I was watching the president deliver a speech today to a very enthusiastic very supportive crowd. The problem with the President's speech is that it's the same old speech where is he lays out a bunch of innuendos, half-truths and gray areas and expects the American public to buy it. Yep, the president was very much supported until you realize who was in the crowd. What the president's handlers had done was go to a union picnic which is 110% behind the president because the president is bailing out their companies. The unions want to keep health care costs under their control for their employees and the president's all about that so consequently the president was surrounded by a bunch of slobbering babbling idiots who don't know anything more about running their own lives than he does.

I've noticed that there is a distinct vacuum of presidential presence when it comes to true life American town halls. Have you ever seen the American president show up at a true town hall meeting where the majority of the people know what's going on and they don't like what he's trying to do and are willing to ask tough questions? The answer is a resounding no. The president's handlers do not want him embarrassed when he is unable to answer a question by a citizen. Because you cannot preprogram his Teleprompter to intercept questions and post the answer for him.

So the pundits say, absolutely agree on this point, we the people need to keep running our mouth just as long as loud as we possibly can. Congressional conservatives and Republicans need to keep their mouths shut. After all, why should they open their mouths say something that might be controversial and give the state run media a chance to dog pile all over the speaker and take the public scrutiny of the morons who are constantly running their mouths in front of every available microphone. There is an old adage in politics, if your opponent is steadily imploding do not open your mouth do not try to assist, let them go about creating their own demise in peace.

Good morning my fellow patriots. I was watching Fox news this morning when the Secretary of transportation appeared on the broadcast. The Fox talking head, Trace Gallagher, asks the Secretary of transportation how the closing of 1100 private businesses was going to help the bottom line of Chrysler. The Secretary of transportation did not have a good answer. He became agitated and stated that everybody wanted Chrysler to downsize and when they did everybody criticize them.The correspondent stated that these were private businesses who had bought Chrysler products and were attempting to sell them. He also asked why or how good the closure of a private business and help the Chrysler bottom line. Again the Secretary of transportation was unable to provide an adequate answer. It seemed to me, as a completely biased and non-trusting private citizen, that the politician was attempting to tap dance. Now, there is no doubt in my military mind when a politician opens his mouth to speak the very first thing that comes from his lips besides the bad breath is a lie. There is also no doubt, in my opinion, that the vast majority of these soon to be closed dealerships have more to do with political punishment than with helping the Chrysler bottom line.I think, and it may already have been done, it would be interesting to find out how many of the 1100 Chrysler dealerships are owned by Republicans and how many are owned by Democrats. I think that was a rhetorical question but when we speak of small business and paying taxes you do seem to end up on the hate list of the "zeros administration".Mitch, looking for a Chrysler Town and Country,sends

Your Representatives in Washington

I have recently taken to burning up the e-mail airways with posts to my Representative Doug Lamborn and our senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennett. I know that they don't really read the posts but I just feel good about a good old fashioned rant directed toward my public servents every so often. I feel especially vindicated when I received a reply from the Honorable Mark Udall on senatorial letter headed stationary that says he is happy to hear from his constituents and then asked me if I'm having a hard time getting a flag or a tour of the White House. It makes me feel good to know that somebody on his staff has the time to set up a program that answers all of his e-mail queries with a computer-generated answer that basically covers all of his bases. But I digress.

I typically end my messages in these e-mails with sincerely William M. Rhea. Then the thought occurred to me that maybe, just maybe these three individuals might have been living in a cave and were not aware that organizations such as "we surround them" or "912" even existed. Yes I am a member of these organizations and proud of it.

So I took it upon myself to educate these three individuals as to our organizations and how we felt about the way things were going in Washington. First of all I called each of these individuals and of course spoke with their receptionists and then asked about the voting history on the stimulus package, the omnibus spending bill, et cetera. I found that, sure enough, Doug Lamborn, a Republican, voted against the assorted porkulus packages. As for the two Democratic senators, one of which was appointed, I received what can be only described as a dissertation from a 5 x 7 card spouting the party line. That the senators were overjoyed at the opportunity to vote for the Obama omnibus spending bill and the stimulus packages because it was going to bring jobs and federal monies to the state of Colorado. Before nausea set in and I would be unable to speak I asked the receptionist this question. Why do you think it is such a good deal for the citizens of Colorado to send billions of dollars to Washington and then we are supposed to feel that we are fortunate to recoup 124 million? I must admit the young lady didn't have any very good answer for me and so I closed with the same statement I had closed with Representative Doug Lamborn. I let her know that we surround them, and 912 are a bunch of citizens who are sick and tired of Washington spending our money just as fast as they can possibly take it from us. I was civil enough and left her with my full name, my address, and my telephone number here in Colorado Springs. Lets see what happens.

