A call to arms

The battle lines are drawn.

Americans are faced with an unresponsive and unaccountable one-party political system, an establishment propaganda machine posing as a free press, and cultural institutions (educational, charitable, entertainment, etc.) seduced by the materialist gods of the all-powerful secular state.

Let me speak plainly: The crisis we are in today cannot be resolved through the political system. It cannot be corrected by electing certain politicians to office. A much more profound, long-term and fundamental shift is needed to right the U.S. ship of state.

What am I talking about?

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America did not lose its freedom overnight. And we as Americans will not regain our freedom overnight.

Slowly but surely over the last 200 years, Americans have compromised the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. "Compromised" might not be the appropriate term - perhaps "sold out" would be more accurate.

Today, Americans live in a country the founders would scarcely recognize - not because of the automobiles speeding down freeways, nor because of the high-rise monuments full of paper-pushers in our big cities, nor because of all the other technological advances we have made in the last two centuries. What would disappoint the founders is the fact that Americans have frittered away the freedom for which their forefathers fought and sacrificed so gallantly.

That freedom, I am convinced, cannot be won back at the ballot box. The all-powerful state and its appendages in the influential cultural institutions that support it offer too much resistance. Just think of how the efforts of good men and women who go to Washington with the best intentions are thwarted and betrayed.

It's time for a revolution.

By that I do not mean it's time to organize armed militias and storm federal offices. Rather, it's time for revolutionary thinking, planning, education, organizing. It's time to wake up Americans to their plight. It's time to show them there really are viable alternatives to serfdom - if not for us, maybe, for our children.

I believe God has blessed us with a vehicle for igniting that kind of revolutionary thinking in the Internet and the New Media.

The Internet itself is revolutionary - perhaps even more so than the printing press was several hundred years ago.

It was the pamphleteers, after all, who set the stage for the Continental Congress. Pamphleteers can't reach 250 million Americans very easily. But the New Media can - and is.

This weekend, WorldNetDaily.com, one of the prodigies of this revolutionary New Media, is holding a continental congress of its own - an interactive conference with some of the leaders of this potent force for freedom. People are coming from far and wide to Los Angeles to hear, meet and interact with Washington Times investigative reporter Bill Gertz, author of the best-seller, "Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security," Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman, House Impeachment Manager Rep. Jim Rogan, radio talk-show hosts Geoff Metcalf and Jane Chastain, singer-songwriter Steve Vaus, author J.R. Nyquist, columnist Charles Smith, investigative reporter Jon Dougherty and, yes, even Joseph and Elizabeth Farah of WorldNetDaily.

What we will try to do at this conference is to call people to arms, to give them the good news that the New Media represents and to dialogue together about how to harness all this energy and potential to maximize its effectiveness and reach.

Because of the nature of working in cyberspace, this will be the first opportunity for many of us - even the speakers and colleagues who work together on a daily basis - to meet face-to-face and break bread with one another.

Who knows what the outcome of this historic meeting might be? I just have a feeling that it's the beginning of something big.

Are you ready to join the ranks of the New Media revolutionaries? Can you think of an institutional force in our country today that has more potential to promote freedom? Or would you rather sit around and write to your unresponsive congressman?

See you in L.A. ...