— Weekly "Below the Beltway" E-dition —

= Monday, March 30, 2009

Tax Day Tea Party Warning

by Steve Fritsch, Publisher of the Cincinnatus Standard

        = ;    For Conservatives, Libertarians, and any sensible American who fears = the intrusion of big government into their wallets and personal lives, it must = have been a pleasure for them to see the success of the numerous “tea parties” taking place across the United States this past month. Finally people are taking action to say “no more” to higher tax= es, insane amounts of wasteful spending, and bailing out failing enterprises. M= ore than 4,000 people showed up for the each of the first rallies in Orlando and Cincinnati and future tea parties are being planned all over the country. According to National Tax Day Tea Part= y organizers, more than 300 locations in all fif= ty states will be holding tea parties on April 15.<= /p>

  =           This is all great news and there is no reason not to expect crowds to grow = as the public’s anger grows. Yet with this growing phenomenon also comes some risks, and they are risks that Tea Party supporters need to be prepared for. My fear is that the organizers of the tea parties, especially here in = Cincinnati, are n= ot prepared for what the opposition on the left is capable of and may have in store for them if the tea party movement continues to succeed and attract bigger crowds.

        = ;    We got a taste of what may be on the horizon when a single Obama supporter chanted the president’s name in the middle of the Tea Party on Fountain Square on March 15. From the video I have seen, and the reports I have heard and read about= the incident, this Obama supporter was not treated with any serious disrespect.= The worst she was called by a handful of people was supposedly “welfare mom” and “welfare queen.” Moreover, most people took the = high road and ignored her. Yet however small and insignificant we may think this= is, for the Left it will be used as a motivating factor to prepare a counter-protest at the next tea party. Already the local liberal media seem= s to be gearing up.

  =           The Left-wing periodical City Beat was quick to exaggerate the incident for their own ideological purposes and goals. Eschewing fact for hearsay and fabrication, this is how their writer described the episode:

Among a predominantly white crowd that carried signs displaying slog= ans of aggrieved privilege like, “Honk if I’m paying your mortgage,” was a middle-aged African-American woman waving an Obama f= lag. As expected, many attendees began heckling her but what was surprising was = the openly racist nature of their comments, according to several people who witnessed the encounter.

A crowd formed around the woman, yelling in unison the word, “sucks,” each time she chanted Obama’s name. No biggie. B= ut when that didn’t discourage her, a white woman in her 40s began follo= wing along behind her shouting “Wel-fare mom! Wel-fare mom!”

The ugliness didn’t end there. A young white man held up a pos= ter depicting the U.S. presidents except Obama, as he gleefully noted to the sole dissenter. He th= en told her, “Let me borrow your flag for a minute. I want to wipe my ass with it.”

Others in the crowd chanted, “get a job,” as the black w= oman began to leave.

Cincinnati= Police who were on hand to provide security did nothing. Enquirer readers wouldn’t know about any of this because the incident was whitewashed by the city’s newspaper of record.

The shameful behavior was in addition to parts of the crowd who physically threatened TV news crews on hand to cover the event, an incident also not mentioned by The Enquirer. The crews scurried toward police for protection. <= o:p>

  =           This type of so-called “reporting” should not be a surprise to anyone. The Left is well skilled in lying and getting their base emotional enough to spring into action when needed. Therefore, once rumors circulate = in the African-American community that there were acts of “racism”= at the past rally, it seems easy enough to believe that the counter protests t= he tea parties will likely experience in the future will not just be based on liberal ideology and support for Obama, but also one centered on race.

  =           Let’s propose a hypothetical situation. Suppose that on April 15̵= 2; the date of the next rally—dozens or perhaps hundreds of African-Amer= ican Obama supporters show up to confront the anti-tax crowd (many of whom will = be holding anti-Obama signs). It only takes one idiot to say the wrong thing before you have a nasty confrontation and a public relations nightmare for = the Tea Party organizers. It is for this exact reason that I call for the Tea P= arty organizers to assemble ten to twenty volunteers to not only videotape the actions of the Obama supporters (to refute any accusations from the left ab= out “racism” or hostile behavior), but to also keep an eye on our own crowd and to dissu= ade anyone from starting any type of confrontation with them. The organizers sh= ould also proactively inform— ahead of time, if possible— those anti-taxers planning to attend to simply ignore the Obama people and to foc= us on making the event an unblemished success.

  =           The Tea Party organizers should also cover other bases as well. They should= not put it past the Left to hire a so-called “Republican” to throw = out a racial slur or some other derogatory statement to create a scene. They sh= ould also be prepared for the local media to give them unfair coverage for the slightest of incidents, even if it is fabricated. All in all, they need to = be prepared for anything and equally prepared to effectively handle whatever c= omes their way.

  =           Now some of you might be thinking, “Aren’t you overreacting a little bit here? Aren’t you being a little alarmist and paranoid?R= 21; My answer is, I hope so. I hope the next event goes without incident and is= a major success. But I also know what the Left is capable of and I would not = be surprised if they try to pull some stunt to discredit the Tea Party movement and everything Conservatives are fighting for. For we must remember: Libera= ls have in the past, and will again in the future, perform the most deceitful and shameful acts to further their own agenda. And because of this, I simply ask those responsible for organizing the Tea Parties, and to all of those who p= lan to show up at the April 15 event, to be extremely cautious, and yes, prepar= ed, for this possibility.

