The New Tea Parties: An Overture to Reclaiming Our Lost Freedom
The following is an excerpt from the speech Edward Cline plans to give to the Tea Party Rally July 25th. in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Cline’s essays, book reviews , and other nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal,the New York Times , and other periodicals. He is a frequent contributor to Rule of Reason and The Dougout. I found it perhaps a was an answer to my question on what we the people can and should do when we find our government is careening out of control.
It is time for Americans to understand that it is not merely a political fight they have on their hands, but a moral one. They must reject the moral code that asks them to live for the sake of other men – what else could TARP, or the takeover of General Motors, or of the tobacco industry, or of the energy , of the insurance industry, or of the health care business mean, but for you to sacrifice your right to your life and your money and property for the sake of others – and proudly, loudly proclaim the selfish virtue of individual rights, which has been the source of all the wealth and prosperity that we enjoy but which Obama and Congress seek to destroy through socialist redistribution.Americans must understand that what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence applies no less today than it did in July of 1776. To paraphrase his eternal words: When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object – which is complete control of the economy and our lives – evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is our right to throw off such government – or to vote its agents out of office, or to raise such a protest that they dare not act lest they set in motion a similar train of events.To further paraphrase Jefferson’s words: A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the president of a free people. Our princely president has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unfit for the office.Let us not treat this day, or any future Tea Party or any other kind of protest, as just another tea party. Let us solemnly regard it as a chance and a first step to finish the American Revolution, to protest the omnivorous and indiscriminate appetite of federal power to consume everything in its path, to assert the right to our lives and property and futures, to work on a course of action that will ultimately correct the errors present in the Constitution and repeal its freedom-destroying amendments. Americans must act to finish the American Revolution – before Obama and Congress finish this country.Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Edward Cline is the author of a number of novels, and his essays, books reviews, and other nonfiction have appeared in a number of high-profile periodicals. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org.
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