Tens of thousands of Americans are planning to attend tax protest "tea parties" on April 15 (tax day), yet the media is trying to either avoid covering them, downplaying them or just calling organizers "treasonous" or "silly."
"Tea" stands for "taxed enough already." They are a tip-of-the-hat to the 1773 Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts where colonists, dressed as Indians, tossed crates of tea into the harbor to protest England's taxes.
The tea parties are spreading by word-of-mouth because the main stream media (ABC, CBS, NBC and most major newspapers) are refusing to even mention them in their broadcasts or news articles. Tea parties have been held during the past several weeks with the biggest protest to come on April 15, when everyone's income tax filings are due.
Some in the media are trying to claim that the tea parties are being organized by "right-wing kooks" or "far-right fringe" groups or even, get this, Fox News. These are being organized by ordinary people who are fed up with the excesses of the Obama Administration and the Democrat congress. Fox News just picked up on the stories after the fact. Some Fox celebrities are planning to attend some of the tea parties (Sean Hannity is to attend the Atlanta, Georgia tea party).
Reports have been surfacing that leftist groups such as ACORN may try to infiltrate tea parties or cause disruption. Some leftist bloggers have gone as far to say that there will be violence at these tea parties in their efforts to scare people to not attend.
The leftist, pro-Obama media is fearful that these tea parties will be effective in organizing a counter-movement against the Democrats that could carry on through the 2010 mid-term elections. You can always tell how effective a protest is by seeing how the left reacts. So far, they seem to be getting mighty worried.
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