"Obama's nation has begun. Join the Resistance" (grassfire.org - who are these guys?)

grassfire.org, a 501(c)4, advertising on Drudge ^ | 11/12/2008 | grassfire.org

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The Patriotic, Resilient, Conservative Resistance

As the first President with African-American lineage, Barack Obama’s election is a historic landmark in a long journey of purging the terrible scourge of slavery and racism from our nation’s soul. President Obama’s election is also historic because of his ideology and agenda. Obama is arguably the most liberal person to come to the White House. Ideas have consequences and Obama’s ideas, we predict, will have historic and perhaps devastating consequences on our nation.

We Resist!
With Obama and the Democrats in Congress already embarking on the implementation of their agenda, Grassfire.org and hundreds of thousands of citizens across this nation unashamedly announce our Resistance.

Wealth redistribution and higher taxes? We Resist! Government takeover of more and more of our lives? We Resist! Open borders, amnesty and undermining of our uniquely American culture? We Resist! Taxpayer-funded abortions and a radical anti-life agenda? We Resist! The weakening of our military and retreat in the war on Terror? We Resist! Socialized health care? We Resist! The end of marriage and the exaltation of LGBT rights? We Resist! International taxation and submitting our nation to the ideals of “global citizenship”? We Resist! The Courts stacked with leftist judges who betray our Constitution? We Resist!

On behalf of the 57 million Americans who did not vote for President-Elect Obama and do not agree with this leftist ideology, we will resist his efforts to move our nation away from our heritage of individual liberties toward “brave new world” of collectivism.

How To Rightly Resist
Just as important as the fact that we will resist is how we will resist. That is why we are calling this a “Patriotic, Resilient, Conservative Resistance.”

First, we will maintain our patriotism. This is our nation. We love and cherish our country. Many of us bleed “red, white and blue.” We will not act like our opponents who heaped personal attack after personal attack on President George W. Bush and demonized the man. In fact, we will strive to show respect to President-Elect Obama and focus our criticisms and resistance on issues that impact our nation.

Similarly, we will not, like our opponents, reject Barack Obama’s Presidency and dismiss it as somehow unjust, immoral or illegitimate. It is disgraceful that many of our opponents would never accept Bush as a legitimate President. It is despicable that the person who lost the 2000 election could still be heard, in 2008, questioning the legitimacy of that election. Conservatives have too much respect for the Office of the Presidency. Conservatives are not rebellious – we understand authority. This will be a patriotic resistance – a struggle of ideas that will stay with our American “family”.

Second, we will be resilient. From Day One, we will be there, watching every move, monitoring every action. We will not be chided into silence by the personal attacks on conservatives, our leaders or our motives. We will stand for principle. And we will not back down.

Third, this will be a Conservative Resistance. Our resistance will not be partisan, it will be ideological. The real political struggle underway is one of a clash of worldviews—collective liberalism and freedom-based conservatism. We are not here to fight for the Republican Party to take over once again – certainly not the Republican Party that failed so miserably on so many fronts in recent years. We will resist on the basis of ideas alone, not political games. We have been stripped of our political authority which actually frees us to stand on principle first and foremost.

An Equipped Resistance
Grassfire.org has launched this “Join The Resistance” campaign to give grassroots conservatives a place to join together around the common goal of holding off as much of the Obama agenda as possible. Our goal is to bring together 1 million Resisters by Inauguration Day. That would give us one-tenth of the 10 million Obama loyalists who were recruited during the campaign, but we believe 1 million equipped Resisters can make a difference.

The key will be providing web-based structures that truly equip conservatives to Resist. We begin here – by building this email network to give us the ability to respond immediately to each and every effort by the Obama administration to undermine our liberties. We plan to add to this platform social networking that will connect Resisters to others in their communities. We are also exploring ways to put the tools of the Resistance into your hands through mobile phone-based apps that allow you to Resist on the go. We will use fax, email, phone, and personal visit campaigns to press our case with leaders in Washington, D.C., who need to know that millions oppose Obama’s rush to the Left. Many have asked us to provide branded resources such as hats and t-shirts to help spread the “Join the Resistance” movement. If you have suggestions on any of the above, please let us know.

Resist, Rebuild, Restore
Resisting is just the first step. That is why we propose a three-phased recovery for conservatives: Resist, Rebuild, and Restore. We believe that resisting will create newfound unity among conservatives. Out of this, we must then Rebuild our structures. New, invigorating models must be developed that inform, equip and bring together conservatives and prepare us to return our ideas to political prominence. The Internet will be a key battleground The Left has moved far ahead in its embrace of and usage of new 2.0 technologies. The Rebuild process will leave Americans with a clear ideological and practical choice between the Left’s statist model and our model based on God-given individual liberties.


