Americans across the country today will organize locally to produce “Tax Day Tea Parties” in cities large and small.
On organizing website after website, conservative grassroots activists cry and gnash their teeth over the stimilus bill and other Congressional actions to get us out of our economic mess. They throw out words like “socialism” and scarey historical figures like Karl Marx.
The tea parties and their organizers are disingenuous. I find it hard to believe they really care about this country. How can they throw up the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to defend their position? Where were these people when the Bush Administration slowly but surely eroded our civil liberties and freedoms?
If the tea party organizers truly cared about our nation and the ideals and principles upon which it was founded, they would have not only been speaking out today, but also years ago when our nation and its people were under attack by its own elected officials.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Ummmm…I’m having a hard time seeing the correlation between protesting about “stimilus bill and other Congressional actions to get us out of our economic mess” and protests about “eroded our civil liberties and freedoms”. These are not the same causes, so it would be expected to not contain the same people.
Agree or disagree. But to complain that someone is disingenous when you disagree with them about one thing, and base that on their not agreeing with you on another unrelated subject could be another definition of disingenous. And ironic too.
(not taking either side…just saying)
April 15th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
well I can tell you that the rally in Goldsboro was a hoot, they blame Obama for the whole debt, that he sent Homeland Security to watch them, one group claim that Obama is trying to take their guns away.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Tax policy and civil liberties are definitely related. The TEA party protestors want to spend their money as they wish and want the government to stay out of their wallets. We want the government to stay out of our homes. Why shouldn’t people want both? And how can you defend one while protesting the other?
April 17th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Mmmmm….I don’t know, Matt. I think these are legitimate protests. Just the other side this time. The anti-Bush protestors threw “Hitler” around, and these ones throw “Marx” around. Either way, maybe “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” ? But I do understand the points you make.