A Sea of Grass

by James A. Bridge
I am a blade of grass.

We unite today, yesterday, and tomorrow, across a broad expanse of the United States of America. We have joined hands out of necessity, this time; not that we wouldn't gladly take one another's hand at any time.

We are Americans, New Jerseyans, New Yorkers, Ohioans, Floridians, Arizonans, Californians, Alaskans, Montanans, white and black, of European, African, or Asian descent. We have found one another in common cause to fight what has befallen us. We must fight a cynical group of politicians, and news media reporters, and directors of reporters, fight them with every extra moment of each day, with purpose, relentlessly pushing our cause forward.

Our cause is liberty. Our cause is federalism. Our cause is fiscal responsibility. Our cause is secure borders for our country, and the removal from amongst us who are in our country illegally. Our cause is for a strong America, a military that is second to none, and a foreign policy that shines with the promise of liberty that is imbued in our most sacred of documents—our Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution.

I greet you all, out there, everywhere, and I stand with you, as I am, a lone American.

I am a blade of grass.

But I stand not alone from sea to sea. I stand shoulder to shoulder with you. When the wind disturbs us, we rustle, and when the wind is fierce, we wave and roar. We are heard, and here, as we stand across thousands of miles, we are seen, today, as we stood yesterday and as we will stand tomorrow.

We Americans embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of our nation. Here we came from Europe, from Asia, from everywhere, to escape the socialist and Marxists experiments of totalitarian societies. Here we came with our long knives and our flintlocks and carved out of a wilderness the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Here we came, and God gave us the good fortune to have angels amongst us, agents of the greatest good, a George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Adams, these legendary figures who are more than just worth of historical moment. These great men shook off the totalitarian chains of a British King, a king who did not cherish liberty, a king who wanted the scepter and arms of the crown to intrude into every domicile of his American possessions.

For we then, as today, and tomorrow; we stood first, singly, as individual blades of grass, then as a mass of blades of grass that rustled with the wind, and finally we were a sea that chafed and cried out with answers to every royal rebuke. We were soon heard at Lexington, and at Concord, as our musket balls harried the Redcoats back to Boston harbor, and ultimately back to Britain in defeat.

These American angels looked to their faith in God, and to what man had wrought in search of good government in ancient times, and then, too, examined the American experiment of colonial governments, parliaments, and in the loose federation called the United States of American under the Articles of Confederation. They created in our Constitution a more perfect union. But, they erred, and the like of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson reminded them that some rights must be averred, openly stated, even though manifest and obvious in their time.

They had the foresight to enumerate these rights, however obvious they were, and so staunchly did they adhere to the need for them, that only with the pre-condition of these enumerated rights would this perfect union gel and breathe.

Those rights, that seemed so unnecessary to be stated, are today under fire from forces of tyranny, totalitarianism, and collectivism. They are not a foreign enemy. We, the American people, have chosen them to serve us, and we have been asleep. While we slept, we allowed them to undo what had been done for us.

Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of a religion—have not our time-honored traditions of Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Rosh Hashanah been stilled from our government halls, banished from open celebration, as if none of us who serve in government should have a faith or want to celebrate. We should not make that joyful noise, say the self-proclaimed Progressives, who in every thing they do reveal a deep loathing for what our Founders wrought, and for who our Founders were. This most obvious of all rights has been quashed, and we have slept through it.

But now, we awake.

The people have the right to petition the government with grievances—has not our own President demanded that we be still? We rub our eyes, is it possibly true? Has this happened?

Yes it has.

Freedom of speech—has not our President used his authority to collect a list of dissenting voices? We sit up in disbelief. Yes, he has. You might find your information logged at flag-at-whitehouse-dot-gov.

The right of the people to bear arms—the second of these rights that our Founding Fathers knew must be enshrined in stated word—is this right now under attack? Has our President not said that many of us cling to our guns and religions out of bigotry and ignorance? We stand as one and say, Mr. President, do you not know the history of this country, whose reigns we have handed you, and whose Constitution you have sworn to uphold and protect? Do you not know of the murder of nine patriots at Lexington in 1775? Do you not remember, sir, the five murdered by the Redcoats in Boston in 1770, including a man who loved liberty more than you, a man of color, Crispus Attucks? Whether you want to hear it or not, we have the right to bear those arms to protect us from tyranny. We have the right to protect our liberty with our weapons, friends; why else would the forces of big government and tyranny want to strip that right from us?

The right to a speedy trial—when in recent memory has there been a speedy trial? We have allowed our legal system to frustrate the demand for justice in allowing trials to continue over years, needlessly. But, this basic right has, too, all but disappeared.

