September 2nd, 2009, Fairfax, VA— Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today announced the nationwide American Liberty Tour, an outreach effort to organize concerned citizens beginning on September 10th. It is scheduled to stop in 18 cities across twelve states from California to Georgia until October 13th.
Wilson called upon Americans nationwide to join the tour, and “to begin organizing to take back America from the Washington power elite through the establishment of a viable political movement in the defense of liberty, limited government, and free markets.”
“Change will not come from Washington. Change will come in Sacramento, Tallahassee, Atlanta, and elsewhere. Change will come from individual Americans in their communities who are determined to save their nation from an unsustainable, unaccountable Leviathan in Washington,” Wilson declared.
“Rallies are great for venting anger. But anger is not enough. The American people’s best defense is action in their local communities,” Wilson added. “So, the American Liberty Tour will be traveling across the country providing training to individuals. The hard left has been doing this kind of ‘community organizing’ for decades. Now, it’s time to give them a dose of their own medicine.”
The American Liberty Tour is a collaborative project of the American Liberty Alliance, American Majority, Americans for Limited Government and the Sam Adams Alliance, and will feature Adam Bitely (NetRight Nation), Ned Ryun (American Majority), Eric Odom (TaxDayTeaParty.com), Ken Marrero (American Liberty Alliance), Erick Erickson (RedState), “Joe the Plumber”, Lloyd Marcus (The Tea Party Song), and many others.
ALG New Media Coordinator and Director of NetRightNation.com, Adam Bitely, said that the American Liberty Tour “will provide a good venue for people to come out and learn how to become active in their communities, whether it be online, in their local political party organizations and governments, in the streets, and in direct communication with their representatives—all to organize against these government takeovers of every aspect of our lives. Citizen activism is now more critical than ever.”
Bitely said action was the only way the American people could preserve their liberty. “Concerned citizens nationwide must get involved, because right now we have an intrusive, oversized government. But now it’s on the defense, attempting to mask its actions as being representative of the will of the majority of Americans, when it is not,” Bitely added. “It is clear to us that the majority does not like the course and direction that the nation is headed in.”
According to Rasmussen Reports, 60 percent of voters say the country is headed in the wrong direction, with only 34 percent saying it is headed in the right direction.
Eric Odom, co-founder of TaxDayTeaParty.com and President of the American Liberty Alliance said that the tour was designed to bring like-minded citizens together “who are a sick and tired of Washington running the country into the ground, and who are looking for a way to fight back.”
President of American Majority Ned Ryun said, “It is the politicians and bureaucrats who have brought this nation to the brink of financial ruin, devastated our schools, eroded our liberty and property rights, and have rapidly nationalized more and more of the economy. And it is American people who solely have the power to stop this alarming trend. What we want is to empower them to be effective in making those changes that need to be made.”
Wilson agreed, “No national group will save this country. Active citizens in their hometowns will save this country.”
Odom said the numbers were not surprising. “We’re talking about a government that through interventionism has wrecked the economy, and now in response has engaged in the most rapid increase of spending in human history. The American people are concerned that the nation is headed off a precipice.”
Ryun agreed, and said, “Washington thinks that it can centrally plan the economy, health care, education, our savings and spending habits, our retirements—in short, our lives. But it cannot, and the American people realize this, and they are wondering what they can do to stop an unsustainable, out-of-control government.”
Wilson said the tour would send a clear message to Washington, “that the politicians have lost the consent of the governed. That it is not the government that rules the people, but that it is the people who run the government.”
Interview Availability: Please contact Alex Rosenwald at (703)383-0880 or at arosenwald@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.
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