III: How the world defines the III depends on YOU

Brock and Bonnie Gadsden both linked to this post, and I commend you all to read it, and the subsequent reasons offered in separate posts.

It is an offering of the reasons one Patriot is moving to Idaho as part of the III Pioneer Project.

Jim made a statement the other day while engaging MBV that made me think. Jim thanked Mike for offering the III Community a clear choice of visions for the future of the Liberty Movement, particularly the III.

That brings me back to the post above, Patriotism, Liberty, and most importantly, the III as an entity.

I define a III Patriot very simply: If you would have walked to the Green in Lexington and stood shoulder to shoulder with John Parker, you are a III Patriot.

Let us remember one very important aspect of John Parker's reason for being on the Green. John Parker did not go to the Green to kill RedCoats who were marching toward him. He went to the Green to protect those he loved behind him.

That is an act of Love, an act of preservation, not an act of destruction. Remember John Parker's quote: Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

Is the III a force of destruction? Or are we a collection of Patriots determined to preserve Liberty, and fight only if that fight is pressed upon us?

The III must evolve beyond this dual and conflicted identity so that when new Americans find us, they find III Patriots like you and me, Patriots who wish to be left alone at Liberty, rather than that other definition, the III of hyperbole and threats (that never get carried out, by the way) and destruction.

I am a III Patriot. I choose for the world to see me as an American who chooses to put his energy and skills into building and stregthening Liberty. The world will judge each of us by our actions and deeds, not what others may say about us.

It is up to each one of you to help define what the III is for the world when they look at us, when they find us on the internet. Will they find a group of Patriots who choose to build and produce, ready to defend Liberty, or will they find something less attractive?

Each and every Patriot who considers himself a III will help contribute to this definition of who we are.

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

Think about it.

Kerodin
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