The most important of all rights, given to us in the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution, have been abused by our court system, and have been circumvented by Congress after Congress, and by Presidents, until now, the boldest threat to our Constitutional authority is at our door. President Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, will undo with finality our last claims upon liberty and federalism. Our individual liberty and the protection of our state government authority from the usurpation of a power-mad national government is upon us. This is usurpation, for the national government is refused any power that is not enumerated, and that which is not is reserved first to the people, and then to the state.

However with the passage of two pieces of legislation, Waxman-Markey, and the infamous Presidential lie of health care “reform”, our 9th and 10th amendments will be destroyed.

If this most disgraceful 111th Congress passes, and this most anti-American President ever, sign into law both bills, our legislators will give our last shred of liberty away.

If the federal government can reach into my house and control my thermostat, I have no freedom left. This is what Waxman-Markey, a.k.a. Cap and Trade, will do. If the federal government will tell me if I may or may not receive treatment for what ails me, and if that federal government will punish me for seeking such treatment outside of this law, then I am no longer free.

If these measures are enacted, our legislators and President will have willfully violated their oaths of office. They will, with these measures, make slaves of us all. They will have made our state governments mere handmaidens to the national tyranny. We will have nowhere to go to celebrate liberty, other than to our history books.

These assaults upon our liberty are real, current. They loom before us, a monstrous evil that besets us from many quarters. Reporters, and directors of reporters, have become our enemies. They denounce our struggle for truth, and shield it from us. They have sided with the forces who plan to handcuff us to a new world order, who would chain us to our national government as they would oxen to the yoke, and they would lash us into quiet servitude. Whether by accident or design, the press has been co-opted by forces of tyranny and will not work to save or protect us, as they may have once done.

Theses are mighty enemies: Congress, President, and Press. The enormity of their combined power might break the spirit of a more timid people, of a people who are easily cowed. Americans, though are not these.

I am a blade of grass. I chafe and rustle with each affront to my liberty. I, today, as yesterday, and tomorrow, am not alone, for a I hear a loud noise of chafing and rustling times a thousand, times a hundred million.

I am a blade of grass and I am not alone.

Americans who cherish liberty will not allow this final insult to the American way of life occur and stand. We will attack it with our voices. We will attack it with our votes. If these anti-American forces refuse to yield and continue to take from us our God-given liberty, we will fight you wherever we need to, with whatever tools or weapons. If this Congress and this President make these steps, we will in a subsequent Congress and under a different President undo them.

We will not tolerate it, and we will fight for liberty.

I am a blade of grass and I am not a lone. I stand shoulder to shoulder in a sea of roaring grass, and we shout with one voice, “LIBERTY! AMERICA! JOIN US!”

Big Government is UNAMERICAN

Big Government is UNAMERICAN.

Our President is at war with....US. With us, the PEOPLE; with US, the country. His Big Government policies and spending have shipwrecked our economy, and he is about to seize control of our lives but forcing public option health care down our throats, and put Federal Government regulators in charge of your thermostats.

We must stop this attack upon the very fabric of our society. Our founders told us in 1776, and they put in writing by 1793. Big Government is UNAMERICAN, they said.

President Barack Hussein Obama's policies are borne out of the New Party, a Communist organization he was a member of in the 1990s. In fact, the American Communist Party is very pleased with the accomplishments of the Obama administration and this disgraceful 111th Congress. Take a look here.

Should we be concerned that the Communist Party applauds the work of this President? You had damn well better be. COMMUNISM IS UNAMERICAN. THEY WANT TO TAKE FROM US EVERY FREEDOM THAT YOU AND I HAVE. If you have any doubts about that, you haven't been paying attention to World History.

The only time a Communist and an American President should EVER be on the same page MIGHT be if Martians attack.

I said MIGHT.

Big Government is UNAMERICAN, and President Barack Hussein Obama is the most UNAMERICAN president in American history.

Because 1775 and 1776 were all about throwing off the reign and chains of totalitarian government. Any advocate of an overarching, all-powerful centralized national government doesn't understand the most basic elements of being an AMERICAN. Any such advocate who thinks he or she is doing the right thing for America by espousing Big Government polices is actually undermining what we are as a country.

And any American who thinks that Big Government spending leads to prosperity and a better country is an idiot. A fool. A sorely deficient person of arrested intellectual development. Such people are sheep with a New York Times tucked under his and her woolly little arms on the way to the slaughterhouse; they are burros, donkeys, happily skipping under the yoke to pull burdens their Founding Fathers NEVER INTENDED THEM TO PULL.

