Tea Party Takes Cues from Bin Laden Playbook

Tea Party Patriots borrow Bin Laden Tactics

As bizarre as it may seem, history is replete with examples of groups borrowing the tactics of  an enemy, to impose its will on others.  How do you think gun powder made its way from China to Europe in medieval times?

It is not coincidental that the Tea Party emerged several years after the 9/11 attacks. Its leaders found themselves both haunted and  obsessed at the destructive power a small group of terrorists could unleash on an otherwise invulnerable nation.

Cultural differences tended to obscure the  convergence of interests between America's Tea Party movement and Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda.  Each movement is fueled by the misplaced rage of its followers and the opportunistic megalomania of its leaders. The goals are essentially the same -- state collapse anarchism.  But why?  

The answer to that question is simple.  They are both craving the attention and begrudging respect of a world that has marginalized them.   Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) proclaimed in an October 3, 2013 Washington Examiner news story: 

 "[we are] not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."

So, how does a democratic nation fight domestic anarchists like the Tea Party?   First and foremost it must drop the same naive blinders that allowed us to be victimized by Osama bin Laden on September 11, 2001.  However much Tea Party followers wrap themselves in the United States Constitution, they're taking their cues from Bin Laden's playbook.