Sorry PDQ, as long as the Tea Party (and the rest of Republicans) try to force their social ideas down the throats of the rest of us, the subject is fair game. Yes, churches are involved with social issues, but so is the Tea Party. If you don't like it, take it up with them. This thread isn't about our economic system (I agree that our economy is screwed), it's about the Tea Party and whether or not they are a terrorist organization. In general, I think the "terrorist" label should be saved for more extreme activities, but trying to force me to live according to their religious principles is a form of terrorism, and is wildly unconstitutional as well. Showing up at political rallies with guns is a form of terrorism. Hurling racial and sexual epithets at Congresspeople is a form of terrorism. Many of us remember the 60s, when racial epithets and guns combined to make a lot of dead black people and civil rights workers.

The Tea Party claims to want to follow the Constitution, but all the evidence suggests they don't have a clue what it actually says. They claim to want "freedom", but they seem to be OK with decreasing or withholding freedom from anyone who isn't them.

Even on the economic front, their solutions are so childishly naive that it's frightening that they managed to get so many of their partisans into Congress. Yelling "STOP" isn't really a valid economic policy, nor is doing away with our ability to regulate the fatcats that caused the economic problems in the first place. I firmly believe that we should have a balanced budget, but trying to get there without adding new revenue just isn't going to work. When I pay more than 25% of my wages in taxes while billionaires and hugely profitable corporations pay nothing it means that there are huge sources of income that we're not using. Besides being terribly unfair.

Maybe the question shouldn't be whether or not they are a terrorist organization, but if they are a clueless organization.

Oh, and what kind of strangeness causes you to refer to me as "the poster" instead of using my name like everyone else does? Rather odd . . .