The writer of a recent article made the claim that the Tea Party is ??a movement that has its roots solely in the fiscal calamities facing this nation.? This is incorrect and ignores other and more fundamental issues extant in the movement.
Christopher Gadsden's "Don't Tread On Me" flag, the unofficial symbol of the Tea Party movement. Photo: User VIkrum/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License
The writer also lamented the possibility of a ?hijack? of the movement. The catalyst for the formation of the Tea Party may have been the fiscal disaster that is unfolding, but the Tea Party phenomenon exploded precisely because it gave vent to a wide assortment of issues that have festered for years. These issues are all related to the loss of freedom in America. If a ?hijack? has occurred, our government did it. They hijacked the cultural identity of this country and replaced the individual as the premier entity in the social construct. They did this over the course of many years through the replacement of religion in the West with a thoroughly secular culture. The secularized government has usurped the position of moral arbiter within society by occupying the vacuum it created in western culture when it dethroned religion as the operative belief system in people?s lives.
Having done that, it is only logical that the state demands control over all aspects of life. Of course the state will show no fiscal restraint when dealing with the money they have confiscated from the citizenry. Why should it? The attitude of the state is, to paraphrase Mohammed: ?There is no god but the state.? If the state is all, then?how can any individual maintain a claim on their wealth or their very personhood? In a truly secular society, the citizen owes their very life to the state. Don?t we see that played out now in the various initiatives undertaken by the current regime? The health care initiative clearly demonstrates that the lives of the citizens are subject to the requirements of the state. The so-called death panels and the proposed withholding of medication in the latter phases of life could not illustrate this any better. The value of any individual has been reduced to a mere monetary calculus. How could it be otherwise in a purely secular state?
The most obnoxious result of this is a gruesome calculation: the death toll of 50 million unborn babies in the United States since the invention of the ?right? of a mother to extinguish the life of her unborn baby. This interference in the natural progression of life was never the flowering of individual freedom as it has been portrayed in our ?culture of death?, but was imposed upon us by our secular ?Mullahs? in the Supreme Court. ?The abortion decision is not merely execrable, but is both the real and symbolic execution of Liberty i n America.
The writer seemed to miss the significance of his own statement warning of the intrusion of government into the doctor-patient relationship of its citizens. It?s not that a government who aborts will find it easy to ?intrude? in the ?doctor-patient? relationship ? the problem is that a government who finds it easy to kill babies is a government that can find it easy to kill patients ? and doctors.
The writer praised predictable boilerplate language in one tea party manifesto which lists as one of their paramount concerns the ??moral rights to life?? Clearly the irony here escaped the writer?
The real struggle between the citizen and the state is a religious struggle, and anyone unwilling to accept this is unprepared to confront tyranny and resist the overreaching leviathan that is our state. Can one really believe that freedom boils down to mere adjustments in the tax rate? That if we suddenly reduce the budget to a manageable number freedom will bloom everywhere? We have a cadre of criminals in charge of the monetary system in this country. They are able to exercise control precisely because they (and we) believe there is no higher law, no morality that can be summoned to restrain their avarice. How could there be when most of us believe that morals are ?relative?, and a private affair. We will have freedom only when the God-given right of the individual to live a free and undisturbed life is recognized again as the only basic right that government should guarantee, and of course that includes the right of a pre-natal or just-born-baby to breathe its first breath and not have its throat slit by a ?Medical Professional? as it exits its mother?s womb.
The Tea Party movement is replete with the symbolism of the American Revolution and identifies with its founders. This is apparent in the ostentatious display of colonial flags and the like at tea Party Functions. Many in our movement casually adorn themselves with these trappings of freedom like so much costumery at a masked ball, yet they ignore what these trappings mean: the revolutionary belief that God is the fount of our freedoms. Such ignorance represents a total repudiation of the beliefs that motivated the founders, but worse it is also to abandon the strongest weapon that the founders bequeathed to us, which was their unshakeable faith in God.
If the Tea Party devolves into a movement the only concern of which is ?fiscal issues? then it will become irrelevant. Yes, the movement may get taxes reduced a little; or cut some fat from the budget. But that?s no real victory. That doesn?t stop the secular leviathan from returning to profligacy in spite of the ?fiscally conservative Tea Party.? The state will still reign supreme and will demand obeisance because its core identity ? that of supreme authority ? will not have been seriously challenged. In fact the opposite will occur. ?Once the Tea Party eschews engagement with the state over moral issues it will have tacitly endorsed the supremacy of the state and therefore enhanced its power ? a failure of leadership that will be fatal to freedom in the country.
Featured image: the Constitution of the United States. Photo: National Archives
Source: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2011/09/28/teaparty/tea-party-social-political-issues/
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