Tea Partiers Fight Back

Tea Partiers Fight Back

by Mark Luedtke

On December 16, 2007, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Ron Paul supporters raised $6 million dollars for Dr. Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. This movement was based on a simple principle: central planners playing God are doomed to fail in all things.  These initial tea partiers championed freedom, individual rights, constitutional government, non-intervention and a sound understanding of economics. Congressman Paul was the only Washington politician who predicted the coming economic crisis and who had an agenda to resolve it.

Little did Paul's supporters know they were launching the biggest political movement in our lives. That tea party movement exploded into prominence after Republicans and Democrats united with George Bush to loot nearly a trillion dollars from taxpayers to bail out the Wall Street firms which had profited from their political connections at our expense for decades. Paul's supporters understood that the Federal Reserve had looted us for trillions more through the invisible inflation tax by printing money and handing it out to Wall Street firms and failing banks. The tea party movement gained more steam when President Obama appointed bailout architect and tax cheat Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary before looting us for nearly another $1 trillion to hand out to Democrat special interests under the guise of a stimulus bill.

Libertarians have long understood that our government is conquering us. The sole function of government is to loot the people at the point of the government's gun on behalf of the professional politicians, their patrons and government employees. Everything else is a manufactured crisis or window dressing to convince us to acquiesce. In his book Hamilton's Curse, economic historian Thomas DiLorenzo points to 1913 as the year government put the final tools in place to conquer us in earnest: the income tax, the Federal Reserve and the popular election of senators. The culmination of a hundred year fascist take-over of our health care system opened the eyes of many Americans of all political persuasions to this reality. Even feminist leader Naomi Wolf, author of the book End of America about the advance of fascism in America, supports the tea parties and recognizes that Obama is institutionalizing fascism.

The tea partiers are rightly scared of government, and leftists are terrified of the tea partiers. The left launched a smear campaign against the tea partiers exemplified by Frank Rich's essay in the New York Times: "The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House -- topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman -- would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play." In other words, tea partiers are racist, misogynist homophobes who would otherwise embrace Democrats' big-government policies. Go tell it to Bill Clinton. Leftists have baited tea partiers since the rally to stop Obamacare March 20th, but the tea partiers haven't taken the bait. Claims by black Democrats that tea partiers spit on them and called them the n-word have been debunked by video of the incidents, but that didn't stop their media propagandists from sensationalizing those false claims and others.

Unfortunately, because conservatives don't stand on principle, they invite these attacks. Tea partiers were silent while Bush and Republicans nearly doubled the size of government. Tea partiers were silent when Mitt Romney signed Romneycare in Massachusetts. Like frogs in boiling water, conservatives sit in the pot and boil as long as Republicans turn up the heat slowly enough. Only when Democrats turn it up too fast do they resist. That makes them easy targets for slander.

The smear also paints tea partiers as violent. Coinciding with a New York Times claim that tea partiers are like Obama's partner, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the FBI seduced some yahoos in Michigan into fantasizing about blowing up policemen with improvised exploding devices (IEDs) and convinced one to try and buy one. An army of FBI agents swooped in and manufactured a huge media story about white Christian domestic terrorists as part of the coordinated effort to discredit the tea party movement.

We're seeing the tip of the iceberg of political violence and secret police actions all fascist countries experience. A leftist shot into the office of Republican House Whip Eric Cantor. Some right-wing loon will attack somebody or make a racist comment. The media will slime the tea partiers with it until November.

For the tea party movement to be more than a temper tantrum, conservatives must reject violence and establishment Republicans and embrace the principle of non-intervention at home and abroad. Sarah Palin is the poster child for naked opportunism. Romney is still the Republican favorite despite Romneycare and his Massachusetts assault weapons ban. Tea partiers flirt with Dick Armey, Jeb Bush and John McCain. If tea partiers don't reject establishment Republicans, they're nothing but hot air. After a tea party last year, an excited local Republican Party leader told me they wouldn't challenge big-government Mike Turner in the primary. That's a sure path to irrelevance. Fortunately, Rene Oberer challenged Turner anyway.

The aristocrats in Washington have divided Americans and are conquering us. This is the only war that matters, and we're on the verge of defeat. Trying to protect ourselves from Obama's assault is like dodging machine-gun fire. George Bush's power grabs enabled the most dangerous administration in our lives; now Obama is driving Americans back to the big-government Republicans who did so much damage before. If the tea partiers stand on principle and force Republicans to boot their big-government establishment, they can help America. If they realize that Ron Paul is still the only Washington politician with a plan to resolve our troubles, we have hope. We must dramatically reduce the size and scope of government to constitutional limits, not merely slow its growth. But if the tea partiers cave to the same old Republican power-brokers, our country is doomed to spiral downward into fascism, socialism and self-destruction.

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References:

Ron Paul supporters inaugurate tea party movement by raising over $6 for Dr. Paul.

I'm not the only one who sees America has reached the fascist phase on the Road to Serfdom. This author, Naomi Wolf, a progressive and feminist, also recognizes that Obama is worse than Bush because he's building on the power grabs of Bush.

Video debunks claim that tea partier intentionally spit on black Congressman at the health care oppression protest on March 20th at the Capitol. Author debunks the claim that health care protesters called a black congressman a the n-word.

With all the hype about threats against Democrats, a man was charged with threatening the life of Rep. Cantor.

In a further attempt to diminish the tea party movement, the New York Times compares it to the Weather Underground.

Frank Rich takes the gold medal in smearing the tea parties.

Criminals aren't known for their brains, ideologue's especially, but this story about the yahoos in Michigan is absurd.