The Tea Party Took Its Name Based On an Act of Deception (You've got to see this)

The Huffington Post ^ | June 29, 2014 | Tim Giago, Founder, Native American Journalists Association

[2ndDivisionVet]

In the past few primary elections the Tea Party has won some and lost some. Lately it's been more "lost some" than "won some."

Several months ago I wrote that the Tea Party was founded on an act of impersonation based on an act of deception. They named themselves and patterned themselves after a bunch of so-called Boston Patriots who decided to rebel over a tax on tea by sneaking aboard a vessel that had received a shipment of tea and dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor. In order to conceal this criminal act from the authorities they dressed themselves up as Mohawk Indians hoping to transfer the blame to the Indian people.

The so-called Patriots who committed this criminal action were too cowardly to stand up and be counted as the heroes they envisioned themselves to be, but instead sought to deceive the authorities by shifting the blame upon the Mohawk and if believed, this act of cowardice could have been deadly to the local Indians.

When a group of Republicans decided they would shake up the Republican Party by forming themselves into the Tea Party, an ultra-conservative wing of the Republican Party, they decided to take a page from the history books and breathe new life into it by taking an extreme stance against federal spending and taxes. The Tea Party brought out its share of wing nuts as supporters and candidates with Sarah Palin of Alaska grabbing the brass ring.

Since they were new and fresh-faced they did manage to get some of their candidates elected and this set the traditional Republican Party back on its heels. They didn't know what to do with the newcomers who were vocal, rude and uncompromising. They also proved to be extreme obstructionists....

[a fool in paradise]

Self identified Native American J-Ass.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve been looking at starting the Ambidextrous Journalists Association of America.

[a fool in paradise]

I think most writers type with both hands.

[zencycler]

So applying that reasoning, every institution named after a signer of the Declaration of Independence is promoting treason.

[warsaw44]

The author is an idiot.

The American Indian was the symbol of America. Now one would envision Uncle Same as the symbol of the United States but back then it was the American Indian.

The Sons of Liberty knew exactly what they were doing and wanted the British to know it was them. Everyone in the damned city of Boston knew who did this.

[cynwoody]

He doesn’t even know it’s the TEA party. He thinks it’s the Tea Party.

Nope. It's the Tea Party. It was founded by Rick Santelli on 19 February 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvSjKCU_Zo

"We're thinking of having Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists who want to show up at Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing ... I'm thinking of dumping in some derivative securities."

[justa-hairyape]

They dressed up as Indians because they wanted King George to know they were americans not euro weenies.

Do progressives really think Liz Warren successfully passes off as an Indian ? In a costume she would look hysterical, as all those former Europeans throwing the Tea overboard looked.

[jsanders2001]

Hey now we had a Muslim who pretended to be Christian and said we’d have a transparent government if he got elected so I don’t see the big deal about people disguising themselves to throw tea overboard when they were told they’d have to pay taxes on it against their will just because Britain wanted to tax it simply to make more $$$ just because they said so.