When campaign rhetoric turns into reality there's generally a period of general shock and disbelief followed by outrage and action. The Tea Party movement is one such reaction to the realization that our governments - at all levels - are spending too much and borrowing too much.
As you probably already know, Wednesday is tax day. It is also Tea Party day. What better day to protest the out-of-control spending of Congress and the Obama administration than the day that citizens are required to hand over their earnings to those who will deliver it into the hands of those who have not earned it?
So how can you have a tea party without tea... without water for that matter? The organizers of the Albuquerque Tea Party plan to line Montgomery with volunteers holding signs that express their displeasure with the current borrowing and spending policies of government. They'll be "partying" from 4 to 7 Wednesday, April 15th.
Our eyes tell us that our friends over at ACORN are planning to disrupt the peaceful protest against the all-out assault on our liberty. Their plan is to approach Tea Party participants and attempt to intimidate them by trying to collect their addresses and phone numbers while the protest is under way. Organizers are telling participants that the ONLY place any personal information will be collected by Tea Party officials is at the staging site - The Independence Grill, on Montgomery, just west of Louisiana.
If you'd like to take part in the tax day tea party, you can get more information at www.albuquerqueteaparty.com. This country was founded by people who were outraged by taxation without representation. The modern Tea Party movement was founded by those who are outraged over taxation without end and unfathomable taxpayer debt.
The death penalty was never in place for the common crime. It was in place for the most heinous criminals: Cop killers. Child molesters and rapists who murder their victims. These were the crimes eligible for the ultimate punishment...No more.We have to admit, we never thought that the Legislature would ever take away the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime. Particularly since opponents of the death penalty can't point to a single case where someone was wrongfully executed. In fact, since the death penalty's reinstatement here in New Mexico only Terry Clark has been executed and only because he waived his rights to appeal.
Santa Fe politicians said, no. They repealed the death penalty for even the most horrific murders.
Now you can do something about it.
I hope you will join me in raising our voices to let the will of the voters be heard. With your help, we can be a voice for those who no longer have one.
Darren White
Bernalillo County Sheriff
"Life without the possibility of parole" is simply no substitute for the only penalty that is absolutely sure to prevent a killer from killing again. You need look no further than the 2009 Legislature to find the reason why. How long will it take for leftist lawmakers to decide that live without parole is "cruel and unusual?" As long as a killer responsible for heinous crimes is allowed to remain in prison, there's a possibility that someone will place him back in society - back with a whole new set of victims.
Both of these movements are in direct response to the political sea change that started in 2006 and culminated in 2008. Large waves leave a changed landscape in their wake. The wave that was Obama has directly led us to spending, debt, and danger. We now are forced to live with the many consequences of our choice of leaders. Fortunately, even Tsunamis return to sea and the next wave may very well be generated by these new political movements.
12 comments:
The 'tea party' is a bunch of Conservative whiners aka Ditto Heads. Get over it. You LOST BIG.
You can't expect Obama in just 8 weeks to clean up 8 years of Elephant Dung!
Put Winter on the Scamera Artist Mug Shot Wall. His assistant lobbied for the cameras in Santa Fe. Winter’s assistant held the Majority leader’s hand throughout the process. It passed and the cameras will stay. If you do not put him on the wall, you are not being honest with your readers
Put Cadigan on the wall. His firm cashed checks from RedFlex. This company sold the idea to the administration and RedFlex now has the lucrative contract. Redflex paid for lobbying services directly to the Cadigan Firm If the black eye does not report all info, people will stop reading it.
Don't just blame the dems. I'm a dem and I'm going to that tea party at the Independence Grill.
This all reminds me of the "Freedom Fries" crapola of the Repugs. Such a silly bunch of twits.
.....and NO Albuquerque Transportation Tax.
The 'tea parties' are to 'protest taxes'? Are you kidding me? President Obama just gave the BIGGEST TAX cut to middle-class Americans in history! If you make less than $400,000 you will get a CUT. I already saw it on my April paycheck.
Try learning FACTS instead of listening to the righ-wing gas bags.
Ignoring the issue by calling names. The tea parties oppose the idiocy in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
PS I hope they mop the streets with ACORN if they pester the party. Why don't they go march on Central! AFD could even escort them (sorry guys)
Isn't it funny how Republicans didn't give a damn about the gigantic deficits run up by Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, and George W Bush, but when a Dem takes the presidency they freak out about the money being spent to try to clean up Bush's failures? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Then again anyone dumb enough to believe a single word that comes out of a clown like Glenn Beck's mouth can't really be expected to notice how hypocritical they're being.
Everybody both ACORN and the Tea Party Organizers just bring like
35 million or 35 thousand whatever the actual amount is to pay off the National debt per person to the Party "Ok".
You do realize that the taxes due on April 15 that you are protesting are the tax policies set by George W. Bush right? And you realize that the original bailout of the banks (the one that was unorganized and didn't work) was also a Bush Administration policy, correct?
The tax cut you're seeing in your pay check (unless you earn an enormous amount of money in which case I don't feel bad for you) and the stimulus that is operating below budget because they are being so efficient...that's Obama's policy.
Learn what you're talking about before you go protest on Wednesday and make a fool of yourself.
Although you dastardly Dems want to make this about parties and politics, you are failing. This is about our country and what is happening to it.
People are no longer intimidated by your eballing remarks about those participating being bigots and right-wing crazies.
You are pathetic. But then again, this state is all about what entitlement can I get and never accepting responsibility. Look at the "state" of the state.
No wonder you like Obama. He wants you to be dependent on the government from cradle to grace. You have a good start here in New Mexico.
You will reap what you sow.
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