Tea Parties, Then And Now. April 15, 2009
Posted by Resident Egoist in : Politics , comments closedToday is Tax Day, and as of late, it seems also to be Tea Party day according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, people are outraged and feeling nostalgic about the good old days of the Revolution. Here is what some of them are protesting:
Show up at the tea party, bring your signs and let’s take our country back from the corporations which have bought our government and raided our nation’s wealth! End NAFTA, stop Walmart, end corporatism! The original Boston Tea Party was about protecting our nation from monopoly [huh!?], let’s support the new movement, and make our government once again for the people instead of the corporations!!! Bring back our jobs from where they’ve been outsourced, get our trade policy to benefit all of America instead of just importers and sellers of foreign-made goods…get America back to a nation which produces real goods, because we can’t succeed if we don’t have an industrial base. Let’s use this opportunity to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from the rich and powerful interests that would enslave us!!!!!!!! [Bold added.]
Talk about completely missing the point of the original Boston Tea Party! Has this person ever read the Declaration of Independence?