Loving America

[FCTP]

I had a friend who was in the Event Planning business.  He helped me plan a big event for the “grand opening” of my consulting practice ten years ago this month.  He was a perfectionist and was well known in the event planning world nationwide.  He is a master at planning a party.

 

When the night came for our “grand opening” at a local club, he showed up after the other invitees were already enjoying the party.  I greeted him at the door.  His first question to me was “Is there love in the room?”  I was stunned by the question and asked him what it meant.  He replied, “When I plan an event, I want everyone in the room to feel loved.” 

 

As I looked back at the crowd and their happy demeanors, I assured him he had accomplished his goal that night. 

 

After that evening, everywhere I went I thought about that and wondered if I had left “love” behind me when I exited a room.

 

It is easy to turn a room into a magical night of wonder and beauty with lights, decorations and plants,  It’s not as easy to do that as a person because there are just some people who will not like you. 

 

You are too different from them.  Your upbringing might be polar opposite of theirs.  Your thinking did not match theirs.  They saw things from another viewpoint than you.  There are many reasons for people to get “cross-wise” with each other.  It’s just human nature.

 

We see it in the politics happening in America.  Polar opposites are trying to be in charge of the people.  The media and even our President have attempted to paint Occupy people as the same people who are in the Tea Party Movement.  The pictures, videos and behaviors tell the world that we are very different.  Some of the signs may read the same, but the people holding them are not the same. 

 

The tea party members have used the rule of law to expose corruption.  The Occupy members have used intimidation to expose corruption.  The tea party members have not used violence while many in the Occupy movement have.  The tea party members love our flag, our founding documents and our history.  Many in the Occupy movement feel these items are holding us back from “change.”

 

As mentioned yesterday, I wonder how all this will end.  It will end and when it does, America will be different.  If the difference is good or bad – time will tell us the end of the story.  It may not be in our lifetime but it will be in our children’s and grandchildren’s. 

 

My hope is the ending will be filled with love.

 

Love for America that has stood the test of time and opened her arms to those fleeing tyranny.  Love for our history that will determine our future.  Love for our Judeo-Christian faith that was the foundational footing of our Founding documents. 

 

If that is the love that is left behind in America, I will feel we have accomplished our goal.  It’s all about the love and no matter how different we are, we can come together on that one – can’t we?

 

The baby boomers of the Tea Party Movement are hippies from the 60’s and the 70’s.  We hung peace signs on our bedroom walls, painted them on our VWs and embroidered them on our hip huggers.  We were looking for the love during the Vietnam War and reality hit when our friends came home either in a casket or to a spitting crowd who hated them instead of the leaders who sent them to war.

 

As I look at the young people camping in parks, I see a few new hippies of today.  They are hanging out with some bad guys who are spitting in the faces of those who serve in the military and stomping on the flag that we love.  My prayer today is that we will begin to see a rising up of those seeking peace and love for America rising up within the Occupy movement. 

 

We will never forget what happened to our country during our lifetime.  We will stand strong against the forces of evil that once again is trying to take us down.  As for those young ones who seek peace, we encourage you to rally with us and feel the love of America’s greatness again.  Together we can overcome the evil that haunts the halls of our institutions.   There is a better way to do this – and violence will not end in peace.

 

Is there still love in America?  I believe so and I believe two very different groups can come together with one common cause.  That cause:  Loving America and all she stands for.  She deserves to be loved back as she loved us.

 

On November 6, 2011, the First Coast Tea Party will rally together with songs of love for America with our Tea are the World Concert starting at 2:00 PM.  Speakers who love America will be there beginning at 4:00.  You can find the details at www.fctpcommunity.org. 

 

We encourage all God-fearing, America-loving patriots to show up and stand together for the sake of our country.  Prayers from pastors will ring out and we are sure you will hear God Bless America at some point during the day. 

In the meantime, take a look at this beautiful video of the Elephant and the Dog.   When the human race can’t get it right – leave it to the animal kingdom to figure it out.  Which are you…the elephant or the dog?

