Sea of Grass

by James A. Bridge
I am a blade of grass.

We unite today, yesterday, and tomorrow, across a broad expanse of the United States of America. We have joined hands out of necessity, this time; not that we wouldn't gladly take one another's hand at any time.

We are Americans, New Jerseyans, New Yorkers, Ohioans, Floridians, Arizonans, Californians, Alaskans, Montanans, white and black, of European, African, or Asian descent. We have found one another in common cause to fight what has befallen us. We must fight a cynical group of politicians, and news media reporters, and directors of reporters, fight them with every extra moment of each day, with purpose, relentlessly pushing our cause forward.

Our cause is liberty. Our cause is federalism. Our cause is fiscal responsibility. Our cause is secure borders for our country, and the removal from amongst us who are in our country illegally. Our cause is for a strong America, a military that is second to none, and a foreign policy that shines with the promise of liberty that is imbued in our most sacred of documents—our Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution.

I greet you all, out there, everywhere, and I stand with you, as I am, a lone American.

I am a blade of grass.

But I stand not alone from sea to sea. I stand shoulder to shoulder with you. When the wind disturbs us, we rustle, and when the wind is fierce, we wave and roar. We are heard, and here, as we stand across thousands of miles, we are seen, today, as we stood yesterday and as we will stand tomorrow.

We Americans embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of our nation. Here we came from Europe, from Asia, from everywhere, to escape the socialist and Marxists experiments of totalitarian societies. Here we came with our long knives and our flintlocks and carved out of a wilderness the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Here we came, and God gave us the good fortune to have angels amongst us, agents of the greatest good, a George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Adams, these legendary figures who are more than just worth of historical moment. These great men shook off the totalitarian chains of a British King, a king who did not cherish liberty, a king who wanted the scepter and arms of the crown to intrude into every domicile of his American possessions.

For we then, as today, and tomorrow; we stood first, singly, as individual blades of grass, then as a mass of blades of grass that rustled with the wind, and finally we were a sea that chafed and cried out with answers to every royal rebuke. We were soon heard at Lexington, and at Concord, as our musket balls harried the Redcoats back to Boston harbor, and ultimately back to Britain in defeat.

These American angels looked to their faith in God, and to what man had wrought in search of good government in ancient times, and then, too, examined the American experiment of colonial governments, parliaments, and in the loose federation called the United States of American under the Articles of Confederation. They created in our Constitution a more perfect union. But, they erred, and the like of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson reminded them that some rights must be averred, openly stated, even though manifest and obvious in their time.

They had the foresight to enumerate these rights, however obvious they were, and so staunchly did they adhere to the need for them, that only with the pre-condition of these enumerated rights would this perfect union gel and breathe.

Those rights, that seemed so unnecessary to be stated, are today under fire from forces of tyranny, totalitarianism, and collectivism. They are not a foreign enemy. We, the American people, have chosen them to serve us, and we have been asleep. While we slept, we allowed them to undo what had been done for us.

Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of a religion—have not our time-honored traditions of Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Rosh Hashanah been stilled from our government halls, banished from open celebration, as if none of us who serve in government should have a faith or want to celebrate. We should not make that joyful noise, say the self-proclaimed Progressives, who in every thing they do reveal a deep loathing for what our Founders wrought, and for who our Founders were. This most obvious of all rights has been quashed, and we have slept through it.

But now, we awake.

The people have the right to petition the government with grievances—has not our own President demanded that we be still? We rub our eyes, is it possibly true? Has this happened?

Yes it has.

Freedom of speech—has not our President used his authority to collect a list of dissenting voices? We sit up in disbelief. Yes, he has. You might find your information logged at flag-at-whitehouse-dot-gov.

