The Tea Party Rebellion: Reading, learning, and thinking are weapons of war against the thoughtless progressive
The modern rebellion of the Tea Party against large statist governments was never more illuminated than in the below collection of clips from those liberty groups who testified before congress of their harassment by the IRS. Doc Thompson and his producer Skip LaCombe assembled the clip and played it during their show on Wednesday, June 5th culminating in a full week of aggressive coverage by the Blaze Radio Network regarding the tyranny of the government represented by the IRS in harassing genuinely good people. Unlike other places in the world, this modern rebellion in America is not being conducted by despots for control over the world’s resources—as might normally be the case—but by indisputably good people who are reclaiming their independence as sovereign citizens of The United States. It seems ironic that the rebels of our modern age are family people, church goers, and otherwise responsible citizens as opposed to the villainy of the modern progressive. The clip below captured the spirit of the week centering around IRS testimony in a way that was heard no place else but The Blaze.
The testimony was powerful stuff and gives the world a look into the way average Tea Party supporters think. With all the radical assertions which have been tossed toward the Tea Party with derogatory dialogue—particularly in calling them by the sexual reference as “Tea Baggers” which Obama himself has used on multiple occasions, the voices who gave testimony represent well the multitudes of people I have associated with in Southern Ohio who have lent their time and talent to American liberty. Those who support statist government have made themselves treacherously obvious to their cause because the contrast to the good people of the Tea Party movement is obvious. The only way Tea Party opponents have been able to maintain their moral high ground is to keep the Tea Party out of the news, and now because of the IRS debacle, the world can see what the rebellion in America is really about. The heart of the matter is good against evil, with the good represented by the Tea Party and evil represented by the ever-growing statist government.
The government is evil because “it” insists on imposing itself upon individual will. “It” requires blind submission of all individuals to the adherence of the political elite, and this is just not what America is about, and never has been. Many will point to the debacles which followed the Civil War and more specifically to the progressive events of 1913 where America turned basically into a large federal bank with the creation of the Federal Reserve, and implemented an income tax. Most people have forgotten that it was the work of Karl Marx and associates who advanced their views of communism through the Progressive Party represented so well by Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson allowing the philosophy of Marx into the American system of self-government. Since that time, the gradual erosion of liberty has steadily progressed through the entire 20th Century. The way America is today, and has been for several decades is not the way it was intended. The progressive political machine had cast its large sails to capture the global winds of communism and reshape politics in America in a way that is not sustainable or acceptable from even before Roosevelt was president.
When people have asked me what the goal of the Tea Party is, and more specifically, if I want to return America back to the period of the Old West, as I respect immensely traditional American arts, such as gun slinging, bull whip work, and knife throwing, I respond that it is not the period of the Old West that is the goal, it is the period well before that. For myself, I appreciate the values of the traditional Anti-Federalists of which Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding members. I more specifically appreciate the values of the American transcendentalists–people like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Even though many of their philosophical conclusions were still rooted in mysticism, the path they were on was the correct one for the “American Way.” These ideas were being worked out twenty to thirty years before Karl Marx and his despots of ignorance did their work through American newspapers advocating the philosophy of communism as a superior mode of political thinking over capitalism. Through newspaper journalists and editors, particularly Walter Lippmann who hung out constantly at the Long Island home of Roosevelt after the start of the Progressive Party, they changed the name of communism to progressivism, in order to make the concept more palatable to Americans who loved their freedom, and wanted nothing to do with statist governments. The ploy for the progressives was hatched by the Fabian Socialists of England of which playwright George Bernard Shaw was a respected member along with H.G. Wells. Their theory was that socialism; (soft communism) could be implemented not radically the way it was done in the Soviet Union during 1917, but slowly, over a long period of time. This was the best way to by-pass the American Constitution and deliver The United States back into the fold of European control. After all, as the Fabian Socialists reasoned, if global socialism/communism was the goal, America would have to go down and join in; otherwise it would always be an option for freedom lovers who refused the socialist collectivist aims of statism. For the English, they had tried one hundred years prior during the War of 1812 to retake America as an English colony, but that effort was not successful, so a more indirect—much more patient ploy needed to be implemented—this is how America ended up with progressive politics.
Many in America today have just accepted these little bits of statism provided by gradual socialism inspired by Karl Marx and the failures of collectivist thinking. Over a long period of time, as the Fabian Socialists schemed, Americans gave away bits of their freedom in exchange for “Social Security.” For the progressive who views their century of social gains the Tea Party is a tremendous threat to them, because those kind, innocent Americans of that patriotic group have dedicated themselves to learning how America was supposed to function all along, and know they have been scammed, and they want to undo the progressive advancements and return to the original principles of the Constitution. In that regard, my personal position is that I would argue with Alexander Hamilton who in 1780 was considered a major statist from the Federalist Party with the kind of Anti-Federalist arguments reflected by Thomas Jefferson. The modern Tea Party wants to return to the Constitution that was shaped by Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, which I consider “TOO EXTREME.” Compared to the modern Fabian Socialist, the progressives, the global communists, Alexander Hamilton’s views of government seem radical so the two sides are not reconcilable. Socialists and capitalists cannot live together. One wants to be left alone, the other needs collective participation to survive, so the two are not compatible.
