What’s up dudes,

So today was tax days, and millions of people around the country rushed to pay their fair share, or more than their fair share in some cases, but millions also spent the day protesting those taxes much the same way our American forefathers did, by holding a tea party.

For those of you who don’t know or don’t remember your school teachings in 1764, Great Britain decided to pass what they called a sugar tax on the colonies.  This tax was imposed on anything that was imported from any country other than Britain.  Of course this didn’t go over well with those over here in the colonies.  The Brits didn’t care and sent people over here to collect the money.  In 1765, the parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp tax.  That tax sought to impose fees on anything that the colonist bought that was on paper.  Newspapers, books, wills, diploma, and writing paper were all taxed, and to prove that the tax was paid, a “stamp” seller would stamp the paper.  As a matter of fact, the term tarred and feathered comes from what the colonist did to the stamp sellers.

The colonist did not think it was fair to pay a tax to a government they did not want in charge of them, to pay for soldiers who they didn’t want on their land.  The aggravation continued to build for the colonist until the finally came to a head on the night of December 16^th 1773.  That was the night when a group of Bostonians dressed as American Indians went into Boston harbor and dumped the tea that was on the ship into the harbor.  King George decided to send some naval warships to blockade the harbor.

Anyway, fast forward to 2009 and today we had a modern day tea party, only this time it wasn’t just in Boston and once again, we are protesting the unfair taxing that a government is placing on its people.  This time, the country is our own and while there is no British government to send a naval blockade, there is something can cause the same type of social upheaval that happened some 236 years ago, and that is the left leaning media.

If anyone was watching CNN today, you might have seen the CNN correspondent Susan Roesqen berate an American citizen who was trying to voice his opinion on why he was at the tea party.  After interrupting him several times, she walks away and stated that the protest was “anti-government” and then decided to personalize the attack by saying it was “anti-CNN” and that the movement was being high promoted by the “right wing conservative network FOX”. 

WTF?!?!?!?!  This isn’t right people.  Regardless of what you think or what side of the political aisle you or on, if your job is to report the news, not commentate or give your opinion, but to report it, then report it.  It is when people who call themselves “journalist” decide that they want to inject the personal beliefs in the “news” that we have a real problem with our country and the state it’s in.  The sad part is that this has been happening for a while, but with this latest episode, I’m hoping that some of you who have taken an opposing view to my beliefs will now take another look and see how blatant this is getting, and how this can be good for anyone.

The Silver Fox