Prayer, the Most Radical Act of the Tea Party

            I didn’t think the Vincenzo Torrecelli’s letter (“IRS should pay attention to organizations,” Yuma Sun, May 27, 2013) merited a response.  His “what are they hiding” comment showed that he has absolutely no understanding of the IRS issue. The IRS exerted partisan pressures to stifle voices of the opposition.  No thinking American would applaud their actions, not one.  

               His suggesting it’s Tea Party members who “scream nonsense and disrupt meetings” shows that he’s not paying attention.  The screamers and the burners and the bombers are the progressive groups like Occupy Wall Street and Code Pink.  The most disruptive, radical activity at Tea Party meetings is prayer.

               The most radical concern of the nation’s Tea Parties is the national debt.  Every child in this country is born chained to a $60,000 debt before it takes its first breath.  Our national debt increases by $3,000,000,000 every day.  Our legislators have betrayed the American people.  They buy votes with the blood of the next generation.  It’s criminal.  They make promises that my little Reia Ann will have to keep.    

               Because I recognized that Vincenzo, proud American that he is, understands very little about the idea of America, I wasn’t going to respond to his diatribe.  However, my friend Marlene nagged me about it, so here it is.

               What is “juvenile,” Mr. Torrecelli, is that we have contented ourselves with our toys and distractions while Washington sells us down the river.  What is juvenile is that we fall prey to their hypnotic mantras about much they care, hoping we’ll be content with their crumbs while they feather their Dachau nests,  sip Pernod-Ricard Perrier-Jouet and nibble on Italian truffles.   What’s juvenile is to accept the generosity of thieves, and that is what we’ve wrought among the criminal classes in Washington D.C.

               Thanks, Marlene.  That was therapeutic

May 29, 20103