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A Brief List of Clues as to Whether You are a Teabagger or Not!

1) If you are part of a movement that mocks sick, disabled, or terminally ill people, you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8

2) If you are part of a group of people that hurl racial and homophobic slurs at elected officials. (Extra-special teabaggery awarded to those that called my former congressman and civil rights leader, John Lewis the “N” word,) you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCL6cxbJqk

http://www.mediaite.com/online/analysis-was-the-notorious-racist-tea-party-sign-forged-we-believe-not/

3) If you are part of a movement that defends someone spitting on an elected official, you are a teabagger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/28/congressman-spit-on-by-te_n_516300.html?page=107&show_comment_id=43375250#comment_43375250

4) If you are part of a movement that orchestrated a nationwide campaign to disrupt town hall meetings in an attempt to stifle and shout down ordinary citizen’s you disagree with, in order to deny them their equal first Amendment right to free speech, you are a teabagger. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/tea-party-town-hall-strategy-rattle-them-stand-up-and-shout.php

5) If you are part of a movement that holds a convention and the keynote speaker suggests we should go back to the Jim Crow laws that required a literacy test for voters, you are a teabagger. http://rawstory.com/2010/02/tea-party-opening-speaker-suggests-blacks-voting/

6) If you are part of a movement that holds a convention and a featured speaker suggest president Obama was born in Kenya and has no legal right to be President of the United States, you are a teabagger. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/joseph-farah-to-cheers-at-tea-party-convention-again-questions-location-of-obamas-birth-.html

7) If you are part of a movement that believes Obama is part of a global socialist conspiracy to sell America out to a “New World Order,” controlled by foreigners, you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjulLrgEw-M&feature=related

8) If you are part of a movement that believes Obama plans on using the military against his own citizens and have FEMA create reeducation/concentration camps for white Christian conservatives, you are a teabagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8

9) If you are part of a movement with websites that promotes recruitment for radical militias, you are a teabagger. http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Group/Southeast_Michigan_Volunteer_Militia

10) If you are part of a movement the hosts organizations that openly support the idea of an armed insurrection and believes we are headed toward a bloody "Second American Revolution," like the Oath Keepers, you are a teabagger. http://motherjones.com/photoessays/2010/03/conservative-burning-man/okswebjpg

Bonus note: This past week, the Tea Party Patriots site ran a headline that announced, “FBI Raids Tea Party Compound” after the arrests of members of the Hutaree militia. Once again, who am I to argue with members of the Tea Party movement if they wish to claim the Christian Identity militia as one of their own? The fact is, at least one member of the Hutaree militia has connections with the Michigan and Ohio militia. And both these militias have connections to the Tea Party movement. And, we all know Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols attended Michigan militia gatherings.

http://www.docudharma.com/diary/20216/tea-party-now-owns-the-hutaree-militia-group-you-betcha

Extra credit Maddow videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/05/rachel-maddow-shows-video-man-being-teabagged-gay-bar