University of Texas tribute to the Aggies killed in the bonfire collapse.
Posted on 04/22/2009 3:28:46 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
The men who donned Indian costumes and took part in the original Boston Tea party weren’t a bunch of un-serious boobs performing for the media. They were committing an act compelled by their real, honest-to-God human condition. Like the people of Europe and beyond, with independence burning in their souls, determined to escape the shackles of slavery and tyranny, daring to take on an unknown world for their driving instincts to practice the religion of their choice, freely speak their minds, keep and bear arms and pursue their own happiness, the original Tea Party participants needed to make it crystal clear that the British goons who followed them to the Brave New World would not be allowed to impose the limitations on our God-given rights that we came to America to get away from.
From British oppression -- taxation without representation -- those new Americans made their stand. Though they desperately tried to be nice about it in Boston, the oppressors didn’t take the hint.
Of course we all know that the next giant step back to slavery by the Brits was their violent attempt to cross Concord Bridge to take away Americans’ guns, forcing free men into unarmed helplessness. Knowing that to be an unacceptable, irresponsible condition, good citizens responded appropriately. Hence, the Shot Heard Round the World.
And what a lovely shot it was. The dominoes of tyranny began to fall, and we Americans seceded from the British Empire.
In 2009 those same basic primal instincts are alive and well in free men across America who will not let the fires of liberty die. With Fedzilla accelerating its gluttonous orgy of unaccountability and ramping up its wanton blow torching of our paychecks with blatant impunity, we the people are once again de-sheeping, stepping forward, and in the grand tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., peaceably marching in protest with the defiant Tea Party spirit of 1773. We are mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.
I arrived at the Alamo early on April 15, and already a glowing, handsome throng of four or five thousand Texans were gathered at the West wall of the Shrine of Texas. Smiling people of every description, ethnicity, color, creed, size, shape and spirit were assembled to make their voices heard. I needed to warm up my American guitar in order to unleash the properly orchestrated emotional soundtrack for such an event on such hallowed grounds, and the vision of Col. Travis drawing a line in the sand was powerfully present.
After a brief, uppity exchange with the crowd, I rendezvoused with a group of Federal, state and local law enforcement friends and some wounded heroes of the US Military Saluteheroes.org for a fine San Antonio Mexican lunch, where I loaded up on a gargantuan wave of inspiration from all these amazing warriors. After all, that they make such incredible sacrifices for our freedoms drives us to exercise them in respect to their service.
Back at Ground Zero, speakers were firing up the crowd with shared logic, self evident truth and “we the people” reminders that runaway government corruption can be reversed if we are truly serious about making it happen.
By now the crowd was approaching ten thousand plus, and the overall positive spirit intensified.
This activism was taking place all over America, in city after city, town after town, where good, decent hard working families unified with a message to demand accountability from our elected employees. Such extremism.
Fresh from declaring Tenth Amendment sovereignty for the Great Republic of Texas, the good Governor Rick Perry had just fired up 7000 exuberant Texans in Fort Worth with a battle cry of unambiguous resolve to put an end to Fedzilla intrusion in the land of Davy Crocket, Col. Travis, Jim Bowie and Sam Houston. There was something very special in the air, and those media talking heads who dare to claim otherwise, are committing journalistic suicide. So be it. Only the guilty need feel guilty, and I’m sure they do.
I spent the midday hours with Glenn Beck on his FOX News television show, toured the Alamo with my son, then gave my own heartfelt speech to the masses and unfurled a passion-fired rendition of the National Anthem that was touched by the hand of God. Know it.
Now it is my prayer that this exciting, renewed activism, our duty bound participation in this glorious experiment in self government, will throttle forward as more and more people in the asset column of America demand representation from our elected officials, demand our government live by the same rules we the people must live by, force accountability, end the bi-partisan corruption, and once again return to rewarding excellence and teaching that lack of effort and responsible choices have consequences that are none too pleasant.
