[mcmuffin]

Thanks Roos and SeektheTruth for the time and effort to set up the FR table.

Kristinn, SeektheTruth, Surfer,and RoosGirl early Sat. morning
If the wind blowing off of Lake Eola wasn't at near gale strength the FR banner could have been placed in a more prominate position.

FR cards that were distributed to FutuRe FReepers!
(Thanks, MinuteGal! )

The crowds were thick and everyone was cordial.

A proud parent of one of America's finest!

PORK Defined!

NObama supporter!

"TEA" shirt Extraordinaire!

Classic shirts never go out of style!

Here's another view of the "several hundred" Tea Party participants as reported by the local media.

FR's Kristinn Taylor addresses the Tea Party...

Although most of the speakers and the speeches were good, FR's Kristinn Taylor was the perfect conclusion to the days events.
Kristinn began by having everyone in the audience "hold up your signs" and acknowledging several in the many "sea of signs" in the crowd.
Kristinn went on on briefly to give a history of FreeRepublic and how we as Americans need to contnue as Americans to stand up for our FReedoms and do it WITHOUT FEAR of our government.
The audience was lovin' every word of it and was hungry for more.
My most memorable part was when Kristinn said that he will not stand in fear and will do so without a mask shielding his face as the cowardly anti-Americans do.
The Tea Party participants were carnivorous for words of wisdom and inspiration.
Thank you again Kristinn for the work you do.

Here's another FR gang photo!!!

For the "keyboard kommandos" that willingly stayed away, stay where you are. We have it covered.

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!! Great job, Orlando!!

[mcmuffin]

prominate=prominent =Duh!

[MinuteGal]

Hey, Gene.....it looks like that dude in the pic is wearing one of your O-Cents tee shirts. It also looks like he's had a lot of use out of it!

Sell him a new one!

Leni

[seekthetruth]

Thanks McMuffin for posting your great photos! Sure was great to meet you, and must say you sure were the quick one to hand out the FreeRepublic cards! Surfer was right on tap to get the cards out too!

Roos_girl and I had to make sure everyone got some nice American Patriotic candy!! :)

[Matchett-PI]

WOW! WAAAAAAY COOL pictures and commentary, Dave! What a day! Thanks to all FReepers who did their part to make the Orlando Tea Party such a success!

Kristinn: Do you have a transcript of your FANTASTIC speech that you can post in this thread? Hopefully there is a video of it floating around somewhere, too, that can be linked to. I know Dave thought he was able to capture some or all of it on his camera even though his batteries were running low.

We sorely missed Leni, Gonzo, Bob Ireland,OldGlory (who is in Colorado right now), Pete Kessler, seekingthetruth (who are both out of state now), and many of the other faithful Florida Freepers who weren’t able to make it for one reason or another. It was really good to see TigerBill back in his usual great “FReeping” action with all those wonderful signs he makes, though! I loved the one where he had the cans of tar and feathers hanging from it. LOL!! I hope someone got a picture of that one, too!

I forgot to put on any sunblock so I my face - except the owl-eyes where my sunglasses were :) - and neck are sunburned liked you wouldn’t believe! The “cause” was worth it though. Whoo Hoo!!!

[CRBDeuce]

We have it covered

...and more! Yes you did, that's certain! Great pics...you guys have done yeomans work all these years, we owe you! Kinda sorry I missed all the 'fun' in the Clinton years, hope to be able make up for that!

[Truth Addict]

I really enjoyed meeting you, especially hearing first-hand accounts of so many of the events I had read about here over the years.

Here's another photo, with you on the right.

It's out of the picture, but you're holding up one of the great "don't tread on me" flags. That breeze off the lake really made the flags stand out.