January 4, 2010

Though some tea-party attendees are fervently committed and genuinely believe their cause is just, they have little idea about how their movement has been secretly co-opted by others. The modern movement was started and supported by Republicans and their party such as Dick Armey, Freedom Works, Americans for Prosperity, Koch Foundations and The Federalist Society. That's why it is called the astro-turf movement countering the lie that is a populist or grassroots reaction.

More insidiously, the movement is now fertile ground for white supremacists who see a group of mainly white people complaining about a government with a black man as its head. The racist signs held high during rallies help define participants as racists which in turn, attracts white nationalists. White supremacists get it and see their own kind at tea parties.

The "Storm Front" member forum website devoted to white supremacy or white nationalism (WN) is very interested in tea-parties and have been quietly participating in them to whip up their brand of righteous indignation against a government they hate. It's not about taxes but race.

They are using tea party events as recruiting venues and believe the movement is the start of a white nationalist uprising. This is what the "Storm Front" has to say about that:

Ladies and gentlemen, I think every WN needs to not only attend the April 15th Tea Party nearest you (I'm going to the Alamo in San Antonio) but then stay involved and help provide leadership to this movement.

I believe that this is the white revolution we've been waiting for.

It doesn't look what we expected but this is it.

I've seen probably 50 videos on TV showing previous marches and what strikes me is that the participants are all WHITE. It stands to reason . . . we're the ones being taxed to support Affirmative Action, Welfare and other worthless social programs. It's our tax dollars going to ACORN and supporting the 12 million illegals swarming into our neighborhoods.

For the first time, white people (a.k.a. the lemmings) are finally awake and taking to the streets.

Right now the movement is about taxes . . . but with leadership and guidance we can help turn this movement into a lot more.

So turn off the computer. Take off the red laces and fold your jeans over your Doc Martins. Hang the storm trooper uniform in the closet. Take off the robe. Reverently fold your Confederate flag and put it away for now.

Become one of them. Join the marches and help organize future events in your neighborhood. Go slow . . . don't hit people with WN philosophy all at once. 

Become a leader and a teacher. Show them the relationship between what they want and what we want. You can help convince the people you meet that even though they themselves don't see it yet, a return to white values and a white nation is the answer to what troubles them.

Remember . . . we don't need to convince 100% of the people. We just need to wake up a good number of them and momentum will do the rest.
                                                                                  http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showpost.php?p=6725312&postcount=1

The original tea party movement in the 1770's was a reaction to the lifting of tea taxes to help the East India Tea Company which was going bankrupt. No taxes meant their tea was much less expensive and this undercut local tea merchants. This did not sit well with those merchants nor with the black market tea profiteers who supplied them with tea. So, it wasn't about too high taxes like people think, but profits. Now it is evolving into a movement about white supremacy with high taxes as a cover.

Most telling in all this is that new century tea party members weren't concerned about enormous government spending until Obama was president.

Between 2000 through 2006 Republicans committed trillions of dollars to tax cuts for the wealthy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terror in general and Medicare Part D which was a multi-billion dollar give away for drug companies. And let's not forget Bush's bailout program for the some of the richest banks and investment companies in 2008.

There was no criticism of a white controlled government that spent their money lavishly on the elite and for war. Only now is there outrageous criticism when a black man is president.

With such ignorance and dysfunction within the modern tea party movement, it is no wonder white nationalists see it as something they can embrace and hope to control one day. They have a very good start too.