Members of "Crash the Tea Party" plan to demolish the Tea Party Movement just by doing what their name says – by crashing the party. Their goal according to their website is to “dismantle and demolish the Tea Party..” because they “…are sick and tired of that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons…which calls itself ‘The Tea Party’.”
It has been long suspected that Progressives that don’t appreciate any views but their own would fire back and the tactics they are prepared to fulfill are extreme. Progressive Michael Huttner was photographed looking over a wall at a Tea Party rally to check out the event. Leaks within the Crash the Tea Party group have surfaced. The radical group is making future plans for the Colorado Tea Party event planned for April 15th which they say will be attended by those from Crash the Tea Party.
However, it may be difficult pointing out who are the members of the Tea Party and who are the crashers. The tactics of members of Crash the Tea Party involve infiltrating the Tea Party and using extreme measures that are made to shed a bad light on the Tea Party Movement.
Crash the Tea Party members are prepared to create havoc at future Tea Party events. One blog writer states that after infiltrating the Crash the Tea Party group, he learned of a suggestion that was being made for members to carry signs that read “Obama drinks the blood of aborted fetus’”, which would undoubtedly shed a bad light on those within the Tea Party Movement that are trying to make a difference.
This claim is highly believable since their website demonstrates what lengths this group will go to in order to discredit the Tea Party Movement. Crash the Tea Party will “Whenever possible, …act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities..”. A couple of examples the group gave for their plans include using protest signs with misspellings and making outlandish accusations and claims during television interviews. This radical group intends on distancing intelligent Americans from the Tea Party Movement by damaging the Tea Party’s reputation.
Since the news of "Crash the Party" has went worldwide, the person behind the website has been identified as a middle school teacher from Oregon named Jason Levin. Levin's public statements that he would go to extremes to dismantle the Tea Party Movement have prompted an investigation by the Oregon's teacher licensing agency.
Although Levin's freedom of speech is being protected, the Oregon school district is concerned that school computers may have been used to spread his "Crash the Tea Party" messages.
Publicly, Levin has said his goal is to embarrass the Tea Party but would not resort to violence. Examples he gave to achieve this goal include dressing as Adolf Hitler and carrying signs with racial and/or gay epithets. Levin stated in a interview "Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going [to] be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!"
Portions of Levin's website has been removed including his call on supporters to collect Social Security numbers and other personal information on Tea Party members.
What the Crash the Tea Party website does say is they are a group of people who will succeed with their mission by infiltrating the Tea Party. “We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies.”, the website states.
With the extremes that Levin is supporting, it's hard to take such a group seriously however; there will be those who will not only join Levin on his crusade to crash the Tea Party Movement, they will enjoy mocking the freedom of speech that the Tea Partiers are trying to protect.
Sources:
http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2010/04/crash- the-tea-party-colorado-politics-get-dirty/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/15/oregon-pr obes-teacher-determined-demolish-tea-party/