 

[Tracy]

Thank you for clarifying your position Steve.

[Steve Tikas]

No PETTY not pretty.  It would take a lot more then I have available to make her look pretty.

[Steven D.Upshaw]

Well maybe not pretty Steve.

[Steve Tikas]

Yes it will be very difficult to take that seat.  It has been a Democratic seat since it was first made in 1903 so yeah it will be tough but I know I can do it.  The 3rd district is predominately black and/or Democrats (I want to say about 65-70%) so it will be very difficult for any white Republican to unseat her.  I have already started studying her issue papers and her voting record and I promise when I run against her it will be with more then how she used sand bags.  I don't believe in doing anything half way so I'll be well prepared when the time comes.  She has three or four real scandals that are so much more then sang bags.  She is also a big government person so unless things take a drastic turn in the next couple of years people will be wanting someone that believes in liberty and freedom and not more government. 

 

I also have an advantage that other GOP candidates don't have and that is my wife, family, and church (which I'm one of only two white people).  I won't use them in the campaign but she would have a very hard time painting me out to be racist or against black people which is one of her big tactics when someone does run against her.  Without race baiting I don't know what else she is going to have other then slander which will just make her look petty.

[Steven D.Upshaw]

Mr. Weed no body has questioned those peoples right to protest but the parties you have named are in direct conflict with what the constitution stands for Socislist, Communist and Nazis do not promote in anyway the beliefs our founder wished for this country and to say that those groups have the same ideals as the Tea Party is a gross misrepresentation to say the least and if you beleave that you are most certainly confussed.

[FCTP]

David. It is not my tea party and it is not little.

[Steven D.Upshaw]

Good luck with that Steve. Corrine is a powerful woman in this town and well like by the members of her party in Washington but in my view she is a Rino and has been in office to long and has to many ties to the special interest groups. She needs an opponent that will give her a real run for her money instead of someone running on a platform of a dump truck full of sand bags. Who ever runs against Mrs. Brown had better be serious and have a good standing in that district. In any case I think it will be a tough row to hoe to unseat her.  

[Steve Tikas]

Thank you for that compliment and I plan to take a more and more active role in things in the near future.  I am going to run for a House seat in the future, 2016 is my goal right now.  I live in Corrine Brown's district and I would love to take the seat from her.  I dislike her very much and how she manages to make everything a racial issue.  As you can tell by the picture I have no problem with black people but I dislike the ones that make everything about race.  I have some more growing to do personally and in my family and spiritual life before I can do that though but you will see my name on the ballot at some point.

[Steven D.Upshaw]

You seem to be a very bright young man with his head and heart in the right place and I am proud that the people of your generation are taking an active roll in what is taking place in this country it is young people such as yourself that will make the difference. Keep putting the word out and educate your children. It is you and the generations that follow you that will keep America free. Keep the faith and God bless.

[david weed]

I didn't say the Koch Brothers funded your little Tea Party here in town. I said to check out their attempts to control the situation in the Tea Party nationally. You are being hypocritical when you pick out certain videos and say they don't have a CONSTITUTIONAL right to express themselves this way. This is freedom in action whether you like it or not or whether you agree with it or not. Instead of trying to divide groups and look down on them, you should find ways to unite to achieve a common goal. If you look hard enough you can always find the bad in any situation.  Look for the good in the occupy movement. It will take all of the people in this country united to fight the monster that currently controls our government. If you truly believe in the Constitution, then you have to accept the flag stompers, spitters, Nazis etc because that is Freedom and Liberty. They have a right to express themselves under the Constitution. There is a lot of anger out there and some of it is misdirected at the wrong people. I see nationally where the Tea Party is willing to over look differences in other groups to help direct that anger where it should be, big government, bankers, the FED and the groups that control them. They are the ones that have usurped our Constitution and are trying to destroy this country with their globalist agenda.