Tea Parties Becoming a Threat to the Wacky Left

I wrote previously on how the Tea Party movement has become a threat to the White House, and now it appears that the wacky left is looking at these events as a threat as well:

Acts of protest tend to be synonymous with the left and are usually considered unsurprising on the right. However, when conservatives demonstrate – liberals take notice in a big way.

On Fox News Channel’s April 7 “Your World,” host Neil Cavuto reported that the Tax Day tea party protests on April 15 will be “infiltrated” by their political opponents and led by left-wing activist organizations. He specifically named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

“Only eight days before a nationwide tea party, some over-caffeinated crashers aiming to lay waste to it,” Cavuto said. “Reports of very well-organized infiltrators trying to mix in and rain on this parade. Talk about taxing.”

One organizer, Mark Meckler of the Sacramento Tea Party, dismissed the counter efforts and said they were to be expected.

“We don’t take them seriously at all, and I’ll tell you why,” “It’s not that they don’t exist – we expect people to attempt to infiltrate,” Meckler said. “We expect people to attempt to disturb what we are doing, but the reality is that this is a very broad-based grassroots movement. There is no leader at the top. There is no individual event that they can disturb that would cause us a problem nationwide.”

Meckler explained that everyone was invited – even if they come to promote a philosophy that runs counter to what the tea party movement is attempting to convey.

“So also, the people – we trust the grassroots,” Meckler continued. “We know, the people are skeptical of anyone approaching at these events, and we believe that people are going to handle it well. And in fact, we invite everybody to come to our events. We don’t care if they are from ACORN, The Huffington Post or the Daily Kos. We want them all there. We’re excited to have them attend.”

In fact, The Huffington Post has even set up a Web site for so-called citizen journalists to infiltrate the protests.

What the lefties are missing is the Tea Party movement is not a GOP movement or conservative movement. It's a movement of people from all political persuasions who don't like what they see coming from Congress and the President. They don't want massively expanded government, bailouts for people or companies who made bad decisions, and other policies that will cause crushing debt and high taxes for future generations.

If the lefties want to send people to report on the Tea Parties, fine, report away. The problem comes with activist groups like ACORN who might try and provoke confrontations or maybe even bring signs to try and associate Tea Partygoers with racist or anti-Obama rhetoric.

If any sort of violence or angry confrontations were to break out at one of the high profile events, you know that's the only thing you'd see on the news.

Of course, if there isn't any violence the news probably won't report on the events at all.

I won't be able to attend the local Tea Party event on April 15th because of other commitments, but if you attend one in your area, send me a report and pictures and I'll try and run them. If you're not sure where to find a Tea Party, go here.