Posted on 09/01/2009 4:43:49 PM PDT by GVnana
The government wants to control when and how you die, what you can access online and, frankly, pretty much everything else you do in your private life.
So said hundreds of people Monday at a gathering billed as one stop on a nationwide tour that will culminate with a humongous event in Washington, D.C., intended to let the big shots on Capitol Hill know who's really in charge.
"I'm scared," said one of those hundreds, Patricia Somers, 62, who traveled from Thousand Oaks, Calif., to Las Vegas, the closest tour stop for the Tea Party Express. "We're losing so much."
Somers said she heard about the rally either through the Internet or on Fox News, she couldn't recall. That's what many of the people at the rally said.
Organizers estimated the crowd ranged between 700 and 900. The parking lot was packed so full that larger SUVs were forced to park on top of curbs and medians.
The rally was staged Monday morning in the sweltering parking lot of the Sports Center of Las Vegas on Sunset Road, behind McCarran International Airport.
The crowd's basic issue: Since the election of Barack Obama as president, the government seems to be getting really huge. There is health care, of course, but also many other things. Taxes. The aforementioned Internet. How you choose to raise your children.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was a favorite target at the rally.
For example, a T-shirt: "Arlen Specter (he's a senator who switched to the Democratic party) is a hemmroid on Harry Reid's brain."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
In all my born days, I've never seen media coverage for our causes as I'm seeing now.
P.S. The slideshow is good too!
Very good video and slide show (uplifting!). Thanks for posting.
“I’m scared,” said one of those hundreds, Patricia Somers, 62”
She has every right to be scared with the bunch running things.
The singer is great. I couldn’t get the slideshow to load.
This is really great. Go America
All but one of the people interviewed were over 60 and it looked like most of the crowd was, too. That bodes ill for the DemonRats, since they depend on oldsters as one of their major voting blocks.
Yeah, many of them are in the 60s plus group, and I’m not too far behind. We are the last generation that has lived in a “Free America”. Most of us missed out on the social engineering and public school indroctrination that our kids and grandkids have been subjected to. My predictions are: home school to be illegal, censored, monitored internet “access”, being a practicing Christian,then us rural folks will be moved into more Urban areas(the New Ghettos”) w/ land confiscation, euthansia of my age group...all in my remaining lifetime. Check out old movies Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, 1984...I’m scared for my kids and grandies.
That’s Lloyd Marcus. He’s an absolute treasure! See his vids on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA
I love the “American Tea Party Anthem” by Lloyd Marcus.
bttt
Thanks for posting GVnana!
And, Lloyd Marcus is a FReeper, too! Woo Hoo! : )
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