The right of the people to bear arms—the second of these rights that our Founding Fathers knew must be enshrined in stated word—is this right now under attack? Has our President not said that many of us cling to our guns and religions out of bigotry and ignorance? We stand as one and say, Mr. President, do you not know the history of this country, whose reigns we have handed you, and whose Constitution you have sworn to uphold and protect? Do you not know of the murder of nine patriots at Lexington in 1775? Do you not remember, sir, the five murdered by the Redcoats in Boston in 1770, including a man who loved liberty more than you, a man of color, Crispus Attucks? Whether you want to hear it or not, we have the right to bear those arms to protect us from tyranny. We have the right to protect our liberty with our weapons, friends; why else would the forces of big government and tyranny want to strip that right from us?

The right to a speedy trial—when in recent memory has there been a speedy trial? We have allowed our legal system to frustrate the demand for justice in allowing trials to continue over years, needlessly. But, this basic right has, too, all but disappeared.

The most important of all rights, given to us in the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution, have been abused by our court system, and have been circumvented by Congress after Congress, and by Presidents, until now, the boldest threat to our Constitutional authority is at our door. President Barack Hussein Obama in the White House, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, will undo with finality our last claims upon liberty and federalism. Our individual liberty and the protection of our state government authority from the usurpation of a power-mad national government is upon us. This is usurpation, for the national government is refused any power that is not enumerated, and that which is not is reserved first to the people, and then to the state.

However with the passage of two pieces of legislation, Waxman-Markey, and the infamous Presidential lie of health care “reform”, our 9th and 10th amendments will be destroyed.

If this most disgraceful 111th Congress passes, and this most anti-American President ever, sign into law both bills, our legislators will give our last shred of liberty away.

If the federal government can reach into my house and control my thermostat, I have no freedom left. This is what Waxman-Markey, a.k.a. Cap and Trade, will do. If the federal government will tell me if I may or may not receive treatment for what ails me, and if that federal government will punish me for seeking such treatment outside of this law, then I am no longer free.

If these measures are enacted, our legislators and President will have willfully violated their oaths of office. They will, with these measures, make slaves of us all. They will have made our state governments mere handmaidens to the national tyranny. We will have nowhere to go to celebrate liberty, other than to our history books.

These assaults upon our liberty are real, current. They loom before us, a monstrous evil that besets us from many quarters. Reporters, and directors of reporters, have become our enemies. They denounce our struggle for truth, and shield it from us. They have sided with the forces who plan to handcuff us to a new world order, who would chain us to our national government as they would oxen to the yoke, and they would lash us into quiet servitude. Whether by accident or design, the press has been co-opted by forces of tyranny and will not work to save or protect us, as they may have once done.

Theses are mighty enemies: Congress, President, and Press. The enormity of their combined power might break the spirit of a more timid people, of a people who are easily cowed. Americans, though are not these.

I am a blade of grass. I chafe and rustle with each affront to my liberty. I, today, as yesterday, and tomorrow, am not alone, for a I hear a loud noise of chafing and rustling times a thousand, times a hundred million.

I am a blade of grass and I am not alone.

Americans who cherish liberty will not allow this final insult to the American way of life occur and stand. We will attack it with our voices. We will attack it with our votes. If these anti-American forces refuse to yield and continue to take from us our God-given liberty, we will fight you wherever we need to, with whatever tools or weapons. If this Congress and this President make these steps, we will in a subsequent Congress and under a different President undo them.

We will not tolerate it, and we will fight for liberty.

I am a blade of grass and I am not a lone. I stand shoulder to shoulder in a sea of roaring grass, and we shout with one voice, “LIBERTY! AMERICA! JOIN US!”

Under the Big Top: The ObamaPowell

by James A. Bridge

Who doesn't love a circus?

There is always so much to see, and even strange animals. Here is one I just found. The ObamaPowell.


It is a strange animal indeed, evocative of the Pushme-Pullyou of Dr. Doolittle fame.
The ObamaPowell is an animal that doesn't know whether it's coming or going. But it certainly does look like a Jackass. Not so much like an elephant.


You'd think an ObamaPowell would look more like a Rhino. Republicans In Name Only are evocative of that beast, a dangerous animal that can do damage with it's horn. But, the ObamaPowell is most aptly an iteration of that beast of braying nonsense and horse laughter.

For Colin Powell is no Republican, regardless of how hard he tries to sell himself as such.

