Posted on 04/07/2009 2:59:48 AM PDT by abb
Not glowering sky nor mud nor threat of hailstones sufficed to deter about 300 souls from massing on the sodden village green in Northport, N.Y., that afternoon.
They were a band of like minds bent on dire provocations seldom witnessed in the harborside hamlet on Long Island Sound. It was a day for brandishing signs, shouting imprecations and donning silly clothing: tricorn hats and breeches, bonnets and petticoats. A few carried pitchforks, the better to jab the message home. We good farm folk are fed up and will be silent no more.
Their enemy: a tyrannical government heedless of the people’s will and blind to its manifold injustices. Their tactic: a Boston-style tea party, a symbolic rebellion for times that once again are trying men’s souls.
Tea parties are a recent phenomenon, spawned in the red-meat districts of right-wing talk radio and cable TV. It was strange to see the rebels reach Northport, whose antiques ’n’ potpourri Main Street, with a half-dozen empty stores, could use a little federal stimulus.
But down at the park gazebo, the green lawn was rumbling with grass-roots anger. Actually, its grass-rootiness was highly debatable. What were the citizens angry about? The stimulus? Not really, said one organizer. He had problems with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Laws impeding capital formation. “Indict Charlie Rangel,” said a sign. “Lowlife Obama!” roared a man in the crowd, causing giggles.
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If talk radio is in the red-meat district, is The Slimes from the sushi district?
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And the ‘double-latte’ district.
Not to worry. Only adds ‘fuel to the fire’. ;-)
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California’s anti-tax crusaders talk revolt
The first rebellion against the central government involved whiskey.
Too bad they couldn't mention Santelli and CNBC...
Ping!
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No cognac?
I have found that the people attending patriotic events are definitely above average intelligence. It’s too bad that their issues are not addressed or are glossed over.
Demonize, lie, deceive, ridicule, slander, marginalize, insult, etc. That is all the left ever does. It is enough to make you believe that lucifer is hard at work.
“Mostly, it was about tax cuts.”
Whatever! The few who seem to realize what future taxes will be.
The NYTimes should be thrown into the bay.
The original tea parties were often violent attmpts to enforce a boycott of imports taxed by the British Government. They got the attention of the Brits because they hurt the Government in the pocketbook.
We can send all the tea in China to Congress, the Whitehouse, the IRS, whatever, and they won’t care until it becomes a symbol of something more serious: the withholding of revenues from the government to protest their wasting and misuse of taxpayers money.
VietVet
Just like the socialites from Washington, D.C. who packed picnics and went out in carriages to Manassas to see the silly rebels at the Battle of Bull Run I.
They were almost killed some of them, scattered in a panic back to the city when the fighting became fierce.
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