A Comment About

Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Protests

March 2, 2009 - 2:03 am - by Paul Hsieh
Jenny Hatch
2009-03-02 19:03:54

As the woman who gave the Ayn Rand Speech in Denver, I can assure you that the whole of my message was one of individual liberty. I want to address something that was said above. Someone claimed that it was wise to stay anonymous and keep our heads down during the next four years. As a long time political conservative activist, I believe the most important thing we can do is keep our names attached to our faces at these conservative rallys. I can promise you that I was one hundred percent congnizent of the fact that my political activism could come back to haunt me with an unwanted IRS audit or any other sort of political backlash that the Obama thugs may cook up in the years to come. But I pattern my activism on that of our founding fathers who were also aware when they signed the Declaration of Independance that it could potentially be a death sentence to sign that document. We have to be fearless in this fight, or else our childrens future will be one of servitude and slavery. As a final note, I did not “read” anything during the speech, I gave a brief overview of the life of Ayn Rand, and a short outline of the story of Atlas Shrugged, all from memory, used no notes or texts while I spoke. Some of us don’t have to use a telepromter when we give a political speech.