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So, I'm hoping this is acceptible as a diary. I'm sure you'll let me know if it isn't. ;) David Van Os is a lawyer and politician in Texas. Moreover, he's a patriot tired of the schemes of the ultrarich.
He speaks of fighting back against the class warfare and not getting discouraged. He also refers to a "99% Spring". The training session itself was this week. But you now have an opportunity to support and join the organizers for "Spring Action". More information from that can be found here at MoveOn: 99% Spring
Or Here at the main website: http://the99spring.com/
It is, as the Moveon.org website states: "The 99% Spring is a collaborative effort between many organizations to train over 100,000 Americans in the basics of nonviolent direct action—not an electoral campaign."
Never Give Up
April 16, 2012 by David Van Os
The people have been on an accelerating downward slide under the class war waged by the robber barons and their political stooges especially for the last 31 years since the false idol Reagan took office. Many millions of honest, hard-working Americans have been tricked by three decades of lies into voting for the purveyors of the false free-market cult, voting for the very same predators who steal their jobs, their homes, and their standards of living.
Too many people who had positions of influence through which they could have combated the lies failed to do so. When false messages are not vigorously contested it is easy for the lies to fill a vacuum. Far too many people get elected on populist-sounding platforms, and then it turns out that either their platforms were fraudulent or they don’t have the guts to live up to them. And far too many journalists and academics take the easy and convenient path of acquiescence to the power of money.
The magnificent ideals from our Declaration of Independence of government by the consent of the governed and everyone possessing the right to the pursuit of happiness still stir my heart and I’m sure they stir yours. But these ideals that inflamed the improbable revolution against the British Empire are on the ropes today. We owe it to all who have come before us who loved democracy and freedom, and to all the generations who will come after us whom we want to live in democracy and freedom, to fight back with all our strength and resolve, and never, ever give up.
This past Saturday I attended a 99% Spring training session. It was inspirational to find people from all walks of life gathering together to share their stories and to learn ways to fight back together. The public streets and plazas belong to the people to exercise the precious right of free assembly to petition for redress of grievances. Soon a 99% Spring action will take place in your city or community. Be there.
You need to be there at the ballot box, too. The class warriors count on the people becoming discouraged and giving up on voting. The more trips we make to the ballot box the harder they have to work to keep us down. We must keep the faith and keep up the struggle, and the democracy and freedom that our forebears sacrificed everything to achieve for us will flower as surely as the sun rises in the morning.
Respectfully,
David Van Os
Texas Patriot
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