0% Party 100% Patriot

I was raised in a Democrat family. I had Democrat parents, Democrat aunts and uncles, Democrat grandparents. Growing up I couldn’t tell you why we were Democrats anymore than I could explain why we were Catholic. We just were. I remember in Government class, while a senior in high school, taking a “political assessment test” to gauge where my political allegiances fell. I remember being greatly disappointed to find that my political convictions proved right of center, not Democrat! PFFT, Whatever! I was a Democrat darn it! That was 1990. And then came Clinton in 1992... yep, I’m a Republican… it’s now 1996.

Republican, Democrat, there used to be a difference. There used to be a clear “party line”. Whether I understood them growing up or not, I definitely did as an adult in the ‘90s. In the last decades, however, the “parties” are one in the same, and they seek one thing only, control.

Studying our Founding Fathers in recent years I have found that my growing disdain for “parties” was shared by many of them. They were aware of the dangers of factions, as they described them, and their desires for power at the cost of the citizen’s liberties.

James Madison in the Federalists papers number ten wrote, “ Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens,… that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” He continued with, “When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interests both the public good and the rights of other citizens.”.

Washington also gave warnings in regards to parties and understood them to be a “cause which may disturb our Union”. He states so poignantly, “They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”. He has much more to say in warning of parties in his farewell address, and I implore you to read it here.

Reading the quotes from Washington and Madison it’s hard to determine if they are speaking of their time or ours. They were very wise in their warnings. Unity in the Republic, the preservation of the Constitution, the protection of liberties of the citizens, these were their highest concerns and their cause for many of their sacrifices.

They were 0% Party and 100% Patriots. Their loyalties were to their country and their countrymen.

After many years of disappointment, discouragement and disillusionment from Party Establishment and loyalist, I have separated myself from any party affiliation. I search now for the Patriot. Due to the fact that our nation is currently divided into “parties”, I am forced to sift through the sludge  to find the Constitutionalists wearing a party cloak, but there are some out there. Finding the true patriots and making sure we remove the ones seeking their own power and interests is the most affective means of moving towards restoring our Republic.

Breaking party loyalty may be found difficult for some, but one must remember it is the Constitution that makes us unique as a nation, and our Constitution knows no party. It is 0% Party and 100% Patriot.

Stand Across America is an event created to unite Patriots coast to coast to take a Stand for our Constitution. It is an event created to be a profound impact on DC, accessible to all Americans to make their voice heard, and to be stepping stone in the restoration of our nation. Commit to stand on April 26, 2014 @ noon for our Constitution!

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WHY...

From "Sing A Little Louder" by Penny Lea:  "A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from the distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track.  We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carry-ing Jews.  They were like cattle in those cars!

"Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing!  We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns.  By the time the train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices.  If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep.  I can still hear them crying out for help.  G-d forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene."

The first question in anyone's mind once hit with the knowledge of the Holocaust is, "How could that happen and no one stop it?". How does something so evil, so diabolical have the ability to come to fruition? The warning signs were there both politically and socially, and their leaders made their intentions known. For years the signals were there, and yet it was able to occur in fullness of horror. How?? As quoted by Edmund Burke, "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." And so it was then... towns and churches filled with "good men" singing louder and doing NOTHING!

I am not a political expert, historian, or activist, but over the last decade I have taken to paying attention to the operations and schemes of those sent to represent us in DC. I have been disappointed, to say it in the kindest of terms, repeatedly by those that "represent" me time and time again. What disturbs me the most is their arrogance that "they" know best and our Constitution seems to be an unimportant historical document that should not constrain their efforts in governing us (mind you We are to govern THEM). 

The signs of our liberties being not only infringed upon, but stripped from us are overwhelming. Our freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, privacy, arms, sovereignty,  are being attacked and suppressed by numerous means of regulations, executive orders, treaties (eg; NAU, Convention for Rights of the Child, Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, UN Arms Treaty...)  and "Acts" (eg: Patriot Act, ACA, NDAA, Dream Act..). We are at a crucial point in our nation where America is in jeopardy of no longer being the "Land of the Free". 

I have been asked many times why we started Stand Across America for WE THE PEOPLE to make a strong stand for our Constitution. My answer is this: I can not look my children in the eye each day, knowing what I see take place in our nation each day, and not do this. I see America DYING, and I can not bare the thought of my kids reaching adulthood and not having Liberty. If I do nothing I have to answer for that when Liberty is lost. Short answer, I love my kids too much not to!"

Germans from the Nazi era have a history to answer for that I have No desire in sharing the experience of. I will Not just SING LOUDER!

Commit to Stand for our Constitution on 4-26-14 @ noon with fellow patriots across the nation on bi-coastal interstates, and lets Make DC Listen!

