Posted on 04/15/2009 3:54:40 AM PDT by Scanian
Congratulations to the hundreds of spontaneous grassroots organizers who have successfully organized the over 300 tea party events that will take place today across the country. Such events have already been widespread, and highly successful, with sudden big crowds: 2,000 in St. Louis, 3,000 in Cincinnati, 6,000 in Orlando, as recently reported by Peter Roff in a Fox News blog.
Because these events are highly decentralized, with no significant institutional organization or funding behind them, they represent a genuine outpouring of grassroots opinion with enormous political importance. For every person out in the streets today, there are undoubtedly many more who didn't make it who share the same opinions. The bigger the demonstrations today, the bigger the rest of the iceberg under water. Moreover, this movement represents genuine grassroots organization, as names and contact information are collected, and this will be valuable for future political activity.
These people are both against and for something. They are against the left-wing extremism of the current political leadership in Washington, from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi, to Barney Frank, to Henry Waxman, and on and on. No wonder Newsweek (soon going out of business) thinks we are a nation of socialists now, as it admitted in a recent cover story.
But even more, the tea party revelers are for a sophisticated vision of economic freedom.
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I keep reading different numbers with respect to the number of tea party rallies. I’m coming to the conclusion there are so many tea party rallies no one can keep count.
No Taxation By An Obamanation
My wife saw on the local news this morning that Indianapolis is expecting upwards of 7,000 today. That guy that was on Beck that does Thomas Paine will be here. I saw on the Indiana chapter of Code Pinko that they held a meeting last night. I heard some chatter that they are gonna be there. My wife and I and one of of her friends are gonna be there. Later tonight I’ll try to post pic’s and info. from our protest. This going to be a good day.
You go first.
I gave up yesterday. No updates today - there’s too many and I’m headed out to Baton Rouge anyway, lol.
I don’t think the TEA Parties are a revolution. I think they are our attempt to avoid a revolution.
Alternatively, you could say they are our attempt to allow the federal government to avoid a revolution.
TEA Parties are peaceable assemblies. Revolutions are bloody wars. We would much prefer that our peaceable assemblies work effectively to bring the federal government to heel, and stave off a bloody war.
AMEN.
That’s okay Recon, I’ll post some pic’s to show what you missed. Can you do the same for Dayton?
I’ll be joining you in Dayton with my wife and two friends after work tonight.
The head of the group was chatting with a police officer.
Griff said that there seemed to be some sort of problem with the crates of tea. He hoped that it got straightened out.
I’m with you appleseed! Hubby and I plan to be there as well!!
EvERYONE...be safe and be careful that no libtards who infiltrate the tea parties bait you into a fight or whatever...I can see the lamestream media jackazzes running with this type of story all day and all week long drowning out the real message....prayers up for all of you attending!
Watch out folks. I am wondering if that DHS report was released on purpose to incite violence today by the Tea party. That way the Feds can step in arrest people.
Please police yourselves today. Don’t give the government an excuse to crack down.
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