E Pluribus Unum
Traditional Historic America Values - Part 2
16/September/2009 12:31 Filed in: Weekly
Column
According to a report in the United Kingdom’s Daily
Mail Online,
“Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest
against Obama's spending in 'tea-party'
demonstration.” From the reporting on the
tea party demonstrations earlier this spring, there
seems to be a significant interest in Britain with
Yankee civil unrest, especially when the tea party
term is used. Perhaps it has something to do with
the fact that the original Tea Party in Boston has
been used historically as perhaps the first step
towards the American Revolution and the end of
English world dominance. The article is worth the
read and the photos are outstanding, probably not
what you may have seen above the front-page fold in
your Sunday newspaper.
From what little reporting I heard from the mainstream media, the crowd was more like thousands. Moving up or down the spin ladder, I heard tens of thousands. Fox News set the estimate at more than 75,000. No matter the number, there were more people protesting in Washington DC this past Saturday than anyone expected, especially the Beltway crowd and the politicians.
This continues the tie from the left, which attempts to portray the current protestors as anti-healthcare reform, talk radio and Glenn Beck agitated Republican kooks. But from what I understand of Beck’s political philosophy however, he is a Libertarian and also a Mormon. I bring up Beck’s Latter Day Saints affiliation, because everyone knows the stereotype that Mormons are all male dominated, blond haired, blue eyed, racists.
This of course misses the points; Beck was at one time a drunk from Washington State, and that the State of Utah would not exist if it were not for religious persecution of the Mormon Christian cult in the 19th century. As a result, Mormons, even Mormon converts, are perhaps the most ardent, dare I use the term traditional, Americans when it comes to the understanding of America’s constitutional provisions for freedom and liberty, especially when it comes to the choice of religious freedom, or the separation of church and state.
It then follows in the progressive, liberal, logical process that everyone who does not agree with the political agenda of President Barack Obama, are also racist. That by inclusion includes all religious people of all faiths, but with an emphasis on Bible thumpers of any persuasion, “after all they all look alike.”
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From what little reporting I heard from the mainstream media, the crowd was more like thousands. Moving up or down the spin ladder, I heard tens of thousands. Fox News set the estimate at more than 75,000. No matter the number, there were more people protesting in Washington DC this past Saturday than anyone expected, especially the Beltway crowd and the politicians.
This continues the tie from the left, which attempts to portray the current protestors as anti-healthcare reform, talk radio and Glenn Beck agitated Republican kooks. But from what I understand of Beck’s political philosophy however, he is a Libertarian and also a Mormon. I bring up Beck’s Latter Day Saints affiliation, because everyone knows the stereotype that Mormons are all male dominated, blond haired, blue eyed, racists.
This of course misses the points; Beck was at one time a drunk from Washington State, and that the State of Utah would not exist if it were not for religious persecution of the Mormon Christian cult in the 19th century. As a result, Mormons, even Mormon converts, are perhaps the most ardent, dare I use the term traditional, Americans when it comes to the understanding of America’s constitutional provisions for freedom and liberty, especially when it comes to the choice of religious freedom, or the separation of church and state.
It then follows in the progressive, liberal, logical process that everyone who does not agree with the political agenda of President Barack Obama, are also racist. That by inclusion includes all religious people of all faiths, but with an emphasis on Bible thumpers of any persuasion, “after all they all look alike.”
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