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Tea Party Co-Founder: Concept Has Been Hijacked By False
Left/Right Paradigm
"In short time, desperate partisans were
soiling the sheets."
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The co-founder of the modern day Tea Party political protests
has slammed imitators of the concept, referring to them as "partisan
political perverts".
Constitutionalist grass roots activist Chad Peace
was part of the original team of people who organised Boston
Tea Party re-enactment protests in 50 different cities in late
2007, in support of Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign.
The protests became extremely popular, and continued
throughout 2008 and into 2009, prompting thousands of people
to engage in peaceful political protest.
Tea Party protests earlier this year prompted
the FBI
to initiate a comprehensive surveillance program,
and in some cases the National Guard was even readied as a response.
Chad Peace says he was proud to be a part of a
movement calling for government accountability, honesty, respect,
and sincerity, but he now reveals his disgust at what he sees
as a hijacking of the Tea Party concept by "golden idols".
"I was convinced that the average American
was beginning to see through the veil of scripted partisan sermons,
designed to coddle fears and perpetuate the superficial battle
between a “left” and “right”."
Peace writes in a commentary
article.
However, Peace states that over the course of
the last year, the Tea Party movement has been co-opted.
"In short time, desperate partisans were
soiling the sheets." Peace writes.
"At some point, reality began piercing my
passion. The tea party boat started becoming a wagon of whiners.
Propelled by the moving mouths on TV and the talking heads of
such ironically named organizations such as the “American
Family Association”... the movement lost its focus."
he continues.
"A movement founded on the principles of
independent analysis, it has become a yelling fest for punch-drunk
cynics armed with incoherent talking points."
Revelations of staged
Tea Party protests organised by Fox News and Glenn
Beck have served to frame the concept within a strictly mainline
conservative political focus. Not only that but they have provided
the left leaning media mouthpieces with ammunition to attack
and ridicule what started out as a legitimate grassroots
activist success story.
The common conception of the Tea Party protest
now languishes a far cry from it's Libertarian begininngs.
"What I see is a bunch of people reciting
partisan political sermons, coddling fears, and perpetuating
a superficial battle between “left” and “right”;
drowning the well intentioned idealists that remain." Chad
Peace writes.
However, Peace does believe that the movement
can be taken back and still act as a force for political change.
"As the battle rages, I have more faith than
ever that an independent revolution will come. When the absurdity
of our political process rises to the point where tea bags become
a right wing rally cry and the left still manages to drop in
the polls, there is a growing opportunity for the increasingly
disenchanted to drive a stake right down the middle."
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