Tea Party protesters are civil, bathed and decent.
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UPDATED: Sunday, April 26, 2009 16:18
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Unlike those ....
I won't even go there.
Props to the folks down at the GA Tea Party, and everywhere, for showing it's not 'anti' OBAMA, but instead Pro Freedom! Left , Right, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, we ALL hold these truths to be self evident...
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
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Right on all points this time , Rap...
Good of you to bring this...
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What the morally bankrupt and corrupt politicians of today need is a good ole' fashioned tarring & feathering. Seeing Pelosi, Dodd, Barney Frank and others run out of Washington under the lashings of a cat-o-nine-tails, then stripped and covered in hot tar, would be the justice they deserve. Colonial rebels in Boston did it to the King's tax agents. Further protestations against domestic tyranny grew to outright insurrection, which was the spark that led to the birth of our nation.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
What the morally bankrupt and corrupt politicians of today need is a good ole' fashioned tarring & feathering. Seeing Pelosi, Dodd, Barney Frank and others run out of Washington under the lashings of a cat-o-nine-tails, then stripped and covered in hot tar, would be the justice they deserve. Colonial rebels in Boston did it to the King's tax agents. Further protestations against domestic tyranny grew to outright insurrection, which was the spark that led to the birth of our nation.
And yet you were oddly silent while the Bush administration put all these policies in place...
You're not so much against tyranny itself - you're just against it when you think it's being imposed upon you from the left. If it comes from the right, you'll GLADLY bend over and take it.
Mike
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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
What the morally bankrupt and corrupt politicians of today need is a good ole' fashioned tarring & feathering...
...Further protestations against domestic tyranny grew to outright insurrection, which was the spark that led to the birth of our nation.
There's plenty of morally bankrupt and corrupt on both sides of the aisle...
Let's not be excludin' people...That'd be rude !
Of the 535 in Congress , probably 530 of them need to be sent a message in the strongest of terms...
And whoever drafted that DHS document referencing emerging 'right-wing extremism' should be among the first in line , right after their 'superiors'...
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Quote:I'm so glad you posted that, because it serves the purpose of pointing out how harmful divisive retoric has become. At the Indianapolis Tea Party yesterday this point was made again and again:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
And yet you were oddly silent while the Bush administration put all these policies in place...
You're not so much against tyranny itself - you're just against it when you think it's being imposed upon you from the left. If it comes from the right, you'll GLADLY bend over and take it.
"You are here because your government has become tryanical. You are as angry at the CURRENT state of tyranny as the PREVIOUS. You are not a 'Republican' or a 'Democrat'. You are an american."
My tea party rally was not absent of democrats. Pleanty of hoosier dems were at my event with their own signs declaring what all of us felt, that taxing the people for one penny more than is needed to run the government is robbery.
I took a great picture with myself (libertarian) standing with a well known local GOP state rep and a Dem activist. We were just one Tea Party of 3000 true, but there were 800 rallies total. And this was REAL BI-PARTISAN GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM. Nowhere in the crowd were people bussed in like the Acorn folks are known to do. These were plumbers, doctors, contractors, farmers, service workers, ect... We were all americans united for 2 hours. Politicans were barred from speaking. And plenty wanted to! This was an event the likes of which has not been seen for a long long time. I was honored to be a small part of mine. Our keynote speaker was the reinactor Thomas Payne. He delivered a wonderful speech about Common Sense. I wish I could explain how awsome his words were to hear, but I don't have to. Listen for yourself:
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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
And yet you were oddly silent while the Bush administration put all these policies in place...
You're not so much against tyranny itself - you're just against it when you think it's being imposed upon you from the left. If it comes from the right, you'll GLADLY bend over and take it.
I'm so glad you posted that, because it serves the purpose of pointing out how harmful divisive retoric has become. At the Indianapolis Tea Party yesterday this point was made again and again:
"You are here because your government has become tryanical. You are as angry at the CURRENT state of tyranny as the PREVIOUS. You are not a "republican" or a "Democrat". You are an american."
My tea party rally was not absent of democrats. Pleanty of hoosier dems were at my event with their own signs declaring what all of us felt, that taxing the people for one penny more than is needed to run the government is robbery.
I took a great picture with myself (libertarian) standing with a well known local GOP state rep and a Dem activist. We were just one Tea Party of 3000 true, but there were 800 rallies total. And this was REAL BI-PARTISAN GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM. Nowhere in the crowd were people bussed in like the Acorn folks are known to do. These were plumbers, doctors, contractors, farmers, service workers, ect... We were all americans united for 2 hours. Politicans were barred from speaking. And plenty wanted to! This was an event the likes of which has not been seen for a long long time. I was honored to be a small part of mine.
Great post! You're wasting your time responding to a hopelessly hateful of Bush victim though. Bush did all sorts of bad things to this poor pathetic whiner. He cannot function on a human level any longer. Everything he thinks and does is all hate-Bush related. It consumes his katra. We're doing a case study on the phenomenon here, with many of his sadly pitiful kindred Bush haters taking part. Some are showing some limited progress, but it doesn't look good for a real recovery any time soon.
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Originally posted by out2theblack:
[Of the 535 in Congress , probably 530 of them need to be sent a message in the strongest of terms...
And whoever drafted that DHS document referencing emerging 'right-wing extremism' should be among the first in line , right after their 'superiors'..
What message would that be? Is Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi going to listen to your message? Best solution is to slip Bill Ayers a C note, and let him blow up the Capitol Bldg. That would send a message the Liberals would just love....their very own chickens come home to roost.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Some are showing some limited progress, but it doesn't look good for a real recovery any time soon.
Sad but true. Even in a best-case-scenario, the damage done by the Bush administration will be with us for decades.
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
We're doing a case study on the phenomenon here, with many of his sadly pitiful kindred Bush haters taking part. Some are showing some limited progress, but it doesn't look good for a real recovery any time soon.
It's very strange to me how I'll have a discussion of a subject & then immediately hear it again from another direction. A main focus of talk amongst Tea Partiers (100's of strangers talking amongst themselves after the event ended) was how EMOTION always clouds REASON. Politically, the extension of that subject has been how angry, seething, bush-hating people cannot let go of the past. Some cannot even come to terms with the fact that everything is different. Totally and radically different. So intense is the anger that there is no true focus to the emotion anymore. It blasts out in all directions in the form of empty divisive retoric. These things have happened before with Nixon, though few of us were alive then to know it. I wasn't.
The important thing for us yesterday was the awareness of going forward, and to stop thinking about what's past. These events are being painted by the press as being "radical right-wing" but if that was true why were there so many "Bush was Terrible" catcalls at mine? If it was right-wing why do I have pictures of proudly desplayed Dem signs? Please listen to Thomas Payne in the youtube vid. He is not partisian. Not at all. And the issues he raise cut right down the center of the polarized retroic. Please attend his words as he repeats again and again the phrase "Your non-Representing Representitives" It's because of him that I now have a new quote:
Tolerance is the virtue of a dying society. -Aristotle
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