Freedom rally - april 17th

[Will B]

So you're saying that Democrats infiltrated the teabaggers and they were the ones spitting and yelling racial slurs?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Still...no proof of the racial slurs!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

$100,000 dollars offered to anybody who can provide proof. So far it's still drawing interest in a bank because nobody can prove it.

And the video of the alleged incident doesn't back up a spitting claim, either. If anything, it was a "say it don't spray it" moment at best.

 

[AlphaCrab]

I am just here to say not all racist are dumb, white folks--there are educated racist also..I think the current Teabag Party is economically well off, bright, Republican, AND racist. So lets quit the stereotyping folks..ok?

 

[Andy A]

I think that's an inevitable side effect of our area of the country.

Found this:



Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

Um, no it doesn't. People involved are free to express that feeling, but the group as a whole should not make these central issues, IMHO. Andy, what's your take?

I couldn't agree with you more. As I said previously, there are several factions to the Tea Party Movement but they are basically for the preservation and promotion of the five items I previously posted. (I am sure there are others but these are the ones I am interested in). The candidate that adheres and pursues them will get my vote, regardless of party affiliation. I don't expect most Democrats to meet those criteria. IMHO, religion for a lot of tea party affiliates is way down the list as far as election of our Congressional representatives is concerned.

 

[Andy A]

I am just here to say not all racist are dumb, white folks--there are educated racist also..I think the current Teabag Party is economically well off, bright, Republican, AND racist. So lets quit the stereotyping folks..ok?

You just stereotyped them and, as usual, you were at least partiallty in error. I can't, for the life of me, understand the racist aspect. I firmly believe nothing, for over 90% of the Tea Partiers, could be further from the truth and that 90% certainly includes me.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Bad Brew: What's Become of Tea Party Populism?

But there was something genuine about much of the initial Tea Party organizing. Citizens who were sincerely angry with their government were petitioning for the redress of grievances. I didn't have to agree with them on every issue to think they were contributing something to the process.

I think this is a good summary of what is happening. There are those in the TP who are genuinely concerned about some issues as AndyA has said.

and, there are those who are making every effort to manipulate/use the anger of the people, to their own advantage. So, can the reasonable members rein in the fringe element and come to the table to work out something...

 

[Rita]

Bad Brew: What's Become of Tea Party Populism?

I think this is a good summary of what is happening. There are those in the TP who are genuinely concerned about some issues as AndyA has said.

and, there are those who are making every effort to manipulate/use the anger of the people, to their own advantage. So, can the reasonable members rein in the fringe element and come to the table to work out something...

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Of course they can, but do the want to?


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[Arkiehawg]

Tea Party Leader a Democrat?

Dale Robertson - Racist Sign - Tea Party Leader - N-Word | Mediaite


Call it the Tea Party version of the ?Whitey Tape,? if the ?Whitey Tape? really existed. Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party movement, was quoted in today?s Washington Times denying he had ever ?seen any racial slurs? at Tea Party events. He was responding to the furor over nasty, sometimes violent reactions to the passage of health care reform.
There?s just one problem with Robertson?s claim: He was famously photographed at a Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party event holding a sign that featured the n-word. (via FreakOutNation)
For a movement trying to shake accusations of racism, the Tea Partiers could not have found a worse spokesman. Not only did Robertson?s sign have the n-word written on it, he had also misspelled it. The image plays into the worst stereotypes about Tea Partiers.

Here?s Robertson?s full quote, in which he tries to deflect the blame onto the Democrats:

?These people could be anybody. I wouldn?t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there,? Mr. Robertson said. ?They?re trying to label the tea party, but I?ve never seen any racial slurs.?

 

[Arkiehawg]

That wouldnt surprise me about the GOP. Ith appens on the left and right.

There's an image floating around from a previous tea party event with a mispelled slanderous sign. I'll search for it when I get home. He was identified and found to be sporting 3 Obama bumper stickers and a registered democrat. He later admitted he was hired to do it.

Found it for you AndrewG.......see above post ^^^^^^

 

[Arkiehawg]

Our country was founded by people who sought freedom OF religion - not freedom FROM religion. If you have read any history of our country's founding, you would have seen innumerable references to our Christian heritage. Just take a look at the monuments in Washington, DC and all of the references to Christianity incorporated in their construction. When the Constitution was being written, a citizen wanted to get a glimpse of George Washington and asked someone how he could distinguish Washington from the other members at the gathering of patriots, he was told to look for the man who kneels to pray to God.

Our country was founded on Christian principles, but we have always allowed others to worship as they wished. Now, we are at a crossroads where our freedom to worship as we desire is being threatened - if not downright outlawed. If ever there was a freedom to fight for, it is our freedom to worship God as we desire - just as every other religion is allowed to do.

By 1794 the Whiskey Rebellion had broken out into the open. Tax collectors who were sent to western Pensylvania were routinely threatened and tarred and feathered, making it impossible to collect the whiskey tax from that area. In June of that year, local officials ordered the arrest of the leaders of the whiskey tax resistors. However, all this did was incite the farmers of western Pennsylvania to more violence. A month later, in July, the commander of the local militia, James McFarlane was shot and killed by federal troops defending a besieged tax official named John Neville. This enraged the local anti-tax settlers who went on to burn down the buildings belonging to Neville as he was hustled to safety by the federal troops.

In reaction to this, President George Washington recruited a militia force in August, 1794 from the Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. This force was derisively nicknamed the “Watermelon Army” by the western Pennsylvania whiskey tax rebels.

When negotiations between federal commissioners and the rebels failed, Washington himself put on his Revolutionary War uniform again and personally led the army of over 12,000 troops into Western Pennsylvania. This force easily put down the Whiskey Rebellion because the farmers, faced with such a large force and notable commander, quickly dispersed. Most of the prisoners that Washington’s army captured were later released due to lack of evidence. Two of the rebels were convicted of treason but were subsequently pardoned by Washington who perhaps did not want to leave bad feelings lingering from this greatest crises of his administration.





Me thinks that President Washington wouldn't have been a "fan" of the Tea Party...

 

[LuciferSam]

After absorbing all the information on this thread it's common sense that any association with the Tea Party should be avoided under any circumstances.