"Tea Party" by Ryan Harvey

Whose tea party was it? Musician Ryan Harvey gives his two cents on the movement sweeping white America, it's perception of American history, racism, and the concept of liberty. Hear more of Ryan's music at www.riotfolk.org and read his writings at www.voiceshakes.wordpress.com.

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• riot-folk
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• ryan
• harvey
• tea
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• palin
• beck
• america
• racism
• american
• history

[getsetrecords]

Let me ask you, is statism truly the answer? Sounds like everything Ryan is railing against is caused by government and their policies. In the sense that people want to abolish that, I'm all for it.

The Tea Party of the 1700's wasn't anti corporation, it was anti tax on tea... they took action against the ships of the British.

But yea, overall fuck the Tea Party. I don't support Palin, etc.

[ryanharveysongs]

Abolishing government is fine by me. But abolishing government without abolishing corporate power, which many libertarians and tea baggers preach, is completely flawed logic. The corporations is far less democratic than government. And yes it was anti-corporate. The tea in Boston was owned by the massive East India Tea Company, one of the world's pioneer multinational corporations, and the ships themselves were American privateers.

[NEILDEWIS]

More left wing rhetoric. This guy is clueless. Ps. Fredrick douglas was also a rep. DUMB ASS

[ryanharveysongs]

Hell yeah.

[FrankeeFraud]

If you believe this imbecile will earn more than six dollars-an-hour as long as he lives, you're as delusional as him. What a fuckin' pathetic goofball!

[mattmatt209]

This guy is a hypocritical piece of shit parasite on society. Bush was shot down twice so you could sit in your room and record your little songs that sound like they were taken straight out of a children's book.

[MonnimitdemPony]

Ryan is one of the best folkpunk musican i' ever heard to! His voice and the lyrics touch my heart !!

[Necrotharsis]

Ryan Harvey should be the voice of the generation.

[FOPboycottme]

overthrow everything

[AynManRand]

@DevonWhorton Green "standards" are being championed by the US government, Cap and Trade is being sold-literally- as the answer to environmental degradation. Meanwhile large corporations will use these regulations as a barrier to protect there market share from competitors, like they always do.

[DevonWhorton]

@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.

[DevonWhorton]

@AynManRand How is the state imposing anarchist ideas? And how can capitalism operate without imposing upon people? A few hundred years ago there was no concept of land ownership in America. That idea was imposed upon the native people of this land by force, & they were chained up by the millions and hauled off to lands that were already occupied by other people. The exact meaning of most of your comment is rather fuzzy, so I'll leave it at that.