The dark side of Tea Party Protests, page 1
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Topic started on 16-9-2009 @ 11:02 AM by merryxmas
I saw this video floating around. It's disturbing on several levels. First, it's disturbing because there are so many uninformed people making themselves and MORE importantly the entire tax protest movement look bad. Second, it's disturbing because it's clearly cherry picking by a left leaning group or person to smear the efforts and to group all tea party protesters together to ridicule them all as ignorant fools. Third, it's so disturbing on a personal level because of how many people I have seen throw this video around on facebook and other places to tout the efforts of Obama and decry these protesters all as fools, idiots and chumps without knowing the first thing about it themselves.

This video undermines SO much of what generally a lot of good-willed, smart and concerned citizens are fighting for. It takes the uneducated few and props them up as the entire movement and then the uneducated on the left side of the fence use it as ammo to show to everyone what a pathetic attempt at change this is. It's basically manipulation of both sides by the video makers. The fools in the protest are manipulated as fools often are and then the fools viewing it believe it encompasses an entirety of a party/protest/change.

D.C. Tea Party

I want to know. Is there any footage of anyone who knows the issues, speaks eloquently and doesn't come off as either a racist, zealot, idiot, reprobate or blemish on the face of liberty? Was there anyone there who made a video which can counteract the damage done?

I am personally appalled all around. By the ignorance of the people in the video, by the manipulators who made the video, and by the watchers who believe this encapsulates an entire viewpoint.


reply posted on 16-9-2009 @ 11:51 AM by dariousg
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Here's the problem. And it's something that I have had to teach myself over the past decade to really pay attention to. Or else you are going to be like most of the people that are viewing that video.

They will swallow it hook line and sinker. The problem is, you give me a demonstration of liberals or libertarians or constitutionalists and I can create a video just as bad or worse. They purposefully didn't show any of the people that actually knew what the hell they were talking about.

It's like with "In Plane Sight". If someone were to watch that video as the first introduction to 911 they may find themselves overwhelmed that the planes had bombs on them and on and on. They would probably buy into it without question. You see, we need to weed through the BS. There are always the ignorant at these marches. There are always those that are mindless followers.

What I hated to see most was that poor kid. He had no clue. He was just parroting the midless dribble that he obviously hears on a daily basis at home. He had NO idea of why he was really there. Just damn sad.


reply posted on 16-9-2009 @ 01:26 PM by merryxmas
Originally posted by dariousg
reply to post by merryxmas


Here's the problem. And it's something that I have had to teach myself over the past decade to really pay attention to. Or else you are going to be like most of the people that are viewing that video.

They will swallow it hook line and sinker. The problem is, you give me a demonstration of liberals or libertarians or constitutionalists and I can create a video just as bad or worse. They purposefully didn't show any of the people that actually knew what the hell they were talking about.

It's like with "In Plane Sight". If someone were to watch that video as the first introduction to 911 they may find themselves overwhelmed that the planes had bombs on them and on and on. They would probably buy into it without question. You see, we need to weed through the BS. There are always the ignorant at these marches. There are always those that are mindless followers.

What I hated to see most was that poor kid. He had no clue. He was just parroting the midless dribble that he obviously hears on a daily basis at home. He had NO idea of why he was really there. Just damn sad.



Agreed. That was really sad. How can ANYONE expect a child to understand for one and be able to clearly demonstrate in a soundbyte the depths of partisan politics, the structure of a fractional reserve system, the difference between communism, fascism, libertarianism or what they even mean to you. That is way above the understanding of a child and he is just there because he (I'm guessing here) probably loves his parents and as kids do will take after their parents. Shame on the video makers for hauling out a child to humiliate on the internet. No child is going to understand the intricacy of this even if his parents were the most educated on the subject. His parents should have not let him speak on camera.
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