"The sleeper has awakened..the American Worker is questioning the legitimacy of his government and has realized..that....

"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing". Our current Government exists but by our will as long as it represents us..."

DUNE

"Remember Wisconsin in 2012!

Remember Pearl Harbor!

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor:

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

The American People have been attacked again by the wealthy. They've extracted as much as they could from workers over the last decade, but now demand more. Make no mistake. This is a Class War.

The right to collectively bargain is at stake. Workers have woken up and now draw a line in the sand over collective bargaining rights. The wealthy and GOP would do best to back down now.

This is a war they can't win.

Americans have said little as they realized over the decades that the wealthy extracted their pound of flesh from the middle class. With each concession, the wealthy became more emboldened.

The wealthy have mistaken the American worker's generosity for a weakness. It is not.

The legitimacy of a government and the laws it forms rests entirely in the hands of the governed as to their willingness to accept the laws.

The GOP has crossed the line and workers are questioning the legitimacy of their governance.

There were "Tories" that sided with the English during this country's first "Revolutionary War". Those Tories, exist today. They stand with the GOP and the rich.

The "Patriots" and workers of America stand with the Democrats. Will the Democrats again stand with American workers?

The line of demarcation is as clear now as it was in 1775. Choices needed to be made then as choices again need to be made.

You are either with the American workers or you are against them. What say you? On whose side do you stand?

"Today the battle-scarred, submerged remains of the battleship USS Arizona rest on the silt of Pearl Harbor, just as they settled on December 7, 1941.

The ship was one of many casualties from the deadly surprise attack by the Japanese on a quiet Sunday that President Franklin Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy."

The Arizona's burning bridge and listing mast and superstructure were photographed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack, and news of her sinking was emblazoned on the front page of newspapers across the land.

Indelibly impressed into the national memory, the image of the Arizona could be recalled by most Americans when they heard the battle cry, "Remember Pearl Harbor."

A new image should be indelibly impressed in all American worker's minds- that of thousands of Americans standing in Wisconsin's Capitol, Ohio, and across this country demanding that their rights to collectively bargain weren't taken away.

These cries fell on the insensitive, uncaring, deaf ears of the ideologue, GOP Governor, Scott Walker ,who instead listened to his corporate masters, the Koch Brothers.

Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/02/18/koch-brothers-behind-wisconsin-effort-to-kill-public-unions/

What words should workers remember in 2012?

"Remember Wisconsin." "Remember what the GOP promised to do and what they failed to deliver.

"It's all about jobs", they said as they courted impatient, unemployed, Americas' votes. Americans forgot who took us to this Depression, their failed policies, the lies that took us to Iraq and their fiscal irresponsibility.

They've disregarded everything they ran on, except they did try to repeal ObamaCare-something that will help Americans but hurt corporations.

The GOP tries to take away the Rights the Democrats give us while claiming to be the Party of smaller government, yet big enough to pry into our lives and doctor offices by pushing to eliminate a woman's right to choose.

Yes, they distort the truth about being in favor of smaller government. They are the party of big government, intrusive government in people's lives but not when it comes to holding  corporations accountable.

Remember their lies and also, remember, "Never again".

The GOP no longer represent the people of America. They represent their corporate masters, the slave owners, the robber barons. Remember Wisconsin! Remember America!

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