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The Tea Party & Me

By: Mick McKenzie / Mick553

In December of 1773, three British ships arrived in Boston Harbor with about 32 chests of tea and told

the American colonists that they would have to pay a duty tax on the tea before they could unload it.

Well, this did not sit well with the colonists and on December 16, 1773, a group of Boston patriots

decided they were going to have a Tea Party. They dressed up like Indians marched down to the

wharf, boarded the three ships and unabashedly threw every chest of tea overboard into the harbor in

what became known as the Boston Tea Party. They had decided to take a stand against the British

Parliament taxing them without representation. The Boston Tea Party has since become a symbol of

hope for Americans in fighting unjust taxes.

Now, over 200 years later, with an administration unwilling to listen to the will of the people, comes the

Tea Party Express. This new American Tea Party has already made a major impact on all of America

and is the force that will help take America back from the progressives and return it to the people. The

Tea Party Express has arrived, and it has arrived on the American scene right on time.

Unlike the Boston Tea Party of 1773, today we are dealing with many more issues than just unjust taxes.

Today we are dealing with a president who has an ideological agenda that is not in the best interest of

America. Today we have a president who seems quite willing to lie to the American people and a

president who seems quite at ease making backroom deals with unethical politicians in order to further

his socialist policies. Today we have a president, an administration and a Congress that is spending

money at an unsustainable level and has driven the national debt up by more than three trillion dollars

in less than two years in office. This is madness and this president, his administration and this Congress

are out of control and must be stopped.

Well, the Tea Party Express has arrived and Americas Sleeping Giant has awoken. It appears the Tea

Party has given the American people an outlet to express their concerns and frustrations as to what is

happening in America today. I think the Tea Party has given America a renewed sense of hope, at least I

know it has for me and from what I have seen, for many others also. It seems that maybe the Tea Party

has given America the vehicle it needed to put an end to the liberal and progressive madness that has

been assaulting this country for years. The Tea Party Express has been picking up steam for over a year

and I dont think there is any way of stopping it. The people have decided they are taking America back.

Even though the liberal main stream media continues to portray the Tea Party followers as racists with

an angry mob mentality, from what I have seen, Tea Party followers are the exact opposite. I have been

to two Tea Party gatherings in Washington DC and one in Orlando, Florida and can attest to the fact that

the people attending these protest gatherings are some of the most honest, peaceful and nicest people

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you will ever find anywhere. There were people of all color at these rallies, including whites, blacks,

Asians, Hispanics and the list goes on. Besides people of all races being there, there were also

Republicans, Democrats, Independents, students, teachers, doctors, nurses, business men and women,

construction workers, men, women and children of all ages. I know the Tea Party events that I attended

were gatherings of Americans; not white Americans, not black Americans, not Hispanic Americans, just

Americans.

A really odd thing about the Tea Party gatherings that I attended was that you had amidst the crowds

many desperate liberal TV reporters blatantly out there trying to instigate controversy by asking black

Tea Partiers how they could possibly be a part of this type of racist gathering, while asking white Tea

Partiers how they could be a part of a gathering like this and not be a racist. Interestingly, the only

reporter that I came in contact with was a black female TV reporter in Orlando and she was very

articulate and fair in her questioning. It appeared she was actually looking for a truthful story to be told

rather than trying to do a fill in the gap type story that so many reporters there seemed to be doing.

So here was this lone black TV reporter on the scene doing an honest story on the Tea Party rally, while

many of her white counterparts were out there running around looking for all of those Tea Party raciststhat dont exist in order to fil l in the gap for their own biased stories.

Before the Orlando rally, there was last years 9/12 march on Washington DC. I was there taking pictures

and shooting video and was absolutely amazed as to how many people were there. First at Freedom

Plaza, then on the walk to the Capital and finally on the lawn of the Capital, there were wall to wall

people. I was quite surprised to learn later from the main stream media that so few people were there,

when I had witnessed myself hundreds of thousands of people being there. I didnt know it at the time

but I now believe it was probably over a million people. I was also amazed as to how peaceful an event it

was and how polite people were. Can you imagine a half a million liberals peacefully protesting

anywhere without some type of anarchy. I seriously doubt it could happen. But the Tea Partiers are theones that are being portrayed as an angry racist mob by liberals and the liberal press because they

cannot stand what is happening here and are very angry because they know there is no way to stop

what is happening here.

The reason I became so enamored with the Tea Party movement was because I was very frustrated and

angry at what was happening to our country as a result of the policies coming out of Washington and

our State governments and I was desperately seeking out the camaraderie of other like minded

conservatives. The Tea Party became my outlet.

For me, it has been very discouraging to see what has happened to this country not only in the last

eighteen months since Barack Obama took office, but for the last 30 or so years. For example, look at

how many schools now have security fences around them; look at how many schools now have onsite

police personnel and metal detectors; look at how many schools and universities are pushing

progressive political agendas on to our children rather than just teaching them; and look at what has

happened to prayers in schools. I could go on and on. Something must be done to stop the progressive

machine that is at work here before this country is socially and economically destroyed from within.

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As a conservative, I get tired of the ridiculous arguments I hear from liberals on a daily basis. I am tired

of hearing about how stupid Sara Palin is simply because she is a conservative. I am tired of hearing how

George Bush is to blame for all of the problems in the country today instead of looking at the failed

policies of this administration. And, I am tired of being lied to by a president, his administration and a

Congress that continues to tell us how well the economy is doing and how they are creating and saving

millions of jobs when unemployment numbers show the exact opposite. I am tired of hearing how we

are recovering from the so called Bush recession as the country continues to slide deeper and deeper

into what some fear may be an Obama depression. I am tired of hearing about entitlement programs

and how redistribution of wealth is good for the country. I am tired of the business bashing; I am tired of

the reckless spending; I am tired of watching the national debt increase on a daily basis at an

unsustainable rate; I am tired of watching a president apologize for his country; I am tired of watching a

president ignore the will of the people; I am tired of watching a president try to kill capitalism in favor of

socialism; and I am tired at not getting involved and not doing something about it myself.

For me, the Tea Party Express was the vehicle I needed to get me to start acting. I now attend every Tea

Party gathering and rally I can. I love the ones in Washington DC, but I also know that every one of themaround the country is as important as the other. The Tea Party Express got me more actively involved,

and now it is up to me to help get others involved. Even though the economy is tough right now and

money is tight, I will be donating time and money to conservative candidates that I feel will make a

difference. I will continue to educate myself in order to educate others. I will continue to make my

political videos, I will continue to be politically active on Facebook and other social sites and I will

continue to comment on as many political news sites and blobs as I can in order to help get the

conservative message out to as many people as I can. I must admit, I do love talking politics.

I have come to realize that maybe Obama being elected President was a blessing in disguise. Maybe it

was the wake-up call conservatives needed to rise up and take America back. Like many hundreds ofthousands of people, the Tea Party Express has given me the vehicle I needed to help start making a

difference and hopefully Republicans and Conservatives across America will take advantage of this great

opportunity and get aboard the Tea Party Express. All Aboard the Tea Party Express. Next stop, the

America our founding fathers envisioned!