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TN TAX REVOLT: National Guard on Stand By
Sierra Times ^
| 5-22-02
| Sierra Times staff
Posted on 05/22/2002 10:46:02 AM PDT by backhoe
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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: TN TAX REVOLT: National Guard on Stand By
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> A Sierra Times Daily News Alert Post
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> Tennessee National Guardsmen with M-16 rifles
> Lock Down Capitol
> Sierra Times Special Report
> Published 05. 22. 02 at 10:02 Sierra Time
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> NASHVILLE - The anti-tax crowd is growing and growing! The Interstate highways around the area have Metro Police and
> State Highway Patrol units idling along the shoulders near the capitol for easy access if they are called in. It has
> just been announced on the radio that they have locked down the capitol and it is now ringed with TN National Guardsmen
> with M-16 rifles with fixed bayonets. - Story still unfolding.
>
> Full Report Here
> http://www.sierratimes.com/02/05/22/arst052202.htm
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> (This link will be updated as event warrant)
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: taxrevolt; tennessee
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posted on
05/22/2002 10:46:03 AM PDT
by
backhoe
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: backhoe; Morgan's Raider; babylonian
GO Volunteers GO!!
To: Fred Mertz
Hmmm...this story certainly sounds interesting...
To: backhoe
I'd like to find some independent corroboration of this from a source with just a skosh more credibility than the Sierra Times. I find it strange that CNN, MSNBC, and AP have no mention of this potentially explosive situation.
5
posted on
05/22/2002 10:53:21 AM PDT
by
strela
To: Fred Mertz;GailA
Fred, thanks for the flags- I was scratching my head trying to recall some...
GailA, heads up!
6
posted on
05/22/2002 10:54:07 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: semper_libertas
This is Dennis posting under Gails name. I talked with her about 30 mins ago from Downtown Nashville. She thinks that there is about 1000 people there. Had trouble getting downtown.
7
posted on
05/22/2002 10:55:01 AM PDT
by
GailA
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: semper_libertas
Have you heard of any plans for civil disobedience? Not at this time but they will vote about 2:00PM today.
9
posted on
05/22/2002 11:24:03 AM PDT
by
GailA
To: GailA;all
This is Dennis Howdy, Dennis- the board went dead earlier when I was trying to reach you, so I posted this same article on Free Dominion, and also mass emailed it to a pile of papers & opinionators like Hannity & Rush. Let me add some boilerplate:
Here's a Note to Activists:
Want to do something? Go here:
Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!
for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.
Do be advised that since I increased my volume of mass emails to letters to editors I have gotten return volleys of virus attacks- my ISP filters them out before the get to my PC, but if yours does not, take appropriate precautions to guard your PC.
I take this as a positive- my emails are simply links with no editorial content; so the other side must fear & loath the information even reaching the public.
10
posted on
05/22/2002 11:34:44 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: backhoe
Anybody on site who can tell if there's just a normal police presence to prevent some hothead from doing some damfool thing, or if the politicians are trying to intimidate the serfs?
11
posted on
05/22/2002 11:42:11 AM PDT
by
steve-b
To: steve-b
Anybody on site who can tell if there's just a normal police presence to prevent some hothead from doing some damfool thing, or if the politicians are trying to intimidate the serfs? Based on what's happened earlier it seems clear the politicians are using the threat of force to ram their tax proposals through. If that happens I suspect things will get ugly - as they should. Obviously we "average" citizens have tolerated the overtaxation of our income and assets far too long.
Thank goodness the good folks in Tennessee are saying "enough." We need to support them AND follow their example IMHO.
12
posted on
05/22/2002 12:00:42 PM PDT
by
toddst
To: strela
13
posted on
05/22/2002 12:27:32 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: backhoe
Hello folks in Tennessee. Keep up the fight for lower not higher taxes. Raise hell and let your legislature know your true feelings. Tell them if they vote more taxes you will be against their reelection no matter party affiliation. Protesting is good for the soul and the health of your country.
To: steve-b
Protesters are so annoying! They don't need to force the gov't to actually put the gun to the taxpayer's head, the taxpayer's already know it's there... < /sarcasm >
15
posted on
05/22/2002 12:29:40 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: Joe Boucher
Hi, Joe- well, I'm down in Coastal Georgia, but I saw this and it makes my blood boil. Posted this on Free Dominion, too, and mass emailed it. Looks like intimidation to me.
16
posted on
05/22/2002 12:35:26 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: steve-b
steve, to me it looks like intimidation and an attempt to silence "what they don't want to hear."
It is an affront to free Americans everywhere.
Toss the SOB's out on their ears and make 'em find an honest job in private business- not that they could!
17
posted on
05/22/2002 12:38:13 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: backhoe
Don't let 'em pass the income tax there. PERIOD. Draw the line. If ya don't stop 'em, they won't stop (go figure).
To: backhoe
Why isn't this on ANY major network?
To: GailA
Dennis, keep us posted on events and activities. Thanks!
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