The Tea Party rebellion as it is, are simply nice people who are waking up to the fact that the world they thought they were living is not what they were sold. They are discovering that progressives for their entire lives have gradually ruined the American idea for not only them, but their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they are not happy about it. They are the sleeping giant of world society that are waking up, and they aren’t going to complacently go along with the scam any longer. This posses a major problem for progressives who have built an entire education system around statist principles, a government fueled by coercion for the benefit of the political class, and a hopeless tomorrow trying to return America back to the fold of European foolishness. The American of tradition—of ideology, have no intention of being serfs, even if they have served such a role unknowingly for many years. Through the Tea Party, they are learning what their rights should always have been, and they are learning more about the laws which founded the country than many of the current politicians holding office know presently.
One of the ways that slave holders in the American South kept free men and women obligated to serfdom were by keeping those poor souls ignorant. For slaves, an act of rebellion was to sneak away from their master’s gaze deep in the heart of night and to do the diabolical act of “reading” so to educate their minds so that they might come to know better than to live under the tyranny of a “master” of any kind. And so it is in our modern age, but the activity is not so secret. Tea Party patriots are getting together as education organizations to read, and intelligently petition a government the way all free people should be able to, and the statist regimes whether they come from big banking corporations, or Fabian Socialists require an ignorant population in order to sell their utopia of hopelessness to the world population. Statist masters cannot stand for the “slaves” to become educated, so they have done all that they could do to stop the process, and harass those who attempt such a rebellious act, such as reading the truth for themselves.
The biggest difference between the rebellion of 2013 and that of 1773 is that the rights were already won once with blood and bullets. Now there are freedom fighters like Doc and Skip on The Blaze Radio Network who are truly doing news reporting that is light years from anything ever done in America. For the first time in American history there are free people who are learning what their rights are because they are “reading” for themselves, and they are listing to Doc Thompson who drives home the point free of FCC regulation spouting out a truth that is equivalent to the escapades of Fredrick Douglass during the most noted revolution against slavery to ever occur in the world. Only in America would such a thing as the Civil War occur over the rights of man, even of another skin color and varied religions. But now that fight has extended to all men and women of all colors and religions who share in common a distinct desire to be exempt from the faulty morality of the diabolical progressive and their statist plans of doom. To arrive at that point, those freedom fighters are reading and learning what they have been missing with a revolution that is taking place not with bullets and bayonets, but books and bold speeches like the ones given against the IRS on Capital Hill captured so well in the summation by Doc Thompson and his crafty producer Skip.
I have always stood ready to defend my freedom from the statist controllers. But joining me now are the moms, wives, and patriots who want a good life for their children and have the courage to go against the progressive plans to achieve it. Instead of tuning in to the local music broadcasts on radio stations, or listening to sports oriented talk radio, they are discovering The Blaze Radio Network who is at the front of the freedom movement and the fuel behind the next steps toward freedom. Glenn Beck has reinvested vast sums of his personal wealth into this endeavor and just this past week hired Laurie Dhue from Fox News to deliver news on their Blaze Television which is now seen on The Dish Network. It is only a matter of time before Glenn Beck’s network, which is dedicated to education, is directly competing with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX. When that direct competition occurs, those other stations will discover that they cannot abate, or rationalize the rebellion of the mind which is happening beyond their control.
Americans are reclaiming their lives, and the potent moment which is the modern-day shot heard around the world are the clips from the IRS testimony given by the Tea Party patriots. In that testimony the previously obscured normal people who have been buried under progressive altruism have been given a voice, and they made full use of it. Their words are more powerful than bullets as the intended slave masters who wish to rule the world through various statist schemes require ignorance, in the same manner that southern plantation owners kept slaves unable to read, and always lacking of substance. Ignorance is required to advance statism no matter what the political method of attack, be it socialism, modern-day progressivism, or forceful communism. Before such methods can be employed, one must turn off their mind, and empty everything that it once held. This is why progressives want control of the education process and want children in their institutions of tyranny from the time of their first conscious thoughts. But the momentum has already shifted, and the Tea Party is doing things that nobody previously expected. The Tea Party is “reading” and learning the way the world is supposed to be, and they are acting on their own behalf to free themselves and others from suffering the same fate. It is too late to stop such a thing. Ignorance has been discarded in favor of intelligence, starting with a few Tea Party types who are now small in number, but growing through an evolving rebellion that is not centered on violence, but knowledge.
Thus, now all know why I write so much here upon these pages. I know that most readers browse these articles and quit reading after the first two sentences, and that I would be even more popular if I catered to traditional notions of journalism, by keeping the articles under 400 words and within the average person’s attention span. But a few read the entire 1500 to 2000 word works in their entirety and out of the 500 to 1000 who read every day, about 30 to 40 read every word, sometimes twice, and they come back day after day. Of those, I know several who read every day looking to these words as a lighthouse guiding their way through a thick ocean fog of modern life. Some of those people are very important and influential in modern politics, so the words are not wasted. My goal is to get people thinking so that their minds are prepared to ask questions, and to “seek” ending their chains to statism with thought leading to action. The act of rebellion is not a ruckus act of villainy, or violent attempt at suppression, but the diabolical notion of filling the mind with intelligence, which is the greatest weapon against the tyrant ever devised.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
