Liberty For All

by Craig Dixon

Lately, I’ve had a few people approach me with the following sentiment, “You write about all of the problems… but you aren’t saying anything about solutions… you’re all talk and no action.”

If that be the case, let me rectify that here and now. Dare I say, it could be easier to fix the problems than it would be to coherently explain them all-and how we’ve arrived to this juncture. However, the solution is less complicated than the convoluted labyrinth of problems we face.

The solution is you. You… the activist.

I don’t mean slick lobbying. I don’t mean writing your corrupt, bailout-supporting, traitorous representative an angry letter (No one is going to read it). I don’t mean being that annoying political-science nerd at the front of the classroom (Hi there!). I don’t mean showing up to a politician’s centrally organized rally either (you know the ones, some intern puts you in little colored shirts, they bus you in, they feed you, they stick little buttons on you, plop a sign in your hand and wind the motor up…). I don’t mean those forms of “activism.”

You the activist must be confrontational. You the activist must get mad and then direct that anger. Mad enough to form political action groups in your community and on your campuses. Mad enough to stand on the street and utilize your constitutional rights; not silently, but with thunder and ferocity! You must be loud enough, and mad enough for the corporate media shills to reveal their bias when they ignore you. You must get mad enough to take up arms in the form of pen and pad, and become a citizen journalist. And lastly… you need to be mad enough to run for office.

We need American patriots in office and the media… not politicians.

The only way to take our government back from statists… is to take our government back from statists. Threatening their jobs in the next election is not enough; they’ll only be replaced by another weasel-like ladder-climber. America needs you to take control of our media… and America needs you to run for office.

The statist’s most potent weapon in the war for the American people’s mind is their corporate media. The influence is a power like no other in the history of mankind… the ability to shape public opinion, and ultimately public policy.

As John Stossel, the admittedly libertarian news anchor pointed out, “”Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine.”

-but the majority of reporters hide under a blanket of objectivity and truth, framing an issue in a light they see fit, a light often favoring the state. Such is the case with the stimulus plan, as Stossel writes:

“Most reporting on the “stimulus” package has the same flaw. Just to call it “stimulus” is to editorialize, since the idea that government spending can truly stimulate an economy is at best doubtful. Many good economists say it can’t be done.”

The kind of editorializing that Stossel is pointing out is wide-spread, and so pervasive, that it would take an absurd amount of space to document every case that I could find in today’s reported content alone.

We are drowning in a sea of lies.

If one does take the time to research the lies so often peddled to us as truth, one will find that they are constant and flowing. The corporate media alone cannot be trusted as a credible source of information in this age.

The media shapes our opinions, and influences policy, enabling the statists to then execute their plans through legislation. It works, in many ways, like a factory. Each part of our modern society constitutes a part of that statist-machine. You are expected to push buttons… and the media wants to tell you which buttons you should be pushing.

When we threaten the statists with their jobs, they may occasionally placate us. They occasionally throw us a bone, do a song and dance for the cameras, and paint an image of patriotism. However, all one has to do is look at the legislation that we have allowed to be passed to know the truth.

They’re killing our dollar, tarnishing our global image, suppressing democracy through ridicule and intimidation, and stealing our natural rights.

They indebt our children and grandchildren with bailouts only to add “incentives” that the media endearingly report as “sweeteners”…. but this just another attempt at placation. The truth is that fascism and economic terror are creeping into our everyday lives.

I for one will not stand for it.

I majored in journalism during my college career, not to become a vessel for the statist media-but to learn how to combat it. I am dedicating my life to this cause.

Around the country, vocal citizens like Tea Party organizer Matthew Ridenhour are stepping into the arena of politics to challenge the indulgent and arrogant politicians that desecrating our nation.

As a response to Tea Party organizations like Ridenhour’s, leftist shills like Rachel Maddow, and Keith Olberman mock the process of democracy– by use of ad-homniem and guilt by association. They will also invite celebrities, such as Janeane Garafalo, to provide insightful commentary on the protests. They will provide rhetorical gems that stand as shining examples of their political adeptness:

“It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House…Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with.”

These are the reasons we need you, the individual, reporting. The true watchdogs are on the blogs, not NBC.

The youth are being tapped by projects like Jared Fuller’s Year of Youth inspiring America’s next generation of constitutionalist leaders to take the fight early and challenge the corrupt now, not later.

The resistance to a banana republic is rising. I need you to be activists and join them. America needs you to be activists. We need you to fight.

I believe so passionately in our constitutional republic that I spend everyday fighting for it. Finding and training activists around the country is my full-time job, and I feel honored to have it. I want you to join me in any way that you can.

Many will say “I’m too busy,” “I don’t have time,” “I wish there was more I could do,” but if citizens continue their widespread apathy… things will only continue to deteriorate, perhaps to an irreversible point. If you want to preserve your life that keeps you so busy-you will take a stand for it. You must fight for liberty, or the flames our founding fathers lit will be extinguished forever.

We’re entering the twilight years of this republic. Our slow collapse is the culmination of sins committed throughout the 20th century; inane monetary policy, imperial aspirations, allowance of an all-but-honest subversive media, corporate subsidies, and the welfare state are all to blame. There is very likely to be a sudden, violent, and sobering break-point soon.

A slow collapse may give way to a free-fall; a republic that could no longer bear the onus of the sins placed upon her shoulders by traitors.

Revolution is not too strong of a word. Dare I say, war is not too strong of a word. Lovers of liberty must realize that simple talk will not vanquish the leviathan state that is subverting our economy, our liberty, and our way of life. We are in an ideological war. We are in a war for the nation’s soul and if we lose it… the world will no longer have our light of liberty to guide it.

We can’t solve the problem of statism, by asking statists to solve it… their solution will be more state control. We must look to ourselves and take action ourselves.