Posted on 04/15/2009 6:29:24 PM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
Some of the signs presented punchy phrases like “boot the bankers.”
Then there was the play on words: “Give me liberty, not debt.” Another was part revolutionary, part pop song: “Gonna party like it’s 1773.”
The placards protruded from a bulky crowd gathered Wednesday at The Jacksonville Landing to shout they’d had enough with the way the government handles money.
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News4Jax gave the estimate at thousands. Firstcoastnews didn’t give any estimates, and spent half their article talking about reminding people to PAY their taxes.
I would have shown up, but had an Anatomy & Physiology lecture to attend to.
"Bulky" crowd? Good grief. Have you EVER seen a left-wing protest described as "bulky?" The lib media is so transparent, it's beyond description.
I went to it - I live in St. Augustine, but our Tea Party was at a time I couldn’t make it and in any case, I wanted to swell the crowd at a bigger Tea Party. It wasn’t particularly “raucous,” though. Unless singing the Star Spangled Banner counts as raucous nowadays...
Get ready for July the fourth, let’s do it again!
Yeah, I wondered where you went!
I was sorry I missed the St A Tea Party - I wanted to meet my fellow “right wing extremists” here!
Let’s push to make the Fourth of July an even greater event. We can’t lose momentum now, it would mean a waste of all we’ve done.
Having something on the Fourth would be great!
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