The Face of the Tea Party and Civil War II

I’ve said to myself, but not here until today, that we are going to have a civil war in this country.

I believe the shot heard ‘round the world came on the Monday after health"care" passed. Americans—including those who innocently trusted and believed that our president’s campaign promise to “fundamentally change America” meant that the “old” way of doing business, hiding things from the people, having lobbyists make policy, spending exhorbitant amounts of money and taxing unfairly and corruption—believed that things were going to change for the better. It was all so carefully packaged in a man who looked like the perfect candidate. The election of this dynamic handsome, married, young father of two who just happened to be black and was voted in not because of the color of his skin but because of his extraordinairy power to use the English language to at one time say exactly what he was going to do but make it look to the average American like it was all so moderate, was brilliantly executed. I did not vote for this president. But my no vote for him had nothing to do with the color of his skin. My no vote came from paying close attention to what he said along with his voting record and, for me, cemented in is relationships, of which there were far too many, to ever make me believe that he was the best choice for our country. I didn’t feel John McCain, was the best choice either. But as usual, when faced with only two choices in recent years, you go with the one that will do less harm to the country.

Before President Obama began systematically dismantling our republic a little more than one year ago, I held my children out of school on election day. I had no idea what was coming. But I accepted that if this is what the American people wanted, let’s give him a shot. And, regardless of disagreeing with his policies, I watched the entire inauguration with my children to show them the only good thing that I could say about the day. I told them, that with the election of this first black president, there will be no way that anyone can ever call America a racist nation. He was overwhelmingly elected by the American people. Of course, I was wrong—not about the legitimacy of his election. I was wrong that racism would end in America.

Americans can argue what taxing unfairly is and we can argue what things NEED to be kept from the public to protect our national security—such as our military strategy, but any American this week, who cannot now see what our president meant to do to our country, is not colorblind, they are just blind.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American hero. If I were alive during his time, I would have joined hands and walked with those who supported him. I would have not eaten in a restaurant that didn’t allow a fellow American to join me in. I wouldn’t’ have taken a segregated bus. I have spent my whole life being respectful to people of all colors, all faiths, all beliefs, even when they differ from mine. However, when they differ from mine, I have asked “why?” Sometimes they can explain. Sometimes, they can’t. And sometimes, they just don’t respond at all. Today, when I ask or challenge anyone, I am called every name in the book. I never could have imagined that half a century later, the very beneficiaries of the civil rights movement would turn their ire towards people who believed in and who supported its original mission. People like me.

I never imagined in our “colorblind” society that it would be my family who would be fighting for the same civil rights Martin Luther King, Jr. championed. And worse, as we were fighting for them, be called the names from all of the groups I sought to uplift, help, support and respect my entire life.

I am a caucasion, blonde haired, blue eyed, married mother of four young boys. Recently, on Facebook, I came across one of my former entertainment industry associates, whom I admired, promoted, championed, praised, adored, respected and revered. He happens to look like me. Actually, he resembles and sounds like Anderson Cooper but without the white hair. I hadn’t seen his posts in quite a while. I gave up responding last year when I, as a brand new Facebook member, dared to get involved in a discussion about the town hall meetings and Joe Lieberman, etc. Within minutes, my comments were drawn and quartered and I was called the same tired names that pass as proper language in every circle but mine.

I folded and just began to take the safe route and talk about my son’s latest pair of shoes or talk about what movie I had just seen. After many months went on and I saw more and more discussions, I began to argue with facts again. Each time, I was usually the only voice of dissention. I was labeled a name caller for using political terms to label policy while their name calling focused on a presumed party, color of my skin, or worse a sexual practice I must engage in for having these views.

As I reflect on this tumultuous time we are living in, I see so clearly now what is going to happen in America. I can’t believe I’m going to say this. I can hear them calling me a white supremacist already—and by “they” I do not mean people of color. I mean they as the radicals of all colors, including mine, who seek to extinguish me, my family and my culture forever.

Because of the color of my skin, what I have to say about what is happening to my country is meritless, I have no civil rights. I have to prove every day that I am NOT a racist, NOT a homophobe, NOT a radical. Look at what the media does to the tea party? They show the overweight men and women with the oversized t-shirts and black socks. They show the handmade signs, with crudely written (and often misspelled) exclamations—which by the way should be used as proof of grass roots to counter Nancy Pelosi’s despicable “astroturf” slur. Most of these patriots, whether they be silly looking, dressed like Paul Revere, have bad hair or be sitting in a fold up chair, holding a constitution, are American patriots. They DO look like me, my mom and dad, But it isn’t the point. It shouldn’t MATTER what color any American’s skin is who seeks to have their voice heard. We are supposed to be living in the afterglow of Martin Luthur King’s dream . We are, in fact, living in a culturally divided nightmare. And it has been brought on by those who protest the loudes—the far left, who wants to “care” for the “meek” as long as the meek don’t say “NO” to the handouts.

