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I was a Witness to History
Tea Party Fever: The Citizen Revolution Begins:
20,000+ Strong in Texas on Independence Day
The Shameful Cover-Up by National Media
Media Feeds Public a Steady Diet of Michael Jackson
By Wayne Allyn Root, 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee
I saw it. I'm a witness to history. Someone has to provide witness to what our
national mainstream media refuses to cover. The anger is rising. It is boiling
over. The signs of the coming citizen revolution are everywhere. Just two days
ago, on July 4th I spoke at Tea Party protests in Austin and Dallas. About
20,000 Americans citizens attended those two protests on a national holiday, in
stifling 102 degree heat and unfathomable humidity. I know what normal people
would have done on a typical national holiday on a stifling hot summer day at
any other time in our nation's history- go swimming with their family, or
barbeque with family and friends in the shade. But these 20,000 people in two
Texas cities sacrificed their valuable family time on a holiday to stand in the
blistering heat and direct sunshine to vent their anger at the politicians (of
both parties) who are destroying our country, killing capitalism, damaging the
economy beyond repair, and
enslaving our children and grandchildren to a lifetime of debt.
I assume tens of thousands turned out in other cities across the country.
Hundreds of thousands in all. But I wouldn't know. The news media didn't report
it.
While the media willfully ignores the Tea Party protests right in front of
their eyes, they choose to talk nonstop about “green shoots” in the economy
that don't exist. These “green shoots” are a total fabrication- a figment of an
ignorant, delusional, or deliberately fraudulent liberal media's imagination.
The economy is crumbling. The Obama debt is turning a deep recession into “the
Greater Depression.” The numbers get worse every day. We are on the verge of
economic Armageddon. But the President, the politicians who enable him, and the
mainstream media are afraid to present the truth to the public. Perhaps they
believe, as Jack Nicholson said in the movie A Few Good Men, “The truth? You
can't take the truth.”
What California is now experiencing- debt, default, insolvency, bankruptcy,
IOU's to it's own citizens- is coming to a country nearest you called America.
California is merely “the canary in the coal mine” of what irresponsible
liberal fiscal policy is about to do to the entire USA. California is ground
zero of economic Armageddon. California is the true sign of how deep the hole
is. Yet Obama keeps digging.
The deficit is out of control. The debt is unsustainable. Small businesses
close by the hundreds of thousands. Almost 500,000 Americans a month continue
to lose their jobs. No more government employees can be hired or paid for. The
Obama economic stimulus plan is in shambles. The game is up. Yet Obama wants
desperately to add to the debt. He tries desperately to push through a new $1.6
trillion dollar Universal Healthcare bill that will cost more than all the
personal income taxes paid in America. He tries desperately to push through a
Cap and Trade bill that will double or triple our electric rates and put
American business out of business- in the middle of a depression. He asks the
Federal Reserve to print more money to pay for all his debt, bailouts,
handouts, entitlements, union giveaways and redistribution schemes. It is all
the definition of utter insanity.
Small business is the economic engine of our U.S. economy. Small business
creates 75% of new jobs- yet small business is going out of business like never
before. Every day more small businesses close by the thousands. The landlords
that own the buildings and strip malls and shopping centers where those small
businesses used to be located are in bankruptcy, or will be soon. A wave of
commercial real estate foreclosures that has never been seen in U.S. history is
on the way. A wave so crippling it will make the wave of home foreclosures
we've just experienced look small. Banks will buckle under this coming
commercial wave of debt. But this news the mainstream media refuses to
report…or simply doesn't even understand.
Worse, the upper middle class that owns those businesses and buildings and
shopping malls, that pays virtually all of our taxes, is being driven out of
existence. Whether Obama or his Kool Aid drinkers in the media realize it or
not, his grand dreams are DOA (dead on arrival). The plan was to pay for it all
by “taxing the rich.” Well the rich that Obama hates so much, whose money he
planned to redistribute, is vanishing by the day. There is no income left to
redistribute. There is no one left to pay Obama's tab. But this news the
mainstream media refuses to report…or simply doesn't even understand.
But none of this stops the biased liberal media from talking about “green
shoots” and the prospects of economic recovery right around the corner. However
far worse than these false hopes of recovery are the outright deceptions and
fraud of the media. Whenever 25 or 50 anti-war demonstrators gathered against
the Iraq War during the Bush presidency, the media was there with dozens of
cameramen and reporters to cover it in detail- and make it look like a citizen
revolution. Yet today a true citizen revolution is brewing and the media
refuses to cover it. The anger about the Iraq War was small and inconsequential
compared to the anger in the streets from ordinary Americans today.
Today the proof that a true citizen revolution is brewing is evident at Tea
Party rallies and protests across this great country. The protestors at these
Tea Parties are not the typical socialist radicals, counter-culture hippies,
and professional protestors of the left who attended the war rallies. The Tea
Party protestors define middle America. These are small business owners,
blue-collar workers, parents with young children in tow, grandparents,
patriotic war veterans. These are people who have never said a bad word about
America in their lives. These are flag wavers- not flag burners. These are
lifelong Republicans and conservatives and libertarians who have never attended
a protest in their lives. These are patriots looking to save their country, not
American-haters looking to tear it down. They used to be too busy running
businesses and taking care of their families to protest. Now they are willing
to protest, scream and rage at the politicians
destroying he American Dream. This is the story of the decade- perhaps the
century. This is the story that should be on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and
U.S. News & World Report. This is the story that should lead off the national
evening newscasts. Yet it is met with deafening silence. Instead we are fed a
steady diet of Michael Jackson. Weapons of Mass Distraction.
Yet despite the media fraud and distractions, these quintessential middle
American patriots are out in the streets protesting, screaming, raging. Angry.
Bitter. Bursting at the seams in disgust and disillusionment. Not willing to
take it anymore. Not words we've ever used to describe salt-of-the-earth middle
American parents and grandparents. Something is happening. Something very
unusual. Something very powerful. Perhaps for the first time ever, something
out of the control of the mainstream national media (could that be what
frightens them?). Something bigger than even the powerful politicians.
Something bigger than all of us.
What I witnessed (as one of the main speakers at both events) in Texas on
Independence Day was the Governor of Texas getting booed by his own
conservative constituents. And the United States Senator of Texas getting
literally booed and shouted off the stage by these same conservative
constituents. These were Republican politicians. The protestors were taxpayers.
Angry taxpayers. Angry that their money has been given away- looted- by
politicians on both sides of the aisle. Angry about bailouts of wealthy
corporations and CEO's. Angry about wasted trillion dollar economic stimulus
plans to nowhere. Angry about tax cuts given to people who never paid taxes in
the first place. Angry about our government undertaking a hostile takeover of
American business. Angry about government handing GM and Chrysler tens of
billions of taxpayer dollars just so they could go bankrupt anyway, and then
handing the leftover companies to the auto unions who weren't even secured
creditors. Angry about the socialization of America happening before our eyes.
20,000 people. In 102 degree heat and humidity. On a holiday. Not professional
protestors, but taxpayers. Angry citizens. Parents. Grandparents. I was there
to witness it. This is history in the making. The citizen revolution has begun.
Whether the media notices…or cares…or understands…or not.
Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate. His new
book will be released by John Wiley & Sons this July 20 entitled, “The
Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns,
Gambling & Tax Cuts.” The book is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com. For
more of Wayne's views, commentaries, or to watch his many media interviews,
please visit his web site at: www.ROOTforAmerica.com
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