Tea Party Leader’s Gun Arrest Highlights Tyranny of Law
December 22, 2011 at 2:56 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | Leave a commentTags: Gun Rights, Mark Meckler, PJ Media, Second Amendment, tea party
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler faces a felony charge after declaring a locked, cased, unloaded gun in his checked luggage.
by Walter Hudson – PJ Media – December 19, 2011
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The role of legislators in a free society is not to make law, but to discover it. The “laws of Nature and Nature’s God” are not crafted by men, and ought to both supersede and underlie our civil decrees. Indeed, that is the root of the Declaration of Independence. Men have rights, and their government ought to proceed from those rights and secure them.
Such lofty notions are frequently lost in our modern political discourse, where the craft of law has become social engineering, saving us from ourselves. In such an environment, it is inevitable that we should arrive at a tyranny of law, where the web of bureaucracy and regulation is so intricate, tangled, and sticky that every man becomes a criminal in one way or another regardless of his character or conduct.
So may be the case with Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler, who was arrested last week at LaGuardia Airport by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on a felony firearms charge.
Stop the Blame Game Over Budget Stalemate
March 31, 2011 at 10:02 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: budget, Budget Cuts, Chuck Schumer, compromise, debt, deficit, John Boehner, Mark Meckler, NewsReal Blog, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
It goes without saying that messaging is important in politics. To that end, it is not uncommon for allied politicians to synchronize their rhetorical watches and get on the same talking points. Even so, it’s one thing to know that. It’s another to catch a rare glimpse of it actually happening.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Democratic Senate leadership, got on a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning without realizing the reporters were already listening in. Schumer thought he was on a private line with four Democratic senators who were to talk with reporters about the current budget stalemate.
Schumer instructed the group(…)
“The main thrust is basically that we want to negotiate and we want to come up with a compromise but the Tea Party is pulling Boehner too far over to the right and so far over that there is no more fruitful negotiations,” Schumer said on the call. “The only way we can avoid a shutdown is for Boehner to come up with a reasonable compromise and not just listen to what the Tea Party wants.”
Tea Party Patriots’ Mark Meckler Talks Grassroots Leadership with NRB
March 2, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: grassroots, journalism, Mark Meckler, Mother Jones, News, NewsReal Blog, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Mark Meckler, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, at the American Policy Summit in Phoenix
There is a mentality among artists which I have always found puzzling. While poor, unknown, and ineffective, they are considered “authentic.” However, as soon as they strike it big, start to make money, and meet with success, they become reviled as “sell outs.”
A similar dynamic threatens to undermine the Tea Party movement. To some among its ranks, the term “grassroots” seems to demand perpetual lowliness. Once a grassroots activist or organization begins to mature, build coalitions, and meet with success, they are suddenly “part of the problem.”
Such was the narrative of an “investigation” by Mother Jones of Tea Party Patriots, perhaps the preeminent national Tea Party organization and a favorite among grassroots groups. NRB published a rebuttal to the attack, highlighting its strawman argument.
While attending the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit over the weekend, we stole a minute with co-founder Mark Meckler to follow up on the Mother Jones piece.
Divide and Conquer: Mother Jones Attacks Tea Party Patriots
February 15, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Posted in NewsRealBlog | 1 CommentTags: Activism, grassroots, Jenny Beth Martin, Laura Boatright, Mark Meckler, Mother Jones, News, NewsReal Blog, North Star Tea Party Patriots, tea party, tea party patriots
by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog
Mark Meckler of Tea Party Patriots, one of Mother Jones' targets in a Valentine's Day hit piece.
There is a mentality among artists which I have always found puzzling. While poor, unknown, and ineffective, they are considered “authentic.” However, as soon as they strike it big, start to make money, and meet with success, they become reviled as “sell outs.”
A similar dynamic threatens to undermine the Tea Party movement. To some among its ranks, the term “grassroots” seems to demand perpetual lowliness. Once a grassroots activist or organization begins to mature, build coalitions, and meet with success, they are suddenly “part of the problem.”
Such is the narrative of an ongoing “investigation” by Mother Jones of Tea Party Patriots, perhaps the preeminent national Tea Party organization and a favorite among grassroots groups. No doubt thrilled at the opportunity to malign an organization fundamentally opposed to their editorial positions, Mother Jones has made strange bedfellows with professed Tea Party activists formerly affiliated with Tea Party Patriots.
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