Project Appleseed

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), one of America's great founding patriots, wrote this on December 23, 1776, when the American Revolution was less than six months old.  Substitute Democrats for Britain, RINOs for Tories, Obama for King George III, Pelosi for Howe, Reid for Gage - Sarah Palin for the "Jersey maid" - and he is speaking to us today.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. 

This preamble of Thomas Paine's was, if I understand correctly, written on the skin of a drum not long before General Washington proceeded to advance
over the Delaware. Paine's words chime in my head like the Liberty Bell ringing the question.....ARE AMERICANS STILL AMERICAN?

This question has been pondered greatly and well presented in the following article written by Dr. Jack Wheeler which I feel compelled to share with all.
Dr. Wheeler's article is not an iceberg, but rather thought provoking. It makes me even more mindful of my work with Appleseed take on an even greater
sense of urgency. Not to minimize what we are all doing right now but we cannot afford to be lax this year on anything Appleseed. Every where I go I carry
brochures and hand them out, take a few minutes to talk with new people about Appleseed. I deliberately go to every gun store I can and leave promo material.
You never know who you are going to meet or what reception you will find. For instance, this past week I happened to visit The Out Post Armory store belonging
family that manufactures the 50 cal Barret in Christiana, Tennessee. I found Chris Barrett most congenial and and enthusiastic about our Project. I inquired about
what there was for rifle ranges in the area. He asked me what we required for an AS shoot.  Can you see where this may be headed? I sure hope so. All I did was ask. The future will tell. I know I have a ton of literature headed his way. Great people they are.

I feel a great sense of urgency to get more done and I hope and pray everyone in Appleseed can and will do even more. This is not a year for any to maintain the status quo or be casual about this year because Appleseed can make a difference in our nation bringing people together. I am persuaded that this year will be one of the greatest opportunities for Appleseed growth.  The spirit within Illinois,  Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, California and Texas is infectious, I have tasted
the enthusiasm and it drives me every day.  I pray the whole of the Appleseed Nation drive hard as they ever have this year.

This leads me to Dr. Wheeler's article and what response the people of America will make this fall. Appleseed is serious business and the business about our country is part of it.  There is much to ponder here. I hope you take  the time to read it. Because what we do this year is going to decide who we are
and we need to stay on mission like never before in every way for indeed these are time that are going to try our souls and our mission can and will make
a difference.

ARE AMERICANS STILL AMERICANS?

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler     To The Point News  The Oasis For Rational Conservatives
Thursday, 25 March 2010


That's the question and the bet of our day.  Conservatives and TeaPartyers bet yes, Democrats and moonbat moochers bet no.
The Republican Party establishment wants to bet yes but hasn't got the guts to go all in.

Understand this and you understand American politics today.   Who wins the bet determines America's future.

What made Americans Americans was their commitment - unrivaled in human history - to individual liberty.  This commitment was enshrined as the founding principle of America in the Declaration of Independence:

That every human being and specifically every American has a moral right endowed by his Creator, by what is required by his nature to be fully human, to his own personal life, his own personal liberty, and the pursuit of his own personal happiness - and that no government has the moral right or legitimate authority to violate this individual right.

Further, that the very purpose of government, what legitimized a government's very existence, was to secure and protect this individual right - and whenever a government becomes destructive of this right, those governed by it have a moral right to alter and abolish it.

The Declaration of Independence is the most truly revolutionary document in political history.  It is the most profoundly moral  document as well.  And to confound the long line of philosophers who claim there is an unbridgeable abyss between moral behavior and pragmatic self-interested behavior, it is also the most practically successful document in history.  America's prosperity dwarfs any historical comparison.

The truth of America's founding principles were "self-evident" to the Americans who created our country.  They are no longer to an increasingly large fraction of Americans today.  The stated purpose and clear goal of Democrats is to increase that fraction.  The claimed purpose and alleged goal of Republicans is to reduce it.

For decades upon decades now, Americans on the whole have been slowly and progressively becoming less American, less independent and responsible for their own lives, more dependent on government programs and demanding of others to be responsible for them.

