Recently in America, there are a lot noises generated from Barack Obama's new health care initiative, the Nationalized Health Care Plan. Like many things, there are pros and cons in a Nationalized Health Care initiative (see Australia, Britain and Canada), but needless to say, health is the most important asset in everyone's life, regardless of which side you are on in the debate.
But, I'm not hear to talk about the Nationalized Health Care plan. I'm here to talk about the so-called American "Tea Party" Movement. The notion of the movement has been gaining a lot of attention lately due to its strong opposition against Obama's Nationalized Health Care plan. For more information about the American Tea Party Movement, you can visit sites like these:
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/http://www.nationwidechicagoteaparty.com/The term "Tea Party" came from an incident happened back in December 16, 1773, in the town of Boston, Massachusetts, then a colony of the British Empire. For more information about the "Boston Tea Party" incident, you can visit these sites:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/74947/Boston-Tea-Partyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Partyhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Boston_Tea_Party.aspxHere is an excerpt taken from, www.encyclopedia.com, that accounts the incident:
"A group of indignant colonists, led by Samuel Adams , Paul Revere , and others, disguised themselves as Native Americans, boarded the ships on the night of Dec. 16, 1773, and threw the tea into the harbor. In reply Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill (see Intolerable Acts ). "
Now, for the modern day Americans, who organize and call their movement the "Tea Party", are you sure that is the right term to use?
Can't you see that these men involved in the "Boston Tea Party" of 1773 were mainly Angelo-Saxon, and they had to - "disguised themselves as Native Americans" - in order to perform a defiance act? So, were these men had just participated in a costume party before they went on to dump the tea into the Boston Harbour? Or, simply put, these group of people were nothing but just a bunch of cowards?
Com'on people, whether you are support or against the Nationalized Health Care Plan initiative, let's get real, WTF are you calling yourself the "Tea Party"?!!
