A Communist’s View of the TEA Party Movement

 

From CPUSA (Communist Party USA) website People’s World, Jarvis Tyner gives his view.

 

Tea party’s ugly reality: racism, sexism, homophobia

March 26, 2010

Last weekend’s final days of struggle to pass the health care reform bill starkly showed the ugly reality that is the “tea party.”

From its inception the tea party people have used every dirty trick in the book to try to scare people into opposing heath care reform – from the “death panels” to how “awful” a government-run health care system would be – even though that is not what was proposed and most countries with government-run health care have better health care then we do.

But those lies and distortions could not win the battle for them so they threw in a massive dose of racism, primarily aimed at the president, sexism on the abortion issue, and red-baiting to try to further confuse, divide and panic the people. Media outlets like Fox gave the fullest coverage to these lies day in and day out.

I favored a stronger bill, at least with a public option. But in that atmosphere it is amazing that even the modest final version of the bill passed. Those members of Congress who stood up to the hysteria, racism, red-baiting and threats and voted for the bill are to be commended. In our electoral system it’s tough for capitalist politicians to do the right thing when it might mean they will face a well-financed right-wing attack machine this November. 

The tea party folks, fearing a big loss was coming, were all over Capitol Hill last Saturday making their final push to defeat health care reform.  Just like they did at the town hall meetings last fall, they were in the faces of members of Congress, screaming and cursing.  

It was a shocking display of in-your-face racism. Congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., was called the “n” word more than once.  So were Reps. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Andre Carson, D-Ind. 

Lewis, the African American veteran civil rights leader who was beaten unconscious on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the 1965 Selma, Alabama, march, said, “I haven’t heard anything like this in 45 years.” Clyburn, a fellow member of the Congressional Black Caucus and a veteran of the Southern struggle, called it “absolutely shocking.”

But that’s not all. When Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.,who is gay, was walking through the halls of the Capitol building which were packed with tea party protesters, he was also verbally assaulted, repeatedly called the “f” word. “It’s almost like the Salem witch trials,” he said.

Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., also black, pointed out the sheer confusion of the protesters. “I have never heard anyone campaign for their freedom to be uninsured. I’ve never heard anyone campaign against Medicare,” said Scott. “That’s what you’re dealing with.”

The protesters carried many signs opposing any inclusion of women’s reproductive rights in the bill. In fact, bowing to right-wing pressure, the bill retains the reactionary restrictions of the Hyde Amendment which prohibits use of any federal money to pay for abortions. 

The stench of fascism is all over the teabaggers.

Not so long ago those bigoted, red-baiting attacks would have won the day. No matter what might think of the bill, the fact that it was passed despite the most extreme right-wing demagogic, bigoted, ideological attack shows that some significant shifts in mass thought patterns in a progressive direction are taking place today and it is affecting the thinking of members of Congress.

As the struggle goes forward to improve health care (single-payer, for one) and the big struggle for jobs is unfolding, it is imperative that there be a stepped up ideological struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-communism if we are going move things in a progressive direction. 

This is not just the lunatic fringe we are dealing with.  I don’t care how much Michael Steele apologizes for the racists in his party.  This isn’t just the “tea party”; it is also the GOP. 

Newt Gingrich, who is supposed to be a right-wing idealogue and intellectual, showed his true racist essence when he warned the Democrats that if they passed the health care bill, “They will have destroyed their party as much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” by passing civil rights legislation. 

If Gingrich thinks that defeating health care reform and eliminating discrimination and segregation are not moral and constitutional imperatives for a democracy but rather something to be left alone because it’s politically risky, he is morally and politically bankrupt. Is that what the party that says it’s for a “color blind” society is all about? If they win control again, is it back to Jim Crow?

The struggle for health care reform showed a lot. It gave us another indication of what we are up against and fighting for. All democratic forces need to be aware that we face nothing less then an epic battle for the future of our nation, and we dare not fail.

http://peoplesworld.org/tea-party-s-ugly-reality-racism-sexism-homophobia/

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From Trevor Loudon at NewZeal: http://www.newzeal.blogspot.com

Top Communist Flays the “Tea Party” Movement

 

The US left hates the “Tea Party” movement – which proves it’s the best thing happen to American politics for decades.

 

Jarvis Tyner, right, SEIU “purple shirter” left, cardboard friend, rear, Oregon 2008.

Vice chair of the Communist Party USA and numero uno Obamaphile, Jarvis Tyner flays the “Tea Partyers” in todays People’s World

Here’s some choice quotes from Jarvis;

After watching the Nashville convention of the tea party movement, it is clear that they continue to be a racist, red-baiting movement against health care reform, jobs for all, an end to war, and economic and social justice.

They are out to bring down Barack Obama because they see him as a force for progressive change and they are against progressive change. They are a movement to take our country back to the policies of Reagan, Bush or worse.

Jarvis plays the race card;

As the conference showed, they have few people of color in their ranks. That is because, while they say they are “color blind,” they are against any measures for racial equality and inclusion.

