Wear Your Snake On Your Sleeve!
by
The New Sons and Daughters of Liberty
As expressed in our Mission Statement and The Symbol Statement, the immediate goal of UniteOrDieCafe.com is to overcome the extreme difficulty of uniting so many different groups and assemblies as to the most speedy and effectual measures for the common defense of the values upon which our nation was founded. While the challenges and threats facing the nation in the 21st Century are many, ranging from fiscal and financial to national security, health care and unemployment, the most immediate challenge we face is uniting behind those candidates that are pragmatic problem solvers and at the same time committed to the defense of the core values expressed in the Founding Documents of our country.1 As a part of this effort, we respectfully offer Unite Or Die, Again!, as a unifying symbol/battle flag, under which we will march to victory in 2012.
UniteOrDieCafé.com believes that the current drift of the country toward collectivism, arbitrariness and the arrogance of big government is the primary drag on our economy and poses one of the greatest threats to individual liberty in the history of our country. We believe that the vast majority of the citizens of the United States are ready to unite under a banner that symbolizes what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the opening lines in the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Can anyone, other than a radical collectivist ideologue deny that centralized planning by an omnipotent omniscient government is utterly inconsistent and out of keeping with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Can anyone other than a radical collectivist ideologue deny that the unchecked, coercive and invasive power of the State over how we live and work is the greatest threat to liberty, creativity and enterprise every devised by the mind of man? The collectivists movements of the 20th Century prove beyond any reasonable doubt this is true.2
There is only one thing that can synthesize the complexity and diversity of human experience into a unified vision; and that is, an ability to see a shared vision of destiny in a symbol. Unity behind symbolism can be the difference between the success or failure of a movement. The Unite Or Die, Again! symbol, derived from Dr. Benjamin Franklin, is as apt today as it was symbolic of the words he wrote in 1775:
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security.”
Wear your snake on your sleeve! Unite or Die, Again!3
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