Conservatives and libertarians around the country have been organizing protests against the government bailouts and stimulus plans – and mounting trillion dollar debt obligations – called “Tea Parties,” in homage to the Boston Tea Party. The mainstream media is for the most part not covering them.
There are tea parties planned all over the US for tax day, April 15. Take a look at this map. It takes a few seconds to load, but when it does the map shows flags indicating everywhere there will be a tea party.
I’m not so crazy about the name, but I think it’s a good idea for people to get together and let the government know that it is not on the right track. We do not want enormous debt, expanded government powers, and loss of freedom.
There will be tea parties in Montpelier and Rutland on the 15th. More info on the Vermont tea parties here.
I’ll be at the Montpelier event.
You can find out about tea parties in other states at taxdayteaparty.com.
April 8th, 2009 at 11:03 am
From the tea party site, verbatim:
During Rick’s Rant (see Links below), he spontainiously called for a “Chicago Tea Party” where advocates of the free-market system–capitalists–could join in a protest against out of control
government spending.
Just a few days later, grassroots activists and average Joe “Plummer” Americans began organizing what would soon become the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party effort. On February 27th, an estimated
30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities accross the country in the first nationwide
“Tea Party” protest.
Good to know you people are looking to such brilliant, educated minds for guidance. Good luck with that. Hundreds of “thousands”? Try “hundreds”. Where were all you people when Bush was actually assaulting our civil liberties for real? Crickets.