The opening speaker at the conference was none other than the notorious right wing bigot, former Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Tancredo told the nearly all-white gathering that the reason Obama was elected was because people voted for him “who could not even spell the word ‘vote’ or say it in English.” Tancredo went on to call for bringing back literacy tests.

Tancredo’s despicable proposal would bring back what was a vicious method of denying the franchise to Black voters and is now illegal, as a way to prevent the election of an Obama type candidate in the future. Looking at his audience, it wasn’t a surprise that his remarks were greeted with cheers and loud applause.

The heartless “right wingers” card;

This was a meeting of people who do not believe that the last presidential election was legitimate. They don’t even believe that the president is a U.S. citizen. They are opposed to any government spending to help the massive numbers of unemployed, impoverished, foreclosed and evicted – all victims of the Republican-initiated Wall Street ripoff that brought down the nation’s economy.

Concern for the 40,000 people who annually die needlessly because they don’t have health insurance is not their cup of tea. The 30 million still uninsured should just perish if their coverage is by a government-run program. “Smaller government” is more important.

Back to the race card;

The conference was an orgy of racist hate aimed mainly against blacks, Latinos, immigrants and the nation’s first African American president.

It clear to most observers that most of the tea party participants, as shown by their signs and slogans, are opposed to the president mainly because he is black.

Just like the old southern racist hypocrites that for decades ruled the South and had a big sway in Congress, the tea party movement is using red-baiting and anti-terrorist hysteria to rationalize their support for the most reactionary section of the U.S. capitalist class: the powerful insurance monopolies, the armaments industry, the anti-union labor corporate elite.

The dump on Sarah Palin card;

Sarah Palin, the $100,000 speaker, is making hay on the backs of this movement. She thinks she is presidential timber (2012). I doubt it, but for sure she will come out of this a very rich racist, red-baiting demagogue.

Sarah Palin has jumped in front of this backward march. She is part of the new McCarthyism combined with racist contempt for the first black president.

Her notion that Obama is more like a college professor and what we need is a commander in chief is another version of calling him “uppity.”

Palin knows full well when she attacks Obama that she is furthering racial division in the country, which is an especially dangerous game to play during hard economic times. Her racist attacks on immigrants, that they are bringing the country down; her opposition to any government spending to help working families survive the crisis – all of these attacks give encouragement to the racist lunatic fringe.

This movement Palin has jumped in front of is really a movement that hates change and wants to go backward. Their aim is to help the extreme right take back the Congress in November and the presidency in 2012.

It’s time to fight back;

Whether they succeed depends on the level of activity of the broad democratic, multiracial, labor and people’s coalition that defeated Bush and his right-wing Congress. If they are activated on the issues of jobs, health care and peace the right will suffer another setback.

This fight cannot be won by Obama alone. This fight cannot be won by the Democratic majority in Congress alone.

Without street heat, without real grassroots organizing, we could loss the fight for change and be pushed back to the Bush era or worse. We dare not let that happen.

Consider the Nashville tea party meeting and the elections in New Jersy, Virginia and Massachusetts a wakeup call.

Like Obama did in his State of the Union speech and his confrontation with the Republicans at their caucus, it’s time for the anti-racist majority, for the majority that wants health reform, a clean environment, massive job creation, peace, and economic and social justice, to take the offensive.

And they say the right is hateful!

Jarvis Tyner does America a favor here.

He clearly demarcates which side patriots should be on.

Any compromise or acceptance of the Obama agenda will be a victory for the extreme left.

The choices couldn’t be clearer.

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/search?q=Jarvis+Tyner

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Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals personified:

It is not enough for the organizer to be in solidarity with the people. He must also, said Alinsky, cultivate unity against a clearly identifiable enemy; he must specifically name this foe, and “singl[e] out”  precisely who is to blame for the “particular evil” that is the source of the people’s angst.

Alinsky summarized it this way: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…. [T]here is no point to tactics unless one has a target upon which to center the attacks.”  He held that the organizer’s task was to cultivate in people’s hearts a negative, visceral emotional response to the face of the enemy.

Alinsky stressed the need for organizers to convince their followers that the chasm between the enemy and the members of the People’s Organization was vast and unbridgeable. “Before men can act,” he said, “an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil.”   Alinsky advised this course of action even though he well understood that the organizer “knows that when the time comes for negotiations it is really only a 10 percent difference.”   But in Alinsky’s brand of social warfare, the ends (in this case, the transfer of power) justify virtually whatever means are required (in this case, lying).

Excerpted; read the entire article about Saul Alinsky at:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314

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End notes:

The radical ideals of Saul Alinsky written in a College thesis by Hillary Clinton.

The radical playbook followed by the likes of CPUSA, SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Democratic Socialists of America, The Congressional Progressive Caucus with Nancy Pelosi at the helm, etc.

 

Sarah Palin was the target last year.

