StrikeBack2010.com

 StrikeBack2010

“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
        -Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748

We are a for-profit small business.  Contrary to what some would have us feel…we find no shame in this.  These people, such as our President, many in Congress including the leadership, and any number of “grass roots” socialist instigator organizations would have you believe that profit is bad, that capitalism is evil…as opposed to what? With the alternative of what? Sorry, we don’t buy into that.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
        -often attributed to Edmund Burke, circa 1770

We are “for-profit”, but we also choose to do what we believe. We believe that America is approaching a pivot point in her history, a fulcrum, a forking in the path.  We believe that the path our leadership is trying to send us down will inexorably result in our great nation diminishing into the fog of history.  We believe that the only way they can succeed is if good men and women do nothing.

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
        -Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government
          the Constitutional Convention created, 1787

The other path that we as a civilization can choose to take is to reaffirm the notion of  Individual Liberty, and the Rule of Law not debased and perverted by those who would subvert it to the benefit of their own personal power.  This is the path we choose.  We do not force this path upon others, but we will not permit others to choose ours for us!

“A nation under a well regulated government should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.” 
        -Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792

We feel that we can do some good here; we’ve given it a hard think.  We choose to provoke some thought by putting some ink on some tee shirts.  Maybe you will get asked about what you are wearing.  Maybe it will be a conversation starter, the beginning of a rational exchange of ideas.  Maybe you will get the opening you need to wake somebody up; to get someone to look up a web site…read a book…study some history…write their representatives in Congress…and take responsibility for where our country is headed!

“Independence forever.”
        -John Adams, last public words, July 4, 1826

We hope you enjoy the results of our efforts.  We hope that in a small way that we can aid in waking up our fellow citizens to what is becoming of our system.  Our family-run business makes a little money for us and ours, and pays what is due to the artists who have consented to let us share their work.  We shall also use a portion of our profit to support selected political candidates in ousting incumbents who have failed us. We do not subscribe to a particular party.  Rather, we vote with our wallet as well as our ballot for the man or woman and what they hold to. We shall also use a portion of our profit to support information campaigns, bringing real information and dialogue regarding America’s issues to the people who actually hold the power in our form of government…We the People.

StrikeBack2010: Take Back Your Republic!

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