We do need to vote and hold the elected accountable, fire the lawyers that aren't volunteers.

   Long title. If they aren't working for free they are just mercenaries. 

Assuming the political elite fear guns, and gun violence. Or really understand they know they can't really control a man at Liberty. He by definition must be attracted by Truth and great ideas, and professional politicians aren't committed to much except power, and exercising it to improve their weaknesses.

Long ago a political body passed acts to ensure compliance of the folks. They being honest named them the Coercive Acts, and the folks immediately recognized the threat and renamed them the Intolerable Acts, the declaration of punishment for believing the folks were free, as they had been for generations or that they were as good as the best of the master class in the nation.  They would have to establish independence like a child becoming an adult, a painful process, especially if the bonds are light and seem loose. 

Legend becomes the myth. For sure the United States of America, are created by the revolution of a rebellious people resisting oppression. They talked and listened, and thought as they worked and lived then built up a resistance by civil disobedience, you know demonstrations, secret societies, public outcry, resistance to bad law, bad ideas and belief that oppression was evil and God was good, master class normally wasn't. When the master class assumed more power by stripping their least offensive population of the means to fight, disarming them in mass, they proved a point. They didn't trust the folk and weren't relying on them as part of the solution to their problem. April 19,1775. They never knew what would happen, as the British would say, diplomatic efforts failed.

Soon enough, the colonies would unite in the Declaration of Independence, and by Right of Arms in the happy defeat of the master class, Great Britain could really become a dominate power in the world. There is a very high cost to becoming the greatest, remembering that Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, and France became Empires all paying a high cost for the privilege of wanting to be first or best among equals? China resisted and Japan embraced changes. Well, we, Americans, get to vote. It is critical because the master class has no love for us, fears us without more stupid laws, that only will be used on the folks. Pick representatives that love us all, that will work for free or room and board. Yeah, might as well try, otherwise you are creating and continuing a masterclass and that is suicide. 

Preppers...

So on Friday I go to the local Ron Paul delegate preparation meeting before the County Caucus next Saturday. They had cookies and bottled water, held in the County Library public meeting room. Sign in, sit quietly and watch the others come in, I meet a Knife businessman (Fox Knives USA). Talk about going to see his business, I ask to see one (he had to be carrying it - I have my normal three, and I don't sell). He mentioned that Ron Paul representatives could get a discount.

We get well briefed and and encouraged to stand for State Caucus representative. We also get told how a slate of Ron Paul reps will be given to us so we are gang voting against everyone else. They do give us an estimate of cost for National reps (about five grand) in Tampa. We are advised to be friendly, dress up and smile more, don't want to alienate the other representatives, no matter who they want to support. More than the Main Stream Media madness - the truth is the Republican seem to have four dedicated candidates for the Presidency. The Democrats are resting on the ruin of posterity and have only one person they are willing to follow into the depths, sigh.

Without breaking into an anthem or gospel song, we did get an opportunity to donate money to help cover those that don't have their entry fee. Times are hard, and there aren't any deep pockets for Ron Paul (not crooked enough? or Bill O'Reilly diss'ng Doctor Paul's chances?). There is a video on YouTube about the caucus in Athens, Georgia. Seems the county party bosses had made up their minds before the reps could vote. They didn't even like the Paul supporters questioning their procedures and closed the caucus without a vote. So irregular. But it was Georgia, what did you expect from the DEEP South? It is covered by a blogger here.

NFO has finished day one of his Appleseed, and posted a quick note. Hardly satisfying from my point of view. So I will go look and see if anyone has posted pictures or an after action report on the RWVA forum. Ah, well nothing there yet, but I looked up the Instructors Bootcamp that I missed last weekend. Tons of good information and great pictures of the activity and participants. No wonder they, the RWVA instructor crew, seem professional - they are dedicated volunteers trying to save the sinking America - one Rifleman at a time.