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Divided We Fall


"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority...the Constitution was made to guard against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Noah Webster

This truth is so timely in regards to the state of our nation. We have been swindled by the "good intentions" sold to us by all political parties, and by all politicians. Our emotions have been toyed with, molded into indigence of truth, purposefully used as a means to polarize us and disconnect us from what unites us. It is time for a We The People intervention to break this addiction to emotionally motivated party loyalties, to repent from ignoring the truth and return to the measuring standard of the Constitution.

 

Our Constitution is unique to all others because it is the ultimate governing authority over the people, and by being so, that frees the people from being "governed" by one person or legislative branch. It frees a people from any form of "master". If we forsake this truth, only then will we cease to be a free people, but rather a governed and mastered people.

 

As Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and loose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." This truth begs the question "How will we destroy ourselves?". The simple answer is, "Divided we fall". When we as a people become so gullible, so disconnected with truth and exceedingly self absorbed, then division is inevitable. We begin to fulfill the Alinsky goal of polarization, leading to the ability of power hungry politicians, who mean to fundamentally transform our nation, to steal our freedoms from under us in the guise of "for the common good".

 

 The only way to restore our nation and overcome polarity is to Unite! We must recognize that the common bond we have is our Constitution, and we must be determined as a united people to defend it. We must rebuke politicians who are not aligned with maintaining and defending Constitutional liberties or adhering to its legislative constraints, regardless of their party affiliation. We must demand that they fulfill the oath they took upon  their inauguration to "Uphold and defend the Constitution", and abruptly admonish them appropriately when they fail to honor their oath. Honor must be demanded and restored to The People's offices. We must govern THEM well.

 

As JFK said wisely, "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." Our constitution is our guide to the "right" answer, always.

 

Freedom is not maintained by a blind and arrogant people loyal only to party, it is however maintained by the vigilant ones who are wise to the ways of the deceitful and determined, by all means necessary, to defend those freedoms.

 

Stand Across America is a moment for Patriots to express their commitment to support our Constitution, and to unite We The People for the purpose of restoring our Rebuplic's founding values.    

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 LIBERTY LOST : LIBERTY 1 (PART II)


Our Founders, being oppressed by tyranny for generations, understood one amazing reality that we take utterly for granted today; they understood the unalienable rights of the individual. Unalienable because they derived not by any institution of government or man. They are natural, because from birth we have the capacity to think, we have opinions about all things, and we desire to express those opinions. This is what creates our individualism. We naturally have thought processes and a desire, because we are relational, to share them. Due to the fact that our founders witnessed and experienced the suppressing of these natural rights by tyranny, the first amendment was written into the Bill of Rights. It is not a “positive” document in the sense that it states what you can do. It does not state “All citizens can speak and express opinions”, rather it is negative, it states the restriction of the governments involvement. It is natural for man to think of ones existence (who am I? where did I come from?), therefore, it states, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.  This produces a Liberty of religion. I am a horse person, and when I work with my horse “at liberty” I work the horse without constraints. The same is true here. It is stated that the Congress may not “constrain” We The People in regards to religion. It is also natural for one to express their opinions with others in verbal conversation and in print to the masses, therefore, it is written that “Congress shall make no law prohibiting or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press”. This produces a liberty in individual expression. It is recognized also as natural that a social people desire to group in like mindedness for any cause or entertainment, therefore, it is written that “Congress shall make no law respecting, prohibiting or abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble”. This produces the liberty to congregate in any and all forms. Lastly, it is also natural that a people when wronged desire to express that wrong and take measures for those wrongs be righted, therefore, it is written that “Congress shall make no law respecting, prohibiting or abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. This produces the liberty to create, distribute, promote and return to our representatives our grievances of  articles we find unjust. This is all in the First Amendment. This Amendment is crucial to the sustainability of our Republic. Without the declaration of these natural laws, and the prohibition of  interference thereof, we are helpless at the defense of all other articles of the Bill of Rights. Like dominoes they will fall.

It is the silent usurpation of these natural rights that is most dangerous and present threatening. The sliest of forms is the attack on the individual ideal. This has been going on for decades, in our schools and by entertainment. Our children have been conditioned over these many years to conform, be politically correct, to not pursue excellence, to be like everyone else and to not stand up to wrongs or differences but to rather not get involved. They are conditioned to believe nature is greater than the existence of humanity, that their existence is happenstance, and that early life has no value to society. This conditioning begets a type of involuntary obedience that then places the individual seeking “positive rights” and surrendering, possibly unknowingly, their natural rights to the “Leaders in Government”; being convinced by this point that the Government will act in the best interest of the “community”. Remember, rights are derived naturally, and under the conviction that these natural rights manifest as our individualism, (something our Founders desperately wanted to be revered and protected) it would seem the back door manner to convince a free people to voluntarily surrender their rights is to first remove their ideal of individualism. A people conditioned to no longer think for themselves, act for themselves or speak for themselves, is no threat to rising tyranny but a welcoming friend.

