A 2009 Fourth Of July Tea Party Speech

And so it is time - long past time - to stand up and call things by their proper names. If you believe as I do, if you want America to remain a free society governed by the rule of law and not by the whims of men, then you must stand up and make your voices heard.

Ideas matter. Ideas have consequences. Our American Republic was founded on an idea – the idea of individual liberty and the personal responsibility that is part and parcel of it. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The sanctity of contracts and private property. We Americans were the first in all the history of the world to claim freedom as our inalienable right, granted to us by our Creator. But it didn’t take long for the assault on these ideas to begin.

Paul Johnson, a contemporary British historian, identified three main sources of the anti-American, anti-freedom ideas that are now written into our institutional DNA:

Karl Marx, father of modern communism, writing in the mid 1800s, described a world in which the central dynamic was purely economic. For Marx – and all those who followed him - human beings were merely bricks and mortar out of which a new utopia would be built. Human lives were – and still are - disposable. Conscience and the rule of law were obstacles to be overcome.

To Freud, the father of modern psychiatry and notorious cocaine addict, we were little more than primitives ruled by sexual impulses.

Both were atheists and both assumed that religion, the impulse that moved men and nations, was a fantasy and always had been.

Friedrich Nietzsche was also an atheist. But he saw God not as an invention, but as a casualty. He wrote in 1886: "The greatest event in recent times - that 'God is Dead,' that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows upon Europe." The tragic history of the Twentieth Century with its wars, its horrors and atrocities beyond imagination is indisputable evidence of that shadow’s evil consequences.

Among the European nations, the decline and collapse of religion as a guide to conscience and morality would leave a huge vacuum. What would fill that vacuum?

Nietzsche understood that the most likely candidate would be what he called the 'Will to Power,' which offered a better and more persuasive explanation of human behavior than either Marx or Freud.

In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology. A culture of life would be supplanted by a culture of death.

But above all, Nietzsche believed that the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by religious sanctions and without moral restraint of any kind, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.

Let's say that again: the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by religious sanctions and without moral restraint of any kind, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.

That's who we're dealing with now. The Constitution and the rule of law are just so much toilet paper to those who would rule us now. Our values – honor, duty, love of family, love of country - are punch lines to sneering jokes told by ‘progressive’ late night TV show hosts to applauding audiences.

heirs and disciples. These are the murderous great-great-great-great-grandchildren of the French Revolution, cold-eyed with contempt for you and yours; spiral-eyed crazy with hate for what you believe in and possessed of that utterly unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.

Just as Hitler was completely candid in "Mein Kampf" about what he intended to do with Germany, the Jews and the world, so the Left has been completely up front about where they intend to take America, how they've planned to do it and what they're going to do once they get there.

So, when it comes to the Constitution and rule of law, it’s only a game - they’ll not only sweep the pieces off the board, they’ll upend the table and put a bullet in you while they’re at it. As far as the Progressive Left is concerned, rules are for losers and history, god-awful bloody history is my witness.

The reality is that we’ll never see another truly free, open and honest election in this country until after the next American Civil War – the Left, ACORN, massive vote fraud and gutless Republicans have seen to that.

You must understand that the people who've now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of the ruins.

Take a good long look at what’s happening now. Then turn around and take another look. You’re not going to talk or vote your way out of the tyranny that’s coming. And that’s precisely the point of tyranny, isn’t it? None of us have a Get Out of History Free card, either. None.

One of the great lessons from the history of the twentieth century that so many of us have failed to learn is that your circumstances can and will change overnight. But that’s nothing new.

Sophocles wrote well over 23 centuries ago :
The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered;
And let none say, "It cannot happen here."

Well, it CAN happen here. It IS happening here. There are those who are actually cheering for it to happen here. And then there those of us who see exactly what's going on and are prepared for that distant thunder we can hear rolling through far-off hills.

Change. Change is coming, oh yes indeed - but it's not what any of that Marxist meat puppet's worshipers bargained for. Ayn Rand had it right all these many years ago when she said that there is no personal neutrality today. There is hope for the American Republic yet. But you must stand up and make yourself heard, as this may be your last chance to do so for a long, long time - if ever again.

Time to start getting together with like-minded people. Time to organize your list of Things To Do, Places To Go and People To Meet. Because when your favorite websites suddenly go dark, when your cell phones and other communications nets no longer work, when the roadblocks go up, when you hear the knock on your door - then it’ll be far, far too late.

It will be too late unless you're willing, like Atlas, to shrug - and then defend yourself, your family and your country through every art, by every means and with all the skill you possess.

