Over 1,500+ Of You Joined Our Inaugural Telephone Townhall
Last night we took another giant step towards achieving our goal of educating and mobilizing tens of millions of Americans about the threat of Islamofascism. We took another giant step towards building the most formidable grassroots citizen action network in America that will rise in defense against this threat.
Over 1,500 of you joined our inaugural telephone townhall. At least 60 of you called in to ask questions, and we had time to answer close to a dozen of those questions. You heard us discuss the status of our chapter launch — that we now have nearly 2,100 people who want to help start a chapter, with over 300 willing to lead chapters, and that chapter starter packets will be going out within one week. You heard about our plans and strategies for next year, such as…
- The “PC Outrage of the Month†program that we will be rolling out in a few months, which will highlight the most outrageous act of political or media political correctness we can find during that month;
- Our “congressional scorecard†program that will track how Members of the House and Senate vote on issues important to national security and fighting Islamofascism, slated to kick off June, 2008;
- Our grassroots training seminar which will be launched early next spring, through which we will train people how to be effective in grassroots lobbying, writing letters to the editor, campaigning for elective office, and more.
- Our candidate education seminar, which will be offered next year free of charge to elected officials and candidates for office who want to be better educated on the threats posed to our national security by Islamofascism.
So we want to say as enthusiastically as we can — “thank you†all for making this first telephone townhall a big success! Thank you for your commitment and your activism. Thank you for your support. And we extend that thank you to all of you reading this, both those who were on the townhall and those of you who couldn’t participate. Because every action each of you take – whether it’s making a contribution at www.actforamerica.org, or helping to start a chapter, or forwarding emails to your friends, or signing a petition – helps us move forward with projects like this telephone townhall.
We will be doing more telephone townhalls after the first of next year, so if you weren’t able to participate in last night’s townhall, you’ll have other opportunities to be involved in the future.
The one other thing those on the call heard was Brigitte’s inspiring opening welcome message. It is reprinted below.
Brigitte Gabriel’s “Welcome Message†On Our
First-Ever Telephone Townhall
I just want to start by saying I am humbled and honored to be joined with each one of you tonight in this town hall telephone conference. I humbly thank you for your activism, your patriotism, your dedication and your commitment to ACT and ACT for America, to say “enough is enough,†I am going to do something about it. I want to thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. I know you can do a million other important things but you have chosen to join us to make a difference for our country, for our future, for our western democracy, so we may face our children and grandchildren and say I tried everything I can to give you the country my parents gave me.
I am very passionate about protecting America as you all know because I believe America is God’s gift to the universe, America is the shining beacon of light to the world, where freedom reigns, where every individual has the right to be all they can be, to accomplish all they can accomplish without the chains of tyranny and oppression that is prevalent in many countries of the world today.
I remember watching television on 9/11 and laying almost paralyzed in my family room couch from Tuesday the day of the attack till Sunday with tears flowing down my face as if I was reliving the past. I never thought for one second when I left the Middle East that Islam is going to follow me to America to kill and maim in the name of Allah. After I was able to return to functioning and living I decided I must do something. I know what is coming here because I have seen it over there.
Because of my background and the unfortunate circumstances I had lived under I learned to eradicate the word NO out of my vocabulary. I know the power of the individual and the human spirit to triumph against all odds. All we need is hope and the will to persevere regardless of the challenges. Wars are won before you ever go to battle. They are won in our minds. Our resolve is our weapon by which to conquer those who wish us evil.
For those of us who crossed oceans to come to this great land, we know the depth of joy of reaching the promised land America and the agony of tyranny we left behind. This is why I knew that I can mobilize America. I founded ACT and ACT for America because I wanted to educate, motivate, inspire, and network millions of American to come together in the largest grass roots movement this nation has ever seen, to stand up, and stand proud of our country and our values and our heritage. I have found my purpose in life and I intend to fulfill this purpose. I am so fortunate to have people like you who have caught my vision, who are willing to throw political correctness in the garbage and call a spade a spade and bond together in creating lines of defense in our community, our county, our state and our country. We are the first line of defense for our national security.
I just returned from London week before last where I was addressing the British Parliament/House of Commons about the threat of Islam. I spoke as well at a dinner Gala in Park Lane Piccadilly to hundreds of business leaders in London. I got to meet with the locals and speak with them as well. I was shocked to see what has happened to Europe. I knew before I went that Europe was walking dead. However, getting there and seeing it with my eyes was just heartbreaking. People are walking skeletons, afraid of their shadows. I felt as if I was speaking in the Soviet Union and people were so afraid that they are going to be arrested and killed if they opened their mouth and said something. I realized on my way back home, that it is up to us to save the world again. This time we must save ourselves as well in the process. Because the threat of Islamofascism is far more dangerous that any other enemy we have faced before. This time we are dealing with evil people who are developing nuclear weapons and can’t wait to use them against us.
America is not a geographical area only. America is a spirit, the spirit of our founding fathers who came and settled this great land and were willing to do whatever it took to accomplish what they thought was right and good for humanity. We embody that spirit, and it is what makes us different than the rest of the world. We are leadership made of millions, young and old, who are born to be leaders, who are born knowing that we come from great heritage and who are united by a patriotic bond that we wear like a shield against our enemy.
I believe that if the rest of Americans, especially those in the center, if they are educated and informed about what is taking place in our country, they will revolt and rise like a giant. The problem is many people do not know what is taking place because they are not hearing it in the “mainstream media†and they are not listening to talk radio. This is why we must educate others through chapters and local activities to bring awareness about what is happening in our schools, in our communities, in the mosques in our communities and what we can do as citizens to stop our enemy from infiltrating our land.
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ACT for America is an issues advocacy organization dedicated to effectively organizing and mobilizing the most powerful grassroots citizen action network in America, a grassroots network committed to informed and coordinated civic action that will lead to public policies that promote America’s national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam.