Posted on 03/31/2010 3:54:07 AM PDT by Scanian
So, mean right-winger Tea Partiers are hurting the feelings of our sainted elected officials in Washington. There are rumors of intimidation, death threats and, horror of horrors, inappropriate language. So thin-skinned are these folks that Sarah Palin's simple exhortation, "don't retreat, reload," was referred to as "violent words and imagery." Even dead Republicans are the subject of posthumous excoriation, as in these noble words of Barry Goldwater: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." One wonders what they would make of Thomas Jefferson's observation that, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
You'd think that the acquisition of power would have softened their own partisan attacks and made them magnanimous along the lines of George W. Bush, who said of President Barack Obama, "He deserves my silence." Of course, no such silence was accorded the gracious Bush by his predecessor, his successor or other leftists and their media mouthpieces who spent years unleashing unending abuse on him; from being hung in effigy to books and plays envisioning his assassination.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
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“”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.””
If Thomas Jefferson were alive today speaking those words, they’d have the FBI arrest him.
Great piece. Bump.
So, in a way Democrats are right to fear the Tea Party movement. Just as a skunk releases its foul odor when it senses an enemy, so too those who despise our way of government can instinctively smell the tar and feathers that await them; the same treatment their forefathers received at the hands of the original Tea Partiers. But this time, the only act of violence needed to be committed against them will take place in voting booths across the nation on November 2.
It is TIME. Time to Drain the Swamp! Time to DownSize DC!
LLS
Obviously Jefferson was a dangerous right wing radical!
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