Friday, April 03, 2009

Let’s Be Nice?

Listening to the Glenn Beck program on the radio turned one of my hot buttons on a while ago. Glenn has the 9/12 project , a reference to the united will of Americans the day after being attacked and which I think is a step in the right direction; however, today he was talking about a big “tea party” get together in San Antonio; but that’s not what got my hot button lighted.

He kept going on and on about showing up to shout about what’s right, not to make this a political bashing about one political party or another. This tea party should bring us together with what will make things right.


Where’s my friend Jack Hecker when I need sound effects? Jack could make the perfect, “Wrong!” sound effect for folks offering a plausible answer and yet far enough off the mark as to make a gong sound or that annoying power grunt, similar to when a child has been forced to swallow bad tasting medicine; only much more pronounced and directed.

The purpose of a tea party is to show government just how close we are to burning down the town and then hanging all government representatives responsible for enslaving the citizenry. Government should be brought to the realization that normal happy citizens are ready to move toward mob mentality; and, mob mentality isn’t pretty, it isn’t nice and it tends to get out of control in a heartbeat.

The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil and criminal disobedience which led to the closing of Boston Harbor and eventually to the war of independence. Are we supposed to gloss over an ugly part of our history in order to propose our modern day tea parties are afternoon social gatherings, our tea cup in hand to offer a show of solidarity; give me a break!

Don’t ask me to be a Pollyanna, a person with positive solutions and thoughts while attending a tea party intended to scare these usurpers into backing off or doing what they already know should be done; positive solutions and thoughts are for a different stage and time, not at the tea party. I want each government representative and bureaucrat to look into my eyes and see the anger which has been choked off or held down and is now about to boil over.


I want my government representatives to familiarize themselves with that human emotion which we all possess, to know how close this country is to that unpredictable violent edge which civilized people discipline and manage to control; that such civility is being pushed to the limit and when the most civilized citizen’s veins start popping it should be a sign that chaos isn’t far behind.

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