Archive for October 28th, 2010

TEA party moves to Australia

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Australia—Another domestic terror group has sprung up. But this time it is not in the good old U.S. of A. This group is down under in Australia.

The Australian Tea Party has more on its web site about the history of the American Revolution than is taught in schools in Phoenix. Their web site explains:

The Boston Tea party was a people’s uprising against the abuse of government power against its citizens in 1773.

Their motto was:

“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”

And while this was part of American history the sentiment is universal.

We have borrowed and modified this saying to reflect citizens frustration with government engorgement and our apparent powerlessness to reduce or even restrict it.

“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REAL REPRESENTATION”

They also have links to the British, Dutch and Italian TEA party web sites.

The web site explains that they have no political affiliation the same as the Libertarian beginnings in the United States prior to being twisted into a wing of the Republican party. Their web site emphatically states their opposition to racism.

They might like to visit the U.S., but Janet Napolitano probably has them on the no-fly list.

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Was Police Chief Fired for Tea Party Affiliation?

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

TexasFred, a conservative blogger, reports that West Tawakoni Mayor Pete Yoho has fired Officer Johnny Beckett from the city’s police department and also suspended for ten days without pay Police Chief Jack Schultz, after which he will be terminated. The offense alleged is that the two officers belong the Tawakoni Area Tea Party. West Tawakoni is a small town in eastern Texas with a population of about 1,500 people. In Hunt County, where West Tawakoni is located, Barack Obama received less than 30 percent of the vote in the 2008 general election, about the same percentage that John Kerry received in the 2004 general election, and a little less than the 32 percent of the vote which Al Gore received in the 2000 election.

Any termination of the police officers because of involvement in the Tea Party would not only violate the constitutional rights of the officers to associate with any legal organization they wished, but would also seem profoundly out of synch with the will of the citizens of West Tawakoni. The Texas Tea Party confirms the report of TexasFred and also notes that Chief Schultz had not only been on this small police force for 20 years, but that he also served as a volunteer fireman in the county. This story, if true, is evidence of an animus against the Tea Party which violates the rights of those officers.

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