21st Century Tea Party

Tea Party protests

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Yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda. Stand up and shout and sit right back down. In addition, the slogan "Keep Your Laws Off My Body", usually associated with pro-choice activists, has been seen on signs at tea parties. On April 8, , it was announced that the National Tea Party Federation had been set up to publicize the movement, and organizers said it would issue news releases, respond to critics and help get the word out about tea party rallies and initiatives.

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But there will now be a way to have a call to arms to respond to attacks with a crisp and clear message. There have been allegations of racism and abusive behavior by Tea Party protesters. Mary Jo Kilroy , a counter-protester with Parkinson's disease was berated by one of the protestors and had dollar bills thrown at him with additional protesters also mocking the individual. On March 20, , it was reported that protesters against proposed health care legislation used racial and anti-gay slurs.

Gay Congressman Barney Frank was called "homo" and a " faggot several times. Then John looks at me and says, 'You know, this reminds me of a different time. Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart , who wasn't at the protests, [] said the incidents reported by Cleaver, Lewis and Carson were fabricated as part of a plan to annihilate the Tea Party movement by all means necessary and that they never actually happened.

Times-News that he too heard slurs.

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I saw it in person. In addition to mockery, protesters left a couple of notes behind. It was signed with a swastika , the staffer said. The other note called the congressman "Schlomo Weiner". Kate Zernike, author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America , has observed, "Rather than explain it as a fringe of the movement, which they plausibly might have, they argued that the ugliness had never happened. Wasn't it suspicious, they asked, that there was no video of spitting or slurs, in an age when everyone's cell phone has a camera?

It was difficult, if not disingenuous, for the Tea Party groups to try to disown the behavior. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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