Out of control taxation and legislators signing legislation without reading it brought on the TEA party movement. While both Left and Right were represented in that movement, it was mostly the Right. The media got on it and accentuated that which would most alienate the Left. FOX started covering mainly the interests of the Right. The other stations continued doing what they had been doing for some time, and that is simply not report the truth about any goverment abuses. Since we now had a Democratic Prez, that was perceived as being Left-Leaning.

So now the real powers behind the scenes, the big banks and big corporations who own the media, egged the whole thing on. Left and Right could no longer communicate because the only issues coming to anyone’s attention were being presented as Left
vs Right phenomena. If Democrats keep hearing about the radical Right with their racist and extreme Christian ideals, and the Republicans keep hearing about the “stupid” red-necks who want children to starve and the earth’s ecosystem to collapse, where does one begin to establish rapport?

Then came the 9/12 Movement. What was the purpose of the 9/12 Movement? Its purpose was to bring the country back to the place it was the day after the attacks of 9/11/2001. We were united as a Nation. We weren’t black or white or Christian or Pagan or rich or poor. We were Americans under attack. What did the 9/12 Movement accomplish? It fragmented us to the point of violence. Despite claiming to be non-partisan, it was obviously weighted heavily to the Right. The Left tried to rally on 9/13 to protest what the 9/12 ralliers were supposedly protesting on the 12th. Are you seeing that things got off track somewhere?

The Prez flies off over the 9/12 crowd in his helicopter and completely ignores it. Left and Right start fighting over how many people were actually there. The Tea Party message boards come alive with arguments about who started the movement and how dare such and such claim they did this when obviously so and so did it, ad nauseum. The media got hold of it all and perpetuated it. The rift grew even more.

The media did this. I know that the same people control FOX as control the other media outlets. So, why is FOX being allowed to release all this supposedly secret information while the other media are allowed to scoff at such “reporting”? Who benefits at the dissension this creates? What direction has the government taken since all this “patriotism” started showing up?

The Audit the Fed legislation got some attention, and the legislature proceeded to take it apart and make it impotent by permitting only certain areas of Fed activity to be audited. Naturally, these areas would not tell us anything about what they have been doing with our money all these years.

The Cap and Trade (tax) legislation was passed just before the August break, and the Health Insurance Reform legislation became the focus of attention. The Left was aligned against the Right in the name of health care being a “right” to which all citizens (and apparently non-citizens) are entitled.

The Immigration problem went crazy. We started hearing about how all these Latinos were invading our country, how our tax dollars were schooling their children, how they were taking our jobs, how our jails were filling with criminal illegals, how medical costs were rising because of emergency rooms being required to treat them despite not getting paid for that care, and how our government planned on creating the North American Union and legalizing all illegal aliens. Again, Right and Left went at it.

Somebody questions Obama’s legitimacy as President, and the whole “Birther” issue arises. Birthers are, of course, nuts; and those who believe the Birthers are nuts are plain stupid.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve wiggles out from oversight. The Cap and Trade legislation gets modified by the legislature so that it does not apply to the heaviest polluters, only makes life more expensive and difficult for the average American. The Health Care Bill gets pushed through at any cost, without addressing the issues that really make health care expensive and without heeding the warnings of countries who have already done this and gone broke. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue, while the US turns its attention to Iran, claiming they are producing nuclear weapons and must be stopped. The US
also supports the dictators Chavez and Zelaya over the constitution of Honduras. Obama is inexplicably awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while his popularity plummets. And in a matter of weeks, he is supposed to be signing a global treaty which creates a one-world communist government to redistribute, in an “equitable” manner, the wealth and industry and technology of the West to the developing nations of the world. The real unemployment rate is at 20%, higher than it was in the same phase of the Great Depression. What will it be when the rest of our industry gets shipped away?

We have a matter of weeks to get our acts together, to pull ourselves together, and to make sure that we do not cede our sovereignty to a global government. Either that, or we can continue to bicker over media induced ideological differences and awaken one day in December to find we are no longer a free, sovereign nation — not even in name.

Those are my thoughts at this time. There is much I omitted. It is just off the top of my head, but I have a feeling that this is a sentiment that needs to get out there.

Charlene

I find that the apologists who feel our nation is bad are simply ignorant of the facts. Perhaps they were taught revisionist history and socialist/statist dogma. I really don’t care where these wrong headed ideas have filtered down from, but we can and and must inform everyone within our reach. We must remind our fellow citizens of the ideas and actions that formed our nation. We must reassert the ideas and actions that made our nation into the place where people have struggled and continue to struggle to be in order to have the freedoms necessary to build the lives they dream of. It is imperative.

Is this not a contradiction? If you are not seeking profit, then why not register the organization with a 501 tax-exempt classification? What is the morivation for that decision?

Thank you Eric. I would very much like the opportunity to be a part of this important effort.

How about a view from a small town, making a difference!??

Brenda is about as small as you can get and we have some great people here that are trying to really make a difference locally and nationally…

Nancy