Posted on 02/06/2010 5:21:54 AM PST by iowamark
They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement...
The anti-Government, anti-Establishment movement, which has splintered in the past week with many boycotting this gathering, has billed itself as a revolution born of the widespread disgust at Washington and the way that the nation’s politicians are bankrupting America’s future.
Yet the speech that opened the Nashville event yesterday, an address greeted with whoops and cheers from the mainly white audience, reflects a movement that also appears to have a less attractive side to it.
Tom Tancredo, a former Republican congressman who ran for president in 2008 on an anti-illegal immigration platform, said of the voters who elected Mr Obama: “They could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English and they put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — Barack Hussein Obama!”
Decrying America’s multiculturalism, Mr Tancredo said that Republicans and Democrats had voted for a black man because they felt they had to. To a standing ovation, he shouted: “We really do have a culture to pass on to our children: it’s based on Judaeo-Christian values.”
“This is our country,” he declared. “Let’s take it back!” He added, to applause: “Cultures are not the same. Some are better. Ours is best!” The crowd, some wearing recently purchased T-shirts saying “Keep the change — I’ll keep my FREEDOM my GUNS and my MONEY”, loved it...
One featured speaker, a “Patriot Pastor” named Rick Scarborough, told The Times that he was not against legal immigrants “but God has ordained that you are not a nation if you don’t have borders”...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty ... that's not me, that's Thomas Jefferson.
Although much of the media coverage of the United States in Europe is filtered through the US press.
Thanks, this is a very interesting insight. The religions of our Founding Fathers were of the hard scrabble, “the Lord helps those who help themselves” Protestant types.
If you aren’t neutered by political correctness, think open borders are a GREAT idea, and pray every day for gay married couple in the military adopting illegal aliens using food stamps to buy Cadillacs with free health care, then you are nasty.
It was also very accommodating to reason and enlightenment. Compare the expansion in political thought in Britain after the Reformation and prior to the American Revolution to the Papal oppression which kept Italy divided into city states until 1849 or thereabouts.
Not to mention Baron de Montesquieu, a man who’s ideas were embraced by a significant number of Founding Fathers but were banned by the Church of Rome.
I am reminded of a line from Elizabeth: The Golden Age, to paraphrase:
“The Inquisition lies in the belly of that ship.”
It is remarkable how a single glance can open one’s eyes!
Regarding the English Defence League picture you posted. I have continued talking to my FB British friends and they never stop talking about the muslim takeover. They are truly upset and I don’t know how to help them or their country. There was just an article in the London Daily Mail.online which told of a muslim bus driver who stopped the bus in the middle of a route; pulled over; took out his prayer rug and began to pray! It’s nuts over there right now. Where did all these muslims come from anyway? Pakistan?
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