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Hooah!!!!!!!!

for copyright infringment…one of my favorite bloggers Patterico is suggesting EVERYONE upload the video back onto youtube…this is the STUFF we NEED to do….Patterico is even willing to countersue CNN if they come after him for posting it at his site….let us indeed LEARN from the tools on the left and TWIST the world upside down for the TOOLS. OH and spread the word!

http://tiny.cc/A6YJA

Great post. The Drive-Bys and the Left, including the administration, are scared spitless of us and should be. I hope Congress is as well! My family is already planning for the July 4th tea parties.

Someone on a blog suggested, IF there is a 3rd party movement out of this (I also believe 3rd parties are a ticket to irrelevance and a way to hand power to the enemy), it should name itself the Federalist Party. That, at least, makes sense for the tea party crowd. I agree though that we have to reform the GOP from within. But I’m cynical enough to think that can’t happen without term limits or some method of ruthlessly rooting out most incumbents. I don’t underestimate the potential power of the tea party movement, however.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tea-interests-tax-2367296-boston-parties

Can you site the sources for the 750,000-800,000 number? Raven has us near 400,000-196 parties reported. Once the numbers are firmed up, we should try to site them everywhere, constantly. Perhaps Fox news will do follow-up stories; I see Jonah Goldberg is a Fox News contributor now.

I truly hope you are right-that the left is concerned about what is happening in middle America and they fear the movement. Minimizing and being dismissive toward us should create a backlash and further grow the dissenting voices.

One point that I think should receive more coverage is the idea that Pres. Obama was “unaware” of the tea parties. I don’t believe for a moment that he is unaware, but, if they want to play that game…what does it say about the President of the United States being unaware of what nearly a million of his constituents concerns are? I grow the number simply by recognizing that there were many of us who could not attend, but were supportive of them. Whether the people were gathered in one place or all over the country, it was not an insignificant event.

Nearly half of the electorate of 2008 did not vote for him and I believe that some of the tea party folks were his voters; I hope that his arrogance and ignorance comes back to haunt him. God knows our sleep is disturbed these days!

RCP doesn’t just stand for Real Clear Politics. This group believes in the following.

“Of all the tyrants and oppressors in the world, there is none that has caused more untold misery and committed more screaming injustices against the people of the world than the rulers of the U.S. This is a country founded on genocide and slavery. … The rulers of the U.S. have plundered and slaughtered their way to the top position within the worldwide system of capitalist-imperialism — a system of global exploitation, of political and military domination, and of murderous rivalry among the imperialist powers themselves.”

“The imperialists in their endless quest to turn everything into a means for private profit, and in their monstrous methods of warfare to enforce and extend their domination … generally wreak havoc on the earth and its resources. … To bring down this system is the urgent need of the world’s exploited and oppressed. In the U.S. itself, it is our special challenge and responsibility to make revolution, at the earliest possible time, right within the belly of this most powerful imperialist beast … as part of the world proletarian revolution.”

“The ultimate goal and the historic mission of the proletariat is communism, a world in which human beings are no longer divided into classes. … Socialist revolution will put an end to the profit-over-all, expand-or-die insanity of capitalism. … As the crucial first step in this, the new proletarian power will immediately seize and socialize ownership of the major means of production — that is, convert them into the common property of the people, in the form of state ownership or collective ownership by large groups of working people. The state will also institute socialist economic planning to consciously regulate and guide social production to serve the masses and revolution.”

The group is the CHICOMS Revolutionary Communist Party. When you hear protesters echoing all the points above they are intentionally or not doing the work of the RCP.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

Study at Redstate University

…not one mention of the tea parties in AOL news headlines….except one…

…….it was in the “hottest searches”……

…….isn’t it ironic…..don’t you think….?

I was in San Antonio that day and was at the Alamo in the early afternoon, though not actively in the demonstration (complicated story), but I observed both when I was headed to the Alamo and various groups of people evidently headed to the rally based on their clothing and flags, etc, – and suspect even more came after work hours.

