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What surprises me, is that people would fall for someone saying "this is being turned into a political issue" by someone whom has made his entire career of taking issues that can be solved reasonably and turning them into bitterly politicized slugfests.
Of course, the Republicans (big R) don't want to get too close to this because they don't want their past promises being compared too closely with their records.
It's time to clean house and vote all the bums out. If anyone has been proven to lie, or even close to it, let's just vote them out.
Dots and Dashes
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
What Are Those People Complaining About?
We recently issued the Tea Party re-cap podcast. Please check it out by clicking the subscribe link at the top.
A lot of the traditional media has portrayed the tea party attendees as loons, crazy, belligerent and even racist. However, we were at the NYC Tea Party, and we wanted to wait until the sensationalism died down -- and then present the truth. We hope you'll give it a listen. You can link directly here:
http://tinyurl.com/pursuitcast
So, at the crux of the complaints is that the Tea Party participants don't know why they were there. This is not true. As to why we went, we can sum it up pretty concisely:
Our government has moved from a procedural structure based on a charter of negative liberties to a prescriptive hierarchy based on positive rights.
What this means - the government no longer believes its job is to do what is delegated to it, and to provide a framework for resolution of conflict amongst states ... but rather to issue dictates as to how people should live their lives and which segment of the population is worthy of benefit at the expense of another segment. This is the preliminary version of tyranny.
So, we went to observe and have our voices heard. We didn't buy into the Republican attempts to claim credit for the movement, and we definitely were not "guests" of anyone.
If you have a chance, please listen to our podcast about this, because we sincerely believe you'll see that the people attending (at least THESE people attending) were not angry/violent belligerents, nor racist, nor were we confused as to why we were there.
We met quite a few interesting people, of all ages - and all backgrounds. We'll have pictures forthcoming. We're sincerely glad to have met you.
It was also great to see that people were not fooled into being specifically fixated by the focus on President Barack Obama, but rather the dereliction of duty on behalf of the Congress.
Even though our podcast will explain that the "speakers did not deserve the crowd", we'd go to another one. The crowd was great! We highly recommend it.
A lot of the traditional media has portrayed the tea party attendees as loons, crazy, belligerent and even racist. However, we were at the NYC Tea Party, and we wanted to wait until the sensationalism died down -- and then present the truth. We hope you'll give it a listen. You can link directly here:
http://tinyurl.com/pursuitcast
So, at the crux of the complaints is that the Tea Party participants don't know why they were there. This is not true. As to why we went, we can sum it up pretty concisely:
Our government has moved from a procedural structure based on a charter of negative liberties to a prescriptive hierarchy based on positive rights.
What this means - the government no longer believes its job is to do what is delegated to it, and to provide a framework for resolution of conflict amongst states ... but rather to issue dictates as to how people should live their lives and which segment of the population is worthy of benefit at the expense of another segment. This is the preliminary version of tyranny.
So, we went to observe and have our voices heard. We didn't buy into the Republican attempts to claim credit for the movement, and we definitely were not "guests" of anyone.
If you have a chance, please listen to our podcast about this, because we sincerely believe you'll see that the people attending (at least THESE people attending) were not angry/violent belligerents, nor racist, nor were we confused as to why we were there.
We met quite a few interesting people, of all ages - and all backgrounds. We'll have pictures forthcoming. We're sincerely glad to have met you.
It was also great to see that people were not fooled into being specifically fixated by the focus on President Barack Obama, but rather the dereliction of duty on behalf of the Congress.
Even though our podcast will explain that the "speakers did not deserve the crowd", we'd go to another one. The crowd was great! We highly recommend it.
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