<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Garrett,<div><br></div><div>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!</div><div>The average colonist was happy being British! </div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div>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</div><div>steal it! The original so called "patriots" were nothing more than a bunch of folks with money trying to avoid taxes. Sound familiar? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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 </div><div>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</div><div>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</div><div>"patriots"?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div>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,</div><div>he not only owned slaves, but would bed them too! Or was that just for the benefit of the slaves?</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Garrett Clevenger wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks, Joe, you summed up well what I've been thinking.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The contemporary tea partiers are more like carpetbaggers in that regard, so it seems "teabagger" is a rather appropriate term.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Teabaggers, indeed.<br><br>Garrett Clevenger</div></td></tr></tbody></table>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</blockquote></div><br></body></html>