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Thursday, April 15, 2010

1773

In 1773, in an effort to protest English Parliament's tax on tea, the colonists refused to accept tea from three East India ships because this would have implied acceptance of the right of Parliament to tax without colonist representation. Two hundred and thirty-seven years later, we have a movement which I will called Tea Party Two made up of activists in total opposition to the Obama Administration and Big Government. Why they are active now but not during the Bush years where massive spending and unchecked government greed were in place I have my own theories. Nevertheless, yesterday in the same city of Boston, 5,000 of these tea party two activists showed up to scream their usual comments about unconstitutional actions, big government, taxes, states' rights etc. The real tea party of 1773 actually had 7,000 colonists protesting the tea tax which makes yesterday's crowd microscopic. Suffice it to say, however, that there is an activist tea party movement in this country trying make Obama a one termer. What they fail to realize is that their interpretation of the Constitution is so lacking that it is laughable. Do they deny the existence of the 16th amendment giving Congress the right to levy an income tax? Do they deny that WE the PEOPLE includes sensible and intelligent Americans too? Do they deny the Constitutional provision that a census be conducted every ten years and isn't a communist plot? Do they deny Article I section 8 which says Congress shall have the power to tax to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States? Do they deny Congress's role to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying out their powers? Do they deny the fact that Hawaii is a state, or does it have a star on the flag making the President a qualified natural born citizen? Do they deny the fact that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid accepted by virtually all Americans as valid programs are all Government run and paid for by American tax dollars? In Washington DC over the next day or so, advocates of the Tea Party Two movement will be screaming and yelling at the White House promising to stop taxes, big government, Obamacare, Socialism, communism, death panels, abortion, the plague and all other such stuff. I hope they read the Constitution and Bill of Rights at some point in time and bless the first amendment which gives even them the right to freely assemble without anything worthwhile or appropriate to assemble about. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?

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