Own it, Tea partyBlue Oregon
By Nick Christensen of Portland. Nick is formerly a reporter for the Hillsboro Argus.
"If this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” – Sharron Angle<snip>
For a good deal of America, the Second Amendment represents freedom – freedom to protect yourself, freedom to hunt. For many, it also represents freedom to protect your family from the government, if and when such a time comes that it's necessary to take up revolution.
Make no mistake – the message has been clear. From Glenn Beck's "If you must shoot, shoot to kill," to Sarah Palin's "Don't retreat, reload," there's been an thinly-veiled pushing of a right-wing agenda for revolution, a coddling of the notion that everyone has their limits, an embracing of the idea that sometimes, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
So here's where I get confused. The war drums have been pounding for almost two years, with the implication that sometimes, armed revolution is justified. Then someone goes and follows through, someone gets just enough crazy in them to start shooting at a congresswoman and a federal judge and a little girl, and somehow they've crossed the line?
The Tea Party is having it both ways! You can't in one breath say there's a time and a place for warfare, and in another breath disown it every time it happens. Take it one way or the other, Tea Party. Either admit you're moral relativists that only accept revolution when it's for a cause you support, or admit you're simply taking advantage of a brutish rhetoric because it raises the cash and helps your candidates get elected.
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