Posted on 03/20/2010 12:41:33 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
As part of today's rally to stop the Democrats' health care reform legislation thousands of protesters descended on the lawn of Capitol building. But many more were also using the occasion to visit the their congressional representative and tell them what they think of the bill.
However, Capitol Police recently stopped allowing any of the peaceful protesters to enter into congressional buildings. Crowds are now gathering in front of the House and Senate offices, demanding that they be let in to air their constituent concerns.
If you ignore them they go away...if you give them attention they keep on yellping.
If you ignore them they go away...if you give them attention they keep on yellping.
Thanks bud. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for this report.It made me cry when I got to the end where you said that about the prayer.
Thanks for ping & AAR.
I was just there for the rally. Flew with a few friends (private plane) & they had to be in Cinti for a PM event.. (they are from Indiana)
Amazing to be part of the rally/group & feel the spirit & LOVE! I agree with you.. there was NONE Of the hate language/attitude ! I did really regret NOT being able to stay for the rest of weekend but was thankful for the part I had which just fell together for me late Friday.
The Tea Partiers jay walked? Oh my god! Look out they will be coming for you! Any way I knew this was a bunch of bull about the racial epitaphs because when I go to the rallies we have black present at the rallies and we wouldn’t do that. We might call them commies or Marxist but not a Racial slur! I n=knew this was made up to make us look bad!
And you didn’t get flamed for telling the truth either.
Me too.
I wouldn’t drive in downtown SF either! The HILLS terrify me. Drive to the edge of their public transportation system and take that. Make it a road trip with other Freepers, pretend you’re back in college (no beer in the car these days, though!), find an oldies station to sing along to.
It was more than just one Republican congressman out there with the crowd ,Bachmann, Pence,King,Blackburn and others. Where were your democrats you diveder of Conservatives, you democrat? But many Republicans stayed in the building putting up ammendments or any other procedural roadbloak to block your socialist bill. Republicans have blocked this socialist bill for more than a year and they might pull it off and kill it this weekend but you want them outside so they can’t put up roadblocks inside so then you can blame Republicans.
You claim to be holier than thou but all you and your crowd are doing is dividing conservatives so that Democrats will achieve victory and turn the U.S.A. into the USSR or North Korea sooner. For the destruction of Freedom and the U.S.A and my life style I blame democrats and you and your ilk on this forum who claim to be conservatives and only bash Republicans .and i rebutted all your liberal media lies. you blame Republicans for all the problems when in the last 120 years Republicans have been a minority party and only in 1994 held a bare majority for 12 years. Republicans never had a filibuster proof majority. Democrats had 100 years of control and a complete monopoly of the media before 1994 so democrats not republicans are the cause of any percieved or real problems in America now. In those 100 years of media monopoloy progressives/democrats/marxists created a the big government we have and all the regulations and taxes and problems we have . Yet you have the audacity to blame Republicans.Amazing.
you are causing this too: I suggest you all look at this very amusing and revealing video of the Canadian socialist healthcare system .And what democrats have planned for the U.S. is far worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
I arrived on Friday night in Washington one more time by USAir late. Checked into the Hotel Harrington, a clean hotel right off of Pennsylvania Ave and 11th. This time I have no closet and no coffee maker. In observing the spartan room, I think It is clean. and reflect on George Washingtons troops marching in the snow...
Anyway, our member Patriot Betsi picks me up at 10am at the hotel for the short ride to the Capitol and we are lucky to find a parking spot and decide to gamble on the remote possibility that the car will be there when we return at the end of the day.
upon arriving we decide to visit a few of the congressional members that have flopped over as a yes including Allen Boyd of the Tallahassee area. we were greeted by 20 something year olds who acted like grown ups. they werent. They explained to us all the reasons Congressman boyd had decided to vote for the bill, and I had to drag Betsi out of the office, telling her, forget it they are 20 something years old. we left.
I was just told by the hotel they are closing the computer room. I will finish in the morning! The day was great. Part 2 int he morning.
Good morning Friends,
To continue with the recap of the history that Betsi and I witnessed yesterday in Washington at the anti healthcare rally, I must start with going back. A couple months ago, I became obsessed with the idea that we needed to add war drums to our protests. A couple weeks ago you may recall that we had the Going on the WarPath Protests in Tampa and St Pete when several of us dressed at Native Americans in the spirit of the first revolutionary Boston Tea Party. Our Member Linda brought 2 fantastic authentic Indian drums and they were especially effective on 4th St and Gandy in St Pete.