Unless you're willing to take action, you aren't going to get your country back, much less preserve your own freedom and dignity.

· Participate in the nearest Appleseed Project shoot and join a community of like minded people turning ammunition into skill.

Join up with Glenn Beck's 912 Project - a latter-day network of the original Committees of Correspondence - to meet more like-minded folks.

· Connect with people in your own neighborhood to build your own 'Alarm and Muster' network.

Ayn Rand once said, "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom." And for those who think that freedom is passé or over-rated; just wait until you see what your new masters replace it with.

We ignore the lessons of history at our peril. 2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was "to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

So, when we face the dark dawning of our own modern day of which Livy spoke so long ago, there is a history lesson that you all can and must teach.

It’s the lesson that courageous American men and women taught the British 234 years ago at Lexington Green and beyond.

The lesson is that the pursuit of tyranny comes with a terrible and deadly cost. For we are what tyrants fear most - informed, armed and unafraid citizens.

But if you choose to do nothing and surrender to the evil that has overtaken us, not only is your cause lost, but so is everyone else’s. Your surrender will only strengthen those who would perpetrate their evil on others. And that's the greatest crime of all.

Wonder how many lists I’ll be on after I do this...

My guess is we're ALL on their lists, and have been for some time. Janet Napolitano let slip the secret a few months ago whom they consider the real threats to America and it ain't Al Qaeda.

Reflect who is now in charge of the NSA. Penetrating whatever internet anonymity we think we might have is child's play to them. With monitoring and pictures being taken at various rallies, they continue to flesh out the enemy.

With this excellent speech, you may be getting near the TOP of their list. However, take comfort in reflection of who were on the Crown's List in 1776 and how well that turned out for them!

All great and true stuff. However, all your rhetoric will not matter one iota in grand sceme of political power. Why? Because the system is broken beyond repair. The end of our great experiment in a Republic has been corrupted, twisted, and has lost the original "intent" for decades.

Choose your Executive power grabs from FDR or LBJ or Carter or GHWB or GWB and go back further for those who have legislative power and continue to promote and pass un-Constitutional legislation.

Now we have a blatant Marxist as CIC who has the support of other Marxists, or a least progressives, like Reid, Pelosi and the Socialist caucuses. The Republic is dying.

You and I know very well that that much of the American populace is leaning towards wanting stuff. The question is what are we Constitutional patriots going to to about it?
I believe NO ONE will do one damn thing, other than parade signs on street corners (did that).

SOLUTION: IT IS TIME FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE! It is time for us to remember Jeffersonian quotations.

Because few of us want violence, think major "wedgies" as the Congress-critters are leaving the Capitol building. What? A misdeamor for pulling their underwear up to their necks? What the hell is the Park Police, DC Police, and other LE going to do, if enough fed up citizens yank their pants up and over their heads? How many can they arrest? How will the Congress critters deal with such? It will SCARE the hell out of them!!!

It's time to make a major statement. I'm there if there is anyone else for such a benign effort. However, I also believe the majority of American citizens don't have the balls. So, in the end, the Republic is done. End rant.

Well, the best I can hope for is to wake up a few more people. A lot of people a re confused about what’s happening around them and to them. It just doesn’t make sense, does it?

Ayn Rand has said that there are no contradictions. If things don’t add up, then check your premises. The purpose of this speech is as follows:

Connect the dots and it does make a perfectly clear and terrible sort of sense. If our alleged leadership is promising utopia on the one hand and they’re swinging the wrecking ball with the other, well... maybe it DOES mean that they’re hell-bent on destruction. With all that implies.

If I can sharpen the focus on the here and now and provide a sense of how we got there, that’s a good start. It’s a five-minute history lesson.

There’s enough red meat in this piece to get people thinking.

Then the thing to do is to offer some courses of action. There’s nothing I’d like more than to see most of those who would rule us in Washington DC with their heads on pikes or strung up from gallows lining the Capitol Mall. Now THAT’d be a good start.

Best thing to do now is to suggest that folks empower themselves by joining and participating in things like the Appleseed Project (hey, CdA - Sept 12-13 at the Fernan Rod and Gun Club) and Glen nBeck’s 912 project. There’s stil ltime to organize. I think.

What we know is ... there are things being changed that we do not know about.

We are “in” rather deep and Obama has just begun: and has demonstrated no compunctions about it. He wants so called elevation of the poor at the expense of and the cost paid by the average people. How was it he stated it?

... ‘We all have to learn to do with less and tighten our belts.’

Bad news that.

He is not kidding.

I agree this is IMPRORTANT..

Too many are believing him from the campaign.

Thanks for the ping to this article. It is a good one.

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