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| jose el fontanero... |
 Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:11 am |
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Responding to modern Marxism
Exclusive: Henry Lamb cheers Americans stepping up to defend freedom
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Posted: November 07, 2009
1:00 am Eastern
By Henry Lamb
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The first unmistakable tremors were recorded on April 15. The earth
shook again throughout the month of August, when politicians returned
home to face their constituents. Those brave souls who dared to hold a
town hall meeting were met with enthusiastic questions about cap-and-
trade, about the stimulus, about health care and about what appears to
be a mad rush to socialism.
Despite efforts by the White House and the media to downplay the
significance of these events and to denigrate the people who
participated in them, another tremendous tremor rolled across
Washington on Sept. 12. More than a million people – by most estimates
– filled the street from Freedom Square to the Capitol. They were not
there to worship Obama; they were there to bury his policies.
Tuesday's elections sent a plume of political fallout across the
nation. Obama invested heavily in the incumbent New Jersey governor –
who was soundly defeated by a conservative Republican. A parade of
Democrat dignitaries campaigned for the governor's office in Virginia;
the more conservative Republican won by a landslide.
The only Democrat victory was in New York's District 23 where it took
both the Democrat and liberal Republican candidate, who withdrew from
the race to endorse the Democrat, to narrowly defeat a conservative
independent. Conservatism also prevailed in Maine, where the voters
rejected same-sex marriage.
Denial is not that river in Egypt. It seems to be a river that begins
in the White House and flows freely through the Democrat Party and the
media. The rest of the nation seems to be encouraged by the prospects
of reining in the runaway policies Obama's majority is trying to
impose.
It is increasingly clear that the battle is no longer between
Democrats and Republicans; it is between liberals and conservatives.
Since these terms, too, are fuzzy, let's be perfectly clear: The
battle is between the people who subscribe to the principles of
freedom set forth in our founding documents, and the people who
subscribe to the principles of collectivism set forth by Karl Marx.
Every single Democrat in the current majority, including Barack Obama,
swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Yet,
they absolutely ignore the limitation of power set forth in Article 1,
Section 8 of the Constitution. None of the 17 powers enumerated there
authorizes the current health-care bills or the cap-and-trade bill, or
the bailout, or the stimulus package – all recently passed by the
House of Representatives.
When asked by a reporter to identify the constitutional authority for
the current health-care bills, Sen. Patrick Leahy said: "We have
plenty of authority, why would you say we don't have authority?"
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reply to the same question was: "Are you
serious? Are you serious?" Obviously, neither one is "preserving,
protecting or defending" the Constitution when they ignore its
limitation of congressional power.
Conservatives in Congress have tried to enact legislation that
requires every new piece of legislation to cite the specific
constitutional article that authorizes the legislation. It has been
defeated in every Congress since 1994. The current Congress has yet to
vote on the Enumerated Powers Act (H.R. 450).
From one end of the country to the other, Americans are demonstrating
that their appreciation for the principles of freedom outweighs their
admiration for any political party, especially those which embrace
Marxist principles. Organizations are springing up everywhere, helping
people get their precincts, their counties and their states ready for
the next election. One Texas group formed in March, and still was able
to muster 25,000 people to march on a rainy Sept. 12 afternoon. Watch
their video; this is what the liberals call a right-wing, nut-job hate
group. Unlike ACORN, these people are not funded by government grants
or wealthy foundations. They are ordinary Americans accepting their
responsibility to defend freedom.
This scenario is being repeated all across the nation. Choosing
America's Future is a national campaign designed to focus on the
principles of freedom and the candidates who pledge to uphold them. At
the heart of the campaign is the U.S. Constitution. Participating
organizations will be providing pocket-size Constitutions at candidate
rallies where the candidates will also be asked to sign a pledge to
uphold the principles of freedom in every official act – or to explain
why they will not.
The energy fueling this growing upheaval is neither money nor
political strategy. It is a genuine love for American freedom and the
absolute determination never to allow Marxist collectivism to invade,
persuade, nor hypnotize this nation. Freedom is not quick to respond
to suppression. Freedom is long-suffering. There is a point, however,
beyond which tyranny cannot tread, even if that tyranny is disguised
as a "public option" or "cap-and-trade." Obama and his Democratic
majority may well have crossed that point. |
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