Thread: Time for a Tea Party

Red Eye Skewers MSM Tea Party Coverage!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr02kshCZgA

This is the speech that one of our authors on the BCR blog made at one of the local TEA Parties. I believe this says it ALL. Mickey is big on this little thing called the Constitution.


I just thought that I would share it with all of you.



Tea Party - Somerville, Fayette county, Tennessee - My speech



Thank you Trish, and the tea party committee for inviting me to speak today. It is an honor to be here.


I am glad to see so many people here today. I am especially impressed to see all the young people that are here. I have spoken to many of them and I am amazed at the depth of their knowledge and I am encouraged by their passion for sound government.



The first tea party was to show the tyrannical king of England that we did not like being taxed so heavily and being represented so lightly. We all remember from school, ‘No taxation without representation.’ Please, we advocate only peaceful and lawful protest.


Today’s tea party is not that much different from the first one. Washington is not listening us. Washington ignores us. Washington does not fear us. Today, we want to send Washington a message: We are Fed Up and we are not going to take it anymore.



Our forefathers gave us a Republic form of government. That means Rule by Law. Not rule by tyrants in Washington! Our forefathers gave us the Constitution as our law. We are a Constitutional Republic.



The Constitution does not give Washington the power to do what ever they please. The Constitution limits the Federal government. The Constitution protects our God given Rights from an abusive government. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the Rights of the individual.


The Constitution states exactly what the government is allowed to do, and friends, it is not that many things. The legislative branch, congress, has 20 things listed that they are allowed to do. That’s right, 20. The executive branch, the president, has 6 things listed that he is allowed to do. And there are 14 things listed for the Courts to do. All of these are listed explicitly. Why is our federal government so large? Also listed are things the Federal Government is not allowed to do. There are the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, which most of them start with “the congress SHALL NOT”, “the congress SHALL NOT’, all the way to the that wonderful 10th amendment, which says “if we forgot anything, then you can’t do that either”.



Our leaders in Washington swore an oath to follow the Constitution. Does anyone here believe they are keeping that oath? Our country is 11 TRILLION dollars in debt. Yet our Congressmen are giving Billions away in foreign aid. Is taxing you, the public, in order to send your tax money to other countries in the Constitution? We are 11 Trillion dollars in debt. Yet our Congressmen are giving Billions away to private banks and private industry. Is that in the Constitution?



We have a department of Education. Is the education system today working well? Is government, excuse me, public education listed in the constitution? We have a department of Energy, is energy listed in the constitution? Is transportation, health, housing, or labor listed in the constitution? People, if Washington would follow the constitution, our government would be 20 percent the current size and only 20 percent the current cost. Send a message to Washington. No More unconstitutional spending. No more unconstitutional micro managing of our very lives. No more deprivation of our Liberties.


Washington thinks that if they are not prohibited, then they can do anything. We have been asleep and elected a bunch of self serving politicians. Thomas Jefferson said, “bind men down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”



We, here today, are here, to remind Washington that They have it Backwards.



They work For Us, not Us for them. They are to Protect, not provide.
This tea party today is to let Washington know that we are Not asleep. Law Breakers, I mean Law Makers, You are here by put on Notice. We are Watching you. We may have been asleep when we elected you, but your self-serving inability to follow your oath to these great United States of America, and to the Constitution, has awakened the sleeping giant. And we are mad.
But, in fairness, should we place all the blame on Washington? We elected them? Let me ask you, Just what is the problem in our great nation. What is wrong in America today?


Our national problem is ignorance.


Ignorance is desired, created, and sustained by those we have trusted.
Friends, freedom cannot survive in a Nation of Ignorance. But we here know that a majority of our citizens, us, will act responsibly and vote intelligently when we are correctly informed.



We must build understanding and increase awareness among the American people.


Informed and alerted citizens must be organized and activated as quickly as they can be found and taught.


An active and informed electorate would first bear down on the U.S. House of Representatives, where many of these unconstitutional programs can be stopped, mainly by cutting off the funding for them. By the same means, other unconstitutional and harmful legislation can be blocked, and the disastrous course of our nation can be reversed.


