The way forward:

April 25, 2011

The way forward:

I am taking a few days off to update the website, so that I can tie together the necessary elements to move Pinecone Conservatives forward.

There are many elements that go into making a functional organization so that the mission can be accomplished and that others can understand the meaning behind the effort. I have been writing and laying out the meaning of conservative thought and action for nearly two years. I will continue the daily FORUM and will now be able to initiate the next steps through the FORUM and the functional side of the site.

The message I have been concentrating on is how our forefathers initiated the necessary action to move ahead with a movement for Independence. I have written about the meaning of liberty and freedom, as it relates to current events and how the words of history can still be applied.

I do not view myself as an arm chair academic. I view myself as someone with a voice and someone that wants do to something little in the bigger effort of maintaining our liberty and freedom through the prism of history and the strength that it takes to maintain what our forefathers laid out as a plan and the way forward for the nation.

This week, I could write about the budget fight just over the horizon. Or I could write about a cowardly president calling the Republican budget plan cowardly, before a group of young people who don’t know the first thing about our history and what cowards do when they label others cowards.

I could write about how the president is using a scripted story to demonize those who truly want to reform the country so that it remains strong, instead of weakening the country through the entitlements that have bankrupted all that is good in the American spirit.

I could be writing about how the Middle East is a continuing threat to our freedom and our economy, because of our dependence on foreign oil. I could write how we should be exploiting our own energy reserves and put an economic pinch on the Middle East with lost American revenue.

I know I would have written about the continued dwindling value of the dollar and how inflation is now taking more of our disposable income. I would have told you that oil companies profits have nothing to do with inflation. The president will use the oil profit picture as a diversion, so that new inflationary pressures that are a result of his spending and his economic policies will not be talked about.

I know that I would have written about the story of Sybil Ludington, a 16 year old girl who rode from New York to Connecticut in a harrowing 40 mile journey rallying her father’s militia on April 26, in the year 1777. I would have written about her bravery and how most of us lack the bravery that Sybil displayed on that April ride. She was no coward and she knew the mission.

I know that I would have written about the President’s ability to project his bravery from being that arm chair academic. Sitting in the arm chair is far different from being on that horse signaling the warning and asking ordinary people to be brave and fight for the independence and freedom that people like Sybil Ludington called for.

So, I am taking a few days. I hope that when I am done I get a little closer to gaining the strength and mounting the saddle that came easy to 16 year old Sybil Ludington.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: The story of Sybil Ludington was buried in the footnote of history. However, like many stories in our fight for independence her story can once again be told and can once again inspire all of us to consider the way forward. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Ludington)