PROPOSED MISSION STATEMENT, AMERICAN SPRING 2014 (MARCH ON WASHINGTON)

Jan 20, 2014 | By Laz A. Mataz and usconservative

[Lazamataz]

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan, 1961

As we, the American people, see our rights diminishing and our Constitution violated daily, we have become alarmed. We will fight to preserve our freedoms, as Ronald Reagan warned us to do – lest we lose the country we know and love.

Here are our demands:

1. OBAMACARE MUST BE OVERTURNED. This unworkable system will destroy medical freedom, and will affect every area of our lives. Medical information in the hands of the Federal or State government will be abused, used to deny us other rights, or used to control us. The costs of Obamacare are so onerous as to deprive us of our financial freedom at the most perilous point in our lives. Obamacare takes away our personal, private decisions, and puts that control in the hands of a government bureaucrat. The Obamacare bill was passed on many lies, and now those lies have been revealed.

2. THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY MUST STOP MASS-COLLECTION OF AMERICAN CITIZEN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. Not even George Orwell, who wrote the horrifying novel 1984, envisioned a world in which every communication was monitored and stored for later use. This information can be used to blackmail, to determine political leanings, and ultimately to imprison or otherwise deny guaranteed rights.

3. AMNESTY FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS MUST NOT BE GRANTED. When foreigners come into our country, illegally and with no respect for the rule of law, our laws are diminished. Our culture is diminished. Our individual votes are watered down. Voters become disenfranchised. There is already a viable system to become a legitimate US citizen. Our immigration system is not broken – it is not being given a chance to work. Most of our distant relatives did things by the law and correctly. These people can too. NO AMNESTY.

4. CALL OFF THE REGULATORY AGENCIES. Like petty little tyrants, hordes of bureaucrats are swarming across America, making it harder to keep a company in business. The economy is suffering under the incredible burden of over 13,000 new regulations since Obama took office. Jobs are not being created, jobs are being lost to other nations who have no such obstacles to succeeding. If we are ever to turn this economy around, we must control these regulating agencies (such as the Environmental Protection Agency) before they choke the very life out of the nation and the nation’s economic engine.

[Lazamataz]

Laz -- looks like an opportunity to help facilitate. We need to finish up the American Spring 2014 FB page and launch.

Agreed.

We also need to locate someone who knows how to setup the different 'coordinating sites' via FB. Do you know anyone?

I can learn. I have a knack for computers. :)

[Betty Jane]

We need to create teams in all states that are ready to go at the drop of a stupid judicial decision or a governor’s remark. We need outraged citizens to protest unfair news coverage. We need to get our outrage heard as loudly and swiftly as possible.

[Steve Newton]

By the way Laz, OAS has folks that live in DC. I trust them. They could be a very good source of intel and planning.

[Lazamataz]

OAS is their name? Good, we picked a slightly different one. “American Spring 2014”.

[RobFromGa]

I love this list, and I have put May 16 on my calendar...

[Steve Newton]

Yes Operation American Spring. Under Patriots for America

http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A true “Mission Statement” fits on a bumper sticker:

Nobody Can Afford

”Affordable” Health Care Insurance

[Jim Robinson]

Yes, we do. I’m afraid we’ve relied too much on our local tea parties these last few years and have let many of our chapters go dormant. We need to revive and reactivate our FReeper Chapters.

[Faith65]

bookmark

[Steve Newton]

Jim and Laz

I have a lot of details concerning OAS. Let me know if you need them. Probably should be close hold for now.

[BuckeyeTexan]

You, Jean, and I should make it a patriotic birthday bash: May 16, 14 and 12th, respectively. :)

[skinkinthegrass]

true..k.i.s.s. (keep it simple stupid) is appropriate.
maybe "keep it brief stupid" if more than 3 items.
either way, make understandable.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Well, since I’m a newb who wasn’t here back in the day, I’ll ask the dumb questions.

Are we going to organize FR participation by chapters?
Do we have designated facilitators for FR chapters?
How many FR chapters do we have?
How did you organize back in the early days? (e.g. Crawford, TX)

[Lazamataz]

maybe "keep it brief stupid" if more than 3 items. either way, make understandable.

Do you feel this succeeds?

[Lazamataz]

Email me what you do have and can share....I will send my email to you right now....via freepmail

[Steve Newton]

Will do

[Lazamataz]

All good questions. I won’t be able to answer many of them; my most major association with a FR event was technical (produced the 2000 FR Inaugural Presentation in old-school Flash 4.0). I suspect a lot of this, we work out. We also include Old Guard for their experience. If you want to be part of the steering committee right now, we meet tonight. Freepmail me if you are in.

[privatedrive]

Good job. I would add Term Limits to the list.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Dear NSA and DHS:

Since you’re listening anyway, you are hereby on notice. This will be a peaceful exercise of our 1st Amendment rights for a remedy. So back off before you force a 2nd Amendment remedy.

You should be ashamed of your actions to date, traitors.

[thackney]

Careful what you asked, you will get nominated.

And speaking of your nomination, I second the nomination.