Tuesday, April 14, 2009

TEA OR KOOL-AID?

I must admit, on the issue of tomorrow's planned "tea parties", I am torn. Given the direction of our nation in recent months, I agree with the premise of a massive public uprising of some sort, but I'm not sure about equating the events of April 15th with the tea party of pre-revolutionary war Boston.
First of all, the original tea party was much more than a group of people marching around holding signs in hopes of being noticed by the media or government "leadership". The Boston tea party was a group of men who stormed private property and violently took over cargo ships and destroyed their freight. By some accounts, some of the ship's crew were even tarred and feathered.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not speaking out against what our forefathers did back in the day. I support their historic actions and realize their necessity. My point is to remind you that there is a difference between an organized peaceful protest on public ground reserved by permit, and a group of armed men dressed as Indians raiding a foreign vessel and dumping it's cargo into the harbor.

Second, as someone who has been witness to the tactics of the left for some years now, I can predict a few things about tomorrow. The George Soros crowd will be in full force in hopes of disrupting an otherwise peaceful demonstration of political differences. I predict that there will be Obama-bots masquerading as white supremacists and religious fanatics in hopes of making the conservative movement look like a bunch of nut jobs. I can also look into my crystal ball and see them trying to incite some sort of violence among the crowd as well. I hope this doesn't happen, but let's be realistic.

Third, the media is going to spin this as they see fit, according to their agenda. If two million people show up and protest peacefully, the media will claim that a "few thousand radicals" showed up to oppose President Obama's message of hope in a time of healing. Then there is the obligatory media interview of the most toothless, in-articulate, angry American loudmouth they can find, so as to paint all conservatives as back-woods rejects from the cast of "Deliverance".

Fourth, President Obama does not care how many people show up or what they have to say. He sees us as ignorant, un-educated, peasants who are beneath him in both stature and intellect. He believes...no, knows that he is better than we "commoners" and has no regard for anything we believe in. If he or his administration pays any attention to these tea parties at all, it will be purely by accident, or for their own amusement.

I hope the tea parties are a success and draw millions of Americans. I hope they make an impact on the people we've elected. I hope the media reports the events accurately. I hope the infiltrators fail in their mission. But a wise truck driver once told me "Shit in one hand, and hope in the other, and see which one fills up first".

4 comments:

Seane-Anna said...

Hey Roadie! Sorry to hear you had mixed feelings about the Tea Party protests. I don't know if you went to one but I did and it was great. You can read about it on PGZ.

Most of what you predicted in this post didn't happen, except for the media spin. Based on what I saw on "Hannity" and "The O'Reilly Factor" the Obama media's "reporting" on the tea parties was downright disgraceful. A vulgar display of the vulgar contempt liberals have for anyone who dares to think differently from them. However, I do think Obama DID hear the protestors, even if he pretended not to.

I saw on Yahoo! today that, in his weekly radio address, Obama pledged to cut wasteful gov't programs because "ever-expanding deficits and debt" were "unsustainable". Considering that Obama had NO concern for deficit spending when he was hawking his gigantic porkulus bill, this change of heart is amazing. And it came after the protests on Wednesday. Hmmmmm...

Anonymous said...

I am sorry that you had mixed feelings about these TEA parties. I did too but my reason was for other reasons. In the past, Conservatives got up in arms....went out and won a battle...then went home to live their lives. This time I am hoping that things will be different. ..... because we HAVE to finish what we started here. Cause if we do, then this could be historic.

Roadhouse said...

Seane-Anna and W.C.,
I didn't mean to sound so pessimistic, but it's my nature. I have a tendency to see the glass half empty most days.
I really wanted to attend the tea party in Hagerstown MD, but I had too many family committments at the time.
I'm glad I was wrong about the infiltrators, but I pretty much pegged the media...not that it took E.S.P. to figure those clowns out.

JMK said...

"Fourth, President Obama does not care how many people show up or what they have to say." (Roady)


True. He and Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank were the winners last election...and they INTEND to implement their agenda.

The MSM is firmly behind them and so is a large chunk of the American people, at this point.

Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank among other Liberals want a return to Carter-like policies and more government control over the economy and our personal lives...and they're going to move forward with that agenda, hoping that as more and more people get more and more "free stuff" they'll feel more and more beholden to government.

The falw in that reasoning is that spoiled people are also selfish people and as soon as things go bad and those folks are expected to sacrifice for some "greater good" they'll turn on their benefactors...always happes.

Most people, sad to say, are all too happy support OTHERS sacrificing (being overtaxed, etc.) for THEIR benefit, but balk at sacrificng for ANYONE ELSE'S benefit.

I'm afaid it'll take more than Tea Parties to take back the country - the current administration's policies are going to have to fail first...and yes. we'll all suffer because of that.