Common Sense

Patriots!

I have watched events unfold in Tunisia and Egypt, and now Yemen and Jordan, as I’m sure you have. But I have also watched the reactions of our leaders, and I have to say I don’t understand them at all. President Obama is calling for the liberty fighters in Egypt to remain peaceful so that their despotic ruler can continue to oppress them. This of course did not surprise me, but I was appalled by the reactions of people who say they love freedom. Speaker Boehner and Senate minority leader McConnell condoned Obama’s words, and former governor Huckabee has been worse, asking the protesters in Egypt to stop, go on with their lives, continue to be oppressed by a power-mad autocratic dictator. Where are our Tea Party faithful? Where is Sarah Palin? Glenn Beck? Michelle Bachmann? Where are the people we’ve supported so vigilantly these past couple years because we thought they stood for the people? They have been silent, demurring to the voices of the establishment that fears the will of the people. I say, let’s not look at Egypt with fear, let’s look at it the way Egypt looked at Tunisia! Let’s look at it with respect, pride, even envy! Let’s look at our own oppressive system of government, and tear it down!

President Obama doesn’t fear the American people, because he is a fool. Sarah Palin chooses not to acknowledge the strength of the populace because she doesn’t understand it. For too long we have watched our country sacrifice its greatness in the name of more power for itself. For too long we have watched a corrupted president seize power over our minds and bodies in the name of a “good” that we know will really bankrupt our economy and destroy our jobs. A good that does no good for the people who love America and all good for those who wish to rule over it with the same hungry malevolence that Hosni Mubarak ruled over Egypt. No more! Patriots, the time is ours! Let’s throw down the shackles of our oppressors, take arms and march towards Washington and the White House. Let’s take this country back from those who would destroy it! George Washington said every citizen should be not only armed, but vigilant. But we have grown fat and complacent through government tyranny, and now is the time that we must throw that that tyranny off! Patriots, today I say let’s march towards Washington and revolt! Like our brothers in Egypt who love freedom so much they are willing to die for it, let’s take Washington back from the government! Let’s make it ours again!

Our demands are simple. We ask only for the liberty which was promised us at the founding of this country we love so much. But we will not be satisfied with anything less than what we deserve. We demand the following:

1. That President Obama relinquishes the power of the presidency, and that he leaves this country in exile.

2. That we put in his place a new leader, someone with no hunger for authority, who wants only for the citizens of this country to come together as individual parts of the constitution of a sovereign nation, each as great as the whole and each with equal responsibility for maintaining that greatness.

3. That we keep for this country a strong military, to protect the honor of it, and to defend it from the Arabic world that hates our freedom, hates our strength.

4. That we abolish the income tax, a tax on our livelihoods and our labors that benefits only those who have no livelihood, and who do no labor.

5. That to protect the strength and honor of our nation we restore the values that provide the moral strength a country needs; Christian family values, and as such that we outlaw practices of homosexuality, infidelity, and divorce.

6. That we establish an education system that strengthens the minds of our youth, and that teaches them not only the arts and sciences, but faith, charity, and patriotism. We will not teach the works of anti-American radicals such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Cesar Chavez, nor will we let the legacies of misguided patriots like Joe McCarthy be so fully tarnished.

Our demands are simple, but they must be met. Friends, the time of American oppression, masked by the smiling face of liberal equality grinning into our souls and nibbling softly at our hearts until they are mushed into a shapeless porridge of ignorance and acceptance, is over. Now we fight back. Like the heroes in Egypt, in Tunisia, in Yemen, in Jordan, and all over where freedom is trampled and authority reigns, we will accept our conditions no more. And because our aim is true, and our hearts pure, we will succeed.