LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Who is the Tea Party…by CCTA Member, Lou Call

May 17, 2012



I was recently asked at a social gathering, “just who is the Tea Party”? I thought for a minute about all the people I have met over the years that support the mission which is to expose and defeat those who have abandoned our Constitution! There is no shortage of candidates from both sides of the aisle that fit in this category so perhaps the question should be, what is the Tea Party?

The Tea Party is a mind set. An idea, a quest, carried in the hearts and minds of those who believe that our Bill of Rights has stood steadfast for over two hundred years. Today that same document is being tested by the enemies of freedom to be supplanted by total governmental control over all aspects of our lives. We have constant reminders of the insidious nature of the current administration when confronted with health care, energy and even consumer choices in food consumption.

What is the Tea Party? It is a thirst for freedom and a longing for the return of the individual over the State. It is a hunger for the individual to make the decisions that affect our lives over a faceless entity sitting in Washington.

And ‘who’ is the Tea Party? It is you and I. It is those who have sacrificed their lives to pass the baton of freedom on to future generations. We have a responsibility to see that it falls in the hands of our children and grandchildren.

The very future of our Nation rests in our hands…It is imperative that we stand for the hard right over the easy wrong.

Lou Call,
River Bend, NC