A Call To Revolutionary Arms

It is all about economics in the end. The people who poison our society will continue to do so no matter how many laws we pass or how many people we elect as long as they believe they can make money by doing it. They feel they stand to make more money by doing what they are doing than they will lose by alienating us. When they get the message...hard, and painfully...in the pocket book, they will change. When we make them believe they will lose more money by alienating us than they will gain by pedaling their filth, they will change their tune. Because at the end of the day, the people who threaten everything we hold dear care more about making money than they do about anything else.

You see, you vote at more than the ballot box. You vote every time you purchase a good or service. You vote every time you go to a movie starring people who hate their country and give their earnings to causes we revile and things we don't believe in. You vote every time you watch a TV show whose producers, directors and writers write huge checks to candidates who oppose everything we hold sacred and dear. You vote every time you buy a good or a service that is advertised in one of these movies or TV shows. You vote every time you watch a rerun of their shows on TV because they get royalties and residual payments based on ratings and demand. And you vote every time you go in to Hollywood or Blockbuster Video which more boldly parade on their shelves products that promote behaviors and attitudes that eat away at the core of our society.

We can stop this. We can persuade them otherwise. Like the participants in the Boston Tea Party, we can teach these modern day cultural heirs of the Crown a lesson by throwing their poison brew over the side. If we stop buying their trash, if we have leaders who will lead and people who will be diligent and disciplined, we will hurt them in the pocket, in the stock price and in the corporate board room and they will listen and adjust what they are doing because they care about money more than anything else.

In the time of the American Revolution, when Britain imposed a series of increasingly harsh and heavy taxes on the colonies, the people harkened to their leaders and refused to buy virtually any item from the British that was not absolutely necessary for physical survival. In the heart of devastating winters, in the face of brutal privation and uncommon sacrifice, the people of America simply stopped buying what the British were selling. It caused chaos and havoc in the British economy, prompting huge swathes of the British merchant class to beat up on Parliament and petition the King to drastically modify their tax policies towards the colonies. And it worked.

You are being asked to do much less. But if we have leaders who will lead, followers who will follow and persevere, we can, and will, be similarly successful.

If you can throw that TV set over the side along with the tea, good for you. If you can't, then start out by fixing one or two days a week as mass media blackout days, on which you don't go near a TV screen or a movie theatre. And when you have decided to boycott a TV show or a movie or an actor or a product, most important of all, take the time to pick up the phone and call them and let them know you are not using their product or watching their show because you don't like their values and their attitudes. In person is even more devastating and effective, as many national corporate sponsors have local commercial outlets and affiliates.

So let me hear from you. Do you have one tenth the fortitude and devotion of those who made this country possible...or are you the sort to just sink deeper into your overstuffed easy chair and lend your passive support and active dollars to those who "entertain" you so they can use them to destroy everything you really care about?