Bike Week Freedom Rally: 27/28 February, Daytona Beach
If you’re going to be attending the annual motorcycle gathering in DB, or you live near-enough to the area, why not head over to the Volusia County Fairgrounds, Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 February [the Fairgrounds are located 15 miles West of Daytona Beach, just off Interstate 4 at State Route 44 near DeLand] and join with your fellow Patriots.
From the organizers web site BikeWeekFreedomRally.com:
Our Constitutionally guaranteed Freedoms and Protections are under attack as never before.
The foundation of freedom is limited government. The more government, the less freedom is what history teaches us. This is about AMERICA! We are AMERICA! “We the people” must act to restore and maintain our Free Republic. It is time to Act.
The goals of this event are to promote individual liberty, personal responsibility and to unite Americans through grassroots efforts and organizations. We will unite, educate, and act to affect a positive change in our freedom based, freedom loving, civil society.
We will use focused entertainment and intelligent speakers to cover a wide variety of freedom based topics. Everything from the dangers we are currently facing to focused solutions for fighting back the tide of tyranny will be covered. The use of educational media, seminars, and political activism will be discussed. We need to be energized and proactive like no time since the First American Revolution, which resulted in our radical experiment in limited government and individual liberty.
Our founders warned us about the dangers our republic would face from within through the ever expanding power of the federal government. The warning signs that they were indeed wise are all around us right now. The media is no longer the watchdog of the people, it is the lapdog of the government, so we must do our duty and be our own watchdogs and activists.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights with the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments will be explained and encouraged specifically at this event! To remain free we must hold our Freedom close to our hearts and never forget the price Americans throughout our history have paid to provide this fundamental right to all legal American Citizens! Blood, Courage, Unwavering Commitment, anything and everything, that’s what they gave. What will you do to restore their vision and pass this torch on to our next generation? There is so much to do and time is running out. We the People are in serious danger of losing our basic inalienable rights!
Do not let this happen on our watch. Get engaged and do something, Now!
Come to this Freedom Rally and get Charged up and leave with a new desire to use the ammunition we provide you with to take your country back- “Ride Free, LIVE FREE!”
They’ll be speakers like Retired Lt. Col. Allen West, candidate for the COngress, rock bands, food, comedians, much more — only $5.00 per day admission fee and the parking’s free.
Back in December, Stacy McCain did a profile on Rhonda Lee Welsch, the main organizer for this event. A highlight:
Rhonda Lee Welsch has a vision. “When we go back to Washington next year, there’s going be a lot of Harleys,” the Florida activist said. “And those Harleys make a lot of noise.”
Making noise may not seem like much of a goal to D.C. political strategists, but if thousands of thundering Harleys roll up in front of the White House as part of a national Tea Party march on Washington, Welsch’s vision might make more impact than Beltway wizards imagine.
Like many others now suddenly active in the conservative grassroots, Welsch is a newcomer to politics. A divorced mom who has spent most of her working career in the construction and hospitality industries, she’s been an eyewitness to the devastation wrought by the recent economic collapse. Florida’s unemployment rate is at 11.2 percent, but that official statistic may understate the severity of the downturn.
“Everything’s come to a screeching halt,” Welsch says of construction work for small contractors in coastal Volusia County, where she lives. With business slow, she began paying more attention to politics, and soon found herself actively involved in the Tea Party movement. A breakthrough moment, she says, was when she joined the 9/12 March on D.C. and attended a seminar on organizing led by veteran conservative fundraiser Richard Viguerie.
Welsch returned to Florida and went to work on her vision: Bike Week Freedom Rally, scheduled during late February’s annual motorcycle gathering in Daytona Beach. She’s already booked the Volusia County Fairgrounds for the event, hired a rock band for musical entertainment, and is now in the process of raising more money and arranging speakers.
At a Tea Party last month in Orlando, Welsch handed out flyers promoting the Daytona rally. She sees bikers as a constituency instinctively opposed to big government. “Their motto is ‘Ride Free, Live Free,’” she says, and getting them involved in the political process could make a difference.
Sounds like a good time.
