William R. Collier Jr.

“RedState BREAKS NEWS,” says The Websters’ Dictionary: How to Use the Web to Transform the World (http://www.thewebstersdictionary.com).  (Emphasis added.)

Three days ago RedState broke the story about a radical left group planting racist remarks on TeamSarah.org, remarks which were then reported, without fact checking, by The Huffington Post as “proof” that the supporters of Gov. Palin are racists.

Yesterday, The Washington Times quoted from this RedState Diary entry (hyperlink) in its print edition.

URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/06/inside-blogotics-86170829/

Now today, The Weekly Standard also cited this RedState Diary piece at the top of its blog:
URL: http://weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp#10053

Invite your friends to visit and see RedState in action rocking the boat! And keep coming back for more!

Freedom Congress too is providing coverage as well as a place to report similar attacks for a broader coverage of these attempts to censor by smear and silence and dirty tricks!

Url: http://www.freedomist.org

E! True Conservative is covering this with an article that demans an apology from huffington Post:

http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2009/01/07/liberal-fascist-sock-puppets-busted-at-teamsarah-geoffry-dunn-at-huffingtonpost-owes-an-apology/

And MANY thanks to Erick Erickson and his colleagues for the brilliant work they are doing right here at RedState in assembling defenders of the conservative movement.  Erick, Neil, all RedStaters: Bravo!

Now picked up also by National Review

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTlhMzY1OGJjOGQ1YTc0MzFjYWUyZGZkOWZlMTgyMzA

The GOP lost congress, they are fast losing credibility, now they come out and announce a potential “deal”?

WE DON’T need bailouts or tax raises:

they want to bail out the newspapers?

they want to bailout the unions?

they want to RAISE taxes on gasoline?

Do you want to pay $4 per gallon to FUEL the New York Times? Do you think “taxing the rich” is going to save your 401K by bailing out the UAW?

GET THE WORD OUT if we don’t seriously confront them and JUST SAY NO to bailouts, with a substantial number of signatures demanding that we reduce taxes and stop spending the People’s money, what kind of Reagan 2.0 is possible?

GO HERE NOW and sign the peititon by join the Reagan 2.0 COUNTER Revolution against “Bailout Socialism.”

http://reagan2petition.ning.com

TELL THE WORLD, shout it from the rooft tops- we don’t want no STINKING Bailouts!!!!!

The Dow Jones Industrial Average at 759.
Less than 10% of its current value.

The unemployment rate around 7%.
Almost 40% higher than today.

Inflation rate? 13%.
Around triple of today’s.

A misery index of 20%.
More than double today’s.

In the White House: Jimmy Carter.
Hectoring America for its “malaise.”

Then what happened?
We elected Ronald Reagan president.

Reagan cut the income tax rate 30% across the board.
And stood behind Paul Volcker’s strengthening the dollar.

What happened next?
Prosperity happened.

America took off and never looked back.
Now, looking back, we remember the recipe for Prosperity.

We appreciate the need to assist ordinary citizens in their time of hardship.
The best way to do that is by using the bailout money to bring back Prosperity.

The $700 billion appropriated for bailouts more than covers the costs of:
A renewed 30% across-the-board tax rate cut. AND a payroll tax cut.

We know this works. We did it before. It worked. It will work.
Reagan 2.0: a 30% across-the board tax cut. And a payroll tax cut.

Sign this petition for Congress. Make your voice heard now.

No bailouts! Tax rate cuts! Bring Prosperity Back.

The Petition

To the Congress of the United States of America:

Cutting marginal tax rates across the board lofted America from austerity to prosperity.

Reagan understood this, we understand this, and we appeal to you to take a stand for it.

By joining Reagan2Petition.ning.com, we sign this petition demanding your support

* for using the “bailout” funds to cut marginal tax rates by 30% AND
* to cut the payroll tax back to its original “pay as you go” rates.

Put America back on the road to Prosperity.

Sign the Petition today…..

CLICK TO SIGN by joining!

by Bill Collier (1/2/09)

Community Governance Adviser- Team Sarah

Administrator-The Freedom Congress USA http://www.freedomist.org

(Note we call ourselves Freedomists, a “Freedomist” is anyone whose focus is on advancing and defending freedom before self interest, partisan gain, or any other thing)

William R Collier Jr http://www.freedomist.org

While we consider ourselves to be an under-reported worthy causes (www.freedomist.com www.freedomist.org www.afn50.com http://57thstate.ning.com) THIS list and review is for the TOP FIVE under-reported worthy causes that we think SHOULD garner the active attention and support of the “Master Networkers”, people like Erick Erickson, Ralph Benko, Patrick Ruffini, Eric Odom, and the like.