So, Friday before I left town I was able to locate Red Eagle in St Pete, a Lakota Sioux Native American, and I purchased 2 drums he had made to bring with us. Made from Buffalo and sinew. Can you believe it! And they are LOUD and booming. Unbelievable. Thank you Red Eagle for the last minute help you and your family offered!
So there we are wagging through the Halls of Congress with wardrums!
By 11am crowds were beginning to arrive and it was at this point we walked across the street to the Capitol Lawn to join the already huge crowd gathered on the West Lawn. We began to beat our drums in typical Indian War Beat...BOOM boom boom boom BOOM boom boom boom.
Truly, it was just the greatest touch to the agitated and energized mass of unhappy citizens! As the sun beat down and there were no leaves yet to offer the blessing of shade, Betsi and I moved under a stand of evergreen Magnolia trees at the foot of the Capital Building, where we stood all day and acted as the sound effects for the rally. By some miracle the ground security guards left us alone the entire time. Lots of People took our picture, and why not, we must have been a sight!
Then suddenly, across the landscape came the sound of a perfect Charge by a Trumpet! I look over on a nearby hill and there stands a man playing his bugle to the crowd to their roaring approval! Then he plays America the Beautiful and everyone sang.
This man came directly over to us later and said our drums had inspired him to return to his apartment to go get his trumpet as he lived only 8 blocks away! It was a tearful moment. The drums, the trumpet, the roar of the people was shaking the legislators inside. Mike Pence said they could hear all this noise inside!
Beginning at noon, the rally speakers came out one by one, conservative Representatives such as Michele Bachmann, Mike Pence, Steve King. The instructions were given by the organizers of the event to storm the Congressional offices at 2pm.
And to Surround the Capital at 5pm.
At 2pm straight up the crowd of anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000 started descending on the congressional offices. They consists of 3 mammoth buildings across the street from the Capital. They are the Longworth, the Cannon and the Rayburn. Betsi and I positioned ourselves under another tree in the middle of the moving crowd. A man in a suit was sitting on the ground reading the Bible, specifically the Book of Mathew. Betsi and I joined him in a wonderful prayer and he then moved over to the rolling lawn in front of the Capital and began a prayer group there. The rest of the day groups of people were joining him on that hill praying on their hands and knees.
At one point the huge throngs of people standing on the steps of the various congressional offices were screaming and sirens were wailing. It was pretty threatening, and Betsi and I decided not to go too close. It was very volatile.
As the afternoon wore on, people began to circle the Capitol, holding hands, completely encircling this huge complex. The legislators were inside. They were shook up by all accounts.
And I should mention, throughout the day there was no sign of any support for the legislation, no signs, no groups promoting the passage, except for a group of perhaps 10 young kids in their twenties that showed up in the evening. One kept yelling Promote the public welfare as though that means healthcare is a role of the Federal Government.
So, this was the day. And today, Sunday, we meet at 11am for a church service on the grounds of the Capital and the Christian Legislators are meeting at 11am on the inside in the Rotunda for the first time in 100 years to hold a religious service. The first time in 100 years!
Please, at 11am gather your family and pray for our country and for the defeat of this vote and the restoration of the Republic.
The vote is at 2pm the last I heard.
And if you know anyone living in the area encourage them to come to the capitol today to join, we need all the bodies we can round up, as many buses left yesterday to head home.
I took pictures last night standing on the backside of our beautiful Capitol as the sun was setting, to mark perhaps the last time the sun would set on our free republic. God bless America, God save America.
It was more than just one Republican congressman out there with the crowd ,Bachmann, Pence,King,Blackburn and others. Where were your democrats you divider of Conservatives, you democrat? But many Republicans stayed in the building putting up ammendments or any other procedural roadbloak to block your socialist bill. Republicans have blocked this socialist bill for more than a year and they might pull it off and kill it this weekend but you want them outside so they cant put up roadblocks inside so then you can blame Republicans.
Lets see if you can thank the Republicans for blocking this bill so far for a year or so. Lets see if you can Thank Republicans for not a single one Republican voting for this bill which is a socialist takeover of America. But you see all the unconstitional , criminal , treasonous acts the Democrats in Congress are doing to pass this socialism .And you see how most democrats are voting for this bill and you all see how democrats are performing a communist coup upon America. yet you blame only Republicans for this. ARe you all insane or just democrats, or are you brainwashed puppets of the liberal media? my guess is you are all democrats.
Democrats are socialists. Republicans are not. Democrats don’t care if they lose their political life voting for this socialist bill as what democrats care is about their religion of socialism/Marxism/communism and their god , the state. Republicans are not voting for this communist bill.