The next objective of an informed electorate would be the U.S. Senate, to restore its role as legislative check on the House.


A constitutionally correct House and Senate would then strip the Court and the executive branch of the unauthorized powers they have assumed.
My fellow Americans, we are at war. The battle is between individualism and collectivism.



The individualist believes that the rights of the individual must not be destroyed by the desires of the collective or the group.


Collectivists believe that the group is more important than the individuals that belong to it, and the individual must be sacrificed, if necessary, for the greater good of the greater number.


The individualist believes that with Rights, come responsibility and since we insist on individual rights, therefore we except the principle of individual responsibility, rather than group responsibility. We believe that every person has a responsibility to provide first for themselves, next for their family, and then for those outside their family who may be in need.
The collectivist on the other hand says that the individual is Not personally responsible for charity or raising their own children or providing for their aging parents or even providing for themselves for that matter. This is a group function of the state or of government itself.


The Individualist wants to be free to do it himself; the collectivist wants the government to do it for him. He believes government can solve all problems. Because government is the One group that can Force everyone to participate. It has the power of taxation backed by jail or the force of arms. Friends, collectivism is Legal Plunder.


Individualist believe in Freedom, collectivist believe in compulsion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are at war. The battle is between morality and amorality.


We want integrity in government. We want honesty in the market place. We want social harmony. These things must be based on morality, they can not be legislated into existence.



True morality is not possible without a firm religious base. True morality is doing what is right just because it is right, and for no other reason.
Religion is indispensable for a nation’s morality and for liberty.


Thomas Jefferson also said, “Resistance To Tyranny Is Obedience To God.”
Let this tea party today, here in Somerville, Fayette county Tennessee, mark the beginning, the beginning of Less Government, More Responsibility, and with God’s Help, a better World.


Thank you

Originally Posted by janelle

YNKYH8R has a point. People taking time off work to protest. I bet if the protest was held on a Saturday when people were off work the turn out would have been three times bigger.

Hard working people may have taken a vacation day to go but a lot of them wouldn't have been able to take any time off.

I know several people who couldn't attend because they were working. I think one on a non holiday Saturday would be interesting.

I enjoyed the one I went to, gave us a chance to take a stand and attempt to be heard. But, no one put their tea in the water (we were near a pond) cause we didn't know if it would hurt the ducks lol So, we had a symbolic dropping of the tea into a barrel.

Content warning. Don’t read any further if you’ve just had a meal and want to keep it down, ok?

This is vulgarian Matt Taibbi: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009...chelle-malkin/

I have to say, I’m really enjoying this whole teabag thing. It’s really inspiring some excellent daydreaming. For one thing, it’s brought together the words teabag and Michelle Malkin for me in a very powerful, thrilling sort of way. Not that I haven’t ever put those two concepts together before, but this is the first time it’s happened while in the process of reading her actual columns.

Previously Michelle Malkin’s writing was on the edge of unreadable; she’s sort of like Ann Coulter, only without that tiny fraction of P.T. Barnum/Mick Jagger-esque self-promotional flair that makes Coulter at least vaguely interesting. When you read Ann Coulter, you know you’re reading someone who would f-ck a hippopotamus if she thought it would boost her Q rating. That’s a rare quality and it commands one’s attention.

Michelle Malkin doesn’t have that. She’s just a mean little dunce who’s wedged herself into a nicely paying career as a GOP spokesclown, and she’s going to ride that gig for as long as it keeps gas in her minivan.

And that’s fine, good for her. But that doesn’t make her readable. However, this move of hers to spearhead the teabag movement really adds an element to her writing that wasn’t there before. Now when I read her stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose.

This is internationally respected, award-winning CNN journalist Anderson Cooper indulging in the same stupid sexual “teabagging” innuendo with respected politico David Gergen...

What is the difference between Taibbi and Cooper?

Taibbi at least had the courage of his sexual predelictions not to hide coyly behind innuendo.

Anderson Cooper doesn’t have the ba…

Never mind.

