The origin of the “Tea Party” is based on an event that happened on December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. A group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. This was the original “Boston Tea Party”.
King George III was placing a tax on everything the colonists needed to get through their every day lives, from tea to thread for sewing to equipment to do their jobs. The tea was just the last straw. To make matters worse, they had no one representing their interests or grievances in the Parliament, so they were just at the mercy of the whims of the King. Three words summed up the anger of the colonists: Taxation without Representation.
Fast forward - 2007. It gets a little complicated here. Bush was a president; wrongly demonized by our news media. Democrats controlled congress. They raised the minimum wage, which hurt small businesses all over the country. They forced banks to lend money to people who did not qualify financially for loans. If banks rejected them, they were threatened with expensive law suits. Predictably many of these loans defaulted. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were guaranteed by the Federal Government, which then stole taxpayer dollars to pay off the bad loans. I’m not sure who is stuck with a bunch of property they can’t do anything with. Other types of loans were then in trouble as well because the banks were in losing money. So another government agency gave money to more BANKS. TARP allowed the United States Department of the Treasury to purchase or insure up to $700 billion of "troubled assets,"
About the same time, the automobile industry, more specifically the unions were also having money troubles. Not only did they require insane wages, they had been “borrowing” from pension funds, which were now broke. And remember! We were also fighting two wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
By the end of 2008, some Americans were beginning to see that all was not well with the economy and they also began to see that politicians were more interested in taking care of themselves than they were the Nation's business. People began to notice and they wanted some new blood in Washington. That was one of the reasons for the beginning of the new “Tea Party". This is an important point for those people who insist that the Tea Party is a racist organization formed solely for the purpose of irritating Obama.
In February 2009 we attended our first demonstration. They took place all over America. Before the election in November, we had gone to four different demonstrations and even my daughter went with us to one in Topeka. The first protest there were only a couple hundred people, the next one a few more and then by the third one--- we had a few thousand. During this time, the mainstream media was doing its best to ignore the demonstrations. It wasn’t until candidates for the congressional election 2010 won-- that the media (MSM) began to understand how serious the Tea Party movement was. That’s when propaganda began. They called us racists, said that we are violent, that we are stupid and even called us terrorists and radical Christians. It was all lies. The Tea Party people were always peaceful and respectful.
Sometimes liberals would come and try to start trouble . Here is a list of some of the groups that organize to disrupt peaceful Tea Party gatherings. Media people from the Huffington Post, Politico and Newsbusters are on this list.
In September of 2009, the Tea Party Supporters descended on the National Mall in Washington DC. ABC reported that there were 60,000 to 70,000 people. Compare the next two photographs.
Tea Party in D.C.
Yet in October of 1995, there was a “Million Man March” with estimates guessing there were well over the 250,000 participants that day. This is an aerial shot taken of this
Million Man March
It’s not really very difficult to tell which was larger. Apart from the Mainstream Media playing down the attendance at the Tea Party event, they played down the entire message which is about unfair taxation of the American people. Why would people object to that message?
We are not vulgar or violent. We want candidates, who are not corrupt, who are what they say they are and who will actually REPRESENT the people who elect them. We attempt to remain enthusiastic and positive about our country. Yet the MSM lies incessantly about us. It’s totally frustrating.
What I can‘t figure it out is either the news media doesn‘t understand the message or they are deliberately making it sound like something it is not.
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