The Real Tea Partiers

[meegbear]

by Turkana

The real Tea Partiers didn't appear in public.

The real Tea Partiers met in secret.

The real Tea Partiers were engaged in an act of defiance, for which they already had been threatened with a military response.

The real Tea Partiers risked their lives and their freedom by committing their daring act of protest literally surrounded by that threatened military.

The real Tea Partiers were in the midst of a burgeoning rebellion for which unarmed civilians of their town already had been massacred.

The real Tea Partiers were in the midst of a burgeoning rebellion, the initial victim of which, at that massacre, was a black man.

The real Tea Partiers were in the midst of a burgeoning rebellion whose first martyr was a black man.

The real Tea Partiers defied such danger that they performed their act of protest in silence, returned to their homes in silence, and in large part didn't even know each other's names.

The real Tea Partiers weren't merely whining about having come out on the wrong side of an election.

The real Tea Partiers were protesting the imposition of an economic monopoly by an unelected ruler.

The real Tea Partiers didn't enjoy the protection of their government as they whined petty complaints, in public, in peace.

The real Tea Partiers didn't enjoy a fancy celebration, with fawning attention given by their era's mass media.

The real Tea Partiers weren't gathered together by a corporation for the purpose of making a profit.

The real Tea Partiers didn't pay a small fortune to a dolled up nitwit to safely spew lies and concocted complaints from a public stage.

The real Tea Partiers sent their government into emergency meetings.

The real Tea Partiers had their government respond by closing their harbor.

The real Tea Partiers had their government respond by reducing their legal rights.

The real Tea Partiers had their government respond by ordering them placed under military occupation.

The real Tea Partiers had their government respond by replacing their civilian governor with a military commander.

The real Tea Partiers couldn't afford to publicly self-congratulate for acts of sniveling pettiness for which they should have been embarrassed.

The real Tea Partiers took great risks for a real cause for which they are celebrated by history.

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[Bitwit1234]

1. And they were heroes we should never forget

and every time I hear the press calling the bunch of scags that took that name I get sick. They are a disgrace to this country. The original Tea Party did not hold disdain for their fellow country men. They tried to help them. I have said it over and over, and thank goodness, someone else has picked it up. This bunch of people who call themselves tea bags are another name for the KKK. An updated version yes. But still they have the same principals and actions of the KKK>

[Froward69]

2. Off to greatist with ya

for stating blatant obviousness...

(possibly if the tea baggers were to have to pass a Civics literacy test, America would become a better place...) Yes I know that would be discriminatory. but a nice thought anyway.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. And now we will have an economic monopoly by an unelected ruler

corporations = money equals free speech.