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As an insider with the Orlando Tea Party operation, can you enlighten me on the direction of this  once Righteously-spirited and Gentile of character movement?   Is our conservative reflex being controverted into a third party movement?  I never signed on for that!

 I thought I was just signing up for just  a little constitutional,  Jeffersonian revolution, a simple backlash statement to America's First Triumvirate: 'Obama-Pelosi-Reid', in an attempt to preserve our Republic.  I do not want any of us to become Cassius or Brutus, et. al.,   who killed for their Republic, and died violently because they were politically selfish, as a result.

Let me know.

my reply:

Hey Man ,

Great observation / question! I'll do my best to address it . . .

Any time you get more than a "group of one" it gets hard to agree on anything ;) The biggest problem with any movement is that it is made up of people, and quite frankly, people disappoint us!

Human nature; being what it is, despite the best efforts of those that teach otherwise, simply hasn't evolved since the ancient of days. And what you see now, is what I call typical - "Lawyer behavior". Lawyers by trade engage in the 'second oldest profession': "of taking something rather than making something!" Opportunism - is even more rampant in our post modern culture now that we have unbundled the moral component from society. And with such a large segment NOT believing that "Faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life" we as a society are "bound in the shallows and miseries" that accompany an existence absent Faith in God.

I believe that you, like we, "sign-up" for the Tea Party Movement! On the other hand there is the Tea Party - Party, which at least in Florida, is an attempt by folks to capitalize on the political opportunities created by the Tea Party Movement, you also have others attempting to financially capitalize on the Tea Party momentum by creating Tea Party PACs.

When I showed up for the first Tea Party meeting here in Orlando, there were 8 of us in the Room! Wow, we come a long way since then. And, while I can't speak for everyone, I think a good many of the Tea Party Movement folks have concluded that: While America is a two party system, our best hope is to use what ever influence we have to affect meaningful and positive results in candidates and elected officials that most closely reflect our own ideas - as we believe are set forth by our founders - in whichever political party they may be...

So while we have the Tea Party Movement fighting for the soul of our country, we also have the typical "tics on a dog" trying to aggrandize themselves or hijack our political fervor. But, we must 'shake the dust of our sandals' and endeavor forward, else the unholy triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi and Reid will visit a fresh manner of hell up on the producers in this country.

Most Patriots from the Tea Party Movement realize that the liberal's best chance for reelection - and to continue their assault on the principals that founded our nation - is for us to create a Third Party. What most denigrators of the Tea Party Movement don't realize is that the movement is all about ideas not about party: Ideas of Freedom, Liberty, smaller government and the concept of who owns you - whether "you own you" or the "state owns you".  And this is why the movement so terrifies entrenched party hacks who are bereft of ideas and instead substitute people over law, power over principal and advocate the false political economic doctrine where you are entitled to your neighbors stuff.

 Veritas Vincit,   -Rick

So, a year into Dear Leader's Reader's presidential term and we find that the whole "Hopey Changey" 'thang' was a bait and switch scheme from the jump.

While it should be no surprise that the most un-American of our Presidents - un-American being defined as having the least amount of shared experiences with the rest of us - would have a different view of what is right for our country, it is shocking to see how he is seeking to remake our country into a radical vision he learned elsewhere.

Perhaps this vision-quest for social justice was inculcated in a madrassa in Indonesian where he grew up as a young boy or maybe - by his own admission - transferred from is marxist professors in college or just fixed in his mind while sitting in the pews as a member of Rev Wright's congregation. This version of social justice is not at all what or Founders envisioned!

Our founders envisioned a "shinning city on a hill" where freedoms and the blessings of those freedoms were derived from God - not from Government! And while life outcomes might not be assured, at least we could all start the race from the same starting line. Now, as we remove God from our social and political discourse, we are moving toward a tyranny where what was once assured to us by God is now being stolen by an ever expanding central government to mete out at it's own capricious and arbitrary whims. "A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have."

The dirty little secret is, that the guv'ment is "sharing" dollars that belong to someone else.  Our guv'ment has NO MONEY.  In order for our politicians to give money to someone, they must first take it from someone else. This means that for every "public" dollar shared to accomplish a faux vision of social justice, that dollar must be confiscated from someone who created in the private sector as a fruit of their own labor.

If the European model of social justice is implemented, we can certainly get an immediate Q.E.D on how that has been working out for the last 40 years! Persistent unemployment always over 10%; and for those that have jobs, wages about 33% less than in America; and a reduced standard of living with much less discretionary spending. So for those on WIC, Welfare and raking in the other unearned "entitlements" your discretionary spending for 'rims', cellphones, flat screens and unfettered entertainment is directly paid for by those that have jobs! If we move to a  "social justice" scheme where we have fewer people working. If fewer people are working, then there will be less, less for everyone.

Freedom the real Social Justice - ... "is never more than a Generation away from Extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." source   Will you let Freedom die - on your watch?