anyone know if cspan plans to rerun the event?
Okay, I’m going to ask a stupid question here but what does the snake stand for ...I don’t get it. :(
I spent today thinking about yesterday and it seemed the perfect name for this event was the “Million Amercian March.”
It was ultimately about America and Americans who don’t want to see liberty lost to an almighty government.
(I saw this posted on another board)
I have a good friend at work whose husband went to the Washington Tea Party this week-end. She told me that he was getting ready to head out to DC last week, and went to a local Dollar General to buy some American Flags. He ran into a couple of elderly ladies who wondered why he was buying those flags, and he told them where he was getting ready to head out to. One of the ladies was using a walker, and she began to cry, and the other one went to the back of the store where the flags were shelved, took all the remaining ones off the shelf, and went to the check-out line to buy them all and give them to him. The cashier also, upon hearing what my friend’s husband was doing, pitched in, and so those 3 people together bought out the store’s entire stock of American flags and gave them to my friend’s husband. He left, with the back of his pick-up filled up with American flags to take to Washington, purchased with the good will and strong sentiment of three utterly random American citizens. I am confident that every person at the event can be held to have represented at least 3 additional Americans, who could not be there.
This is a true story. I’m confident that it’s not unique among the stories of this Tea Party. It’s a story that Mr. Obama and his minions, and the Democrats in Congress, would do well to heed. I think the American people are not going to sit still for what they see coming. I wasn’t so sure about this a couple of months ago, but I’m seeing something surprising: The American people are not going to submit. God grant us all that they (we) never will.
Do you have any photos of how clean it was afterward? Allegedly, there are photos of the same area being a sty of litter after the Obamanation inauguration.
Everyone needs to plan on doing the same thing next year! We have to keep the pressure on Congress!
The photos around the pool show about 10 thousand, and the marchers over the length of Pennsylvania Avenue amount to maybe 30 thousand, based on areas derived from Google Earth, and a crowd density of 1 per meter2 ( which is very generous if you look at the march video. ) I'm certainly willing to double this. So, my praise and congratulations to all involved, but let's not get hysterical.
I'm too tired to post much more at the moment, but I - and everyone we met at the 9/12 Tea Party - still have the same lingering question:
Does anyone know what the official turnout / count was for this event? Do the DC Police provide the "official" count?
We've heard everything from 60,000 to 2 million. I think it was around 1 million... my husband estimates it was around 400,000. Does anyone know?
YES! You've described it perfectly! I'm getting goosebumps all over again, just thinking about it... :o)
MLK the Communist? What?
A conservative is someone who doesn't give up rights for any man, group, cause, or religion.
A conservative fights against those powers who would strip us of those rights and therefore our freedom and liberty.
My husband and I were there. We drove all night to make sure we were there at 8:30 am when the festivities began and can’t tell you how proud and happy we are. I have never been in such a large crowd of some of the nicest people we have ever met.
This goes down as one of the best things we have ever been involved in and we thank everyone who was there!
And we left everything noticeably cleaner as well compared to the inaugural gathering.
I LOVE JOE WILSON TOO! PLEASE JOE TAKE BACK YOUR APOLOGY!
We are on The Bridge now.
And you know what else?
THEY ARE APPROACHING IT.
AND
THEY ..... ARE ..... NOT.... GOING .... PASS.
Next time we will have TWO MILLION if they dont listen to us, their masters, The PEOPLE. All it will take is for each person who was there to get three or four or more of their family, friends, neighbors or co-workers to attend.
It WAS a great day to be an American patriot. We have this Chicago punk on the run, but he will turn and come back at us. We have to stay in fighting mode because they will never stop.
A dear friend bought tickets to Woodstock in 1969 for my birthday and we went not needing any tickets . Between 3 to 5 hundred thousand showed up as well . The 9/12 Tea Party which I also participated in would have made four Woodstocks easily . I’m so proud to be called a homegrown terrorist by the communist in our country .
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