THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 156, August 21, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AGAINST TYRANNY:
NO TIME TO HANG OUR HEADS
By Tom DeWeese
FIGHTING TO DEFEND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC AGAINST THE FORCES OF TYRANNY: THE NEED
TO MAINTAIN & INTENSIFY OUR RESOLVE IN THE STRUGGLE TO PROTECT & PRESERVE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS, THE OTHER BASIC RIGHTS OF THE
INDIVIDUAL, & THE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE CAPITALIST ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- WHY WE MUST NOT LET UP IN OUR EFFORTS
TO ACHIEVE TOTAL VICTORY OVER THE FORCES OF AUTHORITARIANISM, TOTALITARIANISM, COLLECTIVISM, STATISM,
MULTICULTURALISM, INTERNATIONALISM, & GLOBALISM
FULL STORY:
We indeed face difficult times, dealing with issues and policies no Americans before us have had to face. The double
speak, the deceit, and the betrayal have left us all exhausted and depressed.
And, my friends, I think that is the greatest obstacle you and I face in the battle to truly restore the American Republic.
It's not the power elite, or the force of government, or hidden conspiracies. It's our own attitude.
So many in the freedom movement are quick to accept the idea that we cannot win against the forces of tyranny. We are
dragging our chins on the ground and sit in despair.
Darned if I understand why.
2007 and the Democratic Party-controlled Congress has been one of the greatest tests for the ideas of limited
government and preserving the Republic.
Forgive me for sounding like Pollyanna, but so far, we are winning a lot of battles. Frankly, this Congress has failed to
pass a single significant piece of legislation to hurt us. Of course, that can change quickly, but we can face that when it
comes. For now, stop fretting and look at the bright side.
First, the defeat of the Senate Immigration Bill is, without question, the greatest victory for the Republic in several
decades. While many have lamented that the American people are asleep, paying no attention to issues of the day, the
fact is a full 80% of the American people opposed the guest worker scheme and saw it was truly amnesty for illegal aliens.
They saw the threat and said no.
The Senate and the White House, not used to an enflamed electorate, continually tried their usual flimflam tactics of
ignoring the will of the people.
Not this time. Americans hated this bill and said so. The Senate got more phone calls and more letters than on any issue
in recent memory. The Senate switchboard was shut down. And the bill DID NOT PASS.
Do you think the Senate and the White House are not in a panic? The political Left played a very heavy hand and lost.
Of course, the Leftists will try again and again. But each time they do, more Americans will come to understand what we
say is true. The Liberals will lose more support and their position becomes weaker. Why? Because we are here with the
truth.
Some say we can't stop the North American Union. We're told it is a done deal. Wanna bet? Even with virtually no
national media to expose it, the word is spreading like wildfire.
It's taken the Liberal Leftists years to carefully lay the groundwork for this. We've only been openly fighting it for about
a year. And our tiny band of activists are causing them major headaches. In fact, the Left's only tactics have been to say
either of the following: "There is no NAU," or "the opponents are all just a bunch of nuts."
The fact is, through our efforts in opposition to the NAU, Americans are starting to figure this out.
As a result, currently 18 state legislatures have now passed, or are working to pass, resolutions against the idea of a
North American Union.
The Teamsters Union has filed suit to stop the Bush administration's plan to allow Mexican trucks to cross our borders
and haul goods throughout the nation. The suit is shining a very bright spotlight on the scheme and could well sidetrack
the program. And that spotlight is helping more Americans to learn that the NAU is real.
Keep in mind; all of the Americans who stood up to oppose the immigration bill are potential allies in the fight against the
North American Union. It's the same issue in different wrapping.
In Texas, just a year ago, state legislators basically denied there even was a Trans-Texas Corridor. Just a highway
improvement program, they said. Yet, just one year later, in landslide margins, the Texas Legislature voted overwhelmingly
to put a moratorium on the project so more discussion could take place. That was a major victory. And we made that
happen.
True, the Governor rose up with all the power at his disposal to stop it. As a result, many of the legislators lost their nerve
at the last minute and put in amendments to basically cut the teeth out of the bill.
But, first, we must remember that the vote in itself was an amazing victory to expose the Corridor. There can be no denial
that the vote was to stop the TTC. The people of Texas said no to that Corridor.
Imagine the panic in the Governor's Office as this was going down. Now he and every legislator who betrayed the will of
the people must be targeted and held accountable.
The momentum of the first vote must be used to continue the fight until we win the final victory to stop the TTC -- just like
we did in the immigration battle.
We actually hold a strong hand. It would be silly folly for us to now just slink away with our heads down. Are we nuts!
Name names. Make them feel pain. One thing is consistent on the other side: They are cowards -- cockroaches who hate
the light of day. Bright lights and roach spray are what we need.
And let's look beyond the issue of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the Trans-Texas Corridor. There have been
some astounding victories on other fronts as well.
In 2005, Freedom's warriors were convinced the battle to stop the National ID was over after Congress passed the Real ID
Act. Yet, there are now 12 states refusing to go along with implementing it.
There is legislation in Congress to repeal it outright. Americans are learning it is not a tool to fight terrorism or illegal
immigration, but a plan to impose a Big Brother-style tyranny on us all. We're stopping it -- or, at least, slowing it down.
