The Tea Party Movement in America
The Tea Party movement has experienced unprecedented growth in its number of participants by leaps and bounds in the last twelve months, covering every state in our union with each chapter saying the same thing: The government of the United States is no longer the government of an associated republic, but a consolidated democracy. It is no longer a free government, but an autocracy. It is, in fact, just such a government as Great Britain attempted to set over our forefathers, and which was resisted and defeated by a seven-year struggle for our independence.
This growing defiance against the current administration headed by Obama, Pelosi, Reed, and many others who believe the American people work only for them is fueled by our inherent desire for the basic freedoms and rights established by our Constitution. Since our foundation, this nation has exploded in population, experienced amazing development of our material and natural resources rapidly augmenting our personal wealth while creating happiness and contentment at home and honor abroad. However, with the newly elected fascist administration, the people of this country justly view with great alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government. We are demanding a return to a rigid economy with accountability and an arrest of the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored factions. We are imperatively demanding an overall change of administration to move toward a direction away from the fraud and corruption permeating our leadership.
The Tea Party now stands exactly in the same position toward our present government as the colonies did against England: the Party of the Federal Government with its majority control of Congress claim the same power of omnipotence in legislation as did the King of England. The Constitution claims the "general welfare" is the only limit to the perverted legislation being issued today, but because the majority party is in control, they are the sole judges of the expediency of the legislation this "general welfare" requires. Thus, the Government of the United States has become a consolidated Government and the citizens of this nation are compelled to meet that very despotism our forefathers rejected and overthrew by our Revolution of 1776.
Those who make up the Tea Party population, and those still to come, are fed up with the unjust taxes levied upon our properties, both personal and business. We are concerned about the loss of jobs available due to the outrageous taxes placed upon our domestic endeavors causing a vast number of companies providing those jobs to seek out foreign sources for production of goods. The laws surrounding the Obamacare fiasco has caused even more jobs to be lost because small companies cannot afford to provide the mandatory medical policies for their employees nor the penalties and fines incurred because of that failure. This administration has enacted even more laws which have paralyzed the growth of business in this country, consolidating themselves through a claim of limitless power, thus causing a gradual and steady encroachment, encouraged by apathy and submission on the part of the weak and gutless members of Congress. Therefore, it is not at all surprising, the character of the Government of the United States being what it is, that it should presume it has the unmitigated power over all the institutions of this great nation.
Our desires for this nation to turn away from the socialist agenda and the perversion of this current administration and back to the fundamentals of free enterprise. We wish to live without restrictive laws and promote unlimited growth in our economy and establish new goals for industrial and technical developments on our own as needs arise without federal regulatory shackles. While this paper is definitely modern in its content, it is merely a paraphrase of two works dating from 1860. If interested, to compare its wording with the original documents, use your web browser to find South Carolina’s Address to the Slaveholding States, written by C. G. Memminger and the Republican National Platform adopted in Chicago in 1860 as quoted by Edward McPherson’s Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion. History does repeat itself because we never learn from our mistakes the first time.