Nothing Like A Tea Party
The Americans have something for tea parties… and they are just getting started.
What strikes me is the civility of these protests compared to the ones the Democrats held over the past 8 years. Speaks to the sanity of the protesters. Plus, their signs are literate and have an absence of hate.
You can see a lot more of the protest videos here.
We probably won’t see these in Canada as the economy crumbles. But, imagine if the coalition had succeeded.
We would have seen the Liberals and NDP using the crisis as an excuse to tax us more, and make us completely beholden to government with the massive spending that would have followed.
I’m hoping that Harper doesn’t get to spend the stimulus, and that Canada escapes the perverse concept of government spending to get out of a recession. The American spending will have a spill-over effect we’ll benefit from – without borrowing ourselves into a hole.
Canadian business and banks seem to be coping fine so far (compared to the rest of the world)… let’s let the correction run its course and we’ll be first out of the recession.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:32 am
If I actually see tea dumped into a waterways in the states of Washington or Oregon I will demand prosecution of those responsible for a water pollution violation. The value of tea for people may have good or bad consequences, but any protest tea dumping in the Northwest can only be done over a drain that leads to a sewage treatment plant. If you were an endangered Northwest Salmon, how healthy do you think it would be to swim through a cloud of tea?
Fox News has reported a Boston Tea Party style event in Vancouver, WA, where I live, but if true at all, it must have been a tea party of the social event kind. Those do happen here. Maybe Fox had a margin of truth since they showed a tea bag.
The Pacific Northwest is the most civil area I have ever lived in and most of us are environmentally aware. It shows in recycling participation and many other kinds of behavior by the average person.
Respectful protests of any kind over anything are well accepted, but most of us pay attention to politics only close to an election, so protests are generally wasted.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Remember that after a protest both the wood post and a cardboard sign can be recycled and made into new products rather than adding volume to trash dumps.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I want to have a tea party and you are invited. As a matter of fact you can help me plan it. We need to stick together, there is no need to dump tea in any drain or water way. It is the idea of concern for our freedoms, liberties, taxes,and constitution that we do this. We have to stand together. Our government is ’suppose’ to represent what the people want and protect our constitutional rights – they have to swear to this in order to take office. But over the past SEVERAL years, they are not listening to us.
I have written our congress and senate reps, and local reps on the spending and taxation. I get a canned letter back. I realize they can’t answer all questions, but it would be nice to post on their website concerns that constituents have, just to let us know they really are listening to us and possible will do something about it.
That is what the tea parties are all about and http://www.the912project.com – It is not about threatening anyone or anything, it is about protecting our constitutional rights. ‘We the people’ need to come together more in times that threaten our brothers and sisters, where unemployment continues to grow, jobs are eliminated or moved overseas, where those that have worked hard all their lives can not retire because of the losses in their retirements funds. We need to see these people face to face, hear them, possible help them – what better way than ‘a tea party’.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:42 am
I am a small business owner going down. I think the only way we are bring our children home from war is that they will be ordered to put us in our place by our government, I’m all for protest and for our government to do the right thing, Martial law, gunning down Americans that are just trying to raise families and be good citizens. I am giving hospice to my mother, I feel like when she goes , I want to go with her.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am
For those of you who did not do your homework, the recent tea parties did not dump tea in any way. They were protests done in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, specifically protesting the high tax rates such as those that sparked our revolution and separation from England. All of the complaining about the environment and civility should do five minutes of research before posting. As an aside, the tax rate that so enraged the founding fathers was approximately 15%.