Colin Powell disgraced himself while Secretary of State by goring and backstabbing his President, George Bush, at the U.N., particularly over the Kyoto Accords. He has further disgraced his Party by openly supporting Barack Obama, terming him a "moderate", and snubbing the only true moderate in the field, Senator John McCain.

Colin Powell continues to lash out at Republicans and Conservatives, most recently about anyone who calls self-styled "wise latina" Sonia Sotomayaor a racist. A self-proclaimed product of affirmative action, Ms. Sotomayor has made a career out of legislating on race from the bench, and suffered a Supreme Court rebuke for that behavior in the case of the New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters.

Affirmative action is an assertion of racism. You may well say that is is a correction of what may be white racism, but reverse racism is still racism. Giving a thing a proper name should not be problematic. Truth is bracing and liberating. But Mr. Powell doesn't think so.

The news media may continue to roll this wishy-washy hack out as the "Republican voice", but I for one see Colin Powell for what he is. He is a blue-dog Democrat. He is no Republican. He doesn't seem to have one Conservative impulse in him, and Conservatism is the Republicans magnetic north to steer by.

Back-stabbing, irresolute people like Colin Powell aren't fit spokesmen for the Republican Party. The Obama-media will constantly use him, though, because they insist upon sowing dissent amongst the ranks of Conservatives. I, however, am not fooled, nor am I distraught any longer by this clear, marked bias. Opinion polling tells the tale, and America is reacting poorly to the Obama agenda, nor are Republicans and Conservatives as confused and at odds as Colin Powell and is crowd of neo-Copperheads are.

I ask that Colin Powell, take himself hence, please, away from us. If I found myself in fox hole with him, I'd jump out into the teeth of withering machine gun fire. His treachery to party and to a sitting President are legendary. That is why the Press embrace him.

Colin Powell should go to that big circus tent of his, and spend some time studying the ObamaPowell. This new circus beast may offer him insight as to who he really is.

"Deep Throat" and Press Integrity Die

Mark Felt, Farewell...and A Few Questions


Farewell, Mark Felt. You were a hero. You've left for another place. You held high values of honor and of loyalty to the Constitution, rather than just to a man or a boss. I salute the patriot who has passed, who dared alert the Press to a corruption in a Presidency that needed scrutiny.

But, Mark, I wish I could have had a chance to speak with you about where the bulldogs of the Press were in 2008, and where they chose to go and not to go. Press integrity seems to have died with you. For a man will be President in a matter of weeks who is associated with political gangsters in Illinois, with Weather Underground terrorists, with anti-Semitic PLO spokesmen, and with black racists and racism. But the the Press wouldn't follow those stories Mark, and I'm wondering, as I remember your "Deep Throat" chapter in American History, I'm wondering how this could have happened. Only Aaron Burr had worse associations--he most likely was in the pay of the Spanish government. But let me get back to the point.

Mark, your role came during the Nixon Presidency. I remember it clearly. I had returned to the United States in August of 1968 after two years in Asia. I remember being scared and shaken by the shooting of James Meredith, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. America was at war with something within itself, I saw from afar in Bangkok with an odd war nearby in Vietnam raging.

The sixties spilled into the seventies like a bunch of drunks into the streets at closing time. Bad clothes, bad hair, bad politics. An emboldened Left marched even further Left, keeping company with Communists and terrorists, screaming Stop The War and picking fights with law and order on college campuses all around the country. Kent State erupted in tragic riot and gunfire on May 4th, 1970 that killed four students, widening the rift between generations and Political Parties. Then, came the Presidential Campaign of 1972.

Mark, you then gave us the expurgation that was the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, though it would be decades before we knew you. The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
put the heat on the President. He was forced resign the Presidency in disgrace. The War finally over, we had a hangover from it all including a fuel crisis from our friends the Arabs. A White Knight called Jimmy Carter to make it all better in 1976. What a disaster that turned out to be.