BIG GOVERNMENT IS UNAMERICAN. The Federal Government has not the right to regulate your thermostat; the Federal Government has not the right to tell you what kind of health care you should or will have. Those rights were not enumerated in the Constitution to the Federal Government, and demanding legislation in those areas, as Barack Hussein Obama is doing, is an overreach of his job as President.

The President swears to protect and enforce our Constitution. This President is bent on destroying it and our American way of life.

Big Government is UNAMERICAN. Say it, people, over and over again. Put that message on the street. READ THE CONSTITUTION. Turn of your television sets. Put down the New York Times. Tell other people the truth about the United States of America.


The truth is that Big Government is UNAMERICAN.

Big Government leads to poverty. Have you any doubts about that? The biggest example of Big Government was the Soviet Union. They exhausted their national wealth, and perished. Communist China? They went capitalist to keep that from happening to them. What are our investment partners, these erstwhile Communists in China telling us today?

THEY'RE TELLING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND THE 111th CONGRESS TO STOP SPENDING UP OUR OUTRAGEOUS AND UNSUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEBT. The Chinese and the Japanese have refused to cover this debt, and we are exposed for 70% of the 1.8 Trillion debt in this fiscal year. Where will that money come from? (Hint, go to your bathroom cabinet and stare into the mirror).

They're telling us, also, that they're proposing a new world currency because of the toxic debt of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In six short months, Barack Hussein Obama and his lapdog 111th Congress have succeeded in satisfying the Communist Party of the United State's own agenda, and has spent us out of the world's economic leadership.


Big Government leads to poverty. American revenues to the Federal Government are at an 85 year low. That means that capital is not producing profit. The Barack Hussein Obama administration added $7 trillion in debt to our ailing economy, and now, with our Japanese and Chinese backers refusing to hold this debt, this 111th Congress will now come after us to pay for the profligate Democrat spending of TARP II, the Omnibus Spending bill PORK FEST, and of course, the Obama budget, the largest in world history.

As if that weren't dire enough, add to that the prospects of Waxman-Markey hidden energy taxes of at least $3,000 per household, and Obama-care with its possible $2.5 trillion per year cost model.

Big Government is UNAMERICAN. It stifles our Freedom, severely limits our liberty, steals our capital and wages from us, and thereby our time. It subtracts wealth. Adam Smith warned about the waste of Big Government.

The American Spirit is about capital venture, entrepreneurism, and profit. Profit is what puts people to work, not government. But Barack Husssein Obama hates profit. Oil Companies should make profits--although their shareholders want them to. Same with insurance companies.

Have you not yet asked yourselves why our President hates profit so much?

He hates profit because he loves Big Government. He hates profit because he was a member of a Communist organization. "White man's greed puts the world in need," he wrote in his autobiography. That didn't offend the sensibilities of our media, but Sara Palin's hunting rifle did.

Big Government is UNAMERICAN. Whoever denies this is your enemy.

Be sure to ask every proponent of Big Government, whether it be Waxman-Markey, or Obamination-care, two simple questions.

ONE--"Do you want less freedom, or more freedom?"
TWO--"Do you want to pay MORE in taxes, or less in taxes?"

Anyone answering yes to both is marching happily to the slaughterhouse, and get out of their way. You don't want to get trapped in that crowd.

Big Government is UNAMERICAN. Suggested reading: George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984; The U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence.

Obama A.C.O.R.N Connect The Dots to Socialism

Since the 70s and the Radicalization of the Democratic Party, Dems have used rent-a-mob tactics to skew public opinion, most notably the use of the controversial group A.C.O.R.N.--The Association of Community Organization for Reform Now.

This group used Jimmy Carter's Community Reinvestment Act to bully and harass bankers by picketing their banks and homes in an intimidation strategy to grant home loans to minorities, in keeping with the CRA.

Welcome, 30 years later, to the crash of America's mortgage banks, with hundreds of thousands of mortgage loans defaulting per month, still.

As our President works hard to get Federal inspectors into our houses to adjust our thermostats for us (Waxman-Markey's Orwellian "Cap&Trade" Legislation) and insists upon destroying our Health Care System, belittling Doctors and demonizing Insurance companies the while, there is his cadre of A.C.O.R.N. do-as-I-say bidders, on the verge or sucking up a huge infusion of Federal cash.

Now, there's stimulus you can believe in.

Not only does Obama want the Federal Government in charge of your heating/cooling in you home; not only does he want the Federal Goverment in you bedroom, bathroom and kitchen with his Stalin-style collectivized Health Care (how far did that Spruce Goose actually fly?), he wants federal agents in the garb of "community organizers" watching you and pressuring lending institutions in your neighborhood--A.C.O.R.N.


