Patrick James Cambio
February2010
Apparently there is and will be a lot of confusion on what a Tea Party Patriot is and what The Tea Party stands for. I'll start by telling you a few things the Tea Party does NOT represent. First and foremost they never have and never will condone or incite any form of violence or terrorism. This may sound like something that doesn't need to be said but something a lot of TP members and supporters have feared is starting to come to fruition. We just had a guy fly into a building with a prop plane that has voiced his opposition to GW Bush and our government in general. The media has already slanted this person into being part of the Tea Party which he is not. This is a confusion tactic to tie terrorists, activists, and constitutionalists altogether. It is assumed that if a terrorist opposes government and the Tea Party opposes the present form of government this means that all Tea Party Patriots are terrorists. This logic IS being pushed and is very dangerous for so many unamerican reasons.
Another thing true Tea Party Patriots don't support is republican candidates in general. This is something that is dividing the Patriots as we speak but I stand firm that if we were here to support republicans we would be calling ourselves republicans. Again the confusing media grouping of tying the things that look on the surface as the same but are very different. A republican is supposed to be a conservative and the Tea Party Patriots consider themselves as conservatives therefore all Tea Party Patriots support republicans. Well if republicans were truly conservative then this might be the case, but like I said, if they stood by their true ideals there wouldn't be a Tea Party movement. So if you think a federal healthcare, military excessive spender, warmonger like Scott Brown and Mitt Romney are wins for Tea Parties then you've been led astray from the true ideals of their group.
A big misconception of the Tea Party, and this will be our undoing I think, is that all Tea Party members are gun toting revolutionists that are itchy for a bloody revolution. This is very much not the case. Most TP Patriots won't even talk of revolution because it is unwinnable and nonconstructive to the cause.
What The Tea Party does stand for is very simple. The Constitution. Millions of Americans have fought to keep this article alive but now there is talk of it needing to be updated. The TP Patriots believe that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not an old fashioned notion and does not need to be updated. TP Patriots see that our bill of rights might as well be trashed if we keep going in this fascist run socialist direction. We agreed, as a nation, that our rights were God given inalienable rights. This means we are born with these freedoms of speech, religion, and property. If God has given us these things then why do we have to ask the government to voice our opinions about them? Why do we need to ask the government if we can work on our own property? Why can't we celebrate our religious holidays on a public garden? TP Patriots know that our basic rights are all gone and we need to do something to get them back.
This automatically brings up the talk of revolution but, like I said, it is an unwinnable battle. What is winnable is peaceful education of American citizens to what, why, and how we need to get back to the Constitutional Republic that our forefathers set up for us. Technology has changed in 200 years but most people that know our constitution will easily tell you that being more technologically advanced doesn't wipe away the basic building blocks to a free society. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness can be achieved with an understanding of what our freedoms consist of.
If you believe you are losing your freedoms more and more by every administration. If you feel helpless to our government that we are supposed to be running not being run by. If you are angry by spending all our money to support the corporations that put us in this depressed economic situation. If you are angry that our brothers, sisters, sons and daughters are oversees putting their lives' on the line and paying the ultimate price for something that isn't directly protecting the country. If you truly believe that liberty and freedom is something to be cherished and fought for. If you love your country the way so many have fought defended and died for it to be. If you consider yourself a proud American Patriot then you truly are a Tea Party Patriot.