In other words, a static count at a single time point would not have captured the total number of people who participated during the many hours that the demonstration took place.

If this was the pattern elsewhere in the country, I suspect we may well have closer to a million people involved at some point during the day.

And I don’t think it was coincidental that the DHS report was leaked right before the tea parties were to happen.

What better way to keep the masses in check than to create a fear that expressing your views will label you as a potential terrorist.

The primary question for everybody was “what next?”. There was talk about throwing out the “bums” who don’t listen to common sense. Both democrats and republicans. And then there was talk about July 4th.

Another thing that was remarkable in Albany, NY was that No politician was allowed to take active role or get to speak. There was a desire to ensure this did not get politicized.

More than the taxes I felt the frustration was at the current spending proposals. People are worried what this is going to do to the overall economy. Also ultimately the taxpayer will need to pay the bill. In this tax and spend state we already pay high taxes.

I definitely think this movement is here for real. And the left realizes that. The viciousness with which the left came after everyday folks is proof of a significant movement, if one was ever needed.

And that is why the left fears and/or refuses to acknowledge their import. Tea Party goers see Obama and company not as trying to move the country to the left, but rather as trying to institute a fundamental change.

What the left is trying to create will not even resemble the promotion of individual liberty that created the American exceptionalism that has benefited man everywhere on this planet, to the exclusion of and with superior result to EVERY other form of governance.

This is not left and right. It is wrong and right. And every day more people see it as live or die in a spiritual sense. The left fears it because as they are exposed for what they really are, it becomes obvious to everyone that they are going to be thrown out rather harshly and with flourish when next we access the ballot box.

And should they prevent such access, by whatever means, they will be then thrown out unceremoniously.

The Tea Parties are so heartening to us, and so vile to them, because they show that hope, and the promise of renewed American exceptionalism is very much alive and well, and it is what they despise most.

http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2659

“The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

VERY INTERESTING! Not suprising but interesting!

They’ve significantly under estimated both the crowds and the impact. You see this in two ways, the way they are down playing the significance of size and magnitude (900 “parties” at an average of 500 per event minimum average = 450,000 at a minumum) and impact on reflected in past and future elections.

The left/Obama want to claim they are lowering taxes on 95%, they ignore the state taxes, user fees, cap and trade cost, and the growing debt as a way to try to dicredit the partiers. Then along comes Olbermann/Garafalo to call them names, Axelrod/Napolitano to call them dangerous.

These “partiers” are the same people who kicked out the GOP in ’06 and ’08 because of the very same issues; spending, taxes, and deficits. They’ll be the ones lined up to kick out the Dem’s in’10.

The GOP has to see this as their future, act on it, use it as the platform from which they campaign and govern.

there are a lot of concerned people.

This may not even be political in any real sense. Just the thought the thing is going off the tracks.

It would be nice to focus this tea party movement for the better and stay unified to the cause.
You could say I am one of the tea party protesters that has never really been involved in matters quietly going along , taking care of family and trying to get ahead.
I was one that thought that Obama was middle of the road and even went to the inauguration , his acceptance speech sounded conservative and well worded. “we will not apologize for our way of life” he said.

I did not vote for him and was not concerned at first, but in 100 days he has tripled spending, taken over banks, GM, gutted any chance at oil or nuclear production and is creating forced volunteerism, this list goes on and on.

He stands for nothing that resembles America as I know it and I am terrified for our future, quietly going along is not an option for me anymore.

…we conservatives really need to refrain from using the word “liberal” to describe the Left.

There is very little liberalism in their philosophy. Statism, certainly. Totalitarianism, maybe so. Liberalism? What liberties do they favor?

We’ve allowed these people to define themselves, and us. That was a mistake. It’s time to take back the language.

…the newstand price, intrepid cub reporters would ask Ms. Pelosi “Which ‘rich people’ and ‘billionaires’ are funding Tea Party protests, and how are they doing so, and how is that different what Geo. Soros does for Demcorat Party causes?

And then follow up with anyone named. You know, the way they did with R’s back when Bush was president.