The Real Tea Party Is Anonymous
Most Tea Party people are honest folk who want to change the country for the better. But many of them have been tea-bagged by talk radio for so long that they have Glenn Beck's balls where their brains should be.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if you call a turd a rose, it's still a turd.
You see, language can be misleading. The Patriot Act, for example, ranks among the most unpatriotic pieces of legislation ever dragged through the slimy halls of Congress. So too, the Bachmann-Beck Tea Party is not the real heir to the historic Boston Tea Party.
When the Boston Tea Party destroyed thousands of dollars worth of merchandise to protest taxes, they dressed up as Indians to remain anonymous. They needed to protect their identities from their government in order to avoid prosecution for their crime. It worked. We still don't know who took part in the Boston Tea Party.
The true children of those early American activists are the hacktivists known as Anonymous.
Now that the government listens to our phone calls and monitors our emails, remaining anonymous takes a bit more sophistication than painting your face and putting a feather in your hair. You would have to have some serious computer skills in order to even know how to avoid detection on the internet. It is therefore natural that Anonymous hacks—they need those same computer skills to hide in the first place.
Our government would prosecute Anonymous as criminals if they found them. They are outlaw heroes, not just another mob of sign-holding protesters.
So far, Anonymous has:
Their willingness to risk their lives and fortunes for freedom makes them the true heirs of the American Revolution.
Standing up to tyranny is no tea party.
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You see, language can be misleading. The Patriot Act, for example, ranks among the most unpatriotic pieces of legislation ever dragged through the slimy halls of Congress. So too, the Bachmann-Beck Tea Party is not the real heir to the historic Boston Tea Party.
When the Boston Tea Party destroyed thousands of dollars worth of merchandise to protest taxes, they dressed up as Indians to remain anonymous. They needed to protect their identities from their government in order to avoid prosecution for their crime. It worked. We still don't know who took part in the Boston Tea Party.
The true children of those early American activists are the hacktivists known as Anonymous.
Now that the government listens to our phone calls and monitors our emails, remaining anonymous takes a bit more sophistication than painting your face and putting a feather in your hair. You would have to have some serious computer skills in order to even know how to avoid detection on the internet. It is therefore natural that Anonymous hacks—they need those same computer skills to hide in the first place.
Our government would prosecute Anonymous as criminals if they found them. They are outlaw heroes, not just another mob of sign-holding protesters.
So far, Anonymous has:
- Protested the rigged elections in Iran
- Supported wikileaks
- Fought big corporations and governments to keep the internet open and free
- Protested the abuse and imprisonment of whistle-blower Bradley Manning
- Assisted in the Arab Spring protests
- Exposed police brutality against peaceful American protesters
Their willingness to risk their lives and fortunes for freedom makes them the true heirs of the American Revolution.
Standing up to tyranny is no tea party.
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