Wisconsin Tea Party Mom Speaks Out

Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit highlighted an article from a fed up Wisconsin Mom in this post this morning.

COLUMN:Tea Party organizer a fed-up mom
By Meg Ellefson • For the Wausau Daily Herald • May 6, 2009

At a town hall meeting in St. Louis last week, President Obama referred disrespectfully to those people who attended the Tax Day Tea Parties last month. What continues to haunt me is the fact that while Obama traveled all over the world to shake hands, bow, pose for photos and apologize to those who have explicitly declared their hatred for America, he refuses to engage in dialogue with those in his own country who love America and wish to defend our freedoms, our beliefs and our way of life.

That's astonishingly hypocritical from someone who campaigned on the message of uniting the country, promising a new nonpartisan tone in Washington.

While the media continues to portray the tea party movement as a fox news organized fake event, people who participated in them know different. The media and the President can continue to delude themselves, but this movement is real. We recognized in two years ago in New Jersey. Normal people need a forum and they are going to get it, whether or not the New York Times or the Philadelphia Inquirer like it or not.

Read the entire article here.

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Homeland security answer to the Tea Party Movement

The Federal government has an answer to the Tea Party movement - apparently they will try to marginalize it under the guise of ginning up the right-wing extremist bogeyman. From the Washington Times:

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "right wing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

This is an interesting analysis. From my definition, this would include virtually every group in the United States on both the left and right that does any kind of advocacy. But as usual, this administration misses a key point. From the United States constitution:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Notice that the 10th amendment to the Constitution does not say congress can do what it wants and force it on the states. It says that the states and their people retain rights not specifically excluded by the Constitution. Liberals have moaned about George Bush and his assault on the rights of fictitious victims that they never produced citing facts never written down. Apparently, this administration is more open and forthright. They have no problem placing wording in a government document citing their intended oppression of the people and in direct contradiction to the United States Constitution in plain sight. More change you can believe in.

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