Must Tea Patriots be tarred and feathered by lame inuendo and twisted logic?

MichaelGersonlink, page two

Gerson launches into a tirade against Tea Party Patriots that borders on an irrational hatred or phobia, and he can't help cherry-picking quotes without context - all that typical RINO GOP politics crap. But I just like answering his questions:

"A second question of tea party candidates: Do you believe that American identity is undermined by immigration?"

I believe most every Tea Party Patriot I have ever met has bragged on America as the sum-total of its immigration legacy. What we are today, and what we have been, is the continual addition of freedom and opportunity seekers arriving from every distant land across the globe.

We do not want, and we must not tolerate, this national legacy to be polluted by immigration lawlessness. Again, like the question of a federal government pursuing powers with lawless abandon - unchecked by constitutional restraints that our forefathers warned must be kept in place - our immigration policies must be tempered by lawful due process.

Those who sneak in do so in violation of our laws, and on this point, they are an intrusion that stands as a direct assault on the integrity of our borders, therefore our distinction as a sovereign, independent nation.

"Question three: Do you believe that gun rights are relevant to the health care debate?"

The right to bear arms is brilliantly relevant to the question of whether or not crystal-clear messages from the vast majority of the people is heard by the established powers governing our federal government in our name yet somehow against our will.

"Thus always to tyrants" is not just a motto, it is the calling of every patriot. While "thus always" is vouchsafed through a peaceful political process, all is well. If we can go ahead and hang our offending leaders in effigy - we should do this as a statement of traditional patriotic activism - as part of our right to peaceably assemble and redress our government for certain grievances, and we can vote for new leaders, all is well.

The bottom line should be placed on the table, however, that if a majority government duly voted by a majority of the people is again manipulated away from such a majority of popular will, then the ballot box will have been proven compromised by tyrant despotism. That's when the gloves come off, patriots must rally to the sound of guns, and "thus always to tyrants" must be carried out by force of arms.

Michael Gerson fails to understand the consequences of tyranny that we "populists" are experiencing here in "flyoverland," far from Washington DC. He is blind to the threat that we know: the specter of a GOP/DNC despotism in place through multi-national corporate corruption that might have eroded the power of this nation's ruling class, its voting citizens, to mandate a set of demands for our representatives, our hired help, to follow.

That's why we need to mention the second amendment, Mr. Gerson.