1. The Grizzly Groundswell- Chad Everson
www.grizzlygroundswell.com

While many of us talk and write, Chad gets up every day and BUILDS, doing the kind of GRUNT work that can seem thankless and, well, not so much fun. Chad PROMOTES his growing network of bloggers and BTR show hosts and gives them a SPACE to shine, he goes out, tirelessly and turns the spotlight on others within his network.

Chad is building the tools we need for a web 2.0 revolution and uniting the conservative voice! Chad is following in the foot steps of EW Everson, his Great Grandfather, who SHASED THE SOCIALIST SQUIRRELS out of his state and who was, in many regards, a web 2.0 activist before the technology was even available!

2. #DONTGO- Eric Odom (and others)
www.dontgomovement.com
OK,. so I was involved with DINTGO in the beginning and while I am not directly involved now, I am proud to see that the foundation I was a part of supporting in the beginning is becoming an edficie that will, I am firmly convinced, become a towering institution ALL of us can PLUG IN TO for information, collaboration, and joint actions.

DONTGO is building an array of resources to help us in the ongoing battle to re-ignite the right online with an information network, I liken to a citizen’s intelligence network, that will plug e-activists on the center-right in to tools for gathering, reporting, and obtaining vital political intelligence and communicating with their government, the media, and the greater world.

3. NEW: “Top Conservatives On Twitter” #TCOT- Tony Katz and Michael Patrick Leahy
http://topconservativesontwitter.blogspot.com
(I call this “The #TCOT Revolution”)

This movement centers around two main things, right now, a LIST of the top conservatives on Twitter and an effort to CALL and EMAIL conservatives leaders, specifically members of the Republican National Committee, to get them on Twitter where they can communicate with the rank and file and we can communicate with them.

I see this as a potential precursor to a movement to rally ALL conservatives into a PLACE for web 2.0 collaboration, mutual promotion, sharing ideas and best practices, and more. We have even set up a group within our new project, the Freedom Congress, that will seek to rally Freedom minded people to this cause and movement. www.topconservativesontwitter.com

4. Project Meridian Foundation- Nathaniel Wilson
www.projectmeridianfoundation.org

This project needs and deserves your immediate support and recognition. The fate of hundreds of thousands, indeed millions, of people who have been made slaves, often as sex slaves, could depend on YOU!

Human trafficking is a growing problem that involves a rabbit hole that goes very deeply, often in some nation to the highest corridors of power, and it must be stopped.

Nate, as we call him, wants to raise money for safe houses to shelter, support, and treat people who have been rescued from Human Trafficking and he wants to lobby congress to take positive, strong steps to make this happen!

5. The Websters’ Dictionary on NING, The Bar and Grill- Ralph Benko
http://thewebstersdictionary.ning.com/

This is an under-used NING network that will rally “Websters”, net activists using web 2.0 and beyond to transform their world, to talk best practices, share ideas, and collaborate and includes freedom minded people from many different backgrounds and philosophies. The only requirement is that you take a pledge “to use my powers for good.”

I will be assisting with the moderation of this network as part of our efforts to LEND A HAND in many deserving places.

So that’s the list, at least for now. We will try and produce a new list once a week or at least once a month and during each week or month we will focus on promoting and helping those groups and sites named in any way we can.

Every 3 months we will publish The Top Ten Emerging Freedom Causes

William R Collier Jr.
The American Freedomist Network www.freedomist.org

*Do you want to transform your world? *

Let’s start with the basics.
What does it mean to transform?

According to Merriam-Webster online, transform means:

1 a: to change in composition or structure b: to change the outward form or appearance of c: to change in character or condition :
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There is a plan, a master plan, you can follow but that plan has to conform to some semblance of proven LAWS and principles. **

Where can you find those laws and principles, written in plain English, in an easy to read format that is not hard on the eyes? here it is, what you have been looking for, Ralph Benko’s book, The Websters’ Dictionary. (This is not an error, Mr. Benko has informed me that his hope, and now mine as well, that he may be the first of many “Websters”, people who know and teach ways to use the web as a people connecting tool that have a cultural impact that is real and felt and positive)

Ralph Benko is a strange fellow, and I mean that in warm sincerity, who comes across in person as a cross between Jimmy Dean and a Nerd God, a really cool guy who can also do your homework for you. If understanding the web, how it works, and how to connect with people using the web’s tools and technologies, is your assignment then consider this very tough homework assignment to be taken care of by “The Webster”.

