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Now Is the Time for Americans To Be Relentless
Tom Mullen
Campaign
For Liberty
Friday, Nov 6th, 2009
Where the people fear the government you have
tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
-John Basil Barnhill (1914)
Americans should be experiencing "déjà
vu all over again" as Congress prepares for another weekend
incursion into their rights via another two-thousand page bill
that must be voted on before anyone has had a chance to read
it. This time, it is H.R. 3962 "To provide affordable,
quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth
in health care spending, and for other purposes." The next
law that should be passed is that legislators and bureaucrats
shall not be allowed to work on weekends.
That working Americans will rise early on Monday to begin another
week with less protections of their rights and more of their
property stolen is not all that should seem familiar. If anyone
can remember as far back as the Bush administration (this new
regime has been so bad that I am afraid people have forgotten
most of the outrages of the last), a very similar dynamic played
out. The very first bailout -- of the banking industry -- met
with resistance similar to that against the proposed government
takeover of the health care industry. The first attempt to pass
the TARP bill failed.
For those watching the statements made by their representatives
while opposing that bill, one thing should have been obvious.
Those representatives feared their constituents. It was in their
eyes and in their voices as they explained their opposition.
I do not mean that they feared violence. They feared for their
jobs and they feared whatever other consequences there might
have been if they deliberately defied the wishes of those thousands
of voters who had angrily called their offices. For a moment,
our government worked as it was designed to work. The people
spoke and their representatives heeded their wishes, however
reluctantly.
Then, the uproar died down. President Bush emerged from his
long, unnatural silence during the financial crisis and gave
a speech designed to put that fear back into the hearts of the
citizens, where our government prefers that it permanently reside.
If the banking bailout wasn't passed, Americans could lose their
homes, their jobs, or their retirement savings. Financial Armageddon
awaited if the bankers were not saved - for it is really the
bankers that provide those things to everyone. Henry Paulson
and Ben Bernanke joined the chorus to help paint the terrifying
picture of unspeakable horrors that awaited us if we did not
give almost $800 billion the Treasury Secretary to be redistributed
to his friends on Wall Street.
It is unclear if Americans really believed the government or
if they just ran out of energy to protest. Either way, the bill
passed the second time it came up for a vote. Those same representatives
who only days before were too afraid to pass it were now somehow
emboldened and it sailed through with barely a whimper from
the victims. What was different the second time around?
Hopefully, Americans took notice of the fact that their representatives
do not possess the courage to pass a bill that they actively
oppose, even if that opposition amounts to nothing more than
angry phone calls. It is difficult to ascertain what reassured
those congressmen enough to vote for the bill the second time.
Perhaps the calls to their offices changed after the government's
scare campaign intensified. Perhaps some of the people who had
called before the first vote called back and told those congressmen
that they had changed their minds.
However, there is another possibility that is infinitely more
disturbing. Perhaps by the time of the second vote, the pressure
had died down out of sheer inertia. After all, there is probably
some limit to just how long Americans can make calls, march
in protests, or write letters while trying to do their jobs,
raise their families, and live their lives. If I were trying
to develop a strategy to pass a bill that most Americans oppose,
I would consciously plan for exactly what happened during the
banking bailout bill in 2008. I would let them scream, let them
march, let them carry signs and write letters, and even let
the bill fail to pass. And once the citizenry was sufficiently
exhausted or had turned their attention to something else, I
would put it up for another vote.
Personally, I would be surprised if this were truly a conscious
strategy by most of our representatives, although I am sure
that the dynamic has not escaped the notice of the most devious
of the professional political crowd. However, whether intentional
or not, this is exactly what happened with the banking bailout
and it is exactly what is about to happen with so-called "health
care reform." All summer long, Americans called their representatives,
marched in the streets, and even showed up in the capitol city
itself in numbers far too large to support the claim that the
Tea Parties were some sort of Republican PR campaign. At one
point, the idea of a government-run public option was all but
pronounced dead on non-arrival by media outlets, whether conservative
or liberal in their bias. It has found new life.
The American Revolutionary War was by no means encouraging
for the Americans for the great majority of the time that it
was being fought. The Americans lost almost every battle, constantly
outclassed by the greatest military force in the history of
the world at that time. However, there was one advantage that
the Americans had over the British -- they were relentless.
No matter how many battles they lost (and they lost most of
them), the American army would not go away. After being repeatedly
schooled by superior British generals at New York, Brandywine,
and elsewhere, Washington showed up at Monmouth and fought the
British to a standstill. In the end, it was he and the Americans
that emerged as the victors.
This weekend, the British are back. However, this time they
are not wearing red coats but instead masquerading as representatives
of the people. They are bringing with them the same tyranny
that they did in the 18th century -- unjust taxes, illegitimate
government power, and violations of the rights of every individual
American. It is imperative that Americans once again refuse
to go away. Millions have sacrificed time, money that they could
ill afford to spend, and days, weeks, and months of their lives
to write, call, march, and shout with all of their might against
the destruction of our liberty that this government has accelerated
with increasing brazenness over the past few years (under presidents
from both major parties). It all goes for naught if our representatives
learn that they need only wait for us to exhaust our energy
before ignoring our wishes and trampling upon our rights as
they please.
There is a disturbing sound in the air -- silence. There is
a feeling that the outrage has subsided and that the coast is
clear for another weekend theft of our liberty and property.
Let us not let last summer's tremendous demonstration of the
American spirit go to waste. If you opposed this bill the first
time, if you traveled to Washington, spent money you didn't
have, took time away from your job or family to be sure that
your voice was heard, it will have all been for nothing if they
pass this bill this weekend.
Now is the time for Americans to be relentless. Call your representatives
and let them know that what happened in New Jersey and Virginia
a few days ago has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats
-- it is the fate of all incumbent politicians, from any party,
that abandon their duty to protect the rights of the people.
From now until Saturday evening, we must shout louder, march
longer, and get angrier than we have ever been before. Do not
underestimate the power that you wield and do not let this government
monster outlast you. As we said over two hundred years ago to
a government that had marched against our liberty, let us shout
to our representatives as loudly and for as long as it takes
-- this far shall you go and no farther.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
- Fall Of The Republic - Buy
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