  Franklin once said, ”They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty or safety.” His statement is ever so true now as is was then. We must deliberately think through the issues that plague us in society today and compare them to our Constitution. We must carefully examine our opinions to the plumb line our Founders fought to free us to. Be wise and aware of the threats to our liberties even if it may sound pleasant at the surface, and be cautious to not fall into the traps of political figure's crafty speech and empty promises.

In response to understanding our First Amendment liberties and the conviction followed to protect them, I invite you to unite with Stand Across America on April, 26,2014 and commit to STAND for our Constitution!

 LIBERTY LOST: LIBERTY 1

James Madison said, “I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”  Over 200 years ago, when our great Republic was yet a toddler in the age of older nations, our Founding Fathers recognized and battled the same examples of attacks on the rights of We The People as today. The silent encroachments of our liberties via environmental “regulations”, UN treaties that relinquish our Republic’s sovereignty, city ordinances that dictate what size drink we may purchase, restrictions of speech, controlled press, and mandates that prevent our choice of healthcare must cease in order for the Constitution to continue to be relevant.  These  encroachments have been taking place by various administrations for decades. So much so, that we have become a people accustomed to them to the point that we have forgotten that it is We the People and not We the Governed. Our Constitution separates us from all other nations in the world in the fact that it bestows us the ability to govern ourselves and the power to govern the Government. Our rights are not given to us as “positive liberties”, (ie: you may do this, you may do that) but they are recognized as inalienable, deriving from no institutional source. Our Constitution states that our elected officials may not impede on our rights in any form, they are the restricted we are the Free. Being that we are the only nation with such power, the answer to “why” needs to be remembered and acted upon in order for its preservation.

I grew up hating history. I personally have failed every class from grade school forward. My disdain for politics was no less, and only by the grace of God himself were my eyes opened and a profound love for them birthed.

 It all started with the off purchase of a book “The Story of Liberty” by Charles C. Coffin, written in 1879. This book took me through the amazing journey of liberty beginning in the 16th century and end with the Pilgrims first few years of survival in the New World. In story form Mr. Coffin acquainted me with the men and woman who desired simple freedoms and the sacrifices made in search of practicing them, most of them with their lives. By the end of the book I had fallen in awe of these many brave souls, became eternally grateful for their sacrifices, and was renewed with an intense sense of reverence and gratitude for the freedom gifted to me by their blood, selflessly. My outlook on history was forever changed, and my desire to preserve our liberty,  whatever the cost, began.

See, now I understand the “why” of our liberties stated plainly in our Constitution. I understand the first amendment in a new light. When our founders wrote: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”, they did so with good reason. Our Constitution is not a “copy” of any other nations,  its inception was a miracle to say the least, and its contents were of nothing ever before penned. That being true, logic leads to the conclusion there is a history of grief and trials that lead to its necessity of creation.

Thinking back to the era our founders lived, realizing they were ruled by England’s tyrannical crown, forced to practice faith under the Church of England, hiding behind pseudonyms to publish critical thoughts of the King, put to death for treason for publicly/privately speaking ill of the crown and/or its members, unable to assemble for independent Bible study, unable to publicly protest, and tried for treason if petitions of grievances made, it becomes plainly evident why the first amendment was penned. Daily we exercise this particular freedom in all its forms without a breath of thought why. We haven’t lived  under the full arm of tyranny to appreciate what our forefathers desperately wanted release from. They became traitors so we could be made free of the grievances that had plagued and persecuted our natural rights for millenia.

It is detrimental to our freedom’s preservation that we seek to know and understand our liberties. As Reagan once said: “Freedom is only one generation away from extinction”.

We must be diligently vigilant in preserving our freedoms and guarding against any and all encroachments thereof. We must always make known to our elected representatives that we are watching, we are active and we will Stand for our Constitution at all costs in order for liberty to not be LOST.

On April 26, 2014 is your opportunity to unite and make your voice heard across the nation. Join those of us who are committed to Stand at standacrossamerica.com and follow the movement on facebook.com/standacrossamerica and twitter @standacrossusa

CONFESS CONVICTED COMMIT

I confess that I am a Spoiled American. I am a forth generation immigrant (I think). I am a Texan. I have known nothing other than the liberty and material comforts of this great nation, as also my parents and grand parents..and now my children.  I grew up in a politically complaisant atmosphere, and I confess I too was a complaisant ignorant citizen who cared not to be involved in the processes of my Nation.  I confess that I have committed the same sin as my past generation of not passing along the gratitude and reverence of our Republic's founding principles, and have hence perpetuated the demise of our liberties.

I am deeply convicted of these offenses I have partaken in against the security of our Republic's future. I am convicted that my silence has helped produce an opportunity for politicians to govern me, and relinquished my Constitutional authority to govern them. I am also deeply convicted that if my silence maintains its past course, my children and grandchildren will not know America as she was intended to be known.

I then commit to be SILENT NO MORE! I commit to stand for the Republic I love. I commit to stand for the Constitution in its purity, because I know that liberty is "only one generation away from extinction". I commit to be heard. I commit to serve my Republic.

I commit to Stand!