Hot Issues From Linn County Iowa

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Let Freedom Ring

Recently I saw something on Chris Muir's Day by Day Strip that struck a chord for me.

Can YOU identify?

Say AMEN.

We keep hoping they will change, but sometimes things seems hauntingly familiar.

In June's Linn County GOP Central Committee Meeting, a Precinct Initiative was discussed.

I STRONGLY support Precincts being organized. But one phrase kept popping up.

To Elect Republicans.

Now of course I ALSO want to help Elect Republicans,

But my interest in Precinct development has a different primary focus.

This system of political organization that has served Iowa so well for generations, has broken down.

IT needs no change but WE certainly need to change.

In the Past the Precinct Caucus was your neighbors, you KNEW your neighbors, Your families knew each other, possibly for generations.

When the Caucus met, it was an assembly of citizens who knew each other and chose from their numbers people they respected to represent them on the next level of political organization.

Today when we go to a Caucus few know anyone else in the room, They have no basis with which to gage anyone who wants a political position,'

So how to we fix this gapping wound in the Body Electorate?

We arrange for Republicans in a Precinct to meet and become acquainted.

Backyard cookouts.

Picnics in the Park

Neighborhood coffee meetings

Using the new Social Networking systems such as Face book.

Creating a PRESENCE in our neighborhoods.

Form a sense of Community and Connection.

THOSE are the reasons I find the topic of a Precinct Initiative energizing.

Not simply to Elect Republicans in the next Election cycle and then let them go to sleep until awakened for the following cycle

But to BUILD a PARTY.

Give Power to the People on the basic levels of Politics.

Because they are in fact the Foundation of Democracy.

The Party is not the officers at the County, State and National Levels.

Not our Elected Officials.

It is WE who are the Party.

They exist to serve and fulfill OUR wishes.

It is said

If He Knows and Knows that He Knows

He is Wise Follow Him

If He Knows Not and Knows Not that He Knows Not

He is a Fool Shun Him

If He Knows Not and Knows that He Knows Not

He is a Child Teach Him

But if He Knows and Knows Not the He Knows?

He is Asleep Waken Him.

Friends.

We have been asleep.

And In our Slumber?

Things have not gone well.

It is time in the words of Yamamoto Isoroku

For the Sleeping Giant to Awaken

and perhaps be filled with a Terrible Resolve.>

We must take back our Government.

The Battle lines are drawn and the War is not to be fought or won

in distant Capitals but on the sidewalks of our Blocks and Streets.

Gather together, Talk to your Neighbors,

All the other desires, Election Republicans, Gathering Volunteers

Collecting Donations?

They will FOLLOW as Healthy byproducts of a Political Base that rests on a Sound Foundation rather than the Shifting Sands of we must do anything, we must ignore violations of our basic Core Beliefs just to amass numbers.

For if we continue to follow those sorts of Paths?

Instead of Elected Officials to whom we can look with Pride?

We may get, and deserve rather than healthy sound leaders the

ghostly image of a

Specter

Click here to play Senator Specter's welcome message

So I say to you

Aux Barricades mes Amis

To the Barricades my Friends

For your Homes

For your Families

For the Souls of Your Party and Nation

Fiat justitia, ruat coelum

Let Justice Be Done,

Though The Heavens May Fall

My Friends this struggle is not for the faint of heart,

There are always those who value, Tranquility over Disruption,
even if the disruption leads to a better, Freer Life

They are with us now, as they were at the Birth of this Republic.

Those who do not wish to enter into a Stuggle for Democracy

To Them one of Our Founding Fathers said.