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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Fixed the link
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Yes Sir! that sounds right!!!
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Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
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Yes Sir! that sounds right!!!
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Good piece, horrid web site. I post the declaration here so you all don't have to sit thru the endless ads download.
A New Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events it again becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a failed authority and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God as well as our original, properly constituted laws entitle us, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Such has been the patient sufferance of we the people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to repair to their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President, his Congress, and our recalcitrant federal government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
It has abused its role over the law and instituted fiat rules that are detrimental to the common good - welfare, cap and trade, oppressive taxes, onerous regulation on business are recent examples.
It has forbidden governors of states to pass laws useful to local needs and has interfered in state business.
It has refused the right of local government to govern at home and has as a matter of course caused local legislators to carelessly assume they have no power.
It has defacto dissolved the authority of state governments so that the representatives of the people constantly defer to rule from Washington.
It has refused to secure the borders so that all manner of foreigners of the lowest station might flood these shores without hesitation while refusing to allow those foreigners with useful skills and education to enter and apply for citizenship.
It has allowed capricious courts to usurp proper legislative duties and to rule from the bench.
It has seated judges with no opposition or investigation and has not required judicial candidates to express an interest in the true meaning of the law of the land.
It has erected a multitude of new regulatory offices few of which have any basis in the Constitution and has as a form of graft filled them with friends, lobbyists, and placemen.
It has refused to properly fund our armies in times of peace without including graft and monies unconnected to the needs of our armed forces.
It has therefore interfered with the military stopping it from operating at peak efficiency.
It has conspired with powers outside our duly constituted authority to take away our constitutional rights, to subvert our national laws, and has given assent to forces such as the UN to rule us from afar without accountability. These outside forces are hateful of our system and desire it's end. Therefore we accuse our government of attacking us from inside.
For positing that UN forces are superior in authority to our own:
For signing treaties inimical to our national interests:
For cutting off free trade with worthy countries such as Colombia, yet opening trade with evil countries such as China:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us of our constitutional rights of property, life, and self-protection at every opportunity:
For creating rules that encroach on freedom of religion:
For increasing the size of government to never before seen size and power in a manner against our founding principles and for purposefully creating chaos in business, banking, and every other area of the private sector with never ending regulations that strangle, confuse, and stifle American growth:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
And for corrupting our legislatures with federal largess and assuming unto the federal government all powers to rule from Washington D.C.
It has abdicated its Constitutional role and essentially come to see the people as an enemy and waged philosophical war against us.
It has plundered our businesses with overweening regulations, capriciously outlawed entire fields of business, and burdened the lives of the people with oppressive taxes.
It has created an army of police, taxmen and regulators to fan out across the land to assault and imprison our citizens, to confiscate lands to federal ownership and to lay waste the economy and bring our people into a form of dependency akin to slavery.
It has often sent our armed forces to foreign nations without a proper mission, held back necessary funding, and burdened it with untenable "rules of engagement" which has limited our troop's ability to fight to win, and has allowed barbarous enemies to gain the upper hand on the battle field.
It has attempted to separate the citizenry into warring factions yet has allowed our enemy to easily enter the country and perpetrate a merciless Muslim warfare which is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, religions and American institutions and intends enslavement of us all.
In every stage of these violations millions of citizens have gathered in the streets to protest these government outrages yet no heed has been paid to the agony of the people in its hallowed halls.
Nor have we been heard by our Democrat brethren. We have warned them of the destruction of the American rule of law, yet they are uninterested in this plight. We have appealed to their love of country and we have reminded them of the glorious history of our great nation to no avail. They have turned a deaf ear to Constitutionality, a cold shoulder to our American character, and our law and we find their sympathies lie with Europeans instead of their fellow Americans.
We must, therefore, consider them enemies of our national interests, safety, health, and welfare.
