The Compassionate Way to a Better Society

I have pondered very long on this question. There are many different ideas to "forge a better society". Rather than getting into the fallacy of the statement itself, I want to answer the question to start a dialogue with people who do believe one can social engineer for "Social and Economic Justice."

So what does it mean, "social and economic justice". My interpretation would be the following. "To insure every person has equal opportunity to reach what ever goals they set for themselves, and for every person to be protected from fraud, discrimination, and complete destitution when their choices land them in an unhealthy and/or insecure place in society." I wonder if most can agree with this definition.

I know some people will challenge the above definition by adding specific ideological principals, but rather than put that in the definition, lets add those to the solution to separate ideologies into their proper place.

My idea of insuring Social and Economic Justice.

1) A fundamental shift from a top down approach to a bottom up approach. Rather than making a centralized all powerful government. Who knows how to protect the vulnerable, insure equality, or help the destitute, but the ones closest to those people. Charity starts at home, it does not start in Washington. I live in Sterling, IL. We have dozens of churches, we have dozens of charitable organizations, we have some great companies and we have many people of different philosophies. Let's use those resources to help city government prioritize what needs to happen here to make a great community. The last 100 years has systematically changed our culture to where people are becoming apathetic. Having a far off bureaucrat make decisions on who gets taxed and who gets the money is not only nonsensical, but immoral. The argument those on the other side might make is, that what if the local government or community discriminates or is corrupts. The ignorance of this argument is why would someone think a stranger from some far off centralized government be any different? The key is local involvement. There once was an environmental sticker that said, "think globally, act locally". There is some truth to that. Act locally, keeping in minds the universal truths of life, liberty and property.

2) Education shift. The critical step to "create" a better tomorrow is to prepare people for the challenges in the world. The problem today is schools focus on Reading, Math, Science, Cultural sensitivity, Sex, Environmental Studies, and Globalism. What we need to focus on is Math, Science, Reading, American Exceptionalism, Capitalism, Personal Responsibility and Natural Law. Yes some of these are the responsibility of the parents, but we need to make sure that our children understand choices have consequences, that social engineering = oppression of someone, and that failure is a learning tool, not an excuse. We will prepare our children for the world with the tools to succeed, not with ready made excuses, or chips on their shoulders. Without an honest intellectual understanding of Capitalism vs Marxism, are children are doomed to Marxism, as it has been made as an emotional appeal rather than logical one.

3) Equal justice under the law. When did they take the blind fold off lady justice? We see too often, well connected people get off. A treasure secretary, a congressman, a senator that are tax cheats that are not persecuted, while regular citizens and even some wealthy actors go to jail. How about a Director who rapes a girl? Where we see people get rich off of back door deals with government officials. With millionaire Senators lecture private citizens about greed, yet take 6 figure salarys and unbelievable benefit packages while lining their pockets with favors by the vary people they attack as making too much money. It is time our justice system returns to core values - enforcing all laws that have their root in Natural Law. One of the easiest ways to insure a better society is to enforce laws and create equal penalty under the law.

These 3 fundamental ideas will create the closest thing to what those that believe in Utopia could be here on earth. It has never been tried in the history of the world. The closest thing we have ever come to this was the first 80 years of our union.

Congratulations Sauk Valley

Wow, what a great day for liberty! Thanks so much for everyone that contributed in making yesterday an amazing day. 100's of people came out to show their support, and 1 came out to protest. Not sure what he was exactly protesting by disrupting us by pretending to vomit and pass out in front of us. Something about minimum wage, can't afford health care and what would Jesus do. I would have loved to have an intellectual and theological conversation with him, but I doubt we could change his mind. Years of Marxist indoctrination is not easily to overcome.

Unlike a Leftist rally, like those in Minneapolis during the Republican convention, where the protesters threw things at elderly conventioneers and spat on them. We believe in the first amendment and allow even ridiculous people have their 1 minute of unintelligible public display.

It was awesome to see the wide range of people at our rally. People who came forward to speak ranged in age from 12 to 80, from as far away as the North suburbs of Chicago, legal immigrants to those who's ancestors signed the Declaration of Independents.

Thank you and God Bless those fellow citizens that helped put together this fantastic event.

Being only the 3rd Tea Party and first one that attempted to have a structure, I think we managed to pull it off. I am sure we could have done many things better, so we would love suggestions. I already know 2 things that we need to focus on immediately. First, make sure the mp3 player we use for the national anthem can be seen in the bright sun. Sorry about that. Second, I think we need to stress that all speakers to keep it under 5 minutes. Even though we all enjoyed the information, it pulled the first part from 1 hour to nearly 2. I am thinking of getting a huge clock so the speakers can pace themselves. I am guilty as anyone to lose track of time.

I think for the next Rally, we want to focus on our platform. What are the 3-4 things we really want to do as an organization. My thoughts are 1) Corruption Reform, 2) States Rights Push, 3) Local Education initiative. I left off Health Care because I believe by the time we meet again, it will be over - the majority in power will have forced something upon us. Sad but historically supported. I also believe we need to focus on building our grass roots effort to have a real re-boot revolution (non violent of course).

Suggestions are welcome.

Down to the Wire

We are in our last few days before the big Sauk Valley Tea Party. We are excited by the support and out reach we have received from so many people. I believe this movement has gained traction and is about to explode in size. We look forward to meeting all of you on Saturday and celebrating our American exceptionalism. God Bless.