NovemberRevolution2010

My heart is heavy with the division in my country. Today I see anger erupting on both sides of the isle and even though I recognize some of the anger as righteous, it is no less disheartening. We are nearer today to a New Civil War in America than at any time since the first Civil War. Red states and Blue states are lining up to take their appropriate sides on the issue of Health Care and whether it is Constitutional or not and if believed not, then Attorney Generals or Governors are moving to challenge the laws Constitutionality.
Brothers and sisters are choosing their sides and they are not always the same. Life long friends are suddenly discovering that they no longer share the same attitudes that brought them together as friends. Name calling, deception, riducule, and threats of violence with hints of actual violence are evident in even the highest office in the land. Our nation is a volcano about to erupt and I fear that without some return to moderation and civility, we will see blood shed on a national level not witnessed before, in any of our lifetimes.
Democrats seem to think that the Conservative movement, comprised of groups like the Tea party, FreedomFighters, and even small grassroots causes such as my own, NovemberRevolution 2010, Dems seem to believe we are not serious. They are under the allusion that somehow we will forget come November that this President has defied every call for restraint the majority has made. We were confident after the win in Mass. that he had heard our voices at last, but quickly learned he had turned a deaf ear to our cries. We thought in April of 2009 that the Teaparty movement would be seen as a stark reminder that WE the PEOPLE are in charge of how much money we want to give away. Again, our President and Democratic congress turned a blind eye. Some refused to acknowledge we had marched at all, and when they were forced to admit some groups had gathered..the numbers were severly under-represented.
So where does this lend itself to take our nation next. I say we are on the precipice of a great fall into violent uprisings. Perhaps not in the next year or even two but if matters continue to spiral out of control as many on the right precieve them to be..it is inevitable that Americans will once again rise to face tyranny and fight for the freedoms our nation was founded upon.
I do not advocate violence, and as I have outlined in my cause, we plan to use democratic means currently at our disposal to undo this tide of injustice. Our motto is "Ballots Not Bullets" to drive home our non-violent view. Yet I cannot shake the eerie sense of foreboding that lingers in the air when I hear Pelosi or President Obama cast warnings about how certain "speech" can lead to violence. I say, not certain "speech" but rather certain "limit's of Speech" will in fact lead to violence. Government can bring about the same affect as silence by simply ignoring the speech of the people. What good is the freedom to speak if the people intended to hear are refusing to listen?
It is this point that I think President Obama, Pelosi, and Reid had better consider long and hard before they continue with the current policy. If they truly want to see change in our country, they may well get more than they bargined for when the silence becomes deafening. It is the silence before the storm that gives the best warning to brace for a violent upheavel. I pray come November 2010, we see a movement in this country that stalls such a storm and instead offers the shelter of a new majority whose eyes are opened to see all and whose ears are tuned to listen to all.