It would be wise that the Obama administration look to Texas for the upgrade that America needs, instead of following the same suicidal path of Detroit. The choice is clear, and so is the future.
Okay, I guess we Texans won’t secede. We love our country too much to abandon it to the Obama crowd. But it is tempting. If we did secede, you can count on one thing: the border with Mexico would be secured pretty darned fast.
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Great post! I agree. Secession should be kept for a last resort. As long as there is any hope, we should keep trying to save the U.S. But, I think it is prudent to remember that it is always there as a last option if we are not able to turn this country around.
Education is the best key. Transplants need to see the Alamo, the battleground at San Jacinto, Goliad, and talk to long time Citizens of Texas. When they understand what this state has been through and what we will do to keep our freedom, then maybe they will understand. I have some good friends/neighbors who are transplants from Michigan. They have figured it out and won’t be going back. It’s not about macho crap, it’s more about being self reliant and not depending on ANY govt to help. It really makes me sick to see so many people dependant on the govt for their existance. Grow up and grow a set. Your grandparents were right. There is no free lunch.
Yes, ye shall succeed in many fine endeavors with the support of tens of millions of your fellow patriots behind you!
Gotta love the Nuge. Wango Tango.
Yes! But let me in first. ;-)
JoMa
It took me 40 but I do love the state.
Ping to you 2nd amendment mama! And a big Thank You to the Nuge!!!!
Yes....I’m ready!! Don’t you just love what our Gov said at the FW Tea Party?? Yeee Haaaa!!!!
We need to keep up the pressure. The Libs are LIVID...and some may even be afraid of We the People who believe in the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers...including the 9th and 10th Amendments!!! What a good warm feeling that gives me!
Keep Your Powder Dry Patriots!!!
Sorry but demographics aren’t your side in Texas, as it is now Texas will soon be permanent and reliably blue.
If you secede, any conservatives gains will soon be lost as you will end up being outvoted in 20-30 years later. In the end you will get even worse liberal policies that you left behind.
Yep, Texas would be my new home too if they secede.
It won’t happen, but I would love to see it happen.
An act like that would “send a message” so far beyond
anything that we’ve ever seen before-—yet we really are in a situation we’ve never seen before, with a blatant demagogue and his Administration committed to completing a massive power grab before anyone notices just how much irreversible damage they’ve done. I would LOVE to see Texas get to the point where secession becomes a real possibility. And when you think of it, it would perversely help fulfill the comparisons of Obama and Lincoln, though not in the way they could’ve anticipated.
I’m not sure about what point your map in #43 is supposed to make.
Texas ping!!!
I'm with you, Spikey. That was a very eloquent and well reasoned plea for sane analysis of this question.
Of course we should stand and fight for the survival of our whole country. I'm insulted by calls to abandon US territory to the liberal horde and their Socialist masters.
This is OUR country, because we're the people who love and support it with our tax dollars, hard work and creativity, and even our very lives.
Why should we surrender a single square inch of our sacred land to these worthless scum? Doing so would be an affront to the memory and sacrifice of every American patriot who ever laid down their life defending this great country.
I understand the passion of the moment, but when the air is still, and a man can quietly reflect on all that America means to him, the choice is clear. We must take our country back!
Interesting and exiting concept.
In a scenario in which the Republic of Texas declared war on the federal government of the United States, a lot of states would side with Texas against the feds.
There's no question that most of the Southwest, and ALL of the deep South would side with Texas, but I wonder what other states would join us?
The question of which states would go red and which would go blue is worthy of its own thread.
Wonderful idea. We ought to start banging the drum and make that an issue for the upcoming gubernatorial campaign.
First stop, get our state legislature to adopt and enact the same anti-illegal immigrant laws that Oklahoma put in place recently.
Their illegals looked like a wagon train leaving the state before the ink was even dry.
Ping
You’ll have to bring your own ammo. I’ve had trouble finding it in my part of Texas.
The teams would be:
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Austin
Lubbock
Waco
Beaumont
El Paso
Ft. Worth
# 10? (Abilene?)
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