It is one year after the historic tea party movement began. This movement continues to grow as more and more Americans see where our country is headed. Our first black president was duly elected by a majority of ALL Americans. The problem is, he wasn’t the RIGHT president for America. Perhaps our next president will be both conservative AND black. I don’t need to wonder how that victory would be celebrated. We all know. He would be labeled another pejorative term by the far left. They’ve called Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and others the same name.

My argument prior to today when someone called the tea party “an all white group” would be to knee jerk defend against it. I have come to realize BECAUSE of what the left has done, that I was indoctrinated into becoming an apologist for the color of my own skin from the time I entered grade school until now. As a true colorblind American, I don’t count how many of each KIND of human beings are outraged at what is happening in our country. I’m just glad they’re outraged.

This disgusting assault on my culture, my race and my American heritage is not what Martin Luthur King wanted. The progressives on facebook today in my friends lists who have comment after comment applauded that literally CALL for me (meaning anyone in the tea party or who is conservative) to be killed, and at the same time talks about how violent I am is evil.

To close this topic today, I want to go on record with a very sincere statement. I watch Glenn Beck almost daily. I wish I had every one of his broadcasts on dvd. They are a history lesson and I am so thankful that he is alive to be the Paul Revere of broadcasting. He is a modern day hero to me. He has helped wake people up to what is happening with facts, data, history lessons, documentaries and whenever he can, the very words for all of us to SEE uttered and used by those who work in and around our government., and most notably, the White House. People who don’t watch Glenn Beck don’t have the faintest idea who he is and how brave he is. The burden he must be under in doing what he does every day is tremendous. I cannot imagine being so articulate and passionate with so little anger day in and day out with what he must go through off the air, May I not hear the words “fairness doctrine” ever again. God bless Glenn Beck and keep him safe so he may continue to remind us who we are.

And to my president. Barack Obama. I did not vote for you. But I do not hate you. You are an intelligent, handsome, well spoken, unflappable man with an unbelievable smile. You have a beautiful wife, a loving mother in law and two beautiful daughters. You are an example to the black community of fidelity and good parenting from everything I have seen. I commend you for all of these things. The first lady, regardless of her views, has also exhibited grace and dignity in office. I believe you are both sincere. But as an American, I also believe that through your own actions and because of those who have influenced you and continue to surround you, that your views are the antithesis of American ideals and that your desire is to erode and eventually extinguish the constitution upon which our nation was founded. It makes me extremely sad for I was filled with hope too. I was hoping that you might do what the majority of people who elected you thought you would do—change Washington—not the country. You will be an important part of American history. You will be remembered but it won’t be for the healthcare bill. You will be remembered as the president who took America too far left and became the very catalyst for our need to restore the republic and drastically reform the government. I sincerely wish that you and your family are safe from harm. My fear is that those who want to harm you will come not from the right as the far left media would like to perpetuate but actually from the left who feel you haven’t gone far enough. Editors Note: As I publish this blog today, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, in an extensive promo campaign that seeks to compare the tea party movement to Timothy McVeigh, is airing this week on April 19th—it is just one example in a long line of disgusting attempts to frighten peaceful, liberty loving, fiscally conservative people into staying inside and shutting up. It will fail.

Finally, I know that it is the desire of the far left in this country to either incite and or orchestrate someone on the right to commit an act of violence. This would discredit the angry electorate and create the very “crisis” government needs to push for total control of America. And for that, my prayers are with the people. Don’t fall for it. Don’t do it. Think of Martin Luthur King, Jr. Think of Abraham Lincoln. Think of Ghandi. Weather permitting, I will attend my 2^nd tea party demonstration today on the capitol steps in Austin, Texas. I am proud to attend with my husband and children as we watch freedom loving people get off of the couch, and stand up to the endless bullying we have faced since the silent, tolerant majority said loudly “Enough” and “Don’t tread on me!”

Welcome to Logan's Run!

While not being able to take the whole day to watch the political dance taking place in Washington, I tuned in just in time to hear President Obama condescend to John McCain, and later watched him insult Paul Ryan?, displaying the 2,400 page bill in front of him, that he could produce an equal amount of documentation showing republican corruption. Given these two exchanges, I doubt watching the whole thing would yield any of that bipartisan cooperation we were supposed to have.

While I can give credit to President Obama for finally making good on his transparency promise (even though it was forced upon him), and appreciate that he finally placed himself (no small feat) at the same level of his colleagues, (seated at a table, instead of standing above everyone at his ever present podium), his tone betrayed the very reason he was supposed to hold this summit—to "listen" to the voice of the minority party.

