by Linda Sunkle-Pierucki

Created on: April 17, 2009

To underestimate the importance of the April 15th
Tea Parties is to denigrate the right of the citizens to seek redress from their government. One of the reasons this is so dangerous is that it makes it obvious most self-styled commentators never studied United States history and do their research on the mainstream evening news. This does not bode well for the future of our country or our liberty.

The parallels between the original 1773 Boston Tea Party and the recent multiple events occurring in every state are striking if one actually understands the reasons for the original Tea Party. People tend to equate the battle-cry, "No taxation without representation!" with the Boston Tea Party-that is not accurate: The "no taxation without representation" declaration related to events occurring before the Boston Tea Party-namely two separate tax actions levied against the colonists by British Parliament. The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to the final straw against the colonists and involved an act of corporate welfare benefitting the British East Indies Company: The British government gave them a huge tax break in the amount the company paid when purchasing tea in the East Indies. The East Indies Company was essentially "dumping" cheap tea in the colonies in an effort to put out of business colonial tea traders. By this point, the colonists were mad as hell and they just weren't going to take it anymore.

Jump forward to 2009 and see the parallels: government taxes and spends. When they run out of money, they print more. They take from the voters and give to corporations and banks. They attempt to control everything the citizen does; their livelihoods, their property, their choice of vehicles of conveyance, their religion, the food they eat, the medical care they receive. They siphon money out of the private sector to give to their favored businesses and causes. They fund activist groups against the majority of the middle-class. They ignore those they are supposed to represent. In a thousand ways they ignore the Constitution and subvert the laws of the land. The subverted laws are used against the common man. They engage in outright theft of the savings of the middle-classes. They openly flout and ignore election laws with impunity. They take the influence bought with the blood of the forefathers and barter it away to international groups that escalate the attack against the American middle-class. And perhaps the worst sin of all, they laugh at and denigrate the religions

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