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.
I loved the sign “Tea Party today. Tar and feather tomorrow”
obviously he saw the John Adams mini series.
The tarring and feathering sequence in it was by far the
most dramatic and awe-inspiring. The colonists dragged the Captain ( I suppose) off the boat after it docked, dragged him up to a platform and literally poured tar over his head and threw feathers on him. Ahhhhh.....the good old days.
“We have always understood it to be a grand and fundamental principle of the constitution that no freeman should be subject to any tax to which he has not given his own consent, in person or by proxy.” - John Adams, opposition to the Stamp Act. 1765.
Yeah I saw that. Doesn’t look like much fun to be on the receiving end. My nominations for such treatment are Reid, Pelousi, Frank and Dodd. (of course, Barney might actually like it).
Look at those people with their children! Don’t they realize they get a $400.00 tax credit for each child? /sarc
“If revenues are available, one should not do what popular leaders today do—make a free distribution of the surplus (When people get it, they want the same again: this sort of assistance to the poor is like the proverbial jug with a hole in it). For the duty of the true democrat is to see that the population is not destitute; for destitution is the cause of a corrupt democracy.” - Aristotle, Politics, Bk. VI, c.334-23 b.c.
“As I said, this is a great question, affecting the honor and duty of a strong, and, I hope, a proud people, and sharp dealings are out of place in considering our national credit. The credit of a nation must never die or fail; it must be perpetual, and no decision can ever be adopted that contemplates its decay. A discredited man! Who can fail to recognize his misery as he walks among his fellows, down-cast and broken, bereft of that which should be ‘the immediate jewel of his soul’; and shall this grand confederation of republics become in the family of nations a discredited member, a pitiable object, crowned with the ashes of repudiated faith?” - Thomas F. Bayard, speech in the Senate, December 13, 1877.
“Our present financial condition is without a parallel in history. No nation has ever before been embarrassed from too large a surplus in its treasury. This almost necessarily gives birth to extravagant legislation. It produces wild schemes of expenditure and begets a race of speculators and jobbers, whose ingenuity is exerted in contriving and promoting expedients to obtain public money. The purity of official agents, whether rightfully or wrongfully, is suspected, and the character of the government suffers in the estimation of the people. This is in itself a very great evil.” - James Buchanan, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1857.
“It is the duty of those serving the people in public places to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered, because this bounds the right of government to exact tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people.” - Grover Cleveland, 1st Inaugural Address, March 4, 1885.
Which will cost them and their children about $400,000.00 by the time the get done paying the interest on the debt through future taxes.... But hey, whoe's counting?
“The harpy of Public Extravagance devours the [treasury] surplus and impudently calls upon its staggering victims to bring still larger supplies within the reach of its insatiate appetite.” - Grover Cleveland, “Cleveland Democracy Speech,” Buffalo, New York, May 12, 1891.
“Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.” - President Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1893.
I noticed a Dallas policeman standing at attention when they played the Marines' Hymn. After the hymn was over, I went up to him and asked if he was a Marine. He said "yes". I asked him if he knew about the memo from Homeland Security. He said "yes". I asked him what he thought about it. He smiled and said "we are not allowed to say bullsh*t, so I have no comment."
Tea Party Total Head Count Thread (Post Your Attendance Numbers Here)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2229982/posts
“And if there are any persons in this country, and I should regret it if there are any such in this House, who think that a public debt is a public blessing, and that heavy taxation is expedient in order to produce industry; who believe that large standing armies are essential to maintain the energy, and that extensive patronage is indispensable to support the dignity of government; who suppose that frequent wars are necessary to animate human character, and to call into action the dormant energies of our nature; who have been expelled from authority and power by the indignant voice of the offended country, and who repine and suffer at the great and unexampled prosperity which this country is rapidly attaining under other and better auspices — Such men, whoever they are, and wherever they be, will rally round the proposition now before us, and will exploit it to the heavens as the model of the most profound policy, and as the offspring of the most exalted energy.” - De Witt Clinton, speech in the Senate, February 23, 1803.
Any of this sounding familiar yet?
“The fact is, that I am the watchman, the man on the tower, who can be neither coaxed, nor wheedled, nor bullied; and I have expressed my determination never to quit my post until I obtain a cheap government for the country, and, by doing away with the places and pensions, prevent the people’s pockets from being picked. These men know that if I were to get into the House of Commons under a reformed Parliament, I should speedily effect that object, and therefore they are resolved to get rid of me by some means or other.” - William Cobbett, Defense against charges of libel before the Court of The King’s Bench, July 1831.
“The resources of this country are almost beyond computation. No mind can comprehend them. But the cost of our combined governments is likewise almost beyond definition. Not only those who are now making their tax returns, but those who meet the enhanced cost of existence in their monthly bills, know by hard experience what this great burden is and what it does. No matter what others may want, these people want a drastic economy. They are opposed to waste. They know that extravagance lengthens the hours and diminishes the rewards of their labor. I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.” - President Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925.
“Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.” - Calvin Coolidge, cited in Reader’s Digest, June 1960.
“It is well, sir, to have a flag to cover an appropriation; sometimes the flag without the appropriation may be better.” – Samuel S. Cox, speech in the House of Representatives, November 19, 1877.
“As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower, February 9, 1955.
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