On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of 30 to 130 men, some disguised as Indians, assembled at Griffin's Wharf in Boston and boarded three english vessels that were waiting to unload the tea in their cargo holds. Quickly and quietly they tore open every box of tea on the ships and dumped their contents into the sea. In about three hours every box had been destroyed and all of the tea lay at the bottom of the harbor. This is now known as The Boston Tea Party, a protest against the British tax on tea. Colonists refused to pay taxes when they were not represented. The Boston Tea Party was a stepping stone towards America's eventual independence.
On April 15, 2009 another Tea Party was held on the Boston Common, only a few blocks away from the place the first Boston Tea Party was held. It was one of the first of hundreds of similar Tea Parties held in towns and cities all over the country. These Tea Parties are also protests against high taxes but they stand for fiscal responsibility in the National government, balancing the federal budget, returning to the Constitution's policies, and allowing capitalism and free trade to flourish as well.
The Tea Party is made up of many, many different kinds of people from different religions, ages, races, and educations. Many are Democrats and Libertarians as well as Republicans. These people come from all different backgrounds and walks of life but three basic beliefs hold them together:
1) Fiscal responsibility. At 11:17 AM today, the US national debt was $14,292,407,684,302. Forty-five seconds later it was $1,179,889 higher. The debt per taxpayer is $128,545. This debt is obviously unsustainable and will crush the country if we don't rein it in. Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to Samuel Kerchival that "I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements."1 You can find the National Debt Clock at http://www.usdebtclock.org/. What is beginning to happen in America is a simple cycle that has played out several times over the centuries, including in the empires of Rome and Spain. A country is born and thrives, eventually it's government begins to spend irresponsibly and runs up large amounts of debt. The burden is then transferred to the taxpayer who is unable to pay the taxes forced on him so the government becomes insolvent and collapses. John Adams said it best when he said that "The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own."2
2) Strict Constructionism. Daniel Webster said "We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land -- nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution."3 A strict constructionist believes that the text of the Constitution is important and any interpretation of it should
be a minimal as possible. As Daniel Webster said, the Constitution is the country's map and, if followed correctly will lead to a strong and succesful nation.
3) Limited Government. The founders knew that keeping the government small and controlled was the key to a free country. Thomas Jefferson said that "The tenth amendment is the foundation of the Constitution. "4 The tenth amendment reads, " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Jefferson also wrote "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."5 If he thought that 200 years ago, what would he say to us now?
The liberal media has tried to misconstrue, lie, mock, or just ignore the Tea Party's efforts to change the corrupt way politicians run this country. They have called them racist, sexist, and Muslimophobic. All of these labels are nothing but lies and have no backing. According to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28 2010, "Tea Partiers are quite representative of the public at large." That is shown clearly in the chart below.
This Friday, April 15, 2011, The Tea Party will be gathering in towns and state capitols across the country to stand against high taxes, out of control spending, and large government. presidential candidates, Governors, and other conservative men and women will speak in favor of a return to the Constitution and personal responsibility. Please, see if your town will be organizing a rally and attend with your family and friends. Opponents of the Tea Party have said that we are radicals and don't represent the average middle-class citizen. That is not true. Glenn Reynolds, a law professor, wrote in the New York Post on April 13, 2009 that Tea Partiers "aren't the usual semiprofessional protesters who attend antiwar and pro-union marches. These are people with real jobs; most have never attended a protest march before. They represent a kind of energy that our politics haven't seen lately, and an influx of new activists." If you believe that America needs to strive to become the country that the Founding Fathers envisioned when they penned the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution, join your local Tea Party on Friday. I promise you, you won't regret it.
~Addie
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
Edmund Burke
1Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kerchival. vii, 14. Ford Ed., x, 41. (M., 1816.)
2John Adams, First Address to Congress, Nov. 23, 1797
3Daniel Webster, September 29, 1847
4Thomas Jefferson to President George Washington, opinion against the constitutionality of a national bank, 15 February 1791
5 Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824
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