Martin Luther King Jr said--"Our lives begin to end the day we stop speaking out."
John Adams said--"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
What keeps people from speaking out? Fear, intimidation, uncertainty, lack of character, inability to discern right from wrong, true from false?
I've gotta tell ya, I'm so proud and enthused by the TEA Party movement nation-wide some days I could just bust. As vice-chairman of the TEA Party of Gilmer County, Ga, I see a lot of folks doing what they never thought they would do, or imagined they would ever HAVE to do. Many, if not most of them have already spent their lives working, building families, futures, and look forward to a dreamed-of retirement. Many are veterans.
And what still brings tears to my eyes is to look every one of these great Americans straight in the eye at our meetings, in our correspondences, and KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, that WE HAVE EACH OTHERS BACK. We have a common course we've embarked upon, a cause with roots as deep as any man's soul, and the same cause that animated our Founding Fathers those many years ago.
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson slightly--"Indeed I tremble for my nation, when I know that God is just, and his justice will not sleep forever."
America is awakening from a lethargy that was brought on by the very things we were warned about in the writings of our Founding Fathers...that good men will not always be in government, beware the follies of faction and party, and due diligence is required of all men at all times, because liberty is the gift of God, not government, and we are but one generation away from tyranny at any given moment in time.
Renewing the vigor of education to all regarding our liberties, as the Founders knew them, is key to our success as we go forward. The student of the Federalist Papers, the anti-Federalist Papers, and the letters of Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Jay, etc. will discover the lengths and depths of history our Founders went to as they sought to craft a system of government that was by the people and for the people, not government. They examined the Republics of ages gone by, the differing circumstances of various ancient nations, and how they might apply to a Republic of much larger extent, and how best to modify a system of government that was small enough that it would not encroach upon individual liberty, but would be strong enough to provide the basic essence of all good government---that of national defence and basic structural essentials. Period.
Glad to be here. Can't wait to get to know y'all better. Let's get busy and get this usurper and his henchmen the HELL OUT OF OUR HOUSE!!!------Jim Seigfreid
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