1. Politicians in Washington DC will never be able to resolve your problems more effectively than you.
2. Local leaders will care about and be able to solve local problems far better than politicians in Washington DC.
3. Politicians in Washington DC need to be held accountable for their failures.
4. Primary elections provide the perfect opportunity to show displeasure with the status quo in Washington DC.
5. Seeking to make a career out of holding political office should be scorned and ridiculed.
6. Nominate people within your community who do not want to serve to Federal office.
7. Never give a dime to a political campaign for a career politician.
8. Donate to a local charity that addresses the needs of your community in lieu of political donations.
9. Volunteer in your community.
10. Look for solutions outside of politics.
11. Act as if you are responsible for solving the problems in your community.
12. Become the shining light in your neighborhood.
13. The larger the government the more wealth it will confiscate from you.
14. The current system of government in the United States is oligarchic in nature.
15. Dangerous liberty is better than a safe tyranny.
16. Politicians have an incentive not to solve problems.
17. Government programs increase costs.
18. Political corruption should lead to prison sentences.
19. Inflation and taxation are destroying the middle class.
On July 9, 1722 the New England Courant published a letter from Silence Dogood. The letter stated in part:
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.
“This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own.”
Silence Dogood was the pen name Benjamin Franklin used for a series of letters that he wrote. Franklin outlines the importance of freedom of speech above. If freedom of speech is curtailed it is only a matter of time before every other right will be taken as well. In the letter Franklin continued by saying:
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