Taxpayers are staging Tea Parties across the country today. One of those protests is happening now at Dockweiler State Beach.
The South Bay Tax Day Tea Party is being organized by Nathan Mintz, who apparently wrote a political column during his time at Stanford. Here's one of them from 2005:
UPDATE: Out of fairness, here is a more recent Mintz quote.
The South Bay Tax Day Tea Party is being organized by Nathan Mintz, who apparently wrote a political column during his time at Stanford. Here's one of them from 2005:
Let me be emphatic on this point: the same people calling for Terri Schiavo's starvation are also advocating euthanasia and infanticide. This is the world that the forces pushing to kill Terri Schiavo are paving the way for: according to a study by the American Society for Suicide Prevention, in the Netherlands euthanasia has skyrocketed to fully 9 percent of the deaths in that country since its legalization in 1990 -- furthermore, half of the procedures were performed without the consent of the patient. Statistically speaking, this would be the equivalent of 100,000 incidents of involuntary euthanasia a year in the United States. There is a word for this sort of thing -- mass-murder.Check tomorrow's Breeze for a full account of today's rally.
UPDATE: Out of fairness, here is a more recent Mintz quote.
Our own government has paved this path, with our elected leaders leading a massive decade long spending orgy, the consequence of which sits as a yolk (sic) upon the neck of our children and grandchildren.Orgies can be messy, but I think he meant "yoke."
So what does this article from 2005 have to do with a Tea Party rally at Dockweiler in 2009, Gene?
I think your bias is showing, yet again.
This site is open to whatever views you'd like to express, so please feel free to share your Tea Party experiences.
Nice smear you have there. How's that tunnel vision working out for you?
If you decided to be at least halfway unbiased, perhaps you could describe for the readers why you chose that one particular passage to be representative of the man's views.
Well, I'll give you credit for not labeling him a "violent, right-wing extremist" as your fellow statists would attempt to.
So Gene, why do you even bother to cover these events? Its a long way to drive, you already have your mind made up, and all you really need to do is pull quotes out of context to prove your point.
At least with Dana Rohrabacher, you just ignore him and his staff. After all, you only have so much time and it has to be spent with Jane and Ted. Breeze readers understand it would be waste of time for you to actually talk with the Republican -- his answers would be distorted or not reported by you anyway.
Yes, I know you went to the Palin event. But you called her a dog in the first sentence of that report, in case somebody was too stupid to catch your contempt for her.
If you disagree that you have a bias against conservatives, could you give us an example of a positive report? If you think you're totally objective, why do you label Rohrabacher as "conservative" but say nothing about Harman or Richardson?
Gene,
Dare I challenge you to a debate with one hand tied behind my back? Hopefully this was writtern before you attended the event. Hopefully we changed your mind on a few things.
I congratulate you on your mastery of the red herring and straw man as rhetorical techniques. Thank you for completely missing the point of why we are out there: namely the fact that our government has grown tremendously in the face of this financial crisis (and that means Bush AND Obama since Bush pushed the bailout) and we're fed up.
Although now that you mention it, the misspelling was an unintended pun :-).
BTW, those Euthenasia figures in the Netherlands make the greatest case AGAINST socialized medicine I've ever seen. Let's give the state the job of allocating scarce health care resources and then give them the power of life and death over the elderly. Can you say Logan's Run?