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Thank you for the opp to sound off. My name Matt Dentino and I lead an openly God fearing, America loving, pro Israel, pro military, pro life, anti commie, patriotic southern rock called Uncle Sam. We were supposed to play at the Mt Juliet TP yesterday but had to cancel last minute. Heres a bit of what I saw yesterday downtown:

Wow, to quote the great Charlie Daniels from his ’70’s concert’s “ain’t it great to be alive and in TN?” Like many of us who have been in the conservative trenches for 25 years or more, this rally in downtown Nashville at noon on the State Capitol’s door step was like seeing the Calvary ride in to town just at the right moment, how refreshing! Reports are already confirming that it was one of the biggest around the country and just one of 50 or so within the Vol. State all of which were well attended by folks like me who took off work to participate in.
In fact, folks of all kinds of backgrounds were in attendance, the only ones I didn’t see were the press. I felt like they were not trying to ignore us as much as hide from us and then slander as usual from afar. I did speak to one guy from the AP who was openly not at all amused and looked a bit ticked off and even looked a wee bit scared by all the “right wing extremist” grandparent’s waving witty signs about.
Indeed it looks like TN is leading the charge and will emerge as a national leader as all of the conservative movements are finding a natural home in this latest chapter of the good fight of faith we wage! I just heard Rush saying ‘don’t let these tp’s get high jacked by 3rd parties, they only help the opposition”. Would someone please tell Rush this is so NOT about him or any man. This is about US now taking our stand as our Fore Fathers have for more than 2 centuries against the jack booted march of tyranny now apparently in power here. I believe we are in the last days and we are like that “best wine saved for last” in the wedding at Cana. This is exactly what we have been training for in our local churches and through tough life experiences, amen? This wasn’t a one event like a church car wash, our enemies plot our demise everyday if you haven’t noticed and The Lord say”occupy until I return”. The cry of the American Revolution was ‘We have no King but Jesus” and if we keep this focus we will keep our nation just like Israel of old did! I always marveled at people who were “conservative’ but not Christians, that is nationalism, it was for freedom that Christ set us free. We are of the Phileos Spirit which means love not only brotherly love (used in the naming of Philidelphia) but a tough love (choice) and committment to a heritage and a people, think of the Spirit of ‘76, “where the Spirit of The Lord is, there is liberty” 2nd Cor 3:17.
Now, Iam preaching, back tothe TP, my only ‘beef’s” were the well intentioned HONKERS continually streaming slowly by the satge wanting to show solidarity but not realizing thery’e ‘honkyinging” was greatly diminishing the vitally important speeches going on, darn ‘honkey’s’, boy talk about BLEEEEPING OUT some of the language in the speeches, this took the cake! I was onsatge about 10 feet from the speaker and missed atleast half of everything that was said! Therefore, perhaps next time we can: (c) get more speakers and amps and (b) announce for weeks and certainly that day that is a: “no honky zone”, even in the city of “honkytonks”, it was way too much. All joking aside, if everyone let’s the ‘honky’s’ know this then the message and the peace will be even more crystal clear and certainly enhance an already incredibly orderly, peaceful and event. (a?) I forgot (a), uh ..and no more signs encouraging honky’s to honk such as: ‘Honk, If I am paying your mortgage!” (I’m serious).
Thank you and God bless,
Uncle Sam

I agree that it was everything it should have been and more, though the point about the honking of the horn’s did dimish the delivery of the speeches somewhat.
I will certainly continue to post and actively particpate in the tea party movement over the years after this event, attendance was amazing to say the least. Now it’s time to take it to the next level, actively guide every represenative to our manner and way of thinking. I saw many of our legislative member’s entering the Capital Building, the only one’s who said anything to me at all were the republicans. All they said was thank you for coming. So we do have a little work to be done. Let’s start there and get moving. Effecting State house numbers first, while still emailing, calling and writing the federal boys as well.

I’ve already started, More discussion and organizing is in order.. Who with me?

Tea Party - Somerville, Fayette county, Tennessee - My speech
Thank you Trish, and the tea party committee for inviting me to speak today. It is an honor to be here.

I am glad to see so many people here today. I am especially impressed to see all the young people that are here. I have spoken to many of them and I am amazed at the depth of their knowledge and I am encouraged by their passion for sound government.

The first tea party was to show the tyrannical king of England that we did not like being taxed so heavily and being represented so lightly. We all remember from school, ‘No taxation without representation.’ Please, we advocate only peaceful and lawful protest.

Today’s tea party is not that much different from the first one. Washington is not listening us. Washington ignores us. Washington does not fear us. Today, we want to send Washington a message: We are Fed Up and we are not going to take it anymore.

Our forefathers gave us a Republic form of government. That means Rule by Law. Not rule by tyrants in Washington! Our forefathers gave us the Constitution as our law. We are a Constitutional Republic.

