Posts Tagged ‘tea party’
November 30th, 2010 | 
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Most discussions about American history eventually touch on the famous Boston Tea Party. Few people truly recall that most of the Tea Partiers disguised themselves as Mohawk indians, you know, the ones with one center strip of hair while the rest of the head remained bald. We laugh at hearing this, it seems so unnecessary, through today’s value system, to conceal ones identify like that. What they did was actually against the laws of the land, all of the hooligans would have surely been put in jail over the affair, had they been caught. Ironically, we admire them for their convictions, despite the “cloak and dagger” tactics.
By contrast, in our times we look at such stealth actions as highly questionable at best, at worst, worthy of full investigations and prison. Equally ironic is the apparent fact that the Tea Party movement of today is slowly being cast as a bunch of hooligans, worthy of jail for their misguided movement against taxation.
At what point did it become a bad thing to side with a movement that wants to keep money in your pocket?
Posted in Politics | 
Tags: career politicians, nancy pelosi, political movements, taxes, tea party | 
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