http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4pc_P7xhEUploaded by jennpublic on Jul 22, 2011
This video was taken by Tea Party & Americans for Prosperity of Douglas County, as they disrupted a non-partisan public event in Roseburg Oregon. Their video title belies their purpose. This video doesn't show that after intimidating attendees out of the park, they were then followed back to a private home, where the AFP/TP members shouted abuse, trespassed and drove a pickup truck direct at some attendees as they crossed a street to get away.
The behavior of the Tea Party activists was boorish and disgusting. But it revealed the true nature of their movement: Their goal is to kill democracy, and to stifle free speech. The Tea Party is funded by corporations, controlled by corporations, and serves to increase the power and wealth of corporations.
The goal of this pot-luck in the park was to find ways to restore the American Dream. A lot of the Tea Party activists feel cheated out of their dreams, and are fearful of their future, but they misunderstand the reasons for the destruction of the middle class, and of our economic woes. They have been fed the lie that giant corporations and the super-rich are somehow their allies, and that government—We The People—is the enemy. They think that taxes on corporations and the wealthy are too high (even though these taxes are the lowest that they have been for 60 years), and they forget that the only balanced budgets in the last half century were under Democrats.
We came there, to a public place, to peacefully assemble, and discuss ways to improve the future for all Americans. They came to disrupt, to call names ("Bitch" "Communist" "Marxist" and worse) and to tell us to "go back where we came from". We are Americans, this is our home town. We have a right to be here.
They chanted: "Free America! Free America!" And followed us home, to private property, and continued their assault on our liberties.
We must fight back. You can help. Let your friends know about this outrage, and where you stand on it. Use personal contact, telephone, email, and all the social media you can. Write a letter to the editor. Come to our meetings. Stay involved, and help defend Democracy.
In your messages, please do stay positive: our neighbors are not our enemies. They are human beings we care about, and some of them are being used cruelly and cynically. I'm angry, too, but focus that anger on the threat that we and our democracy face.
Remember: we are all in this together.
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