No Longer Silent

Hi everyone, hope you had a great weekend! School is keeping me busy as summer approaches, but I still will be posting on Present Day Patriots as much as possible! :)

Monday, April 19, was an anniversary of many things... from watching a few different news stations, I noted that the Waco Siege and the Oklahoma City Bombing were mentioned. These were two horrendous events that took many lives and shattered countless others... but Monday was also the anniversary of something else... something perhaps not remembered by many, but something that set in motion the fight for the freedoms we subconsciously enjoy each day... the battles of Lexington and Concord.

I'm not going to give you a history lesson (don't worry) but I thought I'd give a brief overview of what happened on that fateful April morning, in case you don't remember from your last history class. British troops that were occupying Boston were ordered to take the military supplies the Massachusetts militia had stored in Concord. On the village green of Lexington, about 38 minutement stood before several hundred soldiers of the strongest empire in the world. The origin of the first shot is still not known, but it was on this village green that the "shot heard around the world" was fired.

These men stood for what they believed in...freedom and liberty...though they were labeled radicals and extremists. The American people find themselves once again at a crossroads in which they must choose the easy way, or the right way. I hope to God that people continue to stand for their values and morals, and fight to preserve the principles this country was founded upon, and those that our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure.

Bill Clinton compares the Tea Party movement to Timothy McVeigh's deadly act of anti-government sentiments.

"I realized that there were lot of parallels between the early '90s and now, both in the feeling of economic dislocation, the level of uncertainty people felt, the rise of kind of identity politics, the rise of the militia movements and right-wing talk radio, with a lot of what's going on in the blogosphere now, and in the right-wing media," Clinton said.
"A lot of the things that have been said, they create a climate in which people who are vulnerable to violence because they're disoriented, like Timothy McVeigh was, are more likely to act"

I have to disagree. The Tea Party patriots are exercising their right to FREE SPEECH which is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Free speech and dissent is NEEDED for anything, namely a republic in which the people are the fulcrum on which it balances. Timothy McVeigh was not exercising any right protected by any Constitution anywhere! Leftist news anchors have constantly accused Tea Party protestors of shouting racial slurs and even "spitting" on Congress members during the Tea Party protest of the health care bill on Capitol Hill. Yet, strangely enough, no one can seem to find ANY audio or video proof of these accusations. Hmm.

The first minutemen and soldiers of the Continental Army fought with muskets and bayonets so we could fight peacefully with the written word. As Glenn Beck said yesterday of the Americans speaking out against a government that has overstepped its boundaries,

"Not racist, not violent...just, no longer silent."

Have a great week. :)