My Tea Party Manifesto - And Response (4)

With the recent Supreme Court ruling - it's time for each Tea Party member
to look inside of themselves and decide what they want as individuals.
Remember, there is no person or organization that runs the Tea Party
(despite what the media and TP detractors say) this includes the local Tea
Party - we are individuals that get together here in Chattanooga on a
monthly basis to learn and talk, then make up our own minds as to what we
want to do. It's often the same thing since we come from a similar
background of thought.

The TP was responsible for the Republicans winning elections in 2010, and
most TP members will work hard to get Republicans elected in 2012,
especially true conservative candidates running against the Republican
establishment. But for my personal Tea Party, this will be the last time. I
find the Republican Party only marginally better than the Democrats. Both
parties have led us to the brink of disaster with their spending. At least
the Democrats do what the say they will do, the Republicans keep saying they
are for limited government, fiscally conservative spending, and free markets
- then they increase the size of the Federal government, spend gobs of money
while raising the debt ceiling, and partake of the same crony capitalism as
the Democrats.

My solution is that after the 2012 elections, if the Republicans continue to
govern in the same big government manner, I will look to third party
candidates. It's a long road to haul and will be marked with few if any
victories, but I can not continue to reward a Republican Congress or
Presidency that talks one way and governs another. There are some great
Republicans in office today and I will support them as well as any Democrats
that mirror my beliefs - but no longer will I blindly support all of them.
I'm sure many other TP'ers feel the same way. It will hurt us in the short
run as big government Democrats win elections over Republicans - but in the
long run it may just be what needs to be done. No more helping someone get
elected and then being marginalized.
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One last thing - The difference between the TP and OWS and the left - after
the Court ruling which we disagree with, the TP isn't out violently
protesting, rioting, or breaking windows, we are working within the confines
of the rules to correct what we see is the loss of our individual freedoms
and the destruction of the constitution.

Gregg Juster

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Mr. Juster says the Tea Party doesn't condone violence or vandalism. Apparently Mr. Juster is ignoring that ex-militia blogger and Fox News commentator, Mike Vanderboegh, who advocated breaking windows of elected officials when Healthcare Reform passed.
 
Mississippi Tea Party Chairman, Roy Nicholson, Just released a statement encouraging arm insurrection in response to recent ruling. The modern Tea Party, unlike the historic one,  is the rabble of corporate elite and unwilling to challenge growing corporate power in our society.

R.W. Young
rwyoung@operamail.com

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As the founder of the Chattanooga Tea Party, I can assure Mr. Young that our grassroots organization not only doesn't condone violence or vandalism, but we denounce it.  Apparently Mr. Young has purposefully bought into the main stream media's continuous drone about a host of malicious lies about the tea party.  Furthermore, while Mr. Young and the MSM are eager to ascribe imaginative falsehoods to the tea party or rely on distortions, he and the MSM are all to willing to ignore the despicable truths of the Occupy Wall Street movement which included rapes, vandalism, rioting, public defecating, public sex, attacks on the police and on and on.  Should we assume that Mr. Young is ok with this type of behavior?

I'd be glad to compare photos of every public park the Chattanooga Tea Party has paid to use (yes, I said "paid" to use) after we finished our events or rallies with the condition of the lawn at the Hamilton County courthouse following the multiple-months encampment by the local chapter of the Occupy Wall Street.  Did Mr. Young denounce the local OWS group's destruction of public property which has resulted in a cost to local taxpayers?  Or is that acceptable to Mr. Young? 

Finally, as one who has been engaged in the local tea party movement from day one I challenge Mr. Young on his incredulous statement concerning the Chattanooga Tea Party being the "rabble of corporate elite." 

For all those thousands of ordinary, hard working Chattanoogans who have not only attended our annual rallies but who have frequented our monthly meetings (which by the way are the 3rd Thursday of every month), Mr. Young, in using the term "rabble" has just insulted these law abiding citizens, suggesting that they are a disorderly crowd or mob (according to the definition of "rabble").   Anyone who has an honest bone in his body knows that this is totally false.  There are ample videos online to discredit Mr. Young on this falsehood and to confirm the peaceful nature of our local rallies as well as the thousands of other tea party rallies across this great nation.

So, I must agree with Mr. Juster's remarks regarding his personal tea party manifesto.  The grassroots outcry that gained national attention as millions of Americans assembled on April 15, 2009 to announce that we were "Taxed Enough Already" continues three and a half years later.  And that outcry, which began as a non-partisan denunciation of both political parties for their respective roles in the decline of our nation and the mortgaging of our nation's economic future, is even more urgent today as a result of President Obama and Congress' role in adding another $6,000,000,000,000 (yes, that's six trillion dollars).  And note that I included Congress as they have failed the American people by refusing to act as the firewall against an out of control Administration who is intent on bankrupting our nation.

So if you are as concerned as tens of millions of other Americans, I challenge you to get up and do something about it.  Join us if you care to.  But when it's all said and done, make your voice heard.  Hold politicians accountable, both locally and nationally.  If there is any hope for our nation it will only occur as YOU personally begin to take action. 

Finally, but most importantly, will you join me in praying and following the challenge of 2 Chronicles 7:14? 

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land." 

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Mark D. West
Chattanooga Tea Party

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I have a question for Mr. Juster and Mr. West : Where were you and the rest of the Johnny-come lately tea party in 2004? It was us “Commie-pinko’s” that were protesting cutting taxes while waging an immoral (besides unconstitutional and criminal) war that was kept off the accounting books. Where were you when Vice President (Darth) Chaney said deficits didn’t matter? It was us protesting “free speech zones”, the unPatriot Act ( a provision in which government agents can come into your home without a search warrant or your knowledge and download the hard drive of your computer), and the malfeasance of the banking industry and Wall Street. Ohhh, I forgot, the guy in the White House was batting for your team. And golly gee all of these problems magically appeared in November 2008. By the way, Mr. West, tax collection and rates are at the lowest in over 60 years and the promise of “jobs, jobs, and more jobs” is a rotten egg laid by the same goose that promised the same thing when the taxes were cut in 2004. Which never happened. The corporations took the savings and paid it to themselves through dividends.