Marion County IL TEA Party

Washington DC 9/12/2009  Protest

OUR  EVOLUTION

Just after President Obama and the new congress were sworn in, it became very apparent that our government was doing things that we had never seen before.  On February 13, 2009 an $820 billion Stimulus Bill suddenly appeared.   It featured thousands of pages, written in secrecy, not allowed to be read and/or discussed in committee, and forced through both houses by this new majority.  What happened to transparency?

This format would be repeated.  A budget bill was passed and the president promised it would have no earmarks.  It was loaded with earmarks.  Cap and Trade passed the house. Obamacare has been rammed down our throats when 60%-70% of the voters were strongly against it.  No matter what state, the elected congressman and senators openly rejected the wishes of their constituents.  The more we called our representatives the more we were ignored.  We became more and more outraged.

It became very clear.  The Democrats were in the majority and they only followed orders from Obama, Pelosi and Reid.   This was a huge power grab.  Our elected officials were supposed to listen to their constituents.  They not only weren’t hearing us; they were treating us with contempt.  The government was now closed.  Can you say “TYRANNY”?

Many of us saw what was happening.  This new “super” majority aren’t liberal democrats.  They are the radical revolutionaries of the sixties.  We could see they were figuratively holding a huge pillow over the face of our Constitution and Declaration of  Independence in an attempt to snuff out democracy.  Something had to be done to save our country before America was lost.

So, good, law abiding people who had never taken an interest in politics, never demonstrated for anything,  became involved.  We are Tea Party Patriots and we’ve come to take this country back from those doing the damage.  We stand for the Declaration of Independence,  the Constitution, freedom, lower and fewer taxes, paying all our debts, a strong military, protecting our borders, and a fair and balanced press.  God willing, our ranks will grow, and we will reverse this radical revolution.

Salem Tea Party Patriots