The Tea Party Crashes
For the record, most of the Tea Party quit their principles of liberty on February 14, 2011—20 days into the new Congress—when Tea Party leaders abruptly abandoned their opposition to the Patriot Act and voted to extend intrusive domestic surveillance, wire tapping and warrantless searches of American citizens. In so doing, they exposed the fraud of their soaring campaign promises to defend the liberty of ordinary Americans, and fight government intrusions on freedom. All those wide eyed speeches that flowed with such thrilling devotions, all of it proved to be self-aggrandizing lies.
The Tea Party didn’t even put up a fight. Briefly they rejected a sneak attack to renew three surveillance clauses of the Patriot Act on a suspension vote. That filled my heart with hope. One push from the Republican elite, however and they went down with a loud thud.
My disappointment is particularly acute. Rather notoriously, I am distinguished as the second non-Arab American to face indictment on the Patriot Act, after Jose Padilla.
My status was pretty close to an enemy non-combatant. One would presume that I must have joined some terrorist conspiracy? Or engaged in some brutal act of sedition, such as stock piling weapons and munitions to overthrow those crooks in Congress?
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I cant believe this site doesnt know what a Tea Party is!
It started in Boston in 2006, and has since been hijacked by misinformation as to its origins, which is the rejection of the 9/11 Commission / Omission report.
Standish-I hope you are referring to the veteranstoday.com site that doesn’t know what the Tea Party is. For clarification to other readers, The Liberty Voice is well aware of the origins of the Tea Party. I think this article is indicative of the fact that the Tea Party moniker has been hijacked since the Truth Movement/Ron Paul movement got it going. The phrase “Tea Party” is now used to refer to a wing of the Republican Party by many authors. Also, at The Liberty Voice, we like to feature articles that are relevant to the Liberty Movement in general, whether or not we agree with all of the perspectives presented.
Dick Armey is so very “Tea Party”…
Michelle Bachman is so very “Tea Party”…
Dan Coats is so very “Tea Party”…
… and Sarah Palin is the keynote speaker at “Tea Party” conferences….
Whatever the origins were (which can be debated since we are not talking about a monolith here) seem to be immaterial at this point when considering what the “Tea Party” has become.
Now the Tea Party votes right along Neocon lines for PATRIOT Act extensions… and some want these 3 provisions made permanent…
Well all of them are americans, but that doesnt change what an american is. If however they turned out not to be american, or using the anaology a supporter of the original tea party then they are not tea party members. They would be frauds.