This year it is the Teaparty Patriots.

 

Reiterating Trevor Loudon’s remarks:

He (they) clearly demarcates which side patriots should be on.

Any compromise or acceptance of the Obama agenda will be a victory for the extreme left.

The choices couldn’t be clearer.

 

 

 

The Real Tea Party Story: Community Builders vs. Community Organizers

 

Kyle-Anne Shiver at American Thinker writes in words that denote and explain to America the true Community BUILDERS vs. Community Organizers.

March 14, 2010

In less than a year, the MSM has gone from ignoring Tea Parties to mocking and insulting their participants to grudging coverage with ridiculing overtones. Finally it has arrived at giving wide attention to the movement, albeit grudgingly and ungraciously. A once-highly esteemed fourth estate, they have become talking-head dilettantes on a mission to save the disgruntled masses from democracy itself.   

David Brooks, token toy conservative at the NYT, wrote his explanation for the Tea Parties without ever mentioning them by name, even. He wrote a whole diatribe on the meaning of it all. It’s a knee-jerk reaction by us commoners, you see, against the “educated class.” It has nothing to do with real issues, don’t you know. This whole wave of discontent is simply a revolt by the common man against his intellectual betters.

 

What a bunch of myopic poppycock. 

 

The real Tea Party story is quite simple and an eloquent tribute to democracy: a genuine movement of ordinary people rising to the demands of their all-American principles. It represents a fundamental difference between those who seek to provide for themselves and those who see government as provider of all material goods. The Tea Party movement is a valiant resistance to decades of profligate entitlement spending, which has had the real effect of worsening every problem it was intended to fix, landing the country, at last, in a sea of impossible debt. Tea Partiers, like the Liberty Boys of 1776, stand steadfast on the principle of equality in the rule of law, not government-ordered equality in material-world goods. 

 

Basically, the resistance boils down to a contest between community builders and community organizers.

 

How Alinsky Counterfeited Community-Building Associations

 

Up until this presidential election, when hearing the term “community organizations,” most Americans probably assumed that these were the traditional community-building, volunteer civic and altruistic groups, giving tirelessly of their spare time and dollars to improve their own and others’ communities.

 

The list of genuine, all-American volunteer citizens’ groups is endless. As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his mid-19^th century treatise Democracy in America, one of the most exceptional qualities of this country was her vast proliferation of purely voluntary civic and altruistic associations. 

 

Americans of all ages, conditions, and all dispositions constantly unite together.  Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations to which all belong but also a thousand other kinds, religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very specialized, large and small.  Americans group together to hold fetes, found seminaries, build inns, construct churches, establish hospitals, prisons, schools by the same method.

 

De Tocqueville insisted that this vast array of purely voluntary associations was peculiar to American democracy and drew its possibilities from equality of all citizens under rule of self-made law. Of course, at the time de Tocqueville was writing — the mid-1800s — all American citizens were not, in fact, equal under the rule of law or in the vote. But as de Tocqueville also wisely surmised, another dimension of American exceptionalism was the manner built into her Constitution to “right itself,” to fix former errors through the Constitutional amendment process, which in truth, granted the majority its right to change those things it later decided made good sense.

 

As one of the hallmarks of peculiarly American democracy had always been the forming of free associations to accomplish all manner of good in local communities, Saul Alinsky hatched a truly brilliant plan to counterfeit these altruistic associations for political revolution. So it’s no wonder that unaware Americans were fooled for so many years, that they accepted Alinsky’s revolutionary “community organizations” as just another type of the associations with which they were so familiar.

 

But as we have so painfully learned from the ACORN exposés, Alinsky had far different aims from improving any communities.

 

And to alert his own acolytes to the real difference between his own vision for “people’s organizations” and the traditional, Alinsky spelled out the difference in his first manifesto, Reveille for Radicals, in 1946:

 

A People’s Organization is not a philanthropic plaything or a social service’s ameliorative gesture.  It is a deep, hard-driving force, striking and cutting at the very roots of all the evils which beset the people … It thinks and acts in terms of social surgery and not cosmetic cover-ups.

 

Alinsky went on to explain that he was declaring war on the status quo, which allowed some to grow wealthy while others remained poor. He declared that in war, such as he was declaring, there was no such thing as “rules of fair play,” and he encouraged his followers to proudly seek “self-interest” while cloaking their aims in rhetorical “moral garments.” The insiders were to be well-informed on their revolutionary objectives, while the public was to be kept intentionally deceived.     

 

Alinsky formulated a set of tactics for massive organizations of “have-nots” to seize power and material goods from the “haves.”

 

And therein lies the rub. In order for the “haves” to have anything, they must have built something and acquired some things through their efforts, smarts, and sweat which are worth taking away from them. These “haves” of American society were first and foremost community builders. Their ideas, their investments, their risks, their civic mindedness and charities actually built the communities which Alinsky desired to “organize” into a class of legally sanctioned thieves. 

