What would Patrick Henry have REALLY thought about Tea Parties?

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He was a radical, and he spoke his mind and always worked against Tyranny.  And yet....and yet....

I think he might have recognized the difference between Red Coats trundling down the streets of the colonies, and the government trying to institute health care.

I especially think he would have been disgusted by the talk of succession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_henry

In his later years, he saw the French Revolution are radical and dangerous.  "However, following the radicalism of French Revolution Henry's views changed as he began to fear a similar fate could befall America and by the late 1790s Henry was in support of the Federalist policies of Washington and Adams. He especially denounced the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, which had been secretly written by Jefferson and Madison, and approved by the legislatures of those two states. He warned that civil war was threatened because Virginia, "had quitted the sphere in which she had been placed by the Constitution, and, in daring to pronounce upon the validity of federal laws, had gone out of her jurisdiction in a manner not warranted by any authority, and in the highest degree alarming to every considerate man; that such opposition, on the part of Virginia, to the acts of the general government, must beget their enforcement by military power; that this would probably produce civil war, civil war foreign alliances, and that foreign alliances must necessarily end in subjugation to the powers called in."

Same with Sam Houston, founder of Texas.

"Despite Houston's wishes, Texas seceded from the United States on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861. This act was soon branded illegal by Houston, but the Texas legislature nevertheless upheld the legitimacy of secession. The political forces that brought about Texas's secession also were powerful enough to replace the state's Unionist governor. Houston chose not to resist, stating, "I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. To avert this calamity, I shall make no endeavor to maintain my authority as Chief Executive of this State, except by the peaceful exercise of my functions ... " He was evicted from his office on March 16, 1861, for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy, writing,"

Glenn Beck talks about armed revolution all the time.

The governor of Texas routinely talks about revolution.

The Republican party thinks Joe Wilson is a hero and Joe Wilson supports a South Carolina State resolution ignoring any Federal Health Care legislation.

So who are really the heirs of Patrick Henry and Sam Houston?

The Republicans?
The Libertarians?

I think not.

Daniel · Accepted Answer

He would think they are silly. Much to do about nothin.

Anonymous · Answer

Didn't know that about Patrick Henry, but I'm certain Jefferson's and Madison's ideas were far more important to the success of our nation that Henry's or Houston's.


AnimaMundi:
You're going to have to repeal Section 1 of the 14th Amendment if you want that to fly. Within that section "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" which amounts to a federal power grab from the states and renders any and all state laws subordinate to federal juristiction.
sic transit gloria mundi


Contard:
Article 1's levy taxes, general welfare, etc. was never meant to cover redistribution of income from one man to another, while it did in fact support the government response to the Whiskey Rebellion. I'd say the modern day tea parties are very much like the original Boston version in that the government, while possibly behaving legally, is behaving immorally.

AnimaMundi The Soul of The World · Answer

Libertarians... There shouldnt be talk of succession, rather following the constitution that all powers not delegated to the federal gov by the constitution are reserved to the states and the people. The states should have the right to claim soverignty over any laws passed by the federal government that was not delegated to it by the constitution. I think Patrick Henry would respect that movement. The Tea Parties are just a bunch of people standing around in groups trying to feel like they are actually accomplishing something when they have not. If you want to return this country to its constitutional foundings, you need to do it exactly how it was taken over, by seizing each position of power one at a time until the collectivists are out and the constitutionalists are in,

Anonymous · Answer

These T.E.A. Parties have more in common with the Whiskey Rebellion than anything that went on in Boston:

"The Whiskey Insurrection was a popular uprising that had its beginnings in 1791 and culminated in an insurrection in 1794 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela Valley. During George Washington's presidency, the government decided to tax whiskey in order to pay off the national debt. This infuriated the citizenry and led to the Whiskey Rebellion...

By the summer of 1794, tensions reached a fevered pitch all along the western frontier as the settlers' primary marketable commodity was threatened by the federal taxation measures. Finally, the civil protests became an armed rebellion...

George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, remembering Shays' Rebellion from just eight years before, decided to make Pennsylvania a testing ground for federal authority. Washington ordered federal marshals to serve court orders requiring the tax protesters to appear in federal district court. On August 7, 1794, Washington invoked martial law to summon the militias of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and several other states. The rebel force they fought was likewise composed of Pennsylvanians, Virginians, and possibly men from other states...

The militia force of 12,950 men was organized, roughly the size of the entire army in the Revolutionary War. Under the personal command of Washington, Hamilton, and Revolutionary War hero General Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, the army assembled in Harrisburg and marched to Bedford, Pennsylvania the site of Washington's headquarters, then on to western Pennsylvania...

This marked the first time under the new United States Constitution that the federal government used military force to exert authority over the nation's citizens. It was also one of only two times that a sitting President personally commanded the military in the field..."

? · Answer

i believe he would have been for the actual tea party, but not for the "tea parties" recently.

btw, republicans, you have a serious set of cahoonas to suggest that a super power government is taxing you without representation. please stop whining.

also, this is not liberal fear, why would liberals be fearful? they are kicking republican butt if you haven't noticed.

Agent Orange · Answer

They don't give a damn, they just want to be back in power.

Barney Frank was right, they are tables.

Anonymous · Answer

Unlike you, Patrick Henry was a true American and patriot.

Anonymous · Answer

RANT

I love the smell of liberal fear.... Smells like.... VICTORY!

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