Posted on 04/21/2010 10:46:35 AM PDT by STD
In order for our Great Tree of Liberty to continue to flourish while powerful winds of change threaten to tear down our sacred Republic, let us reach back in time to deploy the most powerful weapon we as the American people know.
Let it be resolved that the humble citizen's known as the Tea Party USA solemnly swear to return our freedom's and inalienable right's through strictly non-violent and peaceful protests.
Almighty God, give us the strength to preserve this new breath of freedom not for just the American people, but for all of mankind.
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the hand of God, 1963
I hereby pledge myself—my person and body—to the nonviolent movement. Therefore I will keep the following ten commandments:
1. Meditate daily on the teachings and life of Jesus.
2. Remember always that the non—violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation — not victory.
3. Walk and talk in the manner of love, for God is love.
4. Pray daily to be used by God in order that all men might be free.
5. Sacrifice personal wishes in order that all men might be free.
6. Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.
7. Seek to perform regular service for others and for the world.
8. Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or heart.
9. Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.
10.Follow the directions of the movement and of the captain on a demonstration.
I sign this pledge, having seriously considered what I do and with the determination and will to persevere.
Name____________________
Address__________________
Phone___________________
Nearest Relative___________
Address__________________
Besides demonstrations, I could also help the movement by: (Circle the proper items)
Run errands, Drive my car, Fix food for volunteers, Clerical work, Make phone calls, Answer phones, Mimeograph, Type, Print Signs, Distribute leaflets.
I promise to e-mail, write letters, call my elected representatives and march ceaselessly wherever necessary.
Taken with the utmost honor and respect from the
ALABAMA CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
I'm just sayin.
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Bad idea... even if you don’t intend to *ever* use nukes, you *never* take them off the table.
...for now...
I’m keeping my options open.
I’m not pledging jack bub!
As seen on Glen Beck yesterday .
Can you please explain how any of the above has worked thus far?
We have soldiers fighting and dying overseas, right now, while OUR country is being destroyed from within. On their behalf, I’d prefer to pledge to do WHATEVER becomes necessary here at home. I’m just sayin.
Playing into the hands of the enemy! Hell NO!
Um....no.
We’ve come full-circle to 1773, and a pledge of non-violence won’t be any more effective against the tyranny we face today, as it would have been then.
That said, I fervently hope and pray that we can restore our constitutional republic without violence, but I’m awake and aware enough to know that it may come to that.
I won’t make a pledge to be violent or non-violent, but I will pledge to do whatever it takes to win our country back.
I see ablsolutely nothing wrong with the statements. I do my best to follow them every day already. I could never in good conscience sign it this.
If the government ever comes for me, my family, or my friends; I am duty bound to defend them and to defend freedom no matter the cost. This truth is self evident.
“As seen on Glen Beck yesterday .”
I don’t know how any regular viewers of Glenn Beck can help but notice a serious CHANGE the last few days. Something happened and once again, he’s admittedly decided to change his format. I don’t know what it was, but IMO, he’s been got to.
Not this member.
I pledge to fight for my country any way I can if the need arises.
..... then what ?
The left is just begging for a pre-election crisis , anything to postpone or suspend the Nov. elections . Let us play by the rules of non volent protest so they have no reason to suspend the election . After November the bamster may be rendered a LAME DUCK .
I know how attractive it is to eliminate your enemies by force, but that only increases their bloodlust. Consider our lost cousin's Ismael and Esau. They were not children of the promise, or in the sacred line that gave us King David and Jesus Christ. Why, because they were men of war not worthy of that great honor.
Haven't any of you read American History, we as imperfect people have tried to be Our Brother's Keeper. Every natural disaster or war (even wars we fought in) has these United States helping put our former enemies back on their feet. Where does that legacy come from tough guy?
When push comes to shove, I promise to be graceful and swift about the task at hand. Violence is in the interpetation.
Anyways, Look at Violence from FReeDictionarydotcom:
1. Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing: crimes of violence.
2. The act or an instance of violent action or behavior.
3. Intensity or severity, as in natural phenomena; untamed force: the violence of a tornado.
4. Abusive or unjust exercise of power.
5. Abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent: do violence to a text.
6. Vehemence of feeling or expression; fervor
I wonder if Nancy Pelosi could pass number 4, say? Leftist demonstrators?
The TEA Party already is so ENORMOUSLY peaceful that this type of request is a BS Mockery! In my opinion.
(And I’m a guy that always reads the “i have a dream” speech on MLK day.)
Martin Luther King may have pledged to commit no violence but quite a bit was perpetrated by others on his behalf with his knowledge, along with being a commie stooge run by the Soviets.
I would gladly have lived my life harming no man, what I am seeing now is an attack and invasion, just as surely as if they were dropping by parachutes and coming ashore in landing craft.
Whether they come from elsewhere, or were already here, it makes no difference.
There can never again be a truce, someone must win this and someone must lose. America is now a nation occupied by 2 discrete tribes, brotherhood is now beyond reach.
I don't care what color a true patriot is, everyone else is a threat.
