Last week was the one year anniversary of the “TEA Party” movement and many gathered at hundreds of locations on Thursday to again rally and voice their opinions on “Tax Day.” The movement, which started out as an anti-tax movement (Taxed Enough Already), has grown into a widespread group of common people, of all races, who are concerned about the direction of the current Government.
All citizens of this country have First Amendment protection to assemble and voice their opinions. However, if you listen to Main Stream Media, who also stand on the First Amendment for their freedom of speech and freedom of the press, you get painted a picture that the “Tea Partiers” are just dissenters who are un-American and racists and are primarily upset because of the first “black” President of the United States. Bob Schieffer said just that yesterday on Face the Nation. The media, like the members of Congress, just aren’t getting it.
This has nothing to do with the color of skin of the man sitting in the White House. This about the “Agenda” of the people in control of this country right now, and that includes many on both sides of the aisle. They are no longer listening to their constituents. Almost two-thirds of Americans were opposed to the Health Care Reform Bill, and they pushed it through anyway. God gave each of us two ears and one mouth so we could listen twice as much as we speak. The representatives who have lost their ability to listen have disqualified themselves from further representing the people.
Why is it that during the Bush Administration it was okay for those who disagreed with the President to speak out, but now if you disagree with what’s going on in Washington you are racist or un-American? It’s as if we no longer have the “Right to Free Speech”, we only have our Miranda Rights, the “Right to remain Silent.” There seems to be a concentrated effort to “silence” the voices of the dissenters by downplaying and ignoring the substance of their discontent. President Obama publicly ridiculed the people at the rallies by saying that they should be thankful for the tax cuts they received. He doesn’t get it; this is no longer about taxes.
There has been evidence of infiltration from leftist groups at many of the rallies, with suspicious insurgents showing up brandishing inflammatory signs with racist or hate slogans. Others have created disturbances and violence to attempt to portray the movement as violent extremism. Even former President Clinton unjustifiably compared the participants to those involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.
There are some in the Tea Party movement trying to form a national organization to unite the groups and form an alliance to further the cause. Some national conservative leaders are calling for the groups to tone it down. I agree with the latter. Continuing to hold events in the public forum keeps the movement not only visible but easy to attack. Why continue to give them ammunition to display in the media to discredit the movement? There is a definite need to unify, and for many reasons. However, because of infiltration, it needs to be done carefully and covertly. The passion and common message has already developed over the past year. It is no longer an anti-tax movement. It is a “We the People want Our Country back” movement.
The current Government has crossed the line and overreached beyond its scope of power and trampled on the Constitution in doing so. Worse yet, they have done so with such arrogance and defiance of the will of the people, who are fed up and determined to do something about it. It’s now time for a “Call to Action.” Enough of the public protests and rallies, at least for now. Enough of the social ranting on Twitter and Facebook. It’s time to develop a game plan to impact the elections in November. That is step one to taking back this country from the current bunch of tyrants and socialists.
This is the first part of series of articles to lay out a game plan to take advantage of the movement created by the Tea Party movement to develop a true, grass roots movement to make a difference in November. Stay tuned for further instruction. If you disagree with this article, please continue to ignore us and tune out.
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