Posted
with the permission of Gary Aldrich.
Patrick
Henry and George Mason knew what they were doing when they insisted that the Constitution
must have citizens’ rights spelled out in black and white. They refused to ratify
the Constitution without a Bill of Rights. For their stand, the other founders,
who believed citizens should have only the barest participation in political affairs,
vilified them. But Henry, Mason, and others knew the time would come when Big
Government and all who enjoy the crumbs of power and money would try to shush
those citizens who want to express opinions about the political process.
That
would include the right to reveal important truths regarding those candidates
desiring to lead us, and at a time and a place of the citizens’ choosing.
George
W. Bush has said that the Swift Boat Veterans, brought together under the legal
umbrella of a 527 non-profit foundation, shouldn’t use their free association
to express a truth most important to them. The Bush campaign has suffered some
pretty outrageous allegations made by 527’s, but the law allows it. So what if
it’s “messy?”
Moreover, I have read the Constitution from front to back
and cannot find language anywhere that says political parties and their process
of finding candidates and sending out political messages are the only way to introduce
voters to political candidates.
Frankly, the existing political process
that the “establishment” prefers and protects does a lousy job of telling us the
truth about who wants to run our lives and protect us from dangers, foreign and
domestic. Part of the blame must go to the liberal, biased media.
While
establishment politicians have been busy nurturing their political fortunes, the
mainstream media has drifted drastically to the Left. Now the ability to get a
conservative message out there has become most difficult. Even if you factor in
the Internet, Fox News Channel, and powerful talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh,
these conservative outlets comprise only a small percentage of the whole.
While
America takes its time catching up to those like Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter,
who discovered and reported a leftist media bias, the establishment continues
to behave as if there is an even playing field and insists only professional players
are welcome.
Four years of a conservative agenda, passed into law by Congress
then signed into law by a president, would be proof that a corner has been turned.
But the last time we saw a dramatic turn in a conservative direction was in 1994
with Newt Gingrich’s 10-point Contract With America. Do government hacks and professional
political operatives actually believe that ordinary citizens have nothing better
to do than to perform a “neighborhood watch” on our political system?
The
grassroots are active because they are convinced that the current party leadership
cannot get the job done
Neighborhoods have watchers for the same reason
that the political process is alive with citizen activists. The police cannot
do a proper job of preventing crime while the current political process cannot
do a proper job of answering the citizens’ demands for a smarter, cheaper, more
honest, and more effective government. That’s why citizens need to be involved
and that’s why the Swift Boat Veterans’ truth is so sorely needed right now.
Kerry
has held himself out as a war hero and suggests he should be elected on that basis
alone. He has not talked about his brilliance in college, because there was no
brilliance. He has not bragged about setting up and running a large business,
because he has never paid a payroll. He has not spoken about his years in the
U.S. Senate because there is nothing to talk about – name a single important piece
of legislation that bears his name. Recall a single important matter that included
Senator Kerry as a participant. Recall a single leadership position he has achieved
in the U.S. Senate.
Can’t find any achievements and leadership qualities
suggesting Senator Kerry is White House material? How about his anti-war, anti-American
activities after he returned from Vietnam? That would satisfy his political base
of pacifists and those who blame America first. Otherwise, all Kerry has to offer
is his short tour in Vietnam which happened more than thirty years ago.
Having
used the only experience of his lifetime that might remotely qualify him as president,
other than he is not George W. Bush, Kerry now wants to shut the mouths of anybody
who disagrees with his version of what happened in Vietnam. This is not France,
where they confiscate books unfavorable to the political elite. So, regardless
of the power of the political parties, the mainstream media, and the political
establishment, there is no law that can silence the Swift Boat Veterans who despise
Kerry’s dishonest opportunism and want to tell America what they know.
Establishment
politicians on both sides of the aisle are annoyed that ordinary groups of citizens
can impact their carefully crafted election scenarios. They have become spoiled,
petulant, and powerful. They don’t like surprises, and, yes, there is a brotherhood
of political operatives who hang together regardless of party. Finally, there
isn’t a single political operative who, upon election defeat of their candidate,
will admit they were wrong about anything. Recall that President George H.W. Bush
remarked after his defeat, “I got good advice, and I got bad advice, and I took
the bad advice.”
I believe it is the establishment that needs to adjust
to the playing field, which still includes citizens’ rights to participate in
the political process. The establishment would have it otherwise, but at least
this time around citizens still possess some rights.
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New Posting
from Commentsonline: OCT. 1ST, 2004
Personal
Report: John Kerry On The Campaign Trail -
( Sent in
by Rosella)
Hi! Received this from a very good friend in
PA. she wants everyone to know what she saw.
Good Tuesday morning! John
Kerry brought his "front porch meeting" to our Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on
Labor Day morning. Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media
I thought that you should know from someone who was `almost' there.
The
residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to
attend.
Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs. In addition,
there was a hard luck case who was about to lose her job at USAIR and another
was an elderly woman who was having health care problems. Neither one was from
this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all
residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their Bush/Cheney signs.
he
sympathetic police officers on duty told us that Kerry used imminent domain to
claim the street for his purposes. Residents who have homes within the perimeter
(approximately 1 full block) were kept behind a line away from the partisan crowd.
The rest of us were not allowed within the 1 block cordon. A neighbor from across
the street came to the line where we were being kept and asked us to come onto
his property. The police told us that we could stand on this mans FORMERLY private
property! This was set up so that Kerry's views could be heard - but not the neighbors.
About 30 peoples (mostly neighbors) shouts echoed down the street "Let the neighbors
in".
We could barely hear Kerry speaking with his microphone because press
buses were used to block us off from view! This mornings papers are reporting
hecklers tried to interrupt Kerry as he spoke to the neighborhood gathering, but
he turned our chants to his favor by calling us rude. Even though most of the
media was there to record our stories of not being included in the neighborhood
forum, not one of them printed or aired the truth. This is what America will look
like if Kerry becomes president.
Get registered and get all of your friends
registered to vote if they have not already. Kerry thinks that he is better than
the rest of us and he has the media on his side to make him out to be what he
is not! Finally, last night as I drove down the street where the rally was, I
was shocked to see Bush/Cheney signs in almost every yard on the street!
LET
FREEDOM RING!
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