Tax Day Turns Into Tea Party Day for Freedom Fighters

April 15th, commonly known for Tax day, is being transformed this year into what most right-wing conservatives like to now call Tea Party Day. Today across the nation, in more than 300 different cities, including all 50 states, there will be rallies to protest the current out of control government spending and higher taxes. The amazing thing about these tea-party rallies is there is no political party funding them. On the left, we have had MoveOn.org fund several left-wing rallies in the past, but today it is just about the American people stepping up and wanting to be heard.

Thanks to the Internet, it has made organizing such a mass event a lot easier and lot quicker. This idea was mainly started by bloggers who felt the need to reach out. Protests actually began with bloggers in Seattle, Washington who rallied back in February. Word spread and it has caught on like wildfire. So what does the left-wingers and those who support the Obama Administration think of all this?

I can’t imagine they are too keen on the idea of angry protesters stomping through American cities with a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other. They would feel more comfortable if we just put the guns and Bibles down and started murdering innocent children in the womb. Or better yet pass around a bong and have gay sex. OK I digress.

Well, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a 9 page report (pdf) warning officials of right-wing radicals. This all comes just hours prior to Tea Party Day.

(U) Key Findings

(U//LES) The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific
information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,
but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about
several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first
African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and
recruitment.

— (U//LES) Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups
during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry
out violent acts. Nevertheless, the consequences of a prolonged economic
downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability
to obtain credit—could create a fertile recruiting environment for rightwing
extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and
government authorities similar to those in the past.

— (U//LES) Rightwing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first
African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new
members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal
through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.

For those who read Bible prophecy understand that there are many people out there that believe America will not play a major role in the last days. Some scholars believe America will exist, but will play a small role in end time events. Of course there are many theories. Some believe America will simply lose their role as the #1 super power of the world. Many believe there could be civil unrest and war in America. People like Joel Rosenberg, who mentions in his book Dead Heat, a massive nuclear attack on American cities, believe this to be a possible reality. Some believe not just one event could happen but many of the events. Take a worse case scenario where civil unrest breaks out due to an economic downturn and high unemployment, leading to more bailouts and more tea parties. Unrest leads to civil war, and while America is fighting amongst itself to find its identity we are attacked from the outside by an evil force.

Again, much speculation here, but could this be the beginning of something bigger to come? Many evangelicals today believe we are living in the last days. Seeing through the third lens of Scripture doesn’t this help you more easily project which road the economic and political stage is headed?