Signs of Tyranny
America is a force of rational thought because Freedom is a rational conclusion to the questions of survival and peaceful enterprise. America moves to her own rational design if her people are free to let that design support their lives. But there seems to be a radical culture in our country who thinks America is a game and they can change the rules to fit their self-serving vision.
Fortunately, the rest of the country loves what America is, and they are proud to be Americans. I met those proud, passionate Americans on the crowded corners of my neighborhood, and all across the state of Colorado. They are the moms and dads, the grandma and grandpas, the teenagers and college students who have been shocked into action.
The tea partiers know that without a people who protect America’s structure of individual freedom and liberty, and steward her destiny, America’s foundation will crumble. There might be some new country that emerges from the destruction of America, but it will be merely a modernized version of yet another tyrannical state in a long tedious world history of violence and cruelty led by psychotic men and women whose strident voices ride the media like the Nazgül on their fell beasts.
We’ve seen their kind before, those who drove the people mercilessly into grinding poverty. Those who called on frenzied religion instead of God, slavery to the state instead of willing patriotic service. We recognize that same rhetoric, philosophy, and pretentions to altruism run amok.
After all, folks, history wasn’t that long ago. Most of history, having already occurred, has been well-documented (except in school text books and the spin-cycle media). Everything we need in order to recognize the signs of tyranny is written in a saga of the world that points to today’s radical culture of tyranny and identifies it unmistakably for the con game and ponzi scheme that it is.
Thanks to our Founding Fathers, today we have a different choice. And the signs of freedom are also on the march. With all the knowledge and wisdom of the ages at our high-tech fingertips, we can strengthen our voice of reason, opposition, and resistance against yet another attempt to stuff people into the one-size-fits-all bureaucratic mechanism of big government control.
Admittedly, creeping statism is devious. Clever even. But the current government has broken into such a frantic race to impress the likes of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Muammar Qadhafi with their demolition of the Constitution that Washington DC sounds like a hive of Nurse Ratcheds. You know the sound I’m talking about. It’s the monotonous whine of emasculating busy bodies working around the clock to spin their duplicitous promises of “free” care and security for all.
A vital part of participating in the Tea Party movement is to understand and gain knowledge of history. History shows us the markers and signs of tyranny as it repeats itself in every country’s story. History, along with knowledge of our founding documents, strengthens our ability to stop statism early in its process in local government, school systems, and social groups. And it arms our children.
Authors Who Apply the Principles of Freedom
The 5,000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes
The Greedy Hand, by Amity Shlaes
Architects of Ruin, by Peter Scheizer
Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark. R. Levin
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
Authors Who Propose Strategies for Alternatives to Freedom and Liberty
These are books written by people who do want to fundamentally change America. It’s important to learn the methods and recognize them because they are at work in your local community and in your schools.
In The Washington Examiner, Maryland Public Policy Institute’s Marta Mossburg wrote about a pitiful showing of a Sept. 1 book promotion by Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN. Mossburg reported that a mere 30 people showed up in the basement of SEIU 1199 in West Baltimore. Explaining why they were demoralized, the union members blamed well-funded conservatives, their own poor leadership, anger at TARP, and then there was this: ‘The group collectively lamented that the right discovered Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,’ Said Sue Esty, the assistant director of American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees Maryland, ‘It’s kind of scary! They have learned all of the tricks.
The importance of this cannot be underestimated, my friends. Not only has ACORN’s corruption finally been publicly exposed, but so has the left’s Bible. And it is being used against them. They hate it.”
[Excerpt from The Limbaugh Letter, October 2009, “Mobfather Protection Package,” by Rush Limbaugh]
Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
Reveille for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
Education
Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto
Weapons of Mass Instruction, by John Taylor Gatto
The Myth of the Common School, by Charles Glenn
Education and the Cult of Efficiency, by Ray Callahan
Cultural Literacy – What Every American Needs To Know, by E.D. Hirsh
