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Independence Day Tea Party Protests Planned Across the U.S
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by Amy Judd | July 4, 2009 at 09:37 am
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While many were watching fireworks and hot dog eating contests this Independence Day, others were taking part in Tea Party protests to tell the government that they had been 'taxed enough already' and were not going to take it anymore.
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In Greensboro, North Carolina, many came out to protest and have their voice heard. Protests were also scheduled for other areas in the state.
Participants will come together in Greensboro at 11:30am at the Nathaniel Green Monument Lawn at the Guilford Courthouse Military Park. They'll also stay after the protests to honor the NC signers of the Declaration of Independence. Then they'll gather under shelter #7 at 1:30 p.m. for hot dogs, ice tea, and apple pie.
In Kentucky, hundreds of residents carried flags and signs and listened to music and speeches about how others were dealing with high taxes and costs of living.
People also took part in rallies across Texas, Atlanta, California and Illinois, with about 1,300 TEA party protest planned for July 4th.
Did you attend a rally today?
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at 09:52 on July 4th, 2009
I did not attend a rally today (but I am in England)! ;)
Good on folk who did - the electorate is too often silent on issues which affect them. And that's the case here too, of course.
at 11:23 on July 4th, 2009
Go get 'em!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eApJJisQxYk
at 17:05 on July 4th, 2009
So this is all about individual rights and how our govt has become too intrusive? Is that correct? I assume, then, that those of you who believe in these 'tea parties' are for more personal liberty and less government intervention in our lives? Can I get a 'hell yeah'? Which means you must believe in the following:
No helmet laws
No seat belt laws
No laws restricting personal consumption of anything (specifically, recreational drug)
No laws banning gambling
No laws banning prostitution
No sodomy laws
No laws against suicide
No anti-smoking laws forced upon business owners
No firearms restrictions, and
NO abortion laws
If you truly are for individual liberties, you gotta be for them all the way. Adults in a truly free society should have the right to do whatever they like, as long as it does not harm another person(s) or intrude upon anothers rights.
If you're an attendee at one of these newfangled 'tea parties' and you don't believe in the above list...you are a hypocrite.
at 04:35 on July 7th, 2009
You seem to be living up to the "dunce" in your name. You don't know the difference between rights and laws. The truly sad thing is that you are equally protected by these rights when clearly you don't deserve them. Wake up before the gov't takes them all or are you a lazy socialist that can't be bothered to contribute and would rather have your new mommy & daddy, the gov't take care of you. If you have an education beyond the 7th grade then maybe you will be able to understand the following:
"The Declaration of Independence declares that each person has natural rights that emanate from God. Natural rights are declared in the Declaration of Independence to be "unalienable," meaning rights cannot be separated from the individual. By establishing a republic, our Founding Fathers declared "unalienable" rights for each individual that cannot be altered by civil laws.
The government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which transferred 17 limited powers to the national government of the new "Republic." The Founding Fathers added a common law attachment to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, which further clarified and limited the intended powers of government.
Man's laws are known as civil law, from the Latin root word civilus, meaning citizen. Bouvier's Law Dictionary states, "the civil law is what a people establishes for itself." In a democracy there is no such thing as a natural right also know as God-given right, since laws can be passed to control, limit or eliminate anything. In a democracy there are "civil rights" established by civil law which are, legally speaking, civil privileges granted by man's government.
Yet today government can and does pass laws as it pleases without limitation and control. The laws of government now clearly attempt to override the natural rights of American individuals. America is a republic - it is a not democracy."
As for your charge of hypocrisy: Noone at the Tea Parties ever put on a false appearance of virtue or religion nor acted in contradiction to their "stated" beliefs or feelings.
at 05:29 on July 5th, 2009
I agree with the idea of this but I am dot sure if it will succeed.
at 08:32 on July 5th, 2009
Duncman, your logic fails with the NO abortion laws. Abortion DOES affect another human being, the unborn human being, against their will, therefore abortion should be ILLEGAL!
Of course, you may be one of those folks who treat the unborn as just a "tissue mass" or a "parasite" or some other such ridiculous use of words, but the fact is that a fetus IS a HUMAN BEING, and if you don't kill it, it WILL be born and grow and thrive and want freedom of its own!
And I have to admit that laws against suicide are sort of ridiculous. If someone does manage to kill themselves deliberately, how do you "punish" them? Do you imprison their corpse for a certain length of time? Would you have to call Dr. Frankenstein to resurrect their dead body in order to have a state-controlled execution?
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