| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Don't confuse dissent with disloyalty. |
