On the evening of 16 December 1773, a group of Bostonians dressed as Indians boarded three British cargo ships then docked in the harbor and over the course of several hours, broke open and dumped some 350 chests of tea into the water. This act of rebellion, since called the Boston Tea Party, was a response to an attempt by the British Crown to impose taxes on the American Colonies even though the colonists were not represented in Parliament - in short, tyranny. Following the Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts and the Boston Massacre and followed by the closure of Boston Harbor, the quartering of the King's troops in private homes and summary arrests of leading dissidents, the Boston Tea Party was one of the signal events leading to the American Revolution and eventual independence, a display of defiance triggered directly by the arrogance of the British Empire.
Shift to 15 April 2009. At some four hundred venues, from Boston to Juneau and everywhere in between, tens of thousands of ordinary people gathered to protest the tax-and-spend policies of President Barack Obama and his Democrat allies: 1000 people in Des Moines; 2000 in Beaumont; 4000 in Lansing; another 4000 in Cincinnati. These were honest, hard-working, law-abiding citizens who were mad as hell that their government is blowing their tax dollars in the trillions and sticking them - and their great-grandchildren - with the check. They understood that the President's agenda has nothing to do with "middle-class tax cuts" or "fairness" or "putting money in the pockets of deserving Americans" but with remaking America into a socialist workers' paradise. They understood that the bottom fifty percent of wage earners, who pay only four percent of all Federal income taxes right now, will receive free health care, subsidized mortgages, jobs, car loans and insurance under this new regime, while the top ten percent of wage earners who pay 65% of the total bill will pay even more and be represented less. And they understood the lesson of the original Boston Tea Party, contrary to pinheads like Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann, that tyranny by a lawful government is tyranny nonetheless and must be opposed. They are not stooges of the Republican Party as the liberal media has opined, they're not being manipulated by FoxNews or Rush Limbaugh or the "vast right-wing conspiracy." They are exercising their rights as American citizens to lawfully protest the reckless behavior of the government that claims to represent them but which really represents the interests of the most radical elements of the American Left.
...which not only misunderstands them but ridicules them as well. Here is an exchange between Ms Garofalo and Mr. Olbermann on last Wednesday's Countdown:
Ms. Garofalo: "Let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks."
Mr. Olbermann: "If you spear your television network … towards a bunch of guys who are just looking for a reason to yell at the black president, eventually you will marginalize yourself out of business, won’t you?"
So we first have Janeane Garofalo, a hardcore liberal and Hollywood C-lister whose flagging career has been given a boost by her appearance this season on the decidedly conservative 24, a mainstay of the Fox Network she bitterly criticizes. (She apparently understands the business well enough to ride the best horse in the race.) Ms. Garofalo dismisses the stated objectives of the nationwide TEA Parties, insults the intelligence of those who participated - a typical liberal tactic - then labels them racists and rednecks, the boilerplate epithet of the Left thrown at anyone who disagrees with them, as if people who go to church, work hard, pay their taxes, raise their children without welfare, watch NASCAR and own guns do not have the right to complain about their taxes being wasted. It doesn't occur to her that people could honestly disapprove of President Obama and the agenda he's advancing simply on political grounds: For her, it's literally black and white. She was then answered by the equally liberal host of Countdown, whose show has been regularly trounced in the ratings - The O'Reilly Factor has been the number one cable news program for 100 months in a row and FoxNews outpolls CNN and MSNBC combined. Keith, for his part, simply accepted his guest's ludicrous accusation at face value and wondered aloud if FoxNews' coverage of the TEA Parties would torpedo their ratings, which I can't help but assume was wishful thinking on his part. (He has to understand the business well enough to know that when he consistently sucks against the opposition, cancellation awaits.) Together they form a perfect microcosm of the sheer intellectual and ethical nakedness of the Left, hence the popularity of the TEA Parties: As long as idiots like these defend Barack Obama and his spendthrift policies, resistance will deepen.
Source: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm
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