Prof. Wretchard,

Thanks for writing this – there is a joyous feeling of shared freedom at the Tea Party rallies, it feels like the promise of America come true. We are free to be good and nice to each other and happy and proud of our own good efforts – the inalienable rights.

If we were the kind of people who could be bullied by rude insults, our ancestors would not have brought us here, we would have stayed home, and believed in state religions like Global Warming.

Instead, we’re people who never felt it necessary to step up publicly before, we’re kinda shy.

But not really shy, when pressed.