Posted on 04/26/2009 2:25:27 PM PDT by Salena Zito
Everybody complains about taxes and government spending, but nobody does anything about them.
Perhaps that's because whenever they do something, they're often labeled as racists, right-wing extremists or worse.
That's what happened when various news organizations covered the April 15 "tea parties" across the country; the media clearly did not know what to make of such a robust turnout for the loosely organized events, and wound up dismissing or belittling them.
The tea party movement may or may not go forward -- but anytime the media or politicians dismiss a grassroots effort, they do so at great peril.
People attending those tea parties were consumers and voters, with a decent number of registered Democrats and independents sprinkled in.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Not if they are planning to cancel elections under a “national emergency” whether health-related or vast right-wing conspiracy.
Or goons standing at the polling booths, people disclosing secret ballots, etc.
These people believe in a one world Communist dictatorship. They will try to deprive us of a voice.
The "powers that be" have figured it out. They are ridiculing it, marginalizing the participants and, now, criminalizing the military and ex-military segment of the tea party sentiment.
I hope they do underestimate the anger reflected at the tea parties. I’ve been to two of them. Both rallies were used as a conduit to network and organize. The rallies were not used simply to vent. There were several Democrats at the latest rally I attended who were disgusted with both parties as was everyone else at the event. Politicians continuing to ignore the masses will only further harden their resolve.
It’s amazing, they don’t want to hear what the ppl have to say...It is at their peril because we are going to vote their useless arses out of power...Keep it up political idiots and keep disrespecting the ppl that pay your salaries, cause you are outta here...
Just ask the British!
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There, in a nutshell is what is wrong with the younger people in this country. This gal is teaching them that we live in a democracy. That is just wrong--horribly wrong!
I am glad there is someone else out there who understands that the possibility of honest elections in 2010 are practically nill. The left is not over reaching, they know exactly what they are doing, they are just setting up the pretext. All that Obama needs now is his Reichstag Fire and we’re done.
I've been saying the same thing. I don't know why, with all the power they now have, that people actually think honest elections will be held in '10 and '12, we haven't had an honest election in the last two cycles, they just had to build up their cadres and voting blocs.
It's plain to see that a dictatorship is forming and we will be rounded up little by litte. So many think "oh, that can't really happen these days", yeah, right. They are already starting their propaganda/hate drive against right-thinking people and what follows after the propaganda is the ACTION.
Read your history of other countries, nothing is actually hidden.
“When they came for me there was no-one left to speak out.”
The 2008 elections had something like 40% of potential voters not voting.
If the “extremist right wing” will not get off its duffs in 2010 and 2012 and literally outman the opposition, it will have only itself to thank.
“Purdue political science professor Bert Rockman, on the other hand, was satisfied with the media coverage and less than impressed by the movement.
“But people often like the ‘goods’ (government) produces; they just don’t want to pay for them,” Rockman says, calling that the prevailing attitude at the tea parties.”
The government produces ‘goods’? This prof is a Obama cult nut.
Just who do they think that they’re dealing with now? This is the endgame of Gramsci’s and Alinsky's heirs and disciples. These are the murderous great-great-great-great-grandchildren of the French Revolution, cold-eyed with contempt for you and yours; spiral-eyed crazy with hate for what you believe in and with an utterly unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind. Just as Hitler was completely candid in "Mein Kampf" about what he intended to do with Germany, the Jews and the world, so the Left has been completely up front about where they intend to take America, how they've planned to do it and what they're going to do once they achieve absolute power. So, when it comes to the rule of law, my pretties, they’ll not only sweep the pieces off the board, they’ll upend the table and put a bullet in you while they’re at it. As far as the Left is concerned, rules are for losers and history, godawful bloody history is my witness.
The reality is that we’ll never see another truly free, open and honest election in this country until after the next American Civil War and the death of millions. And the America we'll have after that won't be the America we started with - for good or for ill. It was always and ever up to us.
Remember that the people who've now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to rubble as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of he rubble heap.
Wake up, people. You’re not going to talk or vote your way out of the tyranny that’s coming. And that’s precisely the point of tyranny, isn’t it? None of us have a Get Out of History Free card, either. None. Your circumstances can change overnight. That's one of the great lessons that so many of us have failed to learn from the history of the twentieth century. Fat, happy, stupid and "it can't happen here," is how most of us are except for the ones who are actually cheering for it to happen here. And then there those of us who see exactly what's going on and are prepared for the eventual outcomes.
Change is coming, oh yes indeed - but it's not what any of that Marxist meat puppet's worshipers bargained for. Rand had it right all these many years ago when she said that there is no personal neutrality today. Time to get off the fence. Time to stand up and be heard. Time to start getting together with like-minded people. Time to organize your list of Things To Do, Places To Go and People To Meet. Because when your favorite websites suddenly go dark, when your cell phones and other comm nets no longer work, when the roadblocks go up, when you hear the knock on the door - then it’ll be too damned late.
It will be too late unless you're willing, like Atlas, to shrug - and then pick up a gun before they come for you. Unless you're willing to take action, you aren't going to get your country back, much less preserve your own freedom and dignity.
So don't just sit there with a pile of ammo and a gun in your closet. Participate in the nearest Appleseed Project shoot and join a community of like minded people turning ammunition into skill. Join up with Glenn Beck's 912Project - a latter-day network of the original Committees of Correspondence - to meet more like-minded folks. Connect with people in your own neighborhood to build your own 'Alarm and Muster' network.
It may be the last chance we're going to get.
Ayn Rand once said, "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom." Stand with me. Stand with us. And if you think that freedom is passé or over-rated, just wait until you see what your new masters replace it with.
Three good resources:
Anti-Obama bumper stickers and gear.
It's what they fear most - informed, armed and unafraid citizens.
Finally, on the dawn of that "dark modern day" of which Titus Livy spoke over 2000 years ago, when it does all go bad - as it now seems that it will, resolve at the very least to sell your life dearly. Do your best to kill every one who comes for you, your family or your means of self-defense. Make them pay, for if that's what they're coming to do, they are enemies of human freedom and they are unfit to live in a free society. In fact, they are just plain unfit to live. If you surrender to this evil, not only is your cause lost, but you will also strengthen those who would perpetrate their evil on others. And that's the greatest guilt of all...
Nitpick much? Of all the lame things I've heard about the tea parties... Here's a clue for you, buddy. The tea thing was mostly symbolic.
FTA: “And what about the federal debt, which doubled under George W. Bush?”
And what about World War IV, which started under Clinton, but we really didn’t start to campaign until Bush?
get off its duffs in 2010 and 2012 and literally outman the opposition, it will have only itself to thank.
Agreeing with that wholeheartedly. Just that with mclame, it was very hard for me to vote for him EVEN with Palin, must have been plenty who just said NO. With any luck the Conservatives (with or without the RNC) will find a good leader for 2012 that all can vote for.
You rarely win an election voting against someone, it is important to have someone to vote FOR.
I’d call them “bads.”
“The government produces ‘goods’? This prof is a Obama cult nut.”
Conservatives believe government’s goods should be limited to national defense and perhaps a few other select items. Liberals want to load their carts and ours up with goods much better served up through the private sector. Government cheese anyone? We know that government is ineffective an inefficient, by its definition. That’s why we want it limited by default.
“With any luck the Conservatives (with or without the RNC) will find a good leader for 2012 that all can vote for.”
Yes, let’s start with 2010 and send a STRONG conservative, tea party message! Then build into the primaries of 2012 with strong conservative candidates.
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