Please explain the goal of these demonstrations. All I can gather from the media is that the people at them don’t like taxes, don’t like government spending, and don’t like Obama. Is there more to it? Is there a specific goal to be accomplished? I have a much more clear understanding of the original Boston tea party than I do of the current demonstrations. I am curious, that’s all. (For the record, I don’t like taxes or spending, but I do like Obama.)
Unfortunately, the MSM has made a deliberate effort to diminish the significance of these protests and distort their purpose. I’m confused as to the reason for that, since they’re supposed to be there to cover news events just as they would cover anything else.
In the simplest of terms, the goal of these demonstrations is to revolt against big government. In tonight’s protest there was criticism of Bush and there was criticism of Obama. Government grew at a disturbing rate under Bush and it’s growing even bigger under Obama. Executive powers are being extended, money is being spent at an alarming rate unlike any other time in history, congressmen are driven by the will of their close-knit constituencies, the federal government and activist judges are dictating and intruding in people’s lives like never before, and Americans are being punished for simply trying to live the American dream — the dream that is personal liberty. Government power is simply out of control.
Our Founding Fathers knew very well about big government. They lived under its tyrannical grip. They knew that big government, by its very definition, is oppressive. They believed that a government for the people, and not a people for the government, is the truest form of personal liberty. Most of them had an almost violent approach to federal government but saw it as a sort of necessary evil for a United States to exist. They, like the wise men they were, compromised on a solution we know as the Constitution. In it, the powers of this new government were established in a manner that relegated federal powers to its most basic and minimal form. What we have today is but a far cry from what was established in that document.
The use of the ‘Tea Party’ name is meant to be symbolical. One would think those criticizing these protests would understand that. Some have gone as far as to use obscene vulgarities in order to demean the use of the ‘Tea Party’ name. These protests aren’t meant to express “No Taxation Without Representation” but rather “No Taxation With Crappy Representation”, representation that fails to represent the core values and principles on which this country was founded upon.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of Tea Parties being held on a regular basis, and the beginning of a grassroots movement that seeks to fire those who fail to fight for and uphold personal liberties for all. In this country we fire those men and women on election day. Consider the Tea Parties a road map to that ballot box.
