Tia Gazi's Blog – April 2009 Archive (2)

We are going to have to start thinking about a Platform and Mission Statement for the Tea Party. I think that this will happen on the National Level very soon. Right now what we can do as a start is agree on a few things that we all would like to say to any person that wonders what the Tea Party is all about here in Kalamazoo. Mostly I think we are all fairly well in agreement that we want to see Federal power returned to its appropriate level and the authority that has been usurped from the… Continue

I have heard alot lately about how the media has branded Tea Party goers rabid Right Wing Extremists. This has got alot of people worried about their future if they get involved in this grassroots movement. But I think its time we all sit back and re-think our knee jerk reaction to the word extremist and how we see extremism in action.



Whether we like it or not, most of us have been fairly well programed by the media to respond in certain ways to certain words. We are mostly tapped… Continue