Posted by Kip Skapyak on 12/01/09
Last updated 12/01/09

Hello Patriots!

It has been awhile since I posted here but recently have attempted to cross-pollinate with some of our sister organizations to exchange ideas, support unity in the Patriot movement, and to express a sense of camaraderie.  Recently however, I have addressed the role the media plays in our political process and how the media moguls groom carefully selected pundits to infiltrate and exploit the Patriot movement to their advantage while keeping a tight grip on the political processes that lead us to a very limited pool of candidates - media selected candidates.  As of late, this issue has become a topic of interest to me and it seems that numerous other articles are springing up all across the internet.  I have made it one of my top priorities personally to address and get the word out to our constituency. 

It seems to me that this "trap" is the same one that has ensnared the voting public for decades now and it has not been addressed on national scale.  It is a very difficult position to be in because we may risk alienating some groups like Glen Beck supporters, but I want to make it clear that this is not about Glen Beck or any other popular personality, but about the networks themselves.  There isn't any difference between CNN, FOX, or CNBC.  While they all deliver the "news" differently, they all seek to achieve the same goals - to control our political processes. They are able to very covertly infiltrate and influence all groups who accept their propaganda as truth and because they can reach the masses in their own homes, there is no doubt they are a very powerful entity indeed.  They have the power to topple presidents, and at the same time, get them elected reguardless of political experience. 

I like listening to Rush, Glen Beck, and Bill O'Reilly, but only for entertainment purposes.  I submit to you today to "tune in" and "turn off" (your television) and we will undo this seeming inevitable "voter trap" that we continue to get caught in.  Because I do not wish to alienate some of my newest friends, but rather, enlighten them.  I am going to post another newer article by Kurt Nimmo of InfoWars  that was shared with me by a friend, who too, recently picked up on this phenomenon.  I wrote my article a few days ago but this one was released yesterday and addresses the same issue. For the record, I will not be posting my article to maintain an amicable standing with our television watching bretheren.

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 30, 2009In an editorial posted on the CAIVN (California Independent Voter Network), Chad Peace, a co-founder of the original Tea Party movement, blasts the establishment Republican takeover of the movement.

The establishment is grooming Sarah Palin to lead a refashioned tea party movement.