Americans must better understand Barack Obama’s strong connection with ACORN, a socialist radical organization that agitates for socialist style changes in America.

ACORN’s goal (to make America a socialist state) and tactics (including voter fraud) have been exposed recently in the media, but few seem to be paying attention to the bad news.

Obama and A.C.O.R.N are both trying to play down their connection, but they are connected and it is scary.

These Alinsky methods included in-your-face protests in banklobbies and bank managers’ homes to force the banks to make risky loans. (See: M. Jay Wells, “Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened,” http://www.americanthinker.com reprinted by IBD, 10/30/08, p1. This article sets forth a definitive analysis of the mortgage
crisis from Roosevelt to the present. For more on Saul Alinsky, see the end of this article.)


"ACORN used the Clinton amendments to Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act (the “CRA”) as an excuse to intimidate banks to make “Ninja” loans, standing for “no income, no job, no assets.” Obviously, the recipients of Ninja loans could not repay them. ACORN would unleash agitators using Alinsky in-your-face tactics to pressure banks into making these Ninja loans. ACORN was a driving force behind Clinton’s 1995 regulatory revisions that greatly increased the requirements of the CRA.

ACORN also filed law suits under the CRA to prevent banks from expanding or merging, if ACORN thought the banks had not made enough minority loans to meet the requirements of the CRA as ACORN interpreted the law to its own satisfaction (see also, “Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened”).

In 1995, Obama continued his association with ACORN by being part of a team of lawyers, who sued the State of Illinois for allegedly failing to comply with Clinton’s motor vehicle license voter registration law. (See, e.g. Mike Robinson, “Obama Got Start In Civil Rights Practice”, The Associated Press, 2/20/07.) Obama represented ACORN in a 1994 law suit against “red lining.” “ACORN’s Senator,” While serving on the Board of the Woods Fund with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, Obama frequently helped obtain grants for ACORN, which grants were available to assist ACORN fund its agitation activities. ACORN received grants of $45,000 in 2000, $75,000 in 2001, and $70,000 in 2002 from the Woods Fund, while Obama served on its Board. (Donors Forum Website, ifs.donorsforum.org). Obama’s Campaign paid ACORN’s subsidiary Citizens Services, Inc. $800,000, which the Campaign originally reported to the Federal Election Commission as polling, event staging and advance work, when it was actually “get-out-the-vote.” (David M. Brown, “Obama To Amend Report On $800,000 In Spending,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 8/22/08.)
Obamas’s own words last November to ACORN sum up his long political association with ACORN: “’I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.’” “Obamacorn,”. In December 2007, Obama “’promised to implement ACORN’s agenda as president.’”

That same month Obama told the Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum that even before he was inaugurated, “’we’ll be calling all of you (community organizers) in to help us shape the agenda.’” Obama pledged, “We’re gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.”
Every true American should be afraid of that pledge. Combining ACORN’s left-wing social change agenda, its in-your-face intimidation tactics and its apparent willingness to be involved with voter registration fraud, with Obama’s far left-wing Socialist redistribution of wealth philosophy, will be dangerous to our free market system. (See, e. g.Investor’s Business Daily, Series “The Audacity of Socialism,” www.ibdeditorials.com, and search under Special Series for a multipart series on Obama’s Socialist Philosophy and his Socialist and Communist mentors.

Obama in the White House with Pelosi and Reid in charge of Congress is dangerous to our economy and our National Defense. Socialism kills initiative. Obama and the Democrats don’t understand what makes America work and why we have been, up until now, the ‘last great hope of mankind’. Conservatives, like those of ConservativeNJ, fighting against all of Obama, Pelosi and Reid’s Socialist proposals, such as their proposed Nationalization of our healthcare under the false guise of health reform and their economy destroying Cap-and-Tax proposal, are our only hope for the future of this great country.

Why aren’t voters paying attention? Please tell your friends and help them understand that our values and progress as a nation are at stake.

The American Media refuses to tell this story to us, and this is tantamount to conspiracy. They, in refusing to follow stories to conclusion are aiding the flagging President in his drive to greatly change the culture of our country into a collectized society, something every Minuteman would have addressed with a volley of musket shot over a hedgerow at Redcoats.


I’m amazed that many decent, thoughtful people don’t seem to understand economics and human nature. Don’t let them destroy the freedom and opportunities that made America the envy of the world.
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For more information on Saul Alinsky, who wrote several books including Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.

