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I just saw another one of those videos. You know the ones - the kind that Fox "News" loves to show; of the clueless teabagger with tears in her eyes, complaining that she wants her country back. They're designed to tug at our heartstrings, but they have just the opposite effect on me. What I see is a social bigot who thinks the world is about to come to an end because Barack Obama is the president instead of the White House butler. The complete irony of that clip is the fact that, the very Black man that she's complaining...

2009 D.C. Convention DVD's Are Finally Here! Just in Time for Christmas! Presented by Free Republic and Zot Productions Couldn't make it to D.C.? Made it to the convention and want a great souvenir? Get the DVD!! Featuring the musical talents of our very own Lloyd Marcus and Lisa Mei Norton! Also featuring: Freep of Walter Reed Army Hospital with the D.C. Chapter to support our troops!9/11 Candlelight Vigil overlooking the Pentagon.Freeper John Manning, winner of WorldNetDaily's Independence Day Tea Party national speech contest!Videos "An American Anthem" by Justin Holcomb, and "The Second American Revolution" by Dr. Bob Basso!A...

Thousands of radical conservatives crowded on to the steps of the Capitol yesterday to voice their anger over Democrat spending plans and yearning for the presence of the one person they really wished was there, but wasn’t: Sarah Palin. The former Governor of Alaska has emerged from Tuesday’s off-year elections as a front runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and the embodiment of grassroots social conservatism in most of the “lower 48” states, as well as her own. The trouble for her supporters is that, for the time being, she is available only as a disembodied presence on her...

If Madame Pelosi really wants to make it illegal to not carry health insurance, what would be wrong with swamping one of the DC police stations at the next major rally? Have about 20 thousand people show up at the PD, and all turn ourselves in. What do you think the complicit progressive media would make of that!

Did you get the sense that the House Democratic Leadership was frantic, even desperate, to nail down the vote for the 1,990-page healthcare reform bill? No, not the actual votes from members Democrats were worried might go south on them—though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had good reason to be concerned about that; 39 Democrats opposed their party's bill—but scheduling the actual vote itself. It had to be before the Veterans' Day recess. What was the hurry? The vote was promised before Congress' August recess and didn't happen—what are a few more days to allow...

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reported that the House version of the healthcare bill specifies that those who don’t buy health insurance and do not pay the fine of about 2.5 percent of their income for failing to do so can face a penalty of up to five years in prison! The bill describes the penalties as follows: • Section 7203 — misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year. • Section 7201 — felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000...

Don't bring your pitchforks. This is to be our "last stand" to stop health care reform, it's Alamo time. Don't let your congressmen call it a "rally" or "protest"--make sure they say "press event" or "press conference." The point is to see "the whites of their eyes," because there's nothing a congressman fears more than a "freedom-loving American." Oh, and don't dress "too nicely." We don't want the press to start calling this another "Brooks Brothers riot" like they did when Bush aides stormed Miami hallways to stop the 2000 recount. You can feel the tension between the urge to...

CALL NOW, CALL OFTEN, CALL THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My fellow Americans, if you believe in the Constitution, individual liberty, freedom, ownership of firearms, and personal property, along with being able to eat what you want, live how you want, smoke if you desire and make the kind of choices that a free people make, then you will put aside party differences, and stop the health care bill. Aside from bankrupting America and forcing our country to become beholden to the IMF and the United Nations, in order to avoid the kind of social decay that occurs in third world countries, YOU will lose everything, including your right to...

Alright folks, let's pool our resources and our know how. Do you have the cash and are you willing to donate to help increase body count because you can't be in DC? Do you have a willing participatory spirit but you're broke?(all you'll need is a bus ticket) Do you know of a reputable website that is facilitating this, so as to bring the willing people and the cash together to make it all happen?

Bachmann asks for patriots to call Congress and meet up with her at the Capitol next Thursday at High Noon. Time to mobilize! Stop Socialized Medicine Now!!! It's the 11th hour....Let's pay Nancy Pelosi a House Call... and tell her what she can do with the "Pelosi Health Care Plan"

In the brief age of Obama, we have had "truthers," "birthers," Tea Party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the "Oath Keepers." And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are "either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia." Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. "The whole point of...

While putting together the convention DVD, we found out that our videographer had some equipment problems and the video of Saturday morning's breakfast cannot be used. If anyone has video of the convention breakfast, please Freepmail me as soon as possible. Thanks!

