Dear Mark,

First let me say that even though you are called the Great One, you do not get nearly enough recognition and praise for your brilliance AND especially your good looks. Ha!

I have been listening intently to your shows as you discuss this election and its dramatic ramifications.

We are, many of us, as you are, acutely aware of the precarious moment. America’s gradual slouching into socialism is about to become a headlong plunge. Hayek and history have well warned that socialism itself is but a step on a path leading inevitably to dictatorship and tyranny.

Yes, Obama and a 60-seat senate Democrat majority will take that plunge. But the best argument you can make for McCain is that he will buy us time. Delay the looming disaster.

But my friend, you are wrong. The Titanic has already struck the iceberg; you want to wrestle over the ships wheel.

You have used the term soft tyranny. Mark, my beloved Brother, we are there! Now!

Talk Show Host: Listen now to me.

I am Joe the Plumber, Joe the Father, and Joe the Citizen. Every day, I try to raise my family, run my small business and TRY to enjoy the blessings this magnificent country affords. But I am slowly being bled to death by a thousand cuts of a hydra headed government.

I read the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence, the very causes that propelled the Revolution, and I can only smile. Read it! Seen in the light of what we live with today, it’s practically petty!

·        Today, government bureaucrats at every level have dictates for almost every aspect of our lives.

·        Public schools fight me for the mind of my children, and government challenges my right to raise them according to my conscience. Not under Obama, but now, TODAY!

·        Consider the matrix of regulation on the use of private property, and the attack on property rights through environmental regulation and exploding use of eminent domain, TODAY.

·        Free speech is under attack by PC thought police, and our right to actually use free speech in the most important way, politically, has been sharply curtailed by the court we have- TODAY.

·        The government is attempting to intimidate church pastors and members from speaking out and acting upon their religious faith- Not in the future- Now.

·        It is nearly impossible to operate a business today without running afoul of any of the myriad regulations enforced by an army of government officers. It literally KILLS the spirit of entrepreneurship, and it gets worse every day, right now!

·        Hidden taxes, regulations, and un-funded mandates are everywhere making daily life a struggle for survival in this nation of bounty.

• And talk about eating our substance! The Founders never even dreamed of the level of confiscation of lawfully earned income as we have right now, TODAY. Are total taxes 40%? 50%? Are we thus only 50% slaves?
• Look at Leviathan, the Federal Government. Enumerated powers indeed! Is there ANY matter into which Washington will not insert itself? Jefferson warned that when Washington directed the planting and the harvest, we would soon lack bread. See: Current Financial Meltdown.
• What of the courts? They are right now rendering our legislatures moot, making law from the bench, completely unconstrained by the Constitution or the will of the people.
• And what of our so-called “free press”? They are FAR more disgraceful than any communist controlled organ ever was, because they go along freely, spouting the lies of those that slowly bind us.

So. Can things get worse? Oh yes, much worse. It has happened in other countries. With or without Obama, our freedom to travel, to choose jobs, to own any property at all, to speak and worship and raise our children, even to read and think freely, all these can and will be lost soon, or perhaps sooner, if we don’t radically change the situation we are already in. The ship is sinking! In fact, torpedoes are in the water that soon will finish us off. The current financial crisis is but a shadow of the looming Social Security time bomb. Does anyone think McCain will save us from that? Electing John McCain does not save the ship. At best he slows the sinking. He will pacify us for four more years. In this way he is WORSE than Obama.

I for one am tired of the socialism we already have! I’m sick from the tyranny already poisoning me! I can’t stand four more years of this growing menace! The change we need now is a New Revolution. We don’t have ten more years to get ready to fight. It’s time to fight NOW! We still have a chance! We can reclaim Liberty! We can fight, not with guns, but with words and deeds. Our model is not the civil war but the civil rights struggle. With real leadership and coordinated effort, a kind of massive sit-in, we could make a stand, we could halt this poison tide! Not four years from now, or ten years from now. NOW!

Besides, what is the option? We are now in the midst of a slow motion surrender that ends in the death of our republic and serfdom for us. How much longer before we do fight? I hear a thundering voice echoing down through history. What would Patrick Henry say today?

“When will we be stronger? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, morally and mentally? Do we effectively resist the growing tyranny with our whining on the radio, or hugging the phantom hope of a future conservative savior, until we are bound hand and foot? We are not yet weak; if only we make use of what God-given spirit we have left. Millions of people, armed with the holy desire for Liberty, and in such a land as this, are invincible to tyranny! Besides, the fight is not ours alone. God Himself, who raised up this nation, will fight with us to save it! Besides, we have no choice. Tyranny has already engaged us in the fight. There is no retreat except into submission and slavery. Our prison is built, the war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come! Why do we stand idle? What is it some will have? Material wealth? Personal peace? At the price of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I don’t know what others may wish, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

Mark, I write this to you because you have expressed with crystal clarity the situation we face, if not the reality of where we already are. You have promised to fight if Obama wins. You have promised even to fight McCain if he wins. I heard you say you would fight to rebuild the conservative movement. Well if I may be so bold as to paraphrase you, “Quit talking you Big Dope!” Start fighting NOW! And don’t worry about rebuilding the “movement”. Screw the “movement”!

Conservatism is alive and well, out here in America. If you want to do something, a bunch of us are ready! We don’t need another think tank! We need action. You want to stop this march of tyranny before it strangles liberty once and for all? Then stop writing books and make a plan of action! We need revolution now! Maybe if enough of us business people stopped sending in tax payments, we could bleed the feds dry! Or maybe we all move to Texas so we can own at least one state. We need a plan and we need leadership and most of all we need action. During the Revolution, they communicated through Committees of Correspondence. Today we have talk radio, but how much longer? You say you will fight those who want to destroy talk radio through the fairness doctrine. Well dammit, why don’t you use it while you got it! You guys remind me of what Lincoln said to one of his generals, along the lines of, “If you aren’t going to use the army, could I at least borrow it?”