As Green Labor accepts without question the American Democrats’ demonisation of the Tea Party because it suits the socialist basis of Green Labor, let us look closely at the Tea Party itself.
The North American colonies, a British possession — after 1776, the United States of America — were subject to taxes imposed by Britain on British imports to the colonies. In December, 1773, Parliament demanded the Americans, not represented in Parliament, pay a tax on tea; the colonists refused to do so; they raided the tea-ships in Boston Harbour and dumped the cargo of tea overboard.
This was “The Boston Tea Party” representing the colonists’ resentment of being taxed without Parliamentary representation.
In general, today’s American Tea Party — a collection of branches throughout the US — stands for reduced government spending (except on defence) and opposition to various kinds of taxation especially the creation of the compulsory “Obama care” health scheme on grounds that it may deprive an individual of the right to choose to participate in the scheme.
Indeed, the “right to choose” is at the very core of Tea Party belief. It is a statement of the right and responsibility of the people to supervise the government they themselves have elected. By contrast, in Australia, we are compelled to vote under penalty; Green Labor will never encourage its voters to supervise the government along the lines of the Tea Party. By contrast, the Tea Party rejects measures to raise the costs of living or weaken the United States’ global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. Compare Green Labor’s moronic determination both to send us unemployed and broke with their proposed carbon tax. Surely it is time to look properly at our own political rights and responsibilities rather than leave them in the hands of Green Labor and the stay-in-office-at-any-price Independents.
Dr Paul Fidlon
Armidale
