What you can do NOW

My fellow citizens,

Sometimes, thieves come to your house in the middle of the night. Sometimes, you are pick pocketed in broad daylight. Either way, both serve to remove liberties from you and your family. What is happening in this country is a systematic removal of your liberties; we saw the same thing happen to us by the British Monarchy and Parliament more than 200 years ago.

It is happening in the middle of the night when legislators pass bills while you sleep, after they have not read the pending law, and back room signing ceremonies by the President have completed the process to pass yet another law or executive order that by all standards, is not constitutional. It is happening in broad daylight, when citizens gather in peaceful protest, and they are branded as potential threats, 'radical extremists', to the functioning of 'their' government.

It is happening in every branch of government, and at every level, with 'pay to play' special interests and lobbying, no term limits for elected officials, and even in the judiciary, where we see a very insidious form of judicial tyranny and judicial imperialism where, in the words of the most recent supreme court justice nominee, policy (legislation) is made from the bench.

Bailouts and stimulus plans, to help failing business remain in business, is not the American way. We founders never envisioned the federal government wielding so much power as to now nationalize the banks, the transportation industry, and which is a current topic, the nationalization of health care.

The founding fathers are becoming increasingly concerned about the speed at which liberty is slipping away in this great country that we founded.

So the question becomes, what can you, each of you who are awake to what is going on, actually do about it?

We have some suggestions for your serious and careful consideration:

1. Vote out all of the incumbents in the next upcoming election. This is the only way to put the power back in the hands of the people. It must be that government fear the people, but right now, the people fear the government.

We all realize that this may mean that some good and faithful servants who actually are doing the work of the people, will also fall in this excision, but the cancer must be cut out, we must dispose of all the garbage in Washington. It does not take a third party, all it takes is your one vote to be cast against every incumbent running. If the hundreds of thousands in the 912 movement alone can rise up, and vote as one block, all over the country, it will send a very important message to all who serve as our elected officials-beware of us. There is power in numbers working together.

2. Vote with your pocketbook. There are postings all over the net describing and detailing who the recipients of the TARP bailout and stimulus monies were. Just as we did in early America, boycott those businesses.

Take for example a large bank in your town. Nearly all of these larger banks received stimulus money-your money, for mistakes they made in running their business. I realize that there are arguments that they were 'forced' to make bad loans by the government. But doesn't that again show that the government cannot be trusted to ensure the safety of the economy? The nationalization of these banks, car companies, and perhaps soon, health care, should send a shiver of fear down the spine of every American.

Our proposal on what you each can do today: take your money out of those banks that accepted bailout money. Do not buy products from companies that have been nationalized by the government. Use your collective economic power to determine the outcome. In a large metropolitan area, there are banks that received bailout money, and there were those that did not. Take your money out of those that did, and put it in the hands of responsible businesses. Do not let these government-controlled banks have access and use to your money.

Instead of a GM or Chrysler car, buy a Ford, or buy a foreign car that has large manufacturing operations in the U.S. which are not controlled by unions. Send the message that you will not allow government control of business.

In all of this, the point is to take the money out of the system so that these companies, and the government, do not have access to your money. We have powers in numbers working together. And when you take your money out, be sure to drop a letter to the CEO of the bank or the business you are boycotting, and tell them why. When they receive thousands of these letters, and they see their balance sheets dry up, they will know it is the power of the people at work.

3. After you have voted out all the incumbents in 2010, then start the process of vetting the new candidates for office in 2010. Support those candidates that share your principles and values. Make those candidates sign a pledge of how they will conduct themselves. Ask them to refuse special interest monies, which means you have to work harder for them as they will have less funds to work with. But we have power in numbers when we are working together.

4. Participate, recruit, continue to educate yourselves and others. More numbers means more power. Attend Tea Parties, talk to other people. Get to know each other, because the road ahead will be hard, and you must know who you will be standing with.

5. Seek alternative forms of compensation that do not use the Federal Reserve System dollars. Use exchange/bartering systems to exchange goods and services amongst people you know and trust. Establish ways to pay people based on gold and silver, a system which does not devalue over time the way that paper money has in every major civilization before.

These are but a few suggestions that need your careful review and consideration. It should be pointed out that we, in our struggle for independence against the tyrannical British Empire, were ultimately successful using tactics such as these. They worked then, and will work today. But understand, this can come at a high cost. It would not be surprising if I, at some point, am taken away to a holding area as a detainee, because in writing these words, I am branded an enemy combatant against the United States Government machine.

But we all have to remember, and beware that failure to act means the future of the Republic we built could diminish liberties even further, or worse, cease to exist. I will write about what that means for the future of this country in my next edition.

Respectfully,

John Adams
Citizen Servant of the People, and on behalf of the Founding Fathers