Let's see...now I have to cleanse my mind.
Andrew Breitbart, Tea Partier
Posted on 09/12/2009 4:46:48 AM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/12/2009 4:47:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Please post your updates from D.C. and from news reports here as well as your photos of the day.
Our Walter Reed salute to the troops last night was very well attended. Upwards of 800 people were there over the three-plus hours of the demonstration.
Photos and video taken by This Ain'tHell taken in daylight before the bulk of the crowd showed can be viewed here.
Free Republic 9/11 Candlelight Vigil from Washington DC
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YESSSSSSSSS!!! Been screaming that at the top of my lungs!
With all the news, BHO actions, Dem cover-ups, discoveries of fact, conservative opinion journalists (a la Sowell, etc), investigative pieces, House Report on ACORN-—any member of Congress not seeing the big picture is either an enemy collaborator or too incompetent to be there!
Mike Pence just gave me GOOSEBUMPS!
Pence: “An honor to welcome the largest gathering of conservatives in history to your nation’s capital.”
Mike Pence to the crowd: “You look like the Calvary to me!”
I just find it curious that a supposed “news” organization, would interject that statement about “confederate” flags” into their wire report about the rally when I have yet to see 1 in any of the coverage.
Good sign!
Mike Pence is up!
He’s pretty darn cute!
Mike Pence.......”you people look like the cavalry to me!
Pence is dead on!
allen west
THUD
How to distinguish Liberty from Tryanny:
| Liberty | "Soft" Tyranny | |
| 1 | Rights are inherent in, and unalienable from, individuals | Rights are granted/rescinded by the majority through the government |
| 2 | Fundamental rights are life, liberty, and property (absence of coercion) | Fundamental rights are food, housing, and healthcare (absence of necessity) |
| 3 | Property is owned by individuals who make decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer | Property is owned by 'the public' with government officials making decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer |
| 4 | Government exists to protect the rights of individuals | Government exists to plan and direct the resources of society |
| 5 | Government authority is decentralized in a federal system with limited and enumerated powers | Government authority is centralized in a national system with broad and necessarily intrusive powers |
| 6 | Government action is prescribed by rules fixed and announced beforehand | Government action is arbitrary and at the descretion of "czars" and planning boards |
| 7 | Economic activity is driven by a large number of small entities interacting according to simple rules | Economic activity is driven by a small number of large entities operating within the constraints of complex regulations |
| 8 | Effective innovation results from contrarian thinking, individual initiative, and the voluntary exchange of property | Efficient implementation of government planning requires conformity of opinion, collective action, and the coerced transfer of property |
| 9 | Standards of living for the many increase permanently as they utilize improved products and services conceived by the few | Standards of living for the many increase temporarily as they utilize property redistributed from the few |
| 10 | Altruism is using one's own resources in concrete acts to help specific individuals | Altruism is obligating the resources of others for broad-brush programs to help mankind in the abstract |
Rights exists solely as a way to fairly decide whose will shall prevail in cases where two or more people disagree. They do not exist for the purpose of enslaving one person for the benefit of another (e.g., the "right" to free medical care.)
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not infringe the rights of others. Rights empower you to help yourself, free from interference by others.
Tyranny makes you a serf to be used by the elite to further their own power. Once upon a time, the nobility used religion to convince the serfs they had to serve the nobility. Modernly, the elite use good people's feelings of altruism to convince them to enslave both themselves and their neighbors. It's basically the same con game, just using a more sophisticated hook.
Support for Wilson is overwhelming the site.
Now why did you have to make me go back for a look? Urk...
Let's see...now I have to cleanse my mind.
Andrew Breitbart, Tea Partier
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I love that picture...It’s a great day.
Too True
“Sure hope someone, somewhere is recording the speakers and photos of the marchers. I want the DVD.”~~~
Me too!! I’m first in line to buy a DVD. If there’s a FR out there who has the ability to create this, could you post a “sign up for it” thread later?
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