Tea Parties Dissolving Into Tax Protests?

Don’t Water It Down: It’s Not Just Taxes, It’s The Entire Government

Cincinnati Protest, March 2, 2009

With “Tea Party” week upon us, things are heating up pretty good out there. There is a lot of concern about possible sabotage of events around the nation by groups such as Acorn. It seems the “buzz” is that Acorn will send people to different events attempting to garner signatures under falsified pretexts or; that they will try to start a physical conflict of some sort to disrupt events and draw media attention. The purpose of this would be to discredit the entire Tea Party movement by creating a ruckus and getting the MSM (Main Stream Media) to lable the entire thing as a “vast rightwing conspiracy” or some such nonsense.
I’m not concerned in the least what Acorn, or any other group attempts to do. These activist groups are experienced in manufacturing a cause and using the MSM to their advantage. They are, after all, in bed with one another. But any attempt to create a negative image can only be aided and abetted if we take the bait and fall into their trap. Don’t sweat the left leaning (more like far left field) groups and their pathetic plans to scupper the Tea Parties, there is a more insidious enemy to watch for; us.

We are in danger of destroying a nationwide,  movement by labeling it and killing it by placing it in a niche.

Labeling Tea Parties Will Only Hurt The Movement

When you think “Tea Party” what comes to mind? A tax protest? A political rally? How about a GOP event?  There are so many people applying labels to the Tea Parties that the underlying reason precipitating the first events has been lost in the confusion.  By placing the Tea Party events in a labled niche, like “tax protest”, the true essence of the entire movement is lost and the movement itself put in jeopardy.  Why we are holding Tea Parties in the first place.

The underlying theme of the Tea Party is the uncompromising assertion that we, the people, have the right to  ”life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, harkening back to the days of the original tea party event in the harbor of Boston.  Sure confiscatory taxes make up a part of what we are rebelling against, but taxes are only one small part of the big picture.  

The men who dumped 40 tons of tea in the harbor that night, may have done it in direct response to parliaments handling, and taxing, of the tea trade, but the larger picture was revolt against a detached, impersonal, tyrannical government in which the colonies had no representation.  The dumping of the tea was only a small part of the overall revolt against that tyranny.  The seed of revolution had germinated and the men who threw the tea overboard were, in their minds, participating in a scenario larger then just a tea tax protest.  They were rising up in rebellion against a despotic king and a parliament that cared not a whit for the colonies.  Self determination and self government was the overwhelming desire of that time, and that same yearning was being expressed by the people attending the first Tea Party event in Greenville, SC on February 27, 2009 and will be again on April 15 & 17, 2009.
The people attending the first Tea Party in Greenville. SC were not there to participate in a “tax protest”, they were their to protest a government which has discarded its’ sworn loyalty to the Constitution and has trampled the rights of the people.  A government which has determined it is above God by discarding the “unalienable rights” we hold dear.  A tyrannical form of government which has self-interest at the heart of everything it does.  That is what we were gathering to fight when we first congregated by the Reedy River (yeah, I know, to outsiders it’s a creek) to speak our minds and join hands.  It is not a single issue which has generated the groundswell across this great land, and resulted in more than 2,000 planned events for this week, it is a multitude of issues of which the central theme is the tyranny of government under which we suffer.

For the MSM, which will never understand (nor does it want to) the patriotism and true loyalty of those who attend the Tea Parties around the nation, take this message to heart and mull it over: It isn’t only taxes we protest, it’s the entire government, stupid.