
In my travels across North Carolina since February 2009, I have attended patriot group meetings across the state. For various reasons, the idea that we should follow the same principles as our founding fathers is not well understood. The colonists rallied around the slogan “Unite or Die” because they knew the price of freedom AND what they had to do to achieve it.
The Tea Parties across the country were usurped by the Republican Party and TPINOs (Tea Party in Name Only) in 2010. “Leaders” argued against any talk of a third political party or the necessity to join forces to be united. How easily we forget (or wish to conveniently forget) that the strength of our country is that we were the “United” States of America. The forces aligned against our future and freedom understood and implemented the basic transformation of our country into the Divided States of America. This has effectively caused our economic and moral collapse without a single shot being fired. As we maintain a course of individualism and personal agendas, the only focus that we can agree on is who will be the Republican Party’s presidential candidate in 2012.
The excerpt from the article below outlines the flaws of the larger Tea Party movements across the county. As shown in Raleigh at the General Assembly, the Tea Party movement in the eyes of the Republican Party has been marginalized and of no further consideration. As I wrote in an earlier article, our founding fathers warned us about political parties and politicians:
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