Melissa Brookstone, Tea Party Member, Suggests Small Businesses Stop Hiring To Oppose Obama

Melissa Brookstone, a member of one of the nation's largest Tea Party groups, pushed the envelope on anti-Obama suggestions Wednesday, urging small business owners to stop hiring new employees until the president gives up his "globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth."

In a post at Tea Party Nation, Brookstone writes that she's "resolved" a number of issues about the Obama administration. Her primary resolution appears to be that that President Barack Obama and "progressive socialists" in Congress, Hollywood and the media have banded together to support the Occupy Wall Street movement (which includes "marxists" and "communists") in an existential fight "against business, private property ownership and capitalism."

Brookstone concludes by saying she will demonstrate her opposition to this supposed operation by closing her business to new employees:

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

While seemingly extreme, Brookstone's rhetoric about the Occupy Wall Street movement has been matched by others, including Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.).

In an interview with Newsmax Tuesday, West, like Brookstone, claimed that the progressive movement had ties to more nefarious political groups.

"I think there is a danger in the people on Capitol Hill starting to embrace this movement, especially now that we know that the American Nazi Party and the American Communist Party are also starting to align themselves with this Occupy movement," he said, before contending that the Tea Party was a more focused movement, united in its desires.

"When you talk to somebody with the Tea Party, they can tell you what they want -- limited government that’s constitutionally mandated, fiscal responsibility, they also want to see our free market and free enterprise systems adhered to, as well as our national security."

On Tuesday, members of Occupy Wall Street gathered in an effort to coalesce their platform. At the meeting, the "Demands Working Group" created a list of policy suggestions that would define the movement, including calls for campaign finance reform, a deficit reduction plan and the recalling of military personnel at all non-essential bases. They also set plans to hold a national convention on July 4, 2012.

Read Brookstone's whole post at Tea Party Nation.

 

Comments

[Slim Dude]

07:03 PM on 10/30/2011

TO: Melissa Brookstone:

Keith Olbermann may call you one of the "worst persons in the world", but I think this description is too mild. In my opinion, you are the WORST AMERICAN in the world. I hope your anti-American comments boost the businesses of ALL your competitors to the point where they need to hire more people, and then I hope they hire all of your people when your business goes belly-up.

[Daniel Hough]

02:52 PM on 10/24/2011

For Melissa the Martyr, and for the Tea Party Nation, only one side is allowed to vilify, demonize, denigrate, attack, threaten and dehumanize their opponents, and only one side has license to say whatever is necessary to promote their agenda, no matter how dangerous or damaging it is to their fellow countrymen and to their nation. And of course, that side is the one Melissa the Martyr shares with her Tea Party brethren. The fact that the rest of America doesn’t know this truth to be self evident? Well, that is unjust, unfair, unreasonable, and frankly un-American as far as Melissa the Martyr and the Tea Party Nation are concerned! > http://wp.me/pNmlT-Mj

[Martin Houde]

12:24 PM on 10/24/2011

I hope her present employees will leave her business to protest against her war against them...

[RevenBVH]

09:13 PM on 10/23/2011

Well look if they don't want to hire people thats there right. It is also my right not to shop in there stores. Along with everyone else. I hope they make a list public. If Tea Party members start loosing money they may understand how the rest of us feel. I personally have a list of products that Koch Industies makes and I don't buy any of it.

[ctaylor1968]

02:27 PM on 10/28/2011

Great idea!

[deb0214]

09:07 PM on 10/23/2011

Melissa Brookstone, member of one of the nation's largest Tea Party groups along with Mitch McConnell ("our priority is to make Obama a one-term president") should both be arrested and tried for treason !!!

[Howzat]

07:39 PM on 10/22/2011

OMG...these Tea Partiers are worse than the KEYSTONE COPS

[kidcat24]

04:07 PM on 10/22/2011

What is Brookstone's small business?

