Our Federal representatives are more intent on getting reelected than actually protecting our freedoms and liberties. They don’t listen to constituents, but are hell-bent on either placating us with bribes or instilling fear in us if their legislation doesn’t pass. All of this is in conjunction with a voracious usurpation of authority and accelerated centralization of power.
Much of this is our fault as we have been one issue voters and beholden to our beloved parties for so long. If we’re honest, we’ve left it to the politicians and think tanks to come up with the solutions to our ills; most of which include an ever- swelling federal bureaucracy.
This brings us to a defining moment: Do we stay predictable and keep fighting the battle on their terms or do we choose a battlefield that is more favorable to us? At our core, we know the latter is the only viable option. Our understandable hesitation rests on being brought up to believe that communicating our position to our representatives is patriotic and doing so is an essential part of our democratic process. While this is accurate if our elected officials adhere to our Constitution, it is entirely irrelevant and ineffective in our current political landscape at the federal level.
So the question begs, “how do we adapt?”
We must identify the problem (done) and consciously choose to take a new approach that offers not only true hope, but successful historical precedence. Enter Step 1 – “The Paradigm Shift.”
Part 1 – Notifying our Federal Representatives that:
Part 2 – Spend our time and resources focusing on things better within our control (i.e. state governments), such as:
As for the next step, “The Gamechanger” will be announced and implemented in early 2010. It’s a three point plan focused Federal candidates and incumbents, State candidates and incumbents, and us the citizenry. This accountability tool will enable us to not only guarantee our adherence to the founder’s system of governance, but to find truly principled citizen statesmen to support.
Until we shed the skin of predictability and focus on the only entity that will successfully limit the overreach of the federal government, we will continue to lose our freedoms and liberties at breakneck speed. Become part of the growing liberty movement that is breaking the cycle of predictability and join us in executing the “The Paradigm Shift.”
Joshua is the co-host of The Forgotten Men radio show Saturdays at 12 noon, Eastern, on AM930 WFMD – and the co-founder of We Surround Them Frederick.
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Sounds like the makings of a great plan, Joshua. I just hope we're in time.
I could send my representatives letters informing them they no longer represent me but do you think they would actually see it?
What do you think the odds are we could get at least one news paper in every state (50 if your most people, 52 if you are our President) to print an open letter? "Dear Congressman of the 111th Congress, We the People in order to form a more perfect union hereby inform you that you no longer represent us. This is the last you will hear from us. We will not be calling, e-mailing, faxing or sending smoke signals. The next time you will hear from us is in the Spring of 2010. Please begin packing your bags now, move in an orderly fashion to the nearest exist and have a nice day."
A more powerful statement would be to get as many news papers as we could to print it on the same day; front page would be awesome, but I doubt they'd give us that.
If mainstream print wants to sell some papers I think they would benefit from giving us a front page article in the form of a Congressional Letter of Termination.
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I could send my representatives letters telling them they no longer represent me but do you think they would actually see it?
What do you think the odds are we could get at least one news paper from every state (50 if your normal, 52 if you are our President) to print an open letter to Congress? "Dear Congressman of the 111th Congress, We the people in order to form a more perfect union hereby inform you your services are no longer needed. This is the last you will hear from us. We will not be writing, calling, faxing, e-mailing or sending smoke signals. The next time you here from us will be in the Spring of 2010 when we make our demands known. Please begin packing your bags now, move toward the exits in an orderly fashion and have a nice day."
I think we could get them to do it if someone is persuasive enough to remind them they don't sell many copies and this would help boost sales if they could all print our "Congressional Letter of Termination" on the front page on whatever day we decided. We could, perhaps, also promise to publish our demands in the same fashion.
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I don't know that it's enough to tell them that "they no longer represent us". I think this is one case where it really is about them. The message needs to be "YOU have FAILED to do your job., you have FAILED to abide by your oath, and you have FAILED to represent us, therefore you will not hear from us again until your next job interview. Come prepared to answer questions and make sure that you have the correct answers. See you in 2010 and good luck!"
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