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Tea Party a non-violent Movement? 10/30/2011 12:11:42 PM
The Tea Party, in their way, are much more violent
than the Occupy Wall Street crowds.
I recently read a commentary in a local paper by a graduate mass communications student who compared the Occupy Wall Street movement with the Tea Partiers
If he expects to become a journalist, he needs to learn the difference between propaganda and hard news.
The young Republican makes the curious statement, “The Tea Party is a peaceful movement.” Well, maybe he can get a job working at the Creationism Museum in Kentucky. Tea Partiers spit on black congressmen during the health care debate; one of them sent Minnesota congresswoman Betty McCollum a used condom; another flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas (technically a tax protestor but still a twin brother to a Tea Partier).
Take a look at some of those old news clips and the signs comparing Obama to Hitler or an African tribesman. Also, according to an NAACP study, which received very little national media coverage, five of the six national Tea Party leaders had ties to White Supremacists, a very violent group, especially when they‘re in prison. Tea Partiers are also awfully good at artifice and downright lying. They flew in out-of-state protestors to Harry Reid’s home town during the senate elections; they recruited 1500 mostly out-of-state demonstrators during the Madison Scott Walker demonstrations. They claimed 100,000. Thanks to their willingness to shutdown the government during the national debt debate, their approval rate stands at 27%, a lot lower than Obama’s or even the Occupy Wall Street people. Another lie is that the Wall Street protestors are all unemployed young people too lazy to work. The legitimate news reports I’ve read quote teachers, social security recipients, and union members who are also protesting. But when the Republican debaters in Nevada the other night called them bums, the audience gave them a resounding ovation, the same as they did when moderator Brian Williams asked Texas governor Rick Perry in another debate if he felt guilty about executing so many criminals (Some have been found not guilty due to DNA tests; an Illinois Republican governor stayed executions on everyone on death row when he was told how many death row inmates had been proved not guilty. Yet Texas governor George W. Bush went right on giving them the needle.)
Okay, I will admit the Wall Street Occupiers need to find an agenda. The absolute worst thing they could do is to run their own party slate. The reason the Tea Party was successful was because they were right wing conservatives all along who were mad because McCain didn’t win. If the financial demonstrators split the vote, Herman Cain could be our next president. You know, good old tax the poor Herman Cain who doesn‘t seem to realize he’s black (black unemployment is two to three times higher than that of whites). We also need to get rid of lobbyists (hard to do because of the first amendment) hired by corporations who shouldn‘t have that unfair kind of advantage); we also need to junk that Wall Street super computer that bets on stocks. No people are involved; it doesn’t matter if the company is viable or not; it’s all based on a mathematical algorithm, the same as the mortgage derivatives were. And we need to get a handle on these speculators. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley owned 80% of the oil futures in 2008; that was when gas was over four dollars the first time. They’re also cornering the market on corn and pork bellies. You’ve noticed the price of pork has gone way up, right?
No, Young Republican, the Wall Street Occupiers are real demonstrators, not reactionaries in disguise. The funniest thing I’ve ever seen is a conservative dressed up as a revolutionary colonist. Tea Partiers don’t know the first thing about the Constitution or the Federalist Papers, especially the Federalist Papers. Most were written by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist all the way. The alternative to a strong central government was the Articles of Confederation, which emphasized states rights, the same as the Tea Partiers. States were bickering; we had no national currency; most states were in debt. That’s what you’ll get under a Tea Party agenda.
In a way we did this to ourselves; we blamed the janitor for the mess he was trying to clean up, effectively tying his hands behind his back. 26 states tried to nullify the health care act, a Civil War tactic. Governor Rick Perry, a Tea Party sympathizer threatened to secede from the union if it passed, another Civil War tactic. Do you really think a caucus led by Michelle Bachmann has any credibility? Americans have got to stop voting against themselves. Let’s get rid of the Tea Party caucus in the next election; they all have to run for Congress again, and they should be running from crowds with pitchforks.
Dave Schwinghammer’s novel, SOLDIER’S GAP, is available at Amazon.com, used and new.