 

A secular Jew working as an outsider, Alinsky convinced an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago’s Catholic Church that his vision for redistribution of wealth coincided perfectly with the Church’s own doctrines on social justice. Alinsky artfully played on the Catholic Church’s own long, tainted history of mixing its spiritual mission with worldly power and managed to bring both the public clout of the Church and vast amounts of funding on board for his mission to organize America’s masses for revolution.

 

In his first treatise (Reveille for Radicals) on the People’s Organization movement he was building, Alinsky tried to address critics who accused him of mounting a revolution against America. “It may be true,” he wrote, “that it is revolution, but it is orderly revolution.”

 

At this point, Alinsky joined his grain of truth — an admission that he was promoting revolution — with a deceptive false choice, writing:

 

To reject orderly revolution is to be hemmed in by two hellish alternatives:  disorderly, sudden, stormy, bloody revolution or a further deterioration of the mass foundation of democracy to the point of inevitable dictatorship. (Reveille for Radicals, p. 198)

 

Now, dear readers, one must admit that these words are truly priceless. It must be remembered that Saul Alinsky wrote this little “orderly revolution” manifesto, Reveille for Radicals, in 1946, just one year after the might of American industrial strength and the valiant sacrifices of millions had brought Nazism and eastern imperialism to their knees. America was anything but on the verge of “deterioration of the mass foundation of democracy to the point of inevitable dictatorship” in 1946. America was in actuality on its way to unparalleled prosperity for more of its citizens than had ever been achieved in the entire history of human civilization.

 

What Saul Alinsky offered his justifiably concerned critics was simply a false choice so easily refuted that it’s a wonder anyone with an ounce of real sense fell for his cheap lure.

 

But fall they did — hook, line and sinker.

 

Alinsky went on in Reveille for Radicals to address another concern which had evidently been put to him in the early stages of his “orderly revolution,” calling the concern a “fear” which “stems from distrust of power in the hands of the people”:

 

They fear that the development and building of People’s Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and turn an organization into a Frankenstein’s monster against democracy. (Reveille for Radicals, p. 198)

 

Alinsky then went on to write that this would be an utterly impossible eventuality, insisting that the “road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with apathy, hopelessness, frustration, futility, and despair in the masses of the people.”

 

Yet in Alinsky’s second treatise on “orderly revolution,” Rules for Radicals, he advised his acolytes on the utmost necessity of cultivating these very conditions among the masses in order to bring about the “change” required for his revolution to succeed.

 

Writing in Rules for Radicals (1971), Alinsky set up his development of power tactics with his idea of how “revolutionary change” is actually realized:

 

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.  They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.  This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. (Rules for Radicals; p. xix)

 

And this overall belief in the failure of the American system of free enterprise and limited government to fix all that ails mankind is precisely the idea behind the attitudes fostered by the entire network of Alinsky-fathered “community” organizations from ACORN to PICO to the SEIU to the gargantuan tree of religious-left political entities. The very attitudes which Alinsky rightly said in 1946 would lead to fascism and dictatorship are the attitudes he taught his community organizers to foster.

 

The most evident difference between traditional American community-builders and Alinskyite community organizers is spelled out in Rules for Radicals under the heading “The Process of Power.” Alinsky, like both Marx and Mussolini before him, saw individuals working to build their own communities as tacky, piecemeal efforts unworthy of those with grander, bolder schemes to fix the entire world. Alinsky, therefore, recognized that revolution against this ordinary American idea of community-building was necessary if the “organizer” was to reach his true destination: “the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God” (Rules for Radicals; p. 61).

 

When Evan Thomas blithely remarked last year that Barack Obama was “sort of like God,” it should be no wonder. For in Barack Obama’s intensive Alinskyite training, he was carefully tutored on indulging this very delusion. Alinsky planted the seed. Reverend Wright fertilized it for twenty years. And Barack Obama exhibits all the signs of believing he can indeed bring his Alinsky-inspired godhood to fruition.

 

Toward the goal of destroying Americans’ ideas of community-building, Alinsky taught his organizers to dissuade the people from believing that there was any hope outside a mother state. He taught his organizers to intentionally and continually sow discontent with the “status quo”:

 

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.  He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act.

 

Now that we’ve had a year of a proud Alinskyite community organizer as president, it’s not at all hard to see that Obama is much, much closer to being a “fascistic demagogue” than he is to being the grand conciliator for whom his befuddled followers fell into willing sway.

From the Stimulus package of political payoffs to the power grab of car companies “too big to fail,” to the climate bill rewards for privileged corporate interests, to the health care takeover in the same vein, we see a man dedicated to destroying the very foundations of America’s community-builders and replacing them with the grand social-engineers’ paradise, which Saul Alinsky — and Mussolini, Hitler, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and others — have envisioned.

This is not rocket science. It’s just ordinary logic and a smidgen of research. 

