?  Didn’t we get here by removing the stigma of immoral sexual behavior?  If it felt good, we were told, we should do it!

    Our schools are in shambles, burdened by the moral collapse of society.  Inner City schools are ripe with the tribal and animalistic tendencies of the gang mentality.  This did not happen by mistake, it was planned.  Malthusian Eugenics, which was embraced by Progressive 100 years ago, didn’t start 100 years ago.  It’s father lived 200 years ago in the pen of Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist whose writings were later embraced by Darwin in his supposition of the animalistic notion which he applied to all humanity-“the survival of the fittest”.

     While Americans were fighting for Natural Law through Divine Providence as seen in the rights of man and the consent of the governed,  Mathus was sparking a new revolution in thought that the expressed cycles of famine and poverty which took the life of the poor could be manipulated to purge the economic strains that the poor places on society by allowing the poor to die.  That diseased ideology is spreading and why shouldn’t it since there is no God.  We came from animals so why shouldn’t we act like animals.  When push comes to shove and we must decide who will live and who will die, those who have the least means of providing for themselves will have the least chance for survival and this is survival of the fittest exemplified.  Haven’t you ever heard somebody say after a a murder as a result of a drive by shooting or a drug deal gone bad that this is just a way eliminate some of the scum on the street?  If the perpetrator is caught, haven’t you also heard that same expression if they are given the death penalty or executed.  Welcome to the world of Malthusian Eugenics.

     Progressives have patiently worked to move society to embrace a complete rejection of the higher authority of a Supreme Being.  They have worked tirelessly to indoctrinate us to believe that man is in control of his own destiny.  They have replaced the notion of a Creator God, with deliberate enforcement of the accidental implementation of evolution where Natural Law no longer is the moral instillation of God Given rights but rather debased into belief of survival of the fittest.

     All of this has created the Perfect Storm.  Society is closer to accepting to purging of the races as a moral obligation and as such so many already refuse to see abortion as murder, which it is, but rather see it as an act of compassion.  Why is it so difficult for us to accept a new phase especially at the hands of an economic crisis?

    If we believe that it is all right to murder a child because they might be born with something we interpret as a mental or physical defect based upon the principle of “quality of Life” why is it harder for us to accept that same principle for those suffering the same who were not aborted to be extinguished?  If an infant in the womb can be murdered because ti can not experience a quality of life as judged by society, how can you justify the existence of an older child with the same condition, or an adult for that matter?  Wouldn’t they also have the same lack of Quality of Life?  Isn’t that horrendous statement insulting in itself that somebody else can determine if your life has any quality worth allowing you to live?   What will it take to bring society to accept that as a valid reason?  If we actually think using the term Quality of Life is compassion that justifies murder where have we already arrived as a society and how close are we to taking the next step?

    This is the moment the Progressives have waited for.  There is only one way for this to be stopped and it has nothing to do with the next election.  Sure that can help but without a people who stand up against this enemy of all human life, the next election will just prolong the inevitable.  The people must realize and the people must rise to put an end to this.  We must expose the progressives for what they really are.  Just as Malthus inspired a Revolution of thought in Europe that was universally rejected in the United States, it is a return to Natural Law as the founder’s saw it for the strict form of Governance and the centerpiece of Constitutional interpretation so that we too, with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, might restore this Country to her former glory.

      Whether we accept it or not, the first amendment’s precept of the Government making no law for the establishment of a national religion has been violated.  The Government has firmly established Progressivism as the National Religion and it is taught in our schools, universities and implemented in our laws.  It is nothing short of heresy.

      If we are to get through the coming Revolution the truth must be known or servitude and slavery will follow.  If we do not stand, the blood of millions of unborn will be joined by the blood of others. If we do not now tremble as Jefferson trembled over the wrath of God; the blood of the unborn will join others to cry out for revenge as did Able’s blood.  The future of true humanity depends on all of us to stand now before it is to late and the precipice we are standing upon crumbles under our feet.