I have rarely met as accomplished a man who was both humble and absolutely self assured, at much at home I suppose in the rarified air of the best places in Washington DC with all the power brokers as with common folks out in fly over country, and his book is consistent with this character trait: it is clearly written by one who knows but it has been made accessible to almost anyone who has a few hours of time (you can read it on about 2 to 4 hours, which would mean about half a month if you took 15 minutes a day and read slowly).

If I have been described as a “networker”, indeed I have even been described as a somewhat influential networker using internet resources to connect people and ideas for action, reading this book has opened my mind up to new possibilities.

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The #TCOT Revolution!

UPDATE: The 57th Sate Michael Patrick Leahy, @michaelpleahy: #TCOT Revolution, Twitter energizing the conservative movement! http://tinyurl.com/6r689f 11AM

William R Collier Jr.
www.freedomist.org

As the conservative movement LAUNCHES itself in earnest, clearing the decks, defining its agenda, and gathering its forces in a truly conservative manner, from the street level UP, not with a few big donors, but individual unilaterally doing their THING, “The Top Conservatives On Twitter” now rises out of the ashes.

Here is the FIRST tweet using the new HashTag- beulahgg: @michaelpleahy you could shorten that to #tcot .–they say to keep them as short as possible, so just thought I’d throw that out. (November 29, 2008)

And here is the FIRST RNC member to have a Twitter Account- http://twitter.com/shawn_steel

The ACTION can be tracked here: http://topconservativesontwitter.blogspot.com/

We have set up a group for Top Conservatives On Twitter within our Freedom Congress here:
www.topconservativesontwitter.com

This list, growing rapidly, includes some of the leading lights of the conservative movement in general and is a spontaneous, unplanned “revolution” that started as an effort to get members of the RNC to start using Twitter as an overall effort to promote web 2.0 activism amongst conservatives.

LATEST UPDATE:

There are now 7 members of the RNC on Twitter and today we all hope to add twice that number or more!

STAY TUNED right here for updates on this movement as we seek to bring some of its leading members to our BTR shows within American Freedomist Radio.

Cross Posted from http://blog.freedomist.info/2008/11/27/mumbai/

William R Collier Jr.
The American Freedomist

Pakistan promises to aid India

Stating that India should not jump to conclusions Hussain Hariqqa, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, promised Pakistan’s support in the fight against terror.

This more conciliatory tone is encouraging. If rogue elements within the ISI it is probable that the Pakistani government will take more serious measures to root them out.

Al Quedas’ gambit was to provoke Conflict and undermine Pakistan’s stability- assuming that this was Al Queda (we are still give this s confidence level Of 4 out of 5). If this is true, the gambit is probably not over.

Assuming that the Pakistani government continues to be sympathetic the ball is in the Indian government’s court. So far, the Indian government is painting a picture of foreign involvement and could conceivably take this opportunity to settle unresolved issues with Pakistan. This seems illogical but it IS possible.

We will continue to cover this with more analysis.

MORE ENCOURAGING NEWS- Indian Parliamentarian, Congress Spokesman Rajiv Shukla Thursday said that none of the Central and Maharashtria governments has so far said anything about the linkage of Pakistan with Mumbai terrorist attacks. In a telephonic interview with Geo News, the Indian Parliamentarian said that such impression is being created by the Indian media which should be avoided.

He said that “both India and Pakistan are victims of terrorism and instead of blaming each other they should cooperate in defeating the common enemy”.

This now laces Pakistan in a tough position, as already noted, in that they will have to face a terrorist insurgency in the Kashmir border area as well as in the tribal lands near Afghanistan.

The crisis in Mumbai is not over yet, however, and now there is talk about the 9 hour delay before Indian forces entered the Taj hotel along with a possible link to the Tamil Tigers, in Sri Lanka, who do have a known history of mounting low grade naval operations. It is possible that LTTE, the Tamil Tigers organizations, assisted the terrorists.

What seems clear is that the terrorists want everyone to THINK Pakistan or the ISI were involved. The Indian Prime Minister is now talking in terms of tougher anti-terrorism laws and I can see a picture where the Indians blame the Tamils for supporting rogue elements if the Pakistanis give them cover by in some way admitting that native terrorists were involved and vowing to go after them with full force. The Pakistanis are talking in terms of being victims themselves of the same terrorism.

We are not ready yet to cancel our war warning, but we are much more optimistic about the end results of this action. The terrorists would like to take more action, but they may not be able to.