We, therefore, the representatives of the American tradition and character assemble as citizens proud of our history and institutions, and in the tradition of our national power being held in the hands of the people, assert our loyalty to our true American system. We hold this government to be illegitimate by its usurpation of power and its obviation of our laws. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence that has been rejected by our enemies, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
A New Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events it again becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a failed authority and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God as well as our original, properly constituted laws entitle us, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Such has been the patient sufferance of we the people; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to repair to their former Systems of Government. The history of the present President, his Congress, and our recalcitrant federal government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
It has abused its role over the law and instituted fiat rules that are detrimental to the common good - welfare, cap and trade, oppressive taxes, onerous regulation on business are recent examples.
It has forbidden governors of states to pass laws useful to local needs and has interfered in state business.
It has refused the right of local government to govern at home and has as a matter of course caused local legislators to carelessly assume they have no power.
It has defacto dissolved the authority of state governments so that the representatives of the people constantly defer to rule from Washington.
It has refused to secure the borders so that all manner of foreigners of the lowest station might flood these shores without hesitation while refusing to allow those foreigners with useful skills and education to enter and apply for citizenship.
It has allowed capricious courts to usurp proper legislative duties and to rule from the bench.
It has seated judges with no opposition or investigation and has not required judicial candidates to express an interest in the true meaning of the law of the land.
It has erected a multitude of new regulatory offices few of which have any basis in the Constitution and has as a form of graft filled them with friends, lobbyists, and placemen.
It has refused to properly fund our armies in times of peace without including graft and monies unconnected to the needs of our armed forces.
It has therefore interfered with the military stopping it from operating at peak efficiency.
It has conspired with powers outside our duly constituted authority to take away our constitutional rights, to subvert our national laws, and has given assent to forces such as the UN to rule us from afar without accountability. These outside forces are hateful of our system and desire it's end. Therefore we accuse our government of attacking us from inside.
For positing that UN forces are superior in authority to our own:
For signing treaties inimical to our national interests:
For cutting off free trade with worthy countries such as Colombia, yet opening trade with evil countries such as China:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us of our constitutional rights of property, life, and self-protection at every opportunity:
For creating rules that encroach on freedom of religion:
For increasing the size of government to never before seen size and power in a manner against our founding principles and for purposefully creating chaos in business, banking, and every other area of the private sector with never ending regulations that strangle, confuse, and stifle American growth:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
And for corrupting our legislatures with federal largess and assuming unto the federal government all powers to rule from Washington D.C.
It has abdicated its Constitutional role and essentially come to see the people as an enemy and waged philosophical war against us.
It has plundered our businesses with overweening regulations, capriciously outlawed entire fields of business, and burdened the lives of the people with oppressive taxes.
It has created an army of police, taxmen and regulators to fan out across the land to assault and imprison our citizens, to confiscate lands to federal ownership and to lay waste the economy and bring our people into a form of dependency akin to slavery.
It has often sent our armed forces to foreign nations without a proper mission, held back necessary funding, and burdened it with untenable "rules of engagement" which has limited our troop's ability to fight to win, and has allowed barbarous enemies to gain the upper hand on the battle field.
It has attempted to separate the citizenry into warring factions yet has allowed our enemy to easily enter the country and perpetrate a merciless Muslim warfare which is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, religions and American institutions and intends enslavement of us all.
In every stage of these violations millions of citizens have gathered in the streets to protest these government outrages yet no heed has been paid to the agony of the people in its hallowed halls.
Nor have we been heard by our Democrat brethren. We have warned them of the destruction of the American rule of law, yet they are uninterested in this plight. We have appealed to their love of country and we have reminded them of the glorious history of our great nation to no avail. They have turned a deaf ear to Constitutionality, a cold shoulder to our American character, and our law and we find their sympathies lie with Europeans instead of their fellow Americans.
We must, therefore, consider them enemies of our national interests, safety, health, and welfare.
