Something New Is Brewing This December
On Thursday, December 16, 1773 Samuel Adams led patriots disguised as Narragansett Indians aboard the Dartmouth, Beaver, and Eleanour while they were docked at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. Their purpose was to protest unfair colonial taxation at the hands of the British Monarchy. By the next morning 45 tons of tea lay useless at the bottom of the wharf. The tea was worth £10,000 but the courage and inspiration given to the colonials by this act was worth far more. This act went down in history as the act that defines the willfulness of Americans to be free at all costs.
There are many internet Patriots, united in liberty, who would like to bring this spirit of freedom and self reliance back to the forefront of American minds. Their vehicle this time will not be to disguise themselves as Narragansett, but to utilize an envelope, a stamp, and the United States Postal Service. These patriots would like you to join them in showing their leaders in Washington that they are not satisfied with the current direction of this nation. They are asking you to invest just a few dollars, and a few minutes of your time to help them stand up for American Liberty. Times have changed, but the call of freedom remains the same.
Below is the official White House policy on sending food items in the mail:
Gifts & Items sent to the White House often experience a significant delivery delay and can be irreparably harmed due to the security screening process. Therefore, please do not send items of personal importance, such as family photographs, because items may be unable to be returned.
We also request that gifts of a consumable nature, such as food, flowers, and other perishable items, not be sent to the White House due to the security screening process. While the President and Mrs. Bush and Vice President and Mrs. Cheney appreciate your thoughtfulness, they request that you look instead to your local community for opportunities to assist your neighbors in need.
After reading that, it is up to each individual to decide for themselves if they wish to participate.
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Comment by Denise 'Money Making Machine' Maine on 1 December 2007:
There is no way the conservatives are going to take Ron Paul. I hope Ron will go independent IF he doesnt get the nomination.
They’ll find someway for Mitt to cheat . . .
_denise
Comment by hdr on 2 December 2007:
Ron Paul rules.
Comment by Constantine on 2 December 2007:
I don’t really like this idea. Firstly, I think it will be played poorly in the media and I think that will hurt Dr. Paul. The message I want to send is the one that will be heard when Ron Paul wins the nomination. Other messages are irrelevant and useless and will be completely ignored anyway.
I think that somehow this will be spun into a bomb threat or a psuedo-bomb threat or an anthrax threat or something along those lines a revolutionary threat…imagine the media reporting that people associated with the campaign have mailed packages to the President & others.
As a member of the military, I can tell you that likely nobody will be opening this unexpected packages. Which is why these will be spun into some sort of hoax bomb plot which the media will try to link to Guy Fawkes or something.
Please reconsider, your message is meaningless if it hurts on Ron Paul and no one in DC is listening anyway. Let’s use our limited time and hard earned money to win the nomination not send some meaningless message.
Comment by Constantine on 2 December 2007:
I’d just like to add:
If only ONE misguided person does something stupid, or even ONE person who is trying to stop the Ron Paul Freedom Train does something stupid it will smear the entire Ron Paul campaign and destroy everything that we have achieved thus far. It will be game over.
Our grassroots movement is awesome WHEN it stays on message. But our message is directed to the AMERICAN People not the Washington power elite and the message is PEACE FREEDOM PROSPERITY and that Ron Paul CAN WIN.
The Teaparty07 will send that message to the American people, a huge rally in Boston sends that message. These things get Paul tons of media attention and show the strength of his support.
This “teabagging” does not–it is not directed to the American people and it doesn’t seem to have much to do with Ron Paul. The people in DC already know about him, and only one person has to claim that they “thought it was a bomb” to undo all of the hardwork we’ve done.
So we have to decide as a grassroots movement are we going to stay on target with the message of Ron Paul or are we going to start using the Ron Paul phenomenon to advance our own messages?
If the latter, the Ron Paul Revolution will suffer for it.
Please think about this & feel free to repost these comments on other sites as necessary.
RP FTW
Constantine
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Comment by cyn0n on 2 December 2007:
screw your grassroots movement…
you are a bunch of pathetic government lackeys
anyone that calls themselves a patriot or a politician should be shot in the head repeatedly…
the only substantial thing you should send the people in washington are mailbombs
Comment by bgarrett on 2 December 2007:
I like this idea
STEP UP: A Letter From The Revolution To Citizens Of
Iowa
> Hello from sunny California,
>
> The Ron Paul Los Angeles MeetUp has purchased a list of 700,000 Iowa mailing
> addresses and is organizing a national letter writing campaign. This effort
will
> mean personal, hand-signed letters from Ron Paul supporters nationwide
delivered
> to undecided voters in Iowa from grass roots supporters like you.
