I've been reading some talk about my involvement in our little "Tea Party" and the Northern Liberty Alliance - and that I'm keeping my role a secret, which couldn't be further from the truth! I am very proud of my role, although very limited at this point because I'm running for city council and my focus, time and energy for the last few months has been on city issues.
I'm not hiding anything. As a matter of fact, I've been on radio shows talking about it with pride!
Here are my thoughts, real simple...
Police officer Pete Stauber and I both agreed way back in March that we wanted to throw a "tea party" alongside the Duluth Harbor as an opportunity for average, every day citizens (from all walks of life and all persuasions) to come out and voice their opinions on how well they see their elected representatives working for them in Washington, D.C.
The day was for "the People" to speak, not the politicians (although we welcomed all politicians to come and LISTEN). Some have it misconstrued, that we excluded politicians from the invite list. That is incorrect.
They were invited, we just excluded them from the speaker list. (We've heard enough from the politicians. We wanted the politicians to hear from us, "the People"). Some say I was a politician speaking at the event. That is incorrect. I was just an average mom/citizen allowing others to speak their minds and offering up a few quotes from our Founding Fathers. My role was to remind the audience of the wonderful insight of our Founding Fathers, when they created the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. How can you hate that?
The focus of our organization is to remind and educate our citizenry of our American roots, from which grew the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The Northern Liberty Alliance came out of our little tea party and now boasts close to 500 members from all over Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Although we've talked about forming a PAC, it has been decided not to pursue that at this time. The focus is on education. We are a non-partisan group of citizens who are working to promote and preserve the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. And we share a strong belief, like our founding fathers, in the free market system, economic liberty, limited government and the principles espoused in the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
For me, simply put, it's about preserving our freedom. And I have the right to speak out about it. That's what makes this country so great!
Thanks,
Becky Hall
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Becky,
ReplyDeleteThe question I have is why you waited so long to worry about the Constitution? Where were you crying and screaming foul when the Constitution was being ravaged with warrantless searches and fishing expiditions? Where were you when the Patriot Act was being rushed through to trample on our basic rights as Americans? Where have you been as international treaties we (Ronald Reagan) signed against torture were being shredded. Did you ONCE raise your fist at 'Presidential signing statements'? I can tell you where I was? Screaming at the top of my lungs in the wilderness.
Agreed, the bailouts are a danger to America. Capitalism dictates that even those that are 'too big to fail' should crumble when they fail as businesses. We should have taken the lumps all at once, instead of over the next generation. The bailout money is being spent to shore up a few interests who happen to be turning around and abusing the very people who for decades will be paying back the debt they created. That is not what angers me most about Obama. It is that he is NOT reversing the Constitution destroying policies of the Bush administration. He is coddling them, and solidifying them as powers of the President, when the Constitution clearly states otherwise.
You 'tea baggers' annoy me. If you only WOULD be for protecting the destruction of our Constitution ALL of the time. The document is precious in its entirety, not just the parts that you choose to pick and choose on any given day.