Ghandi was right. Peaceful protests work quite well in an organized society. There is no need to shoot your neighbor when they cannot argue with your logic. 'First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.' The Tea Party movement is in the final stages of this statement.
Initially the Tea Party was ignored by the mainstream media. A gathering of 15,000 people was described by ABC, NBC, and CNN as “A few hundred protesters”. They refused to even acknowledge that the Tea Party was an actual movement. The only real coverage with any accuracy came from Fox News and the Drudge Report linking to foreign papers or Britt Bart.
Next, when they could no longer ignore the existence of the Tea Party they ridiculed them. Intellectuals like Janeane Garofolo and Keith Olbermann called supporters of the Tea Party “Racist Ignorant Hicks” and dubbed participants as “Teabaggers”, referring to the act of “teabagging”. Democratic Party members claimed that racial slurs and spitting had occurred, but were unable to produce any evidence to that effect. They couldn’t even get the police who were called to intervene to cooperate in the lie.
Now the Tea Party is under attack. Jason Levin has created his own movement to infiltrate and discredit the Tea Party. His organization, www.crashtheteaparty.org, tells opponents how to attend the Tea Party and discredit the movement by yelling racist, homophobic, and insulting things at the people the Tea Party opposes while pretending to be Tea Party participants. On his website you will find the following Mission Statement: WHO WE ARE: A nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are all sick and tired of theat loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons; who constitute the fake grass=roots movement which calls itself “The Tea Party”.
I visited the site and looked through the message boards. Basically there are two or three stoners using Che Guevara as their logo making the most anti gay, homophobic and moronic statements that you can imagine. Then there are a lot of other people defending the Tea Party movement. I have to smirk and shake my head. One of these idiots actually posted “We have the bill of rights on the ropes. Let’s finish it!” This is what these folks want. Somehow I doubt that Mr. Levin has 65 organizers in major cities to start disruption. Obviously these kids have never read the history of Che Guevara or how he lead the death squads in Cuba that murdered anyone who said anything about leaving Cuba or anything against the government. They proclaim their Marxist intentions while shouting that the Tea Party movement is Marxist. Personally, I think someone didn’t get their butt spanked enough as a child. Ohh, does that make me a child abuser? I guess it does, unless I work for Social Services, then it’s OK.
The real record of the Tea Party is that they are a very well behaved group of protestors. No real Tea Party participant has had one incident of violence. They even clean the grounds when they leave. I would think the government would be thankful that we are not violent like these punks. Anyway, now they are attacking us. We must be close to winning. Elections are in November. Get out and vote and make your opinion heard.
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