Perhaps, the richest thing about listening to various liberal pundits and their ideological confrères in Congress denigrating the Tea Parties is their attempts to lecture Tea Party protesters on civility. Now, I certainly agree with their concern for rhetorical decorum and their opposition to hateful epithets, but I question their sincerity.
If they’re so concerned about rhetorical excess, I want to know when they, to borrow an expression, differentiated themselves from the hateful speech spewed during the Bush Era. Note that all of a sudden when we have a Democrat in the Oval Office, promoting a vast expansion of government, they’re concerned with the level of discourse. Guess it didn’t bother them too much when countless protesters compared a Republican president to Hitler.
Not to mention the hateful speech spewing from elected Democrats and from MSNBC anchormen.
Now, to show that our movement in reality is as hateful as the one in their imagination, some left-wingers are trying to crash the Tea Parties, masquerading as hateful bigots. Whatever you do, if you see such folk, don’t play their game. Tell them that you’re there to promote freedom, not to denigrate any group or individual.
Be civil. Be courteous.
Via Glenn comes this suggestion from Ann Althouse:
Tea Partiers should look around and listen and notice people who might be Crashers. Whether they are Crashers or actual fringe Tea Partiers, talk with them. It’s good for people at these gatherings to talk to each other and be friendly anyway. It helps project the image of normality, which, I think, is the reality with most Tea Partiers.
Read the rest.
And should you confront such folk, ask yourselves (but not them), why right-wingers didn’t feel any compulsion during the Bush Era to crash the anti-war rallies.
Why is it OK for the Tea Party people to rally in the streets to change what they see are unjust laws? What part of “illegal” don’t they understand?
Why is it wrong for undocumented workers to rally in the streets to change what they see as unjust laws? Why is it wrong for undocumented workers to want big government off their back?
Conservatives like Bush, Huckabee, and McCain support immigration reform which would solve the illegal immigrant problem by making them legal. Why is this sweeping change of repealing current immigration law wrong but the sweeping change of repealing current health care law OK?
I think the police should round up all the Tea Party protesters so that these lawbreakers can be sent to prison as a reminder to anyone who might want to break health care laws in the future. We need to remind them what the word “illegal” means.
And Ash has his nonsequetor again.
Hint Ash, look at the constitution, now find the first ammendment.”the right of the people peaceably to assemble” Illegals don’t fall under the constitution. They are, by definition, lawbreakers.
You’re displaying Levi-like levels of constitutional ignorance.
I don’t think people have the right to assemble to encourage each other to break the law. I think that’s conspiracy.
Because, your intellectually dishonest euphemism aside, the law REQUIRES people from other countries to be documented in order to be here. Which means their very presence in our streets is a violation of our laws. Naturally, being a Democrat, you dont believe it is wrong to violate laws you dont agree with, however, most people do.
It would be like me breaking and entering into your home in order to tell you everything I think is wrong with you. Perhaps what I had to say would be correct, but my very presence in your home is illegal to begin with.
But liberals only believe in property rights when it comes to THEIR personal property.
This means that gays who were committing sodomy, and thus breaking the law, should not have been in the streets protesting unjust laws. It was right to arrest the Stonewall protesters because they were in violation of the law.
Ash is a dip.
LOL. Were they committing sodomy WHILE protesting in the streets? That is the only way in which your analogy is not just patently stupid, Ash.
You see, illegals are here illegally. Their very presence in the country is a violation of the law. Thus even behavior that is perfectly legal for everyone else becomes an illegal act when they do it, because it is illegal for them to BE HERE.
They are welcome to protest American law all they want, from their home countries.
Tell you what, do you have a home? Why dont you give me your home address so I can show you directly the consequences of your disregard for property rights?
Or do you believe you have the right to enforce your borders but others dont?
No need to answer that, we already know the answer.