William Collier AFN

There is something surreal about seeing Edwin Meese, John Stoseel and many of the people I grew up listening to, and admiring, a few feet from my table but some of the heavy lifters in the freedom movement, fighters from days or yore who are still engaegd in the fight, showed up at this conference to remind us of one simple thing: after we have climbed a mountain, next come more mountains.

We are always clinmbing moutnains because freedom is always being assaulted by the forces of big government and a planned economy: monarchists, communists, socialists, and community organizers from ACORN are all “of a peice” and every victory over every mountain brings us to the next mountain.

What I am thinking now, and I will talk about more, is the idea that being a citizen activist is actually what it means to be a citizen. In other words, the bard for “normal” citizenship should be set higher, the “normal” citizen should purposefyully make sure theya re well informed, should purposefully communicate with their elected rfepresentatives and their media, and should always be talking to friends, family, and neighbors about public policy issues and political candidates.

Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for freedom and in concrete terms, this means being well informed by seeking accurate information, knowing what we beleive and why, reading and re-reading the declaraiton of independence and the constitution to make sure our leaders OBEY them, and constantly communicating to our leaders, our media, and to one another about these issues.

The mountain we climbed for the cause of freedom in the Reagan Revolution has presented us with another mountain, the neeed for a new revolution in which “we are al Reagans” and after we win this next round against the Socialist squirrels we will have to go right back, the very next day, and, well, we will have to climb yet ANOTHER mountain@

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