Pirates! Tea Parties! Tyranny!

A few months ago if you mentioned these words one would think you were talking about the American Revolution. But history repeats itself and some of the things that happened then are happening again today.

For the first time in about 200 years, an American vessel was attacked by pirates. The ship, the Maersk Alabama, was carrying relief aid for Kenya when Somali pirates used grappling hooks to board the ship from their small craft. The crew managed to fight back and captured one of the pirates, but the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips, was himself captured. The crew agreed to trade prisoners, but they forgot that you can’t trust pirates and the liars got their man and made off with the captain on a lifeboat. When the Navy came to help, they needed Obama’s approval before making any actions. When Shah President Obama received the message from the Navy, he shoved it aside, saying that he needed to focus on the housing situation. Luckily, the Navy finally sniped the pirates and recovered the captain before any serious harm was done. Although Obama dropped the ball this time, we hope that he will act more quickly and forcefully if this ever happens again.

As for those tea parties, they were a huge success! Thousands of people from all political parties gathered together on the 15th across the nation to protest the rising taxes and insane spending. In California alone, there were 65 tea parties to protest against the Taxinator. When it was said that the government was spending like drunken sailors, John Ziegler said in a speech that that was offensive to sailors because they spend their own money.  Many of the picket signs were homemade and very creative.  One was: “Forget Somalia, the real pirates are in Congress!”  Many protesters wanted Arnold’s head on a stick, and, with the way things are going now, his and many others’ days in office are limited.

These occurrences are certainly reminiscent of the past, but will they have the same result as the last time?  The pot is cooking, and it seems that a revolution just may be brewing.  Sooner or later, time will tell.