“…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…”
To secure our Rights – not to suppress them, not to limit them, and certainly not to act as the Agent to “dole them out” based on certain political winds. It is unfortunate that we are at the state of being that Liberty must be discussed and ways in which to defend it against what seems to be a Fifth Column that has recently been rather overt in the last decade or so.
This past Saturday, the 603 Alliance held it’s all day and evening event called “Liberty trumps Socialism”. Well timed, in my opinion, given all of the talk on the Left about their racing towards Socialism.
Liberty demands freedom and amongst the condition of being free is to be free from an intrusive, coercive, and overreaching government. Socialism, on the other hands, demands the exact opposite; instead of raising up the Individual, the State becomes preeminent. With Liberty, the Individual decides; in Socialism, the government decides.
The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen. Saturday was chockfull of speakers approaching this from various viewpoints: studied, anecdotally, fire and brimstone – but all were unabashedly for Liberty as our Founders defined it in their writings, in our Declaration of Independence, and in our Constitution (which was meant to divvy up any attempts at power concentration in recognizing that human nature craves power).
Socialism/Communism is the anti-Liberty path – at no time has it ever worked as it denies its subjects the liberty and freedom to make decisions on their own and for their own best interests – government proscribes what is not allowed (a long list) and what is (a short list). We have interviewed those who grew up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain or who escaped from Socialist countries – they just can’t understand why America is turning into what they ran away from (and often losing everything in doing so).
Those that spoke at Saturday’s event, both the day portion and the evening dinner, were:
- Alfredo Ortiz – Job Creators Network JCN, President and CEO
- Jenny Beth Martin – Tea Party Patriots TPP, Co-Founder and National Coordinator
- Trevor Loudon – Author, Film maker, political activist / Bishop E. W. Jackson – American Conservative Politician
- Barbara from Harlem – Author, Political Activist
- Hon. Josh Moore – The Patriots Initiative, former NH State Rep. (and Grokster!)
- Hon. Dan Itse – Madison Coalition, former NH State Rep, Constitution Expert (and Grokster!)
- Dan Mitchell – Economist, former CATO, Heritage Foundation
- Jim Simpson – Center for Security Policy
- Ann Marie Banfield – Education Policy Expert (and Grokster!)
- Jose Cambrils – Political Activist, Legal Immigrant, Candidate for NH State Rep.
- Hon. Steve Negron – former NH State Rep, Candidate for US Congress
- Hon. Bill O’Brien – former Speaker of the NH House
- Jonathan Hanen – Foundation for Immigration Reform F.A.I.R.
- Jim Kofalt – 603 Alliance Board of Directors, Political Activist (and Grokster!)
- Steve MacDonald – 603 Alliance Board of Directors, GraniteGrok (and Grokster!)
- Hon. Steve Stepanek – NH-GOP Chairman, former NH State Rep.
- Ed Naile – Chairman, Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers (and Grokster!)
- James O’Keefe – Founder and Head of Project Veritas
Bill Whittle’s video is what the attendees coming in just before the start of the morning’s festivities were greeted by:
GraniteGrok did livestream the entire day – much more success than our first try at rolling out all brand new technology but we still have a few things to straighten out. If you wish to watch all 8+ hours, you can go here (on GraniteGrok) or to our Livestream channel (here).
I’ve now processed the individual speaker videos and will be putting them up over the next few days. As you can see from the list above, there’ll be a few to watch.
