How can Bob say that when the elections aren’t until next Tuesday? We won because we have changed the political dialog; we stood together as a movement and did not waver from our course and we were joined by like-minded groups: The 9-12 Project, Campaign for Liberty, and other Patriotic groups. We won because every poll shows 70% of the American people consider themselves Tea Party members or share the Tea Party movement’s core values: Fiscal responsibility, Small government, and return to our founding documents!
I like what Glenn Beck said about us that the “Lamestream Media” hates:
- We’re not racists.
- We’re not violent.
- We’re just not silent – Anymore!
At the meeting we decided our best information sources for issues; among these sources were the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, and the National Rifle Association. We left the NRA on the list but Clint Didier added Gun Owners of America because that’s where his Second Amendment contributions go now! It made me proud to hear somebody else look to GOA since this last legislative session!
Why not the NRA? Clint said it was because the NRA had endorsed Harry Reid but I do not contribute to the ILA (the legislative branch of NRA) because it is the perfect example of what is wrong in our nation today, besides the horrendous overspending! Remember the “Disclose Act” (H.R. 5157), passed by the House in the closing days of this last session? This bill would limit freedom of speech of Americans with regard to political campaigns. The bill would expand reporting requirements regarding disclosure of advertisements by forcing an organization to identify itself up to three times in each disclaimer and also to list the organization's five largest donors, even if those donors did not fund that particular advertisement. The House passed H.R. 5175 by a recorded vote of 219 ayes to 206 nos, Roll No. 391. This bill was targeted at the Tea Party movement, new PAC’s, and other small Constitutional groups; luckily, the bill was voted down in the Senate and I am certain, would have been unconstitutional when it finally got to the Supreme Court but that would have been 5 years down the road, after we’d been effectively shut down!
In the bill the Democrats placed an exemption for the NRA/ILA so the NRA wouldn’t come out against it and the NRA signed-off on that exemption! Their excuse to me when I called them on this treasonous act was to use the patent excuse that “We are a one-issue group and that is the Second Amendment advocacy!” I tried, as many other members did, to get them to stand with us and they said, “NO!” The NRA did as they always told their members not to do! ‘First they came for the handgun but I didn’t own a handgun, so I said nothing; then they came after the ‘assault rifle’ but I didn’t own one so I said nothing; then they came after the hunting rifle, but I didn’t own one so I said nothing; and then they came for the shotgun that I own and I was the only one left to speak for me!’
The NRA did exactly what they advocate against when it comes to the Second Amendment; they abandoned every other Liberty group for their own free speech protection! They ignored the warnings; they abandoned their principles; and they violated the truism: “UNITED WE STAND – DIVIDED WE FALL!” The NRA ‘divided’ from the Liberty movements and does not deserve our support and they have never apologized to any of us! Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt’s organization, will represent the Second Amendment very well and so will the Seattle-based Second Amendment Foundation!
But we, the People, have won a major victory and it is just the start! November 3rd, is the day the real work begins – That’s what this meeting was about! Besides holding the elected representatives “feet to the fire” by explaining what we expect from them, we have to research issues, gather the best data available, and promote viable solutions to the problems facing Washington state and the nation. We are also looking to start other Tea Party groups throughout the state and nation doing the same thing but different issues!
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