SEIZE THE MOMENT!

After the French and Indian War (1763), the King of England disallowed an act made by the Colony of Virginias assembly. In a lawsuit, a young lawyer by the name of Patrick Henry declared that the king was a tyrant and that by the act of disallowance, the king forfeited his right to have the colonists remain obedient to him.

If the beginning steps that led to the formation of our nation started from such actions, which by comparison to our situation today, was much less grievous, how much more justified would citizens be in taking similar actions in our present situation? Patrick Henry's statement called for disallowing the legitimacy of the king to govern over them. What legitimacy, therefore, should we consider our government today to have that allows the formation of laws, which disallows natural law? Laws that take from citizens their private property, permit abortion and accept unnatural lifestyles. Laws against natural law are laws without legitimacy. We must ask the question, has the present system of electing and governing betrayed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? If it has, then are we not being led to the same conclusion as Patrick Henry—that the ruling government over us has made itself illegitimate? Has the present form of government hi-jacked our legitimate Declaration and Constitutional, Republic form of government? If we answer yes, then how will we respond? Will we follow the witness of our Forefathers who recognized that the king had forfeited the right to govern and therefore, forfeited the right to have the people remain obedient to him? Has the present form of government, which is acting against our republic and the will of the people it is suppose to represent, forfeited the right to govern? At what point do the words declared in the Declaration have merit?

It is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security play in against the present form of government?

The present form of governing is not fulfilling the dreams our Forefathers had. We are called to fulfill those dreams. The time is ripe. The time is now.

 http://LookWhatHappenedWhileYouWereSleeping.com

 National Tea Party Day

 http://www.TeaPartyDay.com

http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/the-taxpayer-tea-party-movement-is-growing

Grassroots Americans are rising up and demanding that the federal government stop wasting trillions of dollars of our money. The Feb. 27th tea parties were only the beginning. FreedomWorks is now working with other groups to plan a massive, nationwide tea party protest day for "Tax Day" on April 15th, 2009!

Tea Party April 15th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHllvd1n8Mk

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aegisknight wrote:
gwizzaz, I personally don't know exactly what the forefathers imagined the country to be, but I do know for a fact that they did not foresee the industrial revolution, or any idea what the world would be like today.

I also do know for a fact that they would be extremely disappointed to see their names tied to some people who don't want to pay the taxes that their elected representatives constitutionally enacted.

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Dude, why are they paying taxes to a government that PERMITS banks and businesses to operate FRAUDULENTLY?!

Have you watched [THESE VIDEOS] ?

When are you going to wake up and realize that the government is being MANAGED by "private" corporate (quasi-governmental) interests and is not an effective government at all?!

If you look at the situation closely from a non-conspiratorial perspective you can see how the "universal control/guidance entity" (Catholic Church, "catholic" means "universal") is being manipulated by "dark interests" (evil?) which is showing up as corrupt people and businesses like Madoff and AIG.  Obama is showing NO signs of effectively dealing with these corrupt entities.  In fact, it appears as though Obama is continuing to PERMIT, CONDONE, & SUPPORT the corrupt activities via the bailouts.

The tax issue is just ONE of the MANY issues that are being protested against and the "Tax Payer Tea Parties" are simply an initial foray into the people's progression into public demonstration and protest.

Gwiz is on board!  Clearly teabagging is an unstoppable movement for ... something [nothing?] ...

I love the way the teabaggers "think":

"Obama" sounds foreign, and he ain't white - must be a for-ner!

"Bailouts" help bankers - must be bad!

"Taxes" cost me money - must be bad!

It's like trying to reason with Mr. ShortTermMemory.

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Evil sheep-man, courtesy Carly Fiorina for Senate, check the video at 2:26:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7HiQRM7BA

April 13, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Tea Parties Forever
By PAUL KRUGMAN

This is a column about Republicans — and I’m not sure I should even be writing it.

Today’s G.O.P. is, after all, very much a minority party. It retains some limited ability to obstruct the Democrats, but has no ability to make or even significantly shape policy.

Beyond that, Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people. Better, perhaps, to focus on the real policy debates, which are all among Democrats.

But here’s the thing: the G.O.P. looked as crazy 10 or 15 years ago as it does now. That didn’t stop Republicans from taking control of both Congress and the White House. And they could return to power if the Democrats stumble. So it behooves us to look closely at the state of what is, after all, one of our nation’s two great political parties.

One way to get a good sense of the current state of the G.O.P., and also to see how little has really changed, is to look at the “tea parties” that have been held in a number of places already, and will be held across the country on Wednesday. These parties — antitaxation demonstrations that are supposed to evoke the memory of the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution — have been the subject of considerable mockery, and rightly so.

But everything that critics mock about these parties has long been standard practice within the Republican Party.

Thus, President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre.

But the charge of socialism is being thrown around only because “liberal” doesn’t seem to carry the punch it used to. And if you go back just a few years, you find top Republican figures making equally bizarre claims about what liberals were up to. Remember when Karl Rove declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to the 9/11 terrorists?

