We published our first article about tea party sign slogans, 101 Tea Party Sign Slogans, on April 3rd. It remains in the top three in Google searches. Thank you!
This update not only has many more slogans for you, but we’ve also got a few pre-designed signs that you can download and print. Plus, we’ve also got an instructional video for you that details how to construct a protest sign on a budget.
As the third wave of national tea parties approaches (on and around July 4th), there are currently more than 900 scheduled events according to teapartyday.com. In cities large and small, coast to coast, these patriotic gatherings will range in size from a few dozen to as many as 10,000 in larger cities.
Most of the 1.2 million patriots who attended the 800+ Tax Day Tea Parties were just average working Americans who had never participated in grassroots rallies. But, the mainstream media (MSM) either ignored these unprecedented gatherings on April 15th or opted instead to engage in adolescent attempts at humor deriding the attendees. Our President even claimed he didn’t know anything about them.
Rest assured, my fellow patriots, we were heard. On that cool spring day, more than one million of us … conservatives, liberals and independents … rich and poor … black, brown, and white … old and young … spoke with a single voice demanding that our ‘non-representing’ representatives start listening to we, the people.
We shall be heard again. And, those career politicians who utterly refuse to follow the overwhelming will of their constituency shall be cast out of office in the next election cycle.
The word “democracy” does not appear one time in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
Democracy means majority rule. The reason the United States was explicitly designed to be a Republic and not a democracy is that your life and your property are yours absolutely. They are not in any way, or at any time, subject to vote.
The framers of the Constitution did not believe in unlimited majority rule on any fundamental issue, because they did not believe that the rights of even a single individual, let alone a whole race of people, could or should be subject to vote.
Democracy is also known as the tyranny of the majority.
The word rights has its origins in ancient Roman law and is related to the Roman word jus, which is also, not coincidentally, related to the word justice.
According to historian J. Stuart Jackson, jus “is wider than that of positive law laid down by authority, and denotes an order morally binding on the members of the community.”
In the Roman sense of the word, “right” meant “what is just.”
Rights entitle holders to certain freedoms — specifically, the freedom to act in a certain way.
Notice the phrase “freedom to act”; it is a crucial distinction because rights do not assure you of anything material. Rights assure you of nothing except the freedom to try.
Recently, along with some of the other organizers of our local Tea Party, I was invited to participate in a radio interview in which we could submit 10 possible questions to be asked. What a rare opportunity!
Additionally, we were interviewed in a round-table fashion. And, we accepted call-ins. Patrick Munro of Northstar Financial Advisors was pleasantly supportive of our efforts as the inevitable tax increases from the unrelenting big spending in DC impacts his clients.
The following is my list of questions and possible answers. Actually, the answers were too long for a quick interview. Anyway, I’m posting this on the blog because it may offer some small smattering of assistance to others in a similar circumstance and/or to those who simply want to reflect on their recent Tea Party.
Q1. How did these recent Tea Parties get started?
On December 16, 1773 a small group of ‘radicals’ demanded “no taxation without representation”. This Boston Tea Party ignited a series of events that led to the American Revolution.
These current rallies began with bloggers in Seattle, WA, who organized a demonstration on February 16. Word spread quickly with protests in Denver and Mesa, AZ spontaneously organized for the next day. Then on CNBC (February 19), Rick Santelli called for a “Chicago Tea Party” on July Fourth.
Many folks, however, didn’t want to wait that long to express their anger toward trillion dollar budgets, 10 trillion dollar deficits, ever-expanding government, and the inevitable, massive tax increases to pay for it all. A few dozen more rallies were held in March.
Then … without any involvement from any political party or any central authority, Tea Parties began to organize for Tax Day through word-of-mouth and Internet communication.
Q2. Are these current Tea Party protests partisan in nature?
These Tea Parties are not necessarily about political parties. They are, first and foremost, a protest against wanton government spending and against ‘non-representing representatives’ who are resolutely defiant of the overwhelming will of … WE, the people.
There are many folks across our great nation who are fed up. These protests are representative of a large segment of our population who have, in fact, been the silent majority. We are no longer silent. We SHALL be heard.
If you are a politician who voted for these bailouts and earmarks, consider these Tea Parties YOUR going away party.
These Tax Day Tea Parties are part of a nationwide initiative to protest Big Government Spending. The rallies began with bloggers in Seattle, WA, who organized a demonstration on February 16. Word spread quickly with protests in Denver and Mesa, AZ spontaneously organized for the next day.
Then on CNBC (February 19), Rick Santelli called for a “Chicago Tea Party” on July Fourth. Many folks, however, didn’t want to wait that long to express their anger toward trillion dollar budgets, 10 trillion dollar deficits, ever-expanding government, and the inevitable, massive tax increases to pay for it all. Several more protests took place in March. More than 4,000 each attended the Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Orlando Tea Parties.
Despite this growing grassroots message to our federal government, the MSM refused to cover the scores of events. Then, without any involvement from any political party or any central authority, Tea Parties began to organize for Tax Day through word-of-mouth and Internet communication.
Join us for one of our Tax Day Tea Parties for 2009. We have six locations around the state: Charleston, Columbia, Isle of Palms, Myrtle Beach, Simpsonville, and York. Together we will make a difference.
Many will stand together … across our great nation … with one voice. We’ve had enough!
The second wave of Tea Party Protests is rapidly approaching. Currently, more than 2000 Tax Day Tea Parties are scheduled for April 15th, in cities large and small, coast to coast. These patriotic gatherings will range in size from a few dozen to as many as 10,000 in larger cities.
While many of us are beginning to plan the day and make our signs, a lot of folks are looking for ideas for their slogan. We’ve explored every nook and cranny of the world wide web culling through endless photos of signs from the numerous protests in March to bring you some of the very best slogan ideas.
In OPEN defiance of the OVERWHELMING will of the people, DC continues to ignore US about ending the ongoing bailouts using OUR money, about ending the countless earmarks using OUR money, about protecting OUR borders, and so on. And, now they want to run the banking industry, the energy industry, the health care industry, AND the automotive industry. President Obama just FIRED Rick Wagoner, the CEO of General Motors, a few days ago.
This is the SAME government that runs Social Security, Medicare, Amtrack, and the Post Office … ALL at year-after-year financial losses. This year alone, the U.S. Postal Service faces more than SIX BILLION dollars in debt.
It’s time STOP the wanton spending sprees in DC with OUR grand-children’s money! And, it’s time to STOP these ‘non-representing representatives’ from attempting to take CONTROL of business after business in OUR country.
As an unsettling discontent is swelling across our great nation, I’m reminded of the closing words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, “a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
His resolute celebration of liberty has come to symbolize the very definition of democracy itself. Yet, who among us today could muster the fatuous optimism to rally truthfully that this founding creed is practiced by our elected representatives in DC?
Shouldn’t government authority be derived from the consent of the governed? Shouldn’t our elected representatives … represent us? Some issues that confront us as a nation transcend political parties. (read this entire post…)
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, ‘Common Sense’, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
why the early bird gets the worm;
life isn’t always fair;
and, maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). (read this entire post…)
March 22 1599 Sir Anthony Van Dyck 1891 Chico Marx 1910 Nicholas Montsarrat 1914 Karl Malden 1923 Marcel Marceau 1930 Stephen Sondheim 1931 William Shatner 1943 George Benson 1948 Lord(Andrew) Lloyd-Webber
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Posted by LukeAmerica2020 on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at 7:30 am 
