European Tea Parties? You Should Be So Lucky...

Summer, 2010: Shouting “Liars!” among various other accusations at the riot police filling the streets, the protesters grow more and more furious. They refuse to be subdued; their voices will be heard, and they shall be loud. Suddenly, what was just barely a peaceful demonstration is no more. Below the resounding bellows of the mob, the almost indiscernible "whoosh" of a firebomb is heard as it is thrown into the building outside which the crowd has been demonstrating. Before the protest is over, three workers inside are dead, suffocated by toxic gases. And yet even as the police work to drive the protesters back, trying to communicate the gravity of the event that has just transpired, the crowd refuses to acknowledge the carnage they have collectively induced.

So what protest am I describing? Is it the Tea Party, made infamous in liberal circles who allege them to be nothing but a mad mob of injurious right-wingers, all but consumed by their virulent racism? Is this an account of their tempestuous outrage at the reality of an Obama presidency? To the contrary, filos! This was the scene Wednesday on the streets of Athens, Greece as throngs of left-wing protesters gathered outside a bank near the Temple of Zeus to voice their disapproval of parliament’s spending cuts, demanding that they receive what they see as their fair due of government hand-outs.

In other words, this assemblage represented precisely the opposite worldview of the American Tea Party movement, which proposes spending and tax cuts to limit the scope of the federal government. Accused of racial bigotry since the movement’s conception, their influence has only grown with the passage of time. As of April, at least 32 black politicians are seeking candidacy within the GOP and seeking support from the Tea Party itself as a major source of political capital. Today, the European continent herself has felt the influence of this American campaign, with a number of Euro politicians expressing anxiety that it has the potential to manifest some new wave of politically-motivated violence.

Because if the Greek protests have proven anything, it’s that only patriotic Americans are capable of political violence, right?

Right?

Yeah, right…

So when people like congressman Andre Carson (hear him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz_Qm3FuX_I&feature=player_embedded) make statements accusing passive American demonstrators of hate-mongering and pursuing an agenda of white supremacy when their only objective is the preservation of liberty for their children, stand your ground and be polite. After all, no good ever came from raising your voice in the presence of a delusory nincompoop (pardon the strong language, I’m very passionate about this).

We offer a prayer on behalf of those affected by the crisis in Greece, and we also pray that we might avoid such a crisis ourselves.

God Bless America.