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To: abb

All these Tea Parties... and “Revolts”....

But how many are actually going to stop paying their taxes?

At the Boston Tea Party, not only did they refuse to pay the tax, but they destroyed the property of the oppressive government by dumping the tea.

Is that what these parties are about? encouraging Americans not to pay their income tax? I would be all for it if I knew that I wasn’t going to be alone.

Or is this just symbolism over substance?
So far, I don’t see much press coverage of even that.
I’m afraid that regardless of how many people participate in these “revolts”, nobody in a position of power is really going to care, because it simply has no teeth.

Maybe if we really DID revolt, by actually de-funding this unconstitutional government, something could come of it.
I already know how the press would report it.... So maybe it is time to start defunding them too.

You really think the mainstream media cares what we think of them as long as we pay the bill through our cable company?

They just yawn.


18 posted on 04/04/2009 1:32:55 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns

You go first.


22 posted on 04/04/2009 1:39:24 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Safrguns
Thomas Jefferson said it best:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

These tea parties, IMHO, are what I consider a canary in a coal mine. People attending these things aren't your normally politically active types. But they know deep down something is terribly wrong.
My take? Let the socialists keep pushing. At some point, some where, lead is going to head down the range, and then its "Katie bar the door".
Oh, and for the RINOs ( I put the RNC leadership here ): trying to jump in front and wield the band leader baton--that trick won't fly when people are genuinely pissed. It's more likely to get you run over.

60 posted on 04/05/2009 9:54:20 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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