Dear Lanny Davis,

I read that you wanted us, the people who are protesting the health care take over, cap and trade, and the stimulus (really spending and sharing the wealth with our buddies and allies at the expense of ordinary Americans) plan photographed and investigated. So, your sides bully boy tactics can continue. It is very interesting how outrageous the left can be, destroying property, beating people, blocking access, etc but that is all just genuine grass roots activism. But if someone opposes the left, even with just a few harsh words, you start shouting fascism. No sir. Fascist tactics are what people on your side of the political argument have been doing for years.

I have been involved in Tea Party activities. No one paid me. In fact, to raise money for what we do, such as advertising our protests or our meetings where I live, we literally pass a hat. We are just as angry at squishy Republicans as we are at Leftist Democrats, like you.  So don’t you dare claim this is a political party thing. We will vote for anybody who stands up for the Constitution, as understood by the founders, and tries to maximize American freedom from government control. We stand for the rights of the individual and are very tired of your trying to divide everyone into interest groups. You only divide so you can conquer.

 These are my first protests. Like most of the folks in this movement my time for protesting is limited by the necessity of supporting myself and my family. That is why, if you look closely, you will see that many of the faces in the protests are elderly. We would have thousands more at our protests if we did not have to work for a living. No its your friends at ACORN and the SEIU that pay protestors.

The policies of your friends in Washington have resulted in this backlash that evidently has panicked you. Probably, for the first time in your life you are seeing what a real grassroots movement looks like. We are not Astroturf. That is what you guys do with all that lovely money provided by billionaires like George Soros.   This movement is fueled by genuine frustration with a government that is trying to ram down our throats a socialist agenda that rewards the corporate sponsors of a leftist agenda at our expense. We are studying the Constitution and we are not going to let Leftist lawyers tell us any more that it means something other than what it actually says.

You guys wanted a political revolt to change things but you did not realize it might turn out to be a revolt of ordinary citizens against the Left. That is what you are facing. You have awakened the sleeping giant. The founders are inspiring us from their graves. We are reading their ideas in documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist, the Anti-Federalist Papers, Common Sense, and The American Crisis. We genuinely believe in the principles of the founders of this great nation and we want our country back.

Concerned Citizen, Bill Sumruld