Courage is Greater than Redress

For background on this posting I highly recommend you read my prior postings here and here.  Anyway, today officially marks the day the Appeal for Courage petition has overtaken the Appeal for Redress petition.  As of this posting Appeal for Courage has had 1,730 signatures compared to Appeal for Redress’s 1,727 signatures.  Courage has overtaken Redress despite Redress being covertly backed by large liberal activist groups and supported by the largest liberal public relations firm in the country, Fenton Communications, which receives George Soros money.  Additionally Redress was formed by a former Amnesty International member who was planted into the military in an effort to create a perception of a "grassroots" uprising within the ranks against the President’s policy in Iraq.

Redress was launched last October before the mid-term elections and due to Fenton Communications it has been featured in past few months in hundreds of newspapers, a CBS News 60 Minutes special, and backed by Yahoo to name a few prominent media supporters.  Despite all of this, Appeal for Courage has overtaken Redress in just 37 days with very little media publicity.  This is a real grassroots effort, much like the Gathering of Eagles this past weekend, that will receive very little media attention despite outnumbering those who the mainstream media is giving all the coverage to.