Toni, what is the "nature" of your events? I see people carrying signs denouncing everything as socialism and the people carrying these signs have no concept of what socialism is--- actually I don't even think they know what capitalism is because most of the time they seem to be complaining about the problems capitalism, not socialism, has created.
In fact, it is the public institutions in our country that are holding up the best.
Check it out, anyone have any problems with these public institutions and want to close them down:
* Public schools.
· United States Post Office.
**** Social Security
**** Unemployment Compensation
· Police.
· Fire.
· Libraries.
· Parks and recreation.
* Water and sewer.
· Public transit.
· Courts.
* Roads, highways and bridges.
· Power lines.
* Sidewalks.
* Public forests and lands.
** Public fishing accesses. (These are very important to people here in Minnesota)
I challenge anyone in the Tea Party movement to call for closing down all the public fishing access sites in Minnesota. Let's see who among the Minnesota Tea Party movement will stand in front of the television cameras and advocate turning all the public access fishing sites over to capitalist profiteers who will charge admission... come on... step forward to abolish this socialism.
Every one of these public institutions are socialist institutions.
Who among the Tea Party movement is going to be the first to send their Social Security check back to Uncle Sam?
How many members of the Tea Party movement stop by their local Road Commission office and leave off a check every time a pot hole is filled on their street.
Come on, what is all this fear of socialism when all that socialism means is public institutions serving the public good and welfare.
No communist is sending your kids to war.
No communist is depriving you of healthcare... all we want is for healthcare to become a public institution just like our public schools.
Your fight is with the capitalists and imperialists of Wall Street.
I resent you Tea Party people slandering and libeling me by calling Barack Obama a "socialist," "communist," "Marxist."
I resent you Tea Party people using the progressive ideas that inspired the American Revolution and twisting these ideas into support for reactionary and conservative viewpoints like the vial hate emanating from publications like "Human Events" newspaper serving the aims of Dick Armey and the Republican Party.
But, again, who among you Tea Party Patriots so opposed to socialism is going to come and sit down beside me at debate after debate and will speak in favor of closing down Minnesota's most cherished socialist projects--- the public fishing access sites. Where do you want to start our series of debates? What about in Brainerd? Come on; let's go to Brainerd and have a debate on whether or not our socialist public fishing access sites should be turned over to free-marketers. Come on; don't be shy. If you can hold up a sign denouncing socialism you should be willing to defend the privatization of our public fishing access sites.
Does anyone want to discuss with me:
1. Fiscal responsibility
2. Limited government
3. Free markets
Come on, patriotism is about courage; the courage to defend your ideas sitting side-by-side with a live opponent not an effigy stuffed with straw or rags.
Here I am; a living breathing Marxist... come on, don't be cowards; have the courage to travel across Minnesota debating me.
You know it; I know it; you have no solutions to any problems or else someone from among your ranks would travel from community to community debating me in the proverbial "public square."
Come on, any of you "patriots" have the courage of your convictions to defend your ideas?
I don't spit on people. I don't make fun of sick people who can't afford to pay their medical bills. I don't treat poor people as less than human because they are homeless.
I drink tea. I like to party. And, I'm a patriot who cherishes peace and social justice.
I even read "Citizen Tom Paine" by Howard Fast--- have any of you? If not, might I suggest you make a trip to my second favorite socialist institution after our public fishing access sites--- the public library. Really, knowing I could be in trouble speaking for the dead; I seriously doubt Tom Paine would approve of the activities being carried out by the Tea Party Movement.
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