April 2010
5 posts
We the Tea Party Patriots: a Manifesto
Mission Statement: We the Tea Party Patriots are here to bring the common people of the United States together supporting limited government and free markets. Our mission is to branch out, bring forth, and gather all citizens who want to secure our Constitutional rights.
Core Values:
1. Grassroots political party: Return to the roots of our founding fathers who wrote the constitution for...
Las Cruces Tea Party on Twitter!
Tea Party Twitter
Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or... →
thedailydan:
Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.
The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.
The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls...
Don't Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty
What a difference a few years makes. Back during the Bush era there was harsh criticism of the anti-Iraq war protestors as being disloyal to the USA.
Protestors retorted "don't confuse dissent with disloyalty". They claimed to be patriotic Americans who loved their country but were against the war. As an aside, most were white as I recall.
Fast forward to the current day, and there is a growing angry group of dissenters known as the TEA Party, a loosely affiliated group who believes the US government is over taxing and over spending.
They have become the focus of much vitriol in the left wing and the media. They have been made fun of, branded as racists and accused of being disloyal.
Even though there are a few nuts in the group, just as there are in any group, the TEA Party is made up mostly of ordinary Americans who have become fearful of their government. They are exercising their rights to protest, and they have done so peacefully, if noisily.
Is there an echo in here? Funny how so many of the anti- Iraq war crowd forgot the righteousness of demonstrating for a cause, unless of course it is theirs.
So next time you make a derisive comment of call a TEA Party member a term that is a sexual innuendo, or worse unpatriotic or disloyal, try to remember that it was you just a few short years ago in the same spot.
Don't confuse dissent with disloyalty.