Posted on 09/14/2009 7:17:05 AM PDT by mikelets456
WASHINGTON – The capital was rocked today by a taxpayer march and rally that could be the biggest protest ever – potentially dwarfing the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers Rally.
Though crowd estimates vary from as low as 60,000 to 70,000 according to ABC News to a high of 2 million by London Daily Mail, photographs and videos of the march and rally demonstrate its enormity.
The taxpayers stormed Washington, D.C., today, taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.
All week citizens have been heading to the Hill by the busloads for the showdown today. The Tea Party Patriots' "Tea Party Express" national bus tour has been hosting a series of tea party rallies all across the nation. A caravan of buses, speakers and entertainers arrived in Washington, D.C., just in time for the march. The taxpayers have paid their own way to the event.
The White House said Friday it was unaware of the rally. President Obama has traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., to promote his health-care plans at a rally there.
But so many taxpayers showed up on Pennsylvania Avenue that the crowd ran out of room and the march was forced to begin early.
WND was at the scene to get crowd reaction and take photos of the protest.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Yes, the mall also includes the public area shown on the chart. The public area was being used for other events on Saturday. The rally consumed much of the ticketed area - which can hold 240k according to the chart - but the portion of the ticketed area represented by the rectangular field remained largely unpopulated.
The rectangular field appears to be about 1/4 of the ticketed area, so it would seem fair to say that about 180k rally members were on the mall. I recognize that the event was dynamic - people were walking along Pennsylvania Avenue and coming and going all day - so the actual number of participants will be higher than the number on the mall at any given time. How much higher is anybody's guess, but I would think anyone who says the crowd was a couple of hundred thousand is not too far off.
BS
bump to the top
Wait. See what happens over the next 3 days !!!
Call them out.
250k is my estimate, and I’m sticking to it! :)
You’re right - we need to call them out.
Here’s a video of an ACORN person slapping a tea party person in the face.
Also it looks like a photo op for some liberal news group to damage the “reputations” of tea party members.
Check this out - More stuff on ACORN:
Here’s a video of ACORN trying to set up a photo op to make the tea party people look like members of militias... Janet Napolitano said to watch for people with “don’t tread on me” flags. So ACORN had some made up to distribute free. My guess is they might have had an “in” with CNN to make the tea party people look more extreme than they are - but didn’t get the picture. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOPsla-MyLk
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I saw some likely Obama voters selling the "Don't Tread On Me" flags for $5 each. How rich is that?
Sounds like it is time to cancel your subscription.
Tea Party people were not allowed on the grass area of the Mall. A party for the “Black family” had a permit for the Mall and had tents set-up for their party. They annouced over the intercom to stay off the Mall. However, we had people all around the outside and into the streets. I would like to see an aerial shot because we had many people behind the tree line that you can’t see from the Capital. “We Surround Them” was never more true.
I’d never subscribe to this sneering lib fishwrap. It shows up at work every day.
I just ran some numbers for the heck of it. Google tells me that Pennsylvania Avenue from the Square to the Capitol is about a half a mile (2640 feet). From personal experience, it is about 75 feet wide, not counting the sidewalks.
That gives us 198,000 square feet.
If you allow 30”x30” for each person, that is 6.25 square feet.
That gives us 198,000/6.25=31,680 people.
It took about 20 minutes to walk it, and it was packed from 10:00 until about 1:00. That’s three hours/20 minutes = 9 repetitions.
31,680 x 9 = 285,120 protesters.
You can play with the figures some, but it gives a good idea of the max number of people there.
There’s trying to steal our symbols - set us up for the MSM to extol how “hateful” we are - and pit us against each other. ACORN is a criminal organization. Next time we need flags that say, “Don’t tread on me, ACORN”. And wave them in their effing faces.
Agreed.
Nice methodology. But Google maps directions gives exactly one mile from the center of Freedom Plaza to the Peace Monument at the end of Pennsylvania Ave NW.
So using your numbers with that one change, then we’re talking about 570,240 people if the route was continuously full from 10 AM to 1 PM.
That is pretty consistent with what I observed, comparing the numbers between 9-12 and a largish March for Life.
Bump!
Nope. Ultimately it means even more people become aware of the media's lies, distortions, selective reporting and agenda.
Everyone, every single person who was there KNOWS it wasn't "a few thousand"
Do you think they won't tell their friends?
Case in point. He was there...
It was the public area on the chart that was allocated to the black families event. Take a look at the below picture. The black families event was in the area with the tents at the back. There was no restriction on the grassy area in front of the tents, which is the rectangular area shown as part of ticketed area on the mall chart. This area remained largely unpopulated throughout the day. 
Thanks...I got Seward Square instead of Freedom Square.
Even so, it gives a reasonable idea of the max number there!
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