Tea Party thugs attack mailman

The Tea Party rallies in my area are bad enough. Like last week when they distributed flyers saying, "Sterilize Welfare Mothers." But folks in York, Pennsylvania, have also been forced to deal with their fair share of BTPer lunacy.

On a recent Saturday, a mail carrier tried collecting mail from the public mailbox in downtown York. But Tea Party participants stood in his way and blocked his access to the mailbox. One of them said, "You don't have a job. You work for the government." (Huh???)

After several minutes, the mailman grew frustrated and asked the people standing in his way, "What is your problem?"

One of them replied, "I don't have a problem. You're the problem - the government."

Then the rest of the crowd began pointing at the mail carrier and chanting at him, "You're the problem - the government."

When the mailman tried picking up a letter that had blown out of the mailbox and onto the sidewalk, one of the Tea Partiers stood on the letter and refused to move. Then, the crowd tried blocking him from getting in his mail truck.

Let's examine the apparent basis for the Tea Party's attack: They think that a uniformed worker working on a weekend doesn't have a job? How ridiculous is that?

Apparently the BTPers think working in the public sector isn't really work. I worked at a public library for years, and somehow I don't think I would've lasted very long if I'd showed up and refused to work.

The Tea Parties' insistence on contrasting public versus private sector work is a thinly veiled appeal to decision makers who support underpaying their employees. I'm convinced of that. It's an appeal to greed of wealthy, powerful executives who accuse workers of having a "bad attitude." Admit it: You've had a boss like this before.

Interfering with the delivery of mail is a federal crime. The Tea Party thug who stood on the dropped letter committed a crime, and I hope postal inspectors come knocking soon. Unfortunately, the Bush regime gutted many of the postal service's functions, so now it doesn't even seem to have the resources to investigate stolen mail - let alone mail ruined by protesters standing on it.

(Source: http://www.ydr.com/ci_14881176)