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I’m no supporter of it but even if it was a tea-party member the guy represents only himself and not the entire movement. All this article did was generalize a group of people as a whole. This is the equivalent to blaming every black person for a crime committed by one and I’m pretty sure that profiling anyone is against what liberals believe. You guys went through this shit when Bush was in office, so honestly stop.

Please note that this article does not seek to generalize The Tea Party Movement.
It is a message that EXTREMISTS in any form are DANGEROUS as their ideas can lead to VIOLENCE.

Oh? It doesn’t seek to generalize? Then why bother even mentioning them? Why not be a real liberal blogger and allow for these people to protest and use their constitutional rights. You know, the rights that you and many of the fake liberals that follow corporate news media use to demonize a movement.

Why is it that modern liberals seem to have turned into neo-cons? Oh wait! That’s because neo-cons are mondern liberals that moved to the right! Well shit howdy, if that fact isn’t the piss in your cornflakes I don’t know what is.

Admin, your entire article is written like it would be for Fox News. You make the connection to the KKK and the Tea-Party movement that kinda reminds me of what good ol’W said ” Either you’re with us, or you’re against us” So the Tea-Party movement is “dangerious” but you’re big government loving ilk, yeah you’re the good guys.

You should maybe research the Tea-Party movement, you’d find that Dr. Ron Paul started it in 2007. It was a branch off from the END THE FED movement.

But you’re not a real journalist so I I really can’t expect you to actually research anything you write about, it wont matter either. You’ll just pass this entire rebuttal off as right wing when in reality I’m probably more left wing than your corporate news watching, false liberal self. Oh see thats not fair, I’m sorry. I didn’t seek to generalize you or your followers….

A real liberal has a gun above his bed, a constitution in his pocket and the guts to tell big brother to fuck off.

Make sure you’re on the right side of history, with “we the people”.

You are totally missing it. EXTREMISTS are DANGEROUS. Not the entire movement. Everyone deserves the right to protest but people that clearly have a motive to harm others are DANGEROUS. However, glad you are passionate. Hopefully, I don’t have to face those people with the GUNS in their pockets…that sounds dangerous.

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“The making of a “terrorist” starts when one person believes that he or she is above the world morally. For some reason this person believes that they need to save the world. It is a mindset very similar to those of the KKK, the Taliban and guess what- The Tea Party.”

OK, the KKK is a white supremacist group that holds the viewpoint that all other races are inferior to whites. They are senseless racists.

The Taliban is a ruling group, a resurgent ruling group in Afghanistan that murders people in the street for protesting, questioning their authority, harbors real terrorists, etc…

The tea party… oh whoa they might take the cake here, then again they might be so dangerous that there’s a BOMB in the cake… oh my god! Oh wait, it’s Americans angry at being fleeced by their government, angry at having 1/3 of their income taken by the government and sent offshore to bail out Greece and prop up foreign banks.

So you’re saying that the Tea Party has the same mindset as the KKK and the Taliban, because they exercise their rights and protest?

“Sadly, this is how it begins. One person holds a sign with their thoughts which continue to fester. The next, they are becoming desperate and decide that the only way to be heard is to take action.”

So because someone was exercising their rights under the constitution, because someone was angry with being robbed by the government and having their tax dollars poured down into a black hole (bailouts, war spending, stimulus packages, etc…) they are… potential terrorists?

Oh my god, are they desperate? How dare they despair after the banks rob them of their property, how dare they despair as the government loots their pension funds, how dare they despair as the US Dollar implodes.

Are you on the same planet?! Come on man, educate yourself. This article is grossly misinformed.

You must acknowledge that EXTREMIST in the TEA PARTY are DANGEROUS. HATE SPEECH CAN NEVER BE “FREEDOM of SPEECH”. HATE SPEECH breeds VIOLENCE especially HATE CRIMES. TEA PARTY EXTREMISTS are as DANGEROUS as ANYONE.
As we reflect at the sadness of the BOMB in TIMES SQUARE, we must use this as a teaching moment. Anyone even those who claim to “Love America”- Anyone- if they are hateful can be dangerous. Standing by that 100% and NO NOT MISINFORMED. Simply my opinion. Review for yourself. If you type in hateful Tea Party signs, you can see the results. People that yell slurs and spit on others…you are DEFENDING THEM..You need to wake up. HATE SPEECH is NOT FREEDOM OF SPEECH. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/tea_partiers_spit_yell_slurs_a.html

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/04/14/msnbc-offensive-tea-party-sign-has-word-love-heart-symbol

There are extremists in any group, that is the nature of society. Every movement has fringe elements. You are trying to say that people shouldn’t even bother protesting massive government because there’s a possibility some lunatic might bring a sign or shout hateful things? COME ON! We don’t live in care bear utopia man, we live in the real world, this crap is going to happen.

You also need to differentiate between hate and anger. Hate is walking up to a gay person and saying the ‘F’ word, hate is walking up to a black person and saying the ‘N’ word, hate is walking up to a white person and calling them the ‘C’ word.

