Monday, April 13, 2009

Waco Trib Newspaper - Tea Party Rebuttal

From:  Michael Simon, Waco Tea Party website administrator (http://wacoteaparty.com)

The Waco Tribune-Herald’s Carlos Sanchez must be a little confused. To clear it up for him, The National Tea Party Movement is a non-partisan, grassroots, movement that began on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009. Television commentator Rick Santelli went on his now famous rant against the absurdity of deficit spending by our government to bail out irresponsible behavior. As he was watching the market plummet, he riled up traders on the floor of the exchange to a loud and boisterous applause when he called for a modern-day Tea Party.

And thus began the movement that has come all the way to Waco, Texas. It has spread like wildfire among the American People, through the Internet, e-mail, text messaging, and phone lines. This movement is not a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, GOP, RNC, DNC, LMNOP, whatever acronym movement. It is a pure grassroots, underground movement “of the people, by the people,” so that “We The People” can simultaneously express our concerns to our government that we hire.  

Political parties of all walks want to leach on to this as if it is their on. A good reporter would recognize this and not call out the movement, but call out the political party itself for playing the same old political games that has caused such an uproar of the American People.  

Carlos Sanchez got it wrong. He got it wrong due to the overt partisanship and liberal leaning of his newspaper and the entire organization that it represents. He reported it from his own biased opinion, relaying his opinion as fact, rather than from the unbiased standpoint of fact-finding and truth-telling that we expect from the people that deliver the news. We have come to expect that from the media. It is evident in their decline in subscriptions, readers, and viewers. It is a sad day when the people who deliver the news find it more important that readers know where the reporters stand on the issues rather than doing their jobs, finding the facts, and reporting them as such. We are fully capable of making up our own minds, and that is scary to people with an agenda.  

The National Tea Party Movement, and thus the movement happening right here in Waco on April 15 and beyond, is not dedicated to a party, a media outlet, or any other establishment that has become a beacon of revile to the people. It is about the People. It is about expressing The People’s frustrations in a raw display of public discourse guranteed by our Constitution, and encouraged by the very people who wrote it as a way of protecting and securing the Republic they founded.  

On April 15 the voice of the Silent Majority will be heard. We will be “Silent No More!” It is time we stand up and do our due diligence to ensure that this and future generations of Americans retain the freedoms that have been so diligently fought for in our short, but storied history. This is our time. This is our moment, and above all, this is our government. It is time that we send that reminder to those that serve us in Washington. It is time that we are represented by our Representative Republic. 

Stand up with us and let your voice be heard on April 15 as Waco joins over 600 cities “from Sea to Shining Sea” in an event that is sure to leave a mark on history for generations to come.  


To read Carlos Sanchez's uninformed and totally WRONG Op-Ed, Carlos Sanchez: Democracy vs. demagoguery

The TEA PARTIES are NOT A REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATIC or Other political centered organization, it is NON-PARTISAN!  It is about Americans!

Please write to Carlos Sanchez and tell him he needs to put forth the effort to RESEARCH what he says, and inform the TRUTH, not what he "Feels", here is his e-mail: (csanchez@wacotrib.com) or even CALL him at: 254-757-5703

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