Boston may have had its Tea Party in 1773 (a fact I know well as a stammering, stage-frightened, scene-blowing actor in my 7th grade play, The Boston Tea Party), but Virginia’s rebellious nature against authoritarian rule is no less historic, given Patrick Henry’s famous 1765 “Caesar had his Brutus” “Treason” speech in the House of Burgesses. As with Thanksgiving, them Yankees try to steal all our firsts.
But it seems the Tea Party movement has revived more than 235 years later. Thousands of Americans are fed up with the large government debt, the printing of money, stimulus packages, government bailouts, and the inevitable higher taxes to pay for it all and resulting inflation that would completely wreak our country.
So, on Tax Day, April 15, as of now, at least five Virginia localities are joining hundreds more across America to have their own tea parties to demonstrate their displeasure with the government’s increasing involvement in the private sector.
The tea parties will be in Richmond, Charlottesville, Virginia Beach and Lynchburg (locations, times, etc., here at TaxDayTeaParty.com); as well as Newport News (more info here via Tertium Quids). Richmond and Newport News have wsonderfully appropriate locations: at Kanawa Plaza, in front of the Federal Reserve Building in the Holy City; and in front of the office of 3rd District U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-Newport News).
It won’t be July 4th. But there should be some (rhetorical) fireworks nonethesame.
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“Are Liberals out of their minds?” “Yes”, says Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., in his 2008 book, “The Liberal Mind – The Psychological Causes of Political Madness”. Dr. Rossiter is a Forensic Psychiatrist in practice for 40 years.
Says Dr. Rossiter, “Modern liberalism’s irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche”.
‘The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the worlds’ political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty’, per the book’s back cover.
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