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Watching each other's back is as patriotic as apple pie. That what comrades in arms do. That is what good neighbors do. That is what good friends share.

Too many times this year, the national conservative news media and conservative news media in general has been made the target of unprincipled name callers, because we have asked our own citizens in the United States to stand up for the culture of life, or to preserve the sanctity of the family, and we were ridiculed for it.

So now, when we say it is important to stand up for each other at the border, and we find willing partners in private citizens, I am sure there will be those naysayers who will again, pontificate from the easy chair while they attempt to lead the nation into the comforting darkness of tranquil inaction...only waiting for the moment to point a finger should we witness another attack from terrorists.

It is because of those naysayers that I decided to act and stay involved, when callers from Canada called my conservative News Talk show, "The Kevin Fobbs Show." It was because of conservative news talkers like Sean Hannity who have gotten involved in the issue of protecting our borders that those millions of Americans and Canadians on the border understand they are not alone, and that our fate and our solution are bound together.

News in Action could mean something and conservative Canadians discussed the direction their government was going under the banner of "diversity" and "freedom of speech" as well as some of the many problems they were witnessing in terms of border security, and know that their frustrations could be addressed, and as Chris Simcox had accomplished on the southern American and Mexican border, citizens in Canada would rise up and volunteer to protect and preserve their nation's sovereign borders.

The Canadians who had felt isolated understood the need for an organization which would be able to address many pressing conservative concerns as well as one of their most pressing national concerns -- national security of their porous border. Conservative news talk, which was only a shallow ebb in their national spirit, was now beginning to beat more soundly. Something could be done and something would be accomplished.

Of course there were many in the last several months that would have gladly danced on the failure of this noble patriotic effort. But they were wrong, because these ignoble detractors truly had no value for liberty in their heart or in their spirit. These self appointed judges of political policies could not see that what was emerging in the hearts and spirits of private citizens, businesses and people of faith, was a need to take the politics completely out of the public policies which supported public service and volunteerism that made perfect sense to Americans and Canadians.

These citizens along the American and Canadian border fully understood that preserving the community you live in or the safety of your family was not tied conveniently to a political party. Its bond was the same bond that brought our founding fathers together. It goal was an allegiance to collectively secure urban (and rural) and suburban America's and Canada's safety one neighborhood, one city, one family and one person at a time.

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