The real Tea Party story is as simple as this. Genuine community-builders do not wish to be robbed blind and see their children in the shackles of debt so that the modern version of tyranny — community organizers — can split up a pie they didn’t bake.

 

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 Community BUILDING Link:

http://www.the912project.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We the People”

 

An inspirational video:

As of March 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM there were 1,180,051 views

 

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

 -Samuel Adams”

 

 

The Left Terrified of the Tea Party Movement: Full-on Anti Tea Party Assault – Brace For Impact

 

Joy Tiz at Canada Free Press writes:

February 24, 2010

Never before has attending CPAC been considered wildly controversial. This year, too many are taking sides and drawing lines. The presence of a gay rights group or a few Birchers is catastrophic. Boycott CPAC! Yeah, that’ll show ‘em. The crowd ended up being a measly 10,000.

Then we are treated to Huckabee’s hissy .

“Huckabee said the rise of the tea party movement had ‘Taken all of the oxygen out of the room,’ rendering the venerable conference far less relevant than it had been in previous years.”

Is nobody getting what’s going on here? The left is now so terrified of the Tea Party that they are in full-on assault mode. Washed up Clinton hacks are plotting an anti-Tea Party surge:

“Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a ‘push/pull’ strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘urn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)”

“Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.”

They may as well spare themselves the trouble if we continue to put all of our collective energy into destroying each other. When conservative talk show hosts bash each other, only the liberals win. Do we really have to make it an either/or scenario? Or can we listen to and enjoy a variety of hosts and pundits? Take what you need and leave the rest.

The beauty of the Tea Party is in its lack of top down leadership. Sure, we can all squabble amongst ourselves about policy. But, the conservative values driving the tea party: limited government, lower taxes, personal liberty and responsibility are unassailable.

The worst thing that could happen to the Tea Party is that it become one solid organized movement with a “leader” at the top. That runs completely against our most basic tenet: personal liberty.

In 2008, we allowed the left to pick our candidate and look how that all turned out.

Liberals are infiltrating the Tea Party groups at all levels;  juvenile trolls are stirring things up on conservative sites. This infighting is exactly what they want.

The Left is more frightened about the Tea Parties than they were about Sarah Palin:

“We like both The Economist and Politico. But assertions such as these are tone-deaf, inside-the-Beltway punditry at its worst. They do the American people a profound disservice by failing to portray the Tea Party movement as what it is: A disturbing—one might say downright spooky—insurgency of the paranoid right-wing fringe. This isn’t a snide liberal pronouncement. It’s a verified sociological fact, as recent survey data from California make clear.”

Well, you can’t argue with a “verified sociological fact”;  particularly one coming from California.

The Democrats are tearing themselves apart; this is not the model we should be using for our own upcoming elections.

Let’s never forget that Obama and his accomplices are paid agitators, also known as “community organizers’. They are also trained Alinskyites. The biggest threat to the Tea Party movement is coming from within as long as we insist on focusing all of our energy brawling with each other rather than confront the real threat that sits in the White House.

Nobody is going to agree on every single point. But, the Tea Party movement is literally our last best hope at thwarting the Soros/Obama agenda. Recognize that the Left is agitating for a complete collapse of the movement. Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians had best learn to stop flying into a blind rage every time someone disagrees with them on some point and stay focused on the prize: a return to Constitutional principles.

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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

 -Samuel Adams”

Valerie Jarrett’s Nauseating Condescension

 

Katy Abram, the Arlen Specter town hall attendee who told him he has “awakened a sleeping giant” writes this article at American Thinker.

 

February 24, 2010

Oh those simple Tea Party people!

I just wanted to thank President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett for helping me realize that as a member of the Tea Party movement I am just too stupid to understand the workings of the health care debate.  During a taped discussion at Harvard University she enlightened the masses when she answered a gentleman in the audience who stated the following:

“Could the Obama administration…write some much simpler booklets on housing foreclosure, on the health care bill…where as a typical person including those in the Tea Party could understand the basics of it? Cause I feel many of them simply don’t.  Do you think that is an analogy?”

 

Valerie Jarrett:

“I think it’s an excellent analogy…Part of our challenge is finding a very simple way of communicating.”

 

What an amazing concept!  Would this be similar to Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet?  Oh wait a second, Thomas Paine wrote about protecting the citizens’ life, liberty and property from government;  not about government imposing mandates on citizens to buy a specific product as a condition of living lawfully as a resident of the United States. 

I hate to argue Ms. Jarrett but simplicity is not the problem your delivery, it is the content of your message.  I understand it perfectly even when you use large words like cloture and reconciliation.  The problem you are facing is that due to this unprecedented mandate health care reform is unconstitutional. 

Ms. Jarrett showed her uninformed opinion of the Tea Party movement when she also stated:

“Even if they are in favor of, let’s say, a different form of healthcare, insurance to perform, fine. But what’s happening is it’s an anti government. I mean, that’s the tea party. They really are trying to rebel against government at all. I think that that’s Again it’s an extreme.  It’s a lot easier to scare people and to get them angry when they are scared and they are already uncertain and I think that’s what the tea party is trying to capture. There’s nobody more self critical than President Obama.”