Political activism in the local pubs

I've been sitting around lately feeling sorry for myself. I was thinking, what could I possibly do that would help influence the state of affairs we find ourselves in today? I don't know where it came from but there was an e-mail that led me to a group of people who belong to an organization presumably started by the radio talk show host Glenn Beck. Is that what we call an epiphany?

It's called "we surround them," and it is a group of like-minded people who are beginning to get together, establish contacts, and become political activists. Well, I went online and joined the organization and found that the next meeting was unfortunately right in the middle of my shift so I won't be able to attend that particular meeting. However I did leave a comment that stated that their ambitions sounded interesting, their list of members and their bios were interesting to me. I was singularly impressed with the number of people with military experience. Now that doesn't mean they were a bunch of warmongers so don't go getting your panties in a twist, it simply means that while in the military you are expected to be responsible. You are given a task, basic instruction on the outcome requirements of the task, and then you are turned loose to perform the task to the best of your abilities and using all of your ingenuity. That's what we used to call responsibility. That's why I was drawn to the site in the first place.

Now I have been following Glenn Beck for many years. It is my opinion that he has progressed from being merely an entertainer to becoming a political voice. Before you scoff at his antics or his sentiments you really need to listen to the guy. I watch him on a daily basis and it is clear to me that the ideas he professes are not merely for entertainment purposes, I believe the guy really means what he says and he is anguishing over the direction the country is taking. Now I'm not really sure whether or not this "we surround them" movement is at Glenn Beck's direction, but that fact is irrelevant. It only takes a small idea, and a movement is born. I looked at some of the numbers on the organization's charts and there are literally thousands upon thousands of members. A tidal wave of opposition to the direction the country is taking is growing. According to one member, the midterm elections can't come too fast, we will take back our country. I offered this observation, during the first American Revolution the original patriots began to meet in local pubs to map out their opposition to the crown. We are now in the initial stages of the second American Revolution in our opposition to the self appointed Messiah who is usurping all of the states and individual powers of the people.

Has it all come down to this

I was sitting at my computer yesterday attempting to construct a PowerPoint presentation on sex offenders and how their recidivism rate is through the roof. I took a break from that dismal job and decided to check some e-mails. I got a particular e-mail from an unnamed party, I know who he is, who had sent me a video e-mail. Being the curious sort I decided to open the e-mail and see what it was all about. On this video e-mail there was a young male dressed in a Marine uniform with his face covered by a mask. I thought to myself this should be interesting. So I clicked the start button and listened to the rant offered by the "young Marine." The young man was articulate and he didn't sound like a whack job. However, what he was proposing scared the living daylights out of me.

The young Marine quoted Jefferson quite often, he quoted excerpts from the Constitution, and he quoted excerpts from the oath that we recited at our induction into the military and at subsequent times when we reenlisted or when we took our oaths of office when we became officers in the Armed Forces of the United States, in my case the Army of the United States. The young Marine was calling for revolution. The young Marine postulated that no one in the armed forces would lift their hands against their fellow patriots. As I said earlier this scared the living daylights out of me.

When Jefferson made his remark that "The tree of liberty needs to be watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants every so often" he wasn't referring to a democratically elected government, he was referring to a tyrant who would physically and militarily take control of our government. But now the cat is out of the bag. It is possible that thousands of people have viewed the video. It is also possible that hundreds if not thousands of young men and women who are feeling disenfranchised and fear for the rights and privileges of citizenship in this country, will take the young Marine's rant to heart. As we speak there are armed militias practicing and functioning all over this country. As law enforcement we have our eyes on the various arms of these militias who operate inside our own cities. In the eyes of most of the people in these militias; no matter who you are, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, state and county and municipal law enforcement, you are their enemy.

