The Country was Fine 'til the Start of '09! [View all]

[africanadian]

(First of all, I want to be recognized for the brilliant poetry of that headline. )

Seriously, though, in the five years I've been observing the rise of the Tea Party in your country, one question has persisted in my mind, a question which nobody---and I mean not one damn person---in that "movement" has been able to answer:

Where were they?

When George W. Bush was turning the surplus Clinton left him into the biggest debts and deficits in American history, where were they? Maybe my Canuck ass was too busy watching the Stanley Cup playoffs during the demonstrations against the Bush Administration's profligate spending.

When John Ashcroft was putting your constitution through the shredder, where were they? I swear I never saw one of these Tea Party Patriots shouting "Tyranny!" as their right were being stripped in the wake off 9/11.

Speaking of which, where were they when their government was spoonfeeding your country bullshit about the "immanent threat" posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq? Where were they when the claims of Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/etc were starkly demonstrated to be untrue?

During the eight years that the U.S. government was siphoning their money to the rich, sending their sons and daughters to die for no good reason, curtailing the LIBERTIES they've been screaming themselves hoarse over since 20/01/09, bending and breaking every law it didn't like, and lying about the whole fucking mess, WHERE WERE THEY???

You know, and I know, and anyone not willfully blind knows the answer.

In fact, it's as simple as black and white, isn't it?