Conservatives On Offense

We of the middle, we Americans that are not at the fringe, are under attack. We are under attack, Conservative America, but we must not sit still for it.

Republicans are so shell-shocked by the lack of media fairness, that they shy away from the conservative values that the News media abhor. Michael Steele has not been the Conservative voice he said he would be. Here in New Jersey, Chris Christie has begun his campaign by fawning all over the most radical, spend-crazy President in WORLD HISTORY. Republicans act like they don't want to say what they stand for.

Here is what CONSERVATIVES stand for, Mr. Steele nationally, Assemblyman Jay Webber in GOP headquarters in Trenton, and GOP nominee Christie. You don't have to be a Republican to hold these views, but the GOP historically has been the Conservative party. We're not so concerned with party affiliation in this moment.

This is about the building American Conservative Movement. We know what we are about, we embrace and will not negotiate our values.

They are:

Life.
Liberty.
2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
Limited Government.
States Rights.
Fiscal Responsibility.
Family values and protecting marriage.
Freedom of religious expression.
STRONG AMERICA.
Illegals OUT.
Secure borders.
Strict interpretation of the Constitution--no legislating from the bench.

ALL OF THESE VALUES ARE UNDER ATTACK FROM THE FRINGE LEFT LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND FROM THE RINOs WHO VOTE WITH THEM.

We must go on the offensive and attack them with purpose, directly, constantly, and in number.

And we have the numbers. If you doubt me, go to http://www.rasmussenreports.com and see what people are saying.

They say that America is on the wrong track. They say they don't want the federal government telling them what kind of light bulbs to us. They say they don't want their health care system destroyed. They say they want an end to the Obama spending.

So, what is to be done?

Let me tell you what.

We must fight as hard as we can. In Congress, we must fight Waxman-Markey aka Cap and Trade and kill it there. If we don't, Americans, we will have federal inspectors asking us about our thermostat settings. Every small businessman in the U.S. will be strapped and be forced to downsize. Unemployment will swell. THESE ARE ECONOMIC CERTAINTIES.

We must FIGHT the Obama-care proposals in Congress. There is no emergency in our health care system, and the idea of DESTROYING an entire industry and replacing it with--GOVERNMENT--is abhorrent to the constitution. It may not even be constitutional, as Waxman-Markey may also not be. But we must fight it.

How do we fight? PHONE SENATORS. PHONE CONGRESSMEN AND CONGRESSWOMEN. FAX THEM. EMAIL THEM. WRITE THEM. Not just your own, either. Call as many of them as you have time to. They all represent you and me, too, as their legislation governs us all.

You must start this today, and you must do it often.

Our News media identify with the fringe elements of our society and will not find TRUTH for us. They won't follow stories to where they lead--if they lead to a place that is bad for Obama and for liberal politic and politicians, generally.

I'd ask them to give a listen to a little John Lennon, "Just Gimme Some Truth." Even John Lennon was looking for limited government. He came here to get away from big government Britain.

Our Entertainment media smear and mar our American ideals. They ridicule us through awful programming, politically edged movies and one-sided documentaries.

They attack their political opponents with their apparatus, rather than parse through everyone's past equally. Conservative Sara Palin was savaged by agents of the Democratic Party and the news media, while Barack Obama's associations with a black racist preacher, with a felonious building contractor in Tony Rezko who bought the Obama house for them, and A.C.O.R.N. low-lifes who stage sit-ins in banks to pressure bankers to give loans to people who cannot afford them, with a pair of low-life terrorists in Ayers and Dohrn, with low-life Governor Blagoyevich, and finally even his birth place is in question.

How about Obama's membership in the communist New Party in the 1990s?

Thus have the News and Entertainment media have we elected an interloper as President, a man whose past is so shady and uncertain that military men who question their C-in-C's origins are given a pass from hazardous duty.

In Barack Obama we have a President who won't talk about VICTORY in Afghanistan--victory is offensive to him. He embraced the would-be tyrant Zaleya after his ouster in Honduras. He is granting Iran nuclear weapons, but is disarming US. He applauds the dictators in Cuba, high-fives Hugo Chavez, the dictator in Venezuela, and sits still for a tongue-lashing by Daniel Ortega at the U.N.

His anti-white prejudices came clear in the Gates affair. He allowed his own Attorney General to say that we are a "nation of cowards on race."

If we don't act now, NOW, we may never be able to undo what these dangerous extremists will have done to our way of life and to our Constitution.

We must act now.

CONSERVATIVES ON OFFENSE! We'll start with the 1st amendment, and work our way up from there.