Letter to the editor

Sent to The DeLand Beacon  - from our very own member Keith Wilson.

I read what everyone has to say here every week. I know we all have different views and beliefs and that is America. We need to stop debating the little things when the house is on fire. If you are the least bit out of your denial, your gut is telling you something is very wrong in this country. It is not a Republican vs. Democrat problem, it is corruption and power grabbing by both parties. Warning! I am a right-wing conservative so you should verify anything I say. I couldn't take it any more so I got involved in the Tea Parties, went to the Washington D.C. protest on 9.12.09, and started the DeLand912 Group (deland912.org). Our government is now in debt almost $400,000 (national debt + liabilities) per US citizen ( www.usdebtclock.org  ) and still spending like drunken sailors. We have been a sleep for too long and I am ashamed of what my children and grandchildren will suffer because of it. If we don't get control of these politicians the greatest country in history is going to become another Cuba.
 
Here are a few things crazy things that I believe:
 
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."
 
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
 
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
 
Sounds like Abraham Lincoln would be one of the crazy Tea Party people to me, doesn't it to you? Wake up, unite as Americans, and demand better representation from your government while you still can. We can sweat the small stuff later.
 
Keith Wilson
DeLand Florida