Fort Myers Tea Party 2009

I just wanted to share some photos of the Fort Myers, Florida Tea Party I attended this evening. It was a great experience and I hope that there are more events like this in the future. This is what America is about! I was able to talk to others throughout the event that are tired of the nonsense that is our elected leaders. 

This was not about party affiliation, but about being a concerned citizen of this great country. There is not an official count of how many attended the event, but there looked to be at least 2,000 people there. Here is a little slideshow of the event:

What is Liberty?

  When our founding forefathers began this great country they began it by creating two documents. Those two documents are The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States of America. These two documents were written to give all Americans certain guarantees when they were born within the borders of our country. The preamble to the Constitution contains the following: 

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

 In the Declaration of Independence it states the following:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

  Our founding forefathers wanted to guarantee certain things to those that came after them in order to give them a place to dream and to dream big. The word liberty is defined by dictionary.com as:

1. freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
2. freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
3. freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
4. freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint: The prisoner soon regained his liberty.
5. permission granted to a sailor, esp. in the navy, to go ashore.
6. freedom or right to frequent or use a place: The visitors were given the liberty of the city.
7. unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech, or a form or instance of it: to take liberties.
8. a female figure personifying freedom from despotism.

 There is a reason that people often refer to both documents that I am talking about as "living documents." The reason being is that although they were written over 250 years ago they still CAN and SHOULD hold true today. Even with all of the big corporations, the lying politicians, the corrupt banks, and flat out corporate greed these documents can speak to us in times of need. We can learn from these documents just as our forefathers learned from them.

The picture at the top of this blog is of course The Liberty Bell . The fact that this bell, that is a symbol for liberty, is cracked has symbolism all over it. Do we honestly believe that we can all attain liberty at some point. In order to have liberty we must have everything that the Bill of Rights guarantees all Americans! However, with that being said do we really have liberty? 

While of course to a certain extent we do compared to other countries. Perhaps the crack in The Liberty Bell symbolizes that although "liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is in fact a beautiful thing; that we will never experience true liberty as a country. Now you may think that is a cynical view of things and perhaps I should have a more optimisitic view of where we are headed as a nation and as a global society. 

However, there is a passage in the book Behold A Pale Horse breaks it down for all of us:

""One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth. And there is nothing more devastating to a structure of lies than the revelation of the truth upon which the structure of lies was built, because the shock waves of the revelation of the truth reverberate, and continue to reverberate throughout the Earth for generations to follow, awakening even those people who had no desire to be awakened to the truth." (by Delamar Duvaris as written in the preface of "Behold the Pale Horse" by William Cooper).

What does this have to do with liberty? Perhaps if that one truth was to come out and crumble the lies that we have all been told since we were kids then and only then could we possibly have liberty. Will that mountain of lies ever crumble? Not in my lifetime! And the saddest thing of all is that the things "we" (I use that term loosely since I do not agree with the spend spend spend attitude of the current administration) are doing right now are going to affect our kids, our nieces, and our nephews. 

As long is money, profits, and materialistic things are running the world we will always have greed and the struggle of power amongst politicians. Can Capitalism and Liberty co-exist? Yeah right, take a look around...... 

Sit back and take in all of the lyrics..... Absolutely amazing!

I know the pieces fit
'Cause I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smouldering
Fundamental differing
Pure intention juxtaposed
Will set two lovers' souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes
Testing our communication
The light that feuled our fire then
Has a burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end
Crippling our communication

I know the pieces fit
'Cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame
It doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other
Watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together
Rediscover communication

The poetry
That comes from the squaring off between
And the circling is worth it
Finding beauty in the dissonance

There was a time that the pieces fit
But I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smouldering
Strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know
The dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow
And strengthen our communication

Cold silence has
A tendency to
Atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed brothers
Between supposed lovers
(sometimes says "lovers" the first
time and then "brothers" in concert)

I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit (crescendo)

Until Next Time,

Spiral Out