In time and by slow operations we have arrived at tyranny today. As Wetumpka Tea Party leader Becky Gerritson reminds us during her testimony before Congress yesterday, “Our representative government has failed us.” Gerritson continued,
I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being, and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered.
Our government has indeed forgotten it’s place. As I toured the monuments of Washington, D.C. this week, I was confronted with the stark contrast between what we have come from and where we stand today. But stand is what we must do. Now is the time to use our freedom of speech while we still have it. We are not serfs or vassals. Those who would be our “lords,” as Gerritson put it, have forgotten their place and ought to be put back in their place. Jefferson believed, “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
Now that tyranny has arrived the question is, what will we do about it? It’s time to find out.