BUAID NO BAS!
It’s not that complicated. I just don’t pledge to things that I may not uphold.
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That’s right,
without reserving the right to exercise what the 2nd amendment is for,
the “ruling class” will not pay any attention.
Now, while we are still at relative peace, if we can win back all we have lost, by peaceful protest what fool wouldn't be willing to try?
If we just go up in a burst of gunfire, or an explosion' how does that bring us back to a seat in the Hall's of Liberty Freedom & Justice? While it's still possible, let's try to heal our nation by peaceful means. God help us, if this should fail, we're sure not giving up.
Guns, everybodies got guns.
“Just a goddamned piece of paper.”
Sound familiar?
I think everyone is stocking up,
and waiting to see what happens
in November. If it becomes clear
that the ballot box of liberty
has been closed through shenanigans,
people are already prepared for the
next necessary step.
I have already taken a pledge - to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I intend to keep it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2497131/posts
By the grace of God and lots of peaceful citizen's, we are driving the rats from both political parties out of office. Look at how much we have accomplished without firing a shot.
Brothers, let's reload as Guv'nor Palin said, but let's not forget; 'the shot heard around the world still echoes through time'
In order that 'We the People' act responsibly, we the people shall have peace.
Woe, woe to the man who first steps into the ring for the sake of violent oppresion. He shall be torn limb from limb.
Thank You Bill, I know you will do your duty. Wherever that leads us!
Remember Durus, first and foremost 'these are our countrymen'
Maybe we can wake them from their stuppor, or halt their hypnotic trance. Anything's better than Civil War!
1 Samuel 17
43 And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.” 45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted. 46 “This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and He will give you into our hands. “ 48 Then it happened when the Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, that David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground. 50 Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David's hand.
My disagreement with signing a pledge for a certain behavior is that the behavior is already CLEARLY IN PLACE. Signing this “pledge” is tantamount to agreeing that a behavior change or code is needed -It ain’t!
The TEA Party people are so well-behaved, so non-violent, so responsible that they leave parks cleaner thatn when they got there.
And, these TEA Party people are not groupy, unthinking, sheep. It is amazing they even amass in one place as the majority of them are real individuals who are just fine standing on their own if need be.
We are doing just fine without a “pledge” that would remind one to play nice in a world where people are glad to bring guns to knife fights.
I reserve my pledge for the Constitution.
“Can you please explain how any of the above has worked thus far?”
Some work is still in progress. The Walk for life in San Francisco every year is a silent march. The first year, a lot of vulgar, screaming pro-abortion people had a counter demonstration and then came and heckled the marchers. Several thousand people marched silently anyway. The next several years saw the silent crowd grow to 25,000. The screaming opposition has dropped to a few. A lot of pro-life, yet timid, people gained new confidence, strength and commitment from the experience, so they could go home and accomplish more for the cause.
Non-violence isn’t always the correct tactic in very dire circumstances, but it can be powerful when used well, for getting public support.
Self-restraint is absolutely missing from radical liberal life.
This pledge rebukes that mind-set very effectively.
It would be a powerful and impressive testament to the dignity and correctness of the movement back toward individual responsibility and liberty if those who advocate it pledged to affirm peaceable behavior and called out those on the other side who failed to match the pledge.
Our strongest appeal to the public is to look like the responsible grown-ups that most of us are, in sharp contrast to the liberals.
Restraint can only be applied when one has something to restrain. Peace through strength.
By their deeds people are known. The deeds of the TEA Parties have been ENORMOUSLY peaceful and restrained even when taunted by Nancy”Big Gavel”Pelosi and the race-baitin’, dema-goggin’, recorders-held-high but can’t claim the reward manipulators of the left.
It doesn't hurt any of us to take part in spiritual exercises now that our very lives, liberties and sacred honor are all on the line. It takes real men of peace to contemplate the horrors of war. I've seen it firsthand. I don't want to see it here in my beloved country. If we by little effort, exhurstion and money can halt this terrible side, is it worth it to make the effort?
I know it’s been peaceful, but we need to make a big, deliberate, deal about it, for a long time, in order for the public and the media to completely get it/stop ignoring it.
And we need to raise the ante to the other side to try to match us, because it helps remind people why the other side is too out-of-hand.
Sorry I’m a second paragrapher.
I have no doubt that if the left is unable to effect "change" through the political process they will try to do it with the barrel of a gun. We must be prepared... "extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice"
I think Bill Clinton gave some sort of Pledge.
Do you care about what the Left MSM says? I don’t....
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“If it becomes clear
that the ballot box of liberty...”
the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, ...the cartridge box...the choices we have.
Al Gore in 2000 brought us to the Jury Box once before...all because of his desire to institute carbon caps and trading.....enslaving our very breathing and living.
I have little doubt we’ll be in the Jury Box after the next “election”...quite possibly over the same nonsense as Cap n’ Trade.....I suspect they’ll be better “prepared” this time however...
They are indeed intent on closing all the boxes of liberty...
ie, “ a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism”
People like me are just waiting for the rest of you to realize it as well.
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