We, therefore, the representatives of the American tradition and character assemble as citizens proud of our history and institutions, and in the tradition of our national power being held in the hands of the people, assert our loyalty to our true American system. We hold this government to be illegitimate by its usurpation of power and its obviation of our laws. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence that has been rejected by our enemies, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Interesting, but this part bothers me:
While the Democrat's have the power today, it isn't just them that this needs addressed to. E.g. a couple weeks ago it was reported that the Republican leadership is actually contemplating not revoking the health care bill if they win big in November, but just saying lots of nasty things about it. They want you to think they don't like it, but won't lift a finger to actually get rid of it.Nor have we been heard by our Democrat brethren. We have warned them of the destruction of the American rule of law, yet they are uninterested in this plight. We have appealed to their love of country and we have reminded them of the glorious history of our great nation to no avail. They have turned a deaf ear to Constitutionality, a cold shoulder to our American character, and our law and we find their sympathies lie with Europeans instead of their fellow Americans.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Far too many freaking RINO's of the old school out there who think they can use the same old playbook as before,,,they need to be sent packing too.
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The problem we have with our leadership today is NOT just with one party, it is with the leadership as a group! The whole group needs to be removed and our goverment restore. We are in the 1770's all over again and we are being asked to take the same steps again. History DOES repeat itself. Mr obama has brought one good thing to Washington. IT WOKE EVERYONE UP. His job is done now he can leave.
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Exactly. I can count on both hands the number of current politicians who should stay. Doesn't matter what house or party they hail from either.Paliden wrote:The problem we have with our leadership today is NOT just with one party, it is with the leadership as a group! The whole group needs to be removed and our goverment restore. We are in the 1770's all over again and we are being asked to take the same steps again. History DOES repeat itself. Mr obama has brought one good thing to Washington. IT WOKE EVERYONE UP. His job is done now he can leave.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Move that the above be amended to read:
Nor have we been heard by our Elected Government. We have warned them of the destruction of the American rule of law, yet they are uninterested in this plight. We have appealed to their love of country and we have reminded them of the glorious history of our great nation to no avail. While some have attempted to bring our voice to The Capitol, most have turned a deaf ear to Constitutionality, a cold shoulder to our American character, and our law and we find their sympathies lie with Europeans instead of their fellow Americans.
Nor have we been heard by our Elected Government. We have warned them of the destruction of the American rule of law, yet they are uninterested in this plight. We have appealed to their love of country and we have reminded them of the glorious history of our great nation to no avail. While some have attempted to bring our voice to The Capitol, most have turned a deaf ear to Constitutionality, a cold shoulder to our American character, and our law and we find their sympathies lie with Europeans instead of their fellow Americans.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Great. A new DOI. What's next? Read your history texts to find out...
No more catchy slogans for me...I am simply fed up...4...four...4...2+2...
Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
I have to agree. Be they Democrats or Republicans, we, the People, are not being listened to. I cannot in good conscience vote for either anymore.
So, folks, what are we going to DO about it? For the conservatives on this board, are you just going to vote for the Republicans (who won't really listen to us)? And for my fellow liberals on this board, are you just going to vote for the Democrats (who won't really listen to us)?
Time to start seriously considering the Libertarians, I'd say. They've got the best chance at winning elections if we actually get behind them and actually vote that way.
So, folks, what are we going to DO about it? For the conservatives on this board, are you just going to vote for the Republicans (who won't really listen to us)? And for my fellow liberals on this board, are you just going to vote for the Democrats (who won't really listen to us)?
Time to start seriously considering the Libertarians, I'd say. They've got the best chance at winning elections if we actually get behind them and actually vote that way.
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Time to start seriously considering the Libertarians, I'd say. They've got the best chance at winning elections if we actually get behind them and actually vote that way.[/quote]
Here is the problem, you can't vote by party. You must vote on the individual and make sure his/her beliefs are in the founding fathers, Bill of Rights and OUR Constitution AND they understand if they do not represent us that they will suffer like those come November 2010 will. Make no mistake we will be heard in November one way or another.
Here is the problem, you can't vote by party. You must vote on the individual and make sure his/her beliefs are in the founding fathers, Bill of Rights and OUR Constitution AND they understand if they do not represent us that they will suffer like those come November 2010 will. Make no mistake we will be heard in November one way or another.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Paliden, you are correct. I think that is CowboyT was trying to point out. I think he used the libertarian party in his example because they haven't won any elections so generally you don't have the power hungry joining their party. Mostly the ideological. If we assume we did jump behind their good candidates and they did start winning elections, you can be certain the trash will follow. Just like how Republicans jumped on board the Tea Party, but mostly to hijack it.Paliden wrote:Here is the problem, you can't vote by party. You must vote on the individual and make sure his/her beliefs are in the founding fathers, Bill of Rights and OUR Constitution AND they understand if they do not represent us that they will suffer like those come November 2010 will. Make no mistake we will be heard in November one way or another.CowboyT wrote:Time to start seriously considering the Libertarians, I'd say. They've got the best chance at winning elections if we actually get behind them and actually vote that way.