Inspired by Rick Sabtelli's now legendary rant on CNBC, Peace and a business partner set-up a tea party website. "Within days, we received tens of thousands of e-mails and passionate pleas for government accountability. Our vision was to change the political debate focused on general divisions to one centered on specific solutions. We asked our supporters to question party-line politicians and demand that our leaders take a more independent and reasoned stance on the issues facing our country," writes Peace.
It didn't take long, however, for establishment Republicans to muscle in and hijack the idea. "Knowing we had neither the financial means nor man-power to out-publicize political perverts, I was never-the-less convinced that this independent movement would not be overrun by golden idols," Peace explains. He wrote to supporters and asked them "to be weary of old Republican figureheads like Newt Gingrich and current political strategists Patrick Leahy, hiding their identity behind make-shift 'grassroots' websites. I was hopeful that the same talking heads, like Hannity and O'Reilly, that asked us to bend over blindly to past leaders would not have enough credibility to grandstand in front of an independent-minded movement."
It wasn't so much Hannity and O'Reilly that compromised the movement. It was mostly Glenn Beck. His 9.12 Project stole much of the thunder of the original tea party movement and channeled it into a Fox News segment complete with adverts from Big Oil and Big Pharma.
Beck declared he was formulating "a 100 year plan... a book that will provide specific policies, principles and, most importantly, action steps that each of us can take to play a role in this Refounding." He announced that on August 28, 2010, he will gather patriotic Americans "at the feet of Abraham Lincoln on the National Mall for the unveiling of The Plan and the birthday of a new national movement to restore our great country."
Few seemed to notice the obvious contradiction - a corporate media network calling for a restoration of American ideals while simultaneously working against those ideals. Fox News is owned and operated by a political player who supported the neocons and their murderous wars and then backed the political campaign of the wife of a former president who was "anointed" for the presidency by the Bilderberg Group. Rupert Murdoch has played both sides of the fence and now one of his hirelings is calling for a restoration of the republic.
"Propelled by the moving mouths on TV and the talking heads of such ironically named organizations such as the 'American Family Association' (one must agree that for an admitted adulterer with three ex-wives heading the AFA is ironic, right?), the movement lost its focus," Peace continues. "No longer were tea partiers upset with the bipartisan corruption in Washington D.C., they are mad at the socialists communists Hitler-like Democrats. No longer did Constitutionalism mean respecting the rule of law, it meant Obama is not really our president. A movement founded on the principles of independent analysis, it has become a yelling fest for punch-drunk cynics armed with incoherent talking points."
Beck's "new movement" was designed by the establishment specifically to destroy the threat posed by the original tea party movement. Glenn Beck's rhetoric on "Marxist" Democrats is a cynical attempt to perpetuate the false right-left paradigm and steer patriotic Americans back into a political safety zone controlled by the elite. Obama and the Democrats are not Marxist. They are the flipside of the same political system supported and perpetuated by the Republicans. Obama's advisers are from Goldman Sachs and Wall Street, not the Communist International.
"Slowly, I've lost some of my unrealistic idealism," Peace admits. "As I pull back the blinders, I try to look at the tea party from the eyes of an outsider, the average American. What I see is a bunch of people reciting partisan political sermons, coddling fears, and perpetuating a superficial battle between 'left' and 'right'; drowning the well intentioned idealists that remain."
The coup d'état will be complete in February when the establishment holds its 1st Annual Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. "Minnesota 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann will burnish her conservative standing when she appears," reports MinnPost. The event "also will feature former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. City Pages says Bachmann will give a breakfast speech, while Palin is the keynote speaker at the Saturday evening main event Feb. 6."
It will not be an event for ordinary Americans. "Tickets for the weekend convention are now on sale for $549 but don't include accommodations at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center." How many Americans - besieged by the bankers and witnessing their middle class lives slowly dissolving before their eyes - can afford to fork over several hundred dollars? More to the point, why would they want to spend that amount of money on a circus sideshow featuring a political hack groomed by the elite for higher political office?
"As the Tea Party Express makes its way across the country, Sarah Palin has emerged as a favorite daughter of the movement," CNN reported in September. "So far, no politician has emerged as a leader of the Tea Party movement - and the question of just who might eventually take up the mantle is a hot topic on the bus. Nobody may be better positioned than Palin."
"Palin is the ultimate small-town renegade rising from the frontier to do battle with the corrupt establishment. Her followers take pride in the way she has aroused fear, hatred and panic in the minds of the liberal elite," writes David Brooks, who straddles both sides of the false right-left paradigm as a journalist for NPR and The Weekly Standard.
Palin is no such thing. She is merely a new face plastered on the Republican party as it struggles to regain power from the Democrats. Palin is more attractive than the old Republican stalwarts. But as they say, beauty is only skin-deep. Her "rogue" status is a carefully crafted establishment magic trick.
"As the battle rages, I have more faith than ever that an independent revolution will come," Chad Peace concludes. "When the absurdity of our political process rises to the point where tea bags become a right wing rally cry and the left still manages to drop in the polls, there is a growing opportunity for the increasingly disenchanted to drive a stake right down the middle."
We can only hope. However, before disenchantment can work in our favor, a few million Americans need to tune out Glenn Beck and Fox News. They need to see Sarah Palin for what she is - a creature groomed by the same global elite that sold us the Obama change mantra that turned out to be the same refried dogma offered up by the Bush administration.

