Tea Time: Cato's Letters, American Liberty and the Call of the Tea Party - Softcover

Trommer, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 099826590X ISBN 13: 9780998265902

Publisher: Russell Trommer, 2016

Synopsis

Tea Time takes a hard look at American politics through the prism of liberty's principles, as articulated in some of the most popular literature found at the birth of the American nation. Written nearly 300 years ago, Cato's Letters shows with remarkable precision how America today abandons her principled heritage and so embarks on a predictable course known to destroy freedom from within. The organic uprising of citizens intent on stopping this death march is called the Tea Party, and it is today the only hope of salvation for American liberty. Our Founding Fathers knew that liberalism would come to America. The popular literature of Colonial America predicted its rise and the effects of liberalism’s manifestation in America today. Here is what they read … … on wasteful government spending: They that waste publick money, seldom stop there, but go a wicked step farther; and having first drained the people, at last oppress them. Publick frauds are therefore very alarming, as they are very big with publick ruin - Cato’s Letters, No. 27 … on nationalized healthcare: …would it become the wisdom and care of governors to . . . endow a fraternity of physicians and surgeons all over the nation, to take care of their subjects’ health, without being consulted; …It is plain, that such busy care and officious intrusion … has in it more craft than kindness; and is only a device to mislead people, and pick their pockets, under the false pretence of the publick and their private good. -Cato’s Letters, No. 62 …on corrupt news media and censorship: Whoever would overthrow the liberty of the nation, must begin by subduing the freedom of speech; a thing terrible to publick traitors. … Only the wicked governors of men dread what is said of them;...Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together. -Cato’s Letters, No. 15 … on the rise of the Tea Party: In short, the people often judge better than their superiors, and have not so many biases to judge wrong; and politicians often rail at the people, chiefly because they have given the people occasion to rail: Those ministers who cannot make the people their friends, it is to be shrewdly suspected, do not deserve their friendship -Cato’s Letters, No. 13 The Tea Party recognizes these truths found in the literature of America’s founding. Knowledge is power, and power in the hands of the People is liberty. Take part in the Great Experiment by gaining an historical understanding of what is at hand, and what is at stake.

Edition details

• Publisher: Russell Trommer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099826590X
• ISBN 13: 9780998265902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262