A national tour tied to the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States is making a stop in Greensboro on Saturday, April 25, bringing a slate of political figures, media personalities and grassroots advocates to the city for an afternoon event at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.
The free event, scheduled from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, is being hosted by Americans for Prosperity along with The LIBRE Initiative and Concerned Veterans for America, and is part of what organizers describe as a nationwide “One Small Step Initiative.”
According to event materials, the Greensboro stop is the fourth in a series of 12 events planned across the country, all designed to build momentum toward the nation’s semi-quincentennial in 2026.
The event is being billed as a mix of speeches, networking and civic engagement opportunities, with organizers promising “powerful conversations” about the country’s founding principles and its future, along with what they call “interactive opportunities” for attendees to make their own commitments to civic involvement.
A number of high-profile Republican elected officials and conservative media figures are scheduled to appear.
Among those listed as participants are US Sen. Ted Budd, US Reps. Brad Knott, Pat Harrigan and Addison McDowell, along with North Carolina Labor Commissioner Luke Farley, State Auditor Dave Boliek and State Treasurer Brad Briner.
Media personalities scheduled to attend include Trish Regan and Guy Benson.
Organizers say the event is intended to celebrate “the spirit of courage, self-determination, and the belief that one small step can change the future,” while also encouraging attendees to take part in civic activity in their own communities.
Advance registration is required, although the event itself is free and open to families.
With the country’s 250th anniversary less than a year away, Greensboro is now one of several cities being used as a staging ground for what organizers hope will be a broader national conversation about the country’s past and future – and, at least for a few hours Saturday afternoon, the Coliseum Complex will serve as the local backdrop for that effort.
Those wishing to attend can go to the following link:
God Bless Amurica
Citizens of the United States of America (legal and illegal)
‘I, Alan Dean Marshall, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
This, IMO, is a lifetime oath once taken.
(And I’m still an Infantry Paratrooper…I’m just currently not on jump status right now)
howbout it’s Amendments ? future Amendments ? future ‘deletions’ ? ‘founding fathers had the freedom to create something new. ‘Constitutionalists’ deny that ‘freedom’ by demanding adherence to constitution ‘scripture’. the strength of our constitution is in our ability to change it
What is an illegal citizen of the United States?
So with this oath you seem more than happy to support the current administration as it ignores individual rights granted by the constitution, ignores international law by attacking a cointry who posed no imminent threat, continually oversteps executive authority, etc….
Smells bit like that oath only matters if ‘your guy’ is viollating the constitution to feed your biases and distrust of immigrants, low income people and liberals.
But you be you.
Alan,we both know that it’s ‘
Please don’t let this closet socialist parrot press your buttons via innuendo, altered facts, and flat out lies.
I know this doesn’t hold as much importance to those like him as it does to us and others like us, but it’s ‘people’ like him that are attempting to slowly take down our Representative Republic turn it into their idea of a Democracy then a Socialist regime.
President Reagan was right when he said we are jut one generation away from ruin. This National Anniversary is THE opportunity to make a reset and get back what we once had.
People who are ‘illegal’ by definition can’t be citizens. Was just curious what is meant by the term as it is illogical on its face.
How do you define Socialist Regime? Is social security socialist? Is Medicare socialist? Government regulations socialist? SNAP? Medicaid?
Last I checked socialism was based on the idea of Public/Social ownership, which I have never seen the democrats champion as a party? Are you maybe you are confusing Socialist Regime with what most political scientists refer to as a Mix Economy? or Social Democracy? That tends to be the scare tactic used by right wing provocateurs but clearly has not actual basis of fact that I have ever seen. Some with the false labels of Marxist etc… Just more if the divisive words used to scare up the conservative base to hate the opposition. Is that you?
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It’s Marxism (or Communism) that demands state ownership of the means of production. And that’s STATE ownership – not “Public Ownership”. This is one of the Left’s biggest lies; that the people own whatever the government possesses. No, the Government owns it all.
I don’t own a single brick of any “Public” building – the government does.
Socialism is the incremental advancement of Marxism through peaceful, democratic means, rather than through violent revolution.
The result is the same.
Give the Devil his due, the Left’s “Long march through the institutions” has been spectacularly successful in some Western countries. That quotation is essentially an alternative definition of socialism. The UK for example, has become a totalitarian socialist state.
Elements in the US are trying to do the same here.
The actual definition of socialism by Merriam-Webster:
Socialism is an economic and political system based on public or collective ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods, aiming for greater equality. It emphasizes cooperation over competition, with central or local governments managing resources. Key elements include social welfare, wealth redistribution, and, in some forms, worker control of industries.
