9/12 Still Needs You

9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Dear Carl, "Were you at 9/12?" This is the question everyone asks, wherever I go, whenever I meet with the good men and women who make up this wonderful grassroots uprising we all now know as the "Tea Party." If you were there in Washington, D.C. on September 12th, 2009, and you marched down Pennsylvania Avenue those 1.2 miles from Freedom Plaza to the steps of the U.S. Capitol, you will never be quite the same person that you were before the experience. I know I am not the same person, and I have been fighting for constitutionally-limited government and individual liberty my entire adult life. I have always believed that these were the right values. I always hoped that my fellow citizens shared these values. And I always knew that if you could give voice to this silent majority who simply wanted to be left free, you would take America back from the political establishment in Washington, D.C. Standing in that sea of humanity that Saturday morning, theory became practice. Hope became change. On September 12th, I could say without doubt and with great pride: "I am not alone in this fight." Imagine the feeling of empowerment walking among that beautiful mob of friendly faces. It was spontaneously, instantly, a community in the richest sense of the word. Iconic. That's the word that the participants and the national media most often use to describe the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington. 9/12/09 set the standard, and it put an arrogant political class in Washington, D.C. on notice. We the People are here to take our country back! I am more than a little bit proud that FreedomWorks took the big risk to organize the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington. But you also took a risk on 9/12! Without the support of the individuals like you who invested in this iconic day, it simply could not have happened. Without the financial resources to provide the proper logistics, security, staging, first aid and bathroom facilities, we would have lost our permits. Today, without your willingness to put time and resources into a wildly ambitious plan, you and I would be left to only imagine what might have been, and what we might have accomplished together. Together we took the risk, and the results were remarkable. That day we changed the conversation in America. We moved from "political space," where a small number of true-believing Americans focus, to the broad "cultural space" where we all live. To be sure, there is no silver bullet, no quick fix to the many economic threats our nation faces. We won't change the culture in Washington, D.C. overnight, a town populated by interests most interested in gaining more power over your life and your pocketbook. What we need to do is change the culture in Tacoma and Yakima and Seattle -- in the real Washington. We need to change the culture in your home town. We need to change the culture in America, knowing that we cannot leave public policy to "experts" astride the levers of power in the Nation's Capital. What the tea party movement represents at its best is a national rediscovery of our mandate from the Founding Fathers. Each of us, as best we can, must be eternally vigilant in defense of the liberties promised in our Constitution. This is how it has to be. There can be no going back to the way it was before. The vast, decentralized network of citizen activists in the Tea Party movement, many of whom marched last September 12th, has now fully embraced the monumental task of Taking America Back. In Republican primaries across the country, tax and spend establishment Republicans have been replaced by principled fiscal conservatives. Dick Armey and I like to refer to this amazing string of political victories as a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. Next target: The Democrats. If you missed the march last year, you probably regret it. Usually, the question "Were you at 9/12?" comes from someone determined not to miss it twice. That's why we decided that we had to do it again. Not to replicate last year. This year's march is an essential part of a broader strategy to get organized and activated one town after another, in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Florida, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, and California in this critical election year. Undoubtedly, it will be the nation's largest GOTV rally and will put the left on notice for November! I need your help again this year. We again plan on marching to the Capitol steps on September 12th. The hard work of showing up is in the hands of the people. But this year, FreedomWorks and FreedomWorks Foundation plan on being better prepared. It is our job as a service center to every citizen activist that wants to show up, that wants to get involved, to always seek better ways of doing our part. That means more security, more sound, and yes, many more Porta-Potties! Please consider supporting this important event? 9/12 is much more than just another protest. To be sure, it is a protest, but not only. This year's theme is "Remember in November," and it will focus on the principles that bind this diverse and leaderless movement together in common cause. Beyond petitioning our federal government for a redress of economic grievances, however, 9/12 serves an important community-building function. Alliances are created and friendships made. If you are starting to feel frustrated by the arrogance of a political class that seems blithely and callously indifferent to the opinions of their constituents, 9/12 serves as your support group. We will not give up, so you can't give up either. We will not back down until we deliver accountability, so you can't back down either. It's the buddy system on steroids, but to stop Washington's addictions to our money. Please help…we still have numerous items that need funding! And please join us for the September 12th, 2010 Taxpayer March on Washington. Together, we will take America back. Yours in Liberty, Matt Kibbe President and CEO, FreedomWorks P.S. If you are making the trip to D.C., join us on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble to meet FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey as he signs copies of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto. The bookstore is located at 555 12th St Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20004.   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" 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