Posted 12/01/09 Al Langhans Elizabethville, PA

Not a big fan of Kurt Nimmo. He tends to have his blinders on and only sees one way and no other way. This article however is more open. I do agree on many points. Those here know the tea party movement started before it got mainstream. Unfortunately now that it is mainstream there is no education, just parroting. There are people becoming more educated true, but unfortunately the leftist media likes to grab the village idiot when it comes to interviews. Sarah Palin is just as mysterious to me as any other candidate. Ron Paul with his simple Manifesto told me all I needed to know about the man and what he stood for. Glenn I think is doing a good job overall. And the points about Murdoch while true, why would super Libertarian John Stossel join up?

Posted 12/07/09 Kip Skapyak Osprey, FL

Yeah, I can't say that I agree with 100% of what he is saying, but I do think that we have to be very, very careful with media developed personalities and especially with the candidates that they "hype". Of course, Glen is doing a great job, and as they continue to refine his image and material, will continue to do a “good job” and infiltrate our ranks with media propaganda. If you look at his day’s as a M&M popping political satirist kicking his feet up on his desk dressed in jeans and t-shirt, his message was very different from what it is today. I specifically remember him calling Ron Paul supporters “terrorists” but now seems to have a great interest in liberty and the Patriot movement itself. The main take-away here, is that if we are going to affect real “change” in this Country, we need to raise up our own candidates and stop taking instructions from the media, Wall Street, and corporate America. We have (excuse the phrase) been “gang raped” in the last Presidential election by moguls who control those entities, and this administration is still unabashedly paying all of those supporters off. Just remember, all three pillars of the powerful elite support each other. So, we’re going to listen to media pundits who are, in effect, paid by our enemies through their advertising dollars? If you were at all involved in Dr. Paul’s run in the Presidential campaign, you would have seen all kinds of bias from CNN, MSNBC, and FOX. They tried to block him from debating, they made the crowd seem like (to television viewers) they were for the media backed candidates i.e. McCain and Obama when in reality there were mostly Paul supporters at those debates. I was at the CNN debates in Tampa, FL and it was nothing more than a carefully controlled forum for the mainstream media’s candidates to spew their propaganda aimed at supporting the perceived status quo. Look where that got us today.

Posted 12/07/09 BillNM , NM

"Our vision was to change the political debate focused on general divisions to one centered on specific solutions." This is the problem I had with the Tea Party movement. In my view they should have centered on one goal only; END THE FED. That would have made it hard to co-opt the movement and if successful would have restrained government.

Posted 12/07/09 MichaelBarry Sebring, FL

I don't believe that the local tea party folks that I have been associated with have been hijacked. The same people are there that we began with and we have added many more. But those of us who started the ball rolling are still in control and call the shots. Perhaps in some locations or particular situations the movement has been hijacked, but not here. We took a strong position for audit of the Fed from the beginning, and produced mountains of signed petitions. Locally a number of issues here are strong as well including: border security, against TARP, against Stimulus, opposed to government directed euthanasia (healthcare), and opposed to Crap and Tax. Our speakers have opposed regulation and taxation of firearms, and opposed the so-called 'fairness doctrine.' They all support 10th amendment measures. I think it is a mistake to identify the current administration as 'marxist.' I believe they are tutelary fascists and I can and have made powerful arguments supporting this view. I don't see any diminution in the movement or subversion of the movement here. Moreover there is virtually no chance of any significant improvement in the economy prior to the 2010 elections. The non-ideological Americans in the middle will unceremoniously show a lot of incumbents the door at the polls.

