The road that we once walked!

Friday – October 29, 2010

The road that we once walked!

On this journey to write the wrong of a government that has robbed us of our liberty and freedom it has come down to this. We have 4 days left until the midterm elections on November 2nd. We have voluntarily joined in this fight, not because we don’t have anything else to do, but it is because it is our duty to do this. It is our duty to take the power away from the establishment and to bring representative government back to those who are represented. It is a road that we must take.

When I write, I try to bring into focus historical events that occurred at the beginning of this country. History repeats itself, so we must learn what history has shown us. We must view the road of history in an historical context. It is no coincidence that I am writing my FORUM today about how, in colonial times, groups organized.
Committees of Correspondence were used in eighteenth-century America to maintain contact among institutions and communities. The Massachusetts Assembly established such a committee to deal specifically with the problem of British policy, as early as 1764. In 1771, the Boston Town Meeting appointed a committee to rouse fervor elsewhere in Massachusetts. The committee was the idea of Samuel Adams. Relations with Britain were quiescent at the time, but Adams believed Britain's seeming retreat in 1770 by its repeal of four of the five Townshend taxes had only been tactical and that colonials needed to be prepared for another crisis.
On this date, in 1772, groups were appointed by the legislatures of all 13 American colonies to provide a means of inter-colonial communication. The first standing group was formed by Samuel Adams in Boston and within three months, 80 others were formed in Massachusetts. In 1773, Virginia organized a committee with 11 members, including Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The committees were instrumental in promoting colonial unity and in summoning the First Continental Congress in 1774.
Today’s FORUM is my 369th. I have never run out of things to write about, because history’s story never ends when you look for context.
The President said to Jon Stewart on his show this week that, “Social Security, when it was originally passed, was a structure for progressive legislation. It is the framework for all that we do.”

Our purpose for organizing is to re-create those committees of correspondence so that we either stop or repeal the legislation that this president is sponsoring and has signed into law, because of the structure that is in place.

Yesterday I wrote: The direction we take will mean one of two things. We can choose to remain free, with limited rights, if we take that left turn or, if we choose to go right, we can insist that our government and the politicians that serve that government don’t limit our rights. This is what this election is all about.

Thomas Jefferson defined the road, in this way, when he wrote, "Declaration of The Rights of Man and The Citizen" as, "Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law."

The colonists used the road of history to create a new road that led to a great nation that would make its own history. They used European history to write the wrongs of the English King and his Parliament. They used history to create a new system of government that not only represented the people but employed two words that would define its purpose, Liberty and Freedom. It created a government that would govern by the consent of the governed.

What can I say? I love liberty and I love freedom. I love the history that men like Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Payne and Henry wrote and spoke of. I love the journey down the road that they built. I love the stories and I love the path to freedom that we are now re-creating. What can I say? I love my country and I want my fellow countrymen to know their history, so it will never again be forgotten.

Jon Stewart made history this week by calling the President “dude.” This is not the history that makes a president great. However, this is history that propels a comedian to greatness. This history only dilutes the importance of what historical context will come to mean.

This weekend, try to bring into context the historical meaning of what this election will come to mean. On Tuesday, make history and bring a context to your vote. You can repave the road that has been under your feet all the time.

I end the week with this quote: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1775

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: With 4 days left until history’s story is once again called upon - remember one thing, your vote is yours to make. It is yours to make history with!