November, 2010

"Taking Our Country Back"???

By Adaoma

When the Tea Party members shout "Taking Our Country Back", what could
that slogan possibly mean? As shown below, it could mean, amongst many
things, a) taking the country back to an earlier time, when minorities
were not in public office, b) taking the country back to an itemized
list of political and economic policies, or c) taking the country back
to the Republicans.

Or, "Taking Our Country Back" could be a loaded phrase that promises
some powerful political 'transformation', but, is, actually,
nebulous, void of direction, void of strategy, and impotent in
political power.

First of all, "Taking Our Country Back" could have meaning if shouted
by Native Americans. Are they not the only ones in American who had
their country taken from them? Are they not the only ones who can
then,'take back' their country? Or, are we to believe that when Ken
Buck of Colorado and Sharron Angle of Nevada were talking about
"taking back their country", they were representing the Mexicans
"taking back the Southwest"?

It is the capitalist classes who have ownership of America (its
productive forces, resources, raw materials and wealth) . The
capitalist classes have not lost the productive forces, and cannot
'take back' what they yet own! Any other group, talking about 'taking
back' America is deluded with illusory 'ownership'. Capitalists
ownership is not bound by physical borders, nationality and political
party.

So, is the Tea Party talking about taking the productive forces from
the capitalists, that is, class struggle? There has been no
indication that the Tea Party advocates class struggle, but opposes
class struggle and advocates that workers patronize and vote for the
supporters of finance capital--The Republican Party (as the last
article shows).

If Tea Partiers were for class struggle they would oppose the carrying
of divisive placards that brandish racial slogans such as, "Got Tar,
Need Feathers", and show a Black President as a dead ape and an
African Witchdoctor over his health care proposal.

There has never been any 'rule of law' that was separate from rule of
men, as suggested in one article below. As Martin Luther King, Jr.
said in a letter from a Birmingham Jail, "Never Forget, everything
that Hitler did in Germany was legal." The 'rule of law' is not
necessarily in the best interests of poor and working class people
simply because it is a law. Some laws, like Apartheid, Jim Crow and
laws enabling capitalists' profits at the expense of workers' labor
need not necessarily be obeyed...but changed!

The Tea Party is not 'taking our country back', but, is 'being taken'
by the Republican Party. The Republican Party is appropriating the votes
of the Tea Party conservative groups, as were Christian conservative
groups before them.

Democrats interests are industrial capital. The Democrats appropriated
the votes of so-called liberal and progressive groups to maintain its
own economic interests in industrial capital.

As workers experience the disappointments and demoralization of the
Republican/ Democrat party, and understand that neither represents the
worker's interests, the need for a different party, another party, a
labor party will become more evident. It is then, that workers will
begin to build a labor party.

Adaoma

"He [the proletariat] can work only with their [capitalists]
permission, hence live only with their permission." Karl Marx

"A Negro is a Negro. Only under certain conditions does he become a
slave. A cotton-spinning machine is a machine for spinning cotton.
Only under certain conditions does it become capital. Torn away from
these conditions, it is as little capital as gold is itself money, or
sugar is the price of sugar." Karl Marx
http://www.deleonism.org/karl-marx-quotations.htm

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The Rage is not Health Care

By FRANK RICH
Published: March 27, 2010

Snippet
"If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or
financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same
trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker
of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a
powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of
disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the
country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance
that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players
in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s
abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country
back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html

Taking Our Country Back
by Matthew Murphy

Snippet:
"What do we want to go back to- a specific time period? I don’t think
so. Every time period has its own good and bad characteristics. We
don’t want to go back to everything from the 18th and 19th centuries:
we’ll take the good and leave the rest.

So what do we want to go back to? Here’s a partial list of things most
tea parties would like to a return of:

The rule of law, not the rule of men
A Republic, not Democracy

Strict adherence to the Constitution, with the federal government only
exercising powers that have been expressly delegated to it (a.k.a. Federalism)

A Free Market
The foreign policy in which we mind our own business and focus on
defending our soil


Very Low Taxes- with no Income Tax

Sound money- not fiat currency that can be printed out of thin air"
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978367102

Government is Not Your Daddy
Tax Day Tea Party Speech: Taking Our Country Back


This is the speech I gave at the Southern Oregon Tax Day Tea Party.
Welcome to the Tax Day Tea Party! — Have you filed your taxes yet?

- Are you happy with way your taxes are being spent?

- Do you like the direction our county is going?

- Do you want to take our county back?

- How many of you are patriots?

- As a patriot, what are you willing to do for your country?

- Would you be willing to take up arms to defend your country?

- Would you be willing to take up a pen, and mark your ballot, and
drop it in the mailbox?

You may not realize it, but the most patriotic thing you can do this
year is vote! — This year, it’s absolutely imperative that we start
taking our country back. And, in a Constitutional Republic, the way we
do that is by voting.

The other day, I was talking to the publisher of a national
conservative Web site. He told me he’d rather have Barack Obama as
president than John McCain. I said why? He said, under either of them,
the country would continue its slide into socialism. Under McCain,
we’d just get there slower. But when things get really bad, really
fast, the people will rise up and start a revolution.

