NADRA ENZI OP-ED: Tea Parties: High Tech Lynchings?
By HHR | February 5th, 2010 | Category: General, Politics |
By Nadra Enzi
Tea parties. Conservative backlash to Obama’s policies, a most peculiar institution. I didn’t vote for the president. Truthfully, voting seems a charade. Back to tea parties. They are a suspected as the new neo-conservative delivery vehicle. Mostly White; overwhelmingly Christian in a political sense; uninterested in urban America.
Lower taxes- amen! Less government? amen again! Individual rights? Three for three! Liberalism means limitation for urban communities: more money on the EBT card passes for urban Democratic strategy. Still, can a tea party movement moving against this president serve my interests? Not likely. While disliking the current version Democratic Party, the GOP hasn’t done anything to stem my Republican reluctance. Instead of a politically right strategy, they’ve opted for an extreme right wing strategy with deep neo-conservative roots, apologies to chairman Michael Steele.
His presence offers desperately needed balance on this side of the aisle. The domestic equivalent of Bush march toward Iraq loudly unfolds on his watch, with predictable results. Add devotion to presumptive presidential candidate Sarah Palin and doubt mounts.
When Justice Thomas assailed his Senate confirmation committee as a ” high tech lynching ” urban onlookers wonder if the same applies to the tea party movement. Bush era super spending didn’t prompt outrage. Obama continuation of Bush bank bailouts hasn’t drawn parallels. Double standards abound. Too much government in Republican hands presents the same danger as Democratic over reach.
Had tea parties begun last Administration I could feel their pain better. Opposing big government once the White House changed hands is disingenuous. Such contradictions give the Left ample ammo to mobilize around racism allegations- their strongest rallying cry. That’s why overlooking offenses until the other party wins undermines such advocacy.
” High tech lynchings ” are welcome upgrades from nooses. Their intent however is no less diplomatic. Urban America watches from afar, wondering if the bad ‘ol days are being reloaded. Whether tea parties are high tech lynchings remain to be seen. From where I’m sitting, the view isn’t good.
Nadra Enzi aka Capt. Black is a Republican activist who promotes crime prevention in Savannah, Ga. He can be reached at http://www.captblack.info & http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadraenzi where you can listen to his new radio show.
First let me say that we had a Democratic congress for the last two years of the Bush presidency because people were angry at the spending and other policies of the Republican congress. Though in truth they never had a large enough majority to force much of an agenda. People foolishly assumed that replacing them with any change was good. Obama was not elected because of what he was for so much as he was the anti-Bush candidate. So your first premise that no one was angry at overspending policies of the past is incorrect. The media and congress are both at fault for not listening to people’s valid concerns about a social agenda that seems more about power than restoring the economy or protecting this country. They did not listen. They mocked. They used fool language and inappropriate and crude sexual references for grandmothers and families. The tea parties and other groups are growing because no one is listening. If they don’t like the growth of the movement…perhaps they should have reported honestly. Perhaps they should have listened and followed their constituents wishes. We are the only people with no lobby in Washington. Unions have powerful lobbies though they are minually representing their members who are only 8 percent of the country. Special interests like Soros, ACORN, SEIU and dozens of others have their seat at the table. We have watched the Constitution ignored. Pension plans in Indiana that were bond-holders for GM were trashed by the President and their rights violated even though they have first claim on GM assets….in favor of unions who have last claim by law. Did anyone in the media say what is going on? Did Congress? Did even the Supreme Court intervene when contract law was shredded? No. So this movement looks at this and says…if the Governor of Indiana is ignored when complaining about the rights of government worker pensions….do you think they hear us. So we are rising up to fight in the one place we have left..the ballot box. Are we “fringe” or ultra-right….hardly. We have half the American people as you will all soon see. The workers who pay the bills…and get treated badly as they spend us into slavery. They have already made de facto slaves of the people they pretend to serve…keeping them in perpetual dependence…while saying how much they care…in order to protect their power. Why is Obama someone who was supported by foreign donations as no other president in the past…and hid the donor origins as much as possible? Who pulls his strings? Soros? maybe.