Does internationally respected, award-winning CNN journalist Anderson Cooper feel any shame in the fact that he dragged David Gergen down with him to get in his cheap shot at hundreds of thousands of Tax Day Tea Party protesters?

250,000 Americans assemble peacefully to protest high taxes, massive spending, and endless bailouts, and all the liberal media can do for a week is recycle each other’s lame teabagging jokes on prime time TV?



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Related: Greg Gutfeld guts Cooper. http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009...chelle-malkin/

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls the Tea Party protesters “despicable.” http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009...es-despicable/ But not a word about the disgusting sexual jokes aimed at Tea Party supporters.

Well, now: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...-husband_x.htm

The husband of an Illinois congresswoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee.

Robert Creamer, a political consultant married to four-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts when he is sentenced Dec. 21.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/16...ibbi/#comments
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Like Diana West said: The death of the grown-up. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...t-house-humor/



House Democrat Leaders: Tea Partiers Are Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts


If the Obama administration has taken flak for suggesting that conservative groups might be home to domestic terrorists, it looks like some House Democrat leaders are willing to go even further: http://www.rollcall.com/news/33987-1.html

But in an interview on Fox TV in San Francisco, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chalked up the GOP grass-roots effort as “AstroTurf.”

“This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it's not really a grass-roots movement. It's AstroTurf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class,” Pelosi said.

Other House Democratic leaders took a different tack: One senior aide has been circulating a document to the media that debunks the effort as one driven by corporate lobbyists and attended by neo-Nazis...

In addition, the tea parties are “not really all about average citizens,” the document continues, saying neo-Nazis, militias, secessionists and racists are attending them. The tea parties are also not peaceful, since reporters in Cincinnati had to seek “police protection” during one of the events, it states.

The suggestions that these tea parties are driven by DC-based groups is laughable; Liz Mair takes a critical look and concludes the charge is baseless. http://lizmair.com/blog.php?Index=452 Besides the points that Mair makes, it's worth noting that while there have been dozens of tea parties, few have featured conservative candidates or representatives of DC think tanks and lobbying groups.

As far as the charge that these rallies are composed of Nazis and terrorists, that's hard to reconcile with the pictures of participants. There are too many young children and grandparents. Further, even a strong Obama supporter like Susan Roesgen didn't turn up any violent types at the Chicago Tea Party, despite her best attempt to provoke a strong reaction.

There probably aren't many Democrats who genuinely believe the charges levied by their leadership. Nate Silver guesstimates that about 250,000 people have attended the tea parties - so far. Do Ms. Pelosi and other Democrat leaders think they're all neo-nazis?

If this is a conversation they want to have, however, perhaps Ms. Pelosi can explain the role of Marxists and North Korean sympathizers in the U.S. anti-war movement, or discuss how George Soros bought such influence in the Democratic party. It's not a debate that would help Democrats, since it's relatively easy to show the role of fringe extremists in the Democratic grassroots.

'Senior Democrats' ought to have the courage to publicly assert what they're whispering to the media. But if they're afraid to admit that they're slandering hundreds of thousands of grassroots organizers and activists, is it too much to hope that some reporter will share a copy of these secret talking points?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblog...rs_tea_par.asp

Ok, but the so called grass roots effort by some of the highest paid "entertainers" for Obama is not Astroturf? Oprah? P Diddy?

Way to belittle the taxpayers Nancy

Originally Posted by janelle

O'Reilly said these gutter snips are just hating the fact no one is watching them. FOX is out rating them at every hour of the day and swamping them in the ratings. If they keep insulting their audience their numbers will do down faster. In a way I hope they keep getting more gross. Their real selves are on display now and we can see it in all it's nastiness.

I hope they keep up the good work and put themselves out of business. MSNBC has already gotten a bailout from taxpayers via GE.

State sponsored television has hit America!

Do you have the DTV new active thingy where you can go look at the ratings real time. I was really surprised to see that Fox is right. They are ALWAYS #1 or #2, even in the middle of the night.

Sometimes, Law and Order is #1. Survivor sometimes also makes the top 2, but it's NEVER msnbc, cnn, or hln.