I respectfully disagreed. I said that, sometimes, you have to slow
down to turn around. You can’t make a U-turn while accelerating. —
And, once you go over the cliff, it’s too late to slam on the breaks.

If we should ever get to the point where it’s necessary for citizens
to take up arms against our own government, it will be way too late to
save our nation. That’s why we need to start taking our country back
now.

I’m here today to talk about how we can do that. But first I want to
tell you a parable. — Once upon a time, there was a blue state that
had one Republican senator. After a couple of terms in office, he had
learned the “fine art of compromise” so well that he had slipped to
the left of his core constituency. He was by no means a liberal, but
he wasn’t nearly as conservative as he’d been when first elected, and
a lot of conservatives were disenchanted with him.

Come the next election, he was challenged by a far left,
Socialist-leaning, liberal Democrat. And a conservative 3rd party
candidate decided to run against him, too. It was a very close race.
When the votes were counted, the Democrat got just under 49%. The
Republican got almost 46%. The 3rd party candidate got just over 5%.
The Democrat won. But, if you added together the votes for the
Republican and the 3rd party candidate, they added up to just about
51%. By splitting the conservative vote, the 3rd party candidate
handed the election to the Democrat.

But wait. There’s more! — Not only did the state lose its only
Republican representative in Washington, it so happened that the
Democrats were only one seat short of a super-majority in the Senate.
The loss of that Republican seat gave them the super-majority they
needed to pass the Obama Healthcare bill without even having to
negotiate with the Republicans. — And the saddest part of this story
is that it’s true. And it happened right here in Oregon, in the last
election.

The moral is, if you withhold your vote from the lesser of two evils,
you help the greater evil win. — What good is “voting your conscience”
if the real world result is that you help push the nation further into
socialism? — That’s not the way to take our country back.

I can relate to wanting to vote your conscience. I was a Libertarian
for nearly 30 years. (And I still am a “small ‘l’” libertarian.) But a
couple of years ago, it came to me that voting 3rd party is a lot like
mailing your ballot to Santa Claus. It makes you feel really good, but
it has absolutely no impact on the real world, or the outcome of the
election, or the future of our nation. So, I may sound like a cynic,
but I’m a realist. In the real world, results count.

Voting for RINOs year after year isn’t going to help us save our
nation, either. Sometimes it’s necessary, to prevent a greater evil,
but what we really need is a plan to get actual conservatives on the
ballot.

And I have a plan. It’s a simple, workable, three-step plan to take
our country back. Like I said before, I’m a realist. And the reality
is that this is a two party system. The Democrat Party has been taken
over by socialists. The Republican Party is in utter disarray. And,
the more conservatives who splinter off into 3rd parties, and 4th
parties, and 5th parties, the weaker it gets, — much to the delight of
the Democrats.

The good news is, if you look at the Tea Party movement all across the
nation, it’s clear that there are enough conservatives now that, if we
were to all unite behind one party, we have enough votes to take our
country back. — But that isn’t going to happen as long as we’re all
pulling in different directions. And every 3rd party that’s formed for
the purpose of bringing us all together only splits us up further. —
To have a real impact, we need to all unite behind one party.

The Republican Party has traditionally been the party of small
government, less regulation, and lower taxes. That’s what the Tea
Party movement is all about. The Republican Party used to be the party
of principle. It hasn’t been that for a long time. But, with our
dedication, our motivation, and our numbers, we can take it back and
restore it to the Grand Old Party that it used to be. We need to turn
the tide, stop the exodus, and start a new flood of conservatives into
the Republican Party.


Here’s the plan:

Step 1. Register Republican. Get your friends to register Republican.
We need all the Tea Party conservatives across the nation to register
Republican.

Step 2. Become a grass roots activist within the Republican Party.
Become a PCP. PCPs are the ones who elect the delegates to the
National Convention. Those delegates formulate the national party
platform and select the presidential nominee.

Step 3. We need to elect our people to be those delegates. Then we’ll
be the ones determining the platform and choosing the presidential
nominee for the 2012 election.

We can do this! — And this is how we can take the Republican Party
back. And that’s how we can take our government back. And that is how
we can take our country back.

Thank you all for being patriots! — Together, we can take our country
back! Let’s do it!
http://notyourdaddy.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/tax-day-tea-party-speech/

Who made up all the rules
We follow them like fools
Believe them to be true
Don't care to think them through

And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this
I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry we do this

And it's ironic too
Coz what we tend to do
Is act on what they say
And then it is that way

And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this
I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry we do this

Who are they
And where are they
And how can they possibly
know all this
Who are they
And where are they
And how can they possibly
know all this

Do you see what I see
Why do we live like this
Is it because it's true
that ignorance is bliss

Who are they
And where are they
And how do they
know all this
And I'm sorry so sorry
I'm sorry it's like this

Do you see what I see
Why do we live like this
Is it because it's true
that ignorance is bliss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SYe5X-onk

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