Conservative Woodstock Rocks the Capital

Lookingat theLeft.com ^ | 9/12/2009

[Ichoosefreedom]

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[SeattleBruce]

http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/aerial-views-added-d-c-police-close-roads-to-buses-people-on-footestimate-1-2-millionl-abc-cant-count912-party-on-patriots/
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I’m not sure yet how many came. It was a LOT! :)
This link you provide, has probably the best aerial shot I’ve seen yet. Wow, the number would only vary somewhat based on density - but clearly, it was in the 500K to 1M mark, by looking at the mall graphic.

[SeattleBruce]

Take a look at this layout showing crowd capacity in the area
http://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/aerial-views-added-d-c-police-close-roads-to-buses-people-on-footestimate-1-2-millionl-abc-cant-count912-party-on-patriots/

so you can see that there definitely were more people than at the inauguration.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm
That image doesn’t show the 2009 inauguration crowd, but gives various markers for crowds on the Capitol Mall.

I think if anything it’s an indication of a larger 9/12 crowd but doesn’t compare, necessarily with the Jan. inauguration crowd.

[SeattleBruce]

Was there another gathering down by the reflecting pool? Because, the march I was at only extended from the Capitol building a little way into the mall area.
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I think post 25 was showing different places - so no comparison there possible.

I did hear there were two different rallies yesterday - about 7 blocks apart. I think there was the main rally - that we’ve seen pictures for all over the place and was between 500K and 1M, imo, and then another rally, for which I haven’t seen numbers.

GREAT JOB TEA PARTIERS!!!

[Vigilanteman]

[happygrl]

BUMP!

[Liz]

Regardless of the counts, we should keep in mind the significance of the day. Finally, we are seeing grass roots conservative oriented orgs getting together and forming protest gatherings. The silent majority is no longer silent.

Amen.

[Just mythoughts]

BamaKennedy and his teleprompter programmer Axelrod know very well how great the multitude was, Americans, of their own unpaid free will, came to demonstrate their displeasure against these thieving lying unrepentant communists. And so their Jon Stewart media whores will continue to distort facts.

I am NOT the least bit surprised of the arrogance of the left, TARP and their so called shovel ready stimulus taking demonstrates they know how many of US there are.

I do wonder how much it cost US to bus BamaKennedy’s supporters for his little show in MN.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks

[MissNomer]

Bump

[RinaseaofDs]

I have a practical question, posed in utter amazement of what happened on Saturday:

Where did people go to eat, drink, and answer nature?

What was that all like?

[Charlespg]

bttt

[CowHampshire]

For those disputing the numbers, I can affirm from reports that they started marching down to the capitol at 9 AM because there were too many of them and the streets and freeways were jammed up. Many never made it because of that.

The march took the better part of 4 hours...

So the 1.5 M number is not wrong.