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April 09
If you’re interested in seeing what happens when conservative outrage over, you know, losing the election and their seats in Congress meets dried leaves, do check out the ‘Zette’s liveblog of our own local tax day tea party in Acacia Park. It’s coordinated by Michelle Malkin! And the ‘Grich himself! Whee!
Update (2:08PM by Drew Hutchison): Their last post is timestamped 1:03 and reads:
Shoot, my computer is almost out of battery power (there’s not an outlet here in the park) I will have to hold hold off for a few minutes until I find an outlet where I can hear.
It’s very unfortunate to see favoritist coverage of a tax-protesting event cut short for lack of taxpayer-subsidized electricity.
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Eh. I already know what teabagging in Acacia Park looks like.
seriously, do these people think about what they say?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bil-browning/the-fine-art-of-teabaggin_b_187122.html
Not to mention the fact that the Boston Tea Party was a protest of taxation without representation. Hello! What about “largest voter turnout in 30 years” don’t they understand?
I’m not sure why people are all up in arms over taxes, now. They are not much different than they were a year ago. Sure, the package is more blue than red this time…
The media lumps the tax protesters all into one category by saying they are angry about “big government and massive spending” completely ignoring the details.
Yes, many people at these rallies are libertarians or republicans who just want to keep all their money to themselves and fuck everyone else. That mentality is indeed irritating, at least to me. But there is another faction (smaller, I’ll admit) of the tea party goers who are sick of seeing their money fund war and genocide. Or they are not very happy about the bank bail-outs.
And now here they are, standing together (well, maybe not in Colorado Springs, but at other tea parties today across the country), when a year ago they would have been spitting on each other. If the whole thing wasn’t so sad and futile, it would be almost heartwarming.
The vast majority were FOX news, right-wing libertarians.
Listen to this if you’re not convinced:
http://krccnews.org/rccnews/tax-day-and-tea-parties/2009/04/15/5769
I have never witnessed the kind of ugly, vile and hateful signs that were held by some of the tea party participants around the country. After viewing them on HuffPost, I am more than convinced that our nation is becoming more and more polarized than ever. The extreme violence of the messages and their numbers (Obama portrayed as a Hitler, “The American Taxpayers are the Jews for Obama’s Ovens”, “Guns Tomorrow”) are definitely cause for alarm. The ignorance on display was frightening. We can only hope they all move to Texas.
I believe the vast majority (and it seems like all Colorado Springs protesters) are people with selfish interests at heart. My point is that the media focus on these protesters overshadows anti-tax protesters who have legitimate concerns about where their money goes, and that is unfortunate, because those are the people who really need to be heard.
I don’t think I would go so far as to say that “all Colorado Springs protesters are people with selfish interests at heart.” There have been many who, indeed, have the country at heart in prior protests ie. Peace, Israel, etc.
But those people with legitimate concerns about where their money is being spent certainly should have been more concerned eight years ago when their civil liberties started being compromised.
That’s not what I was suggesting smokesignals. I was talking about the CS Tea Party. Sorry, if I wasn’t clear.
I can’t really wrap my brain around your last sentence. Probably because of a deficit in my understanding. I just can’t see how people with concerns about how their tax money is spent should have been more concerned 8 years ago about the compromise of civil liberties. Mainly because A. How do we know that they were not concerned? and B. Our civil liberties have been slowly deteriorating for much longer than that.
And besides, it takes different events to wake people up. Some of us our slower to grasp the implications of how government policy will affect us.
Yes, thanks for clearing that up about other protesters, Jana. I will always support to my dying day the right of anyone to express their discontent or protest their concerns about our government. Including the teabaggers, much to my distaste, but they do have that right. And yes, maybe they were concerned 8 years ago, but they certainly did not make it known. Why now? Was it because the movement was fueled by the inciting words of FOX, Limbaugh and Hannity? This wasn’t just about taxes and the GOP should be worried about the ultimate consequences of the rallies. Embarrassing and offensive, in many instances the many malicious and totally unamerican threats of violence were leveled at a president that has been in office less than 100 days. I would suggest that there is an underlying threat that noone wishes to address and that is racism. Pure and simple. Coupled with fear, the loss of jobs and economic stability, it’s a breeding ground for extremism in all it’s nasty glory. “Wake people up”? I’m not sure what that means, but it’s seems more like the waking of an ugly dragon.
Yes, our civil liberties require constant vigil. But not since McCarthy, and to some extent, Nixon, have we seen the amount of systematic erosion that we have experienced with the passage of the Patriot Act. From “sneak and peak” warrants, to the detention of immigrants who are not terrorists, to the spying, wiretapping, and internet surveillance with limits on judicial oversight, we now are becoming a nation of people who think that is normal. We have only ourselves to blame.