Ok folks, Here it is. I understand that there is a lot of anticipation for ways this site can be constructive. We have received tons of great ideas and we certainly appreciate them all. The thing is that there is no way we can do them all, at least not at this stage.
We decided early on that everything we did with this idea was going to be right and not necessarily fast. Sometimes, as the saying goes, speed kills. The last thing we wanted to be was a flash in the pan. We have a fantastic chance to effect change but we are flying by the seat of our pants and we have made some “in the air” corrections already due to hasty decisions. We felt that building the foundation and then growing the site was the best way to go as we are only as strong as our base. With a formidable base, we build credibility. Without credibility, we fail no matter how noble our goal.
Marches on the Capitol, State rallies, armed protests, mass demonstrations, group arrests etc. do make statements, but are they the correct statements for us at this time? We don’t think so…not yet. Not at this stage of the game or this point in time. They are logistical nightmares and extreme financial burdens for the numbers necessary to make them effective. Let me ask you a question. What was the last big, effective, awe inspiring march on D.C. that you can think of off the top of your head? When was the last one you personally remember? No fair Googling. Maybe the Million Mom March? Nowhere near a million, maybe 30K and was it really effective? No. What was it even about? How about the Promise Keepers? Did they really keep their promises and solve anything? Not really. The civil right marches of the sixties? Yeah, they worked because they were the right place and the right time but do we have to go back 50 years to find a notorious and effective one? Don’t get me wrong…marches have their place but to be effective they need the time, the place, the people and the movement to all come together in the perfect storm and strike like lightning to start the grassfire that sweeps the nation. And luck. We don’t feel the weather report brings all these components together today. Maybe tomorrow…who knows, the weather changes quickly, but not today. We will keep a close eye on the forecast though.
That brings us back to what can we do today? It is cold outside and it may snow. It starts snowing with one single snowflake. Then more and more and then it blankets the ground. It keeps on snowing, building mounds bigger and bigger until the mounds are so big that they break loose and cause the avalanche that crashes down dominating everything in it’s path. Well folks, Here is our snowflake:
In a little over a month from now, on January 20th, is the inauguration of our new President. A President who, like many in Congress, may or may not understand the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment. Allow us, ALL of us, to remind him. Some folks seriously need the "eureka" moment that happens when the power and the simplicity and the straight forwardness of those 27 little words smacks one into the reality that “shall not be infringed” means exactly what it says: SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! PERIOD! Let us be the ones to point that out in no uncertain terms.
Many of you will remember a couple of years ago when the crisis de’ jour was the rampant flood of illegal aliens into this country via our southern border. The majority of Americans were sick of it and wanted something done about it. Anything. Polls showed overwhelming support for a wall but Congress sat on their hands. They probably still would have never done anything about it had it not been for a little campaign called “send a brick to Congress”. Tens of thousands of folks mailed a simple brick to Washington D.C. and it was by far the most powerful message ever sent to the politicians to BUILD THE WALL. It worked. It worked beautifully in its simplicity. It got press and it grew legs and more and more people sent in their “contributions”. It had never been tried before and hasn’t been tried since. Well we are going to borrow a little thunder from that movement to add to our own idea and we are going to wake up the politicians in Washington D.C. who have sworn the oath to uphold and defend the Constitution but seem to have forgotten what we feel is absolutely the most important part: namely the 2nd Amendment. So here we go:
Starting Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 and every Tuesday after that, we, and that includes you, will vow to send a specially prepared 2x4 emboldened with the 2nd Amendment to a particular individual of our (collective) choosing. We will call this campaign:
2x4 Tuesday
Every Monday, a new individual will be chosen to receive this friendly reminder. Every Tuesday, without fail, we will mail this helpful hint and delivered every Thursday (give or take a day) we will urge, in our own special way, this individual to remember those most important 27 little words they swore to uphold. We will do this in a very specific way as to let them know, without a doubt, that we mean business and we will continue until all of them have sufficiently stimulated that portion of the brain that remembers such a brief but the oh so important statement of:
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the RIGHT of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
It seems so simple to us but apparently it is difficult for some to understand that it does not state anything about being “reasonably infringed” or “common sensically” infringed. It says SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Let’s make sure they see the light and help them understand.
Here’s how you can help. Many of you have come forward and told us that you want to help in any way that you can. We are going to take you up on that offer. As you realize, everything costs money. We certainly realize it here at RIGHTtoKeepAndBearArms.com so we have come up with a way to raise much needed funds and you have a way to help us with our campaign of 2x4 Tuesday. We will make available to you, for a $5 donation to the site, a set of six placards to be attached with staples to a simple one foot section of a common 2x4. Once attached, it makes an attractive, home made, solid wood desktop paperweight. What a perfect gift for these busy little bureaucrats who have such a hard time remembering this individual right. Here is what a sample will look like:
They fit perfectly on a one foot section and that is important so that we can all say, with a common voice: “We cut off a foot to save our Arms”. That can be the rally cry of this campaign. We can all mail these special desk ornaments in the FREE 15”x11.5” Tyvek Priority Mail envelopes available at every local post office or available FREE online here: LINK
The mailing labels are also FREE and available at the post office or online here: LINK and sent directly to you at no charge.