The Post's efforts to get at the truth and the movie that followed seemed to give America back it's soul. We didn't want a scheming, conniving, law-breaking tyrant in the White House. The Press would fight for us. As Hollywood indicates in Three Days of the Condor, when minor CIA contractor Joseph Turner a.k.a. Condor played by dashing Robert Redford, from the James Grady story, lets evil assassin G. Joubert played by Max von Sydow know that he is about to tell all to the New York Times...

Fast Forward here, Mark. What a different world it is in 2008. The Press corps flipped for Barack Obama like never before in history. Senator John McCain named Sara Palin, Governor of Alaska as his running mate, and the Press stormed her home town of Wasilla, Alaska, turning over stones for weeks and weeks, looking for...something, anything to topple her positive affect upon the McCain campaign.

Why else?

Meanwhile, in 2008 in Springfield Illinois, the man Barack Obama helped re-elect, Rod Blagojevich, was miring himself deeper and deeper in the legendary political corruption of that state, completely without any press scrutiny, as he merrily marched to his destined date with the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week, when he was arrested and charged with corruption.

Why, Mark? The only thing I can come up with is this: Blagojevich and all the elements of Barack Obama's Illinois origins were off-limits, because it would have damaged the Democratic Nominee had the truth of the extent of corruption in Illinois and Chicago ever come out.

The Press corps wanted a change in the White House--a change of Party. Obama was their darling from the beginning, ignoring and dissing political heavy weight Hillary Clinton, junior Senator from New York, all the while legitimizing Barack Obama's nasty baggage.

Mark, there was so much to look at, too. We have Obama's lies and about-faces with his past associations with self-confessed and un-repentant terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn: 1. I don't know them. 2. They're just some people in the neighborhood. 3. I know them. 4. They did things once that I don't agree with. 5. I thought they were "rehabilitated." Bernadine Dohrn once said of the Manson murders: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"


Mark, we are all saddled now with a President who will be linked forever with that utterance, and we along with that have a Press corps that neither understands nor cares that someone connected to such statements should never be associated with the office of the Presidency.

Ms. Dohrn, though, wasn't done in the 60s and 70s, nor was husband Bill. She became wanted for questioning in the Nyack Brinks Job, in which the Weather Underground and Black Panthers murdered three veterans of the American military, one a Brinks Security Guard, Peter Paige 49, father of three, and Nyack police officers Waverly Brown, 45 father of two, and Ed O'Grady 33, father of three (O'Grady-Brown Memorial Fund). The terrorists were well armed and had body armor. Brown was shot at close range with a 9mm pistol as he lay wounded. She refused to cooperate, and fled, leading to her warrant of arrest. Ultimately she wasn't charged. But interesting that she was in New York at the time, according to many reports. Even more interesting was the adoption of the child of two of the convicted bank robbers. Two founding members of the Weather Underground, adopting a child of fellow group members, but having nothing to do with the crime? They had something to do with it, if for no other reason than having founded the group.

So, Mark, we have a president-elect with such friends. Interesting it is, too, that the Brinks Job plan was among other things to distribute money to black causes and organizations. Kind of what Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and the Dohrn/Ayers' were doing with that Annenberg Grant money. Bill Ayers said about that project to set up "alternative" educational opportunities in Chicago the wanted to tell those young black people "what this country is really all about."

Mark, I'm wondering, why didn't the Press scour those neighborhoods and find out what Reverend Wright, Ayers, and the Obamas were telling those children?

You talked about honor, and honoring the Constitution in explaining your "Deep Throat" role, Mark. What does America care of that, today? In New York, the sitting governor is David Paterson, a legally blind black man. He took office when faux crusader Eliot Spitzer was caught with a high-priced hooker. But Paterson admits immediately that he was having it off with state employees, and that he had given jobs to some of them.

That was in May. Still no calls for his resignation from the New York Times, who was poised there with Robert Redford in 1975 to save us from mad-dog CIA killers; nor from the Washington Post, who in reality took a law-breaking U.S. President out.

Mark, perhaps even worse is, that David Paterson, who will fill a Senate seat soon, doesn't even understand that he is, by virtue of his admission of peccadillo, unfit to govern. President Elect Barack Obama, who has to check with his attorney to see if he spoke to Governor-gangster Rod Blagojevich about filling his vacant Illinios Senate seat, doesn't understand, either, how inappropriate he is.