Posted 03/24/11 tomkoether Sarasota, FL

Of course Obama and his crew are Marxists, who isn't? I know businessmen who lobby their governments to pass laws requiring the purchase of their products and doctors who play golf with money bilked form the Gov. medicare system. Don't you? Don't expect Marxism- statism not to morph in new sometimes unrecognizable forms. Look at the premises which must underlie their (everyone , Democrats and Republicans) policies and goals. They fully intend to destroy our constitution, our bill of rights and our rule of law and private property rights to be substituted by their ( the ones with the police power) fiat exercise of their will over us "for out own good". NOT A NEW IDEA

Posted 03/24/11 Willij4lib Monroe, WA

I guess all the stories are not true then about the Banking elite buying up all the major news papers and now media? There intent clearly for the people of this country? Why is there so much Corporate influence in this country? Speaking of Corporate, how about that Corporate banking cartel and getting us to pay for their failures which by the way all created. I am hardly fooled by media and watch very little. I would rather get on the internet and find some story someone investigated themselves and give an experienced view of observations, results and things they could find along the way. Any movement is infiltrated to make it look like something else, to create less impact and to put the attention where they want the attention. The two they paid for to run against each other because who losses in that race? The people do. Its like a grocery store of food all made by the same companies in different cans competing against itself to corner the market. Its called a rigged game and its done daily. Most movements are hijacked because they are not clearly stated, then there is the actions backing up a movement. To side with known tyrants and say you are something does not have the acts of supporting such a clear effort. What most lack is good observation skills, good evaluation skills and the will to confront those pretending. To say out loud show me the actions to succeed at reducing Government united with others intent on reducing Government. No one wants to agree with each other because they will be called a collectivist by those passing around bogus information, when in fact it is educated decision making and know your direction. But then I have seen it work so I know what impact means. What are the principals, what is the foundation, what is the destination to be reached? These are all visuals you created and then back it up by doing. Have we really been successful as a Republic? I means successful where it is vibrant by its successes? Why not? I believe it is this; the idiots scatter our attentions to many media points and stop us from focusing on our Republic, no focus , no actions is no Republic. What destination are we headed for? Its a fact I could penetrate any group not focused if I so desired and I could act as well as anyone else. For me I ask why, but for others they know why and exactly what the intent is. I believe the Tea Party is very much Hijacked by people with no good record of results like the Sara Palin's in our world. Eager to be someone rather than eager to achieve a Republic.

Posted by Kip Skapyak on 06/19/09
Last updated 06/19/09

Hi All:

I apologize, that there haven't been any updates lately, but it is a very busy time of the year for me personally.  Apparently, the Flag Day event hosted by the John Birch Society, at Oscar Scherer State Park was a success with great speakers and over 90 people attending - a good time was had by all. 

I would like to get all of your thoughts about putting on a local "Rally for the Republic" sometime in September with all of our partner organizations and others on the West Coast of Florida.  I'm thinking something "big" that will attract new members as well as draw attention to our cause through the media.

Please e-mail your thoughts and comments to me.

Your brother in Liberty,

Kip Skapyak

Posted by Kip Skapyak on 03/30/09
Last updated 03/30/09

Hi All:

C4L member John Saunders has been kind enough to update us with the latest results of the public outcry in response to a very insulting and highly unethical report that was distributed to Missouri law enforcement officers. On February 20, 2009, the State of Missouri, via its Department of Public Safety, issued what was called "MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement." It seems that the author(s) drafted language to specifically punish American citizens for their political beliefs; namely, individuals who support the Constitution, Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr.  Other disturbing criteria written into the report was only targeted at conservatives and made a connection without wit or logic to link anyone who held those beliefs to potentially being a member of "dangerous militias".  Isn't that called profiling?  

Here's the report:

 http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin501.htm 

I sincerely hope that this is not a sign of things yet to come from the current political climate, but at the same time, it is also refreshing to know that our system still works and that we can overcome opposition through the proper political channels.  Incidents like this really reinforce the notion that C4L members need to organize and redouble our efforts to recruit like minded individuals to support the cause. 

Remember, there is power in numbers and our number one goal should be to spread the message of free market economics, a constitutionally led government, and a policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs.  With out these core directives, our government will continue on a path of self destruction and loss of sovereignty.

In God We Trust,

Kip Skapyak    

Posted 04/20/09 gerardripo Sarasota, FL