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By request, here are my notes from today. Thanks to the
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I am not here today to talk about politics.
Let me tell you why.
For example, I’m not really interested in discussions about
this tax or that tax, because it amounts to debating whether
we should prefer a ball and chain around our ankles to a
yoke upon our necks.
In any case, as long as you are forced to pay tax to keep
your own homestead, you are a serf; the amount of such a
tax only defines the depth of your serfdom. Why do we not
hear impassioned calls for a “fair property tax” — which
would be none whatsoever?
The income tax forces you to share your profits with your
masters to further their own purposes. But even if you
object to the arrangement forced upon you, the property tax
says “you must work within whatever state profit-sharing
arrangement exists, or you will be homeless.”
Some people would like to tell you that one political party
or another, one political organization or another, or one
mass media demagogue or another is the answer. We have been
told this for as long as I can remember, for my entire life.
They tell you this because the last thing they want you to
realize is that the answer is actually within each one of
us. What we have been failing to do is to ask the right
questions.
I think I would receive much agreement here if I were to say
that stealing is wrong, regardless of whether or not it has
been legalized.
But is it wrong for the State, in the name of “law and
order”, to kill a man who resists stealing of his
possessions and furthermore refuses to be carted off to the
dungeon for mere defense of his property, with knowledge
that he would then both be in the dungeon and his property
would be taken to boot?
What about when the State lies about the value of a man’s
property, so that its self-interested taking of the property
can be spun as having come at less cost to the taxpayers?
Let’s go back a few generations with the “Ghost of Liberty
Past.” The economic historian Murray Rothbard wrote
extensively about colonial America, revealing scores of
events that have fallen down the public-school memory hole.
One such event is the Crown making a gift to William Penn of
what would later become Pennsylvania. The part of the story
that is not told is that it took Penn almost two decades to
successfully establish a government in Pennsylvania, because
the Quakers were not only not interested in political
government, but refused to consent to it, refused to
cooperate, and were otherwise incorrigible in their love for
liberty.
Another event that has been largely forgotten, when it has
not been misrepresented, is Shays’ Rebellion. The usual
story that is told is that farmers got themselves into debt,
declared war on the bankers, and were put down by state
troops with merely a dispassionate interest in “law and
order”. Well, the usual story omits a very important
detail: the “debt” that the farmers accrued was in the form
of unpaid taxes to the state of Massachusetts to cover debts
the state itself had run up. The mercantile interests
behind the state government, who would have profited from
the taxes, raised the army that put down the rebellion, and
thereby kept the poor in servitude to the state-connected
rich.
These stories hint at the reasons why Thomas Jefferson said
a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. He didn’t
mean post angry messages on Internet message boards. He
didn’t mean go door to door and try to convince people of
the correctness of your political views. Nor did he mean to
provoke violent confrontation, as anger and frustration
tends to lead to. He meant intelligent, calculated
resistance to political power, together with your families,
neighbors, and friends.
Do you really want independence on this Independence Day?
Resolve to do like the Quakers did. Buy some fertile land
somewhere you wish to live, and as time goes by, buy even
more land from the surrounding areas. Sell plots within
your land to family and friends who share your beliefs.
When someone comes in from some faraway government
pretending to have the authority to order you around,
politely tell them to leave and not to return.
They are likely to return anyway — given that government
will have no other gods before it — but by owning a large
area of land settled with people who refuse their demands,
their attempts at controlling you will be like trying to
ride a bicycle through a bog. Your little enclave will be
successful at practical resistance where the single family
hiding out in a remote Idaho homestead would not be. A
thousand such enclaves would send Washington D.C. into
bankruptcy proceedings.
If you can’t afford land, then find economic independence as
soon as you can. During the bailout votes, there was a lot
of talk about “Going Galt”, which is to essentially stop
working in order to stop paying taxes. But, if you are
broke, the power elite will have their way with you, because
he who has the money makes the rules. You will not be able
to buy the land, tools, and other capital you need in order
to live an independent life.
My suggestion instead is to work hard AND pay no taxes.
There is a bustling community on Craigslist of people
buying, selling, and trading everything under the sun, with
no government regulations or taxes involved. Spend your
time when you are away from your corporate job in the
official economy learning to do something that is valuable
in the underground, unofficial economy. And if you have not
yet redeemed your Federal Reserve notes for gold and silver
coin, for heaven’s sake, do so while you still can.
Maybe one day, we the people will have the power not only to
vote for a new crop of legislators, but to do as the kings
did when they would dissolve Parliament and send the whole
lot of scoundrels home for a year. Maybe we will one day
have the power to live our lives in our own style, following
our own moral code even when it is in opposition to the
moral code of government.
But until that day comes, declare independence in your head,
and get busy living the way you want to live. Nobody is
going to do it for you. Declare your independence!
–
Ryan C. Underwood
runderwo(at)mail.win.org
[Editor's note: We don't have video from this event yet, but will post when/if available]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280336/posts
The names of the 8 Republican traitors who voted for cap-’n'-tax
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Bono, Mack, Castle, Kirk, Lance, LoBiondo, McHugh, Reichert, and Smith (NJ).