>
> This is a massive undertaking and we need everyone’s help. With support from
the
> MeetUps, we can cover all 700,000 names on the list before January 3rd.
>
> Please respond with a standard email address and be sure to list which MeetUp
> you are from ASAP and I will send you the names and addresses of the Iowans we
> need you to cover. We are asking that each MeetUp group write at least 100
> letters. I have included a sample letter below for you to see. WE CAN DO THIS.
>
> Eric Turner (310) 204-2733 eturn23@earthlink.net
>
> Sample Letter:
>
> Dear __,
>
> My name is Eric Turner and I live in Los Angeles, CA. Up until a few months
ago,
> I was a typical apathetic American voter, but then I learned about Dr. Ron
Paul
> and what he stands for. Now I am an active participant in the Freedom
revolution
> that he is leading. He is the first candidate that I?ve ever felt was worthy
of
> my time, money, and effort. He is a 10-term Republican congressman. In
Congress,
> Dr. Paul has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced
> budget. He does not participate in the lucrative Congressional pension program
> because he does not think it is fair to the taxpayer. He has never voted to
> increase Congressional pay. As a medical doctor (OBGYN), he has delivered more
> than 4000 babies, but he never took any payments from the government. Instead
he
> treated needy patients out of his own pocket. He even paid for his five
> children’s university education so they wouldn?t need to get government
> assistance. Dr. Paul is the most principled man
> I have ever met. He has been married for over 50 years to Carol Paul. He is
> truly a modern day Thomas Jefferson. Please consider voting for Dr. Paul at
your
> Republican caucus on January 3, 2008. I know you are registered “no party.”
You
> can register Republican on caucus night to vote for him. You can find out more
> about him by visiting his website at: http://www.RonPaul2008.com I would love to hear
> what you think of Dr. Paul. Please email your thoughts to me at:
> eturn23@earthlink.net
>
> Very truly yours, Eric Turner
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Comment by bigbrother on 2 December 2007:
cyn0n: How quaint, anarchy. Don’t worry. One day you will get out of highschool and have to get a real job.
Comment by true patriot on 2 December 2007:
This is NOT a good idea. As mentioned above all it takes is ONE idiot to give ammunition toward spinning this negative and harming the campaign’s image. Frankly, it is also lazy and looks like an immature prank. We need to show how powerful we are by being intelligent, organized, serious, and adult. Letter writing is powerful and sensible. Have we all written our representatives about losing habeas corpus, and the new bills S. 1959 and H.R. 1955? Let’s not skip steps toward a hostile revolution. The current plan implies hostility, even if it stays on track. A MUCH BETTER plan would be to celebrate the anniversary of the Tea Party by mailing REAL letters to our representatives on that weekend, then alert news outlets of our actions.
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Comment by One Idiot on 3 December 2007:
Re: “All it takes is one idiot”
Then you are saying Guilianni can just hire one idiot to pretend to be a supporter and do something stupid and then he can win the nomination?
If you assume this, then Paul has already lost.
The fact is people will look at what Paul says, not what so called ’supporters’ do.
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Comment by David on 3 December 2007:
Please call Ron Paul headquarters before you send any tea.
Comment by Bob Pylant on 3 December 2007:
The REAL way to protest or help Ron Paul is to donate ANYTHING you can Dec 16th and join the Ron Paul Tea Party… this idea is well… lame… with the time and effort to do this, you should try to push our donations to Ron Paul to $10 million that day…. thats a TRUE message that will resound around the nation..
Comment by true patriot on 3 December 2007:
One Idiot,
I didn’t say that a ’supporter’ doing something stupid would cause someone else to win the nomination. I said it would harm the campaign’s image, which I believe it would, and being a longshot the campaign needs all the help it can get.
We can both speculate about positive vs. negative effects, but I think we can both agree that what it helpful is putting money into the campaign donations. Why can’t we just concentrate on that? If people want to do more, then why not do real constituent things that take a bit more effort than a grocery store trip and grinning while sealing an envelope.
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Comment by Laurence Fugere on 27 February 2008:
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.