For you see, Mark Felt, the Press didn't hold up the mirror for them. And they sold us out, and that means the mad-dog killers and corrupt Politicians are going to get a free ride. Deborah Howell, public ombudsman for the Washington Post, wrote in article headlined "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage," that "(s)tories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Post reporters, photographers and editors -- like most of the national news media -- found the candidacy of Obama, the first African-American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic."

Historic...and carrying their pre-history around like a loaded gun, they snuffed out the competition and stayed away from the real story, the story of who is Barack Obama, and why does he say in his autobiography that white people's greed puts the world in need, and what was he doing with Governor Rod Blagojevich two years ago, and what was he doing with Reverend Wright for twenty years, and what was he doing with and for Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and what was he doing with Ayers, Dohrn and Rashid Khalidi in that video that the Tribune Corporation buried in its vault?

To hell with all of it, Mark. The Press doesn't know what it's job is anymore. It has become the tool of a political party, and its cornerstone virtues of honor and truth have perished in the transformation.

Rest in peace. Though with that corpse labeled "Press Integrity" next to you, I don't see how you will.

Yes You Can

When you've worked hard to keep the candidate who won from getting there, it can be a very dark day, indeed.

However large the disappointment in the outcome of the 2008 Presidential election for McCain backers like myself, we must all embrace the symbolic achievement of the accession of a man of color to the Presidency of the United States.

Whether this is the right man (and he's not), or whether the campaign coverage was fair and balanced (and it wasn't) is all fodder for a different day. Today is the day to tell all Americans that there is nothing you cannot achieve in this country. (You don't even have to be honest.)

As I told my High School History classes yesterday, "No matter who you wanted to win, the fact remains that America elected a Black man to be President of the United States, and that fact is the most significant positive event in the political history of the United States of America. There cannot be a Black man or women, or of any ethnicity, for that matter, than can now have any doubts about what they can achieve in this country, if they work hard for it and plan carefully."

Americans, as Obama's victory speech proclaimed, "Yes we can." We can, here, accomplish almost anything we set out to do.

Congratulations, Barack Obama. You have broken through what may have seemed like a barrier of race to many people of color, whether it was real or imagined.

Tribune Corp. Covers L.A.Times Tape Cover-up

Weitman, Gary wrote: (Tribune Media Relations)
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> Thanks for your email. I appreciate your concern regarding this issue. I want to direct your attention to an article that appears in today's Los Angeles Times and offers an explanation for the newspaper's decision not to publish the videotape.
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> Gary Weitman
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> http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-video29-2008oct29,0,7568849.story
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> McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of 'suppressing' Obama video


Mr. Weitman,

I am pleased to have heard from you. I thank you very much for the response. Of course, I understand a news organization's commitment to its sources.

However, who said you aren't protecting your source? If this person is a Muslim and is afraid of reprisals, he or she must already certainly be under suspicion, simply because of the acknowledged existence of said video.

What this amounts to, sir, is that you have that video in safe-keeping for your source.

The clear implication is that you all at Tribune know the content of the tape, and it will viscerally damage the endorsed candidate of the Los Angeles Times.

Sir, you cannot be blind to the helping hand your brethren in the media continue to give Barack Obama. Here you would suppress evidence of a clear pro-Arab/Muslim bias in his core value system, and stand peaceably by as the ritual denunciations of Jews and Israel rang through the room? A video that will also reveal William Ayers in close proximity? Wouldn't you also find the allegation that Rashid Khalidi, a front man for Saudi money and known terrorist, wrote a recommendation letter for a young Barack Obama in his entrance to Columbia University?