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An issue that will be hard to overcome is getting enough support behind a non party candidate,, There will be many not as active as we are and all they will see is a couple of grinning idiots saying Vote For Me,,, no matter who gets the nod we DO need to let them know that if they fail us .we WILL respond in a very negative way,,,
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
It's funny - at long last my exasperation with both the GOP and DEM parties is being understood by friends. They now share the same concern about the direction of the nation and worry about large scale insurrection.
Some of them have even encouraged me to run for political office, but I don't think a fiscally conservative, military-friendly, think-abortion-or-gay-marriage-is-an-individual-decision, libertarian-leaning candidate would get far.
Some of them have even encouraged me to run for political office, but I don't think a fiscally conservative, military-friendly, think-abortion-or-gay-marriage-is-an-individual-decision, libertarian-leaning candidate would get far.
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I agree with Palliden. Party lines dont get it. Elected officials must demonstrate FIRST that they uphold and follow the Constitution SECOND listen to the people. The reason I say this is you have many citizens that dont care about the Constitution or BOR. The lawmakers duty is to uphold them on OUR behalf. If the majority doesnt want that then there is a process to change the Constitution BUT it must be upheld before the voice of we the people...excepting those asking that it be upheld of course. Too many morons out there that vote themselves freebies and the politicians cater to them because they are quickly becoming a majority...
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Ah, the difference between a democracy and a republic.zephyp wrote:I agree with Palliden. Party lines dont get it. Elected officials must demonstrate FIRST that they uphold and follow the Constitution SECOND listen to the people. The reason I say this is you have many citizens that dont care about the Constitution or BOR. The lawmakers duty is to uphold them on OUR behalf. If the majority doesnt want that then there is a process to change the Constitution BUT it must be upheld before the voice of we the people...excepting those asking that it be upheld of course. Too many morons out there that vote themselves freebies and the politicians cater to them because they are quickly becoming a majority...
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Far too many of our citizens haven't got a clue what either of those documents says.. Seems the country has had a big dumbing down along with the sit on your ass and collect money entitlements crowd.Getting the message to educate people so that they actually understand the issues is the hardest part. Politicains do not give a damn about what's right for the country,only them and their private agendas. That is what we have to put an end to and soon or Obamas perverted machine is going to roll this country into a failed experiment that she may not come back from.
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I don't know how many of you really know much about the tea parties or even how they got started. But they were NOT started by one person, they were started by an idea that went into homes, bars and water coolers, very much like our forefathers did many years ago. Like minded people, very ordinary people everyday people, people who on a daily basis make this country run. These people are farmers, doctors, technicians, cooks, housewives, just plain folks who are tried with the corruption.
We started out seeking out others like ourselves one day after Glenn Beck told his listeners "you go find people like yourselves and talk to each other" that was his involvement! From that point we meet. I meet with a group in Hopewell and found out I was not alone in my thoughts. Soon we were millions across the country. We are not a political party! We will vote Dem, Rep, Impendent or whatever. Who ever we support will follow the believes of our Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They will also know they will be watched on everything they do. They will also know we put them in and WE DAMN SURE WILL TAKE THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
It may take a while to drill it in their thick heads but they will learn.
Yes I've been asked many times to run for office and many of the tea party members are doing just that today. God bless them. Me, I'm a little, ok a lot, I'm just a little to matter of fact in my old age. Some of you are not, so consider it. This is how we got started back into the 1700's!