You know full well that the only way to defeat socialism/demkocrats is to have all conservatives remain united. And i don’t care what party conservatives unite behind but it has to be only one and now . as the Republican party is the only viable party that is the one.
It is the goal of the media to divide conservatives. and you are helping the media do that.
You claim to be holier than thou but all you and your crowd are doing is dividing conservatives so that Democrats will achieve victory and turn the U.S.A. into the USSR or North Korea sooner. For the destruction of Freedom and the U.S.A and my life style I blame democrats and you and your ilk on this forum who claim to be conservatives and only bash Republicans . and i rebutted all your liberal media lies. you blame Republicans for all the problems when in the last 120 years Republicans have been a minority party and only in 1994 held a bare majority for 12 years. Republicans never had a filibuster proof majority. Democrats had 100 years of control and a complete monopoly of the media before 1994 so democrats not republicans are the cause of any percieved or real problems in America now. In those 100 years of media monopoloy progressives/democrats/marxists created a the big government we have and all the regulations and taxes and problems we have . Yet you have the audacity to blame Republicans.Amazing.
you are causing this too: I suggest you all look at this very amusing and revealing video of the Canadian socialist healthcare system .And what democrats have planned for the U.S. is far worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
It was more than just one Republican congressman out there with the crowd ,Bachmann, Pence,King,Blackburn and others. Where were your democrats you divider of Conservatives, you democrat? But many Republicans stayed in the building putting up ammendments or any other procedural roadbloak to block your socialist bill. Republicans have blocked this socialist bill for more than a year and they might pull it off and kill it this weekend but you want them outside so they cant put up roadblocks inside so then you can blame Republicans.
Lets see if you can thank the Republicans for blocking this bill so far for a year or so. Lets see if you can Thank Republicans for not a single one Republican voting for this bill which is a socialist takeover of America. But you see all the unconstitional , criminal , treasonous acts the Democrats in Congress are doing to pass this socialism .And you see how most democrats are voting for this bill and you all see how democrats are performing a communist coup upon America. yet you blame only Republicans for this. ARe you all insane or just democrats, or are you brainwashed puppets of the liberal media? my guess is you are all democrats.
Democrats are socialists. Republicans are not. Democrats don’t care if they lose their political life voting for this socialist bill as what democrats care is about their religion of socialism/Marxism/communism and their god , the state. Republicans are not voting for this communist bill.
You know full well that the only way to defeat socialism/demkocrats is to have all conservatives remain united. And i don’t care what party conservatives unite behind but it has to be only one and now . as the Republican party is the only viable party that is the one.
It is the goal of the media to divide conservatives. and you are helping the media do that.
You claim to be holier than thou but all you and your crowd are doing is dividing conservatives so that Democrats will achieve victory and turn the U.S.A. into the USSR or North Korea sooner. For the destruction of Freedom and the U.S.A and my life style I blame democrats and you and your ilk on this forum who claim to be conservatives and only bash Republicans . and i rebutted all your liberal media lies. you blame Republicans for all the problems when in the last 120 years Republicans have been a minority party and only in 1994 held a bare majority for 12 years. Republicans never had a filibuster proof majority. Democrats had 100 years of control and a complete monopoly of the media before 1994 so democrats not republicans are the cause of any percieved or real problems in America now. In those 100 years of media monopoloy progressives/democrats/marxists created a the big government we have and all the regulations and taxes and problems we have . Yet you have the audacity to blame Republicans.Amazing.
you are causing this too: I suggest you all look at this very amusing and revealing video of the Canadian socialist healthcare system .And what democrats have planned for the U.S. is far worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
Thank you for that eye witness report, and God bless you. The lies are promulgated on Meet the Press this AM!
Thank you for the report. Thanks to all the people who went to DC.
Okay great. So when the Presidential nominee of our party said there was nothing to fear from an Obama administration, and praised the Democrats and their agenda, that proved to you that the Republican party was on the right track.
Well... okay... if you say so.
And you’re upset because I’m damaging Conservatism for the Democrats.
Just damn...
I can’t thank you enough for representing all of us who could only be with you in spirit. I never stopped faxing, e-mailing, and faxing, but it’s not the same. Thank you for letting us in on what it was like to be there. You have had such a huge impact. Thank you ! Thank you! Thank you! :)
But the dems just read it (Sunday afternoon) into the Congressional records so it must be true.
Thanks to both of you for being in DC this weekend.
[Mr] T
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