Right – NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
NO KING IN ENGLAND TELLING US WHAT TO DO.
Oh, that’s right. We DO have representation. No King in England is telling us what to do.
Heck, as Belusi says, we’re on a roll. Why stop now?

I think both old and modern tea parties have one thing in common – ALL WHITES.

“…Matt doesn’t go out of his way to be obnoxious.”
But we do know someone over at RIF who’ll go way out of his way…
I’m watching teaparty coverage on TV. Washington, Boston, Atlanta… plenty of black people in the crowds.

The 1960’s dope smoking, America hating, big government Marxist radicals are so threatened by the folks who participate in these gatherings, that all they can do is mock them, spew their lies and BS rhetoric with no facts to back it up. Guess what, you’re losing and the people who get it are winning.

Here is a perfect interview from one tea party – this is for real. It expresses the hypocritical nature of many of the participants – at least this ONE figured out that she should not have been there!——
“Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.
Others could not explain the contradiction.
“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.”
She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.””
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Ha Ha……..maybe she doesn’t want smaller government if that touches HER.
But keep on being vague folks…..just say you want to do away with “waste”…or something general. You know, something that you filled the street for during the Bush years.
Ha Ha.

Defender, you won’t be there is I cry like a baby so I don’t have to pay my taxes….because there will no money for you.
The most patriotic thing most people can do is pay their way….that is, unless you want wheelchairs and old ladies in your squad romping through the desert.
Last time I heard, humans changed to specialization of labor…..
Tell you what! When they land in Newport, I’ll be there on the shore with a rifle – I’m a pretty good marksman, but I do not support foreign wars for cheap oil for the SUV.
But that’s just me.
Also, if I did support endless military and security spending, I would see it as totally hypocritical to attend a rally asking to pay LESS.
In my book, that’s stealing. You see, I believe in paying my way – not making someone else do so. It’s called civic responsibility, the exact opposite of what many of these people are rallying for.

>>are worried about our freedoms being eroded
sounds like a slogan.
Being as most all Americans paid less this year in Fed. taxes, it doesn’t make much sense.
I don’t care if the rally was 50% minorities – populist anger can certainly cross color barriers, and minorities are suffering as much or more than others from the Bush policies.
Again, I don’t understand what you mean by freedoms. I see the suspension of Habeus Corpus, the Supreme Court deciding that Corporations are people and can finance pols without end, the Supreme Court appointing a President, the President going to War without declaring or financing it, the first Patriot Act with no checks on the breaking of the Constitution and dozens of other actions taken by the Bush regime as loss of freedom!
What are your exact issues? Again, we all paid less in taxes this year and worked less days of the year to pay them…..that is a fact. So where were you protesting when Daddy Bush was making you work MORE days for the Federal Government?
I think the answer is nowhere. I think most of the Tea Party were somewhere championing “Supporting the Troops” and the tax cuts while GW borrowed billions to pay for them.
Sure, there are exceptions, but I would say the above pertains to the vast majority of those who suddenly found religion.
I don’t doubt the movement. What I claim, however, is that it is populist anger and non-specific, and in that sense the Tea Party doesn’t care if their taxes went down….they will call it up.

Andrew, get back to me when you do some reading on Habeus. Here are ten things you should know. Please note #3 and #4. It has nothing at all to do with American citizens – whether one or one hundred. As with TORTURE and RENDITION…it has to do with basic human rights. I TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HABEAS CORPUS 1. Habeas corpus is a cornerstone of American law. 2. Post 9/11 legislation creates unprecedented restrictions on habeas rights. 3. Habeas protections extend to foreign nationals. 4. The Supreme Court has made it clear that habeas extends to alleged “enemy combatants.” 5. Habeas protections are more—not less—essential during the kind of indeterminate conflict in which we are now engaged. 6. Habeas petitions are not frivolous prisoner conditions suits. 7. Habeas corpus strengthens national security by giving legitimacy to the fight against terrorism. 8. The federal courts can handle classified evidentiary issues in habeas cases. 9. Congress has not created an adequate substitute for habeas corpus. 10. Congressional action is the most effective way to restore habeas corpus. ———–end—————- Oh, Andrew, read this – the rest of the history is too long to explain to you, but suffice it to be said that Habeus was given to the English before 1700, and is the single most important right of a people. “Americans might feel comforted by the fact that the president and the Congress limited the removal of habeas corpus to foreign citizens and did not apply it to Americans. If so, they know little about the history of government oppression. Once people accede to the cancellation of judicial protections for “other people” — a grave wrong in and of itself — it is just a matter of time before the cancellation is extended to include them. After all, American… Read more »

Hah, Andrew, I don’t read the WND or Townhall, so was not aware of the Obama assassination plans. You are a funny guy, though. Any tone used to “debate” your humor is probably not relevant. As to the “war on terror” which GW lost, I’m sure you know that ANY assassination was and is against the rules and customs of civilized nations. Everything from Executive Order 12333 to international law and treaties forbid ANY such actions. However, Bush/Cheney not only tried to do these hundreds of times, they bragged about it out loud. Of course, you know Obama did not think this one up! “After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States or U.S. interests, military and intelligence officials said,” the Post reported. “The evidence has to meet a certain, defined threshold. The person, for instance, has to pose ‘a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests,’ said one former intelligence official.” Of course, this is beside the hundreds of illegal attempts to kill Saddam…again, a crime under most rules of war and conflict. Still, whatever your and my opinion on all that, it differs VERY much from searching the library records of common citizens, full time data mining on every phone call and email, and detention of THOUSANDS without due process – otherwise known as Habeus. And, of course, this is not a guess. Many courts, including the Supremes (their own fellow conservatives) , have voted against the Bush Regime. Again, Andrew, you are Far Right off the charts. We get the idea. Fortunately, the rest of the folks here are not, by and large,… Read more »

Andrew,
Needn’t go so far for links. I mentioned the assassination policy a week ago today.