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In fact, most of those who scream “Constitution” in my experience have no clue what the words on that document really mean. They are clueless as to what liberty really is. Most so-called Constitutionalists and Conservatives are nothing more than “freedom my way” controllers.

This is why I always say that the real price of freedom is tolerance. If you can’t tolerate your neighbor who stands on his front lawn in January wearing a toga and chanting to Mumblegy Ooodla for an hour, then why should he tolerate you putting a giant, lit up manger scene on yours in December?

If one is outlawed, so should the other be, then both will see that neither should have been.

“…they have provided the left leaning media mouthpieces with ammunition to attack and ridicule…”

Well, you won’t avoid that no matter what you do. And the media is always going to try to push every group into the red or blue tribe. That’s not really the problem. The real problem is the contradictions that lie within the so-called “Conservative” movement. Example: standing against Obamacare but supporting Johnsoncare. Both are socialized medicine but they want it both ways. This type of contradiction robs the Conservatives+Republicans+Family Values+God fearing crowd of the moral ammunition necessary to destroy the Progressive arguments from a moral basis not just a technical, economic one. Until these blind spots are addressed and these sacred cows killed, the “right” will continue to struggle to gain God’s support to help them overcome the spiritual darkness upon the earth

As an example, in 2002 I attended a USA PATRIOT Act protest. The “We the People” tax protest group showed up in numbers, carrying large banners and signs. They didn’t just insinuate themselves through the crowd, but went behind the podium and held up large banners making it appear they were the instigators of the event. Who was helped by them doing that? Many of us at the event decided to stop supporting the local WtP group thanks to that. The news seized on it and made it appear the protest was a tax thing and had nothing to do with the USAPA.

A few months later, we held another anti-USAPA rally. This time, I was involved in the process and one of our primary concerns was to keep people away from the backdrop to the event. Another was outreach. I brought in groups as diverse as the Libertarian Party, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Unitarian Church, the Pink Pistols (a gay gun rights group), the ACLU, and more. We managed to hold a huge rally with people from every walk and every political philosophy sans the neo-cons. No one took over the event.

The same could be done with Tea Parties if some of these groups would wake up and realize that it’s not all about gun rights, anti-abortion, the GOP, or whatever. It’s about L I B E R T Y and only that.

This kind of lack of focus is detrimental and does nothing to promote the focus-takers or the originators of the protest in question.

Counter-protesting is a different story, of course.

Does he think he’s going to be able to get a bigger megaphone than Glenn Beck/Fox News, and so redirect them? Hardly.