Tea Party Calls for Indictment of Founding Fathers

Last updated on: July 7, 2013 at 9:33 am by Peter Dybing

Tea Party Calls for Indictment of Founding Fathers 2013-07-07T09:33:00-06:00 Peter Dybing

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In a strongly worded call for criminal indictments, former Florida Congressman Allen West has asked the US Justice Department to consider charges against several founding fathers of our nation for “un-American statements that support the enemies of our nation.”

Mr. West cites that during debate of the fate of the “traitor Edward Snowden” quotes from prominent Americans have been circulating that seem to support “Snowden’s treasonous actions”. Mr. West takes exception to Patrick Henry’s statement that:

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

Also contained in his call for indictments is the statement of prominent former Republican President Abraham Lincoln that:

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Further, the former congressman calls to account the statement from Thomas Paine that states*:*

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” 

Mr. West labels these statements as “dangerous revolutionary ideas that erode confidence in our government and are a threat to our national security.”

The former congressman goes on to also engage issues of religious freedom in stating a recently posted quote from Thomas Jefferson, challenging the “well known fact that we are a nation based on Christian principles amounts to rebellion against God”. The quote from Mr. Jefferson reads as follows:

“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” 

In support of his call for criminal indictments Mr. West submitted more than one million signatures from the Tea Party Group “Patriots For Christian Truth in History”

The U.S. Justice Department acknowledged the request from Mr. West but had “no comment.”

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