The Patriot's Flag

Today I am flying the flag of the United States of America. I fly this PATRIOT flag when I post something extremely important to Liberty and Freedom for our great country. I hope every Tea Party Group and every person finds this post and this video. Everyone must see it. It is a gentle, but stern call to arms.

The Declaration of Independence “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”

There has been a socialist revolution in our country since November of 2009. It came in the form of an undocumented leader, for whom we cannot account, and with soaring slogan of “Hope and Change” that lured the unquestioning masses to give power to an unknown entity. That entity, now exposed, was nothing more than a socialist who immediately used his new power to change the form of government under which we are living.  This is unacceptable.

The revolution of 2010 is beginning. There is a second, “not so quiet” but orderly revolution coming in November of 2010 when we will take back our beloved country and begin returning it to the ideals of the founding fathers. Since it is the Right of the People to “alter or abolish” a government that becomes destructive and institute a new government more likely to effect our Safety and Happiness … we WILL exercise that right in the November  election of 2010.  And for any American who loves our country, failure to take back our country is not an option.

We the People …

Dear President Obama,

“We The People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us. “We The People” have assembled across America resiting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us. Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more. for if, as President Wilson said, a Leader’s ear must ring with the voices of the people, the time has come.

Our greatest treasure is freedom – the absence of restraints on our ability to thank and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual. A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the hear of our actions.

When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living …to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here thus so nobly advanced.” That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.

Freedom is the capacity for self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition, and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract. You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept. You have expanded government, violated our constitution, confounded laws, seized private industry, destroyed jobs, perverted our economy, curtailed free speech, corrupted our currency, weakened our national security and endangered our sovereignty.

By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft, you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.

This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance. No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement, dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through ever war our soldiers have held this nation’s destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it. Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.

We accept the challenge, Mr. President. That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril. Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated.

By our honor, Mr. President, We vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. “We the People” will defend our liberty, we will protect our beloved country and America’s exceptionalism will prevail.

God Bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

We the People.

Credit: Nos Populus Productions
Email : Nospopulus@hotmail.com

Everything that could be said, has already been said … ABOVE the bottom line.

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Today the South Carolina Flag flies proudly off my front porch. Politics are relatively quiet, after all, it’s a Saturday and the fish are starting to bite!  So, while browsing the Internet, I finally bumped into a video by a fellow named Dylan Ratigan. And what I found is worth documenting for the history of The Patriot’s Flag.

YouTube High Honors! This video earned 13 YouTube Honors from around the globe, including the #1 Most Viewed News/Politics video of the day. And it even became the 26th most popular clip on YouTube!  When you see activity like this on YouTube, it captivates your interest to find out what it is all about.

I had not heard of Dylan Ratigan, he’s a host on MSNBC.  And unfortunately for him, the first time I “hear” of him, he goes viral on the Tea Party Movement … which sort of ends his career with me.  After watching this video clip, I’m totally amazed this person still has a job.  I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anything quite as unbelievable.  Unbelievable because his view of the “Tea Party” is not at all what is happening.  Take a look for yourself at his “view”  … its astonishing.

Is it just “theatrics” for ratings, or was this fellow serious?  Unfortunately I have it on good authority that he was quite serious, and thus believes what he was saying. But he must have gone to a different Tea Party than I did.

Last Night I Went to a Tea Party Meeting

As usual it was an exciting meeting. In three meetings we’ve gone from 55 people to 75 people to 150 last night. Our little room couldn’t hold all the people so 20 of them had to stand in the hallway to listen to the meeting.  We knew from our first meeting we had a “chair” problem, so people brought their own lawn chairs for the 2nd and 3rd meetings.

Our Tea Party group runs perfectly … it is a productive form of organized chaos … no real leadership, just everyone pitching in with ideas and thoughts.  We put the Core Values up on the white screen to stay generally focused then begin our discussions.  I was asked to show the folks the new web page I’d built for them inside The Patriot’s Flag (you can see it too, click on the South Carolina flag to the upper right of this post).  It was supposed to be a little 10 minute talk, but it almost didn’t happen. It seems I came with a little prepared speech, but everybody else also came with their own!  Everyone seemed to have something to say. Watching this happen was thoroughly enjoyable on my part.  It looked for a time like I might not even get to speak.  But as I watched and waited my turn, I began to wonder about what I was experiencing.

