Grizzly Groundswell: Who Is In Your Backyard?
This is a topic that needs more than one post and far more attention than one blog can bring to it. But, here is a start.
I want to bring to your attention Grizzly Groundswell. Yes, an odd enough name, but it denotes, at least, the imagery that we conservatives and anti-jihadists would like to think is a bit prophetic. A groundswell of Americans rolling in, mounting an assault of grizzly-like ferocity to retake the ground that our lack of attention , among other things, caused to be forfeited to the left and political islam.
It is due to exactly that political inattentiveness or indifference that finds us appalled that muslim Keith Ellison obtains political office. Or to wake up one morning to the the cacophony of an Islamic “call to prayer” and wonder when the hell they started allowing that. Or when did they change the zoning that opened the door for a mosque to be built. Or you find out that, lo and behold,you are now stranded in a sanctuary city.
Well, if any of us kept as close an eye on the politics being practiced in our own back yard as we do on our favorite sports team or reality show, we’d know that aspiring candidates, proponents of socialism and islam , are making good use of all the empty seats at those local town council meetings that we never attend. Or those school board meetings where islamic textbooks are entered into the curriculum with little or no debate. Yup, the ground now fenced in by our enemies is ground we have ceded.
But, even yet, it may not be too late.
And that is where Chad “Teddy Bear” Everson’s Grizzly Groundswell comes in: Uniting the Conservative Voice Across this Nation, One Backyard at a Time!
Teddy Bear, Now a Grizzly Bear with the Grizzly Groundswell platform and active in my local Republican BPOU and 6th Congressional District committee, is engaged in changing and improving my political landscape in my local Political Backyard.
I am the sitting chair of our local house 16b screening committee for election 2008 and chair of our Republican youth committee as well. Honestly, if I am not changing my backyard political landscape, I am sure working hard to accomplish what I can. What are you doing to Change the Political Landscape in Your Backyard?
Now Teddy is about organizing bloggers, citizens, and activists across America, encouraging and instructing in how to make a difference exactly where you live.
And, I speculate, for most of us the words activists, citizen groups, and protests are awkward and slightly silly. To me at least. Before 9.11 I would have thought that hippies had faded from the nation’s consciousness, as some ghosts of the sixties have had the graciousness to do. But alas, as we have witnessed, that graying, pot bellied, absurdly grotesque generation is still blocking traffic, stabbing the sky with signs and spitting contempt for you and me.
They may still be there, but, mostly as stage props, nostalgic cameos inserted into a larger picture of far more consequence to this nation. The real war theater is far removed from their addled contributions. Campaigns and propaganda originate from within the ganglion of the Soros media/think tank/NGO machine, are distributed through Hollywood and cable and embodies the chimera that we conservatives seem so ill equipped to withstand.
So you start somewhere and Grizzly Groundswell is one of many native and original grass roots efforts organizing to take aim at that chimera. Because if we don’t step out into our own backyard and see what the lay of the land is, we are just leaving the gates wide open for all kinds of vermin, be they of the progressive variety, or the Islamic variety.
These images are a pleasant change from the usual protesters, aren’t they? They record the recent turnout of Grizzlies and others in support of The Minnesota Tax Cut Rally. It is just one example of what can be done. Did it change anything? I don’t know. It’s a step. It’s part of a process.
I don’t know that anyone needs any more incentive than we presently have to get off our asses, but here is an article that demonstrates quite neatly what is going on in our backyards.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations lauded, “the growing positive role of American Muslims in our society,” as Muslim Democrat Andre Carson won his bid for U.S. Congress.
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“We offer congratulations to Representative Carson, whose election demonstrates the strength of our political system and the growing positive role of American Muslims in our society,” CAIR Legislative Director Corey Saylor said.
Saylor added the election tops off a banner year for Muslims in 2007-08, as March alone saw nearly 100 Capitol Hill meetings with U.S. Representatives and congressional staffers focused on issues of concern to Islamic Muslims from across America.[...]
AIR identified 15 Muslim candidates for public office across America, including a possible third U.S. congressman, Sam Rasoul, a Democratic challenger running a tough race for Democratic nomination in Virginia, District 6.
Rasoul joins Ellision and Carson, up for re-election, as the top three Muslim-candidate campaigns across America.
Eight Muslim incumbent state reps are up: Rodney Hubbard, Jamilah Nasheed and Talibdin El-Amin, Missouri; Saqib Ali, Maryland; Ako Abdul-Samad, Iowa; Yusuf Salaam, Alabama; Saghir “saggy” Tahir, New Hampshire and Ferial Masry in California.
Lesser races include Farheen Khan, state house challenger, Wisconsin, and local council hopefuls: Mohammed Hameeduddin, Teaneck, New Jersey; Bill Dalati, Anaheim, California and Rifat ‘James’ Sivisoglu, DuPage, Ilinois.
Now. All of those candidates are in someone’s backyard. And yes, I am focusing on Muslims. I have no qualms questioning their patriotism and wondering exactly where their allegiance to America ends and their march towards sharia begins. But there is also a harvest of young leftard lunatics chomping at their political bits to get in there and “make a difference” and “change somebody’s life”.
Grizzly Groundswell is one group trying to make a difference on our side. He is one of many such groups that appear to be organizing. Too late? Who knows. But we might as well fight until we find out.
I’ll be posting more on this.
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Anonymous April 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Thanks for the link ligneus, although after having read it I notice a couple of glaring omissions. The story is very much a feelgood exercise because of it too. Having read another article at Up Pompeii, which reveals a very different light upon this news. It would appear this project is very much a government sponsored program, and anything the dead hand of the European political elites are involved in is sure of most questionable value these days; so the whole project appears to become about calming the nerves of the increasingly restless natives. Sorry to rain on you high hopes.