# Dear Mississippi Tea Party: Are You Sure Inciting Treason Isn't A Crime? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885 "2012-07-01T10:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/21 "2012-07-01T18:37:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The age of Man is over. The age of the LIBERAL has begun! _\ \_ Sneer all you like, but I can point you to any number of “masculist” websites where hating liberals is as considered as manly as hating feminists. The general idea is that anything a society does to benefit a) any group other than men, or b) everybody in general, is detrimental to men’s self-determination and (more importantly) the “natural law” of manhood, which is that we’re violent competitive bullies and you better be grateful we are. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/22 "2012-07-01T18:47:20Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Is “The Mississipi Tea Party” a significant organization, or two guys with a webpage? Legitimate question. Another legitimate question: do the other tea party branches see this differently? I think the answers are, respectively, “Relatively insignificant” and “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/23 "2012-07-01T18:59:34Z")
Err, by “Relatively insignificant” I mean them, not the question. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/24 "2012-07-01T20:41:00Z")
> [@simster](#): > > damn straight - no fishes or loaves for the masses! and they can drink the water, this wine is for the finer folk! Not in public, of course. Wine consumption could cause dancing. In the town where I grew up, the ABC store had a massive brick wall coming off the side of the building and running parallel to the road. It was known as the “Baptist Wall” – vehicles parked behind the wall weren’t visible from the road. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/25 "2012-07-01T20:45:18Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Not in public, of course. Wine consumption could cause dancing. > > In the town where I grew up, the ABC store had a massive brick wall coming off the side of the building and running parallel to the road. It was known as the “Baptist Wall” – vehicles parked behind the wall weren’t visible from the road. Goes to show that its not God people are hiding from , its the judgmental folks they go to church with. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/26 "2012-07-01T21:10:18Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Not in public, of course. Wine consumption could cause dancing. Wine is responsible for[Jesus’](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1871) [temptation into evil](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=180)… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/27 "2012-07-01T21:20:18Z")
It was his Mom’s idea. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/28 "2012-07-01T21:21:35Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > The OP left out my favorite part: > > Do the people of the world recognize that the shadow of darkness is now fallen upon them as well and that there remains no defender of their feeble freedoms? The all out oppression of all people has begun. > > :eek: > > Sounds serious! The federal government wants me to have private medical insurance, whether or not I have a pre-existing condition! Help, help, I’m being oppressed! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/29 "2012-07-01T22:31:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Lepers are very sensitive, easily upset. Ask them for money, they just totally fall apart. now, that THERE is funny 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/30 "2012-07-01T22:37:58Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Is “The Mississipi Tea Party” a significant organization, or two guys with a webpage? Note they don’t even really have a website, at least not a domain of their own. [Ning.com](http://Ning.com) looks to be kind of like a Geocities type thing. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/31 "2012-07-01T23:37:22Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Note they don’t even really have a website, at least not a domain of their own. [Ning.com](http://Ning.com) looks to be kind of like a Geocities type thing. Of course they don’t! THE INTERNET IS CONTROLLED BY LIBERALS!!!1!!! Take note of the fact that niggers, spics, jews, women (Angie’s List!) can all get THEIR OWN DOMAINS. But try to register [FUCKOBAMASAMERICA.COM](http://FUCKOBAMASAMERICA.COM) and see what happens?!?!!/?1??? It’s a conspiRACEy against white men DAMMMIT! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/32 "2012-07-01T23:42:33Z")
googled it. Bad news, hits. Good news, sort of…not many. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/33 "2012-07-01T23:42:52Z")
In all fairness, what has the Tea Party so upset is the ‘All shall kneel before Zod’ provisions of the ACA, not the health insurance part. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/34 "2012-07-01T23:49:52Z")
Only Zod haters are worried about that. Just kneel and get it over with. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/35 "2012-07-01T23:50:14Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I’m starting to want our government to actually do something about all these morons who are advocating armed revolution. It is against the law and ignoring them isn’t helping anything. > > The only problem I see with it is that since the Feds haven’t done it yet, if they do it after Obama is re-elected, the nutjobs will go off the deep end with “See? Dictatorship!” and it will only make the problem worse. > > Which means that NOW is the time for them to take action, if they mean to do it at all. But they won’t. The government always gives a lot more leeway to right wing groups than left wing ones; the government would be all over a left wing group that talked like this. Until these guys start actually killing people the government will likely refuse even to investigate them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/36 "2012-07-02T00:35:13Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Not in public, of course. Wine consumption could cause dancing. > > In the town where I grew up, the ABC store had a massive brick wall coming off the side of the building and running parallel to the road. It was known as the “Baptist Wall” – vehicles parked behind the wall weren’t visible from the road. Seems kind of pointless, unless the store had a rear entrance. (Baptists might have [other uses](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Saddlebacking) for the rear entrance, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/37 "2012-07-02T00:37:13Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > In all fairness, what has the Tea Party so upset is the ‘All shall kneel before Zod’ provisions of the ACA, not the health insurance part. Zod or ZOG? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/38 "2012-07-02T00:39:27Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > now, that THERE is funny 🙂 Eh, if you’re into prop comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/39 "2012-07-02T00:49:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > (Baptists might have [other uses](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Saddlebacking) for the rear entrance, of course.) That’s not true. They’re afraid people will think they’re dancing. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/40 "2012-07-02T00:52:26Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Ugh. Fucking retards. Please don’t use the term retard. Especially when comparing the mentally retarded to Mississippi Tea Partiers - it insults the mentally retarded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885.md?page=3)