Today--April 15, 2009--will go down as a very important day in American history. For the first time in a very, very long time, a sincerely grassroots populist movement has begun to take shape in a truly substantial, sustainable, and tangible way. Today, people across the country showed up in droves in all major and even many minor cities to protest the continued oligarchic control of what is supposed to be their democratic republic by a private, supranational financial elite. Finally. We would do well as analysts and thinkers to recognize that this is precisely what the movement we are witnessing is all about--i.e., the peoples' desire for control over their own sovereign nation vs. an international financial and corporate oligarchy which, over the past several decades, has managed to wrestle that control away from them, plain and simple. For ultimately, it is this exact clash, many years in the making, having at last begun to reach a tipping point that we are now seeing start to express itself in the streets.

While the so called right wing mainstream republican pundits and politicians have attempted to co-opt the movement, claim it as their own, and hijack its momentum in a strange ploy to try and reunify and reignite interest in their own failing party, the so called left wing mainstream democratic pundits and politicians have attempted to delegitimize it by voicing a false opposition to what they are manipulatively calling a conservative movement. Both parties, naturally, are trying with all their might to drag the increasingly visible and politically threatening wave of populist sentiment back into the confines of the traditional left wing-right wing paradigm. However, the mainstay of the movement is independent of any party whatsoever, and the public knows it.

Welcome to real grassroots America--populism in action. The corporately owned avenues of information transfer are quickly becoming unable to downplay the significance of the truly autonomous, officially unsponsored nature of the movement underway. Any coverage, after all, of the actual events today has inevitably depicted crowds of outraged citizens holding signs and banners that voice a particular brand of popluar solidarity largely void of any particular partisan sentiment--"Don't Tread On Me!" "End The Fed!" "State Sovereignty!" "Socialism Kills!" "You Work For Us!" "No Bailouts For Banksters!" "Congress Is Stealing Our Money!" "Stop Playing Monoply!" "Tea Parties Today, Tar And Feathers Tomorrow!" "Investigate 9/11!" and on and on.

While, on the surface, the varying themes appearing on these banners may seem rag-tag and dissonant, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that they are just that--variations on a theme. That theme? Unconstitutional--and therefore--criminal government. What's a propagandist, false left-right spin machine to do with such a blatant affront to traditional, run-of-the-mill, subsidized mainstream media talking points? All of these battle cries can be justifiably applied to every presidential administration in recent memory--not just this one. Whether they've been Republican or Democratic, Liberal or Conservative, all contemporary administrations have been almost entirely financed and controlled by supranational corporations and banking interests--and the folks so vocally expressing their popular voices at these protests today are well aware of that fact.

Contrary to supposed reports of 'mainstream conservative' conceptualization and funding of the events, the tax rebellion concept, itself, was begun a couple of years ago as an offshoot of the nonpartisan 9/11 Truth Movement. Now, however-- with the emergence of the economic crisis coupled with both the blatant disregard for public opinion shown via passage of the TARP legislation on the part of BOTH the G.W. Bush and B.H. Obama administrations and an exponentially growing state sovereignty movement featuring 9th and 10th amendment legislation either already passed or pending in at least 30 of the 50 states--participation in the revolts has suddenly swelled and, ironically, thrust even previously marginalized movements like the very 9/11 Truth out of which they originally sprung into the forefront of the American collective consciousness.

In the wake of this burgeoning and interwoven mass movement, let us hope that the peoples' voices are heard and heeded by the congressional, judicial, and legislative branches of our government and--even more importantly--by the supranational financial interests which have enjoyed a fascistic economic stranglehold on all three for far, FAR too long. Let us hope, indeed, that we are not denied, ignored, or violently opposed, and that dangerous attmepts to oppress and suppress popular expression are not made. For, after what we have witnessed today, we are finally beginning to understand that anything is possible from here, and that some things which would have seemed likely in the past are looking far less likely now. What is unlikely is that the effort to co-opt the movement will succeed or that the grassroots populism driving the rallies is going to be easily duped into giving its momentum away to political enemies who smile lovingly and spout soaring rhetoric whilst pretending to be friends. What is unlikely is that we will forget the sting of such betrayals anytime soon. What is unlikely, at the end of this day, is that the newly mobilized popular political awareness and spirit of activism blossoming in its name is simply going to "fizzle out."

A critical mistake has been made, and it may prove fatal to the unconstitutional oligarchic establisment presently in power:

1) The people have been led to believe that they have a VERY powerful voice, an unparalleled influence over who represents them and what policy is set by those representatives, and a mandate to see to it that those policies are enacted in accordance with the one and only authority which guarantees government in the peoples' best interest--the U.S. Constitution.

2) The same politicians who reinvigorated popular empowerment according to these ideals have visibly begun to betray the very same principles.

The first chord still rings throughout the populace--in fact, even more loudy now than before--while the second simply serves to agitate and foment the first, creating a veritible feedback loop which is serving to both perpetually amplify existing discontent with an unconstitutional and privately ruled government and to further galvanize popular solidarity via opposition to it.

Many things are now possible: a massive intellectual revolution is possible. A sound and orderly reclaimation of the country by its people and a return to the constitution as their guiding principles is possible. The election of a third party candidate in the next cycle is possible. A peaceful handover of power by the international oligarchs to the sovereign citizens of a once again sovereign nation is possible. A reactionary and unprecedented expansion of the oppressive state control grid in order to counter the momentum of popular sentiment is possible. A second Civil War is possible. That Obama really does end up playing the role of Lincoln IS POSSIBLE. After today, in fact, anything is possible.

So where do we go from here? We, the people, wait and we watch. We continue to speak and act according to our hearts, we continue to mobilize and empower ourselves to govern OURSELVES in accordance with our own best interests, we continue working toward that ultimate goal bearing wisdom always in mind, and we do not waver.