The Brushfires Of Freedom

"It does not require a majority to prevail...but a tireless, irate minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." (Sam Adams)  What is even more exciting is "freedom only needs to be started; slavery needs to be enforced."  That is what scares the Progressives.  The Tea Party is a brush fire and it is spreading like wild fire.  They are working their tails off trying to put out this brush fire, but there is so much timber for this fire, it is getting out of control.
Isn't it interesting that the opponents of the Tea Party, the grassroots freedom movement, try to remind us that America and our founding fathers used to have slavery.  That fact is true, but what the Progressives are saying is that the grassroots freedom movement (GFM) is not perfect.  "See, their history has slavery in it which needed to be removed."  Ah yes, that is correct.  And removed it was.
But you do not see or hear anyone saying: "There was freedom in your past which needed to be corrected."  No, everyone wants to be on the side of freedom.  People flock to this country because it is the freest in the world.  Nor do you ever hear it said: "There you finally got rid of that freedom."
What is really sad is that the Progressives are trying to enslave us again.  Oh, they have not used the military yet, but they do use the IRS with its 16,000 new double barreled shotguns.  They use government overspending to enslave us under horrendous debt.  Reminds me of the "company towns" that were used to enslave mine workers---raise the prices of every necessary item so that the workers could not get away---they were always in debt.  They use fear tactics: "What will you do if the government does not give you your welfare and Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid?...The USA economy will fail if we refuse to raise the debt limit."  They raise taxes so that none of us can grow and succeed because if we do we will be a threat to their centralized planning, their Nazi/socialist state.  They use guilt by accusing the GFM of not caring for the poor since the GFM does not want the government to cram wealth redistribution down the throats of the people through taxes and welfare.  "The Tea Party is a bunch of hard hearted, gun-toting thugs," the Progressives say.  (That sounds like a description of our present government, doesn't it?  Can you say "projective identification"?)
So what do we do?  We keep setting brushfires of freedom.  Freedom is the desire of every human heart.
No one desires slavery, if they are given a choice.  Slavery, whether by government or by individuals, has to enforced; it does not grow from the heart.  It only grows in the hearts of people who want power, people who consider themselves much more intelligent than those who deserve slavery, people who have been trained at the Ivy-League schools which makes them superior to the rest of us.  A person kidnapped and raped does not say: "I want more of that."  A person robbed at the point of a gun (our government?) says: "Please, give me more of that robbery stuff."  A person being shot by a gun does not say: "Please, shoot me again."  Only mentally deranged people set free from prison say: "Please, imprison me again."
So, you see, what we need to do is to keeping the fires of freedom burning.  There is plenty of "timber/brush" out there that will catch on fire and even though the Progressives may stem its spread, it will keep burning either out in the open in a wild fire or smoldering under cover waiting for another opportunity to flash into the open.
Man, that is kind of terrifying, isn't it?  An explosive wild fire is just waiting to burst out into the open.  Of course, it is only terrifying to the Progressives, those who do want freedom for themselves (note the exemptions the Congress/government gives itself and its friends/supporters whenever it passes a new law or regulation), but do not want freedom for the rest of us.  Watch out, Progressives!  The more pressure you put on the smoldering freedom fire, the more ferocious it will be each time it bursts into the open air.
For the rest of us (the GFM), it is not terrifying, but exciting and exhilarating!  What a time to be alive!  We are in a fight that promises freedom/real life to people world-wide.  Keep up the good fight GFM!!!!