Fred's Plan to Save America

Yessir, after years in the gestation, thousands of words flowing under the bridge, Fred has a plan to save America.“ A plan to save America? Are you out of your mind, Fred? How can you save America?”

Patience my friends. You’ll see.

But first, an IQ test, sorta like we do down at RWVA, using the AQT to sort out the cooks from the riflemen - only this time, to see if you are a Doofus Americanus, in which case there is no point in you wasting your time here — better turn to another page, and drool on it.

True or false:

1. Hillary Clinton loves all the children and would make a great president in ‘08.
2. I will be a great shot as soon as I find a good rifle and scope, and work up a good load.
3. I will be a great shot as soon as I have time like Fred to get to the range every day and fire 5000 rounds, but right now I’m working like a dog to support my family, and my family comes first.
4. I don’t have to worry about things, there are people working behind the scenes to get this country back on track.
5. It will never happen here.
6. Unless I live in New York, Chicago, or parts of California; I really don't have to worry about losing my 2nd Amendment rights.
7. The Constitution will protect my gun rights.
8. The Supreme Court, if it ever hears the ‘right’ case, will protect my gun rights.
9. MY congressman understands my feelings about gun control, so there’s no reason for me to bother him.
10. There’s no way they’ll ever get my gun, because I’ve got the perfect hiding spot for it.

Ten points every time you said “False”.

100 points: Good man, add a little shooting skill, and you can be a rifleman.

90: You can be fooled, but not often. Get to the range, and learn to shoot.

80: Gettin’ near the edge. Time to wake up, get to the range, learn to shoot.

70 or below: Man, you are in need of a MAJOR wakeup. Keep reading. And get to the range, your only salvation is learning to shoot.

30 or under: Real 100% Doofus Americanus — bet it was the one on Hillary that tripped you up, right? That’s a hard one, sure — turn the page, move on.

Now, the rest of you, ready to proceed? Let’s go!

A LITTLE SEED MAKES A BIG TREE

What’s exciting about a little seed making a big tree? Simply this: Plant enough apple seeds, and you soon have a land filled with apple trees. Johnny Appleseed, an early American hero, knew this fact, and believed in it enough to devote his life to it.

So just call me Freddy Appleseed.

When those seeds are riflemen, and their efforts bear forth as fruit other riflemen, we soon have a Nation of Riflemen. The logic of it is inescapable. All you gotta do is plant some seeds. So, why don’t we? Might be f-u-n.

“Fun?” You telling me, Fred, saving America, is fun?

Yes sir, and it doesn’t get better. Save America, and have fun doing it. Doesn’t seem fair, does it? That this world, with all its crazy rules, rules that usually leave you hanging high, can deal you such a sweet hand - but I believe, in this instance, it has. Save America, by learning to shoot, then getting others to shoot (you enthusiasts don’t have to wait, get your friends learning — as you learn!).

Project Appleseed, as we call it, is to help you out. To make it even easier. To provide a source of information, inspiration, motivation, and simple determination. Check it out at www.rwva.org.

So let’s start planting seeds. And start with YOU, as the first one. The first step:

TAKE THE PLEDGE
Now everyone is gonna wanna be a Freddy Appleseed, and you can’t blame ‘em. Welcome aboard, I say. But an important task like saving America shouldn’t be expected to proceed without some formality. It is, after all, an important task: we need you to sign up for the duration, not for the moment. So here’s what you do. Pledge the following, to yourself (who better?):

Starting this minute, I pledge to reach down deep inside myself and wake up that sleeping American, the Rifleman.

• I pledge to get my sleeping American to the range, so he can learn to shoot.
• I pledge I will reach out to my friend, my coworker, my relative, to wake up their sleeping American.
• I pledge I will do whatever it takes to help my friends, my coworkers, my relatives learn to shoot as Riflemen, to preserve our tradition of marksmanship for future generations.
• I pledge to get active in the soft war, the struggle for freedom at the soap box and the ballot box, now.
• I pledge to persist, to not give up, to be in this for the duration, to adopt as my motto “Never Give Up!”
• I pledge to plant seeds of marksmanship and freedom whenever and wherever I can, understanding I may never know the
  results.
• I pledge to form a rifleman club and to build a range, if necessary.
• I pledge that I understand I cannot do it all myself, nice as that would be, but that I will need help, and I will get that help by enlisting others in the fight.
• I pledge to recruit whenever and wherever I can, understanding some will be better as shooters, some better as recruiters, some as teachers, some as fund-raisers.
• I pledge I will PERSIST. [So important, you need to pledge it twice.]

This pledge given voluntarily on this ___________ day of _____________________, 2005 and if I fail to live up to it, I understand I can lose my firearms, my freedom, and my country. So help me God.

/s/________________________________________ (American Patriot)

OK, so you pledge to go to the range and have fun shooting, get your friends into shooting with you, which is even more fun, vote, ‘one minute letter’ your reps, take advantage of the talents of others to help win the goal, help form a club if needed, and maybe a range. Believe me, offer this deal to the boys back in 1775 and there’d be no hesitation. Hm-m-m-m-h, let’s see, an 8-yr bloody war, home burned, sleep out in the rain and mud, lose 50-60 pounds on bad rations (OK, this one is good, right?), watch your friends die of “fever” and British ball and bayonet - or go to the range, and shoot with some friends?

Tough one, Fred! Let me think it over. Tick...Tock...Tick...Tock...Tick... Just don’t think too long, friend. Tempus is fugiting.

Now, let’s look at this project from a different point of view
We’re not asking you for any money. Keep that thirty-five bucks a year that might be dues, and put it into shooting. We are not asking for your name, or you to go on a list - anxious as most freedom-loving Americans are to be defiantly on that list.

All we want is your commitment.

Your resolve, the resolve to carry out your part of the program. To learn to shoot, to shoot with friends, to make more friends — all of them awakened Americans — can you get better friends? Vote and write a few ‘one-minute’ letters to reps (this prob the only ‘onerous’ part), maybe form a club and get a range going. And to persist. To persist until the end of your life. So you can look back, on your lonely deathbed, and take as one bright ray in your life your faithfulness. To the cause of Liberty. So your last breath can whisper “Semper fidelis...” But you are right: Fred cannot save America.

But this plan can.

But only if you ‘take the pledge’. It costs nothing, unless you chip in for a range. Most of it is fun. Can you do it? If you do it, we will save America. If you don’t do it, we won’t.

Hillary for president, anyone?