 

Oh the burden!  Now I need to write my own simply stated pamphlet to the Obama administration to explain that the Tea Party is about limited government and returning to our Founding Fathers principles.  If that is considered a anti-government and extreme then so be it.

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I would love to see Col. Allen West (Ret.) currently running for US Congress (R-Fl) debate Valerie Jarrett on this:

 

****The title of this video is just ONE of the subjects covered in this interview.

 

 

 

 

Add these videos:

 

 

Part #1

 

 

 

Part #2:

 

 

 

 

Or better yet, debate Obama…….

 

 

Know Thine Enemy Patriots: AFSCME,SEIU,Change to Win,etc. Behind Anti-Tea Party Movement

 

A brilliant move of sorts.  Call yourselves Patriots, yet you represent the opposition.

Beware true fellow Patriots.  Investigate, Ask BOLD questions and beware of intimidators.

This article by Rick Moran, at American Thinker, whet my inquisitiveness to look further into its background.

January 30, 2010

SEIU behind anti-tea party website

We received numerous complaints yesterday from AT readers who were concerned about a Google Ad that bashed the tea party movement. It turns out, that the website the ad was linked to was created with funds contributed at least partly by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

It should be noted that the ad itself was placed by Google and in no way reflected our views. But, as our Editor in Chief Thomas Lifson pointed out, the editorial and advertising functions of the website are completely separate entities – for obvious reasons. Our opinions are not for sale and keeping a wall between these functions is necessary to ensure that. The ad has since been taken down.

But the question of who sponsored it in the first place wasn’t answered until Lee Doren did a little digging:

I just came across a new website titled: http://www.TheTeaPartyIsOver.org

It is paid for by the American Public Policy Committee. Well, according to opensecrets.org, the two donors for American Public Policy Committee this year are Patriot Majority and Patriot Majority West.

However, according to opensecrets.org, the 2nd largest contributor in 2008 to Patriot Majority was SEIU and other top Unions around America.  I imagine the diversion of Union money gets much deeper than this.  Please spread the word before they start getting their message out now.  Thanks. (H/T: Jim Hoft )

Good to know where your enemies are coming from.

Hat Tip: Ed Lasky

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From: http://www.TheTeaPartyIsOver.org

Our Mission

To prevent the Tea Party’s dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction.

Our Strategy

Our Strategy is simple. This movement is a fad. Some of their ideas include the belief that programs like Social Security and Medicare are socialistic and should never have been created in the first place and that President Obama is a Socialist. Other ideas include undermining the legitimacy of the federal government in favor of a radical rightwing form of state’s rights. We need to prevent their dangerous ideas from gaining a legislative foothold. So our strategy is to spread the truth about their dangerous ideas and prevent their policies from taking root in America.

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Patriot Majority: Top Contributors, 2008 Cycle

Rank	Contributor	Total
1	American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees	$5,800,000
2	Service Employees International Union	$770,000
3	Change to Win	$500,000
4	Patriot Majority West	$300,000
4	Communications Workers of America	$300,000
6	Teamsters Union	$250,000
7	Patriot Majority Midwest	$161,000
8	United Food & Commercial Workers Union	$125,000
9	Bauman Foundation	$25,000
10	American Affordable Health Care	$11,874
11	Oklahoma Freedom Fund	$10,469
12	Pennsylvania AFL-CIO	$6,500
13	Bluegrass Freedom Fund	$5,000
14	Public Security Now	$920
15	American Public Policy Cmte	$861

This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service

http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_contribs.php?cycle=2008&ein=203985568

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American Public Policy Committee: Top Contributors, 2010 Cycle

Rank	Contributor	Total
1	Patriot Majority West	$25,000
2	Patriot Majority	$5,000

 

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A Post by InvincibleArmour spells this out even further:

Thursday, October 02, 2008

ACORN, Bankers & Now Union Dupes, Patriot Majority For Obama

It isn’t just ACORN mining fraudulent votes, it isn’t just failed Wall Streeters and bankrupt banks in the tank for Obama, it’s also 527 groups fronting for unions that are spreading the money and the lies for Obama and Democrat campaigns in all the important swing states.

Instead of being honest and using names including progressive, democrat, labor or other liberal buzz words, many of these groups, under the leadership of Craig Varoga (worked on 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign; former communications director to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) ), now list themselves as Patriot Majority. They ain’t patriots and they might just lie their way into the majority, but they all are unions that want the good old days of crippling business back.

 

PATRIOT MAJORITY

Patriot Majority West used to be called Citizens for Progress
Patriot Majority Midwest used to be the Oklahoma Freedom Fund
Patriot Majority New Mexico
Patriot Majority For A Strong America this year
Alliance for North Carolina,
Bluegrass Freedom Fund
American Alliance for Energy Independence
American Public Policy Committee
American Affordable Health Care
Midwest Alliance for Better Government (formerly Public Security Now).

