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June 18, 2010
Tea Party Goes International
Posted by Dave Blount at June 18, 2010 9:15 AM
There was a time when America inspired the world with its devotion to liberty. Despite the authoritarians currently running our government, that time isn't over. Better sit down for this, moonbats — the Tea Party has gone international:
As Tea Party protests pop up in places like Moscow, Tel Aviv and the Hague, Americans may question whether the Tea Party platform can cross international and cultural borders. For activists outside the U.S., the answer is a resounding "yes."
"I think the message of the American Revolution is global. The message of natural, unalienable rights, the message of opposition to tyrannical government -- that's not just well-known, that's universal," Boris Karpa, organizer of the Israeli Tea Party, told The Daily Caller in an e-mail. "As you know well, many countries have based their founding documents on the U.S. Declaration of Independence or other American documents."
Although several international organizers had never even heard of the Boston Tea Party until U.S. protests brought the events of 1773 back into the spotlight, they now wear the Tea Party badge proudly as an example of American exceptionalism worth emulating.
"This [Tea Party] title is ideal for Russia," Max Kronos, organizer of the Moscow Tea Party, told The Daily Caller in an e-mail. "This event has forever gone down in history — in Russia, such events have not happened."
The statist media abroad doesn't like the Tea Party any better than it does at home. The same bigoted smears are used to discredit it.
"The mainstream media calls the U.S. Tea Parties a bunch of gun-loving racist rednecks," Roy Hofkamp, organizer of the Dutch Tea Party, told The Daily Caller in an e-mail. "That image in the media was not an advantage for us, but fortunately more and more Dutch people get their news from foreign media and they knew our intentions were good."
Those intentions — laissez-faire capitalism, low taxes and fewer regulations — cross boundaries.
Despite the best efforts of our collectivist rulers, love of liberty isn't an easy flame to snuff out. As the leftward ratchet of ever more bloated government brings whole economies crashing down, the flame may even begin to spread.
Freedom's appeal is universal.
On a tip from J.