Don’t cast dispersions on the Tea Party, just join in and influence or applaude the positive part of it. If racism or culturalism rears it’s ugly head, challenge it. Just because it is overwhelmingly caucasian and Christian (if that is correct) in make up does not make it automatically suspect. Thank God some organized group finally got fed up with wishy -washy Repubs and Dems, found their own conservative voice and focused their anger. Yes, supremacists may join in, if so criticise them, not the ‘movement’. This baby is far more valuable than some potential, but yet verified, racist bath water. One thing I’ve learned as I interface daily with my caucasian neighbors, friends and coworkers is that a vast majority of them are not concerned about race. So when they criticise Obama harshly, they do it full bore. They think they have a right to criticise anyone with his political values, and they are not trying to be politically correct and soften the rhetoric just to seem tolerant. If not for Tea Parties, the over reach of the current Democrats on everything including health care, global warming and the ineffective stimulus package, we’d be in much more dire straits than we are in even now. In may opinion we’re going to need every resource we can get to get common sense, real transparency, and sound policy exalted to the place they need to be.
Regarding the GM matter, do we know who appointed the federal bankruptcy judge who presided over the GM bankruptcy? What is the basis of your knowledge regarding bankruptcy procedure? Once your background is recieved I’ll reply in kind.
Interesting points Nadra…anybody got a Dime…I’ll bet George Wallace did!
Virginia:
Still waiting your response to my above question. Additonally, what do you think the Tea party’s urban agenda is? All I want is honest dialogue. Respond when you can.
I will be more than happy to respond to each issue you raised in an actual and factual manner.
I’m young, white,middle class man and I’m rooting for the tea party to succeed.
I would reallyyyy loveee to see some more diversity in the movement, this doesn’t have to be a mostly white thing.
The Tea Party is about the federal government having spent approximately 100 years straying from the confines of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which puts even further restrictions on what the Federal Government cannot do. For far too long has our country faded from a Republic that understands that our rights are not given to us by the government, nor by a piece of paper. Our rights were granted at birth by our Creator(is capitalized just as in the Declaration of Independence), which is God. We the people setup the Federal Government reluctantly due to a need for a small but appropriate level of central government amongst the sovereign states of the union. The Constitution does not grant the people’s rights, nor does the Bill of Rights. Both documents are there to setup the enumerated specific powers the federal government is allowed as granted by the people. It then places heavy clear restrictions on those powers, and to further enhance this, the 9th and 10th amendment together say “If we forgot to mention anything in these documents, then the Federal Government may not touch that either. It is a vast number of things that have been done(the insurance prices, the patriot act, the housing market crash, the federal reserve, bailouts with our money, and yes the REAL Tea Partiers though we greatly love and support our troops, we DO NOT support the two illegal, undeclared unconstitutional wars, nor policing the rest of the world while our Republic is going down the tubes, NOR ANYTHING that violates the Founding Documents in any way at all in part or in whole), and are continuing to be done by the federal government by BOTH parties, that violate these bounds, that are causing the problems we have today. The Tea Party movement is about remembering what it is that makes this Republic so great, and educating the public, encouraging people to get involved, and pay attention, and making sure our voices, the people of this country are being heard. We are not a Fad, we are not going away. And we are not part of any of the two major Parties. In fact we do not like the two party system, the GOP is horrid, just as the Democrats are. There are progressive’s in both parties, and they are destroying what makes our Republic so great. And despite misconceptions, we have nothing to do with race, nor are we all McCain supporters. In fact some of us voted for Obama, then realized the mistake, some of us Voted for McCain simply because he was the lesser of two evils. Sarah Palin, John McCain, Scott Brown, etc, are not good examples of people already in the political arena in D.C(Sarah is well involved with the GOP even without a seat), that truly represent our views. We are not neo-cons, we despise neo-cons. The best and most well known one who might fit that ticket is Ron Paul. The only one up there who has been their that long and has a rock solid track record of sticking to the constitution, and can quote it and explain it CORRECTLY of the top of his head. At Fox, check out the Judge, and listen to Freedom Report if you want a great representation of what we are about.
This article was so off, I had to set it straight.