"Sheep Never Stalk The
Tiger"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
©
Copyright Sunday, February 23, 2014 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, February 19, 2013
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"The only way to win the
battle over the minds of an ideology is to turn the friends of your
enemies, against them. Although the task is great, the reward is
victory." Ron
Ewart
In all of our wars and all of the
difficulties we have faced as a nation in over two centuries, if we would let a
little thing like a socialist president and some hopelessly misguided
Democrats get in the way of where we wanted to go, America would have never
gotten where it is. If there was a wall, we went over it, around it, under
it ..... or through it. If there was a lock in our way, we "picked it" or
blew it up. If there was a frontier, we explored it. If there was a
beachhead, we took it. If there was a foreign or domestic tyrant, we
pulled his teeth and rendered him impotent. If there was a bridge to be
built, we built it. If we wanted to go into space, into space we
went. Literally nothing stood in the way of Americans, when they wanted to
create something, build something, stop a dictator, or get to a place
where they wanted to go. We were unstoppable and contrary to
popular opinion, we still are. Hell no we are not perfect, but our
accomplishments as a nation, a culture and as a people, are the envy of the
world.
When a person or a nation was in
need, we met that need out of the greatness, goodness and kindness of
our collective hearts. Americans are the most generous people on planet
earth and don't let anyone tell you different. Make no mistake we
could do all these things because we were not only free, but that freedom
allowed us to create the wealth from which we were able to BE
generous.
Which brings us to today. How
is it that Americans, who not only carved out an
unprecedented free society based on unalienable individual rights
and conquered a continent, but who also created a country of vast wealth
and riches, would let a little thing like an Obama, or a corrupt Congress,
or a mis-guided judiciary, stand in the way of reclaiming our freedom
and our Republic? Have we lost our courage to enter into a fight to
prevent being enslaved? Are we so afraid of losing what we have, that
we would back away from aggressively challenging those that are trying to
take it away, even if those that are trying to take it away are some of our own
people? Just because our enemy is a domestic one and not foreign, does
that preclude us from taking them on? Have we grown so timid and apathetic
that we shrink in fear when a fight is thrust upon us and ladies and
gentlemen, a fight is being thrust upon us like never before? It is a
deadly domestic fight between two opposing ideologies and a government that uses
those opposing ideologies to divide, conquer and enslave us.
Must we be frozen like a
deer in the headlights until a charismatic leader appears, before
we challenge those that are hell bent on robbing the fuel from our engine,
the bullets from our guns and the faith in our God and then locking us in
chains and throwing the key away?
If this is true, then America has
little chance to restore itself. But
we don't for one minute believe that this is true. Still it begs the
question, who is going to re-start America's engine? Who will find
the combination that will unlock our gas tank and fill it with
fuel? Who will turn the key that starts our engine, revs it up and peels
rubber towards the goalpost of freedom?
We know for sure that it won't be one
man. It will be millions of men and women who have united under the
foundation of unalienable rights and the willingness to sacrifice all to
preserve those rights for current and future generations. It will be a
million charismatic individuals, or just hard-working,
determined plodders, that will inspire others to follow him, or
her. Some will take on the city, or county council. Some will
take on the school board. Some will take on the state legislatures and it
will make no difference what political stripe the council member or the
legislator wears. Each will be equally challenged by those who
will not tolerate the destruction of "THEIR" America!
As we get our feet wet taking on
local and state governments and institutions, it will give us the courage and
experience to crack the big nut, an out-of-control federal
government. Because you see, all across
this great land are individual after individual and group after group that are
springing up out of no where to take on the status quo that has grown like a
cancer, out of 100 years of apathy and indifference to what government was
doing. Some might call these individuals and groups the Tea
Party. Others might call it a grand awakening.
The infiltration of national and
international special interests and policies into American institutions is
being challenged. Radical environmentalism and its brainchild, man-caused
global warming, are being debunked day after day no matter what government
or the scientists say. Resistance to world government and the attempts to
dissolve American sovereignty are also growing. Government
programs that are fully designed to brainwash and indoctrinate our children,
like Common Core State Standards, are getting a more thorough vetting and
then discarded at the local level. Talk of dismantling the U. S.
Department of Education grows stronger. Small skirmishes are turning into
wins as the people, men and women, shrug off their fears and thrust
their angry noses into the closed club of power politics.
High tension is in the air and
changes are riding on the wind like we have never seen. There is a grand
awakening and those that have perpetrated the destruction of America grow
nervous and are slinging the arrows of invectives and the searing flame of the
race card. They are fighting back to maintain their power, but their
actions are taking on the sour smell of desperation and their
power is showing signs of weakening, as the rising crescendo of the American
spirit and patriotism echoes across the fruited plains and reverberates
through the canyons and valleys of our mighty
mountains ..... from sea to shining sea. The enemy is on the
defensive and as the crescendo rises even more, they will eventually be on the
run. We WILL reclaim a free
America!
