I received this in an e-mail, thought it was very powerful and well done. If you are an American, it speaks volumes about what being an American is all about, if you are not, it is still worth watching.

This resulted from a Mom in Alabama asking her high school son to help with a commercial for the Tea Party she was involved in organizing. Boy, does it slam the message home. Very impressive.

Here is her note: "I asked Justin if he could help me make a commercial for my group's Tea Party. He sat down at the laptop for about an hour, and then brought this to me and asked 'is this okay Mom?' After I finished watching it, my stomach was in my throat. Everyone that I have sent it to has really enjoyed it, so I wanted my friends to see it, I am so proud".

A very Powerful video, turn up the sound and sit back....!!!!
GUARANTEED GOOSE BUMPS.....


TeaPartyCommercial.wmv

a pity .wmv (unlike Flash, MPEG or QuickTime) is just a Bill Gates formate and does not run on other - non windows - machines in this version...

Rattler

The music sounds good, though. LOL


I have a Mac, so wmv won't work for me either.

Because NOTHING says patriotism like refusing to pay taxes.

It's a great video that also gave me goosebumps.
Didn't like the ending.
I don't think these images or themes should be used to advertise one's political movement. They should be used as a reminder of why we must ensure that the United States remains as a force of good in the world and that it does not turn its enemies into heroes with moral cause on their side.

For some reason there seems to be an increasing want to become a failed state. No central government, no regulation, an uncontrolled free market and no taxes. I can tell you that not one country that runs like this is faring well. And please don't use "But we're Americans" as a reason and I know a lot of people do. A lot of folks in Korea talk all kinds of disastrous BS justified by "we're different because we're Korean." It truly is the ultimate face palm moment.

Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck

I don't think these images or themes should be used to advertise one's political movement. They should be used as a reminder of why we must ensure that the United States remains as a force of good in the world and that it does not turn its enemies into heroes with moral cause on their side.

For some reason there seems to be an increasing want to become a failed state. No central government, no regulation, an uncontrolled free market and no taxes. I can tell you that not one country that runs like this is faring well. And please don't use "But we're Americans" as a reason and I know a lot of people do. A lot of folks in Korea talk all kinds of disastrous BS justified by "we're different because we're Korean." It truly is the ultimate face palm moment.

Precisely. I didn't WANT Bush to fail as a president, I wanted him to succeed in all ways possible. He just didn't. The talk I've heard from a number of folks seems to indicate they want Obama to fail, which disgusts me to no end. This is YOUR country, you do NOT want it to fail in any way shape or form, no matter WHO is running it.

Well not just that. I mean look at this:

- No to little taxes.
- Want the government out of everything (since they're so bad at everything).
- Should privatize everthing.
- No regulation.
- Laws unnecessary because everyone is armed.
- Survival of the fittest.
- And although I don't think anyone here has said it, I've heard it elsewhere from conservatives: isolation from the world.

There's a place in the world like this and it's called Somalia.

But you don't even have to go that far to know you're asking for a very bad deal.
I consider Indonesia to be a capitalist's heaven... possibly a dream come true. The labor is cheap, the laws are bendable, raw materials close by, the cops payable and I know for a fact that what happens is there are some rich powerful families and the rest pretty much live as the underclass. What resembles a middle class is mostly foreigners who have been assigned to Indonesia or do business there.
The ethnic Chinese almost exclusively occupy the upper echelons of society (except politics... but who needs to when you can buy a politician?) and the local populace have almost zero chance of making it to the upper economic echelons.
I can guarantee you, that the VAST majority of us in this forum would be a part of that underclass if that sort of system were to take hold in America. A policeman like 5.56 with a truck that big? That would be a sick joke. So maybe he'll try the private sector... the security guards get paid peanuts.
Many of us here are enlistedmen in the military or were enlistedmen. AF Steliga lives off base and he's a Private. That would be unheard of. He would have to live in a barracks until he became a SNCO. Besides, he wouldn't be able to afford to pay for all of his meals outside anyway.
I would have nowhere to go but into family business.


That's what you're really asking for when you go for these "Tea Parties."

I don't have a problem with taxes. It's in the Constitution.

On the other hand, I have a problem with a cop that can take a 19 year old girl that is handcuffed with her hands behind her back, she's not physically or verbally abusing him, she's polite and the cop with one hand spreads her eye lids far apart, and with the other hand MACES her. That was a few years ago back east somewhere. I saw the video, had it saved on YouTube, but turns out the video is no longer there.

I have a problem with an abusive government. I have a problem with a government that makes itself immune from any retribution through the courts, so in essence justifying those very acts.

Actually compared to most of the world, the US government is probably one of the most suable government in the world.

Federally, yes. City/county/state, no where near as much.