The Leaderless Revolution
ALG News Editorial: A revolution is taking place in America. It’s as intangible as the whispering wind. Yet as ineluctable as mounting gale. To the politicians, it’s still but a passing breeze rustling the hair at the nape of the neck. To the grassroots masses, it’s rushing torrent destined to sweep the elite from the Halls of Power.America is at the very incipience of a Leaderless Revolution. One could see it at the hometown Tea Parties disclaimed by politicians as ragtag assemblies and disdained by Barack Obama who speciously claimed not to have even known they even occurred. One can sense it in the polls, as one after another shows plunging support for this president and his policies.
And one can hear it loud and clear in the angry outpourings at “Town Hall” meetings where sputtering politicians are driven from the podiums and forced to seek shelter behind a phalanx of guards.
In New Hampshire, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter tried to defend the snails’ pace of socialized medicine with the absurd claim, “Many of my constituents would love to stand in line.” Maryland’s Sen. Ben Cardin, when pressed by his constituents on why they should be forced to turn over their health care to government bureaucrats, yammered that Americans simply can’t be trusted. (And he has now made his town meetings “by invitation only.”)
In Syracuse, NY, Rep. Dan Maffei had to call in the police to restore order at his health care town hall after angry protestors shouted him down. And Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY1), experiencing his own problems with outraged attendees decided just to cancel town hall meetings altogether.
Ellen Sauerbrey – the courageous lady who many feel won the governorship of Maryland in 1994, only to have it snatched away by a post-election recount – recently wrote: “I have never seen people so upset and scared. The rebellion today is a true grassroots uprising of citizens that don’t believe either party in Washington represents them, hears them or cares what they think. More and more I hear, ‘A plague on both their houses. Throw all the bums out’.”
What the politicians need to learn is that insulting their constituents’ intelligence, denouncing them as slackers, having them arrested, or trying to act as if they simply don’t exist is not going to solve the problem of a grassroots rebellion on the ascent. Nor will trying to single out some contrived opponent to belittle and besmirch, as Barack Obama did Rush Limbaugh.
The real problem the politicians face is that there is no opposition leader. In fact, there are no leaders at all. The hallmark of the grassroots uprising now befuddling and deflating the Washington political elite (and their mainstream media factotums) is that they are flying in the face of a Leaderless Revolution soundlessly inundating the very air they breathe.
It is amorphous. It is dauntless. It is unyielding. And it needs no person or party to state its case or fight its cause.
Carried in a purse, a brief case, or a backpack; wielded in the palm of the purveyor’s hand; as easy as aps; and summed up in 140 characters or less; this is the Leaderless Revolution that Bill Gates predicted was coming at the “Speed of Thought” on the wireless wings of the wind.
Unfortunately for the Washington establishment, in America today – just as in Iran, Honduras, and Moldavia -- the thought has now become an action. The words have become deeds. They have begun to sew [sic] the wind. And the tone-deaf political elitists are about to reap the whirlwind.
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9 Comments:
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. I am so fed up with politicians who pass 1000 page laws they don't read, and then think that they can run health care system better.
Maybe leaderless at the moment, but not for long. For HE Kept HIS Word! The One that will lead HIS People out of slavery, is already amongst us. God Bless His Children!
It's a nice thought, but they have Olbermann and Matthews constantly slamming and discrediting any opposition to Obama and his minions. We all need to be leaders spreading the brush fires of freedom where ever we go.
yes it is troy
Thank you for all you do! Through your blogs, we are better informed. To quote Sean,"You are a great American"!
I'm surprised you don't say more about what makes it possible to have this leaderless revolution: the Internet.
And it's "sow," not "sew." I hope you can edit that; it leaps out a compulsive language freaks like me.
The core problem that needs grass roots understanding is that the 50 Union States voluntarily surrendered their Constitutional and Independent sovereignty as defined and presented in the Federalist Papers and Supreme Court rulings (see Federal Marine Commission (FMC) v. South Carolina State Ports Authority, 535 U.S. 743 (2002) ). Without our Union State agencies maintaining their Constitutional Sovereignty, We the People have no one minding the store to protect our Liberty/Sovereignty. In my upcoming book, The Reformation of Union State Sovereignty, I go into technical legal details why this is so and the Constitutional ramifications stemming therefrom. Many of the Union States are currently attempting to pass resolutions “claiming their 10th Amendment ‘rights,’” however; there are no 10th Amendment rights. The 10th Amendment deals with powers and more explicitly the powers of sovereigns, namely We the People, the Union States, and the United States (the sovereign being granted powers by the very document which houses the 10th Amendment). The Union States forfeited their Sovereignty by the mere act of voluntarily paying taxes to the federal government. It is very well known that politicians LOVE a free lunch but the acceptance of federal funds and the voluntary paying of a tax in exchange is silent treason to the very principles of this Republic’s Constitutional Blueprint of Dual (but mutually exclusive) Sovereignties. Consequently, it is a fact certain that the Union States will never again be Sovereign until they cease and desist paying taxes to the federal government.
Lane,
Thanks for the note. We realize you were addressing the original author of the article and not our blog.
We have added [sic] after the word "sew" in their article.
One of the reasons, we selected the ALG's Editorial to share was because it did addressed the power of people using the Internet without even using the word - "Internet.
They even addressed the power of Twitter - "Carried in a purse, a brief case, or a backpack; wielded in the palm of the purveyor’s hand; as easy as aps; and summed up in 140 characters or less; this is the Leaderless Revolution that Bill Gates predicted was coming at the “Speed of Thought” on the wireless wings of the wind."
The Internet and Twitter are tools as yet not fully controlled by the government and free people are using these tools in a "The Leaderless Revolution" to oppose the tyrants of today.
Yes, many people are justifiably upset because our elected officials have been spending like they just won the lottery. But there is a problem. We won’t go elect someone with completely different ideas. We keep electing people who think it is their duty to supply the wants of some people with the production of other people. Why? Because Democrat or Republican or independent they nearly all believe in the altruist mantra that we must be our brother’s keeper. And if it is morally right to be our brother’s keeper then it is a small step for government to force those who object. If elected officials all agree with force then there is no difference between force and socialism and the only argument is over how much we are forced to spend on socialism.
We must overthrow the evil idea of altruism and return to the American ideal of individualism. That man is both free and capable of pursuing his own happiness and does not have to depend on elected officials to solve our every problem.
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