An Appeal to Heaven

The Tea Party Movement was born out of a reaction to an abuse of power.  The Obama Administration pushed a piece of legislation that quickly became known as Obamacare and in one overwhelming unconstitutional sweep the alarm clock went off for many Americans.  It was too much, too fast.  While the birth of the Tea Party came at this moment in time, its conception was accomplished long before.

For years they had been slowly moving in our midst: nudging, then nudging a little more.  We knew it was wrong, we knew the things they were doing was beyond the scope of Constitutional powers but we were busy with our lives; too busy to care enough to do something about it.  It wasn’t like they didn’t make great leaps in the past but those leaps were always associated with a crisis: Wars, depressions, national emergencies. During those times the government moved and pushed and we all too willingly stepped aside thinking the government had our best interest at heart yet at the same time there was something deep in the pit of our stomach that just didn’t seem right.

Obamacare was something different.  The Administration had no crisis to respond to, they simply had an agenda.  Obamacare would pass. They would climb any wall ”If we can’t climb the wall, we will jump over it. If we can’t jump over it, we will pole vault over it. If we can’t pole vault over it, we will parachute over it, but whatever it takes to pass the Health Care Legislation, we will do it!” or so Nancy Pelosi claimed to America.

Abuses of this sort of power are becoming more commonplace, or perhaps we are just more aware; more alert to the abuses.  We have moved from the protests, the sharpies and the poster board with witty expressions of our frustration.  The voice of a million people gathered on the steps and lawn of the capital building was a voice of a million our elected representatives chose to ignore.  We have moved from protest towards holding our individual legislatures feet to the fire.  They will hear us now or they will fear us in the only arena that every politician fears; in the voting booths of every municipality across this country. They will be held accountable because the future of this country depends on it.

Throughout the Tea Party movement we have realized that substantive and truly sustainable reform begins locally.  Every dollar that we send to Washington, every dollar sent to Harrisburg eventually winds up funneling a portion of its value back to our local municipalities.  I say a portion because a large piece of that dollar goes towards funding huge bureaucracies and agencies sent up by our Federal and State governments.  These Bureaucracies and agencies have so expanded under this administration that in less than three years they have managed to catapult our national debt by 4.5 trillion dollars to sustain them.  Under this administration’s expansion of these bureaucracies and agencies, mandates and regulations that are punishing job creating factors in our societies have also rapidly increased.  Environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations place burdens on business that result in higher prices for everything we buy including food, clothing and energy.  According to Walter Olson in a report to the Cato Institute regulations will cost $1.75 trillion in compliance costs as observed by estimates established by the Small Business Bureau.  That’s greater than the record federal budget deficit — projected at $1.48 trillion for the fiscal year of 2011 — and greater even than all corporate pretax profits.  While the liberal media and this administration lauds numbers like 117,000 jobs created in a month, what they do not say is that 200,000 jobs must be created each month to sustain the current population of the United States.  Each month that number isn’t met, the need for more jobs increases because the previous month’s job requirements were not met.

Since only a portion of what we send to State and Federal Government actually makes its way back to us, our municipalities are faced with difficult choices. This has resulted in school boards and municipalities constantly increasing the tax burden on the citizens.  Regardless of how much you are paying in local taxes, NO MUNICIPALITY IS SELF-SUSTAINING ANYMORE.  They are all dependent on grants from the federal and state level for their very survival.  As high as our taxes are, it isn’t enough to fund local government anymore.  Much of the cost is directly connected to the amount of money your local municipality and school board must spend to comply with new rules and regulations coming from the Federal and State levels.

If all that wasn’t enough, the push by the Federal government to force local municipalities to comply with the U.N’s Agenda 21 results in ordinance plans like Harry Roth’s major intrusion into personal property rights.  As we stand and allow this to happen we deserve to be punished for our inaction.  While we might deserve it, what about our children?  Do they deserve what we are allowing to happen to them?

Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will still be paying for the excesses of the governments of OUR generation and this is unconscionable.  This is generational theft.  Before a child of this generation enters kindergarten the price on their head to the government is already more than $40,000 just to sustain the current debt.  As should be obvious to all of us after the last round of budget debates, this shows no signs of decreasing.  We can blame the government, but we must bear a large part of this burden.  Our silence, our unwillingness to stand in the gap and be counted is also to blame. We are saddling future generations with the debt that we are running up now.  Unless we start demanding hard choices about what our collective obligations are to each other and to our children, how we will meet these obligations, and what we must do to begin to remove this burden from future generations, the financial security of those future generations is at risk.

We are robbing from the cradle and if we do not turn this around future generations will basically be holding the cost of a mortgage to a house before they own the property; a property they will NEVER own.  This isn’t the American dream that we grew up on.  This isn’t the vision of brighter tomorrow.  If we do not stand, if we do not speak, we must bear some of this burden.

Your involvement at the local level to turn this around is essential.  Over the past 8 months The Lebanon 9-12 Project has worked to provide you with information about local candidates.  We will continue to do this.  Over the past 8 months we have worked to provide you with information on legislation and to raise the alarm when local municipalities were abusing grants.  We will continue to do so.  We aren’t going to stop there.  We will be expanding our efforts through our meetings, through our literature, through our newsletter and through our website.  This still isn’t enough.

In the upcoming months we will be assembling municipality information and sending out email notifications of public meetings to our membership.  The groundwork to accomplish this has already been put into place.  By the time your municipality announces in a public notice that your municipality is voting on a proposal, the discussion on that proposal has already taken place in previous meetings.  It is often too late to turn the opinions of elected representatives around at this point in time.  The time for that is before the vote, when the discussions begin.

If necessary, the current volunteers on the board will do this but we really could use your help.  If you would like to represent your municipality by being the notifier of these meetings to other members who live in your municipality, let us know.  The more we become involved, the more we are informed and the more informed we are, the better citizens we become.  It isn’t just for the future of the Lebanon 9-12 Project that we ask this, it is for your children, your grand-children and all the generations that will follow that we ask this.  We need to stop stealing from them and start sacrificing for them.

We strive to be here to help in any way we can possibly help but consider – while liberal ideology might make us squirm – it does take a village.  The Lebanon 9-12 Project is just one community of the greater County of Lebanon.  The more help you are willing to offer, the more potential we have in making a difference where we live.  Each of you possesses skills, talents and abilities.  Never undersell yourself. Together we can accomplish greater things than we have realized in the past several months.  The future is not yet set and we can turn this around.  The key to that course of action is one simple word.  WE! WE can turn this around. You, me, all of us working together for the common goals of smaller government, fiscal accountability and a restoration of this country to the principles of Constitutional governance as intended by our founding fathers.

Thomas Paine’s words are just as real today as they were when he wrote them encouraging a weary army in the winter of 1776.  “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

We truly are standing on the precipice.  Time, however, is running out.  We can not wait for our elected representatives to fix our problems.  We must join together to work towards solutions.  We must become the change we are expecting from others.

We have gathered and we pledge ourselves to the cause of Liberty.  That struggle for Liberty is not just a struggle for our individual Liberties.  The Statue of Liberty stands in the harbor of New York as a beacon of Liberty to the world.  Her crown is unlike any other crown in that the points of her crown do not point upward, they point outward.  Like the beams of light from a noble halo the light of Liberty was not to remain within the context of my Liberty, but in the context of our Liberty:  from within us and then reaching out to all corners of the world.

The time to stand is now and so we make this appeal. The alarm clock that woke you was not just any alarm clock; it was the bell of Liberty calling out to you.  It’s ringing was a voice that said will you stand with her, will you defend her, will you join with others locking arms is support and say what needs to be said.  The choice is yours.  If you choose to remain silent, you speak; and the silence of your voice is shattering.