I read a blog in reference to the 2 Million Bikers to DC that observed the fact that a “Sleeping Giant has awoken,” and I totally agree with that. I am sure that many of those who participated in this ride to Washington know that they were involved in something extraordinary – but I feel many won’t realise that what they did is also very “significant” – quite a different thing - and there will be a range of interests groups that might try to claim that significance as representing them and their opinions. I hope you have paused to think about what this means. There needs to be a thoughtful and savvy group of you to represent where this might go – because it is going to go somewhere – and that will need to be nurtured with great care and wisdom.
If you were a biker that rode to Washington, you would have revelled in the spectacle of riding with your compatriots and the roar of engines – but your perspective would have been from your immediate surroundings – the bikes in front and the bikes behind – your buddies riding beside you - the roar of engines – the passing landscape. You would have got a glimpse – and I say only a glimpse - of the involvement and approval of a very wide range of people waving from overpasses and on the sides of the road, blowing horns and waving flags.
2 Million Bikers to DC s was actually very much bigger than that.
This rally was seen around the world in an unprecedented way. Let me reiterate the word “unprecedented” because people trying to make a point often use it loosely. Unprecedented – without precedent. Nothing like this has ever happened before. An interest group, (Yep – the bikers,) that often makes people nervous, stood up, took action and did it in a extraordinarily dramatic way to support what so many people all over the world have been thinking and feeling about their freedom and their future. Millions – yes millions – world-wide - were watching, and that Facebook page was the portal – because all the global media had tried to shut you down.
Hail to the people behind that Facebook page and hail to the bikers who got up – took the time off work – gassed up the bike and rode all that way despite there being no permit. . ! And I have to say that here in the bottom of the world in New Zealand where I come from, the Media have ignored it completely and it has appeared – NOWHERE - except Facebook.
All this is goes to the reason why I believe you were ignored by the media – at first they thought it was a joke - and that as a lobby group Bikers would be uncoordinated, ineffectual and ignored – then they thought it was all talk and would never happen – then if it did happen it would be a fizzer alongside the Million Muslim March because that’s the way your country is leaning – then as it began to unfold – they where caught flat footed and completely taken aback – it was unprecedented – Unprecedented! They had nothing to measure it by but they could quickly see it was a “Movement” that was more than just a bunch of annoying bikers riding past them on the highway.
It was display of power that could turn up anywhere and be HEARD. And you can bet it was heard loudly in the corridors of power in Washington and in mosques around the world – you have served them notice on behalf of all of us civilised folk in a dozen different countries.
It also went completely against the current Media and government line – that of appeasing Islam. You can say you did it out of respect for those who died on 911 and in Middle Eastern wars and in other terrorist attacks – and that was true of course – because hundreds of millions of us world wide carry the pain and anger of that just like you do. The attack on the Twin Towers was not just an attack on New York and the USA – it was an attack on Western Civilisation and culture, and that is not solely owned by America. I think the unintended consequence of this rally of yours was that the world saw it as the first time we as a (global western) civilised society, decided that we had had enough of the appeasement of the barbarism of Islam. It was the first time anyone had stood up and said ENOUGH! I can tell you - ordinary people never expected “Civilisation” to be best represented by bikers. Many just think of you as “Outlaws.”
So you guys thought it was an American thing – we, (I believe) around the world, thought it was the first time anything sensible and reassuring has emerged from American popular culture and politics for a long time. We all want to be part of it and are so lifted by it.
So I believe also in homes all over the USA and the Western World there will be people who are slowly learning about this, and I am sure they will see it the same way as those of us who found it on facebook. The politically correct got a message of what is just around the corner. Good and ordinary people everywhere see Islam as a terrible threat to civilisation and are ready to step up and stand behind a lobby group with both balls and the ability to project their opinion and their power.
The pushers of Islamic ideas have been all over your government with the help of Obama pushing their agenda very successfully and now Washington is infested with people appointed by Obama who hate the American way.
You have picked a scab in the fabric of Western Society that has to be eviscerated.
Be proud.
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