I agree whole heatedly Jeff, we must know where our brothers and sisters stand so that we can coordinate, and be encouraged to push further and harder.

Efforts such as our own are depended upon us not being alone, we cant make a stand against the powerful central government alone, we need more then 1 state to stand and act together.

Indeed we need enough states so that the cost of their suppression for the Federal Government is higher then the cost of simply backing down to their demands.

That is the only way we can win this fight with out secession and war.

I am noticing that our biggest need is to get organized, there are plenty of Americans out there that firmly believe in the Constitution and that the Congress and the rest of the Federal Govt. has been overstepping their bounds for quite some time. Apparently we’re only just now figuring out that we need to organize better, but the left has been organizing for decades and proactively laying groundwork. I know it sounds trite especially considering the source but we need to mimic how the left has been ‘Organizing’.

I think ‘Community Organizer’ is code for radical political activist. They have been making a concerted effort to connect with one another and we need to find quick ways to do the same. Twitter helps and other social networking sites. Meetup.com will be useful if people can get educated.

I don’t know exactly how to do all of this of course, but I do think if some people can start researching and start getting a list of all the organizations, foundations, groups, law firms, polititians who are Pro-Constitution and then start trying to get all of these groups together this would be key. It isn’t just the 9-12ers & TEA Partiers, there are LOTS of groups out there that are fragmented. There are so many more of us than them. I believe there are many many more who are truly fed up and have 1 thing in mind. Uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

Fortunately nothing has been lost, but I am now working on plan based on Jeff Matthew’s “A Plan that Will Work”. It is going to be a lot of work to find a leader in each legislative district, but I believe my established link-ups with the teapartiers will be a help.

Some one mentioned we are being called “Tenthers”, I kind of like the term.

Our main target is rather clearly, the TEA party and 9-12 group, with the explicit propose of insuring that they know this is where their real teeth is to force the matter. So i don’t believe we should require anything but communication with them and state legislators and governors. Our aim should be to be an extension of their efforts, not a separate effort all together.

As correctly pointed out our goals are really one in the same.

Our is simply better directed with a knowledge of the structural nature of our system and how it was meant to be used to resolve this type of problem. We must share that knowledge with them, and spread it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/3/62435/93093

I think people want to monitor progress, see it unfold, and be a part of it. It’s kind of like Fox News – a one pony show and all you get to do is watch. You can only listen to the same-old stuff and sit there in outrage or disbelief for so long before you want to move on to the Nature Channel or something else.

Can anyone name any real political movement that ever got anywhere without a concentrated effort along geographical boundaries, where data was organized and maintained? MADD, Acorn, Tort Reform, Elections, you name it. They did not get there by mere whining. They organized. No legislator did it for them. They assembled their forces, and THEN, put the legislators to the task.

Anyway, that’s my two cents. I’m still game as soon as I get the sense that a grass-roots effort will take-off. In order to know that, I’d first have to see who is going to do “what” and “where.”

It really is hard work to try to spearhead a movement. A good idea needs to be implemented where the organization occurs more automatically.

No offense to the people here, but reading articles and blogs is FAR too introverted to accomplish anything. We need people saying, “Here I am. I am so-and-so from Colorado, etc. I live in senate district x and house district Y, and I have signed on the list.”

This list needs to grow to a size where we KNOW we have a serious force actually WORKING and not whining.

At least, that’s what I think.

Talk to people in your neighborhood, town, city, county, at the local cafe, etc. Share information, whether it’s one at a time over coffee or through social interactions and emails.

Really admire the thinking and passion you put into this movement. I wanted to comment on your article on a couple of things.

As you know, the Federal Government has mastered how to extort states with its own agenda by withholding funds. Many of the edicts coming from DC have no constitutional authority and the Federal government knows it cannot enforce such edicts. So, they resort to extorting states.

Now, one might think that to stop the extortion, states should simply stop giving the federal government any money. No money given is no money extorted. However, there is one thing I believe many of us patriots keep forgetting: The money is not ours. Our land is not ours; our money is not ours; our labor is not ours.

The whole of our medium of exchange has been collateralized by future years of work and labor from the American People. We have no process by which we can control the medium. It is my firm belief that until Congress assumes its money powers and tells the Federal Reserve to take a flying hike, then we will continually be subject to the economic slavery firmly rooted.

I think we need to rethink the money issue before we go taking on the Federal Government through propounding the 10th Amendment in their faces. Resolutions are weak when comparing the rubber hitting the road. There is no political will to go beyond words because of the money issue.

While I believe this issue is vital to restoring America to constitutional underpinnings, the root of the problem lies in the money issue. We must strike at the root instead of hacking at the branches.