Tea Party Violence

As the Obama Administration continues to ram its far-left agenda through a rubber-stamp congress, many thousands of patriotic Americans have banded together in a loosely organized group that has become known as the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement has continued to grow in an increasingly vocal way. Thousands of concerned Americans, many who have never been politically active are responding to left wing excesses in Washington by joining the Tea Party movement in their local areas.

The Obama Administration, and others on the radical left, have responded to the Tea Party movement in the same way they react to any true conservative movement. They have attacked and denigrated the Tea Party movement; they have attempted to marginalize the Tea Party members as right wing crazies, racists, and bigots; even President Obama himself has used the profane term “Tea Baggers” in public reference Tea Party members.

This kind of response from the radical left is not unusual. Those on the left never argue the merits of their ideas and philosophy; they know they can never win in the arena of ideas, and they never try. Instead they attempt to marginalize their opposition as bumbling (Eisenhower, Ford, George H.W. Bush) or evil (Nixon) or just plain stupid (Reagan, George W. Bush). They have suggested that the Tea Party movement is consumed with anti-government rage that is sure to manifest itself in violence and lawless destruction.

The American media, shamelessly carrying the water for the unqualified President they installed in the White House, have missed the point of the Tea Party movement entirely. The Tea Party is not an anti-government movement, it is an anti-illegitimate government movement. Any government that governs against the will of the people and contrary to the form and structure of the U.S. Constitution can only be regarded as illegitimate.

The American people have watched patiently for the last 80 years as the elected officials in Washington have taken tiny steps away from the U.S. Constitution, beginning with the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930’s. But, like a frog being cooked slowly in warm water, we have acquiesced to the slowly increasing heat. Suddenly, the Obama Administration has begun turning up the heat at a frightening pace and the water is beginning to boil.

But during those 80 years of straying from the Constitution, no previous administration or congress has completely disregarded the document. The Obama Administration and the Reid-Pelosi Congress have done just that. The important question then becomes, “If they do not recognize the restraints placed on government by the Constitution, what limits to their power do they recognize?” If there is no restraint on the powers of the government, we are no longer a government of laws.

Every politician in Washington, DC has taken an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. The righteous anger of Americans manifested by the Tea Party movement is a direct result of those politicians ignoring their oaths and operating outside the boundaries of the U.S. Constitution. To trivialize the Tea Party movement is to ignore the facts. The American people will not long tolerate the politicians who have broken faith with generations of Americans who have preserved and defended the Constitution. The Tea Party movement may result in violence of a sort. But the violence the American people will inflict will occur at the ballot box, not in the streets.