Cowlesy
02-25-2010, 08:50 AM
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/who_will_lead_the_tea_party.html
Mr. Church and Mr. Anderson take a look back at the original players in the American revolution. You had Statesmen that the king ignored, but also young patriots who probably were the ones throwing tea into Boston Harbour.
One thing I would take away from the piece is the importance of local government. We need to support our friends that are trying to get on city councils, or state legislatures...heck even school board.
What kinds of people can we expect to step up as actual candidates from the new grass roots movement, the TEA Party? The original Boston Tea Party ignited the first American Revolution, and a comparison with how the leaders of that crusade emerged[i] might prove to be instructive.
For our purposes, the captains of the founding of the United States can be divided into two groups:
1) Those Founders that served in some public capacity before the beginning of the American Revolution.
2) Those Founders that became politically active after the Revolutionary War.
(Keep in mind that the American Revolution was kicked off by the various Committees of Correspondence (COC) that first appeared in 1772. More than a decade lapsed from the time the Declaration of Independence was issued in 1776 until the adoption of the Constitution in 1787.)
Let's begin with the senior leaders of the Revolution (#1 above). Many of these leaders were, in effect, local elected officials who grew weary of being ignored by the central government (the British Parliament).
When Virginia patriots, including Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, and the little-known Dabney Carr met at the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg on 3 March 1775 the idea for a "committee of correspondence" was hatched. (As we indicated above, similar committees had been previously used for mutual concerns.) Like today's Tea Partiers, these men were united in opposition to Parliament's usurpations of their liberties.
Much more at the link (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/who_will_lead_the_tea_party.html)
Mr. Church and Mr. Anderson take a look back at the original players in the American revolution. You had Statesmen that the king ignored, but also young patriots who probably were the ones throwing tea into Boston Harbour.
One thing I would take away from the piece is the importance of local government. We need to support our friends that are trying to get on city councils, or state legislatures...heck even school board.
What kinds of people can we expect to step up as actual candidates from the new grass roots movement, the TEA Party? The original Boston Tea Party ignited the first American Revolution, and a comparison with how the leaders of that crusade emerged[i] might prove to be instructive.
For our purposes, the captains of the founding of the United States can be divided into two groups:
1) Those Founders that served in some public capacity before the beginning of the American Revolution.
2) Those Founders that became politically active after the Revolutionary War.
(Keep in mind that the American Revolution was kicked off by the various Committees of Correspondence (COC) that first appeared in 1772. More than a decade lapsed from the time the Declaration of Independence was issued in 1776 until the adoption of the Constitution in 1787.)
Let's begin with the senior leaders of the Revolution (#1 above). Many of these leaders were, in effect, local elected officials who grew weary of being ignored by the central government (the British Parliament).
When Virginia patriots, including Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, and the little-known Dabney Carr met at the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg on 3 March 1775 the idea for a "committee of correspondence" was hatched. (As we indicated above, similar committees had been previously used for mutual concerns.) Like today's Tea Partiers, these men were united in opposition to Parliament's usurpations of their liberties.
Much more at the link (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/who_will_lead_the_tea_party.html)