The Rifleman  

Let’s start out on a point of agreement.

Even fervent agreement.

YOU are an important person.

Yet, important as you are, you could be MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.

Like, REALLY important.

No, you haven’t been to an Appleseed. Yet.

And that’s the rub.

How do I know you haven’t been to an Appleseed?

Simple, really…

There’s 300 million Americans, and only one in 50,000 approximately has been to an Appleseed.

Not too hard, to figure you are likely one of the no-shows.

Maybe - almost certainly - it’s because you don’t know what Appleseed is.

Likely, in fact, you haven’t even heard of it (we’re trying hard to “get the word out” - but it’s slow, slow without the kind of money you need for a nationwide media blitz).

Yet this little volunteer program not ony has nation-changing potential, it has - from your point of view, what’s more important - personal-changing potential.

Yep, a volunteer program, one which takes a weekend, costs a mere 70 bucks (and for most - women, children, and military - is free), can make a new person of you.

Even, in some cases, give meaning to your life (that’s gotta be a big one) and, at the least, makes a more aware, a more serious, a more thoughtful - you!

For the price of twenty minutes on a shrink’s couch, you can become a new, better, more satisfied, more effective, more worthy person.

In fact, Appleseed can reach beyond you, to your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your family, your friends…even your relatives.

It’s true.

I’ve heard more stories than one about how a parent shows up with a child with whom the relationship is troubled - and in the course of working out the problems and challenges of Appleseed, a barrier is broken, and they leave, talking, communicating, even understanding each other.

Will the wonders of this unique program ever cease?

Seemingly not, as if you ask the people most involved in it, the hard-working volunteers, they’ll tell you right out - for them, Appleseed offers HOPE.

Hope, that things can be changed.

Hope, that the future is not yet written, and we can play a part, a good part, in the writing of it.

Appleseed sends another message, one which is determinative for some volunteers - and may be determinative for you, once you attend. It sends you a message, right then and there, before you leave: that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

That message can be pretty important to you.

People who show up for an Appleseed are likely to be people you don’t run into everyday.

Americans who CARE. Care about what’s coming - for them, for their country, for their kids’ future.

Americans who are CONCERNED about the future. And Americans who aren’t gonna sit passively by, and let that dark future looming before all of us become a reality we may all have to live with - for years, if not decades; for decades, if not indefinitely - but possibly, indefinitely.

Yes, the ship may be sinking now (to use an analogy most Appleseeders use) - but it doesn’t have to sink. It can be stopped, saved, repaired, and made whole again.

But the point is, right now, it’s not being stopped, repaired - and certainly not being made whole, again.

No one is doing anything to fix it.

Yes, a few of us can protest publically - and we’re all better for it - but protest without further action is a fleeting phenomena.

And Appleseed is about permanent change in this country - for at least a generation or more. (Appleseed will try to make the change permanent, by continuing in future generations to teach those generations what they must know in order to meet the standards the founders held for every American.)

Which is why we don’t focus on elections, or getting out the vote, or anything like it.

We focus on the electorate, on making the long-term changes needed to make this country a safe place for Liberty, once again.

That’s why it’s so important for you to come to an Appleseed.

To find out for yourself. Then to, if the program so moves you, pitch in and help.

While you’re at it, ‘get the word out’ to all your family/relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers - and anyone else - about this program.

The future belongs to each of us.

We have the power to change it.

But to do it, each of us has to get off the couch, and make it happen.

There’re way too few people doing that, now.

Don’t you be one of them.

Don’t you be unimportant.

When you can be important…