An RSVP to the Tea Party
Today I received a response to "An Invitation to a Tea Party" that, with the author's kind permission, I would like to share. Carol in Oregon (who saw the piece on Jack Dalton's blog--thank you Jack!) wrote:
"Dear Lucinda,
Samuel Adams is an ancient uncle of mine. I like your boycott ideas and I never shop with any of those groups. I would like to go one further and have a real Boston Tea Party. Rent a frigate, dunk the enablers in the congress, the administration and the corporations in the harbor, haul them out and sail to The Hague with them in irons for their trials for crimes against humanity.
After that, I’d like to see us undo or houseclean the specious and excessive laws passed during the last fifty years, including the NSC68 from 1947 and most Executive Orders. My question is: who gave these people the right to dismiss the Preamble, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? I want us, also, to go back to the “common defense” concept and toss out the CIA and the National Security laws. Further, I want secrecy in government forbidden forever. All “Patriot Acts” would be illegal.
I know this is a lot; but, we have been betrayed by corporate pseudo-persons-in law for too long. That concept has to go, too.
I am stuck out here in Oregon on a goat farm at age 66 with little chance to do anything except argue by email with the local precinct guy for the Democrats whose central committee concepts I despise. I was active in Chicago during the Vietnam War as president for Women For Peace and belonged to WILPF. I also belong to the ACLU (was elected secretary once) and Amnesty Int’l; and I despise the idea of torture as against the Declaration’s “…all men (sic) are created equal …” My ancestors include the two Green Mountain Boys: Seth Warner and Ethan Allen, an entire generation of Warners who fought the Revolution, Sam Adams, and the presidents’ Adams. We believe fiercely in human rights and freedom from oppression from any source.
I hope you consider staging, if not having the actual felons onboard, an art piece of another Boston Tea Party sailing to The Hague with demonstrators labeled for the real culprits. I would send a little money for it.
Please keep me informed of what your group is doing. I read your work on Jack Dalton’s site. I am also related to Ohio Daltons. "
I wrote back to tell Carol that unfortunately I do not live near Boston Harbor either, but perhaps we can throw 'tea parties' (however you chose to define them) in the places where we live. Many thanks to all who wrote. I can never gauge which pieces will resonate, so the feeback is always helpful and appreciated.
"Dear Lucinda,
Samuel Adams is an ancient uncle of mine. I like your boycott ideas and I never shop with any of those groups. I would like to go one further and have a real Boston Tea Party. Rent a frigate, dunk the enablers in the congress, the administration and the corporations in the harbor, haul them out and sail to The Hague with them in irons for their trials for crimes against humanity.
After that, I’d like to see us undo or houseclean the specious and excessive laws passed during the last fifty years, including the NSC68 from 1947 and most Executive Orders. My question is: who gave these people the right to dismiss the Preamble, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? I want us, also, to go back to the “common defense” concept and toss out the CIA and the National Security laws. Further, I want secrecy in government forbidden forever. All “Patriot Acts” would be illegal.
I know this is a lot; but, we have been betrayed by corporate pseudo-persons-in law for too long. That concept has to go, too.
I am stuck out here in Oregon on a goat farm at age 66 with little chance to do anything except argue by email with the local precinct guy for the Democrats whose central committee concepts I despise. I was active in Chicago during the Vietnam War as president for Women For Peace and belonged to WILPF. I also belong to the ACLU (was elected secretary once) and Amnesty Int’l; and I despise the idea of torture as against the Declaration’s “…all men (sic) are created equal …” My ancestors include the two Green Mountain Boys: Seth Warner and Ethan Allen, an entire generation of Warners who fought the Revolution, Sam Adams, and the presidents’ Adams. We believe fiercely in human rights and freedom from oppression from any source.
I hope you consider staging, if not having the actual felons onboard, an art piece of another Boston Tea Party sailing to The Hague with demonstrators labeled for the real culprits. I would send a little money for it.
Please keep me informed of what your group is doing. I read your work on Jack Dalton’s site. I am also related to Ohio Daltons. "
I wrote back to tell Carol that unfortunately I do not live near Boston Harbor either, but perhaps we can throw 'tea parties' (however you chose to define them) in the places where we live. Many thanks to all who wrote. I can never gauge which pieces will resonate, so the feeback is always helpful and appreciated.
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