17 April 2009

Over a century ago, our 20th president of the United Sates, James Garfield, said this:

“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation. . .it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”

He said it well, and it is still just as true today as it was a century ago. It is because we have tolerated it that our government has become “ignorant, reckless, and corrupt”. We stopped demanding high qualities. But it is time for a change, we must stop tolerating such ill character and start insisting that our government be intelligent, brave, and pure.

The government is in shambles because we have been lazy (even ignored) the political forces, saying, “They know what they’re doing, that’s why we vote them in.” Should we be ignorant in the way we look at the government, in who we vote for, and in who will lead this country both at the local and national level?

Our nation is no longer the nation that it was when it was founded; no longer a nation that is held up by a belief in God as our creator and lawmaker; no longer following its own rules.

But what can we do to change that? We must take action. We the people of the United States of America have a voice. We have a voice that can be heard in Washington, no matter how hard they try to plug their ears. We must no longer be tolerant of ignorance, recklessness, and corruption for that kind of behavior is only tearing down our nation.

There are many across this nation that have a problem with how the government is being run: how the government is spending money, making more money to pay it’s bills, and not even following it’s own constitution. Our cry against such unwise and foolish behavior is there, but there are those who seek to stifle that cry (i.e. the media).

Our voices must be heard, we can be silent no longer. In a large, crowded room would you speak in a whisper when you wished to be heard? No, you would speak loud just like all the others. We must raise our voices, jut like in that crowed room, because we want to be heard. The media is in that loud and crowded room making plenty of noise, and we are that voice who is trying to be heard above all the clamor.

That is where the tea parties come in.

We stood beside our state’s capitol building at the Tea Party in Indianapolis on Tax Day. Surrounded by at least 13,000 other people who were fed up with the way the government is “working”, we saw that we were not the only ones. The people of this nation are tired of a reckless government who does not even read the bills it votes on, and we gathered to say, “Enough.”

The Tea Parties were formed to tell the government that it has done enough damage, and that we have had enough. We have been involved in our local Tea Party for several weeks now. Together we can make a difference!

We want our government to be intelligent, brave, and pure. We must step up and we ourselves be intelligent, brave, and pure, that we may, as President James Garfield once said, “demand these high qualities to represent [us] in the national legislature.”

We must pray and trust in the Lord, He is in control and His will will be done!

“The LORD has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all.”
- Psalm 103:19

P.S. Tea Parties were held all over the US yesterday with a great turnout. At the San Antonio Tea Party, Doug Phillips (President of Vision Forum) gave a speech, and posted a few of his notes here (click here to download his address from Behemoth.com).

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