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The March in Washington
A defining experience for a Charleston citizen
The following is an e mail that was send to me and others by Marsha Baxter. She travelled to Washington for the event on a Charleston Tea Party bus and participated in the march. Her letter says it all. Editor
How does one describe a life defining moment… I never believed that I could be involved in such an experience, I had allowed myself to become trusting and complacent, willing to allow others to be the watchdog and voice that should have been me. I have trusted network news to be the informant of issues in our Congress; misplaced trust… I have learned the lesson.
I have been surprising myself of late. Never in my 60 years have I become so awake to the actions of our Congress and the direction they are taking this nation. Their actions, self-interests and corruption are taking this great nation down and we must stop the death spiral. I am still defining how I can participate in this counter-activity, I know I have to study and read and listen to the overwhelming evidence and then I must make my voice heard, I must stand together to protect our liberty. The Tea Party Movement appears to be my choice.
I rode to DC this past weekend with a bus load of professionals, not radicals, nor extremists, etc. but professionals from every career. Physicians, pastors, engineers, state Senator, teachers, contractors, etc.. Our only agenda was to stand and be recognized as disagreeing with our nation’s leadership. The issues were many, but we were not special interest at all. I wish I had the vocabulary to express the very full heart, the sense of pride I felt participating; just being on the bus was an education. Then standing in Freedom Square literally crammed in together like sardines in a can and singing our Nation’s songs and facing the American Flag with our hands over our hearts.. Tears streaming and hearts full of pride, voices choked from emotion… The March was started 30-45 minutes earlier then planned because our numbers were so large, the DC police was concerned for safety, etc. The walk was slow and deliberate and respectful. We were in awe of the massive buildings, the monuments, the White House and the Capital, HUGE… and we were there, WE WERE THERE, exercising our God given right to make our voices heard, standing on hollowed ground given to us by our Nation’s founders, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the authors of our Constitution and fought to protect by our Nation’s military. So many American hero’s… So many people from every walk of life, united in the conviction that we must make our voices heard, we must take back our nation, we must stop our President and Congress.
And the chants, the voices raised united… “We love Joe”; “You Lie”; “Joe for President”; “Flip the House” and many more… Believe me a common theme throughout this entire experience was to vote out every existing Rep, Senator and President as they come up for re-election. This Grass Roots Movement will be one to be reckoned with since we are founded on our Bill of Rights, our Constitution, our Freedom, our Liberty .
A revelation was the disappointment in our media and their accurate coverage of this historic event.. Our numbers were huge and grew all day as people rushed to get to some portion of the event, whatever their schedules allowed.. Stories abounded about our numbers, about buses stopped at the bridges and not allowed in because of space constraints in parking these huge vehicles… Why does our media down-play reality?? Who truly owns our media and the coverage they report? Where is our voice?? NOT IN OUR MEDIA!! Fox had the most coverage and is appreciated. Perhaps our media has become too complacent and mainstreamed to realize the significance of this event.
But one stand-out point that must not be missed, we were not individuals at this march, each one of us was representing hundreds if not thousands of folks back home that could not attend for various reasons…This Grass-Roots movement is huge, this Silent Majority is silent no more…
My heart is full, my cup runneth over from this monumental event and I WAS THERE! I stood up!! I took action… I took my seat on the bus… A sense of pride fills my heart and a search for answers, tickles my brain. Complacency is a disease; I plan to cure in myself. I will research and study and work to expose the fraud, the theft, the lies. And I will be in the background observing and reporting to those politicians that have the intelligence, the integrity and the conviction to get our country back on the right path identified by our Founders, our Forbearers’…
This event has become one of my life-defining moments. I pray I can keep the momentum. I must.
Your Comments:
comments anchorI was there too. Throughout the day more and more poured in. Don't listen to the media. It couldn't have been any less than two million. It was easily four times the turnout of the over-hyped Woodstock crowd.The sleeping giant is awake and he's really ticked.
Posted by: Vernon Dickson at September 14, 2009 02:45 PM
Thank you for attending in my place.
Vote them all out and let's start over. Step one: read the Constitution.....
Posted by: Paul at September 14, 2009 03:09 PM
God bless each and everyone of you who made it to this event. Time, distance and expense kept me home, sad to say. I am greatly encouraged by the turnout for this event. For every one of you who did go, there were at least ten more out there who believe in America as our Founders saw it.
The ominous side of this is the near total lack of coverage by the MSM. That in itself is information, and it's not good - not good in its implications or its outcome.
There is a saying that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. That, I fear, is our course. That those who love this country and freedom are summarily ignored and otherwise dismissed, well... draw your own conclusions.
I've made my choices, drawn my line in the sand and said, "Enough!" Visit my website for a read of my Fourth of July Tea Party speech. It's a five minute history lesson and a call to action. There ARE things you can do - I name five of them. Edmund Burke, noted English stateman and philosopher once said, "No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Read my website. Read my speech. And by all means, do something - while you still can.
Posted by: Ward Dorrity at September 14, 2009 03:25 PM
I am one of those who could not be there and I thank you as one of my ‘representative(s)’ for standing for me and mine.
I pray daily that we are able to take back our country. I am so ashamed I was complacent for so long, I was happy in my 'bubble', I said nothing when - day after day - the rot crept through our national foundations: the schools, the media, the political partIes.
We need about 537 "Joe the Plumbers", Joe Wilsons, Jim DeMints and Sarah Palins to re-establish what our Founding Fathers gave us and throw out the garbage that has taken the reins of the U.S. government.
The hypocrites used to say "speak truth to power" and "dissent is patriotic" - now the shoe is on the other foot and they call us racists and domestic terrorists.
Lest someone assert I'm racist, let me say:
- I played with my black children friends in their hovel on my grandfathers farm in N.C. and helped them with the tobacco harvest when I was six,
- One of my two best friends in High School was Ron "you white people must be all chewed up" Brown, a black man with whom I marched proudly in AFJROTC
- I believe one of the most intelligent people on this earth is Dr. Thomas Sowell, and
- I voted for Alan Keyes for President.
I am an Eagle Scout and retired from the USAF and am still productive supporting one of the few Constitutional responsibilities of the federal government: the defense of the United States of America from foreign enemies.
Content of character: "by their fruits you shall know them" is what drives my discernment - MLK had it right and he would be outraged. I know I am.
Posted by: Percy Saunders Jr. at September 14, 2009 04:53 PM
THANKS TO GLEN BECK AND THE FOX NETWORK
IF THE REST OF THE NETWORKS WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THE INVESTIGATING REPORTING AS THEY SHOULD HAVE. OBAMA WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NOMINATED.
THERE IS TOO MUCH ABOUT HIM WE DO NOT KNOW,AND NOW WE HAVE 4 YRS OF MISCONTENT.
TONY LE FEVRE
INDEPENDENT
Posted by: TONY at September 15, 2009 01:18 PM
We surround them. You are not alone.
That is what we demonstrated by uniting.
That is what Obama and his state run fringe media want to deny.
That's what Obama really wants to diminish, he and his fringe media of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS...
Posted by: at September 21, 2009 11:15 AM