FUNDING

In 2008,
$1.2 million from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
$500,000 from the Change to Win labor federation (which is spearheaded by the Service Employees International Union)
$125,000 from the United Food and Commercial Workers union

In 2006,
$400,000 from SEIU Local 1199
$250,000 from the Massachusetts Teachers Association
$200,000 from the Democratic Governors Association
$50,000 from Patricia Cornwell of CEI Enterprises.

Patriot Majority West: In 2008,
$2.18 million from AFSCME

In 2006
$250,000 from the Democratic Governors Association
$200,000 from Colorado Education Association
$120,000 from AFSCME
$100,000 from SEIU
$25,000 from Tim Gill.

Patriot Majority Midwest: In 2006
$370,000 from the Democratic Governors Association.

Alliance for North Carolina: In 2006
$45,000 from Democratic Governors Association.

Bluegrass Freedom Fund: In 2007
$1 million from William Yung of Columbia Sussex
$640,000 from the Democratic Governors Association
$238,000 from AFSCME.

American Public Policy Committee: In 2008,
$60,000 from the Democratic Governors Association.

Midwest Alliance for Better Government: In 2008,
$50,000 from AFSCME
$45,000 from the Democratic Governors Association.

 

OTHERS INVOLVED

 
MIKE RICE: former research director for the California Democratic Party and gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown in 1994

DAVE CONTARINO: manager of former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign; former chief of staff to Gov. Richardson

PATRICK J. HALL: former executive director of Oklahoma Democratic Party

JOE HOUSEHOLDER: former communications director for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY); former communications director for former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack

GEORGE RAKIS: former political director of the Democratic Governors Association; former regional political director for the Democratic National Committee; led planning process for America Votes; coordinated campaign director for Michigan Democratic Party during 2000 elections

This is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s union money being masked as just a group of patriots that think like the majority instead of being honest that they are unionists that are attacking Republicans that do represent the real majority, hard working Americans that hate unions.

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My own end note:

I WONDER how the members of these Unions feel when their dues are spent toward election campaigns INSTEAD of benefits for their own members.

The Union members retirement pension funds, their healthcare fund, their education fund, etc. squandered toward the Union bosses agenda; not the members needs……

UNIONS are Pr0gressives = Communists/Marxists/Maoists.

Will Union members eventually WAKE UP and realize they are nothing but pawns and slaves to their “controlling committee” of bosses and stewards; motivating to carry signs, make phone calls and march in the streets at their whim? 

Will Union members ever ask HOW MUCH of their dues goes to the bosses and stewards’ agenda? 

Will a Union member ever ask one of the top echelon of their Union what their yearly salary is?

How many of you in the Unions don’t have jobs right now?  You are scrounging to find money for food, while the bosses and stewards live the life of luxury.

 

Andy Stern visited the White House…..22 times between January 2009 to June 2009.

Anna Burger is tied to the SEIU, Change to Win and is ON OBAMA’s Economic Recovery Advisory board.

 

A MUST SEE Video: Awaken O, America! Your Own Liberty and Freedoms Are Calling YOU!

This video was compiled by jefflhead
September 27, 2009

Inspiring images & messages about America, & a tribute to the US military from 911 through current events. Set to “O, America” by Celtic Woman.

For those wondering about the crowd size on the March on Washington by the Teaparty, watch from 3:00 to 3:22 on this video. 

http://www.the912project.com

Warning from a Cuban-American Patriot

 

 

From Trevor Loudon at New Zeal:

Cuban American Bernard Navarro lived through Castro’s takeover of his homeland.

He beleives that the US under Obama is headed in the same direction.

 

 

 

http://www.the912project.com

 

Operation “Can You Hear Us Now” to hit a City Near You

By Proud American

I have been informed that the next call to action is the “Can You Hear Us Now” operation which was started by a gentleman who calls himself, Thomas Paine (this is not his real name as he wishes to remain unidentified).

I recently received a message from a friend of mine and a contributor, Michael Norbury with Bring Home the Politicians, with the information about this nationwide operation. The idea came about on September 14, a couple of days after the 9/12 DC March, when he heard conversations on a talk show about what was needing to happen next. It was mentioned that the next Tea Party event should take place on the media’s doorstep. This was the inspiration to the idea of the operation “Can You Hear Us Now” which was brought on as a direct result by the main stream media’s unwillingness to provide proper coverage of the events held in Washington over the weekend of September 12th.

It has become well known, amongst patriots, that the MSM bias has failed our nation by failing to provide proper coverage of Tea Party events or the town hall events that took place all across the country. Instead, their coverage was used to downplay the effectiveness of the thousands of people attending all these events all across the country. There have been many issues covered with most of them being directly related to the government’s overall willingness to throw the Constitution aside.

