Open Letter to Glenn Beck

You Are Hurting The Tax Protests & The Conservative Movement

Glenn – I have now dropped out of your 912 group and out of the now “over-organized” tax protest rallies. Many of my friends and family have done the same. In view of that, I suspect that many others, not personally known to me, probably have done the same.

I believe that you are a sincere person, otherwise I would not bother to share these sentiments with you.

You, a big celebrity, have inserted yourself into (what was) a true and honest grassroots movement. There are a few other celebrities that have done the same. I have met some of the organizers of the tax protests, and they are capable, successful small businessmen and women, mothers, fathers, teachers, truck drivers, doctors, lawyers, stay-at-home Moms and Dads, patriotic citizens all.

In a way, you and your fellow celebrities have, unintentionally I am sure, insulted those organizers by superimposing yourselves into the local movements, which they started. Maybe you thought that they weren’t up to the task, that the movements would lose steam, or that they would fizzle in the end. Maybe they would – but maybe - just maybe they wouldn’t.

The rallies that I attended had a wide range of citizens, with a wide range of interests and complaints. Sprinkled among the “pure” tax protesters were Second Amendment advocates, real civil libertarians (not ACLU types), pro-life advocates, vocal supporters of our military men and women, and many, many others.

These patriots carried a wide variety of protest signs, made by their own hands, not the professionally printed (union label) signs, paid for with Federal tax money, which were carried by the ACORN extortionists through Connecticut. Nonetheless the signs were creative, many were very artistic, and some were just hand printed on cardboard. They all had sentiments, which (in my view) were compatible across the entire conservative spectrum.

Since then, you professionals have moved into the picture, and I hear you and others warning and cajoling us not to have signs that attack Obama, or Pelosi, or Reed, etc. In other words, you are preaching the gospel of political correctness to us. I am sure that you have your reasons. Maybe you think that the Main-Sewer-Media will use those sentiments to try to call us kooks, morons, and revolutionaries. Maybe they will. However, they would do that anyway, even if we just walked down the street with our hands empty and our heads drooping down, staring at the ground quietly, with nothing more than an American flag lapel pin on.