HIGHLANDS TODAY WROTE THIS ARTICLE ABOUT THE TEAPARTY MOVEMENT Take some tie to readi it, digest it and tell them what you think. You might also want to show up at the republican or democrat meetings and let their leadership know your opinion as well. 

SEBRING - One is a retired teacher who has an alpaca farm. Another was a paralegal. One used to work in banks and another was a homemaker.

Until recently they didn't know each other but all shared a growing concern about the way the country was being run.

Then Congress approved a series of stimulus packages to jump start the economy and rescue Wall Street, failing banks and Big Auto.

Mandatory government-run health insurance started looking as a possibility and Washington, D.C. kept dithering on stronger laws against illegal immigration.

Today, Richard Fankhauser, Mary Bengtson, Phyllis Moloney and Gladys Nealon are a few local taxpayers and citizens fighting what they say is a people's war against big government, unbridled spending in Washington and the onslaught of socialism in the United States.

  Tea Party Patriots and others involved in the tea party movement have asked Congress to listen to us. In the past year, we, the people, have demanded accountability. We, the people, demanded principled leadership. And, we, the people, demanded that our elected officials represent us.

  It is so appropriate that the American liberty movement started in the Boston Harbor in December, 1773 with the Boston Tea Party. Today, we carry on the tradition of tea parties in the spirit of our founding fathers. We carry it on in the birthplace of the American liberty movement. The birthplace of the original tea party patriots. The birthplace of American patriots.