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April 16, 2009
Reclaiming Our America through TEA’d Off Parties
[Editors: The text below is a speech given by FSM Contributing Editor Chris Adamo at his TEA Party in Cheyenne, Wyoming.]
Today in Cheyenne, and all across our great nation, real American patriots
from the grassroots have gathered together to express their outrage over the
abuses being committed by the federal government and within our public
institutions. The great freedoms and blessings we Americans have enjoyed are
no longer assured as an inheritance to our posterity. People from
“Mainstreet” who once felt confident in the future of the country are
sharing their grave concerns over its very survival.
Instinctively, we all understand the consequences of fiscal irresponsibility
among elected officials, as they increasingly ignore any constitutional
limits on their actions. This, combined with the cultural and social
collapse that has been unfolding for the past several decades, signify a
course on which America simply cannot continue. In countless areas of our
national life, the “unthinkable” is relentlessly visited upon us, as a new
“morality” is put into place by a counterculture that is intent on
dismantling the cornerstones of our heritage, all too often abetted and
funded by the extra-constitutional actions of politicians. If left
unchecked, they promise to erase every precept of the traditional morality
and goodness that stood as guardians of our nation’s former greatness.
As one ominous result, the concept of a citizen being the beneficiary of his
or her own work is being systematically eradicated. In its place, we are
forced to accept the notion that some “greater good,” according to those who
want to define “good” in “politically correct terms,” requires theft from
one citizen, in order to buy the loyalty of another. Government was supposed
to protect the private property of the citizen. Yet increasingly we are
affronted with atrocities such as the “Kelo” decision, in which the United
States Supreme Court affirmed the “right” of a municipality to maximize its
tax intake by selectively confiscating private property and reselling it to
the highest bidder.
Can you grasp that? The public entity that was initially established to
uphold the rights of the citizen now becomes the biggest threat he faces.
Law, which in a free society is intended to provide a safe framework within
which the people can live and grow, now has degenerated into a weapon by
which an unscrupulous “ruling class” bludgeons the commoner into compliance.
Therein lies the road to servitude.
Every day now, new and alarming episodes unfold. Last fall, the government
hurriedly decided to spend eight hundred billion dollars in a so-called
“emergency bailout” of the banks. Try to get your mind around that number.
That’s eight hundred thousand million dollars. Of that money, three hundred
and fifty billion is currently unaccounted for. Yet just let any one of you
short the IRS by $3.50 on your 1040 and see how quickly the government comes
after you, demanding answers and charging penalties for every day it takes
you to make good on the amount.
Of course, “We the People” are simply expected to accept this situation. We’
re supposed to accept the word of people such as Barney Frank and Chris
Dodd, with their known track records of corruption, who caused the financial
catastrophe in the first place. They tell us that the “bailout” money was
responsibly spent, and that they have nothing but the best of intentions. We
’re supposed to just ignore their treachery and believe their stories.
Meanwhile, the same government that cannot account for those billions has
been busily adding to the debt with yet another trillion dollars or so in a
bogus “stimulus” package that does nothing to stimulate our tanking economy,
but funnels vast sums of money to the left’s favorite causes. Sure members
of Congress were outraged and indignant over the $165 million in bonuses for
AIG executives. And the most sanctimonious among them clawed past eachother
to get in front of the cameras and tell us that they would be doing
everything possible, whether constitutionally authorized or not, to get that
money back to us.
Meanwhile, Obama’s “stimulus” bill channeled twenty four times that amount
to his minions at “ACORN,” the nationwide cabal of leftist “community
organizers” who have been defrauding the electoral system with their
dishonest and illegal activity, for the purpose of electing aspiring
liberals and socialists to public office. And that is only the “tip of the
iceberg” of misspent monies, ultimately coming from your pocket and your
paycheck, by which this government intends to empower its favorite causes,
none of which have anything to do with improving your lives or reinforcing
your freedoms but everything to do with advancing the armies of liberalism.
The same could be said of the menacing government takeover of General
Motors. Think about the implications of a CEO of a private company being
summarily fired by Barack Obama. People, this shouldn’t be happening in
America. Government control of “private” industry has been tried before, and
consistently, it has failed miserably.
Do we dare to imagine what kind of vehicle would result from the
dysfunctional mindset that prevails inside the Beltway? Are you excited at
the prospect of a car whose producers possess all of the concern for their
“customers” that you might encounter at an IRS audit? Do you want to enjoy a
vehicle with a fuel “efficiency” reflective of the welfare department, where
a mere 22% of the funds spent ever get to the recipient? Are you waiting in
breathless anticipation for the new federal issue Corvette, with a quarter
mile performance dictated by someone like Nancy Pelosi, and not out of
concern for that the driver may want, but in deference to the environmental
zealotry of the Sierra Club? Would you feel at all safe with door-locks and
anti-theft devices that function with all the effectiveness of America’s
border security?
Yet these are the arrogant bureaucrats who dare to tell an American auto
manufacturer, and eventually by default every business owner in the country,
how to conduct themselves in the modern marketplace. These are the class of
Washington insiders who intend to control and direct the economy of what has
been the most prosperous nation on earth, though they cannot properly
conduct their Constitutionally stated business without hemorrhaging the
nation’s wealth in pursuit of their self-serving extra-constitutional
endeavors.
It’s time “We the people” tell them “No More!” It’s time we begin calling
them to an accountability that is commensurate with their positions of
power, and hold those who abuse that power responsible.
I know all of you, like myself, have wanted to vent on these infuriating
issues for some time. I hope you’ve been able to do so. And I hope you are
enjoying this event as an unprecedented opportunity to do so. But my gravest
concern is that, having spoken your minds, you might leave here feeling you’
ve accomplished what needed to be done. If that is the result, we will be
doing worse than merely failing to address the problem. We will be the
problem. People, this gathering is not the culmination of our anger and
frustration over the current actions of our nation and its government. It is
merely a starting point. It is a “call to action” for those who do not
intend to sit idly by while their nation is torn from them.
I urge each and every one of you to get involved and remain involved, at the
local, state, and federal levels. If ACORN can fundamentally fracture and
remake our nation by way of its tactics of local agitation, intimidation,
and voter fraud, imagine what we can do to restore our great country by
loudly and unabashedly proclaiming the truth to our fellow citizens, to our
children, and most urgently, to those in office who need to know that we are
out here and we intend to hold them accountable.
No doubt the opposition will try, as it has so successfully done in the
past, to marginalize and humiliate us into submission or at least, into
silence. Sadly, in our attempts to be reasonable we conceded too much
philosophical ground to them over the years. We can see what that ever got
for us. It’s up to us whether or not we allow them to succeed this time.
Today we say “enough!” Today we determine to stand against any further
erosion of our great nation with every ounce of our beings. Today we begin
to retake America for those who live here, and who are yet to be born, that
they may have a great land in which to live life, enjoy liberty, and pursue
happiness.
I thank you. And may God truly bless each and every one of you as you
undertake this effort.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer living in southeastern Wyoming, where he has been active in local and state politics for many years.
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