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The Real "Radicals"

Alan from NJ Wrote: Aug 30, 2010 7:55 AM

But Sharpton is looking to the Federal Government the way the slaves looked to a benevolent plantation owner, and selling that idea. Very sad. The Founding Fathers saw the Government as a monster that must be controlled, and the people as the bright hope. Our emancipation (from a British King or a Slave Owner) came as a result of people of character, not vote-seeking politicians.

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The Real "Radicals"

There was a time in the not-too-distant past – 234 years ago to be precise – when the ideas articulated by the Tea Party movement would have rightly been considered “radical.”

Not just radical in their ideological composition, either, but radical in the more “irrational” sense – in that advancing these ideas was a good way to wind up dead. And that’s exactly what happened to more than 25,000 American Revolutionaries – patriots who gave their lives in order to provide the liberty we enjoy today (and which we now aspire to pass down to future generations).

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