150 people, some standing in the hallway in a (too warm) crowded room?  And they certainly didn’t show up to hear me talk about a web page, and there was no “keynote” speaker of great renown.  There were no give-a-ways, in fact we asked for donations. So why did all these people show up on a Friday night?  Why is it that all of us could barely get a word in edgewise? The answer in the end was rather simple.  These people, very simply, wanted to be heard and wanted to “do something” to try to change what they are seeing happen to their country.  We didn’t need a “speaker” last night. We didn’t need a “program” or a give-a-way. What we offered (by accident, I think) was the opportunity to “speak out” and “be heard.”

How many meetings have you gone to where a person asks for volunteers and 4 people’s hands go up?  That, in itself, is a rarity … not in our Tea Party meeting however, that’s was the norm.   It is obvious people are “angry” and they are done sitting in front of their TV watching the world pass in front of them.  They have gotten out of those comfortable chairs and have gone to the Tea Party to say … “OK Folks, THAT’S ENOUGH!”  and “What are we going to do about it?” It is also obvious that most of the people in that room last night were far from “professional demonstrators” … many were “first time” activists. What I saw last night (again) was nothing but pure energy, perhaps born of anger, maybe fear, maybe a realization that our country truly is slipping from our common grasp, taken from us by the radicals from the 60′s that have somehow gained control of our lives.  Whatever the driver, the result was concern and a wish to “do something about it.”  That’s what I saw at MY Tea Party Meeting last night.

ENERGY This is why the politicians, at the same time both fear us and need us.  In that crowded room last night was the ENERGY the politicians need to move forward with whatever agenda they may have. The Tea Party meeting is a source of ENERGY that can be given or withheld and will only be given with forethought and care.  It is ENERGY that doesn’t belong to anyone or any party, it is ENERGY that only belonged to the people in that room last night … and most of them didn’t know each other!  It is an ENERGY that is building  noticeably in our little group … (55 to 75 to 150 people … growing with each meeting).  And there is nothing driving this growth except a fragile email list and word of mouth. Yet it builds.

And that seems the model for this populist movement. That what the Tea Party Movement is all about and that’s why the progressives like Ratigan cannot fathom the depth of commitment involved.  A few folks get together because they are concerned, others show up, all want to be heard, all are concerned something is terribly wrong.  I saw it at 912 in Washington, DC  (documented here) … two of us walking up to the train station … that became 30 of us at the ticket counter … 300 of us on the platform … 3000 of us climbing up the stairs to exit on Pennsylvania Avenue to join with 1,750,000 of us!  And that is what is happening across this nation.  And our little … growing! … group merges with the two groups near to us on April 15th, then further merge in DC on Sept 11 and 12. No wonder the progressives are losing their sanity as Mr. Ratigan obviously has. This phenomenon coming at them is beyond any proportion I’ve ever seen.  I’m just thankful that I’m a part of it that is “going after them”  and that it is not “coming after me!”

So people like this fellow, Dylan Ratigan, come along and try to explain it away by concocting ideas that were not remotely in on our minds last night.  In fact, we listed our concerns and they were these: (1) FairTax or A Fair Tax, (2) Tort Reform, (3) Term Limits, (4) Fixing Education (thank you Glenn Beck!), (5) Illegal Immigration, (6) States Rights, (7) Too Much Government, (8) Speak English!    Now there’s a real threatening list of concerns … and they don’t exactly match up with what Mr. Ratigan said do they?  Why do they fear the Tea Party Movement so much they must blatantly lie about it?  Could it be our little list of concerns last night could be seen as a “radical threat” to the progressives and raving madmen like Mr. Ratigan? Has common sense become that strange to the “MAINstream Media?”  I guess so.

Mr. Ratigan’s Tea Party is not My Tea Party!

If anybody ever tells you they “heard it on MSNBC” … it is time to break out in laughter. And if you haven’t been to your local Tea Party meeting yet, you don’t know what you are missing.  Go!  Be with folks who think like you do … you are far from alone in these thoughts.  There are millions like you.  Turn off the TV… go meet them! It is the best sanity check there is! And a wonderful way to spend a Friday evening.

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S.C. Flag - Relatively Calm

Today I am flying the South Carolina State flag. A Patriot Flag I fly when politics are relatively quiet. John McCain handily lost his bid to be President of the United States … and maybe, in the long run, that was a good thing.

