The Tea Party is a Perversion of America's Heritage.

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest by colonists against unfair taxation on the part of the British crown. The colonists were not against taxes, but only against having to pay them to what they saw as an overseas, anti-democratic authority. When Americans became an independent nation, our elected government was given and exercised its authority to levy taxes as needed. The American people, while disagreeing on individual items in the tax list, never challenged the authority of their government per se because it was a government of their choosing.

Today's tea party is not in the tradition of the historical event in Boston. It is the movement of a special interest group intent on destroying our democratic way of life by financially incapacitating our representative government. Under the sponsorship of corporate oligarchs, they want to assert themselves against the purpose of the Constitution as stated in its Preamble which is to " ...establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty." By pitting themselves against the values that were so clearly formulated by the founders of this nation, today's tea party is perverting the spirit of the colonialists who founded this country.