[Vision2020] Teabaggers

[Wayne Price]

Garrett,

While the Tea Bag movement has hijacked the name, I'm not so sure they  
even realize what the 1770's movements were all about!
The average colonist was happy being British!

At that time in the colonies, TEA was not the drink of the average  
(read that as NOT wealthy) colonist.  Rather they drank cider, because  
they could make
it locally, and could afford it. Ever wonder why real tea chests of  
the period have a locks on them? Because it was expensive and the rich  
didn't want the servants to
steal it!   The original so called "patriots" were nothing more than a  
bunch of folks with money trying to avoid taxes. Sound familiar?


Same deal with the folks that shot at government troops on their way  
to and from Lexington and Concord to bring the GOVERNMENT owned arms  
and powder back
to Boston, so the colonists/traitors/early american terrorists   
couldn't use it. Can you imagine today if that happened? Makes me  
wonder what would happen if the
average citizens marched on the local National Guard armories so that  
they could prevent the government from using the arms! Think they  
would be considered
"patriots"?


I have to laugh when I see the fractured history that  George  
Nethercutt is trying to sell on TV..... Did the boy never read a  
history book!  I laughed when I saw one about
George Washington being anti-slavery!  One of the richest slave OWNERS  
in Virginia at the time! And then there is that scion of colonial  
america Thomas Jefferson,
he not only owned slaves, but would bed them too!  Or was that just  
for the benefit of the slaves?

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On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Garrett Clevenger wrote:

> Thanks, Joe, you summed up well what I've been thinking.
>
> It is rather presumptious of the teabaggers to think their "tea  
> party movement" is anything close to the real deal back when the  
> colonies were fighting for independence.
>
> The contemporary tea partiers are more like carpetbaggers in that  
> regard, so it seems "teabagger" is a rather appropriate term.
>
> I have no idea what the sexual definition of teabagger is and don't  
> really care to so when I say "teabagger" I'm describing "tea party"  
> people who are exploiting the patriotism of the Boston Tea Party.
>
> But are we really surprised that people who carry guns in the open  
> to rallies and shout down those who disagree with them would be  
> anything less than arrogant?
>
> Teabaggers, indeed.
>
> Garrett Clevenger
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