9/12 Meeting

We here we go! I attended a 9/12 meeting in Providence last night. Last week was their first meeting, so everyone was still new to the concept of coming together in unity and love to effect political change. Larry Bodily seemed to be the ad hoc leader of the group. He was cool and calm. One young bloke stood up, distributed an organizational chart and announced that we needed to get organized, with heads over counties, cities and precincts. One woman asked "Why?" and she got a lecture on how organization was ncessary if we wanted to accomplish anything. One eloquent old bloke said "It would be better to talk without being organized, than to be organized before we talk". Even that did not deter the young fella. A few others complained, but he pressed on..."we must get organized now." Finally I said, "Excuse me...but you are not listening...people are telling you that we don't want to get organized until we understand what it is we want to accomplish by being organized." He pressed on...people threatened to leave...he shut up. So it was not a smooth beginning.

Larry Bodily reported that someone in SLC has actually taken it upon himself to get 9/12 groups organized across the USA and in Utah. Apparently there are dozens of groups meeting, but without any coordination. He also said something that got my attention. 9/12 representatives were meeting last night in SLC with conservative political parties...Republican, Constitutional and Libertarian, to try to forge some unified effort to replace current elected Congressional politicians with politicians who will live by 9/12 values. It is a strongly held "throw the bums out" mentality.

The reality at present is if a really well qualified candidate is put forward by the Constitutional party he/she will not get elected in Utah. So it is my opinion that unless people like me who feel that the Republican party left us behind want to eat crow and work within the Republican party, nothing will change. Larry promised to report on that meeting next week. We are meeting weekly.

Future meetings will include a little education. It was suggested that we each purchase Skousens "5000 Year Leap" and read it. There are also classes on the Constitution that we can attend.

The meeting became anecdotal...which was pleasant if not really productive. There was some dark talk about how threatening the government could really get...and about Glen Beck predicting that he would be silenced. I had not heard that. One fellow asked if we new why Glen Beck chose to call his effort 9/12. I had no idea. It was becasue 9/12 was the day after 9/11. On 9/12 the USA was humbled but united. He wants all who are like minded politically today to come together with that same awesome feeling of unity....which is real power.

I like to think of 9/12 as the day that evil hid its ugly head...there was not a word from the America haters...yet within six weeks evil emerged in the form of Michael Moore. It was the hate America croud which convinced me give up 36 years as a legal alien...permanent resident alien...to become a US citizen...to stand shoulder to shoulder with my American brothers and sisters in the fight against evil...which is now even more seriously threatening to destroy this great country.

So last night was ...one small step.