  =           Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., h= otel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr. We’re curious to see how our Kneepad Liberals in the Press remember this event today. Because we’re sure that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose John Stossel’s “Where I work at ABC, people say ‘conservative’ the way people say ‘child molester.’”

  =           And in a related item, John McCain now seems to be mellowing out since his defe= at last November. He even wrote a letter to John Hinckley, forgiving him for shooting Ronald Reagan:

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   = ;         Dear John:

My wife and I wanted to drop you a short note to tell you how please= d we are with the great strides you are making in your recovery. In our fine cou= ntry's spirit of understanding and forgiveness, we= want you to know there is a non partisan consensus of compassion and forgiveness throughout.

My wife Cindy and I want you to know that no grudge is borne against= you for shooting President Reagan. We, above all, are aware of how the mental stress and pain could have driven you to such an act of desperation. We are confident that you will soon make a complete recovery and return to your fa= mily to join the world again as a healthy and productive young man.

Best Wishes,

John and Cindy McCain

PS: While you have been incarcerated, Barack Obama has been banging Jodie Foster like a screen door in a tornado. Just thought you should know.=

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More Conflicts of Interest

   = ;           Here's another conflict of interest involving Obama’s economic crisis. John E. Sununu, former New Hampshire Senator, was appointed to the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell last December, a month after Sununu had lost his bid to be re-elected in New Hampshire.&n= bsp;

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·        COP is charged with evaluating how = the TARP bailout program is working and reporting back to the Senate to help the Senate in deciding to continue funding the crisis. The trouble is, Su= nunu is also on the board of directors of a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon,= ConvergEx, which has been hired by the government as the master custodian to administer the distribution of TARP money. As such, it handles accounting and re= cord keeping for the program and tracks limits on executive pay at banks that get TARP bailout money. Bank of New York Mellon has also received $3 billion of TARP bailout money itself.

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·        Other members of the Congressional Oversight Panel have complained about Sununu's conflict of interest, but he refuses to withdraw, remaining on the Panel in order to push forward his Bank's interests.

·        In yet more conflicts of interest, = Obama has named a current member of AIG Insurance's board of directors to his new task force on tax reform. Martin Feldst= ein has been on the AIG board since 1988. He is a teacher and crony of La= rry Summers (Samuelson) and the Goldman Sachs bunch of thugs. In 2005, then-President Bush passed up naming Feldstein as chairman of the Federal Reserve because of his ties to troubled AIG. Nothing like Obama bring= ing in more of the same chummy scheming criminal finance people who are respons= ible for this current economic crisis.

= ;           Aunt Sylvia from Amberley Village writ= es in to lament that so many Jews seem to be in the thick of the Goldman Sachs-connected cronyism and criminality of finance people who are involved in/caused the current economic crisis. She mentions the following peo= ple:=

=                         &nb= sp;           Lloyd C. Blankfein                         &nb= sp;           Goldman Sachs

=                         &nb= sp;           Sanford Weill           &nbs= p;                       &nb= sp;           Citigroup

=             &nb= sp;            =            Martin Feldstein

=             &nb= sp;            =            Timothy Franz Geithner

=             &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp;          (who lies about it)

=             &nb= sp;            =            Robert Rubin          &nb= sp;                        &nb= sp;           (Goldman Sachs and Citigroup)

=             &nb= sp;            =            Henry Paulson             &nb= sp;

=             &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp;          (but raised as a Christian Scientist)

=             &nb= sp;            =            Larry Summers

=             &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp;          (Samuelson)

=             &nb= sp;            =            Bernie Madoff

=             Cheer up, Aunt Sylvia, a lot of these crooks ar= en't Jewish, such as:= =

=             &nb= sp;            =            Joe Casella                      &nb= sp;   AIG Insurance

=             &nb= sp;            =            Edward Liddy           &n= bsp;          AIG Insurance/Goldman Sachs

=             &nb= sp;            =            Neel Kashkari           &= nbsp;          Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary

=             &nb= sp;            =            Vikram Pandit          &n= bsp;           Citigroup

=             &nb= sp;            =            John Thain                      &nb= sp;    Merrill Lynch

=             As always: all Ecumenical Economic Moments in the Whistleblower (like the one above) have been approved by the Anti-Defamation League.

= ;           Come to think of it, do you want to know how bad the economy is? It’s is s= oooo bad, some Jewish American Princesses are even marrying for love!=

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Crisis of Inconsequence Update

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      = ;      And at yesterday’s me= eting of The Conservative Agenda, Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster = Kane explained to Political Insiders that every day we get e-mails from readers wondering when some of the other really passé people they read about= in The Whistleblower will be indicted and cut off the Whistleblower Subscribers List. You can’t believe how long that list of Insignificant Individua= ls is.

= ;         But don’t forget, sometimes we just remove other people without listing t= heir names, because those people are just too inconsequential to mention.

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Flooding in Fargo<= /st1:City>

= ;           Conservative Curmudgeon Stu Mahlin says when the Red River breached the dike in Fargo, and the city requested more volunteers to resume sandbagging Sunday morning, how come there are no heartfelt Dissociated Press or other stories about bus loads full of liberal college students from liberal colleges and universities streaming up to F= argo to fill and place sandbags? Maybe it’s because = Fargo's not filled with minorities on welfare. But, hey, white people who make hone= st livings in agriculture (aka farming) need help, too. And they'll need much, much more help once the water g= oes down.

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= ;           And as always: all Racial Healing Items in the Whistleblower (like the one abov= e) have been approved by the American Civil Liberties U= nion (ACLU).

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