Secrets of the Tea Party: The Troubling History of Tea Party Leader Dick Armey
From Truthout:
As the Tea Party movement has gained momentum during the last 12 months, it seems few Tea Partiers have caught on to the troubling past of the man at the center of their movement: FreedomWorks chairman, former House Majority Leader and recently-retired lobbyist extraordinaire, Dick Armey.
As chairman of FreedomWorks, the group credited with mobilizing the Tea Party movement, Armey is the movement’s de facto leader. Yet Armey’s years spent lobbying for a group recognized by the State Department as being a terrorist organization–should give Tea Partiers pause.
In the weeks before April 15, 2009, local newspapers began reporting that groups calling themselves TEA, or Taxed Enough Already, were planning rallies to protest wasteful government spending. By the time Tax Day rolled around, over 300 protests were under way in all…
Just because the State Department labels an individual or
organization “terroristic” doesn’t make it so. If fact we might be
suspicious of the organization actually being worthwhile. The
Federal government we have today is the very embodiment of
terrorism and tyranny. This makes me wonder if there is actually
something good about the Tea Partiers.