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Trust and Revolution

This morning upon hearing that the "progressives" in Congress want to add approximately 500 billion more dollars to President Obama's current $3.6 trillion budget, I felt pressed to take time out of my busy schedule to write to those of you who understand what we are now facing. Even more importantly, I hope that some people who are wondering what the Tea Party Movement is about drop in to hear these words. There are many people in this country that are not bound idealistically to either one of the major parties, and they act independently whether they describe themselves that way or not when it comes to selecting our leaders. They simply vote for what they believe is in the best interest of their state and their country at any given time in history. These swing voters are incredibly important, and our nation needs them now. There are also those who don't bother to vote at all, either because they simply don't care or because they don't believe their voice will make a difference. There is someone I know that is very dear to my heart, and has lived on this earth better than three score years yet she has never voted. If you're reading this, your country needs you to act. The Tea Party Movement needs you to help us make our voices heard. If you're undecided about the direction our nation is headed, please read on. If you already understand our predicament, but know someone who might be on the fence or might not be politically active normally, please share this with them.

This short treatise has been entitled "Trust and Revolution" because my very soul is burning over these two issues this morning. The former is what we no longer have in our government. We haven't had it for a long time, but the situation has become suddenly dire. The one thing I do believe when Obama speaks is that we are in a crisis; but it is the nature of this emergency where we differ. The latter, and I chose the word revolution with due seriousness, is what we must have until we once again have a government by the people and for the people. It is only through revolution (God willing it will be peaceful and nonviolent revolution) that we can once again trust our elected officials. I'm not talking about just throwing out all the Democrats, although they are certainly the leading culprits right now. Republicans have been guilty, too -- and contributed nearly as much pork in the last spending bill as their Democratic colleagues. This is not a movement driven by a political party; it is a movement driven by a fundamental conservative philosophy. Now a lot of people are put off as soon as they hear the word "conservative." That word carries a lot of baggage in today's society, but much of it is undeserved.

Our founding fathers were actually pretty exciting people as opposed to the antebellum, stick in the mud image that conservatism so often evokes in modern times. They weren't perfect, as a handful of history books will accurately point out, but they were stimulating. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations, and the evidence indicates it wasn't just used for making rope! They had brilliant minds, and most (except for Washington) had excellent educations. Jefferson spoke many languages fluently including Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. They were idealists, they were men of conviction, and they felt compelled to act upon those convictions even to the point of risking sure death if they failed. They were the same kind of people that the Tea Party Movement needs now, although hopefully our rulers won't go so far as to hang us for treason. These founding fathers were also devout conservatives. As such, they believed in free enterprise and private property rights. The Declaration of Independence which Thomas Jefferson labored over is one reason why the birth of our nation was so important and those famous words were never more apropos than now:

". . . all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

When we can't trust our government on even the most fundamental issues then that government is being destructive of the purpose for which it was created. Let me just take one case in point. Who cannot remember the outrage and the bemoaning in the halls of Congress and at the presidential podium over the AIG bonuses? All of these leaders wanted to make it plain that they stood with the people and not with the unscrupulous banks and insurance companies. Now we all know that these bonuses were specifically approved of in the [Senator Chris] "Dodd Amendment," and that this amendment was so written at the behest of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. All of this was spelled out in the "stimulus" bill that was raced through Congress. It was the largest spending bill in the history of the world, and not one member of the House or Senate read the damn thing before voting on it. We also know that President Obama has his first meeting of the day every day with Mr. Geithner. Incidentally, Senator Dodd has received more campaign money from AIG than any other elected official. They also gave $100,000 to President Obama?s election campaign. (I watched Obama at a recent press conference where a courageous reporter actually had the nerve to ask Obama about this $100,000 donation; the President?s expression never changed and he simply ignored the question and deftly moved on to the next reporter. Could you imagine if Bush tried to pull that one off?) If your Spidey senses are tingling, yes, I?m being sarcastic about the incidental part. This doesn't pass the "smell test," and reeks of pay for play politics. Is this government by and for the people?