The Constitution does not give Washington the power to do what ever they please. The Constitution limits the Federal government. The Constitution protects our God given Rights from an abusive government. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the Rights of the individual.

The Constitution states exactly what the government is allowed to do, and friends, it is not that many things. The legislative branch, congress, has 20 things listed that they are allowed to do. That’s right, 20. The executive branch, the president, has 6 things listed that he is allowed to do. And there are 14 things listed for the Courts to do. All of these are listed explicitly. Why is our federal government so large? Also listed are things the Federal Government is not allowed to do. There are the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, which most of them start with “the congress SHALL NOT”, “the congress SHALL NOT’, all the way to the that wonderful 10th amendment, which says “if we forgot anything, then you can’t do that either”.

Our leaders in Washington swore an oath to follow the Constitution. Does anyone here believe they are keeping that oath? Our country is 11 TRILLION dollars in debt. Yet our Congressmen are giving Billions away in foreign aid. Is taxing you, the public, in order to send your tax money to other countries in the Constitution? We are 11 Trillion dollars in debt. Yet our Congressmen are giving Billions away to private banks and private industry. Is that in the Constitution?

We have a department of Education. Is the education system today working well? Is government, excuse me, public education listed in the constitution? We have a department of Energy, is energy listed in the constitution? Is transportation, health, housing, or labor listed in the constitution? People, if Washington would follow the constitution, our government would be 20 percent the current size and only 20 percent the current cost. Send a message to Washington. No More unconstitutional spending. No more unconstitutional micro managing of our very lives. No more deprivation of our Liberties.

Washington thinks that if they are not prohibited, then they can do anything. We have been asleep and elected a bunch of self serving politicians. Thomas Jefferson said, “bind men down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

We, here today, are here, to remind Washington that They have it Backwards.

They work For Us, not Us for them. They are to Protect, not provide.

This tea party today is to let Washington know that we are Not asleep. Law Breakers, I mean Law Makers, You are here by put on Notice. We are Watching you. We may have been asleep when we elected you, but your self-serving inability to follow your oath to these great United States of America, and to the Constitution, has awakened the sleeping giant. And we are mad.

But, in fairness, should we place all the blame on Washington? We elected them? Let me ask you, Just what is the problem in our great nation. What is wrong in America today?

Our national problem is ignorance.

Ignorance is desired, created, and sustained by those we have trusted.

Friends, freedom cannot survive in a Nation of Ignorance. But we here know that a majority of our citizens, us, will act responsibly and vote intelligently when we are correctly informed.

We must build understanding and increase awareness among the American people.

Informed and alerted citizens must be organized and activated as quickly as they can be found and taught.

An active and informed electorate would first bear down on the U.S. House of Representatives, where many of these unconstitutional programs can be stopped, mainly by cutting off the funding for them. By the same means, other unconstitutional and harmful legislation can be blocked, and the disastrous course of our nation can be reversed.

The next objective of an informed electorate would be the U.S. Senate, to restore its role as legislative check on the House.

A constitutionally correct House and Senate would then strip the Court and the executive branch of the unauthorized powers they have assumed.

My fellow Americans, we are at war. The battle is between individualism and collectivism.

The individualist believes that the rights of the individual must not be destroyed by the desires of the collective or the group.

Collectivists believe that the group is more important than the individuals that belong to it, and the individual must be sacrificed, if necessary, for the greater good of the greater number.

The individualist believes that with Rights, come responsibility and since we insist on individual rights, therefore we except the principle of individual responsibility, rather than group responsibility. We believe that every person has a responsibility to provide first for themselves, next for their family, and then for those outside their family who may be in need.

The collectivist on the other hand says that the individual is Not personally responsible for charity or raising their own children or providing for their aging parents or even providing for themselves for that matter. This is a group function of the state or of government itself.

The Individualist wants to be free to do it himself; the collectivist wants the government to do it for him. He believes government can solve all problems. Because government is the One group that can Force everyone to participate. It has the power of taxation backed by jail or the force of arms. Friends, collectivism is Legal Plunder.

Individualist believe in Freedom, collectivist believe in compulsion.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are at war. The battle is between morality and amorality.

We want integrity in government. We want honesty in the market place. We want social harmony. These things must be based on morality, they can not be legislated into existence.

True morality is not possible without a firm religious base. True morality is doing what is right just because it is right, and for no other reason.

Religion is indispensable for a nation’s morality and for liberty.

Thomas Jefferson also said, “Resistance To Tyranny Is Obedience To God.”

Let this tea party today, here in Somerville, Fayette county Tennessee, mark the beginning, the beginning of Less Government, More Responsibility, and with God’s Help, a better World.

Thank you

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