I attempted to start this essay as a satire- coming from the perspective of a normal every day American…

That didn’t work for me. I sit here, looking pensively at my keyboard, wondering how to structure this message. I have yet to find the right words.

You aren’t going to find a note riddled with facts and statistics here, because I claim myself to be neither a historian, nor a scholar..However, what I am is a human being who is “awake” to the tragedy occurring right before our very eyes, that many feel powerless to stop.

I was going to write a satire about an every day American. An American who lives either blind to politics and current events, or one who lives in the shelter of Fox News, or MSNBC. I was going to write a satire from their point of view- partisan politics, the debate on gas prices, food prices, etc. I was going to do that, until I realized there is more of a message here that needs to be delivered.

I may only be 30. I may only make a meager income, have a rented home.. I may only be an “average” American by some standards.. Although all of that may be true, I am also someone who has become “awake” with knowledge. This fancy little thing we call “Social Media” has taken on more fervor and more energy than even Mark Zuckerberg could have ever imagined. And before this too becomes something that is outside of our reach, I intend to utilize it, as many of you do as well, to our advantage… I am not going to write an auto-biography here, but I feel that in my brief 30 year stint on this earth, I have amassed a bit of wisdom that I feel obligated to share, for those who will listen.

No one can argue that things are a mess. They are a mess everywhere- Japan, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Greece, Canada (yup, I said it) and, even here, in America. It seems like everywhere we turn, there is unrest, upheaval, war, natural disaster- it seems almost incomprehensible at times, and overwhelming.

I know for me, as a person, I have a hard time here. I am a “fixer” if you will. I want to “fix” everything for everyone– and I am an eternal optimist– there is a solution to every problem. I want to make sure there is a solution to every problem, or I just don’t feel whole. In the same sense, I want to make sure that everyone here understands that we are going to need a whole lot more than one “fixer” to fix these problems. And I have realized that. So I write…

It may seem overwhelming, but we can start here at home. We live in America. We live in an America that still has just a tad little bit of the pureness it had at it’s founding, and it is wrapped up in the little finger of the Patriots. We are the power. We can be the leaders, because we still have our Constitution, at least right now, which grants us the liberties our Founders wanted— they haven’t yet been able to get rid of those. We still have the rights to peaceful assembly, and free speech, and you can bet if someone tries to strip those rights from one of us, there will be thousands posting to get the word out– and power is in numbers. We will support one another, as sort of an unspoken family would- for we are all indeed a very tightly knit family. They can not stop us from our message of freedom and liberty- the only ones who can stop us, are ourselves. Once we begin to doubt, once we begin to falter, once we begin to let go casually, on a daily basis– whether to the TSA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, the unconstitutional and undeclared wars in other countries which lead to the deaths of innocent and defenseless civilians, the censorship bills, the labels of us being “conspiracy theorists” and “crazy Pauliacs”- once we let that anger go, the things we feel inside when presented with this opposition we know is contrived and unfounded- once we let them take more, once we stop protesting for what is right, once we stop believing in what our Founding Fathers so wisely prophesied, it is then, that we lose power.

I am here to try to emphasize, that we have SO much power. We have it all in our little Patriot fingers. If we question things our government does, we should be praised- for that is what our Forefathers wanted. If we support a candidate who doesn’t exemplify the elite- if we question our budget crisis, if we get angry, and stand up, and yell and scream– if we DEMAND transparency, and don’t get it, and then FIGHT with all of our being to get it, if we demand accountability, if we do not accept unreasonable search and seizure, if we let go the blatant and yet veiled attempts at the theft of our liberties—If we will sacrifice our lives, our livelihoods and will do it wholeheartedly for our cause–if we will sacrifice everything on the concept of liberty– who is there to fight us?! Who is stronger?! Who will win?! Who will save this amazing country, and the world from the box of tyranny that is slowly rearing it’s ugly head upon us every day?!

No one.. No one Patriots.. No one, but us.

It is up to us to put a stop to what we feel is wrong deep within us! It is up to US to band together, make the signs, bring the numbers, overwhelm their opposition with power, with enthusiasm, with L0V3 and determination!– with sheer force in volume, and passion, and more importantly our hearts. It is time for us now, friends. It is time for US to act to take this WORLD back.. This is more than our country, and our liberty at stake– it is the WORLD, and we are almost the only ones with the power to affect change. We have a bit more time to prepare, and I feel we know what we need to do.. It is in this vain, that I ask you to join me moving forward in the support of LIBERTY and FREEDOM. It starts here– but what we do here, effects everyone– every child, every woman, every man– what we do now, is unprecedented.

And I need your help to be a “fixer”

It’s up to you now, to help me….

In Liberty, Always..

Submitted to the Federal Observer for publication by the author Tracy Diaz, a friend of Neal Ross.