Re-Declare Your Independence | July 4th, 2009
ReTeaParty.com announces that FreeandEqual.org will be joining us in our fight to coordinate a nationwide protest on July 4, 2009. FreeandEqual.org is a nonpartisan organization that has been instrumental in obtaining ballot access, providing legal assistance, and promoting awareness of candidates of all parties as well as independents. On the anniversary of our independence, together, we will be asking Americans across the country to stand up and re-declare their independence from political favoritism and partisan politics.
Many of us have chosen to register as Democrats. Many as Republican. Others as one of the third parties or not at all. On July 4th, 2009, we will be re-declaring our independence by registering as Independent, Non-Partisan, Unaffiliated, or into a party that is more representative of our independent political tendencies.
Stay tuned as ReTeaParty.com will soon unveil a new interactive website so that individuals like you can take charge of your local event coordination. Let’s stop looking to Washington DC and partisan political players to save our freedoms. More than anyone else in the world, Americans independently understand the principles of self-responsibility and respect for individual rights. On July 4th, 2009, let’s re-declare them.
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Meg said:
Why weren't there any tea parties when the Bush administration robbed the middle class blind while giving the super rich free rein to plow millions into the off-shore tax havens? Bush himself said in a speeh to a roomful of wealthy people, “This is an impressive crowd of the haves and have mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.”
I would take your non-partisan claims more seriously if this group, and other similar “anti-tax/revolution” groups, had formed much earlier.
April 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Cheerios said:
who says many of these groups weren't formed earlier? The energy to promote a movement like this doesn't happen overnight. Who says many of people here weren't just as critical of the Bush administration?
April 8th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
artemis said:
Check out the Peoples Platform. Good synergy with this.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:23 am
artemis said:
oops to read the Peoples Platform go to http://www.doi2.com Stands for Declaration of Independence 2
April 9th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Beyond April 15 And Other Tea Party News « Justbkuz said:
[...] ReTeaParty is coordinating a July 4, 2009, nationwide protest. More info here. [...]
April 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Rufus D said:
These tea parties are great! We also need a follow up action plan. Mr. Henry of Virginia has some good ideas here:
http://americantaxrevolt.blogspot.com:80/
April 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Rafi said:
Criticizing a group for the timing surrounding their formation is a weak criticism. If you want to criticize the group, start arguing with the principles they stand for.
April 11th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Lou Zher said:
It's an effective way to rally the base, keep the polarization alive, US vs THEM.
The rich keep getting richer and the rest of the US sees there income stagnate. The last recession was called jobless, the economy did better but the job outlook did not improve. In's now obvious that the “prosperity” that occurred on Bush's watch was all on paper.
Under Nixon, the upper tax bracket got taxed 70%. Under Regan it was cut to 40%. Bush cut it to 35%. The rich saw their income double, gee go figure.
And these people clamoring to the “tea parties”. Are they in that top 2 or 3%? Of course not. But somehow they think they are, or they think someday maybe they will. Keep dreaming, folks, you're just wanna-be's when you're never-will-be's.
What's the difference between the tea and the kool-aid? Just the taste.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Josh Norris said:
Principles may be a little out of reach for your mind to grasp…
Ignorance is bliss…
April 12th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
JW said:
Most people were not well informed of the wrong doings of the Bush administration. The war kept most everybody occupied.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
David Norton said:
Does joining this website commit me to becoming an independent on July 4th??
I admit, I have voted Libertarian many times in the past. I came THIS close to writing a letter to the editor last fall and renouncing my GOP membership when John McCain was nominated. (I probably should have).
But I have seen Libertarians, Republicans, and Democrats at the Tea Parties I have attended. And this is about outrageous debts that cannot be financed and will destroy the economy through hyperinflation, centralized control of the economy, government control of private corporations, their salaries, hiring and firing, and even their products.
I have not heard any coalescing of Tea Party opinion around renouncing party membership. Second Amendment, yes, Tenth Amendment, yes.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
David Norton said:
I have heard about a potential march on Washington on July 4th of this year at the Tea Parties I have attended. Is this what the “Independence Day Tea Party” events are about? Or is that about another group of consecutive Tea Parties in hundreds of separate cities?
Or is that about this “un-registering” from parties thing?
Even for Ron Paul supporters, has He agreed to drop his registration? And what if he runs again? Or some other GOP, (or Democrat) libertarian?
