What We Believe 

When we pledge allegiance to the American flag, what does that flag symbolize?  To what are we promising our loyalty?  Is it the geographical area known as the United States, or the people that occupy it?  No.  It is Liberty, pure and simple.  That is what America meant to the multitude of immigrants who risked their lives to get here.  And that is the most fundamental requirement for human beings and civilizations to blossom.  Granted liberty, there is no limit to what human beings can become and achieve.  Deprived of it, we are reduced to something less than human.

Now America is in trouble.  Too many of us have forgotten the value of Liberty, or take it for granted.  We elect politicians who think their job is to coerce us, instead of protecting us from coercion.  Law, whose purpose was to prevent plunder, has been perverted into an instrument of plunder.  Politicians devote their lives to buying our votes with the property they confiscate from us, and we politely acquiesce.

We must reign in the politicians.  Their job is to protect us from domestic crime and foreign enemies.  It does not entail running businesses, or telling people how to do their jobs, or how to spend their hard-earned money.  It does not permit them to print or borrow money.  It does not involve running a charity, to which we are forcibly compelled to contribute. It does not allow them to take from one group and give to another.

We must pledge to take back America, to restore it as a land of Liberty.  The most immediate challenge to our freedom is the impending health care reform bill. 

Over one million people signed the Free Our Healthcare Now petition.  About one million people attended the Tea Party demonstration in Washington.  Countless others have voiced their opposition at town halls and other tea parties.  The polls show a majority of Americans, in ever-increasing numbers, standing up against the attempt to socialize medicine.

But the danger that nationalized health care will be rammed through Congress is as great as ever.  These scoundrels do not care what the American people think.  They have no compunction about using the parliamentary maneuver of "budget reconciliation" to pass the bill with just 51 votes and almost no debate – despite the fact that this is not a budgetary matter, but the government seizure of one sixth of the economy.  They refuse to give the American people even a few days to study the bill before they pass it.

The growth of the opposition has not eliminated the danger, for the bill may be scaled back just enough to allow it to pass.  A compromise bill might produce the illusion that the "public option" has been defeated.  But we will just be facing more gradual steps toward the same outcome.  

The Left may craft a bill which seemingly does no more than express high ideals.  Instead of saying how these great goals are to be achieved, it will leave that up to government bureaucrats, giving them vast discretionary powers and bypassing the democratic process.  And so tyranny will supplant the rule of law.  

It is therefore essential to bring the whole process to an immediate halt.  We will do this by making it clear to public officials that they will be voted out of office if they do not oppose it.