Mr. Weitman, think for a moment about what you may have done here in continuing to run cover for Barack Obama--and what Tribune Corporation has allowed Barack Obama to get away with under your very noses in Chicago. I still want to know what Obama and Ayers were doing with that Annenberg Challenge money. Ayers said he and Obama were telling kids "what this country is really all about." I, Mr. Weitman, think YOU owe me an accounting of what that message may have been and is. Some of that money went to alternative schools associated with Reverend Wright. I found what that message may have been in Barack Obama's own autobiography, now widely believed to have been largely written by the man Barack Obama didn't know, William Ayers. "White man's greed puts the world in need."

You let a man run for President without chopping him into splinters, who wrote in his recent autobiography that white people generically are responsible for need in the world?

You wouldn't write that story? I guess not, because, Mr. Weitman, when you have had sufficient opportunity, you didn't.

No, Tribune Corporation didn't write that story. You didn't pursue his association with a man with him in that video, that is, William Ayers. He is the man who isn't sorry for any of his bombings nor for the Brinks Job in 1981 in which Peter Paige, Brinks guard, and Nyack cops Ed O'Grady and Waverly Brown, all fathers and all veterans of the armed services of our country, were murdered by the well-trained, well-armed urban guerrillas of the Weather Underground and Black Panthers. Ayers may have well masterminded that job. He and cohort Bernadine Dohrn raised the son of two of the people convicted of the massacre and robbery. I guess they knew the perpetrators well, eh?

This willful cover you run for Barack Obama in this matter, and have run for the past two years, is tantamount to conspiracy, Mr. Weitman. And you know it.

You are not allowing the American people a true, clear picture of who Barack Obama is, because you of the Press this campaign season have refused to demand of him direct answers, and have refused to hold him responsible and accountable for his at this point countless untruths and misspoken facts. You then are abetting someone who may have disingenuously represented himself.

A bit of fantasy: Consider, sir, if the Republican nominee, a fictitious Senator Schiessman, had spent 20 years in the association of a White Supremacist pastor....? Would he have a career at all in politics? Perhaps. Compound that to include a best friend who was an unrepentant bomber of abortion clinics. No, you would have destroyed him there. But wait, there is more! He got a real-estate gift worth at least $350,000 from a man who was recently convicted of corruption! You know, buying votes for gifts. Senator Schiessman worked for and helped train a network of radical right Christian fundamentalists, who have been not only community organizing, but actually conspiring to defraud voter rolls throughout America! Eight years ago Schiessman likens the United States to Communist China, and explains how he plans to redistribute wealth from the Middle Class to the Christian right! Then, there is the rumor of a video tape of Senator Schiessman some years ago at a Neo-Nazi rally, with Adolf Eichman's son. And throughout it all, in this fantasy world, Schiessman's birth certificate seems to have been, well, altered. There are rumors that his father, a reported underling of Klaus Barbie and in hiding in South America, and that Senator Schiessman may have himself actually been born to an American mother in Paraguay.

Finally, to close out this fiction, there is that quote in his autobiography, "blacks and Jews, who ever you chose you lose."

Ha! Schiessman, with all that in his dossier, would have been excoriated and eviscerated by reporters and editors of the Tribune Corporation's wide net of media outlets. Yet this fiction is a mirror of Barack Obama's past and present, and you apparently support him despite all of this deleterious luggage.

Since you and I both know that you would have sent your locusts out in hordes to lay bare the fictitious Senator Schiessman, I accuse you of outright class warfare. You, in NOT pursuing the story where ever it leads, are shielding a man you have a political affinity for, are attacking all of us who want to know THE TRUTH ABOUT BARACK OBAMA. You are directing the impetus of your staff, and in that action, you have committed this act of aggression against your own country for you own personal political aims.

I cannot think of a more despicable act in the sphere of journalism. Do you not remember how two reporters in the 1970s took a Presidency to pieces to find where its corruption lay? Is this the legacy of Woodward and Bernstein? Or, tell me, was it really ever only about attacking a Republican or a non-Liberal? Deep throat, indeed. Who said it? "I've seen the enemy, and they are us."

Do the right thing, Mr. Weitman. Give the American people that tape to digest, and please, get back to the work of finding news that is naked of bias. Given the history of your Press Corps in Chicago alone, you have your work cut out for you.


Sincerely,

James A. Bridge
Loud and True