These elected traitors -- our leaders -- are also using this economic "crisis" as a ploy to redesign our government in an image which to them represents a more just system. They were not elected to dispose of American democracy and replace it with some other system of rules which more closely resembles some form of socialism or fascism. President Obama has already committed us to more spending in his first eight weeks in office than our nation has spent in it?s entire history, including Bush's 8 years worth. In ten years we'll have a 10 trillion dollar deficit according to the non-partisan CBO. This is more than unsustainable -- our country is being financially neutered, our children and their children are being robbed of their heritage. Thomas Jefferson once said, "We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." And now this morning I learned that the "progressives" are working to add on almost another 500 billion. No one can truly appreciate the terrible ramifications that this can have on our nation because no country has ever been in such incredible debt before. Worse still, our enemy China is going to hold our debt. What in the Constitution gives our leaders the right to do this? What gives them the right to take taxpayer dollars and buy private institutions, even if they did have the business acumen to run them? (Plainly, they have no business acumen. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd received small fortunes from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and in return they protected them like children until our housing market fell apart. They idealistically used Fannie and Freddie to push loans on anyone who wanted one regardless of their ability to pay. Of course they didn?t do this directly, Fannie May and Freddie Mac "encouraged" other lenders to do it and then they bought up the bank notes and circulated them through our banking system prior to the crash. Sadly, idealistic morons with lots of power frequently do more harm than good.) Our nation as we know it and as our forefathers conceived of it is being destroyed before our eyes. The damage may be irrevocable if we don?t act now and act aggressively. Our political leaders don?t believe it matters what we think. After all, as it was so graciously stated on our Senate floor, we are nothing more than the "chattering classes" (this derogatory comment courtesy of Senator Chuckie Schumer) and we could care less about the billions in earmarks that are being thrown away at the same time as our country's financial future is being annihilated. Just as a stimulus bill was rammed through Congress by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama without anyone even reading the contents, now we're spending $650 billion on health care but we have no idea what the specifics of the plan are. If Obama knows, he hasn't told anyone yet. Our representatives are going to agree to spend $650 billion on something and they don't even know what it is. Where is our representation? Is this money going to bring us safety and happiness as a nation? Or is our liberty going to be lost to financial slavery? By the way, when running for president whenever anyone suggested Obama would be just another tax-and-spend liberal --and in every debate -- Obama replied vigorously that he would go through every bill line by line looking for wasteful spending to cut out. There were 9,000 earmarks in that "stimulus" bill, which would've been a good place to start. My question here is, how did Obama keep a straight face through all those interviews and debates? You know he had to be about to bust his gut every time that topic came up and he had to deliver that line/lie. Your elected representatives (not all, but many) believe you're a fool. They believe that you don't know what's best for yourself, and that you're too lazy and stupid to bother with following events in Washington. You're naught but one among the chattering classes. One, however, is enough to make a difference. And when enough of us with like minds join together, we have a movement.

This leads us back to the title of this small article; it leads us back to revolution. It?s a word I am reluctant to use because I love my country, but it?s a word I use in earnest. We were promised change in this past election, not madness. We were promised hope, not perpetual debt. Letter writing campaigns and calls to our representatives in Congress and in the White House seem to fall on deaf ears. So what do we do to stop the insanity? What is it worth to you to save the country that so many have died to protect? What is it worth to you to protect the land your ancestors sacrificed to give you? What are the principles and the blood of your forefathers worth? If you love this country and what it?s supposed to stand for, you should be angry now. Your taxes are being wasted. Your leaders are lying to you. The greatest Constitution in the world is being violated. We have to do whatever it takes to bring this country back to its principles. We have to make our leaders listen, or we have to drive them from the corridors of power (preferably with plenty of hot tar and feathers).

Revolution is defined as a fundamental and swift change in the power structure. Aristotle wrote about two kinds of revolution. The first involved in completely disregarding one constitution in favor of another more agreeable constitution. The second case simply involved modification of a constitution. Here, we simply need a return to the best effort yet made on earth at creating a constitution. We don?t need to fix what isn?t broken. It seems that everything in nature is cyclical, and so are most things made by man. The markets are like that, too. Recessions can be hard, but they end. Let?s not let this recession be turned into an excuse to ravage our Constitution and to destroy the free market economy which made us the strongest nation on earth.