Criticizing the government, criticizing the fact that its in bed with big banks and is robbing the American taxpayers is RIGHTFUL ANGER. People are being thrown out on the streets because wall street and central bankers are greedy sociopaths. This is NOT HATE SPEECH, stop trying to draw that conclusion.

If you loved America you would read the constitution, read the first amendment. You don’t OUTLAW speech you don’t like, you counter it with fact, if its speech that you see as wrong, you point it out. You don’t stifle dissent, no matter how much you don’t like it. (Justice Holmes, free marketplace of ideas, Abrams v United States).

You are right that the tea party is dangerous. It’s dangerous to the establishment because they see Americans finally fed up with being robbed and trampled. It’s dangerous because it keeps picking up momentum, because it has the truth behind it. It’s dangerous to lying politicians who are going to be thrown out on the street because they have been deceiving and screwing the American people.

Back to the signs, it is also protected speech, it is free speech. I think some of the signs I saw on the link you posted are disgusting, but that doesn’t mean they should be outlawed.

What’s dangerous and disturbing is that you want to stifle free speech because you don’t agree with it. That is what’s frightening.

I wouldn’t worry about the guy that wants to open and carry a fire arm. Chances are he’s only trying to protect himself. There is nothing wrong with that.

The police have no obligation legally to protect you or your property. For that we have the 2nd amendment, for the security of a free state and to protect us from the Federal Government. Because our founders knew that if the Federal Government got too big it may strike against its people.

For all you know our government could have planted that bomb as a scare tactic to get people to demand the government protect them. So we give up our rights for protection, then what? More people will die no matter what because it’s not about terrorism, it’s about control. If you live in fear they win.

BTW the whole Hutaree Militia case fell apart, there was no eveidence supporting the C.I.A’s claim that they entended on harming anyone.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/03/national/main6456565.shtml

and it’s a gun above the bed and a constitution in the pocket, not the other way around

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[...] Parking a car loaded up with fireworks and propane tanks is a “mindset very similar to those of the KKK, the Taliban and guess what — The Tea Party,” writes The Rainbow Collective. [...]

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you want to make white people into terrorists you f*cking piece of garbage! F*ck off

I didn’t realize the tea party was composed solely of white people. Thanks for letting us know. Again, this is not intended at Tea Party. It’s clear you have an issue with communicating respectfully which is one of the main issues here. I never mentioned white people but if you have a picture of a person of color holding a racist sign, please forward it and I will post it. No one is a “piece of garbage”. That is such a horrid way to comment. Learn better Lou.

BLACK TEA PARTY MEMBERS….http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/15/black-tea-party-member/

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Man talk about trying to make SOMETHING out of NOTHING. This author is crazy to tehehehrhr

This author can take a stubed toe and it becomes an amputated leg real quick. Talk about far reaching and just plain making it up as you go with absolutely no facts to back it up. This is a rant from someone who is trying to VILLIFY who the Author hates, today its tea partiers!

If you were truly trying to make the point that extremisits are dangerous, you would have listed a litany of other organizations/movements (pro life groups, pro choice groups, black panthers, etc.), and posted signs from various other portests. The fact that you listed two of the most extreme and most dangerous groups then only the Tea Party after proves your whole point was to label the Tea Party as a group that is filled with potential extremists. The remainer of your post deals only with the Tea Party movement. If you would have at least mentioned someone else, then maybe it would be believable that you wren’t picking solely on the Tea Party, but you didn’t. Whatever excuse you try to float out there after the fact can’t unwrite what you’ve already written.

Luckily this is my blog. I can include what I want. This isnt a term pa or an investigative report. This is my opinion. Again, extremists are dangerous in any form. The fact that you said the black panthers however, clearly…you are not talking about the current black panthers. DO YOUR RESEARCH! Also, pro life groups..yes, that is evident from last year’s tragedy. Again proving my POINT…EXTREMISTS are DANGEROUS….http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE54U1JW20090601. None of you are being truthful about the EXTREME people that are a part of the TEA PARTY. You simply want to DEFEND the MOVEMENT. Even your own representative has not DENIED the ISSUES within your OWN GROUP.
Again, DO YOUR RESEARCH. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/jenny-beth-martin-tea-par_n_561273.html

I never defended the movement. I can assure you ther are extremists in almost every single political/social change organization. I simply am saying that you are picking on the Tea Party movement then trying to say that you aren’t in your comments section. just own up to it, or give more examples of extremism in other organizations. You can’t write an entire blog entry aomed at one organization then say that you aren’t singling out said organization. Oh, and the ADL doesn’t have a real high opinion of a particular New Black Panther party leader. http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/malik_zulu_shabazz/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=shabazz

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@Chris.. I agree with admin. Every action has an agent – the stimulator. Yes! The tea party can be blamed for individual action that their collective actions and rantings caused.