Liberal groups like ACORN will plan to infiltrate the events. This is to be expected. The fact that there are so many of these events taking place -- that they are "disorganized" -- and that they will feature political novices (not the pros pulling the strings) -- makes it likely there will be some gaffes committed. Don't be surprised if someone says something radical from the podium, and that ends up on the blogs, MSNBC, etc.
"More concerning, is the attempt to mock these events or portray them as some sort of "dangerous" extremist gathering. Unless Glenn Beck is correct -- and we are in danger of some sort of Obama-led police state -- such attacks by the left are sure to backfire. If the "redcoats" in the media go to war with the Tea Party Movement, it will only reinforce the notion that traditional American values are, in fact, under attack. "
Infiltration will be a problem but may be countered by a greater effort within the Tea Parties charter with provision for networking to make sure everybody knows each other during the planning stages to avoid problems. I doubt local talk radio hosts talking trash weeks before the event would be enough to secure the crowd once the party starts. Ann Coulter lists a few of the underground radical operative types in the recent news from the past week who could in one act of voilence have Tea Parties outlawed:
-- Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family, expelled from high school and dishonorably discharged from the Marines, who killed three policemen in Pittsburgh.
-- Former crack addict Jiverly Wong, 41, who told co-workers "America sucks" yet somehow was not offered a job as a speechwriter for Barack Obama. Wong blockaded his victims in a civic center in Binghamton, N.Y., and shot as many people as he could, before killing himself.
-- Robert Stewart, 45, a three-time divorcee and high school dropout with "violent tendencies" -- according to one of his ex-wives -- who shot up the nursing home in Carthage, N.C., where his newly estranged wife worked.
-- Lovelle Mixon, 26, a paroled felon, struggling to get his life back on track by pimping, who shot four cops in Oakland, Calif. -- before eventually being shot himself.
-- Twenty-eight-year-old Michael McLendon, child of divorce, living with his mother and boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives, who killed 10 of those relatives and their neighbors in Samson, Ala.