I end by saying this. There may some day come a time when we the people might have to rise up and take our country back. There may come a time when the blood of patriots must be shed to water our liberty tree. But for now we still have a republic with lawfully elected officials to handle our affairs as they see fit. Let's not forget that in a republic these elected officials act for us as they see fit. I reiterate our's is not a democracy, where 51% can vote to take everything from the 49%. So in order to "take back your country" we have the ballot box. If you are not intimately involved with your local state and federal government you are a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

You owe it to yourself to become educated in the Constitution. As I tell young offenders quite often (after all I am a cop) when I have them and we began to discuss the rights and wrongs prevalent in society today I'm astonished at their naïveté concerning the Constitution. At some point during our discussions I almost always tell them that they should become educated in government because if they are naïve and I know the Constitution and I know the law I will own them. I don't know what effect I've had on these young people but I certainly hope that at least a small percentage of them have become educated and have become strict constitutionalist.

I know a bad deal when I see it

I have been told several times in my life that I'm not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. Okay I admit I don't currently have a Ph.D. in anything. But I do know a bad deal when I see it. The government, read that as a Barrack Obama and his cronies in the House and Senate, have told us that in order to save us they have to spend over $1 trillion of money that we the taxpayers haven't even earned yet. One thing consistent about these politicians they never met a dollar of our money that they didn't enjoy spending. I heard the Treasury Secretary this morning talking about federal money. The last I looked the federal government doesn't have a job, never worked a day in its life, and the only money it has is that which it has taken by force from the taxpayers.

Let's put it a different way. If I gave you a bank account with a 1000 dollars in it and I told you that you could spend it as you see fit, do you think you would spend that money wisely or would you just take it about town throwing it down where the urge hit you? Basically that's what is happening in Washington, DC today. The government has been given a very large bank account with no strings attached. Who puts the money in that bank account? I'll give you one guess, one of them is the person you see in the mirror each morning.

Now do you really expect a bunch of politicians, many of whom never had a decent job in their lives, to spend your money wisely? Well the answer is obvious, if you bother to watch C-SPAN and watch as those pompous windbags in the House of Representatives and the Senate dawdle about attempting to sound intelligent. These men and women don't have a clue as to how to balance a budget, they don't feel the pain of spending their own money, they are spending your money just as fast as the IRS can steal if from you.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the tree of liberty, every so often, needs to be watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants. I fear that if the situation continues as it most certainly will, our liberty tree will begin to whether and die unless true patriots are prepared to water that tree with our own blood.

RHINOs

You know there comes a time in every politician's life when he or she needs to step up and be faithful to their professed beliefs. Over the past few days I've watched intently as the Senate grappled with the problem of how to spend almost $1 trillion of our (the taxpayers) money. I thought for a while we had them. All of the House Republicans voted against this monstrosity. Then it went to the Senate, where once again the Republicans attempted to stand up to this gargantuan spending orgy. But in the end, apparently Harry Reid offered Specter Snowe and Collins a deal too sweet to turndown. So the three turncoats turned their backs on their party and the American people and threw in with the Democrats. What they fail to realize is that the Democrats who offered them these deals will be the same Democrats who turn on the gang of three and stab them in the back and toss them to the side as not being worthy of Democrat trust since the gang of three were unfaithful to their own party. Already the three Dempublicans are beginning to feel the heat. I heard Specter on Shawn Hannity's radio program and a finer bit of tap dancing you have never heard. In the end Specters only defense was that he thought it was the best thing for the country. "Bull crap" Arlen Specter sold his soul to the devil in exchange for some unnamed benefit to himself or to the single state of Pennsylvania. The same can be said for the two senators from Maine, who also sold their souls to the devil.

Gentlemen, and ladies, it's time to circle the wagons. I recall a few months ago on Glenn Beck's radio program when he said be careful you might go to sleep on Friday and wake up Monday and find that the country as you know it has ceased to exist. I must admit that I thought his statement was a bit over the top at the time but then over the past few weeks his prophecy has come true. If I wanted to live in a socialist country I would move to Europe where they have socialized everything where their taxes are through the roof and the services they receive for those taxes are poor to say the least and nonexistent in the worst-case. I know this because I have inlaws currently residing in Germany and their constant stream of complaints about their services in exchange for the super high taxes they pay are never ending. So battened down the hatches, clean out your bank accounts (before Obama gets it) and prepare for a very very long and hard road over the next four years.

Mitch sends!