Lessons from the Twitter Gulag

Well, not exactly rested, but significantly calmer.  He may be a leftist, but lounging on the couch with Turner Classics on TV in the afternoon does the soul well.

So what have we learned in the fallout of the @ChrisLoesch battle? I think first things first, we learned that as a unit, we are more powerful than the insidious actions of the left, in their attempts to silence dissent.  Occupy Wall Street wishes they had the passion and coordination that I have seen in the last 24 hours when some of ours had rights that were being trampled upon. 

But there were interesting points in the fighting as well.  I hope it was sarcasm that I saw, but one of our crowd mentioned something about Dana, Chris, and Michelle Malkin getting great press while the rest of us get suspended and no one is worried.  I can address this two ways. First, we are all important tweeters, but sometimes it takes a bigger name to bring about worldwide trending and forcing the enemy into damage control. Case in point is the fact that after Chris was reinstated, a plethora of other falsely accused people were reinstated as well {THANKS, MICHELLE MALKIN!}. 

This brings to mind my time in the United States Navy.  I was stationed aboard a Guided Missile Cruiser in a Carrier Battle Group.  As sailor, we knew full well that with a torpedo in the water, our ship would “turn to” to protect the carrier, which brings me to my second point.  No one in the conservative movement, in my opinion and in our current state of affairs, should be afraid to sacrifice in the coming battles.  Since the advent of the TEA Parties, of which I was a founding member, we have always understood that no one person or group is bigger than the mission that we uphold.  This is the fundamental difference between this movement and Occupy.  While they fight to have their personal student loan debts paid off and demand free contraception (both selfish motives), we stand to reduce the debt and tyranny that will be forced onto our children and grandchildren.  Do you know how many TEA Partiers I’ve met who have quoted the words of Thomas Paine, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace,”?  You will not hear these words from the left.

Finally, as we begin to deflate slightly from the row and begin to take the offensive again, let us not fall into the trap that I saw from several people last night in thinking that we can defend our cause by mimicking the patterns of those who wish to suppress us.  We fight with ideals and principles.  Failure to maintain such would negate our reason for standing on the wall in the first place.

This is a war of ideas, Ladies and Gentlemen.  This is our battleground and situation room.  Lets come together here and continue the momentum given to us in last night’s battle, strike fast and strike hard, and let’s let them know that we’re here.  Please post your comments accordingly on any lessons you’ve learned from flag/spam-gate, so that we can gather our thoughts collectively {God! I hate that word!}.

 

From the Front,

M~

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