Priority Mail is the way to go as they can deliver your 1.25# “statement” from anywhere in the lower 48 states to Washington D.C. in about two (plus or minus 1) days for a cost of $4.80 to $8.25 and do it repeatedly every Tuesday for you. We want you to include a handwritten letter with each "present" you send. We will supply you with some boilerplate letters to use for ideas but it will mean much more if every letter is unique in it’s own way and follows a few simple conventions.
First, it needs to be short and to the point. Keep in mind that the person you are sending this to is so elite that they almost NEVER open their own mail so you will actually be writing to their aide who simply keeps score of the issues for his or her boss. As was said in another thread, The K.I.S.S. principle is best and 3 paragraphs is entirely sufficient. In the first paragraph, tell them what you are going to say. In the second paragraph, say it, and in the third paragraph, tell them what you said. Long diatribes do not even get read before they are thrown away. Always be polite as an armed society is a polite society, never swear, and if you must threaten anything, make sure it is only that you will work to vote them out of a job if they cannot fulfill their oath to uphold the Constitution. Sign off with something unique like “Yours constitutionally", or "Voter #277,453" (pick your own number between 1 and 300,000,000. Also, very important - Mark the envelope "Personal and Confidential" in the lower left hand corner and always ask for a personal reply in your letter. You probably won't get one but it will be just another example of them not doing what we, their employer, ask them to do.
So, for about $10 a week, less than many people spend on lottery tickets or a couple mocha frapachinos, you can help save the 2nd Amendment with a lot more chance of return on your money and a lot less fattening than expensive coffee.
As soon as you put your first custom built paperweight kits together and insert one into these slippery Tyvek envelopes, you will see the beauty of this gift exchange. Getting one in the mail from a constituent would be curious (a snowflake). Having a mailman bring a box full of these will be an event (it’s starting to come down hard). Imagine a USPS dump truck delivering a 1000 or 10,000+ of these every week to one lucky participant in the governmental machine who desperately needs a little reminder that We, the gun owners of this great Country, will not be ignored, not be forgotten, and certainly will not stand for any more of the “common sense” legislation that makes absolutely no sense at all and goes against every grain of intent of the Founding Fathers who worked so hard to make the 2nd Amendment so easy to understand and timeless in its relevance. This is our avalanche!
Are you with us? It will only take a week or two for them to realize we are serious. The press will catch wind of it and have to report it. More will join in the campaign. It will be mentioned on popular programs like Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, NRA News, Sean Hannity, and even the Godfather, Rush, at which point we fully expect our servers to crash but do not fear, we will revive them and this 2nd Amendment Movement will become so popular that no one in Congress or the MSM or Hollywood will ever again doubt the fervor and passion of the most determined group of individuals on this planet – the freedom loving and 2nd Amendment protecting, do something don’t just sit around and succumb to tyranny, armed and informed patriots of today. If we can associate a simple non-threatening block of wood with an armed voter and let’s face it…most of us own more than one of the 80M+ firearms in circulation, so that every time one of these anti’s looks at a framed house on their way home from work, they shudder to think of all of us voters watching every vote they cast and every backdoor deal they make against us. When a short section of wood = firearms owner, then, that is when we can march, with a 2x4 at "arms", in lockstep with all of our brother and sisters at "arms", make an extremely powerful statement while breaking no laws, carrying no weapons by definition, threatening no one and needing no battalion of lawyers to defend us, to leave our mark on the ignorance and downright freedom hating and endless unconstitutional law making machine that the government that is supposed to work for us, not against us, has become.
Are you with us? Let’s make Mondays a day to look forward to so we find out this weeks "winner" of reality, Tuesday a day of action, Wednesday the day we report in to assure our numbers are strong, Thursday the day of reckoning for the uninformed, uncaring, and unconstitutional and Friday the day everyone else in the machine wonders who it will be next week.
Are you with us? If so, send us a donation of $5 for a month and a half‘s supply of the greatest Amendment ever written. Pick up a 2x4 stud at your local home improvement store (or in this case, a life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness store) and cut it into one foot lengths, and pick up some free envelopes and mailing labels from your local post office and you have the entire kit to get ready for the “giftstorm” starting on January 20th that is going to change the way some people, who rule incorrectly, think. This is our plan, this is your movement, and it will be their lesson. Together, we are one.
Are you with us? Donations can be sent to RTKABA P.O. Box 911 Smithville, MO 64089. Order now and be sure to include your return address and we will get your 2x4 “enhancements” out in time for the first mailing come January 20th, 2009 and every week thereafter.
Are you with us?