I could write a 10 page blog on my frustration that I am the only one on my Facebook page to ever take on the left as they excoriate anyone who does not think Keith Olberman is the voice of objectivity and reason. I routinely write on the issues, and face down the bullies on the left. Though I believe many more people feel as I do, it is a shame that most are simply too afraid to join me in standing down the far left radicals who are literally choking the liberty out of our free republic to transform America into a socialist nation. If people don't start standing up to this and being unafraid to speak the truth without fear of losing "friends" and their "jobs", they are going to be even more afraid when they can't FIND a job because the only ones left are working for the government! To remain silent makes us, in a way, complicit in what continues to be perpetuated by the media and the minority in this country. One only need to see Maxine Waters speaking about "socializing, um uh....."taking over healthcare" to grasp the truth. Is anyone in California listening? Ya think you might vote her and Boxer out this year? Maybe? It is a fact that our country is headed rapidly in a socialist direction. Socialist isn't a code word. It isn't a bad word. Look it up. If this healthcare bill is implemented, we're there!

The far left will never pick out emails and articles written by the Canadian journalists who have documented the perils of their healthcare system HOPING that America doesn't do it. You won't hear from Great Britain on their long waits for life saving tests, rising healthcare costs, and the worst—rejection of care for people who are no longer "useful engines" and/or should "die and reduce the surplus population." No, Oprah will take you to Sweden (a tiny country, with a tiny GNP), that is so "happy" under their nanny country economy. Oprah moves out of Montecito to avoid being there long enough to pay HER property taxes, though she wants YOU to pay yours!

You've got Joy Behar saying "gee, America is racist but a lot of white people must have donated to Haiti." (Joy, guess what, we "white" people also elected two black presidents—Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.) By the way, I never called Bill Clinton a "black" president. That would be racist. But the left is racist EVERY DAY towards anyone who disagrees with anything they say. Perhaps what scares me the most is that people in my own peer group, people in their prime of life in my country, are literally demanding that we adopt a Logan's Run solution to rising healthcare costs. No, they certainly don't want to hold illegal immigrants accountable for helping to drain BOTH our medical system and our public school system. They want you to believe that the earth is warming (oh, no, now "changing) so your kids come home recycling everything and insulting you for throwing a plastic bottle in the trash. Al Gore (who is OLDER than me) tells children that there are things that your parents don't know that you (children) do. The brainwashing has been a success. Americans have always disrespected their elders the past 40 years has turned that disrespect into contempt. If you look at the cosmetic ads today, you would be hard pressed to find one that does not urge you to reduce the look of "fine lines and wrinkles." Med spas are everywhere. Americans depise the thought of getting old.

The irony here is that the left accuses the republicans of hating—but in truth, it is the left and always the left who wants to think for people. It is the left who doesn't believe that people are "smart" enough to understand anything, to make decisions about their own eating habits, to raise and/or educate their families. Most of the amazing inventions we use today were invented during the times when government interfered VERY little in our lives. The command of the English language was certainly superior 100 years ago. There was no failing educational system because people were SELF educated. Do you think, Franklin, Lincoln and Washington would have excelled in public school? Probably not. They would have been asked to take Concerta.

We are about to witness the beginning of a real life Logan's Run in America. Keith Olberman is the Sandman. I guess this may be a part of Presiden't Obama's plan I hadn't heard of yet. We used to have biomedical ethics. Doctors would take the Hippocratic oath, which is why the furthest a doctor can go in "ending a patient's life" is to medicate them just short of unconciousness and only withdraw life support when death is imminent. To do that, the doctor must have an advanced directive, supplied by the patient. Patients already have the relationship with their doctor. The dirty little secret that no one talks about is that doctors COULD treat you and charge you a more reasonable fee. Doctors are "greedy" too—they charge exhorbitant rates so they can maintain the status of being a doctor—live in their big homes, with their big cars—I can't fault them for this since medical schools became elitist and only available to the chosen few as lawyers made it more and more difficult to become a doctor. With the unbelievable cost of malpractice insurance, WHO do you think the cost is passed to? That's right. You and me.

One only need to do the research to know that if this latest unilaterally written healthcare bill is passed and not overturned before one dollar is sucked out of the already overburdened American, the "abandoned generation" which is my generation, will live up to its name. We will, for the first time be facing a life expectancy rationed by those we have given birth to and raised. And what is to disincentivize them? They have all now been faced with $40,000 worth of debt, that even though WE fought to eliminate was pushed through by an American president of my age. It really is the perfect "final solution." Of course, the president (even after his term is over) will live to a ripe old age because he has unlimited healthcare—you know, kind of like royalty. You can guess who becomes the peasant. Progressive plans to unravel America have gone well up until now. People have gradually forgotten how to spot the truth anymore. People BELIEVE that when you are "old," you are not only invaluable, but you have an "obligation to die" and make room for future generations. Maybe watching Soylent Green would be a good family film to show your children. too!

I wonder what the next generation will be saying when they reach 65, feel like they are 30 and are asked to go with the next generation's Sandman to "Carnival." (Nah, I'm not going to tell you what it is-go watch the film). Mine is going to be Keith Olberman. My children might be taken there by Meghan McCain. Of course, when she reaches that ripe, obsolete old age of 40, she might want to reconsider. If you thought living with stop, drop and roll was terrifying and you believe that government healthcare is "FREE", then you deserve what you get. But don't take me with you. I'm not going. My constitution guarantees me life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and there is no age limit on that pursuit.