Tea Parties and the Screaming Media

We predicted over a year ago that the 9/12 march in Washington would be the Waterloo of the Pravda media. We were there; we saw the crowd size; we saw the gender, age and ethnic composition of the crowd; we saw the signs and the tone of the marchers. And we saw the non-coverage and non-grasp of it all by the so-called mainstream media outlets.

For the record one more time, it was the largest peaceful protest in the history of the United States of America, dwarfing the Vietnam war protests and civil rights protests. It represented the very best of America; people of all shapes, sizes, colors and bank accounts who love their country. There was no hate, but there was alertness and determination.

You read that right. It was the largest peaceful protest in the history of the United States of America—and the mainstream media of 2010 missed it entirely. Ever since that time, they have been scrambling to defend their extraordinary malfeasance in not covering the protest (and its many progeny), and most of their scrambling has been focused on delegitimizing the tea parties. Such as: tea partiers are fringe kooks far outside the political mainstream; they are rich people bothered by taxes; they are racists bothered by the skin color of the President; they are hicks and Bible-toting hayseeds.

In the homestretch leading to the November elections, the final tactic of the media will apparently be to cast tea partiers as wild-eyed, fire-breathing zealots seeking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Surely, Pravda believes, this tactic will be enough to stir a righteous indignation of the civilized among us to reject all this rabble-rousing and return the nation to its proper obeisance to the ruling class.

Not gonna happen.

Let’s explain with the simplest example. We’ll even set aside the giant elephant in the room, which is the reality now dawning throughout America that Obama committed massive fraud on the American electorate in 2008, and must be removed (lawfully and properly) from office.

Last March, the federal government, principally under the direction of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, went behind closed doors, handed out bribes to various members of Congress, and secured the votes necessary to nationalize the American healthcare system through a multi-thousand page monstrosity of a bill that not one of them had read.

This outrageous action was taken despite conclusive evidence that a large majority of Americans did not want them to pass the bill—and said so visibly, forcefully and repeatedly in every legal and peaceful way imaginable and available. And Congressional action was taken despite the fact that polls showed that 85% of Americans were satisfied with their healthcare. A ‘crisis’ was plainly contrived, and used to pursue a radical ideology-driven takeover of the best healthcare system in the world.

This was brazen, corrupt, authoritarian defiance of the will of the people on a scale never witnessed by Americans living today. No wonder it has called forth the memory of the original American tea party in Boston. The arrogance and defiance of King George toward the colonists had nothing on the arrogance and defiance of Obama, Reid and Pelosi toward the American people.

But to the great and everlasting credit of the American people, they did NOT respond with violence, but with resolve. Their most recent national protest gathering was Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on August 28, where more than a half million people marked their love of country with the collective singing of Amazing Grace. Now that’s a hateful, violence-inciting bunch of fringe kooks.

America exists today because the colonists found among themselves the kind of leaders who understood that lines have to be drawn; that people have the right to be free of autocratic, tyrannical government; that rights come from God and are inalienable—that these ideas were worth fighting for, as proven by a pledge of their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.

Here is a part of the founders’ Declaration of Independence not widely quoted:

“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The election in a little more than a week is the Constitutional means for keeping the republic the founding fathers established; it is the principal means of providing ‘new guards’ for Americans future security. Tea partiers are running for offices in this election, and will be voting in avalanche-level droves on November 2nd out of love for their country and respect for their Constitution. Pravda’s effort to cast the tea partiers’ motives or actions as advocating violent overthrow of the government are slanderous and offensive.

Tea partiers owe no apologies for being aligned with the spirit of America’s founding fathers. It is that spirit that tells Americans an outrageous, out-of-control government must be thrown out of office. This spirit never dies; it always impels—and it always, eventually wins. King George learned this the hard way; the American ruling class of 2010 is about to re-learn it—in 2010, and 2012, and 2014 and on and on.

Paul Gable

October 23, 2010