Posted on 04/22/2010 4:32:42 PM PDT by Raquel
On a gray and breezy Thursday evening, approximately 150 people came to the intersection of Route 44/55 and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail to hold signs, hear speakers and chant slogans. "No to Progressivism," read one sign. "Stimu-Less," "Anti-Socialism," and "We the People will never bow to Tyranny," read others. A young man standing in the crowd wore a black T-shirt with a small picture of an American flag, with a caption reading "R.I.P., The American Dream." The crowd of Tea Party sympathizers came out on April 15, tax day, to protest government spending and waste.
"We're tired of the socialism," said Daniel Aversano, of Kerhonkson. He said he felt that President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had shoved health care reform down America's collective throats. "Every time we turn around, they're taking away our Constitutional rights."
Organizer Pam O'Dell, an outspoken Republican and Conservative blogger from Gardiner, started off the Tax Day Tea Party by warning the crowd not to engage or fight with counter protestors. She told people that if anyone brings hateful signs, the group should confront them nicely and ask them not to display it.
Nationally, the Tea Party -- which has been a mostly Conservative phenomenon -- has been supported by Fox News pundits, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and it helped elect Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But some people involved in the demonstrations have carried signs showing President Obama dressed as Adolph Hitler or as Batman super villain The Joker.
Democrats and others, including former President Jimmy Carter, have publicly decried those signs as being racist.
O'Dell's opening address seemed to display a lack of tolerance for those kind of signs.
I notice this idiot Townshend used the term, “Teabaggers”. I’ll bet he knows a lot about this topic, being the leftist that he is.
Sorry but she is wrong about tea partiers being mostly Republican. The breakdown was 49% republican, the rest were divided between democrats and Independants which means that 51% of tea partiers are not republican!
PLEASE FORWARD these links to anyone who has been lied to by the media and politicians about the Tea Party Movement, which of course is everybody.
“The True Face of the Tea Partiers”
Organizer Pam O'Dell, an outspoken Republican and Conservative blogger from Gardiner, started off the Tax Day Tea Party by warning the crowd not to engage or fight with counter protestors. She told people that if anyone brings hateful signs, the group should confront them nicely and ask them not to display it.
Thanks!
Nice picture, you in the air?
It’s down right a hate crime against queers. Nice pic btw.
I think that picture’s taken on a boat.
Perhaps even “his” boat.
On a boat.
Here’s my perspective on the tea party bashing article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2498813/posts
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