You always hear the teabaggers or "9/12ers" talking about the "original intent" of the constitution. This country already had that argument. It was called The Civil War. If you look at the Confederate Constitution, it would be a teabagger's paradise: almost identical to the US Constitution, except it removed the part about "promoting the general welfare" and replaced it with "invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God." It also diminished federal powers relative to state's rights, and restricted the vote only to native born citizens. In spirit, the teabaggers are really just a bunch of Confederate sympathizing sore losers.
Here's a real Confederate flag waving nut at a tea party:
I would never try to characterize all tea partiers as extreme as the people in the above video, but if you look at a lot of what the tea party movement espouses (or even just the right in general) it's reallly not much different from what the Confederacy stood for.
Here's a funny video of Sam Seder interviewing some people at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally that took place on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech:
-Anson Jew
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Sorry about the multiple postings above, I was trying to figure out how to get the hotlinks to work ...
While I think that some of the "Tea-Bagger" movement might be those who are remnants of the confederacy movement, they are only a part of a much larger and more coordinated coalition put together and funded by the Koch brothers. The people of the "Tea Bag" movement are largely being used to further a movement, which I believe exists to eliminate both the Democratic & Republican parties and is working to further a the long-term agenda of a group who has been trying to promote their version of the Libertarian party.
Here are a couple of excellent articles on who is controlling the "Tea Bag" movement:
Mar 19, 2010: Jim Hightower (Hightower Lowdown)
[This article breaks down who is promoting the rants against reform]
http://www.alternet.org/investigations/146094
August 31, 2010: New Yorker
[This is a more comprehensive and longer article that explains even more about who is mobilizing the Tea-Baggers, and how their roots come from the same family who founded the John Birch Society]
http://nyr.kr/dsf9H9
One quick factual correction to your comment about the Confederate Constitution being different than the US constitution by restricting the vote to only "native born citizens." In fact, at the time of the Civil War, the US Constitution actually never expressly stated that citizens had the right to vote. Which is why they had to pass the 15th Amendment in 1869, four years after the civil war ended.
Thanks for the links!
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