Why the tea parties don't matter

[bovil]

The "Tea Party" movement is a symbolic failure.

The original tea partiers engaged in criminal acts and risked arrest and imprisonment to destroy product from a company being propped up by unfair reduced taxes by the government, at the expense of what, at the time, amounted to "small business:" the domestic importers of tea who competed with the East India Company.

The current teabaggers are buying tea and throwing it around. That's it. When the DC teabag crew showed up with a truckload of tea bags (yes, I'm serious) to dump in Lafayette Square (because dumping in the Potomac is illegal, can't do that, after all) they were informed that they didn't have the correct permits to dump their load.

So they took it away. They're a bunch of pussies. "Civil disobedience" and "protest" are just words to them. They'll always cave in to authority rather than take a risk for their alleged principles. Samuel Adams would have dumped the tea right then and there.

If they wanted a real symbolic connection with the original Boston Tea Party they would be stealing Chrysler and GM cars and trucks from distribution centers and dumping them in the drink.

But they're not.

Pussies.

Comments

Utah tea parties

[theresamather.livejournal.com]

There's some talk of secession here in red state land. They should just let some of these dirt poor red states secede- they take far more in federal money than they pay in. Let a couple of them degenerate into the third world pits they will instantly become without the tax money of the wealthy blue states to gorge on, and that ought to teach the sponge states like Utah that are a net drain on the nation to at least be grateful for the pork they gorge on.

Re: Utah tea parties

[esprix.livejournal.com]

Good god, LET THEM. It'll be Jesusland and the United States of Canada all over again, and that sounds just fine to me.

Re: Utah tea parties

[theresamather.livejournal.com]

Since I've been called arrogant for what I've said about secession and my own state, let me elaborate. First off, secession is discussed locally. It's not a majority opinion, but armed overthrow of the government is considered a potential course of action here by enough people that it colors occasional local newspaper editorials.
This state has large families with lots of deductions and the average wage is $11 an hour statewide. The biggest product in Utah besides alfalfa, tourism and mineral extraction is fraud which we export in the form of pyramid schemes and other scams which are rarely prosecuted. Multi-level marketing is probably the number one product of Utah. It cannot survive without federal dollars. It doesn't produce enough to survive on its own. That's just reality.
I've been accused of being influenced by the mainstream media so let me just say that the papers I read each day are the Deseret News, the St. George Spectrum and the Salt Lake Tribune. I listen also to NPR which comes out of the rather conservative universities in the state, as well as BBC as well as other sources to get fleshed out International news.
I love my state, but it is how it is and it is corrupt to the core. The leaders preach morality on high and plunder to the point that there are no laws against government corruption. I would not stand with this local government as it exists against the feds because what it would offer would be worse. The pork barrel spending that is planned locally is far greater per person than the debt the feds have created for me..including a 1.5 billion dollar water pipeline (plus interest) that 175,000 people in a three county area are going to have to pay for for the purpose of keeping the local "heritage" of alfalfa farming alive and allowing for new subdivisions at the same time. They can call on my spirit of "pioneer sacrifice" all they want but I will not stand with these jackasses against the feds. I'm mad, but I'm also mad at FOX for appropriating what could have been a much needed and useful movement and making it the sounding board for Rush, Sean and all the other blathering self serving jackasses who seek only to aggrandize themselves while the real problems go unaddressed.