[Shawna Lit]

05:57 PM on 10/22/2011

I believe someone said she was a process server out of colorado. She sounds like a small chicken trying to make herself look like a rooster.

[htothetwototheo]

03:46 PM on 10/22/2011

Anti-American doesn't even begin to describe these people. Hard to believe anyone takes them seriously and agrees with their policies.

[ctaylor1968]

02:28 PM on 10/28/2011

They could be drugging these people, otherwise it doesnt make sence to me either.

[dahlia97]

03:25 PM on 10/22/2011

The scary thing is so many vocal people are outspoken about doing "whatever" it takes to bring O down....and the rest who agree with them have simply lost all attachment to reality.

In other words, people who pretend to have America's interests at heart are really the FRAUDS leading the CRAZIES.

[ctaylor1968]

02:29 PM on 10/28/2011

Great observation!

[Daniel Hough]

11:15 AM on 10/22/2011

Ms. Melissa Brookstone, as a leader/activist in the Tea Party Nation has demanded and called for what amounts to a jihad against hard working Americans and the efforts to improve the economic well being of the nation and of U.S. citizens. See the case against Ms Brookstone, and a link to sign a petition to make her account for her actions > http://wp.me/pNmlT-LM

[galegal]

09:07 AM on 10/22/2011

The remarks of Ms. Brookstone and others sharing her sentiments (yes, you Mr. McConnell) reek of an unpatriotic attitude which dictates that they ''win' at the expense of all of us losing. To hell with the country so long as Obama does not succeed at cleaning up the mess that they, and those they supported have made. If the financial disaster was caused by a lack of regulation, their remedy is to eliminate regulation. They tout personal freedom (against health care) and diminished government as their goal but reserve for themselves the privilege of determining how we may behave in our truly private and personal lives behind closed doors.

Is it insanity or just arrogance, greed and self interest?

[Wyl]

11:03 PM on 10/21/2011

Keep your tea away from me
You've been drinkin, I can see
I think I'll have a glass of lemonade
Your slash and burn democracy
Is not good public policy
That tea is causing your intelligence to fade

(watch the music video here!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSh2qRHDnc

[Jill Friedman]

08:07 PM on 10/21/2011

So this person is willing to let her own business go down the tubes--or stagnate--out of spite at Obama. In effect, boycotting her own business. What a bizarre. self defeating behavior.

[Michael Sandy]

06:01 PM on 10/28/2011

More than merely self-defeating on a private scale. In the 2012 election, people will be talking about why there are no jobs. Are they going to blame Obama, who has been doing everything he can to create jobs, or are they going to look for people who are deliberately, for political reasons, doing their best to PREVENT the creation of jobs?

Here is someone who is saying, as a matter of policy, that Republicans should by policy and personal decisions prevent the formation of jobs. And she wants enough people to do it to put pressure on Obama.

If the Republicans are lucky, her plea will just disappear into the morass. But can you imagine Republican candidates being asked about her call? Asked, "Do you think good Republicans should prevent job growth in order to get rid of Obama?" If they answer no, then ask why they don't publicly condemn this nonsense.

[Youngman Grand Esq]

06:07 PM on 10/21/2011

"Politics first, country second."
You can use it on bumper stickers if you like, Tea Partiers. I won't copyright it.

[erl92]

06:05 PM on 10/21/2011

With all the competition there is out there I don't know why anyone does business with any company that has tea party personnel.

[Shawna Lit]

09:41 AM on 10/22/2011

lol Can you imagine walking into a business and asking them: Do you have any teapotty personnel? If they say you can reply how you won't be doing business with them because of it. I know that's something I might do.

[erl92]

10:21 AM on 10/22/2011

If you know that someone has those questionable ties then yes you do have the right to spend your dollars where you want. You'd be surprised what is on the internet including people putting their views out there on social networks. Certainly this Ms. Brookstone put her views out there and people can judge whether to do business with her.