Posted on 09/02/2009 6:23:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 09/02/2009 6:42:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Woo hoo!! The Tea Party Express Rolls Into Texas!!
All aboard for El Paso and San Antonio!! We have a Tea Party in El Paso at 10:00 am this morning and another tomorrow morning at 11:00 am in San Antonio at the Alamo!!
Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!!
Be sure to check the tour schedule and join us when we get to a city near you: TeaPartyExpress.org!!
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Thank you all very much!!
Hope to see you in DC!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
Greta Van Susteren has been ALL OVER the tea party express since April 15.
Bumping the Texas TEA Party Express!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Great work.
Where might I find some pics and video of the Express?
Good Morning Jim! For clarification, the San Antonio Tea Party is tomorrow, Sep 3rd at 11:00 AM. I do plan to attend.
Looking for recommendations on signs for the Tea Party.
I will attend the tea party in New Lenox, IL Labor Day.
Sure wish you all were coming through Atlanta.
Have a great trip.
tet.
Need more coffee. LOL
Well yall won’t be rolling through Houston so I can’t make any of the rallies, but howdy and welcome to Texas!!!
=)
Smile when you drive by Georgetown, Jim. I’ll be praying for you guys! Roll on!
Mo one comes to Houston. We don’t feel respected.
Signs:
Neuter them in 2010
Vote the Rest Out in 2012
Two-term Limits
One term in Office
Second term in Prison
It’s “We The People”
You Were Sent to Represent US Not Yourself
Your Arrogance Will Be Voted Out
Start Packing Now
Ditto, Jim. Wish you had one here in Georgetown!!! We are praying for you guys!
We are putting together a 9/12 rally at the Missouri State Capital to coincide with the DC March. Local media has been contacted and the word is being circulated.
We will definitely have pictures to share.
They should do a 6th street drive by, just for kicks.
ping ~ I posted some photos of it at the Albuquerque Tea Party Express and if you want any more just FReepmail me and I’ll give you a link.
Neuter them in 2010
Vote the Rest Out in 2012
Two-term Limits
One term in Office
Second term in Prison
I LOVE your 2nd sign! ROFL - that's great. Can I steal that????
This one grabbed the attention of the TV people at our local Tea Party several months ago. It also got one of the whitehouse goons goons in my face with a camcorder asking me what I would ask the president if I could ask him one question.
Obama Lied.
The Economy Died.
bttt
this will get you a 18x20 PDF that you can take to Kinkos and have printed out on heavy paper that will roll up and stow under the seat of your bus. (770K)
http://dobermandesign.com/gangofthree.pdf
I will change the text for you if you want.
LOL, yep, they can gas up on $2 jello shots before they get to Big D.
Great pics in AQ. The wrap on the bus is just gorgeous. Kudos to whoevever designed it.
Yeah, and gas the hippies with bus fumes on the way out.
Yes you can use it, but I can’t take credit for it. I received it last week in an email. I love it too!!!
First sign is courtesy of Freeper Jeff Head.
An Enlightened, Committed People Who Understand The Principles Of Our Constitution- The Most Effective Means Of Preserving Liberty |
"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant - they have been cheated; asleep - they have been surprised; divided - the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." - James Madison
America's Constitution is the means by which knowledgeable and free people, capable of self-government, can bind and control their elected representatives in government. In order to remain free, the Founders said, the people themselves must clearly understand the ideas and principles upon which their Constitutional government is based. Through such understanding, they will be able to prevent those in power from eroding their Constitutional protections.
The Founders established schools and seminaries for the distinct purpose of instilling in youth the lessons of history and the ideas of liberty. And, in their day, they were successful. Tocqueville, eminent French jurist, traveled America and in his 1830's work, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, wrote:
".every citizen ... is taught . the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution ... it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon."
On the frontier, he noted that "...no sort of comparison can be drawn between the pioneer and the dwelling that shelters him.... He wears the dress and speaks the language of the cities; he is acquainted with the past, curious about the future, and ready for argument about the present.... I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists in the most enlightened and populous districts of France' " He continued, "It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the democratic republic; and such must always be the case...where the instruction which enlightens the understanding is not separated from the moral education.."
Possessing a clear understanding of the failure of previous civilizations to achieve and sustain freedom for individuals, our forefathers discovered some timeless truths about human nature, the struggle for individual liberty, the human tendency toward abuse of power, and the means for curbing that tendency through Constitutional self-government. Jefferson's Bill For The More General Diffusion Of Knowledge For Virginia declared:
"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.."
Education was not perceived by the Founders to be a mere process for teaching basic skills. It was much, much more. Education included the very process by which the people of America would understand and be able to preserve their liberty and secure their Creator-endowed rights. Understanding the nature and origin of their rights and the means of preserving them, the people would be capable of self government, for they would recognize any threats to liberty and "nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud." (Adams)
BTTT
Give em’ hell!
LOL
Three marxist morons on a donkey..
Dang man this DFW-er is in NYC at the moment and wishing I was back home to greet the Tea Party caravan. Ride with pride!
I will try to get to downtown San Antonio tomorrow!
Giddy up!
Great job! Roll on Tea Party Express!
Great pictures!
Wait’ll your caravan hits the huge Border Patrol checkpoint at Sierra Blanca.......but don’t be dismayed - everyone is stopped and quizzed, without exception.
Especially true for buses loaded with right wing extremists. ;~)
3 Marxist Morons on a donkey would make a good title!
...or 3 Marxist morons on their high-horse! The one from Nevada is about to get bucked off, I hope!
But I do bet jello shots would give the TP bus better mileage than plain old diesel.
Howdy, and welcome to Texas y’all.
LMAO
Oklahoma is as red as you get! Not one single county went blue this past election...it was the only state in the country to be completely red.
Ah well, Oklahoma freepers are with them in spirit.
We'll see you in Hartford, CT on September 11th!
Good for you! Please post photos after the event if you take any! I love to see what went on at other Tea Parties
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