Having rebuilt, we can then Restore conservative ideas to leadership by winning elections. Ultimately, a movement’s ideas must result in electoral victories because that is the basis for legitimate authority and ultimately for implementing one’s ideas. Grassfire.org will soon be announcing a breakthrough effort that will allow our members to get engaged directly in the election process. Stay tuned.

Resist. Rebuild. Restore. It’s not an easy path for grassroots conservatives, but it is a clear path. We know what we must do. And it begins with resisting rightly —respecting the new President but never backing away from the God-given ideals of freedom and liberty upon which this nation was founded.

Join the Resistance.

 

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Do you have a ping list?

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(note: you’ll have to highlight the post immediately above, to see the white print)

So, what do you know about grassfire.org?

Do they try to do actually influential things, or do they sit back with some sort of petition or whatever and collect money for...

...what?

They sure want to know a lot about us. What are they trying to do? Any discernible set of tactics that justify names, addresses, and money?

Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?

[unspun]

Do you have a ping list?

I have a few. Why do you ask, please?

[Eye of Unk]

I resist, but I’m off the grid, I might be on a library computer and sleeping under a freeway, I may be a cross country trucker at a rest stop on his laptop, I may be a teenager in a basement, I could be your next door neighbor.

I resist, I have no name, I have no family, and if I have no future then I had no life.

I resist.

Do you know who I am?

I am America.

And I am angry.

[Aliska]

I wouldn't sign that. Who knows what it is, it's ultimate purpose or who is really behind it?

Sarah Palin was all optimistic about an Obama presidency, thinks we should unite and work together, on the last interview I watched. It was Larry King.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131724/posts

[Kirkwood]

[Salamander]

My first thought, too.

“Sign up patriots! Then we’ll know *exactly* who and where you are!”

No...thanks.

[Snoopers-868th]

Not a chance would I sign that form. Family members names? No way—No how. Not just NO but HELL NO.

[aWolverine]

To be completely fair, grassfire.org has been involved in generating fax traffic to Congress over the illegal immigrant issue for at least the last 2 years (I’m on their list).

[roses of sharon]

It looks and reads like one of Hussein hordes could be baiting people.

[alaskamomma]

I was also a member dealing with immigration.

[HighlyOpinionated]

grassfire dot org is a good organization and has been around for a couple of years. I’m on their list. They keep me updated with daily emails about various situations, especially about Ramos and Compean, the two Border Agents who were prosecuted in Texas by Dubya’s appointee Johnny Sutton and were imprisoned for 12 and 13 years each. Sutton got the drug dealing illegal that they shot AT but probably didn’t hit, immunity for testifying against them. He came back across the border with his buttocks shot up and claimed it was from the Border Agents.

Grassfire is a GOOD organization to belong to, I’m a member, and I recommend it.

[EverOnward]

Patriot Resistance BUMP

[Kirkwood]

Anonymity is the first rule in resistance. No last names. No first names.

[unkus]

And what are your credit card and social security numbers?

NO WAY

[Kirkwood]

FReepers exposed a scumbag democrat lawyer from Texas here a couple weeks ago trying to round up names of FReepers for a resistance movement. Yes, they are trying to target all of us. Trust no one.

[Gator113]

“......while I will show respect to President-elect Obama,....”

No thanks.

[unspun]

Looks good, but a couple years?

My inner X-Files viewer wishes they had been around a little longer than a couple years, to ask for all this information and money to boot.

So, as you get emails from them, do you have any further information about what they have practically done as a grassroots (or more properly a top-down mail list management operation)?

How have they been directly influential for American principles and freedoms?

[mkleesma]

I too am angry...VERY angry.
I’m angry at paying 45% of my income in taxes.
I’m angry because I live with my family in a crummy 2 bedroom apartment, while idiots who got in way over their heads took out mortgages on houses they couldn’t afford, and will now be bailed out by the Federal government, and which I will eventually pay for.
I’m angry when I see the traitorous pinko-leftists dishonor our gallant troops, while these same troops are defending them from yet another 9/11.
I’m angry because rich and poor alike have their hands out, waiting for a government bailout, while I work two jobs just to make ends meet, and know that soon I will need to pay more to subsidize both.
I’m angry that the Republican party has left me, and has proven themselves to be just like the Democrats, power hungry, moral-less swine.
I’m angry at the whole world, wanting to help turn the USA into mindless socialist sycophants of the All Powerful Nanny State, as they are now.
And most of all, I’m angry at THE DEATH OF MY REPUBLIC, and what it stood for.

BUT...
The Leftists have won the day - for now.
And remembering the way they treated President Bush, well, I will not stoop to their level.
As much as I dislike it, Barack Obama will be the President, and as a patriotic American I will support him.
This does not mean I will like anything he does; but he is Commander-in-Chief, whether I like it or not.

However, I leave you with my favorite quote, from the Declaration of Independence:

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (being Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness), 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.”

Let’s all pray it does not come to this.