by Jeremy Schaber

Created on: September 24, 2009   Last Updated: October 03, 2009

When history is written with the event that occurred in Washington DC on September 12th 2009, everyone will ask what it was all about. The large march on Washington DC on September 12th represents a movement that has been growing over time but has only recently shown itself in the form of the people it represents. It has shown itself in the Tea Parties that have sprung up across the nation and the people who have gotten off their couches to be a part of any kind of national movement for the first time. Yet what has gotten those people off their couches in the first place is important to understand.

Before any one can understand what this movement is about it is important to understand what this movement is not about. This movement is not about outrage over the president's race or where he was born, though there are those who are making that an issue. This movement is not about reestablishing the Republican Party as the majority in Congress or even in the White House. This movement is not about outrage over Health Care Reform alone. This movement is not just outrage against future taxes. This movement is about so much more but has been brewing and gathering strength over the years among the American citizens whether they consciously knew it or not.

This movement is filled with people who are tired of being labeled as red, blue, Republican, Democrat, Independent, moderate, conservative or liberal instead of just being called Americans. They have watched as the labels have been used to either redirect arguments away from the issue they want to discuss or even to end the argument altogether with no real resolution. They have watched how political correctness has become so rampant they are afraid to say anything without being called something they are not. These people have reached the point that they will no longer be ruled by these imposed labels or be silenced out of fear of offending someone.

This movement is a reaction to the news media industry that has taken on the appearance of being more partisan than neutral along with losing that investigative edge it once had. The same news industry that made it a personal mission to attack and destroy the Bush Administration has now coddled the Obama Administration no matter what it does publicly and in private. An industry that during this last election seemed more focused on the idea of making history by the election of the first African-American president than asking the necessary questions to determine if this

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