Peninsula Tea Party

Kim Roche gave this speech at the Peninsula Tea Parties held in Oyster Point City Center Wednesday, April 15, 2009 and Saturday, July 4, 2009.

THE QUIET REVOLUTION OF MAIN STREET AMERICA

There is no people as vibrant, dynamic, and glorious as the people of the United States of America. We are extraordinary, with a depth of ingenuity, character, strength and brilliance that is unparalleled. Our passion, our energy, our willingness to risk, to stretch our minds and our capabilities builds the foundation of our living as Americans.

It is not exaggeration to say that we as Amercans are under siege. It is not whimsical to state we are in moral crisis. And it is not from without but from within that we face our gravest threats. This is a domestic issue, virulent, and dangerous, and we have become complacent, and seemingly unaware of just how real and true this danger is.

We all need to take a moment. To stand still for a brief interlude, even as we stand vigilant. Take this time, and see clearly, something we have not done as a people in the past seven years. Go find a quiet place, and take the words of Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, Ronald Reagan, with you. Read Pericles, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Paine, Thomas Aquinas. Look to your own core, and find those wonderful words we do not utter outloud anymore. Honor, steadfastness, fortitude, perseverance. Let them roll off your tongue and feel the power and the strength of them.

Taking away of civil rights, besmirching of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, is incremental and insidious. America’s domestic foes have patience, and our own complacency on their side. We must listen, we must act, but most of all we must think for ourselves, and not allow our teacher unions, our college professors, our media, our politicians to tell us how to think. We are the best minds and souls of this world, we have the best of all races of humankind in this country. We are robust believers in the goodness and decency of people. Our country was built on these principles. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Freedom, and the responsibilities each of these words holds.

We believe in personal responsibility. Of owning our own lives and how we choose to live those lives. We fight fiercely for our liberty, and dare anyone to take it from us. And we pursue our own ability to achieve happiness with the sweat and blood and hope and dreams it demands.

The challenge – take back these fundamentals, these strong and true concepts America was built on. How? By every single day living to your own truth, with the goal- when you lie your head on your pillow each night , to say and affirm I did the best I could, I lived my beliefs, I did no harm, and I bettered the lives of others and myself. Each small decision will empower you to make the big decisions. Take back our country, do not allow it to be chipped away into a shadow of its own greatness.

Read the great writers who contributed to the ideals and standards this country was built on. Think clearly before deciding, determine by your own will, and not how others tell you to think, to believe. Hear what is being said, weigh the words, look behind them, ponder. Make a clear stand by being proud of who you are. Cherish our rights.

Less government, less invasion into our daily lives. Taxes solely for what a republic determines are for the common good. Do not allow others to tell you what to think, how to determine what is best for you and yours. Decide for yourself. Take our country back. Back to basics, back to fundamentals. Remember why we became our own country in the first place. Too much taxation, and a disdain for what would become the American spirit. Do not allow our country to be socialized, relying on the government for sustenance, and guidance in our daily thoughts and actions, this is so contrary to what being American is.

The Quiet Revolution: do not wait for buttons and banners. Hand make a small sign, post it in your rear left window of your car, on the doors of your home. Fly the flag with pride in front of your home. And boldly say no. No to the teacher who tells our children how to think, but not of our beginnings. No to the college professor who uses his grades to get his philosophy spouted by our young adults, no to the media, by not buying their newspapers, their magazines, not watching their biased diatribes nightly, no to those who simply earn livings as actors, and have no right to tell us what is right and wrong. No to socialism, by demanding strong adherence to our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Yes to life, yes to optimism, yes to this being the strongest most vibrant most alive and resilient country in the world. Yes to personal responsibility, and most importantly, if you want the American Dream, then roll up your sleeves, persevere and work to the best of your abilities to achieve it. Be strong , be forthright, be steadfast. God, Country, and Family. Liberty. God bless America.

TQR live it, be it, and it will be.

- Kim Roche