We have now reached the point where between 40 to 50% of people in this country are so unwilling to be responsible for their lives and freedom, so demanding of their supposed right to mooch off taxpayers, that they still maintain a firm support of a president who believes that God should damn America.

We have reached the point with the passage of ObamaCare that we are justified in terming those who continue to support President Zero and the Pelosi-Reid Democrat Party AINOs - Americans In Name Only.

In one sense, we can be glad that ObamaCare passed in the House last Sunday, March 21, and signed into law by President Zero two days later - because it forces the issue.  America must now choose between freedom or fascism, there is no other choice, nothing in-between.

"Give me liberty or give me death," proclaimed Patrick Henry in 1775.  "Live free or die," said Revolutionary War general John Stark, which New Hampshire adopted as its state motto.  That was a real choice at the birth of America.  Now it is again.

The next seven months are going to be the ugliest this country has experienced in our lifetimes.  Any and all opponents of ObamaCare will be branded as terrorists - indeed they are already.  The Democrats will look upon their ObamaCare victory as a template, and attempt to ram through via bribes and corruption passage of amnesty for illegals, a carbon tax, a VAT tax, and every other major item on their Marxist Fascist agenda.

Given the volcanic rage this will engender in so many people, it will be impossible for there not to be outbreaks and incidents of violence perpetrated upon Democrat politicians.  This is exactly what the Democrats want.  Their goal is to goad and provoke their opponents into violence so they can demonize them, so they can sic the FBI upon them.

It is going to take superhuman levels of self-control not to succumb to the temptation to take physical revenge upon the politicians and government personnel determined to destroy our country.  There has got to be an alternative to violence that people can see is effective - much more effective, in fact, than violence.

That alternative for immediate personal action is:  peaceful civil disobedience.  Following TTP's call for a Defund and Disobey movement, Forbes Magazine is now quoting Ghandi - "civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless and corrupt" - and predicting the largest civil disobedience movement since the civil rights era.

There is one group of Americans who can lead this civil disobedience movement better than any other - and it's not the TeaPartyers.  It's doctors.  After all, they are the ones who are enslaved by the State to provide medical care according the State's edicts.  If they refuse to be so enslaved, if they refuse to obey the edicts of ObamaCare, there is no ObamaCare.

In the face of their enslavement, many doctors will "go Galt" - retire or quit practicing medicine. Others will meekly comply, becoming PINOs - Physicians In Name Only - to whom you should never trust your life and health.

But others will fight.  Like the group of 1,600 New Jersey physicians who are suing to overturn ObamaCare.  Like Linda Johnston, MD, who is refusing to submit her patients' records to insurance companies.

I am willing to bet there are tens of thousands of physicians and medical practitioners willing to join this fight.  Thus I propose they form an organization called Doctors Against Medical Fascism or DAMF.  I even bought the website names:  doctorsagainstmedicalfascism.org and damf.org.

If you know any medical doctors or practitioners, please ask them to consider helping to organize DAMF.  If doctors take the lead in refusing to obey ObamaCare, millions will follow.

Millions of others will be bought off by ObamaCare's goodies and subsidies - like forcing insurance companies to insure their kids with pre-existing illness, or getting a Medicare rebate of $250 for prescription drugs - just like Bart Stupak's deciding vote was bought for $800K in handouts to his district.

Back in 2005, I wrote Infantilizomania.  It argued that liberals possessed a neurotic compulsion to treat adults as children.  It's worth re-reading now.  Infantilizomania is the Democrats' path to power - because so many voters are willing to be infantilized.

This has got to stop, one way or another.  And it will, one way or another, on November 2nd.   Ronald Reagan won the Cold War because he decided his strategy towards the Soviet Union was not appeasement but "We win, they lose."

We have got to decide that on November 2nd, Americans win, AINOs lose.  Here is the full page ad in every newspaper and on every TV channel in the country we should demand to see:


On November 2nd, all Americans will be given the opportunity to be Americans - Americans our Founders would recognize as their fellow countrymen.  If that opportunity is lost, America is lost.  Americans will no longer be Americans any longer.  We should thank Providence that we have been given a final choice in our country's destiny.