Liberty's Sons and Daughters

Upstanding patriots and citizens of America's Tea Parties have been consistently hounded and harangued by the political and cultural elite in this country. Our political betters in Washington DC have dedicated themselves to the destruction of the Tea Party movement, and their media allies are aiding and abetting wholeheartedly. The education establishment are busy concocting narratives of their own, attempting to justify the wholesale vilification of millions of American citizens who peacefully assemble and protest the statist policies of the political elite.

Under these circumstances, the American public are understandably curious about their tea party brethren, perhaps wondering how and why they came to be the target of such wrathful denunciation. If this is the case with you, dear reader, then pull up a chair. And as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow might say, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear..."

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... before a United States of America had been formed or perhaps even contemplated, an English king and his English Parliament were of the opinion that it was perfectly fine to tax the people who lived in the North American colonies without their consent. The king and Parliament also considered it appropriate to pass laws forcing American colonists to buy products only from certain approved suppliers. This didn't sit very well with the American people though, as they were accustomed to doing things their own way.

So, when the English government started dictating to the American people who to buy tea from, and then levied a tax on every single piece of paper the people used in their daily commerce, the people were profoundly offended. Some of them went so far as to form local groups to see what they could do about it. People from all walks of American life joined these groups -- artisans, shopkeepers, laborers, businessmen, merchants, printers, even lawyers. Before long, they had multiplied across the land. They came to be known as the "Sons of Liberty," and after just a few years they were a political force to be reckoned with.

The Sons of Liberty petitioned the government to address their grievances, but the government ignored them. Then in 1773, a group of colonists figured out a way to protest that the government found impossible to ignore. On December 16, they tossed over 300 crates of British tea into Boston harbor. It was the first Tea Party protest in America, and it is properly seen to this day as a symbol of the determination of the American people to live their own lives rather than submit to the whims and dictates of a tyrannical government.

Fast-forward to 2010, and what was old is new again ... once again the government has passed laws and set policies that are intolerable to the time-honored civil liberties of Americans. In a show of naked conceit and arrogance, the political elite aspire to take from the people control over vast, formerly-private sections of American society. With unmistakable contempt for the concept of limited government set forth in the Constitution, these elite arrogate for themselves a right to control the health, education, and welfare of a people whose national and political heritage is the very essence of that human yearning to be free from government.

Wherever one looks today, one finds a spirit-sapping web of government regulations. In a shameless, modern incarnation of Orwellian Newspeak, the elite excuse their own hubris by invoking "reform" and "compassion" and "the children." But as they recklessly reform American society, they purposely, knowingly do violence to the very sources of American power and kill the spirit of freedom in America.

The more Washington reforms the economy, the harder it gets for the average middle-class American to make a decent living. The more it reforms education, the less educated American students become. The more it reforms health care, the more unaffordable medical treatment becomes, and the more hobbled our medical services and technologies become.

Our country now stands face-to-face with a deficit and debt crisis that could very well bankrupt the middle class. Many people recognize this fact. Who are they? They are the uncounted millions of private citizens of the American Tea Party movement. They see clearly that as government power grows, individual liberty shrinks.

Today's Tea Partiers are the spiritual incarnations of the Sons of Liberty. They are everyday Americans -- men and women from every walk of life who are acutely aware of the value of freedom and the degree to which it is now threatened. That is why they advocate those civic notions of limited government and personal responsibility that inspired the Founding Founders. The Tea Parties know that liberty is not a gift from government. It is a God-given right of the People. Government cannot be permitted to take it back, wholly or in pieces, high-flown rhetoric or no.

The Tea Partiers are not the "astro-turfers" of Nancy Pelosi's vacuous accusations. They are passionately sincere Americans like the patriots of 1776. They are not the "tea baggers" of Janine Garafolo's degenerate political rants. They are decent citizens who have always considered a tea bag to be something you lowered on a string into a cup of hot water. Nor are they the "racists" that the mainstream media incessantly claims them to be. They simply oppose the policies of this government. The fact that President Obama is half-black is irrelevant. And they are not the "domestic terrorists" of Janet Napolitano's seditious fantasies. They are the kind of Americans who bravely and at the cost of their own lives prevented United 93 from being used by Muslim terrorists to attack an American target in Washington on 9/11.

Who are the Tea Partiers? They're your fellow citizens, your friends and neighbors. They'll stand by you in times of trouble. They see see the danger to our nation from a tyrannical government, and have the fortitude to stand up with the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. They are today's Paul Reveres, riding through the night to warn fellow citizens that statist power is on the march.

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Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American Patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was designed to incite change in the British government's treatment of the Colonies in the years following the end of the French and Indian War. These patriots attacked the apparatus and symbols of British authority and power through both words and deeds.