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Originally Posted by Yasa
[/LIST]The last point "people who deliberately went to the event with racist signs to make the Tea party look racis," really makes me laugh. Oh yeah, for sure. All the obnoxious racist people are just liberal conspirators trying to make us look bad!
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Actually Yasa, ...those kinds of things do occur.
There's a website called "crashttheteaparty.org"
Their goal?
“Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them. We will also use the inside information that we have gained in order to disrupt and derail their plans.”
There was another group of Obama supporters called ACORN that would try to disrupt tera party protests. These are old, dirty, sneaky tactics designed to undermine or marginalize a movement. These activities can sometimes be hard to detect, but they exist nonetheless. The FBI's COINTELPRO is another example.
That is not to say that a few folks with a racist disposition didn't show up to tea party rallies, but it is foolish to buy into the msnbc headline that all tea partiers are racist.