"So
much of life presents itself as a bundle of sticks. If we try
to break the whole bundle at one time, we find the task too daunting, get
frustrated and turn away or give up. And so it is with our
struggle to preserve, protect and defend freedom and liberty.
The bundle we must break appears to be overwhelming, unless we take the
bundle apart and start breaking (fixing) the 'sticks',
one-by-one. Even armed with this knowledge, so many of us lament,
'..... but there are so many sticks, how can we possibly
break them all?' And indeed there are many 'sticks'. But if
we don't start breaking the 'sticks' right now, one-by-one, more will be added
to the bundle until no matter how we try to take the bundle apart, no matter how
many 'sticks' we break, many more will be added to the bundle and the
task becomes too difficult." (from one of our
previous articles)
The first major "stick" to
break is dumping the current president and taking control of both houses of
congress. The second is to repeal Obama Care and replace it with sound
medical insurance practices based on the doctor/patient relationship.
Without these two significant changes, we will not have sufficient
political power to re-shape our government and roll back what the
Progressive movement has done, a movement that has taken us to
the brink of national bankruptcy and just possibly merge America into global
government. We must, once and for all, break the back of the
flawed policies of Keynesian economics that has led us to this
bankruptcy. If we fail to do this, it doesn't mean that we will be denied
victory in the end. It just means we will have to fight harder and longer
at the local and state level, where we can win.
But what if we could break the
first "stick" with a simple image and that image became so ingrained into
the body politic that it took on a life of its own? What if that
image was a prediction of the future and people started believing in
the prediction so much that it would change the way they think about who is in
charge of our government and that image influenced
how they vote? What if that image flashed across the Internet
and went viral? Sometimes it only takes a "face"
to launch a thousand ships, or a "shot heard 'round the
world" to start a revolution, or a simple idea to start a
religion, or a powerful image to take down a dictator, or a
socialist? Have you created that one image Americans can rally
around? E-mail it to us in JPG format. If we choose
your image, we will share it with our national reading audience and give you all
the credit.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have been
advocating for years that if the American people would just focus
on ONE ISSUE that is representative of the destruction of America by
this Administration, a hopelessly divided Congress and the progressive ideology,
and they did so by the millions, that issue would be resolved in days.
Perhaps the rallying cry for those millions could be your image. Here is
an example of what we are talking about:
In each community, each county,
each state and finally all of America, we must find the "sticks" we can break
that will give us a win, starting with one of the more simpler "sticks".
Start with a restriction, a law, or an ordinance and work collectively to break
(repeal) it. They (the
government) won't be
expecting you to become the tiger and we have found that government backs up
when confronted by the sheer force of people who have right on their
side. Staircase off of that "win" to the next restriction, the next law,
or ordinance and then repeal it. The strategy here is that people will
join winners but they will shy away from, or ignore losers. Once
engaged, you will find that defending freedom can be infectious and
personally rewarding.
We know for sure that America's tank
is not empty and her engine is still in fine working order. There is power
under the hood and we just need some guys to come by to put some more gas in the
tank and some brave drivers to take her out on the road. We need more of
us to expose the corruption, the double-dealing, the crony capitalism and the
irrational compassion that has enveloped our institutions and robbed us of our
financial and moral strength. Then we need to
spread that message far and wide.
People in general, hate corruption
and backroom deals and will voice their displeasure over it, especially at
the voting booth. That is what is going to happen at the midterms in 2014
because of the disaster that is Obama Care. We need to start undoing, by
political pressure, all of the social and environmental unconstitutional laws
that have been passed, at all levels of government. We need to take our
schools back by checking what our children are being taught and then
pressuring the local school boards to bring sanity and common sense back to our
schools and textbooks.
We need more people to take on the
political dolts at the local and state level and we need millions more
people, if we are to have any effect. The simple idea of freedom can be
reborn, that is if enough people grasp the importance of that idea and the
deadly implications if that idea should die.
In the end, we either choose freedom and
are willing to defend it at whatever cost, or we choose enslavement.
Hopefully, there will be enough of us that will choose freedom. But
time is of the essence and "sticks" are continuously being added to the bundle
..... while we sleep.
America is far from dead. As
long as there is the breath of life in just one patriot's body, there is hope
for America. It only takes one patriot (tiger) to trigger political
change. It only takes one hero that has the courage
to enter the free fire zone and drag those hiding in the shadows out
of their hiding places and charge. How many of YOU will come out of
the shadows and re-start America's engine?
Remember! Sheep don't stalk tigers.
It is the other way around. Are Americans sheep, or are they tigers?
We know that the vast majority of Americans are just latent tigers and all they
need is the hunger for freedom to take on the sheep that cowardly hide in the
halls of government. These "sheep" are easy prey when confronted
by a real tiger.
Tigers of America, urban and
rural, fight back. We have powerful information and tools you can use in
this fight on our two websites HERE and HERE.
Once again, at considerable personal risk,
we have created a powerful video to expose the IRS,
entitled:
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