An Open Message to the Alternative Media
Did You Believe in the Man or the Message?
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve or should’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”
We all have the responsibility to practice what we preach and if you thought that supporting one man was fulfilling that responsibility, then you were wrong. If you continue to place your faith and hope in a single person without living the values yourself, you will continue to be disappointed. Real change always begins on the level of “self” so until we live the values we espouse, there will be no real change.
This message is directed towards all of you in the alternative media who are continuing to destroy the message of truth, liberty and freedom by focusing on something that cannot be changed and matters not in the grand scheme of things. I understand being angry and disappointed in Rand Paul’s endorsement of Romney and Ron Paul’s silence on the matter, but is the concept itself a fallacy because of their action and/or inaction? Did your disappointment negate your belief that Liberty and Freedom are essential to the human condition?
I understand that Rand Paul’s actions have blown a gaping hole in a movement that was gaining tremendous momentum, but if you allow the bleeding to continue, this wound will surely kill what’s left and like it or not, your ability to reach hundreds of thousands of people also bestows upon you the responsibility to not only carry on, but to live the message you say you believe in.
While I understand the angry diatribes, articles, videos and commentary directed at the motives behind Rand’s decision, this is fast becoming another distraction and we are literally giving the establishment what they want. Allowing ourselves to be distracted and divided allows the message of liberty to be pushed back into the shadows. They don’t need to disenfranchise us now because we are doing it ourselves. I ask you all to stop.
If Ron and Rand Paul have committed political suicide, so be it. We are not politicians. We are not running for any office. We are trying to change our world for the better in spite of them. Blame Ron and Rand if it makes you feel better, but if this movement dies, take your own responsibility for allowing it to happen when you had the ability and venue to help prevent it by stepping up to the plate yourself.
What you need to ask yourself now is how can you be constructive rather than destructive? Be angry at Ron and Rand if you must, but I beg you to rise above it and be the change you thought you envisioned with Ron Paul. Quit wasting your time, talent and ability to reach millions of people that listen to your shows or read your blogs. Quit doing the establishment’s job for them by focusing on an irrelevance. Do not abandon a message that is pure because you believe the man delivering the message was not. Damn the man if you have to, but not the message…
I used to be a liberal, then I grew up. Next I was a conservative, then I woke up…
I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. Over the last several years I have become very concerned about the state of our country and the direction we are headed. I work and take care of my family and in my spare time, I participate in active political debate. If I were to be asked what political idealogy I subscribe to, I would say the closest one would be Classic Libertarian.
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Brynin - June 13, 2012
I don’t think anyone has thrown the message out the window or Ron Paul. I’m just waiting to hear from Paul.
I’d add, if you put yourself in an over head view of whats going on, out of body. It’s very stupid some of the debates we have. It’s all bullshit. Especially when it comes to god, skin color, gay,straight. It is no ones business what others do in their personal lives. That is fact. Your gods or opinions should not governor all of us.
(liberty) That shouldn’t even be a word, it should be common sense, embedded into our minds. Something we should never think twice about. Then we can really start practice what we preach. Until then, we have to waste are time converting stupid.
As far as the message on how to create sustainability, witch is all i care about. I never hear anything come from these movements about that. That’s really whats important. Not who sleeps with who, who prays what to who, what color someone is.
I think its safe to say. A “message” in these movements isn’t always straight forward and is mixed with a lot of bullshit. I find movements just end up playing the game/system, Join in the hypocritical bullshit that we call the US government.(Witch has no understanding on how to do good things for people, or create sustainability). Their are to many dumb fucking people on the planet. Their are more of them, then there are critical thinkers. The system doesn’t wanna hear facts, common sense.
They wanna hear stupid comments so they know how well their brain fucking the people.
The only thing ill say about living the change you want..It would take to much money to do that. More then most of us could earn in a life time. We have to do something about stupid. That’s the word we should be fighting.
Black Talon - June 13, 2012
These F’ers remind me of “The Body Snatchers”, “just go back to sleep and let it happen, and when you wake up it will all make sense.” The NDAA, the TSA, 30,000 predator drones, more Gitmo, more renditions, “Our families have so much in common”…Rand has become one of the “Pod People”
Chris I have got to make some coffee, my eyelids are getting heavy….Have got to stay awake!!!
Amy Farmer - June 14, 2012
Thanks for the comments. All I can say is that the establishment has been at this a lot longer than we have. Railing against the system while expecting a few members to somehow fix the system is magical thinking not based in reality. I believe the only thing we can change is ourselves but in changing ourselves we affect our families, communities and eventually the world. I try to live by the principles I preach.
casperparks - June 16, 2012
Any United States citizens thinking they have a “real vote” in who is president are fools. Obama or Romney what an insult and slap in the face, as those behind the curtain laugh in your faces. Citizens of the US overall are blind and deaf, seeing not reality nor hear truths. Bow before your “Corrupted Corporate Overlords”, tremble at the truth of your situation. Believing “they” own everyone, have turned populations into “indentured slaves.”
casperparks - June 16, 2012
Inquire of the United States Government. Use the “freedom of information act” at the Social Security Office. Demand an “Accounting of Monies” of how much, when and where funds shuffled from SS too other agencies.
Is it a deliberate design at breaking Social Security and if so, would Social Security be just fine if this had not occurred?
Is GreeneWave up to making charts and graphs and showing the money trails?
Seek the truth, even if you do not like the answers, be fair and honest.
GreeneWave claims to be an “Alternative Media Television Network”
Do something every major media outlet refuses to do! Demand an accounting of vanishing money from Social Security. If a business raided retirement funds, people would be sitting in prison.
Amy Farmer - June 25, 2012
Good point Casperparks…very good point.