Here's a video my daughter put together of the March on D.C. The majority of the pictures are our own, but she did borrow a few off the net to fill in here and there.

"Big Dave went to Big Government and documented events at the Washington DC rally, so Kevin could go and speak at Quincy (IL). I know, going to Washington is a dirty job.. but someone had to.." Washington DC Tea Party at the Capitol

Conspiracy theories have always been a favorite of extremists in America. The Birthers are people who question Obama's birth in Hawaii and claim that he is not a United States citizen. Have we reached a tipping point in the crescendo of accusations and outrageous labels flung at President Barack Obama? Were you shocked when you heard that someone had posted a survey on Facebook asking respondents, "Should Obama be killed?" The possible answers were: "No, Maybe, Yes and Yes if he cuts my health care." We cherish freedom of speech in the United States, guaranteed by the First Amendment to...

M.O.M. for America Washington, DC Rally - Saturday, August 14, 2010 OUR PERMIT APPLICATION IS BEEN CONFIRMED, WE SHOULD BE RECEIVING THE PERMIT NEXT WEEK! (10/9/2009 - 12:23 p.m.)

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck said on Friday that the "tea party goers" and attendees of the 9/12 protest should receive the Nobel Peace Prize instead for stopping President Barack Obama's agenda. The controversial Beck said that the protesters have already blocked Obama from accomplishing the goals for which the Nobel Committee awarded him the prize. "The Nobel peace prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and should be given to the tea party goers and the 9/12 project," Beck said on his syndicated radio show today. "Because of the tea party goers and the 912 project people...

Last Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which is the non-partisan "research arm" of the United States Congress, issued a report that concludes that illegal aliens will be able to receive benefits under the House health care bill (H.R. 3200) through two major loopholes. (See CRS Report and FAIR Press Release, August 26, 2009). According to its own website, CRS is a legislative branch agency that provides Congress with "policy and legal analysis" that is authoritative, objective and accurate. (CRS website). The latest CRS report validates what FAIR has been saying for the past month and a half — that...

Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” charge against President Barack Obama has elicited a curious response from various figures – that Wilson’s action both comes from and evidences racism. Perhaps New York Times’ Maureen Dowd made the most provocative allegation while former President Jimmy Carter couldn’t resist the opportunity to top it off with his own contention that racism underlies many whites’ criticism of President Barack Obama. This is not to ignore similar utterances from such less relevant voices as Janeane Garofalo that restate the racist charge with no support other than an attitude of arrogant certainty. These very accusations cover...

Whatever significance is attached to Chicago’s failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it is of small importance to the rest of the country. More far-reaching and frightening is the Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case challenging the city’s ban on handgun ownership in the court’s new term, which begins this week. The case is best considered a preview of coming attractions. The gun lobby, if it wins in the Supreme Court, is prepared to challenge every gun control law enacted at any level of government. It will usher in a scary season of assault on the common...

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In a new book, Sam Tanenhaus, the New York Times Book Review editor, proclaims the death of conservatism. Movement leaders' devotion to "radical" antigovernment ideology, Tanenhaus argues, has left them "trapped in the irrelevant causes of another day, deaf to the actual conversation unfolding across the land." Judging by the massive crowd on Saturday that descended on Washington for the 9/12 March, you'd have to be deaf not to recognize that small-government conservatism remains a vital part of the national conversation. If you've been fed a steady media diet of MSNBC over the last few months, though, you could be...

<p>FReeper “melancholy” had asked that I post the photos he took of the 912 March on DC.</p> <p>Due to time constraints and a few computer problems they were not ready to post until now. My hope had been to have them posted by yesterday in celebration of the three week anniversary of the March, but alas I failed. Guess now I will be inducted into the Obama Fail Club.</p>

Parts I and IIThe Taxpayers' March on Washington as seen through the eyes of an ex-Soviet immigrant.Oleg Atbashian, a writer and graphic artist from Ukraine, currently lives in New York. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red SquarePart IOn September 12, 2009, I took part in the largest anti-big-government demonstration in the history of mankind. To borrow an expression from Joe Biden, the Taxpayers’ March on Washington was clean and articulate. It was clean because over a million earners of American wealth didn’t litter or destroy things and generally behaved...

Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, has just sent out a fundraising letter making fantastical claims about the 9/12 protest in Washington. Promoting the magazine's "Student Outreach Program," in which she and her colleagues offer teaching guides to help educators counter the influence of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, vanden Heuvel described the march this way: Just days ago, Glenn Beck led the astro-turf 9-12-09 "Taxpayer March on DC." Compared to the millions who have marched for civil rights, equal rights, and gay rights, and against the war, Beck's 70,000 would be small stuff -- except...

In reference to the September 12th Tea Party event held in Washington DC, quoting a “DC Fire Department Report”, regardless of what any media reported, the size of the crowd of those who attended this event were never estimated by DC Fire & EMS. Any reports contrary to this are false. The DC Fire & EMS Department does not estimate crowd sizes. A Twitter posting estimating the crowd gathering at Lafayette Park only as “large, possibly as many as 60 thousand” stated that it was an early estimation of that specific area (Lafayette Park), not the number of participants in...

As the town hall meetings on health care started in early August, the Democratic Party's talking points accused the attending citizens of being "demonstrators hired by K Street lobbyists." Then they started calling them a "mob." Getting into the spirit of his party, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called those who oppose Obamacare "evil." Then House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called the dissenters "un-American." For good measure, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused them of being Nazis. Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter followed with the assertion that "racism" motivates President Barack Obama's health care opponents. The culmination --...

There is a lot more. I haven't seen any of this posted before. Anyone know who filmed this?

Remember this? Video of Obama mocking his protesters. You know all us with teabags.

Metro Delivers Hundreds of Thousands to 9/12 Rally Posted September 15th, 2009 at 4.58pm in Ongoing Priorities. Much has been made over the attendance at the march and rally in DC on September 12. Reports varied, with many on the left clinging to an unofficial DC Fire Department estimate of 60,000 to 70,000. Some reports from overseas went as far as to say two million. However, one completely objective source of information is the number of people who rode Metro, Washington, DC’s mass transit subway system. Washington Metro measures and releases its ridership numbers and these numbers have been used...

All around were satanic representations of President Barack Obama in whiteface, as a Nazi, an African witch doctor, a Marxist, a Muslim, and Che Guevara’s best friend—but Kathy Golya had never felt so good about the new administration as she did right now. It was a day after Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst in Congress, and the South Carolina congressman had given voice to Golya’s inner heart. He hadn’t just said it on the Internet, he had said it to the president himself. No, it was not the appropriate place, Golya said, but still she glowed with the memory. “It was...

It was an enjoyable honor to attend the 912 March on DC. The 8-hour bus trip with fellow patriots concerned about big government growth added to the pleasure of participating in the largest political rally in our great nation’s history. In DC, attendees were not only friendly and respectful; but, we also left our nation’s capital free of litter. (video and photo gallery below) Moreover, most media outlets have downplayed the huge attendance to the 912 March on DC. Was it 10,000? Was it 75,000? 1.2 million? 1.7 million? 2 million? For President Obama and his “mainstream media”, it must...

Bill Whittle did not participate in the rally on DC, but he did in a rally in California. This is his speech and his few comments. Delivered in his usual simple, straightforward and passionate manner. Afterburner with Bill Whittle Why We Should All Be Worried ... And Why You Should Run For Office Sep 21 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   12min A Tale of Two Revolutions: The War of Ideas & the Tragedy of the Unconstrained Vision Sep 10 / Afterburner with Bill Whittle   10min Bill Maher, Barack Obama and the Truth About American Exceptionalism Aug 31...

As the former leader of the free world, Jimmy Carter deserves our respect. As a political analyst - attributing racism to the anger at President Obama - he is irresponsibly inaccurate. Obama's popularity hasn't tumbled because he's black. It's tumbled because he has come to represent Washington instead of those who sent him there. I know this because of a 6,400-person interview survey I conducted for my new book "What Americans Really Want ... Really." I sat down to write this book, conduct the poll and insisted that the second "really" be included in the title because I was fed...

"......on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." Th. Jefferson

Here is newly posted video of March On Washington. This video includes a couple of Freepers! Myself, Wpin and Pete Kessler are the longer haired (twins) who are speaking in this video. Sorry it is up so late, our video editor was on his honeymoon. We should be posting several more videos next week, including some from the National Freeper Convention held that weekend in DC. It was an amazing series of events you will all enjoy.

Jimmy Carter has always been one to speak bluntly – irritatingly so, to some of his critics. Even at 84, the former president continues to show his willingness to raise the most indelicate topics, often at the most inopportune time. This time, the topic is race and, more specifically, the racism that underlies some of the ugliest, most vociferous criticism of President Obama. "I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by the belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American," Carter...

