Posted on 04/17/2009 8:42:18 AM PDT by PsyOp
Escondido Tea Party Tax Revolt, April 15th, 2009.
Escondido is located in North San Diego County in sunny Southern California. Today, however, it was windy and cold (for SoCal anyway), and most of us were wondering where all the Global Warming went… we would have welcomed some. Anyway, we had about 1,000 people show up, perhaps a bit more at the peak.
The Tea Party was scheduled for 5 to 7 pm outside the post office on Escondido Blvd. I arrived about 4:45pm at which time there were about 300+ folks mostly on the east side of the Blvd. where the Civic Center parking lot is located. By 6 pm both sides of the Blvd. between Washington Ave., and Valley Pkwy (about a quarter mile), were lined with people, 2 and 3 deep in most places. The event organizers had a van with sound system and played music and gave a few speeches.
One hot topic of conversation during the protest was the DHS memo to law-enforcement. We are mad that many of us are now considered potential domestic terrorists… especially those waving Gadsen Flags and those of us military veterans. Lots of vets present here today.
This guy had his old Chevy Impala painted up like an American flag. Stripes on this side, stars on the other. He made several passes down the Blvd. during the rally and got lots of cheers. There were lots of cars blowing horns as they drove past protesters, including city bus drivers and one truck leaving the post office. Lots of participants, it seems, never left their cars and just circled the block repeatedly with flags flying out the windows (sorry Al). But as you will notice, a slightly increased carbon foot-print was the only thing left behind. No trash. Not like the last Earth day at the National Mall where “green” protestors left the place looking like a dump.
Nuff’ said!
I heard on the radio before going to the protest that some reporters were calling these demonstrations "racist gatherings" of Obama haters. Not so. There were folks there of all ethnic persuasions. I have opted not to show their faces to protect them from possible reprisals from the Jesse Jackson camp. Common sense Patriots come in all shapes, sizes and colors!
I loved this kids sign. He was a pretty enthusiastic protester! Lots of kids there having fun and learning what it means to be an active patriot.
This guy has the right idea! A good tar and feathering might wake up the idiots in Washington.
Of course, we all heard the warnings about possible infiltrations by lefties that would act up and make us look bad. This little band, led by the masked kid on the right showed up and began shouting profanities at various imagined ACORN members in passing cars. They were told to knock it off and behave. Which they did. They later moved to the other end of the Blvd. Maybe they were there for the right reason, but why the one guy kept his face covered with a scarf is beyond me. Maybe he knows something we don’t about facial recognition software.
This guy is a Patriot’s Patriot! He was walking down the sidewalk passing out free slices of Pizza! I finally got my bailout! Hmmm… ham and pineapple… my favorite!
> On the news, I heard that these protests have been dismissed as failures. That no more than 250,000 showed up nationwide. That’s a bunch of bull. Here in Escondido we had 1,000. Temecula had about the same. Both Oceanside and Downtown San Diego had 5,000 plus, and there were at least 4 others Tea parties in the county I am aware of. San Diego county alone probably had from 15,000 to 20,000 people attend the various protests. California alone probably broke the quarter million number. If the turn out we had was repeated in other cities and states, the turn out was in the millions! 5 to 6 million easy. And guess what? No property damage. No arrests. Just peaceful protests.
The following video clips from the protest are unedited. There was no reporting of this event that I know of. There was one un-marked white “news” van that showed up, but it did not raise its broadcast tower and the cameraman (as far as I could tell) never got out of the van. I did not see anyone being interviewed, and our local news casts did not mention the Escondido Tea Party that I could find. So these vids, and those posted by others that were there, will be all anyone will see. And the mainstream media wonder why they are losing credibility with the people. Go figure!
Video of crowd from West- “Tea Party” song plays in background
Video of crowd from NW corner.
Video from East center – “Independence Day” plays on speakers.
Video From East side of street – “Bailout” song plays on speakers.
Video from West – “Proud to be an American” plays on speakers.
“For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government... costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, July 2, 1932.
By gosh Obama is like FDR! They both preached one thing and did another!
“When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy; sometimes by an avowed one, but always by a real one, though frequently by a pretended payment.” - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Bk.V, Ch.3, 1776.
“The state, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.” - William Graham Sumner, address, “The Forgotten Man,” 1883.
I am (and have been) taking individual action.
Everywhere I go I carry loose tea bags. I leave one behind. At the bank, on the train, at the gas pump, at the library, especially at Borders Books.
I have left over a hundred so far. My favorite was a teabag looped over the ears of a life-sized cardboard figure of TOTUS in Union Station in DC. I pulled back and watched the reactions of passers-by. People do notice...and that is the point.
If hundreds of us did this (or thousands) in every state we could make it a "Kilroy Was Here" legend and drive the commie bastards crazy.
It's cheap, easy and fun. My eight year old grandson helps. He's a solid CIT (Conservative in Training).
I LOVE THE TEABAG IDEA!
And the first thing I thought of on reading it was
what eventually you likened it to: “Kilroy was Here”.
Let’s figure a way to make the teabag a nationwide symbol
starting NOW!
We can get large quantities of tea in 500 count boxes at places like Costco, and when you’ve got that much material to work with for a few bucks, you can do anything with it with impunity.You only need buy the cheapest brand, like Red Rose, IIRC. Carry them around, thumbtack them to bulletin boards EVERYWHERE , like Dunkin’ Donuts or the supermarket. Thumbtack them onto a little index card preprinted with a terse statement as to what they mean, and how and why this movement can and will develop momentum. We should all work on this NOW!
Send them in the mail to everyone in Congress and leave them EVERYWHERE and I mean EVERYWHERE!
How about starting a thread inviting ‘position statements’
and/or signs for the next mass tea party demonstration>?
WE CAN DO THIS!!
I have been involved in local civic activism before and believe me, it takes resolve and commitment!
My emotions were on a roller coaster on the 15th when I joined the 50 person group in Nanuet NY collected on the side of Rte 59W, and saw the beginnings of something I have really never seen before.....and I resolved to find a way NOT to let it die.....of course this Administration does at least a half dozen things a day to keep us inspired that we should have more and more of these,since we’ve all seen the dismissive reaction already the day OF and the day FOLLOWING the demonstrations....I think they don’t have a choice, and I think they are GOADING us into a fight.And I think they are GOING TO GET ONE. Your thoughts please/
I will be in Central Park tomorrow. I will take fifty tea bags. I will come home with zero.
Please, please, please help.
I will be in Central Park tomorrow. I will take fifty tea bags. I will come home with zero.
Please, please, please help.
BTW...the bulletin Board idea is great, I will use it myself.
check out Escondid’s Tea Party
That’s a great idea! Leave the tea bags behind! That will really piss the libs off. They’ll probably say we’re contributing to all kinds of environmental destruction as a result.
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Or they will call 911 and report a suspiscous substance. That's why I won't mail them, hit CNN, NYTs, NBC HQs or government buildings.
Everywhere else is open season.
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