In some states one has to sit out a primary election when you change registration (Kentucky), and some states do not have registration at all (Indiana) so that one cannot undo one’s registration. (In Indiana, one votes in a primary by asking for the ballot of one of the parties. One does not declare one’s self to be a member, or commit to being a member, of a party to vote in its primary)
April 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Matthew Webb said:
I think that there is talk of one major march on DC on July 4th, but I can tell you right now that I wouldnt be able to make it.
If anything, I will participate in a protest in my individual state.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Matthew Webb said:
@meg: Bush spent like a mad man on his way out. No one expected it and there was not a rally fast enough or push large enough to catch on in time. Trust me, I hate bush and what he did to the conservative movement… But for Obama to come in (promising change) and do the exact same thing, well, now we are prepared.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Mimi C said:
Bush is gone now…leave it alone already! Everyone was so quick to forget about Clinton and his little “what is the meaning of is”…Let’s get to the bigger picture here. All the parties in both house and senate are to blame at this point. Look at their voting records and tell me which ones should stay? It’s time for something new to happen here. It’s time people stood up for what they believe in and quit being afraid to voice their opposition to the government in place at this time. Don’t worry. I’m not a Ron Paul supporter;-))
April 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Pamela menera said:
re lou’s comment…It is extremely naive of you to believe that those who attended the tea parties think they will be “rich” someday!!! Wake up .. it is all of us that get up every day and go to work and struggle to support our families that are the most affected by this massive irresponsible spending..The more power government obtains over our money…the more we become indentured slaves to the government..” A government that is big enough to give you everything you want, is powerful enough to take it all away…” The protests have very little to do with “getting rich”..They have everything to do with protecting each persons individual potential and personal liberty…We do not want to live in a collectivist society…”Each according to his means to each according to his needs…” I believe that’s Karl Marx…Socialism has never worked to better societies and it never will
April 17th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
David Norton said:
On the Lou - Pamela thread:
Yeah, Lou is feeding at the liberal blog-trough. Been told that this is just a GOP, astro-turf, faux grassroots movement that is regurgitating the tired, old GOP “cut taxes” campaign.
Well, taxes have gone up and down for decades, right? Without any such movement as this. And taxes have not gone up recently. OK, Obama is going to allow Bush’s tax cuts to expire, but we knew that a full year ago. No shocker there.
What has happened are the bank bailouts (both Bush’s and Obama’s), the stimulus package, the auto bailouts (Bush’s and Obama’s), AIG bailout, and now more bailouts of insurance companies proposed, writedowns of mortgages, “too big to fail” (GOP allowed these corporate mergers), “picking winners and losers”, The government micro-managing businesses.
I myself earn so little that I would probably get one of Obama’s checks, I’m certainly unafraid of near-term taxation.
But a government that can fire a CEO has the right to order my firing. If it can set a CEO salary, it can set mine. If it can tell GM what products to make or not make, it can tell me what products I can make. If it can use taxes not to raise revenue, but to punish CEOs for their sins, it can also tax me to punish me for my sins.
And if Obama adds $10 trillion to the US debt over the next decade, taxes will be the least of my worries. We will either have unemployment rates that will make the Great Depression look like a picnic, or we will have hyperinflation like Zimbabwe or Wiemar Germany.
The current rate of spending could not be financed by taking 100% of the income from the rich. It is an INSANE amount of spending.
And we know that one cannot free up credit for homes and cars and student loans by having the government sucking up all available credit by the need to borrow $trillions of dollars now.
I mean, I am beginning to doubt the sanity of my fellow citizens and the news media, etc. If there is a shortage of money in the banks for lending, how can one possibly increase the amount of money in the banks available to lend, by sucking $2trillion out??? That is the deficit in Obama’s new budget. (Oh yeah, he calls it Bush’s. ALthough Pelosi kept it in a drawer so Bush couldn’t have a chance to veto it, and Obama added his Christmas wishlist to it so that it is 8% more than the previous budget). And let’s not forget the stimulus package which is nearly a $trillion. That’s another $trillion of available credit to suck out of the economy.
Obama keeps saying that the GOP wants to return to the old failed policies of the last 8 years. Actually, the people voted for change. It is Obama that is giving us more of the last 8 years of failed economic policies.
Bush gave us more spending for education, for prescription drugs, more deficits, more debt.
Obama is doing exactly the same, only more. BIGGER deficits, MORE spending, Tripling the debt that Bush has already doubled. Let’s see, that means Obama will make the debt six times what was accumulated from George Washington through Bill Clinton.
If anyone is worrried about taxes, it could be because of the slim chance that someone, someday, might try to pay back that debt. I personally think Donner-Pass style cannibalism is more likely. But I’m an optimist.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:20 am
Susan Ritz said:
Well stated David!