At the Quincy, IL 9/12 Tea Party event, I heard Andrew Breitbart make a strong but true statement about the failures of the MSM.  His comment was, “There is no main stream media anymore, YOU ARE THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA!”, as he addressed the many patriots on hand at the event.

At the time I received details of this upcoming event, there are 110 events scheduled (with many more being added daily) to be held at media outlets across the country. CNN in Atlanta, GA is one of the events planned with thousands scheduled to appear, with Chicago planning to hold a large event as well.

http://ow.ly/15TJpM

Taxpayer March On Washington….Crowd Size Over 1.2 MILLION; Some Estimates at 2 MILLION **Updated Panoramic View From Capitol Building***

 

Crowd size by Washington, D.C. police estimated at 1.2 MILLION.  ABC estimates crowd size as  2 MILLION.

 

Taxpayer March On Washington,D.C. 9-12-09

 

Teaparty Washington,D.C. 9-12-09

 

 

Activists were derided as amateurs who couldn’t turn out a crowd. Then they were smeared as corporate shills. They were criticized for not having a coherent message. Then they were mocked for ideological single-mindedness. They are resented by professional strategists who accuse them of organizing empty protests that won’t translate into electoral gains. But the movement has given birth to a new generation of movers and shakers who have rejected establishment partisan politics for nimble, Internet-facilitated, issues-based advocacy.

The success of the Tea Party movement and its allies/successors shows that there’s no monopoly on “community organizing.”

You are the change we’ve been praying for.

March on!

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/12/celebrating-the-912-rallies/

 

 

 

 

Words of inspiration from Mason Weaver ….We Have Had ENOUGH!

 

 

Norman Matoon Thomas was a leading socialist, pacifist and 6 time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1930s and ’40s.

Mr. Thomas said this in a 1944 speech: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer have to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party, the Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

 

End note:

 

 

 

 

The IN or OUT Pledge

 

 

Contact your Senators and Representatives.  Email them this pledge and ask them to take this pledge.  If they refuse…….VOTE THEM OUT.

If they claim to take the pledge; watch their ACTIONS and their VOTE on Legislation.  If they DO NOT defend your ideals of the Constitution; VOTE THEM OUT.

If they PROVE to you that they will defend our Constitution and the Rights our Founding Fathers proclaimed: They are IN.

 ***Updated Panoramic Photo**

View from top of Capitol Bldg.

Panoramic view of 9-12-09 March on Washington,D.C.

 

Courtesy of   http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/capitol-view-lo-res.jpg

Community Organizers Can’t Complain When A Community Is Organizing. Patriots Uniting From Shore To Shore…..Showing Lady Liberty Is Still Worth Fighting For

 

 

Note:  The singer’s young son recites the Preamble to the Constitution at the beginning of this video.

 

FREE DOWNLOAD:

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=74…

 

 

 

Interview with Old Glory Radio host, Tom Fredriksen:

http://oldgloryradio.podbean.com/2009…

 

Was inspired to write this after seeing all the Tea Parties springing up all over the country and also after seeing first-hand the unbelievable crowd that showed up for Mark Levin’s book signing for “Liberty and Tyranny” which has jumped to the number one spot on ALL the book lists!! Conservatism is alive and well!!

 

 

 

LYRICS:

 

 

What’s happened to this country I served for 20 years
I barely recognize it any more
Theyre mortgaging our future with socialist ideas
Cutting our defenses while our troops are still at war.

They’re punishing prosperity thats how the Statists roll
Promoting mediocrity at best
Bailing out Main Street to seize more control
And adding several trillions more to our debt.

 

A revolution’s brewing from sea to shining sea
We’re standing up for freedom and sweet liberty
Patriots like Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity
The voices of those who love democracy.

Our Constitutions being undermined every day
Our Bill of Rights is foreign to our youth
“Liberty and Tyranny” is flying off the bookshelves
Cause we, the people, are hungry for the truth

Congress needs to hear exactly how we feel
The “silent majority” no more
Keep the grassroots efforts going, tell everyone you know
Our Constitution matters and is worth fighting for.

A revolution’s brewing from sea to shining sea
We’re standing up for freedom and sweet liberty
Patriots like Coulter, Malkin, and Huckabee
The voices of those who love democracy.

It’s our duty to defend our God-given rights
Like our Founding Fathers planned from the start
Life, liberty, and happiness
The things we hold dear to our hearts.

A revolution’s brewing from sea to shining sea
We’re standing up for freedom and sweet liberty
Patriots like Ingraham, Beck, and G.Liddy
The voices of those who love democracy.

A revolution’s brewing from sea to shining sea
We’re standing up for freedom and sweet liberty
Patriots uniting from shore to shore
To show that Lady Liberty is still worth fighting for…

(Repeat 2x to fade)

See you at the teaparty!

http://912dc.org/

 

 

 

http://www.the912project.com

 http://teapartypatriots.org/

 

 

 

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

 -Samuel Adams