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Topic started on 24-3-2009 @ 10:13 AM by Sliick
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On April 1st, our establishment will know that our freedom to succeed can no longer be sacrificed at the risk of our future. With sincerity and respect, we ask that you join us on April 1st, 2009, in sending the Oval Office a Tea Bag, in honor of the party in Boston on December 16, 1773, and in anticipation of its nationwide symbolic re-enactment in the summer of 2009.


On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and has often been referenced in other political protests.

It is time again. Time to send a message to these tyrants. Time to let them know (peacefully) that we have had it. We are tired of having our freedoms stolen from us. Tired of being lied to. Tired of being taxed illegally. Tired of all the racial instigation (I don't give a damn if you're black, white, yellow, brown, or green with pink polka dots) Tired of our country being torn apart. Most of all, I'm tired of seeing what we've become, the bully.

One week from tomorrow (April 1st) I will send a teabag to the white house to let them know that I have had it. No, this isn't a joke. Tell them how you feel.

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

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reply posted on 24-3-2009 @ 11:23 AM by Sliick
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It doesn't just make a statement, it screams one. Back in 1773, It really pissed the king off. Must have been big back then, so it will be huge now.


reply posted on 24-3-2009 @ 01:49 PM by kidflash2008
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I do hope that President Obama does the right thing and appoints a special prosecutor to prosecute the war crimes committed by the past Administration. We need to be looked at as the leaders of freedom, not the torturers of peoples.

People need to send a letter instead to demand the prosecution of such crimes. We as a nation condone them if we let the perpetrators get away with them.

The Japanese generals were sentenced to death for waterboarding, the same crime "okayed" by the last Administration. We are no better than past dictators and criminals if nothing is done.


reply posted on 20-5-2009 @ 05:07 PM by Sestias
Well duh. . .

The original Boston Tea Party was among other things about taxation without representation. There was nobody to advocate for the colonies in Great Britain so they had no voice in the taxation process.

You teabaggers have representation -- in the House and Senate and in your state and local governments. Your power is in the ballot box. You have it, you just don't like it. You're not in the majority anymore, Toto.

In the original Boston Tea Party the perpetrators tried to shift blame onto native Americans by dressing up as Indians, complete with war paint. The disguise didn't work too well, but the fact remains that they tried. At least the teabaggers have the good grace not to blame a minority group this time, though I sense a certain animosity toward a particular black man.

Last, but not least, you teabaggers forget Herbert Hoover. Let me remind you that he was president of the United States at the beginning of the last Great Depression in the 1930's. He did then what ya'll want to do now--didn't rescue the banks or intervene in Wall Street, provided no stimulus, cut way back on government spending. His program failed miserably. The tent cities that sprang up after millions had lost their homes were called "Hoovervilles" in his honor. It took Franklin D. Roosevelt to get the country out of that mess.

Some of the saner elements in this country don't want a repeat of Hoover's mistakes.

You will notice that there were no arrests and no one is being persecuted for sending their little tea bags to Washington. Freedom of speech still prevails.

You'll just have to excuse those of us who had better things to do at the time.
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