About Those Right-Winger Tea Parties

(Our videos and photographs of Emporia's Tea Party are still on the way.)

I wanted to shoot out a quick note about the Leftist claims of Fox News, Glenn Beck, or Republicans starting, running, or organizing the Tea Parties.

Also, I would like to clarify the aforementioned "Conservatives'" place at the parties.

In my personal experience, these Tea Parties are started, run, and organized by individuals who have put behind them their past party-politics to organize the parties as individuals only; no one, at least at the Emporia Tea Party, was there to promote a political party.

Everyone there was sick to death of both major parties, and made it a point to say so.

At the same time, I, personally, do not want any politician, newscaster, or corporation to put their face on any of the Tea Parties, as this is the common man's grassroots effort to show dissent, not a place for promotion of anything but ideas.

I did not on the 15th of April, nor shall I on the 4th of July, sell or promote the sale of any merchandise, books, or subscriptions.

This is a time of promotion of Liberty, Freedom, and information, not stuff.

I handed out free Gadsden stick flags, and I shall again on the 4th of July.

I ask you, if you attend a party on the 4th, to do the same; the Gadsden Flag is our new emblem of dissent.