This is why we cannot allow the two party system to continue on its present course. Both Democrats and Repulicans have been guilty of spending like drunken sailors. If we try to reform either party we will end up in the same boat because the same tired old faces will still be in power. They will pay attention to us only long enough to sing us back to sleep. Go to Opensecrets.org and see what your representative has been up to. Mine dosen’t even have a private address in my state. She dosen’t live in Arizona, she lives in WASHINGTON.
The tea parties can be a real path to the change we all want but we cannot stop! Do not vote for anyone who has held public office. Make your voices heard. We need a new party! One that remembers what WE THE PEOPLE actually means!
April 18th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Lorann Nims said:
I need to know if we are having a Tea Party in Dubuque Iowa
We atended the last one and need more info.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Jennifer S. Exline said:
Remember on 9/11/2001 the group of passengers who took back their plane from the terrorists? At the next Tea party We Need “Let’s Roll” signs.
Isn’t it almost the same thing? We have got to stand up and fight for what our founding fathers fought so hard for. LETS ROLL AMERICA, LETS TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK TO WE THE PEOPLE, NOT US, THE OBAMAS.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:41 am
Shari Lawrence said:
Can we start a grassroots movement to go farther that a tea party? Could we possibly start a grassroots movement to embargo Washington, DC until such time as those idiots in power take their regulatory, confiscatory, stinking, grubby hands off of us? We will not participate in any business that sends goods or services to Washington DC (excepting military applications, we do want to support our forces) until they start leaving us alone. We can start with seafood, to make them stop forcing state governments to overregulate the fishing industries. We can grow from there. No fish for you!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:33 am
Robert J. Paxton said:
Great idea Jennifer! Let’s just hope for a better ultimate outcome than those guys had. This won’t be easy and we’ll lose a few battles along the way, but taking back our government is something that we the people simply must do. Let’s Roll!!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Justplainfedup.com said:
The “march on DC” is not going to be a march according to the website.http://www.marchforliberty.org/marchdetails.html
So did all the other “protesters” in the past get permits?
It’s going to be a single file orderly walk to the side yard to peacefully demonstrate. I say we march on the state capital buildings on the 4th and let them take it to DC. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be, we surround them. A lot of States are re acclaiming their Sovereignty. About 1 million people protested at the tea parties. That’s about 20,000 per state. I think it will triple or more by the 4th. Imagine 50,000+ surrounding each of the state capitals at the same time.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:00 am
Dale said:
I cannot wait until July 4th to re-register. I am a life long Republican and I have already picked up my registration card. And for each of my family members. I also picked up enough for me to START a registration drive. I am going to register as many as I can to Independent. Maybe the GOP will see the numbers and realize that Colin Powell is WRONG.
I hate that Powell is doing this. As a military officer I respect him so much. His politics has taken alot of that respect away. I have nearly 20 years in the military.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Ross Martin Anderson said:
People, lets keep a Forward Looking attitude here. This isn’t about the past it is about the future and what kind of future it is going to be. One with more Liberty or less. More Individual Freedom or less. More Government Control or less. More Happiness or less… I prefer to look ahead and work for a better future of more Freedom instead of less.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Becka Cross said:
Instead of digging up the supposed “wrongdoings” of the Bush administration, we need to focus on what the current administration is trying to do to our nation. It isn’t pretty. No administration will be perfect, but this one is going where no other president has attempted to go before. If that doesn’t scare you, check your pulse.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Terry D said:
In response to those who question where we were when Bush was in office, I can only speak for myself: I was becoming more and more horrified at what was happening under the Bush Administration. When he did the first $750 billion bailout, that was it for me… if there had been a T.E.A. Party to protest that one, I would have been right there!
What I wonder is where are the ones who said (and rightly so) that Bush had spent more than any other President before him? Where are they now, and where is the outrage now with what’s happening under Obama? Or is it simply another reason to bash anyone the ultra-Left doesn’t agree with?
The problem is not Republicans vs. Democrats or Bush vs. Obama. That only occludes the real problem/s: too much taxation, not enough representation, not enough common sense in Washington, and a loss of the spirit of a nation that once was great.
Proudly unaffiliated! We Surround Them!
June 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Billy j. cole said:
Im am a new guy and would like to have info when and if there will be a Party in the Dallas Fort Worth area. There is one very importat thing to remember about freedom protect it or lose it. We all need to start now.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:33 am
GAYLA REDDICK said:
i would like to meet any members online from louisiana and tx.
December 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm