The Tea Party movement stands at the forefront of the battle for the preservation of the American system of representative government.  Interestingly, this largely leaderless citizens protest movement has grown over the past year to gain the grudging respect as the most visible, if not powerful, opponent of radical forces trying to remake America.  However, these ordinary citizens are now seen as obstructionists by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.

President Obama came into office with promises of "change you can believe in."  But he is moving quickly to transform government and society beyond what anyone imagined. Democrats under his leadership are making changes so broadly and quickly that every sector of our economy is coming under government control.  And who is visibly working to hold back their planned takeover?  It is a citizens group, armed with waving American flags and talk about the Constitution, saying "no" to big government.  Radicals, hoping to seize the moment with the most radical President in our country's history, will hardly disregard any such obstacle to their plans.

In a real sense, the Democrat Party has been hijacked, too.  President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have shown that there is no place for moderates of conservatives in Washington DC.  Pro-life Democrats are silenced during the health care debate.   Democrats who do not vote the new radical party line find their jobs in danger. Chicago-style politics assures obey-or-depart results.  Showing the audacity he touts, President Obama appoints known communists, tax-evaders, and extremist radicals to his cabinet.  He has the audacity to snub our allies across the world, such as Israel and Great Britain, and bow before radicals and dictators.  Many people who helped vote Obama into office are now becoming scared and having second thoughts.  Upwards of forty percent of Tea Party protesters actually voted Democrat in the last election. 

The days ahead are sure to see multiple and increasingly slanderous attacks against the citizen protesters and conservative Republicans by the most radical of Democrats.  In order to protect their freedoms, the American people need to be informed.  It is up to a well-informed citizenry to retain its freedoms.  As George Washington said of the Constitution: "its only keepers [are] the people."

It is important for all Americans to learn:

• What is a radical and how is he or she different from a liberal? 
  
• What evidence is there that some Democrats are radicals of the Alinsky brand?
• Who are they, and why is their philosophy of government dangerous to our Constitution and freedoms?

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