A couple of years ago, Congress passed a horrible bill which literally robbed us of our First Amendment right of free
speech. The McCain-Feingold Bill severely restricted the ability to even name elected representatives in campaign ads. It
was done to make it near impossible to run effective campaigns against incumbents, giving them a free election ride.
But, last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was against the First Amendment to forbid businesses and unions to
fund advocacy campaigns in the closing months of an election. It was a huge victory for the right of free speech and the
American constitutional Republic.
Word has now come down from congressional Democrats that they will not renew Fast Track authority for the President.
Of course, it's a political ploy against Bush, but the fact is, Fast Track is the one policy that actually gives the President
the legal authority to negotiate policy like NAFTA, GATT and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), to implement
the North American Union.
Fast Track allows the President to force policy on Congress without debate and without amendments. It is a victory for our
side to take that authority away from him, no matter the reason.
And look at Al Gore's panic in trying to force climate change policies on us. Billions of dollars have been spent to get us to
believe in man-made global warming. Hollywood had to give him an Oscar to get our attention.
But, in fact, the American people aren't buying it. Al's worldwide concerts for climate change last week were the lowest
rated shows on television.
Worse, for him, Senator Jim Inhofe, from just up the road in Oklahoma, has become a one man wrecking crew in Congress,
debunking the socalled science Al's using. Real scientists are coming out of the woodwork now to say they are global
warming skeptics.
No wonder Al and his ilk want to put us in jail for opposing them. They have nothing else left to threaten us with.
Worried about the invasion of Chinese goods now flooding the American market place? The problem may take care of
itself soon.
The month of June has seen a huge backlash against Chinese goods, a backlash more powerful than any boycott could
ever produce. And the Chinese are doing it to themselves. Chemicals in killer dog food have been traced back to China.
The FDA has just moved to block the sale of Chinese fish because of still more chemicals. Defective Chinese tires have
been discovered.
All of these things will only serve to prove to the American people that Chinese goods are inferior and undesirable.
Americans may yet learn that China is governed by a brutal Communist regime that has no concern for the quality of
China's products. The regime cares only for the power of the money it makes off of the products.
The Chinese debacle proves that the free market can be trusted and those who think they can manipulate it will
eventually be exposed.
There are lots of good things happening in the name of freedom around the world.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is becoming an international phenomenon with his advocacy of private property
ownership as a means to eradicate poverty. Fifty heads of state have asked him to meet with them to discuss his ideas,
including such totalitarian states as Syria.
I have learned in the past few months that there are freedom fighters out there you and I have never heard of. I just spent
last week in Las Vegas with 1,000 of them. They have never heard of you and you've never heard of them, but they are
there, fighting much the same fight.
Of course, there are bad things going on. Of course, the forces of tyranny continue to build to enforce their will. And, of
course, they will fight back when we win a round.
The good news is every victory they score creates new victims. Every new victim finds their way to the camp of Freedoms
Heroes and our forces swell. And that can ultimately lead to the victory of freedom, if we will just get our heads out of the
sand and appreciate a victory when we win one.
When you feel you can't go on in the fight, when you feel there is no hope, remember this: There are millions in the world
who really want freedom. We are not alone.
There is a great uprising beginning to take place around the world. The Internet has become an incredible tool to spread
the word of freedom around the world. And oppressed people are reading and listening and dreaming of freedom for
themselves.
Truth is on our side. Right is on our side. And I believe time is on our side. Call me Pollyanna, if you will, but I see signs of
change. The immigration battle shows people are alert. It has awakened that sleeping giant.
The truth is, in our lifetime, we are never going to see America become what we might envision to be the perfect world.
Frankly, many of us would disagree among ourselves about what that perfect world should be.
But, in the face of the forces of tyranny we fight today, if we can preserve our nation's sovereignty and independence and
keep the U.S. Constitution (including the Bill of Rights) alive -- preseve this document based on the principles of freedom --
then, frankly, that will be an incredible victory.
And, for our children and grandchildren to have a hope of living in freedom, that will be enough.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Nationhood & American National Sovereighty:
The United States of America as a Single Sovereign Nation-State:
Potecting & Preserving American National Independence,
America's Common National Culture & Identity,
& American National Interests
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
American Government -- Constitutional System
The Constitution of the United States of America
The U.S. Constitution & the American Economic Order:
Civil Liberties -- Private Property Rights
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Civil Liberties -- Freedom of Expression Versus Political Correctness,
Censorship, Thought Control: Free Speech & Free Press Versus
Supression of Unacceptable Views & Opinions
The American Political System -- Politics &
Government in the U.S.A.: Political Science Course
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
English Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
Colonial & Early American Antecedents
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- Ratification & Adoption
The American Constitutional System -- Origins:
The U.S. Constitution -- The Scheme of National Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Constitutionalism, Republicanism, Separation of Powers,
Checks & Balances, Legislative Bicameralism,
& Balanced Government
The American Constitutional System -- Principal Characteristics:
Federalism -- Fedural Union of States
The U.S. Constitution -- Underlying Political Theory:
The Federalist -- Selected Essays
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
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MERGING MEXICO, CANADA, & THE U.S.A.: THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION
& THE SECURITY & PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP
Canada: America's Northern Neighbor & Ally
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. The Center maintains an Internet website at
www.americanpolicy.org.
Copyright 2007 Tom DeWeese
Published with Permission of Tom DeWeese
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