Then there are the claims made at some recent tea-party events that Mr. Obama wasn’t born in America, which follow on earlier claims that he is a secret Muslim. Crazy stuff — but nowhere near as crazy as the claims, during the last Democratic administration, that the Clintons were murderers, claims that were supported by a campaign of innuendo on the part of big-league conservative media outlets and figures, especially Rush Limbaugh.

Speaking of Mr. Limbaugh: the most impressive thing about his role right now is the fealty he is able to demand from the rest of the right. The abject apologies he has extracted from Republican politicians who briefly dared to criticize him have been right out of Stalinist show trials. But while it’s new to have a talk-radio host in that role, ferocious party discipline has been the norm since the 1990s, when Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, became known as “The Hammer” in part because of the way he took political retribution on opponents.

Going back to those tea parties, Mr. DeLay, a fierce opponent of the theory of evolution — he famously suggested that the teaching of evolution led to the Columbine school massacre — also foreshadowed the denunciations of evolution that have emerged at some of the parties.

Last but not least: it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey, the former House majority leader, and supported by the usual group of right-wing billionaires. And the parties are, of course, being promoted heavily by Fox News.

But that’s nothing new, and AstroTurf has worked well for Republicans in the past. The most notable example was the “spontaneous” riot back in 2000 — actually orchestrated by G.O.P. strategists — that shut down the presidential vote recount in Florida’s Miami-Dade County.

So what’s the implication of the fact that Republicans are refusing to grow up, the fact that they are still behaving the same way they did when history seemed to be on their side? I’d say that it’s good for Democrats, at least in the short run — but it’s bad for the country.

For now, the Obama administration gains a substantial advantage from the fact that it has no credible opposition, especially on economic policy, where the Republicans seem particularly clueless.

But as I said, the G.O.P. remains one of America’s great parties, and events could still put that party back in power. We can only hope that Republicans have moved on by the time that happens.

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HAHA!!! THE REPUBLICANS (AKA "FOX NEUS") ARE AN ABJECT FAILURE!

DC Tea Party Protesters Agree: ‘Chairman Maobama’ Is Leading The Country On A Path To Socialism

DC Tea Party Protesters Agree: ‘Chairman Maobama’ Is Leading The Country On A Path To Socialism

 

Today, ThinkProgress went over to Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House to attend one of the many right-wing Tax Day Tea Parties taking place nationwide. Although the speaking program wasn’t set to begin for another hour or so, there were already about 50 people standing around in the rain from as far away as Greece, Kentucky, California, and Tennessee.

 

The protest organizers were struggling to get the event together. They had originally planned to unload a rented truck filled with a million tea bags into the park, but were stopped by officials because they didn’t have a permit. A woman in charge of the protest announced that the right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute had generously agreed to display the tea bags at its headquarters a few blocks away. She also said that there were originally supposed to be two stages with events, but the metropolitan police had blocked them from putting a stage on the sidewalk. A woman standing next to me leaned over and said, “That’s big government for you!”

 

Despite the dreary weather, participants were in high spirits. Almost everyone with whom we talked had heard about the protests through Fox News (because the rest of the mainstream media wasn’t covering them), including Glenn Beck’s 912 Project. A few young men had learned about them through Facebook as well.

 

There seemed to be universal consensus that President Obama was leading the country into socialism, a talking point repeatedly pushed on Fox News and other conservatives. The leading concern by participants was the government’s out-of-control spending and taxation (although one woman was also against “amnesty for illegals” and there was another sign protesting “card check”).

 

ThinkProgress spoke with three protesters from Pennsylvania who, like many other participants, thought that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney represented the future for conservatives. One young man said that it wasn’t “fair” that “if you make over $200,000 a year, you get a higher tax.” “America was founded on building yourself up,” he added. Watch it:

 

 

Another group of protesters — from Kentucky and Levittown, PA — also liked Romney, but were skeptical of his government health care plan in Massachusetts. They believed that “drug companies” have been “taking care of people” and care should be left to the free market:

SPEAKER 1: My problem with people who don’t have health care — If you can’t afford it, ok, I’m with it. But don’t tell me you can’t afford it when you’re driving a new car with rims, you’ve got a cell phone, and every electronic gadget under the sun.

 

SPEAKER 2: Well, it’s just like everything else. They’re trying to address a problem that really isn’t a problem. Just like when they gave us senior Medicare with the drug benefit — we didn’t need it. The drug companies were taking care of people who could not afford it.

Some other scenes from the Lafayette Square tea party:

 

Although one man insisted to me that the tea parties were not “political” or “partisan,” we didn’t see any anti-Bush/Republican gear.

 

UpdateTwitter user rkref also captured a picture of a Lafayette Square protester with a signing reading, "Hang 'em high" and listing several Democratic lawmakers. Another protester suggested jailing Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). Someone else held up a sign saying, "Blackbeard Obama -- King of the tax pirates." User n1rm captured a sign showing Obama as Steve Urkel.