So now you know just a little about the tea parties
We started out seeking out others like ourselves one day after Glenn Beck told his listeners "you go find people like yourselves and talk to each other" that was his involvement! From that point we meet. I meet with a group in Hopewell and found out I was not alone in my thoughts. Soon we were millions across the country. We are not a political party! We will vote Dem, Rep, Impendent or whatever. Who ever we support will follow the believes of our Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They will also know they will be watched on everything they do. They will also know we put them in and WE DAMN SURE WILL TAKE THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
It may take a while to drill it in their thick heads but they will learn.
Yes I've been asked many times to run for office and many of the tea party members are doing just that today. God bless them. Me, I'm a little, ok a lot, I'm just a little to matter of fact in my old age. Some of you are not, so consider it. This is how we got started back into the 1700's!
So now you know just a little about the tea parties
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
Gunderwood, you are correct when you say I simply used the Libertarians as an example. I could've said the Constitiution Party, the Green Party, or any other. The Libertarians simply happen to be among the more well-known of the "other parties" at this point. Would you believe that *I* was at the Tea Party last year? Yes, I, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, was at the Sep. 12, 2009 Tea Party, wearing an empty holster in peaceful protest.
For me, the true spirit of the Tea Party isn't about "a bunch of conservatives" gathering in protest, though my observation was that the vast majority of the attendees were conservatives. It was really about--again, for me--saying "Enough, Feds! You have stepped on my rights and disappointed me far too much for me to just stay home!" Unfortunately, some folks in the Tea Party movement have used it to "spew vitriol at the Democrats." While the Democrats truly deserve vitriol, that's not what the focus is supposed to be. It's supposed to be "preserving our rights", REGARDLESS of which Party happens to be in power at that moment.
If we allow the Republicans to take over the Tea Party movement, and we all know that they are really trying, then all that effort will have been for naught.
What we need now is a revolution in how we, the electorate, choose to think and act. We're mad as hell, eh? OK, what are we going to do about it? I know what I'm going to do, and that's vote for the Constitutional candidate, even if I have to write that person in.
For me, the true spirit of the Tea Party isn't about "a bunch of conservatives" gathering in protest, though my observation was that the vast majority of the attendees were conservatives. It was really about--again, for me--saying "Enough, Feds! You have stepped on my rights and disappointed me far too much for me to just stay home!" Unfortunately, some folks in the Tea Party movement have used it to "spew vitriol at the Democrats." While the Democrats truly deserve vitriol, that's not what the focus is supposed to be. It's supposed to be "preserving our rights", REGARDLESS of which Party happens to be in power at that moment.
If we allow the Republicans to take over the Tea Party movement, and we all know that they are really trying, then all that effort will have been for naught.
What we need now is a revolution in how we, the electorate, choose to think and act. We're mad as hell, eh? OK, what are we going to do about it? I know what I'm going to do, and that's vote for the Constitutional candidate, even if I have to write that person in.
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Re: Declaration of Independence for a New Revolution
+++++1CowboyT wrote:Gunderwood, you are correct when you say I simply used the Libertarians as an example. I could've said the Constitiution Party, the Green Party, or any other. The Libertarians simply happen to be among the more well-known of the "other parties" at this point. Would you believe that *I* was at the Tea Party last year? Yes, I, a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, was at the Sep. 12, 2009 Tea Party, wearing an empty holster in peaceful protest.
For me, the true spirit of the Tea Party isn't about "a bunch of conservatives" gathering in protest, though my observation was that the vast majority of the attendees were conservatives. It was really about--again, for me--saying "Enough, Feds! You have stepped on my rights and disappointed me far too much for me to just stay home!" Unfortunately, some folks in the Tea Party movement have used it to "spew vitriol at the Democrats." While the Democrats truly deserve vitriol, that's not what the focus is supposed to be. It's supposed to be "preserving our rights", REGARDLESS of which Party happens to be in power at that moment.
If we allow the Republicans to take over the Tea Party movement, and we all know that they are really trying, then all that effort will have been for naught.
What we need now is a revolution in how we, the electorate, choose to think and act. We're mad as hell, eh? OK, what are we going to do about it? I know what I'm going to do, and that's vote for the Constitutional candidate, even if I have to write that person in.
No more catchy slogans for me...I am simply fed up...4...four...4...2+2...