We Must All Hang Together

While watching the impending floods in Fargo North Dakota and Moorehead Minnesota, I was struck by the people power involved in trying to save those towns from destruction. Everybody is lending a hand and they have all been working non-stop through the night in the freezing tempatures. That is what America is all about, people taking a stand to protect their homes, their very lives. The willpower, perserverance, and hard work of those people may be able to stem the flood and preserve those towns.

Although our danger is not as obvious as the flooding occuring in the mid-west, all Americans are currently at risk. The flood of debt that is pouring out of Washington threaten to destroy our lives every bit as much as the destructive Red River that threaten those who live there. While we up in Northern Wyoming are blessed with very few natural disasters that we must combat, and have not been trained to work together on such a large scale, we are still Americans, we know how to stand up and protect our freedoms.

Every freedom we hold dear is under attack today, the first amendment only applies to those who toe the party line, the second amendment is in danger, the tenth amendment has been ignored for many years now. The least we can do as a people under this threat is to turn out and make our displeasure known. There will be much more asked of us in the future.

The Cody Tea Party on April 15, along with the thousands of other tea parties throughout America is just the beginning. As Benjamin Franklin said during the first American Revolution "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." America is just a few short steps away from sacrificing freedom for tyrrany and we must not let that happen.