Tea Party Patriots
Public Group
Description
The Tea Party Patriots are a completely non-partisan, spontaneous movement made up of hundreds of thousands of patriots from all around the nation. We the people are the Tea Party Patriots!
News
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/post/Tax-Day-Tea-Parties-a-HUGE-Success.aspx
On April 15, 2009, at over 800 locations across this great country, the Tea Party Patriots gathered to protest government spending, bailouts, deficits and high taxes. The events were peaceful, patriotic and non-partisan, involving Democrats, Republicans, and many who no longer associate with any political party. Events included speakers, entertainment, and plenty of strong words for politicians who the Patriots see as corrupt, self-interested and disconnected from the lives of average Americans. While the final numbers are still coming in, they are huge by any standards. 20,000+ in Atlanta, 20,000+ in Sacramento, 7,500+ in Fresno, 10,000+ in Houston, and the list goes on and on. At this time it’s clear that when the tally is complete, the total number of participants will have exceeded 1,000,000. All across the nation, people came out to protest against government irresponsibility and politicians who are no longer interested in the public good. A great wave is sweeping the nation.
One speaker summed it up well when he said, “For too long politicians have used party affiliation, social issues, and the intentional promotion of class warfare to divide the American people. They have caused Democrats to hate Republicans, conservatives to hate liberals, pro-life advocates to hate pro-choice advocates, and the list goes on and on. Using the strategy of divide and conquer, politicians of all parties have distracted the American people while they destroyed our economy, increased our taxes, and lined their own pockets and the pockets of the special interests to whom they are obligated. The have consolitdated their power, to the detriment of the people they serve.
Many groups are trying to take credit for the Tea Parties, and many are trying to promote their own organizations by taking that credit. But here at the Official home of the grassroots Tea Party movement, we know where the credit really belongs, and it’s not to any organization. The credit belongs to the 800+ citizen patriot organizers around the nation. The credit belongs to the 1,000,000+ patriots who sacrificed work or family to come out to protest their lack of representation in the political system. The credit belongs to you, the Tea Party Patriots.
