Tea Partiers Follow an Old Tradition
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Whether or not you identify with the tea partiers (surveys indicate that most Americans don’t), you have to respect their energy and passion.
Right or wrong, those who gathered at the Southern Pines Post Office Thursday for the Tax Day demonstration sponsored by Moore TEA Citizens were carrying on a strong tradition that goes back to the founding of our republic and beyond.
This tradition is so dear to Americans and so fundamental to our creed as a nation that the Founding Fathers enshrined it in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — which guarantees, among other things, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Though they’re petitioning a duly and democratically elected government instead of the kind of repressive, imperialist monarchy that sparked the original Tea Party, these partiers do have plenty of grievances for which they seek redress: Government is too big. Taxes are too high. The health-care law stinks. And the Obama administration is leading us in scary, un-American directions.
Some bystanders and passers-by on Thursday clearly supported those stands. Others just as clearly rejected them. But all had to agree that the partiers behaved themselves and kept things peaceful and civil while at the same time leaving no doubt where they stood on issues of the day. That’s what it’s all about.
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tneal14 3 years, 1 month ago
Thank you for noticing the positive pro-America message.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
So long as the Americans in question are white, older, and well off. A tea partier, like most so-called conservatives. is someone who claims to love their country while loathing and fearing almost half the people in it. The "47% pay no taxes" complaint (i.e., "those" people aren't being taxed ENOUGH) is the most recent and most naked example of it.
Amazed 3 years, 1 month ago
to the author...very well stated.
and to Dusty, why? why do you have to say something on every single post about the TEA party? why are you so threatened by them...I don't get it.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
Do you people just have a standard list of silly non-responses that you pick from randomly? That "oh, you write about someone, you must be afraid of them" is not only a complete non sequitr, it's an old and tired one.
Amazed 3 years, 1 month ago
no, actually I feel it is valid. (did you really just say, "you people"?) You constantly berate the TEA party...the reasons they formed, the people themselves and anyone associated with them ie; Sarah Palin. You call them names, you insult their intelligence and you find no value or validity to their methods or their reasons. I just wonder why they tweak your nerves so much. I'd think with all the crime increase in our area, you'd have plenty to keep you busy and not have so much time to troll the message boards of the local paper.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
I'm talking a lot about the TP'ers because they're in this paper a lot. I know you'd like for me not to exercise the same right to speak which you use so freely here, but...so sorry, I'm going to have my say and not leave the field to the liars.
Ignorance annoys me. Loud ignorance annoys me even more. When I'm annoyed, I speak out. Sorry if you have a problem with that, but this isn't an echo chamber where you say "tea parties are great!" and everyone answers "yes'm, tea parties are great."
Amazed 3 years, 1 month ago
DC TEA Party survey:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=34773&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Amazed 3 years, 1 month ago
"...so sorry, I'm going to have my say and not leave the field to the liars."
I think I missed the lies in this post~could you point them out? are they in this paragraph?:
"Whether or not you identify with the tea partiers (surveys indicate that most Americans don’t), you have to respect their energy and passion."
"Right or wrong, those who gathered at the Southern Pines Post Office Thursday for the Tax Day demonstration sponsored by Moore TEA Citizens were carrying on a strong tradition that goes back to the founding of our republic and beyond."
or was it this one?:
"This tradition is so dear to Americans and so fundamental to our creed as a nation that the Founding Fathers enshrined it in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — which guarantees, among other things, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I hope the TEA party fizzles soon so you'll stop griping about them so much... :-\
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
Well. Amazed, seems to me your gripe is with the Pilot for its wall to wall coverage...after all, I'm only responding to and commenting on stories they write. Sorry I don't share your fawning admiration for the TP'ers, but "you write about this too much" is not an argument. It's a demand that people who don't agree with you be silent. Sorry, but no.
Amazed 3 years, 1 month ago
once again...doesn't respond to direct questions that can't be answered by the "progressive" talking points of the day. Such a waste of time and space.
I think we both...or all....should stop posting on this ridiculous "news"paper's site and go volunteer some more for a needy organization. So long!
tneal14 3 years, 1 month ago
Liars? Really? I don't think too many people share your "fawning admiration" for the liberal agenda either.
tneal14 3 years, 1 month ago
VAT. Enough said.
LucilleGreybone 3 years, 1 month ago
tneal 1 dusty 0
becoming a trend
LucilleGreybone 3 years, 1 month ago
dusty - "you people are so stupid and racist and white and fat". I am so smart! i cant stand ignorance.
ignorance comes in all shapes sizes and colors. just because you think u are right doesnt mean u are. that goes for everyone. time will tell.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
"VAT".
Meaning what, exactly? I mean I know it means "Value Added Tax", something which no one has proposed, but which Charles Krauthammer devoted an entire unhinged column to arguing about with the voices in his head. But what do YOU mean by it?
"I think we both...or all....should stop posting on this ridiculous "news"paper's site and go volunteer some more for a needy organization. So long!"
Nice flounce. I give it less than a day.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
And once again, Lucille Greybone glorifies ignorance. And lies about me as well...since I never called anyone fat. But that's just another one of those facts for which the anonymous Lucille has such contempt.
Ignorant and proud of it: becoming a trend.
tneal14 3 years, 1 month ago
That's about right, mauiman.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
Shorter Lucille/mauiman: "yew thank yer purty dang smart, don't yew?"
Welcome to the Kingdom of Unassailable Ignorance, where research and facts are somehow suspect.
ningram 3 years, 1 month ago
Nice to see a write up thats not totally bashing the Tea Party. Thanks for being fair and honest about what really happened. They would probably see their numbers grow in support in the "polls" if most of their coverage wasn't misrepresented by the media.
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
"You think just because you can goggle information you are somehow smart. A fact or two does not make for a coherent argument"
Boy that contempt for facts really says it all about mauiman, doesn't it? And thanks so much for proving my point. I meant "yew thank yer purty dang smart, don't yew?" as parody, but danged if you don't go right in and confirm it in your very next post.
And it's "Google" by the way, not "goggle." Maybe that's why you feel the need to make stuff up rather than look it up...you can't find the most basic search engine because you don't know what it's called.
teufelhunden 3 years, 1 month ago
ChuckTaylor-"Ya'll need to chill"
LOL!!!
PontifexMagnanimous 3 years, 1 month ago
Dusty, my question is, why are you defending the establishment? The establishment is hell bent on taking everything you have while they pit us against each other in a divide and conquer strategy. The left/right paradigm is as fake as Milli Vanilli. Your TV lies to you. Everything you see around you is a social matrix, carefully engineered by control freak eugenists. You had better wake up and find out who your true enemy is! I suggest you watch free on YouTube: Obama Deception, Fall of the Republic, America Freedom to Fascism, Invisible Empire, Police State 4, Loose Change 2nd Edition.
tneal14 3 years, 1 month ago
PM--"a divide and conquer strategy"-so true, so true. Like I said before, I have never seen our country so polarized. This country is being dismantled before our eyes.
LucilleGreybone 3 years, 1 month ago
true i am not very smart. i just like making fun of those who are. i went to goggle.com and nothing happened so i went to google and nothing happened. i dont get it. was i supposed to add www@goggle or something like that?
Woody 3 years, 1 month ago
Here you go Dusty:
"Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_tax
dustyrhoades 3 years, 1 month ago
Woody, try reading the article next time instead of the misleading headline:
For days, White House spokesmen have said the president has not proposed and is not considering a VAT.
"I think I directly answered this the other day by saying that it wasn't something that the president had under consideration," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters shortly before Obama spoke with CNBC.
After the interview, White House deputy communications director Jen Psaki said nothing has changed and the White House is "not considering" a VAT.
teufelhunden 3 years, 1 month ago
Chuck-you are spot on!
TheNeedle 3 years ago
Chuck, old boy, YOU seem to be the one strutting around here blustering in multiple posts about hitting people in the face. Feelings of inadequacy perhaps? Some sort of need to prove you're a tough guy because you're insecure about your manhood? Hiding some terrible secret, maybe?