Comments for Tempest in a Tea Party at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.theind.com Fri, 24 May 2013 08:09:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-3214 OBama was elected cuz he'd knew how to play ball. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:44:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-2095 How much more evidence do you fools need to show you that Obama is just another proxy for the corporate, Wall Street dictatorship we have in this country - just like Bush? Can we grow up a little bit and stop making this about left vs right? Look at the Obama Deception film. It clearly shows how Obama is manufactured, who the playerz are behind Obama, how he wants to introduce "youth brigades" as big and as well funded as the US military. The bills have already gone through for this. The wars continue. The wiretapping continues. The torture continues. The secrecy continues. The looting of the treasury continues for the benefit of the big banks. Nothing Bush introduced has been repealed: Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, John Warner Defense Authorization Act, plus the countless executive orders. It's not all about Obama. The federal government is much bigger than Obama. - OhMyGaaaaawd Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:21:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-2086 Actually, the TEA party thing got started under Ron Paul's campaign last year. There were TEA parties going on then, but they weren't covered by the media because Ron Paul was virtually ignored. Those were truly grassroots and truly non-partisan. It recognized that there is essentially no difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to squeezing money out of the middle class. When Obama got elected, the TEA parties were hijacked by partisan hacks who did a good job at making it look spontaneous and grassroots. If you dig a little, you'll find that a lobbying group called FreedomWorks, headed by Republican hack Dick Armey, was behind it all...getting their cohorts on Fox News and other outlets to advertise it ad nauseum. So Tom, TEA parties did not start "under the current administration," but they did get more popular due to a very subtle, very clever push by Republican operatives. - JP Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:09:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-2083 As a precinct leader for C4L, I can tell you this. we need all of you to make the change that is much needed. I estimate that all but about a half dozen members of Congress are either corrupt or fachist-socialist. In otherwords Republocrats. There are real important issue coming up including the 2010 elections. I fear if we the people don't take America back by then it may be to late. So please don't argue with each other and save your power and energy for activism - Nicholas del Giudice Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:13:54 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-2064 Yeah, maybe constantly denigrating conservatives will drive us away......maybe....I wouldn't count on it. The only people who read your stuff are the brain-dead demo followers and the savvy neocons who like to see what the fringe left is up to. - Michael Ride Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:31:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/9-indnews/4735#comment-2063 The Tea Party got brewing in Lafayette? I would think not. It was a widespread spontaneous gathering of like-minded individuals, who saw the say as an outlet to vent their frustrations with the current administration's policies. Loosly organized groups formed with mostly the same goals in mind, some of whom decided to formally organize, while others loosly, in the spirit of keeping it a grass roots movement, remaining non-partisan. Some are ruled by committee, others by an elected "leader", and others are a matter of someone putting up a web site as an open forum. When egos and posturing get in the way, along with party affiliation (despite some of the "non-partisan" statements, that is when the spirit of the "movement" becomes muddied. As for TPL, there is no self appointed "leader", as far as I can tell, and the mission, as a matter of concensus, the same as any other group. All information that may be of interest is disseminated, thought the the fact that it is, does not necessarily mean it is "preached as gospel", and to be taken as food for thought. As adults, one can draw their own conclusions about the material presented. TPL, from what I can tell, is meant, as is LTP, to be loosely based means of a gathering in numbers, with other localities with their own set of issues, most of which are like minded, affiliating themselves in order to prioritize issues on the larger scale, and take actions as a collective, while the local groups discuss issues that pertain to their own localities. I personally cannot see how someone can get "fired" from what a truly grass roots movement. No one group invented the idea of gatherings, nor has any one particular "group" invented the idea of planning events and rallying citizens together. As for the rest of it, to me, it is a matter of ego's, personalities, and posturing that appears to be destroying the spirit of what was intended to be a truly grass roots oriented movement. - Tom Clark Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:18:25 +0100