Thanks, Smith5460, for the tip:
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Trust: A firm reliance on the integrity, ability or character of a person or thing; committed into the care of another
We’re busy; all of us have so many demands on our time. We go to work, raise families, and try to find time to have some fun with our families.
Most of us go to the polls on voting day to elect officials to represent us in the daily running of our government. We believed what the candidates told us about their beliefs, values and how they would do the job if we elected them.
But for the most part they lied to us. They are not standing firm for the constitution and they are not working to protect the rights of the individual; the very people that elected them. They have abused the trust we bestowed upon them. We committed into their care the care of our country. And they have and are continuing to abuse that trust.
What this means is you now have another job to do, everyday. You must watch every move they make, every word they say and communicate with them several times a week. You must hold their feet to the fire.
This time when Election Day rolls around I hope none of us are complacent. I sincerely hope we get the change this country needs. It’s time they pay for their abuse of trust. Replace them. Vote them out.
A Special Thank you to Sam Adams Alliance and everyone of our Grizzly Groundswell members! Without you this would not be possible and I hope you take this image and place it on your blog knowing that you were as big a part of this honor given to us all as I am.
This next year at the Golden Sammies I hope I am sitting in the crowd cheering you on as you attain our goals and work hard to gain the recognition that Sam Adams Alliance gives out to those of you who work hard day in and day out getting this conservative message out there!
Know that I, like yourself will be nominating our good friends and members who put in that extra effort each and every day. I was blessed with this award, yet none of my nominations made the cut last year. This year I hope we can Grizzly Groundswell the Sam Adams Golden Sammie Awards and have a great Grizzly Groundswell showing!
Get busy making those viral videos, working hard on the wiki’s and continue to strive to make Grizzly Groundswell the place for conservative thought, voice and image across this nation.
I want to thank each and every member, reader, listener and prayer warrior for making our effort shine and be blessed with this great recognition. God Bless you all! We can’t do it alone but together in this Grizzly Groundswell we can lift up the best among us and bring home more Golden Sammies next year and take back our very own backyards at the same time!
In case you missed it, here is the video of the great Michelle Malkin presenting us with the Golden Sammie and my speech where I stated that our membership inspires me every day!
Enjoy!
Chad Everson
Are you Grizzly?
Theodore Media LLC is getting Grizzly in some exciting ways!
What I am looking to do, and have done it for the most part is unite
the conservative thought, voice and image across this great nation. I
am not as concerned with your content because that is your thought,
voice and image, I want to lift that up, even if we disagree. Actually
if we disagree that is just better radio!
My emphasis is to
totally defeat and keep future generations boot on the neck of
socialist squirrels. I focus on getting grizzly in your backyard and
realize who the hell cares what the Federal Goverment is doing if we do
not rule our own backyards.
My goal is to monetize this effort and afford one or more 24/7 online radio stations. Our goal is to start adding commercials not only for each others efforts but paying ads that will fill our coffers and maybe put some food on our tables. I am running this through Theodore Media LLC. I am hoping to finally get a cash flow so that we can reinvest in the vehicles we already provide for great conservatives and lift them up.
In doing this, we need everything from a sales force, to producers and audio genius to make the commercials fun and effective. We may go with a low pricepoint and sell :15 second spots so the work goes up, but the numbers game helps us offer a great product at a lower price point.
It is getting Grizzly and growing like crazy!
Essentially I need for you and our other authors, radio show hosts to take advantage of this platform I am providing for conservative thought, voice and image.
This is what I have built so far, think of it as a three legged stool:
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My hope is that you utilize all three legs of this online presence. This efforts are automatically fed to Twitter, and other social media to over 72,000 first order followers on Twitter and growing, more on Facebook, and other social networks that are too numerous to list here.
Ken says our voice is the weapon, he is right but you amplify that voice in the Grizzly Groundswell and it is essentiall a weapon of mass instruction and inspiration!
Get Grizzly!
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Factoid #1: You are organizing local events and working very hard, but want a consolidated site for listing events and ways to be connected to others doing the similar things. Some groups are trying to take credit for what you are doing, have their own, agendas, are attempting to raise money from these efforts, and building databases of contact information.
Solution #1: A site that is run by the grassroots for the grassroots that doesn’t try to solicit for or capture the general publics’ contact information, doesn’t appeal for fund donations for no clearly stated purpose, and whose agenda is transparent.
We decided, with all of that in mind, to create Tea Party Grassroots. Because we started from scratch, we decided to strive for a listing venue that would be useful to activists for many kinds of events and activities. So in addition to a section for All Events, we have added the following categories:
• Tea Party
• Other Rallies & Protests
• Conferences & Conventions
• Media Events
• Volunteer Activities
• Liberty Rider Itinerary
Next we will be exploring creating listings by states. As time allows, we are featuring individual events as a top post on the site. Featured events are automatically propagated through a number of channels including automatic feeds on Twitter and Facebook.
