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Concerned Citizens of America: Alive and Kicking!

During the election year of 20081 there was a spontaneous eruption of concerned citizens opposing ever escalating exorbitant taxation, and the concerned citizens embraced the slogan “Taxed Enough Already.” The liberal progressive Democrats, elitist establishment Republicans and an extremely left leaning biased dominant media seized upon the slogan to create an entity, “Tea Party.” The censurable group, that created the entity, had an ulterior purpose in mind as they were then enabled to label and vilify ordinary concerned citizens exercising their Constitutional Right to petition the government. The group was well aware that it would be political suicide to attack ordinary citizens, thus a mutual Devil was established. The citizens’ concerns are: excessive taxation, continued bloating of an already oversized government, a desire to have the Constitution interpreted employing deference to the original intent of the Framers and a reduction of the national debt that our posterity will inherit. The fictitious entity is neither recognized nor registered as a bona fide political party and the concerned citizens do not have any formal leaders or directors, their emergence was spontaneous in response to an ever-increasing unresponsive, oppressive and corrupt government.

The movement gained enormous recognition and consisted of members of all ethnicities, religions, political affiliations and young and old. Though the dominant media, and status quo political leaders, asserted the members of the movement were nothing more than radical rabble-rousers fomenting violence and property destruction, there was no evidence of either at their rallies. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House at the time, referred to them as a continuance of Hitler’s Naziism and the media continued unrelenting and disparaging attacks against their convictions. After a few years of constant bombarding the movement, the dominant media and elitists were satisfied they had vanquished the voice of the Concerned Citizens, but how wrong they are!