Defend Liberty

An Allegory to Liberty

Do you remember The Liberty Tree and the story that surrounds it? There was an old elm tree that stood in Boston Commons in the days before the American Revolution. It was a beautiful old tree that became a real rallying point – a symbol really - for the growing resistance to the rule of England over the feisty American colonies. Called ‘The Liberty Tree,’ it was often decorated with banners and lanterns by ‘the resisters’ and used in communicating their secret messages to each other. Their meetings were regularly held there to express views against the Crown and to vent frustrated emotions.

When the news of The Liberty Tree spread throughout the colonies, local patriots in each of the 13 colonies formed a ‘Sons of Liberty’ group (or network of sorts) and identified a large tree to be used as a meeting place. In those times, holding an unauthorized assembly was really dangerous business that carried threats of imprisonment or death so the usual places to plot and plan were out of the question. But, the casual appearance of a group chatting beneath a tree seemed much, much safer!

As resistance to the British grew, flags bearing a representation of The Liberty Tree were flown to symbolize the unwavering spirit of liberty itself. These flags were later a common sight during the battles of the American Revolution.

The British made The Liberty Tree an object of great ridicule and scorn. However, the ridicule and scorn were simply ‘just words’ and many from that day forward said it was under The Liberty Tree that America was born, giving its sons and daughters a legacy of liberty.

Liberty is Under Attack

Today, our country faces a threat from abroad and a threat - in the form of ideological conflict - from within. With the coming of a new administration and the promise of a more bloated and opportunistic government, the need for citizens to resist complacency and to let their voices be heard, has led to a rekindling of the spirit that founded The Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty.

We at Right Pundits have established a network comprised of blogging patriots who understand that it is the duty of each of us to champion the principles of liberty, freedom, an educated engaged citizenry and representative government. Our network is called ‘The Liberty Tree’ and we are asking you to join us!

In becoming a member of The Liberty Tree Network, you will join an informed community of bloggers that, instead of offering nothing but clever yet empty rhetoric, will actively support and promote liberty, civic responsibility, national security, and the American heritage as our Founding Fathers intended.

We will actively work to expose lies and propaganda of incoming administration and the main stream media while being diligent to maintain honor, truthfulness and integrity in our own reporting.

Join The Liberty Tree Network Today!

The Liberty Tree Network uses a feature of feedburner that allows blogs to group their posts together into a common “network feed.” This feed is separate from your normal feedburner feed which remains on your blog. The latest posts from network members will display on all member sites who place the feed on their blog, so for a short time each of your posts will be highly visible across the network. See what the display looks like in the lower right sidebar on this page.

First step is to put the network feed by copying this code to your blog:

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Second, Email us at libertytree [at] rightpundits [dot] com and we will send you an invitation to add your own feed into the list. Once you are added to the network, your blog posts will be seen on all the member blogs. You must have a feedburner feed for this to work.

Participation in The Liberty Tree requires that you display the code on your blog, preferably your homepage for the benefit of all members. The code is configured to display the 5 latest posts from the network, but you can choose to increase that number. This will always be the latest posts regardless of who made them.

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A couple more ideas for a new blog title. Blogs Against Barry/Obama is kinda boring. How about

• Bitter Clingers
• The World According To Barry (yeah, I know there is a World According To Carl, but, hey, it could work)
• Barry’s World
• Welcome Our New Overlord
• Learning Curve
• Barry’s Head (remember the TV show Herman’s Head, or have I just really dated mystelf?)
• Leave It To Barry

What are your suggestions? This is something I’d like to do sometime by the end of the month. Probably keep the same domain name for awhile, especially since Blogrolling is hosed, so, can’t add anyone. BTW, for those who have rightly complained about not being added to the list, no can do, since Blogrolling is still hosed.

First of all, I want to thank all those who joined up and those who left comments. This blog couldn’t work with out y’all. I know I haven’t responded as much as I would have liked to, but, a big thank you goes out from me to you.

So, where does this blog go? What do we do? A lot of that is going to depend on the 2 Beth’s, who own the site and the domain name. Maybe we transition it into “Blogs Against Barry.” Or “Here Comes Socialism.” Or, and this is one of my favorites “I Didn’t Vote For That!!!” You will hear lots of folks, including in the MSM, say that shortly into the new year, and, all I ask is that you smile sweetly and say “Told ya so!” You must say it and smile like you are talking to a friend who drank way too much and ate too many buffalo wings after a long day lying on the beach with little sunblock

Personally, I would like to see it transitioned, but, that is a lot of work. I’d like to bring on a few more folks as writers. And, for the moment, we will keep on posting. From me, you will see a few more crossposts of some of my bread and butter issues, such as opposition to anthropogenic global warming, illegal immigration, and support for the war on terrorism. You may also get some post from one of my favorite things, namely, dumpster diving in the Liberalsphere. Especially when they realize the diamond they just bought is cubic zirconiam.

Maybe I’ll see if we can import the domain name mybarackobama.us, which I own, and have forwarded to my personal blog, Pirate’s Cove.

Meanwhile, feel free to contact me directly at wteachATthepiratescoveDOTus. And thank you all again. God Bless The USA.

Get your brand spanking new “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted McCain-Palin” bumper stickers, only $3.99! Every pink cloud has a Conservative lining.

Maybe I am jumping the gun, but, as of midnight, looks like it will be Obama. Oh, well. Such is life. It will give all these feel good folks, who only see the programs who paint Dems as cute fluffy bunnies and Republicans as mean nasty bulldogs, a good dose of what a hard left agenda will do to their lives. I predict that the Misery Index will return by August.

And, at least the won’t have the 60 votes they need in the Senate.

What is your prediction on how low the stock market goes Wednesday?

You know you want to give. But, you can give and it isn’t even your money. Easy ’nuff?

Go to Squidoo. Scroll down. Pick the charity you want to give to. A charity say, like, Soldiers Angels. Your vote is worth $2. Squidoo has $80,000 to give away, and they will give $2 per vote to the charities picked, up to October 15th, or 40K votes.

Can it get any easier?

Go, vote. Spread it around. Tell your friends, online and Real Life®. Family. Everyone you see.

The official John McCain website has set up a social networking site. You can find out about the social networking site through the videos on the John McCain website. Its called McCainSpace. Cool …. Check it out ….

And because you guys like Meghan McCain so much, I’ll include her video.

One of the things I do over on my site every Sunday is post a patriotic pinup, the painted types. This one is a few years old, added in the flag background. Never been able to figure out who the artist is, though

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women’s groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping” by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication “To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead” (Source: Duke University’s Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860’s tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.

Head on over to Stop The ACLU and see his new baby!

Coming Friday, the start of the McCain McCarnival. See this post by Beth C. for the full details, and join in!

We at McCain Blogs are going to host the first of hopefully many blog carnivals (or roundups, for those not familiar with strange blog lingo) on Friday. We are soliciting submissions in the roundup (”McCarnival”) from any and all bloggers who have pro-McCain posts who would like to be included.

Please go here to submit a link to a pro-McCain (or anti-Hillobama, if that’s what you want to submit) blog post, if you would like to be included:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_3754.html

Wednesday is the deadline for submissions, and the “McCarnival” will be posted at McCain Blogs on Friday. I will send an email to the McCain Yahoo group when it’s posted, and those of you who have trackback-enabled blogs (i.e. Blogger with Haloscan, Wordpress, etc.) will know when it’s up when the trackback comes through to your post.

If you would like to help promote it, you can grab the widget here (they have it in widths suitable for sidebars or blog posts):
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/widget_2_demo.html

Thanks in advance for your participation!