The Tea Party Demonstrations are ONLY one day away from expressing the great concerns en mass, what most TAX PAYING Americans have been concerned with for many years. Some people have attempted to make these peaceful protests into acts of  "Riots" "Terrorism" "Un-American" "Traitorous" "Racist" etc...etc  I hope the following articles will help EXPLAIN in more detail, WHAT the REAL INTENTION of these protests stand for. =========================================================

Today’s Tea Party Movement Has A Lot In Common With the Sons of Liberty  By Peter Roff Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/Former Senior Political Writer, United Press International

"...Following the footsteps of other social movements that have changed America, thousands of ordinary citizens will be coming out on Tax Day — April 15 — to voice their complaints that the government is, once again, too big and taxes, spends and borrows too much.

These modern day “Tea Partiers,” while not dressed in American-Indian garb like some of their patriot forefathers had been, nonetheless have as their inspiration one of this continent’s earliest but still best known acts of public disobedience: The Boston Tea Party of 1773.   

The people who will take to the streets to protest the actions of the federal government have just as much right to complain as the people did in 1773.  The tax, which was originally imposed to help keep revenues flowing to the British East India Company, which suffered economic hardship because of smuggled Dutch tea, eventually became a metaphor for the idea that people should not be taxed without their consent, which could be gained only through their own elected representatives in the national government.

Today we refer to that as “taxation without representation” and, as Saturday morning’s “Schoolhouse Rock” taught those of us of a certain vintage, “it’s not fair.”  But more than that, the tax on tea — and other goods — was for the benefit of the British crown and for British commercial interests, much in the same way that the federal bailout of certain financial firms, who got themselves into the mess they are in because of government interventions in the marketplace, have come to symbolize the way Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street.

Back in 1773 a group of colonists called the “Sons of Liberty,” led by the firebrand Samuel Adams, marched out of a Boston tavern to dump chests of imported tea — which could not be unloaded due to the public outcry over the tea tax — over the sides of three British ships into Boston Harbor.  Adams and the Sons of Liberty risked arrest, and possible hanging, had they been caught.

Today, their act would probably also be considered a crime against “Mother Earth” –  and would no doubt also prompt an investigation by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as well as the FBI and the Boston Police.  But the people who will take to the streets to protest the actions of the federal government have just as much right to complain as the people did in 1773.  The taxes that were imposed back then were felt, by King George III, his prime minister and many in the British Parliament to have been fair and just.

After all, it was the British army that protected the colonies from invaders — memories of the recently concluded French and Indian War still being fresh in the minds of many — and it was only right that the colonists paid their fair share of the cost.  And, in fact, the Conciliatory Resolution of 1775 ended taxation for any colony that choose to carry the burden of imperial defense and the upkeep of British officers on its own.  But that was too little too late and the American Revolution began shortly thereafter.

No one in the modern Tea Party movement is arguing that the taxes, the spending and the borrowing that has thus far been the hallmark of Obama and the Congressional Democrats’ plan for America amounts to taxation without representation.

But they will argue that the larger principle, that the federal government’s current largess is unfair is very much a matter for discussion.

Why?

Because Washington has obligated all of us, and our children, to pay the costs of cleaning up a mess largely created by government in the first place — just as King George III looked to the colonies to help fund his global competition with the French monarchy.

And, again just like King George III, Obama and the Democrats want to make us believe they are doing it for our own good and in our own best interests.  And, just like our forefathers in the Sons of Liberty, the metaphorical tea is headed straight to the bottom of the Harbor.

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/08/roff_tea_parties-2/comment-page-32/  ============================================================  A Tea Party is the demonstrated collection of our concerns over the increase in government intervention in our lives, our freedoms, and our pocket books.  Our goal is to coordinate a truly non-partisan nationwide Tea Party into one easy to navigate and user friendly place on the web. We are not all Republicans, we are not all part of the 912 project, we are not all Libertarians.  Some of us are Democrats, many of us work with TaxDayTeaParty.com, others with TaxDayCoalition.com, Independence Caucus, America Again!, TeaPartyRevolution.com or a host of other well intentioned movements, political parties, and/or organizations.

However, we are all here as individuals concerned with the direction of our country and distraught over the destruction of our Constitution. We have our own ideas, political tendencies, and personal desires, and we must respect them among one another.

In order to take on the trend toward tyranny, we must organize ourselves across many groups to inform, encourage and cooperate with one another, setting aside our relatively minute disagreements.

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

http://www.reteaparty.com/2009/04/what-is-a-tea-party/

To Locate a Tea Party in Your State Go to the link below and "Choose a State" on the right hand  column.

http://taxdayteaparty.com/rsvp/