It appears that most major media outlets, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gibbs and even President Obama are using the tactic of ignoring the squeaky wheels, hoping they will just go away. What they don't understand, is that is the very reason we are angry. President Bush ignored us. Conservatives in Congress and in the Senate ignored us, and still are. Majority of those in current power at local, state, and federal levels are ignoring us, regardless of your political party.
We want the excessive government spending to STOP.
We want the expansion of the federal government to STOP.
We want the passing of un-read legislation because "we don't have time" to STOP.
We want the labeling of those who disagree with the current administration as racist, extremist, radicals, to STOP.
We want our representatives, whether elected or appointed, held to the same legal standard as the rest of us law-abiding citizens. (especially tax code)
The similarities between our goals and those of the colonists who threw tea into the Boston Harbor are apparent. Charles Townshend of the House of Commons, a.k.a. the Barney Frank of colonial times, explained "Why shouldn't the Americans -- children planted by our care, nourished by our indulgence, pay off England's debt?" The logic of the government spending without respect to the people they represent is a universal and timeless practice. And I agree fully with Supreme Court Justice John Marshal when he said, "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." The tea parties were attended by people who are fearful that all levels of government are spending outrageously which gives them the ability to tax us without limits in the future.
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Thank you! The Media has been ALL wrong in their coverage about what these tea parties are all about. They aren't even completely about the original Boston Tea Party, they are soooo much more than that. I honestly think that they are just as fearful of these tea parties as the conservative base is fearful of Obama. Otherwise, why would they be reporting on them the way that they are?
Our Constitution and our Founding Fathers are nothing to be ashamed of. They are brilliant men who were inspired to bring forth the constitution and establish this land. The further we part from the constitution, the further we drift from, what I believe, the Lord intended for this land to be. I think that the American people are so uneducated about our founding fathers and what they went through and what they studied to write the Constitution. I have really enjoyed learning about them more and more and I am coming to understand that we are way off track and that we really really desperately need to honor them by fighting to uphold what they established.
One more thing to add, I have not heard of one incident of tea-partiers, no violence, no property damage, no vandalism, no confrontations. And you know the media would have jumped all over that! It must be mind-blowing for them to know that hundreds of thousands of gun-carrying, 2nd amendment loving, back-woods, uneducated hicks can assemble peacefully and respectfully. But then it is patriotic and comparable to the Civil Rights movement for those posslbe thousand or so, who opposed Prop. 8, to accost religious worshippers, deface private property, and shut down major roadways for their marches? I don't get the double standard.
The other thing that bugged me about the media, which is to be expected, is how they highlighted the people carrying the radical signs. Obviously there are going to be a few people with twisted minds there, but that certainly didn't represent the majority of the attendees. But even those with the radical signs were peaceful in their actions, again, no violence.
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