Key Aspects of Socialism
Ownership: Means of production (factories, farms, banks) are owned by the state or collectively by workers, rather than private individuals.
Distribution: Resources are distributed based on public need rather than for-profit motives.
Economic Planning: Centralized or localized planning is often used to manage production, distribution, and consumption.
Goal: To reduce class disparities, eliminate poverty, and provide equal access to
Social Democracy has no interest in state ownership of industry or production or the redistribution of wealth. It also only promotes equity…versus strict equality. Hence it is social democracy versus socialism.
I understand how the conservatives enjoy twisting the objectives of democrats and use scary sounding words such as Marxism, Socialists, National Socialist Party, etc… but it requires willful ignorance to believe those as accurate labels of what the party actually standard for in its vision for a better America.
(yes, many on the left do the same thing with labeling conservative nazis, fascists, etc….)
But you be you
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And how, exactly, have I twisted words?
Everything I posited is correct.
“That quotation is essentially an alternative definition of socialism. The UK for example, has become a totalitarian socialist state.
Elements in the US are trying to do the same here.”
This is the portion that is opinionated and that I strongly disagree with……
The US and UK are capitalist democracies with mixed economies as the economic engines are driven by private ownership and market competition.
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You might disagree with those sentiments, but that does not equate to twisting the meaning of the words used.
I didn’t twist anything. You claimed them facts when they are nothing more than opinion. I disagreed and made a counter statement to voice my disagreement using the actual definition of socialist.
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Your statements are so confused and poorly stated that it’s hard to argue against them, for the simple reason that t’s hard to determine exactly what you’re saying.
Such imprecision would have brought a detention after school in my Grammar School (and a slap across the head).
Try to express yourself more clearly… “Professor”. You seem rather stupid for a Professor.
You are right, “illegal citizen” is an oxymoron. Probably a typo, just as my junk.
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I’m thankful to be living in the America, and relieved that my sons enjoy that privilege.
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A young British man about the same age as my sons was relaxing and taking in the view of London on Primrose Hill when he was attacked by four “New Britons”. Messrs Boateng, Ogunyankinnu, Bidace, and Abdulqadir used their knives to murder him in a barbaric frenzied assault.
Say a prayer, if you will, for the soul of Finbar Sullivan, aged just 21, and to mitigate the grief of his family.
And don’t ask me to “celebrate diversity”.
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Thank God my sons don’t live in Britain. Thank God I got out.
We may have to get out, again.
Got lots of cash? Try Switzerland. Like it cold most of the time? Try Iceland.
….because of immigration. Don’t leave that part out.
Hey professor, what if that happened to your children?
What BS would you come up with?
I would act the exact same way as if a US citizen did this to anyone in my family. People from every culture and race are capable of awful acts of violence. The key is that I don’t try to define or smear an entire class of people by a single bad actor. Do you?
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Because of immigration.
professor/Cxxxxxxxx X Rxxx/Chris/Polly Pocket/Sybil/whatever,
Don’t you mean LEGAL immigration? Don’t leave that part out.
What a significant anniversary! I am proud to live in a country that has continued to exist this far. I will be bringing my grandkiddos out to Fun on the Fourth come July.
too many people are ‘de existing’ in order to create ‘country’ (guvmnt). every border between neighbors, counties, cultures states countries are friction points. ask any judge lawyer counselor. talk 2 an indian
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My race of people were the first significant presence in the island of Great Britain, but we suffered massive illegal immigration by Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Vikings, Danes, Huns, and Normans.
So, are all those people – now called English – living on “stolen land”?
Or is it the case that the Brythonic Celts were simply outnumbered and overwhelmed by newcomers, so lost their land?
Even now the Welsh and Cornish constitute only around 5 per cent of the UK’s population.
King Arthur must be turning in his grave.
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Britain has that name because of us, the Ancient Britons or Brythons.
have you read guns germs and steel the book by jared diamond
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No.
i did excellent . during one great britain plague, average longevity was 24 years. as trade routes spread goods & knowledge it also spread our genetics & disease. christianity stressed suffering to enter heaven & inflicted it with depraved cruelty with scripture in hand, jesus on lips
it is a good book i recommend it. it is highly relevant to the points you brought up in your reply
that ‘massive’ mix is why/how we now ‘suffered’ u
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I don’t think so, Markl. And Ancestry.com says I’m 100 per cent Southwest Wales in my DNA.
I didn’t think they’d ever say anyone was 100% anything, but they finally did with me (initially said 97%).
My people (Cymraeg) never needed the Teutonic hordes, although I admit that our island needed more people 1300 years ago.
add spanish survivors of the failed spanish armada attack on the british isles – the ‘black irish’ ? moors ?