I wouldn’t be so quick to sling mud at the tea party. The story includes this sentence: [quote]Organizers of the rally, to be held outside the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley during prayers Friday, appear to be associated with a southwest Riverside County political group affiliated with the “tea party” movement.[/quote]

So let’s get this straight. The organizers appear to be associate with a group that’s affiliated with the team party. That’s guilt by association twice removed based on rumor and for this you’re going to convict the tea party? Remind me to make sure you’re never on my jury!

Mind, you I’m in full agreement that this protest and whoever is leading it, is flat out wrong.

But I see two major problems with your response.

1) You are way to quick to accept what the media is at best suggesting. Doesn’t it bother you that the LA Times is making statements about somebody appears to be associated with a someone who seems to be affiliated with someone else?

2) You seem to fail to understand that any grass roots movement without a formal organizational structure is always going to have lots of kooks and nutjobs in it. That doesn’t mean the we should paint the whole group with the mistakes of the few.

Lastly, I can’t help but also feel that what we are seeing with articles like this is the slow assassination of a group that doesn’t adhere to the dem/repub special interest agenda. I guess it’s inevitable with the way things are today, but it disheartens me to no end that any voice that speaks out against the dem/repub special interest agenda gets smeared and/or co-op’d by political operatives.

And unfortunately pri_dk I can’t help but feel that it’s posts like yours that are helping these political operatives and representatives of the dem/repub special interest agenda assassinate the tea party.