Saul David Alinsky was a community organizer just like President Obama. He?s one of the heroes of the far left wing movement, and both Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton owe much of their effectiveness to his teachings. Alinsky preached revolution, too ? but he preached the kind you?re seeing now. He taught his followers how to work inside the system in order to "to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be." Note that this isn?t changing the world for the better, or changing the world in the way that the voters desire: this involves socially engineering the kind of world that a grand community organizer believes would be best. In essence, this is a sly means of achieving a dictatorship. Does anything here ring a bell as you watch the whirlwind of events unfurling in Washington? We are sheep being led to the slaughter. Saul Alinsky also resented the wealthy and successful, and sought ways for their power and profits to be redistributed to the "less fortunate." So of course, people like this have a ready base of supporters among the poor to do their dirty work. They also hate the middle class, but they need them so they pander to them:

"Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is . . . Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority." - Saul Alinsky

That's what a huge percentage of far left, highly educated liberals truly believe about the middle class! I don't think I have enough money to be considered middle class, so maybe I'm exempt. I should be a shoe-in for President Obama's camp. I feel sorry for the rest of you though. Senator Charles Schumer's comment about the chattering classes not worrying about the porky little amendments keeps coming back to me as I think about Alinsky and President Obama. They need us, but they hold us in contempt. So of course they're going to lie to us. Do you feel like getting angry yet? Do you want to take back your government yet?

The difference in our forefathers and in the fools that are abusing their constituents in exponentially more hostile manners is that President Obama and his friends feel that they know the proper way to run the country. They also feel that most of the populace are hapless bumpkins and that we need more of their genteel guidance and unending wisdom. They believe that the wealthy among us are always corrupt, and never so bright or hard-working as to deserve what they have; and they believe the poor have been kept that way at the hands of barbaric employers and mean-spirited bankers. They intend to redistribute the wealth until everybody's equal in their eyes. If they have to banish free enterprise to do it, so be it. In contrast, our forefathers believed in the common man, not the government. Remember our excerpt from the Declaration of Independence? Our government was established to give us a chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- nothing more. The rest is up to us. Basically, the government is supposed to just get the hell out of our way and let us use our God-given abilities to create a better life for us and our families. It worked pretty well, and for the most part our free-market economy has thrived. Now we've added on some things along the way like Social Security, unemployment and welfare. These changes are nothing compared to the ones on which we are embarking on now. Unless we stop it, welcome to the nanny state. In the nanny state, only our leaders will be rich and important. In the nanny state, we have no real voice. Ironically, the last person to have realized the American Dream may have been Obama; in the future which is rushing headlong at us now the only successful dreams will be nocturnal ones. If you make money, it will be taken away from you. If you don't make money, what you need will be given to you. (Sort of like prison.) It's not exactly a vision that is going to produce a GDP that will in any way reduce the nightmarish deficits we are now facing. There is going to be no incentive to succeed.

Are you angry yet? Hillary Clinton admires Alinsky; Obama liked his Alinsky lessons so much he taught them to others as well. This is how they think, and it's how they think of us. (This is why the Bill Ayers connection to Barrack Obama, and his listening to Reverend Wright scream "G*** D*** America" for 20 years, was important prior to the election. You really do learn about a person by their associations more than anything else.) If you don't see it yet -- if you still think Obama is really looking out for you and all the little people out there -- you might change your mind when Representative Waxman's cap and trade bill goes through. You see Obama told us how great it was going to be to get off of those nasty fossil fuels all through the campaign, and he said it was actually done create millions of new jobs and save us money! (He also said that 95% of taxpayers would see reduced taxes if he was elected president.) The truth is, he plans to move us away from fossil fuels by taxing the heck out of them, and that's where Representative Waxman enters stage left. The average family is going to have to pay roughly $3,100 more a year for their energy costs, and in some areas it will be much higher. I'll be glad to move away from fossil fuels, but I'm even happier when my elected officials don't lie to me. The little guy is going to be feeling a lot of pain. This thing is go make the Stamp Act of 1765 look like a church social. You know, the Stamp Act didn't work out too well for Britain. There's something about unscrupulous, unjust taxes that's rather, well, un-American. The sleight-of-hand game is getting really old. I've had enough. I'm going to keep writing letters and sending faxes, and I'll go to every Tea Party I can attend. If I can get the attention of the news media, I will. If I have to, I'll go farther. Mad as hell doesn't describe where I am today. I'd like you to join me; I'd like you to join the movement. Don't leave it to others; don't hope that things will just work out on their own. That's exactly what the liberal elite is counting on -- your indifference. Your country needs you. Take back your government.

Wes Johnson

AKA Nocturne  

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