Earlier reports of some sort of gunfire and explosions in Karachi, Pakistan could just as likely have been a government operation against possible terrorist groups and so far there is a new blackout about the incident with no more news coming from that city.

Barring unforeseen events, which we must allow for, it appears that the Indian government is keeping its cool, the Pakistani government is being more conciliatory, and the gambit may have failed in its primary aims. Its secondary aims, of causing financial disruptions to India may meet with limited success but so far Asian and Indian stocks have not been adversely affected, perhaps tourism in Mumbai will be affected, but that has yet to be seen.

We issue a WAR WARNING for India and Pakistan with a LOW probability based on a potential visceral reaction by the Indian government, in response to popular outrage, which may not be amendable to logic or diplomacy.

The American Freedomist will be reviewing the POTENTIAL for an armed conflict between India and Pakistan over the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

“They are from across the border and perhaps from Faridkot, Pakistan. They tried to pretend that they were from Hyderabad,” Major General R.K. Hooda, leading the military operation to flush out the extremists, told reporters.

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William R Collier Jr.
The 57th State on RedState

The Freedom Sphere includes the virtual, social, and information networks, communities, blogs, websites, organizations, and groups that are run by and for freedom focused individuals, groups, organizations, clubs, businesses, and associations of any kind. To be Freedom Focused means that you embrace The Four Core Ideals of Freedomism: Unity in diversity (Liberty, Civil Rights), Popular sovereignty (Independence, Self-Reliance, Limited Government, Local Autonomy), Democratic equality (Opportunity, Free Enterprise, Equal Access), and the Rule of Law (Justice, Constitutional Supremacy, Security of our Rights, Persons, and Property.

I am going to describe the FreedomSphere overall, however within RedState my focus is going to be on Conservatives In Exile, or right of center Virtual Freedom Fighters who are PRO LIFE and who support virtue and morality based on the beliefs of our Founding Fathers (and mothers). We call the FreedomSphere on the RIGHT “The 57th State”.

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About the 57th State:* President Obama said he had not been to all 57 States, we found the 57th State in Imagination Land and in the 57th State Caesarists who promote Big Government or a Planned Economy and who attack our culture of LIFE and of VIRTUE by controlling Washington and Wall Street are all in museums. Mothers take their children there and warn them, “If you don’t read your Bible, your, Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, if you don’t stay informed, stay involved, and stay focused then you might end up JUST LIKE THEM or you might end up being their SLAVE.” The 57th State is devoted to promoting good people and good ideas on the RIGHT in the fight to preserve and advance freedom while exposing fraud, waste, and abuse by Caesarists in Washington and Wall Street.

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Bill Collier
The American Freedomist

We will be meeting today at 1PM on BlogTalkradio to discuss the latest bailout news. The Feds are no mortgaging YOU and I for over $20,000 PER household!!!! The biggest single “get” is for CitiBank, a giant GLOBAL bank that traffics in usury and treating consumers like serfs.

The show is at 1PM today.

The 57th State on American Freedomist radio

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Bill Collier
The American Freedomist

It says in Proverbs, “let another man praise you and not yourself”, or something like that.

There are many conservative groups and causes out there, some of which you may not even be familiar with. Some of them may be nothing more than a guy or gal in their living room with a $7 server, as Ralph Benko quoted from Patrick Ruffini (READ Ralph’s book for FREE, http://www.thewebstersdictionary.com/).

I have been privileged over the past 3 months to have met many of the top conservative internet activists by phone or in person and have been privy to some interesting meetings where individuals shared their knowledge of best practices as well as their stories and I have learned quite a bit about who these people and what they are about.

The bottom line is that the conservative community is waking up and shaping up, our leaders and friends, and potential new leaders and friends, are coming to realize that while we need to match what “the left” has done in terms of impact and making the most of the internet, our approach is not going to be the same. For instance, we are not going to rely on or ask for millions of dollars from a few rich donors who may then have the power to call the shots and we are not keen on a top-down approach in which only a FEW at the top get all the power and recognition.

The conservative community is self-organizing, even if it may not be apparent to all of us, and we seem to be in a “Valley Forge” moment. Our Von Steuben (he trained George Washington;s troops in Valley Forge) is not one person: we are being trained by necessity and by folks like Erick Erickson, Ralph Benko, Erik Telford, Eric Odom, Chad Everson, Paul Collier, Emily Zanotti, Scott Graves, Neil Stevens, Stephanie Davis, Patrick Ruffini, Robert Bluey, and the list goes on.

What you may want to know, as a conservative, is WHAT IS OUT THERE…..

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