Lying to the American people is a time honored pastime which has evolved into a fine art by our government.
The story of the Boston Tea Party, the real story, is much more fun than the government sponsored version, and I'll present it to you, dear reader, just as a backdrop to what is going on in 2010, with the emergence of a new Tea Party.
In December 1773, three British ships arrived in Boston harbor, laden with cheap Dutch East India tea. This company was going bankrupt, with a million pounds of tea starting to rot in their London warehouses. They decided to ship their tea to America, to be sold at fire sale prices. Good for them, good for American tea buyers.
Samuel Adams and John Hancock had been making their fortunes by smuggling cheap Dutch tea into America, undercutting the price established by the Dutch East India Company. This was one of the reasons that the British company was in dire financial straits. Americans were buying the cheap, smuggled tea, not theirs.
When Adams and Hancock beheld these 3 ships in their harbor, they saw their businesses on the brink of extinction, with their warehouses full of smuggled Dutch tea having its value cut in half. The two American patriots convinced the locals that if they allowed the cheap British tea into America, the tea would be followed by other cheap British commodities, ruining their American businesses. This was a lie, but believed well enough so that about 50 or so patriotic Americans were convinced to embarrass themselves by dressing up like American Indians, going out to the British ships, and with great encouragement from Hancock and Adams, smashed open the boxes of British tea and tossed them into Boston Harbor.
The businesses of Adams and Hancock were saved, and today we have at least two monuments to these American patriots in the form of a huge building in Boston named for Hancock, and a damn fine beer named for Adams.
Fast forward to 2010 and the emergence of a political group of angry Americans named for the original Boston Tea Party. The engine driving this new force is anger over the Democrat controlled government that is lying to the American people, continuing this fine old tradition. What they are trying to convince the people to do, though, is not to toss cheap tea overboard, but to believe that they, our rulers, know what they are doing, will fix the economy, will keep all of us safe from nut cases like the Underwear Bomber, will give all Americans the very best health care system in the world, and on and on.
It ain't so, and millions of Americans are waking up to the realization that the Democrats/Liberals/President Obama don't have a clue about how to fix the things that are destroying our country, yet they are pressing down harder on the accelerator of a vehicle called "America," which has now gone off the edge of a cliff. It is like what happens in a cartoon, when one of the characters is running full speed away from something and can't stop in time and goes off the edge of the cliff and, for a moment or two, is suspended in midair, while the realization of where he is shows on his face. The last horrified words he utters are lost as gravity takes effect and he plummets to the ground, landing with a loud "Plop."
Miraculously, the cartoon character appears in the next scene, seemingly in perfect health despite falling a thousand feet to the ground. This works in cartoons, and does not work in the life of a country. Millions of horrified Americans are joining the Tea Party movement, as it becomes clear to them that we've gone off a cliff, time is up and the country is in free fall with the ground coming up fast.
With the country being driven away from the conservative values that made us great, the Democrats and President Obama are destroying the quality of our lives. Health care, the value of our money, crumbling infrastructure unnoticed and unattended, families destroyed when its wage earner loses a job and cannot find another, families living in a car when their home is foreclosed. Big government is on a rampage, stealing the wealth from the very people who built our greatness, restricting our movements and individual freedoms, scaring the hell out of us with periodic announcements of a coming devastating attack on "one of our cities, by someone we can't identify, at a time we cannot predict," but don't worry, WE'LL protect you. All you have to do is trust us. Yeah, sure. Thanks, Big Brother.
This is said on the front steps of a building that houses billions of dollars that are being shoveled out the back door into a long line of trucks with corporate names painted on their sides. A few billion gets shoveled into an agency called the TSA, which hires incompetent people not even qualified to bag groceries, to frisk everyone at our airports, or to sit at a screen of a super expensive snooping device that act like Superman's x-ray vision, and undresses us all to these mouth breathing louts.
Our rulers know that spending billions of dollars at our airports has gotten to its end game with the placing of these "x-ray" machines. They can't go any further than getting down to our skin, and they also know that the next attempt at blowing up an American plane may come from a woman suicide bomber whose breast implants are a form of plastic explosive. Take that, Uncle Sam, you and your expensive technologies. We need protection, yes, but it needs to be realistic protection. The Israeli's have been successful for decades, protecting their flying citizens without a TSA. Why not "go to school" on their efforts? Do what they do.
Angry Americans are waking up to the truths of what this Democrat controlled government is REALLY all about. It's all about control and the exercise of power over the people. It's all about creating a society that wrenches away control of our lives and puts it in the hands of a few power and money hungry elected officials. It's all about making us all "equal," with no reward for excellence but medals for the mediocre. It didn't work in the Soviet Union or China and it especially won't work here. Tea Party-ers know this and they are mad and won't take it any more. This amazing movement back to conservative values is spontaneous and widespread, too widespread for the little people in Washington to stamp out. It's a play coming to a theater near you. You should buy tickets to it.
Allan Sanford Allan Sanford writes for the conservative web site http://www.JIPW.com/ His articles deal mainly with the deceit and deceptions of our elected officials. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Allan_Sanford |
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