Tax Day —war—?

Tax Day —war— Tea Partiers promise to meet anarchists with firepower


It's war!

Or at least that's the word being employed by the right-wing blogosphere to describe anarchist groups' plans to "crash" the Tea Party movement's Tax Day demonstrations on April 15.

"Anarchists plan war on April 15th Tea Parties," reads a headline at Gateway Pundit. The Fox Nation Web site links to that story using the same headline.

But is it war the anarchists are planning? Not according to the blog posting that started it all: A call to action at the anarchist news site Infoshop, urging people to "Crash the Tea Parties!"

"If the tea party movement continues to grow in size and strength there is a big chance they will dominate this country in the near future," the posting implores. "If the tea party movement takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc."

Infoshop outlines "three options" for challenging the Tea Party movement: Organizing counter-protests on Tax Day; handing out leaflets at Tea Party events to convince some of them to change their views; and "ignoring the Tea Party movement," which it suggests is "the worst option."

Nowhere in that list is any suggestion of violence -- or "war," as some bloggers would have it -- but that didn't stop a number of commenters at Gateway Pundit from promising to come to the protests armed.

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people protesting taxes is not new. "tea party" is BS. it WAS a worthwhile group of individuals who supported ron paul, now it is a tool of the right wing media. where there are those original protesters who actually have good standing and view points, the radicals are merely individuals who believe any and everything espoused by the extreme right.

overall, it's tax time. people hate taxes. that's true all the world over. now this group has a name...YAY! let the propaganda and media exploitation begin.