ST. LOUIS TEA PARTY STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH TRENT HUMPHRIES AND THE TUCSON TEA PARTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE……
Dr. King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice, everywhere.” It’s sadly ironic that on MLK Day, the gross negligence and unjust reporting of the mainstream media, Sheriff Dupnik, Paul Krugman, Markos Moulitsas, MSNBC, and CNN has led to the techno-lynching of an entire group of people for the actions of one seriously disturbed individual – Jared Loughner – who, as it turns out, is not a tea partier and who has no ties to the tea party…whatsoever. Dr. King would have been appalled to see such bald-faced bigotry and evil.
On Saturday, Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries was threatened during a live town hall meeting. The event was hosted by ABC. While Trent was speaking, an audience member, Eric Fuller, screamed, “Trent Humphries, you’re dead!” Fuller was arrested and escorted from the meeting. On the way out the door, Fuller screamed again, “You’re all whores.”
But this isn’t the first time Humphries has received death threats in the wake of the Giffords shooting. In fact, Humphries receives death threats daily. It seems that the constant media frenzy to indict, try, convict, and hang the Tea Party for the viciousness of Jared Loughner has taken its toll. Thanks to the efforts of the mainstream media, the tea party has been convicted in the court of public opinion for a crime it had no part in. And this, all because the media has maliciously disregarded journalistic ethics by jumping the gun. Whats more, the media continues to perpetuate the myth, and the techno-lynchings occur daily.
“Suddenly anyone who believes in the constitution, belongs to a tea party organization, or owns a firearm is now a de facto terrorist,” said Jim Hoft of the St. Louis Tea Party.
Across the country in St. Louis, Bill Hennessy and Ben Evans of the St. Louis Tea Party experienced bigotry as a result of this media malpractice. A day after the shooting, Hennessy and Evans, having been identified as tea partiers, were accosted by an irate motorist who slowed her vehicle to a crawl to scream “F**king Terrorists!” at the men. A number of other tea partiers all over St. Louis, all over Missouri, and all over the nation are experiencing similar discrimination and hatred. This is what happens, though, when the truth is forced to ride in the back of the bus.
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