Politically Quiet

There is an excellent column you should read in the Washington Examiner. Diana West has expressed my personal point-of-view nearly perfectly.  You should read it HERE to see how closely this matches with your philosophy. Her post is titled, “I voted for John McCain but I’m glad he lost.”  Now there’s a mouthful from a conservative … but upon reflection, I believe she is absolutely correct:

Diana West. (Excerpt): That’s because only out of ashes may the phoenix be reborn. The liberal-lite frustrations of a McCain administration would have smoldered on the Right but lit few fires, dampening the possibility of real post-Bush regeneration.

From Bush’s compassionate conservatism” (read: liberalism) to McCain’s compassionate bipartisanship (read: more liberalism), the nation would have continued to drift in the wrong direction. The “good” thing about the economy-crashing, military-breaking, ideologically mind-blowing Obama administration is that it puts us on a collision course that just might force Americans to bail and start over better. Metaphorically speaking.

This is probably the best article on this subject I have seen. All Conservatives are distressed that Obama won the election, but if you step back and look at a longer time line (instead of seeing the summer’s rise in temperature and believing in global warming) … it was the best thing that could happen. Don’t look at “these four years” … look in terms of 8 or 12 years.  We would have gotten Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” (slippery step to the left) on steroids. Had McCain won, Cap and Trade would have been a law by now, Copenhagen may have turned out differently.

For a real conservative,  McCain is WORSE than the radical Democrats. How can I say that? Simple, McCain was another “baby step” to the left. You say, he’s better than Obama. No, to Conservatism, he was more dangerous, because he would have made all his moves “in the spirit of Conservatism” . John McCain would have been an ongoing attack on Conservatism.  We don’t need any more “just a little more left baby steps.” The federal government slowly drifts, one baby step at a time, toward the left. Almost not noticeable … until you step back and look at a longer time line … look at the past 30 years … on the longer time line, you see it clearly.  I’ve written about that HERE: Take back the baby steps! So now we have OBAMA. [screaming heard in the background!]. However with the election of Obama and with his radical progressivism, Communist-leaning Czars and all,  in full view, we have something else:

WE HAVE A LIBERTY BELL RINGING LOUDLY WAKING UP THE POPULATION.

The alarm has been sounded … under McCain, the alarm would have been silent. Now REAL battle lines are being drawn, Americans …in droves … are buying up Constitution study books and going to classes, forming and joining Tea Party groups. Democrats are literally on the “run.” Virginia, New Jersey and even Massachusetts were CONSERVATIVE victories. It is becoming obvious that we are going to PUSH THEM BACK HARD in this next election and in the process maybe many “on-the-fence Independents” who voted for HOPE AND CHANGE and a bunch of numb Republicans that stayed home will at last hear the alarm and  STAND UP FOR SOMETHING AND DO SOMETHING RIGHT for a change.

It is unfortunate we needed to get Obama to wake up, the damage he has done may not be recoverable.  But America was sleeping soundly and allowing a Left-Biased news media lull them into making a huge mistake.  American people tend to sleep as the attack is coming (as with Pearl Harbor, where lives were lost because we slept) … but eventually, they wake up … and Americans tend to wake very angry when they realized they’ve been deceived! The “disaster of Obama” is  the wake-up call for Conservatism. On the longer time line, he was exactly what this country needed. The “baby steps to the left had to stop!” As Diana West said:

….only out of ashes may the [conservative] phoenix be reborn

So I’m glad McCain lost. And hopefully he will lose his bid to become Senator of Arizona again.

• About Sarah: It is too bad Sarah Palin has to support him … and rightfully she does. She will get a shot at the Presidency because of John McCain, the press would have had a field day with Palin throwing McCain under the bus … they could have attacked her trustworthiness and she would have looked a lot like a Democrat … doing what she needed to do to get elected instead of doing the correct and moral thing.  Should McCain lose the primary, watch how quickly she throws her support to the remaining “conservative” candidate.

A Republican Lesson Learned? John McCain is the poster boy for what is wrong with the Republican Party, and why they so disastrously lost their power over the past few years.  The “base” of the Republican Party is conservative … and when the party drifts left, the conservatives get off the train.  The “moderates” (lefties) in the party got their way and got McCain for a candidate … and “moderation” LOST the election.  If the Republicans want to be back in power, they are going to have to swing to the right and accidentally swerve into the power of their base.

If McCain loses the primary, it would be another excellent indicator to the Republican Party.  We don’t want your “moderation” it is “progressivism in a Republican cloak.”  And if the Republican Clubs in South Carolina don’t line up an attack the “progressivism” of Lindsey Graham, then the Obama Dictatorship will be strengthened.  Its time to get angry and take the Republican Party back from the moderates who have given us Obama.

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