We have employed a number of tools on the site that offer extendable functionality; Google Calendar and Maps. Full calendars (by category or All Events) can be copied over to people’s personal calendars using the iCal (.ics) technology and map links are embedded. When events are listed, we copy the information over to the map and use a specific pin for each category. The map is located here. Like the Calendar, the map can be copied over to a visitors’ own Google map.
In addition to the features noted above, we have a growing group on Facebook, which will be updated regularly and “bigger” events listed. For example, for July 4, a “national” Independence Tea Party Event has been created. We will list links to individual location events for that date from the primary listing site (to prevent exclusion of multiple events on same date from occurring).
In addition to the event listings, we are providing some helpful information and resources to site visitors such as signs and slogan ideas, suggestions for getting involved, and founding documents.
Factoid #2: People are looking for ways to connect with others of like mind and work on projects together.
Solution #2: Those of us who have been putting these events on and bringing people together in our local areas to have an impact on swiftly moving events have many good ideas which we can share with one another. We all need input from others, and we all need support from those who have “been there” in dealing with the many issues that arise. We need to be able to communicate with one another, so we have also created a site for organizers and activists: Tea Party Grassroots Organizers
This is the place where the listing form for submitting events is located, along with a form to offer to volunteer to help us with this project, and a form to submit a blog post. We are adding resources on a daily basis to assist organizers and activists in their efforts.
We created a blog site, Tea Blogs: Tea Party Tales, specifically for organizers to share their stories and thoughts about the movement. A blog post submission form is available on the Organizers site.
In addition to the site and blog, we created a Twitter ID and Hashtag for Tea Party Organizers, TPOrg #tporg. This is one id that has posts from the Tea Party Grassroots and Organizers sites automatically fed. We encourage organizers to use the hashtag in communications with one another, and many have already begun to do so.
If used widely, this tag could enable very fast communications among a large number of people. Not only could we all retweet events and other important information for one another, but, we could also provide quick support when help is needed.
Finally, there is further work to be done in providing the kind of communicative ability for organizers and activists we are striving for. We do have a forum, which is currently turned to private. We are currently looking at options, however, to be installed on the Organizers site, to keep communications all in one place. If you would like to help with this part of the project, let us know.
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Now you might ask who is the ‘we’ in this piece. Most of the site development was done by Shelli Dawdy, Joan Fabiano, and Sandra Crosnoe. In a broader sense, many of the Constitutional Liberty Coalition had input and provided testing and insight all along the way. Thanks to each and everyone who helped and continues to provide guidance and share with grassroots folks everywhere.
Occasionally something is so clear to me that I assume others understand. Then I find out that is not true. So to that end this seems very necessary to go over and may be old information to some. Did you know that there are those among us who are actually empowering those who would destroy us with time, talent, and treasure? Yes folks, we are complaining about the enemy and the enemy is in our midst. If we refuse to recognize the problem, how will we deal with the problem?
Is it easy? NO!
“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8
It means we must insist on a standard that other groups do not have. It means that we must challenge those among us not doing things properly. It means that we must examine our own hearts and repent daily and ask forgiveness of God and our brothers and sisters when we err. It means that we stand ready to rescue the one sheep who is being abused by the tyrant even when it means that others will look down on us for doing so. It means answering to the Lord God Almighty above men and the desires of men (and women too – this writer uses masculine for mankind with no qualms to PC!)
The purpose of this piece is to announce a new site that is born out of a need to protect the Grassroots. It will succeed only if grassroots people choose to engage and support and promote. It was worth doing whether that occurs or not because you will have been given a choice. You will know which choice you made and why.
TeapartyGrassroots.com is now online. At this incredible site you can find an event or list an event. The event will be published to a composite page and a master teaparty google calendar. We have also opened a page and a calendar for LibertyRider – Michael Maresco and his cross country ride with day one now complete and Michael safely in Trenton NJ. This website and calendar process has huge implications for our movement and the protection thereof if you will make it yours. If you continue to empower the national groups sapping your strength – that will be your choice because at least now you have an option. [Editor's note: more sections to this project are opening daily including now: all events, teaparties, other rallies and protests, liberty rider days, conventions and conferences, media events, and volunteer opportunities.]
Please try it out and take your name off of the national sites who are taking credit for your efforts and trying to collect money from your grassroots constituents to do things that you may or may not agree with at all! I was recently at a meeting where a field director from a national group took personal credit for all the teaparties in Oklahoma. I personally knew that wasn’t true so do you think I believed the other things he claimed credit for? I am not saying these national groups are all bad – just must be reined in and monitored closely by real people who actually want bailouts stopped, the constitution followed, etc. etc.
I pray you will ponder these matters and understand the importance of proper action. Please properly empower the real servant leaders among you and rein in those who are plundering your efforts and sapping your energy to other ends. Please let us know how you plan to help by commenting on this piece here and sharing it with your networks if you are in agreement.
For Life and Liberty,
Sandra Crosnoe for
Constitutional Liberty Coalition
