Fishy Behavior

“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.”

The First Amendment. Freedom of speech. To me, this may be one of the single most important principles that our country is founded upon. Study the American Revolution and one will find that the desire to express ideas, speak freely, and be heard ultimately led to the freedoms we enjoy today. Our Founding Fathers were not radicals. Most of these men had no desire to fight the king or separate from Great Britain. Research the life of John Adams and one will find this to be true. They simply didn’t want decisions, which impacted their lives, to be made without representation. It was only after King George III and Great Britain treated the Colonies as if they were too stupid to take care of themselves that tempers began to flare. I promise you that freedom of speech was a core belief of the Founding Fathers when they established this great nation.

I know that it is a tired discussion. Freedom of speech has been analyzed up and down, time after time. Yet, I truly believe that this freedom is being threatened in today’s America. A lot of American’s have been speaking out lately. These same individuals are being criticized mightily for it. The White House has asked citizens to report on any “fishy information” from those speaking out against the health care bill. These vocal individuals are being represented by the media as right-wing, racist, nut jobs who are only seeking to hurt the President. Media bias is nothing new, but a coalition of community organizers is. President Obama, in his campaign, promised that community organizing groups such as ACORN and SEIU would have a place at the table with him in the White House. Why should this concern us? Because both groups fall under the Apollo Alliance (AA). The AA’s goal is to create a massive organized mobilization to reorganize society. By reorganizing they mean social justice, or taking from someone and giving to someone else. AA would create a super power group that bring together the elements of the social justice movement with labor unions and the green movement. By doing so, AA can access the power and money that comes from these groups and force their will upon America. It is this massive group that threatens our freedom of speech. If the public speaks out, as they have done with Obama-care, this group will attempt to use their power to speak louder and fight harder. Their goal is to shut you up so that their agenda can proceed unimpeded.

The following video shows SEIU at work outside the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in St. Louis Missouri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTXBOgPCh9w

While I firmly believe that the community organizing groups present the largest threat, I believe the media plays a crucial role as well. Bill Maher called us stupid. Others have called us thugs and even racists. Katy Abrams was someone like you or I. From “Main Street” as Obama might say. She is a mother who is worried about how certain Obama policies might hurt her husband’s business. She went to a town hall meeting and asked Senator Arlen Specter what he was going to do to restore this country back to the way our Founding Fathers intended it to be. She became somewhat of a hero for those of us speaking out against the change taking place in this country. She was asked to appear on MSNBC’s Hardball with Lawrence O’Donnell, and was humiliated by the man. She received phone calls, emails, and death threats just for standing up and speaking out. You can see the clip by clicking on the following link:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29355/

At times I feel this is a battle we cannot win. When people such as Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist with clear ties to the Apollo Alliance, have a seat at the table with President Obama, I’m not sure we can be victorious. Yet, I refuse to let evil win. I refuse to see our most basic freedom, the freedom of speech, taken away. These groups like AA will attempt to harass and intimidate. They will poke, and poke, and poke to try and get a reaction. What these groups lack is real emotion. They are all about the show. Glenn Beck said the following:

And what you have to understand is this is a sign of their weakness. When they can't argue the truth, when they can't defend it and they need to bully and intimidate, when they need to take the, quite honestly Ahmadinejad type tactics and bully people and pillory them without talking about the facts. This is what Stalin did, this is what Ahmadinejad does. They all do it. If they can't defend it.

We cannot stop speaking out. The day we stop, we will never be able to regain this freedom.