Who took to the streets of Washington in the thousands, marching and demanding political change? Was it Progressives for Obama, or perhaps it was members of Moveon. The correct answer is neither of the above. Nowadaysthe only Americans who can be counted on to take to the streets or shout down presidents in righteous indignation are right-wingers. Progressives are smacked down time and again, but like hostages in Stockholm or kidnapped school girls, they believe that their survival depends on loving the abuser. The Right shows far more eagerness for a fight than the hapless Left, or what remains of...

Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president. For the internet strategist at the rightwing campaign group Americans for Prosperity, election night was a double disaster. Not only had Obama won the votes, he had outwitted his Republican opponents in his use of new media tricks such as email recruiting and social networking. "The left was far ahead of us. The efforts that Obama put into internet campaigning and what he accomplished were extraordinary," Telford says. That cloud hung over the conservative movement for...

The American people have put up with being lied to by politicians for so long the politicians thought they could get away with anything, but maybe not. These aren’t flower people handing out posies out there on the streets now, nor are they hippies smoking pot. These are people who played by the rules. These are people who worked to pay the bills while others pursued their half-witted causes. They worked while the supporters of the “snail darter” held up the construction of a huge dam. They worked while a farmer who found a kangaroo rat on his property had...

Biggest surprise here: He accuses the right of pretty much everything except racism. Proof positive, I guess, that the backlash has finally reached the left-wing brain trust. Since, per Maureen Dowd and Michael Eric Dyson, it’s now kosher to put words in people’s mouths that they didn’t actually say, I’m going to imagine that Stern finished with, “Take my advice or we’ll send more of your guys to the hospital.” This is, after all, a man who once boasted creepily about the “persuasion of power.” As has always happened when progressive change is in the air, the backlash gets fierce,...

Former President Jimmy Carter is absolutely correct in charging that blatant racism is at the core of the escalating tantrums by the enemies of President Barack Obama. Carter made the charge during a Carter Center event, and reiterated them in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams that will be aired soon. New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd came to a similar conclusion in her column last weekend. While it is politic for the Obama administration to dismiss such concerns, there is little doubt that opponents of serious health care reform are not so subtly pulling the strings of racist Americans...

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!" - The White Rose, pamphlet four Formerly-committed members of the Hitler Jugend, Hans and Sophie Scholl, became disillusioned when the brutal reality of the Nazi state crashed headlong into the contrived Utopianism of the fanatic youth movement. As their loyalty to the Third Reich dissolved, a split became inevitable. What they once served with gusto, they now opposed with a vengeance. Together with several university student co-conspirators, they anonymously published and distributed a series of leaflets overflowing with scathing denouncements of...

Jimmy Carter stirred up controversy recently by saying Barack Obama’s opponents are primarily motivated by racism. His comments provoked far right talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh (himself no stranger to controversy) and other conservatives to attack Carter for using race to shut down debate over the president’s agenda. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd sang a similar tune earlier in the week about the current climate in America. Both pointed to posters and drawings that depict Obama as a witch doctor or make reference to his Kenyan roots, with some even calling him the new Hitler. Whether or not one agrees...

He wants to recreate the spirit shown the day after 9/11. But it's a worrying kind of patriotism he's whipping up. This weekend, I temporarily moved back to America because Fox News told me to – or, to be specific, Fox News's Glenn Beck told me to. For those of you who have never encountered Beck, allow me to bring a little rain into your lives. He is one of the stars of Fox News, thanks partly to his fondness for using phrases such as "you are not alone" and "we surround them" on his weekday news talkshow, mixing the...

In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone. Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi -- whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her...

I went to the DC tea party with some trepidation. The anti Obama racist rhetoric of Dr Yeagley had me preparing for the worst. Of course I know AOW and Frogburger are not racists, but at any large gathering there is the possibility of the lowest common denominator. I marched with friends and checked the signs and could not find one. The protesters were well behaved and polite. About the only off the map talk was the focus on the birth certificate. In an ideal world Obama submits his birth certificate to the document lab and reasonable people live with...

"Do you think there'll be porta-potties?" Was the anxious question my husband asked. He's in his fifties, after all. He asked about restroom facilities several days before we left for DC, and enjoined me to "find out on the internet" because he thinks I can find out anything on the internet. It was from the various conservative blogs and forums that I haunt on the net that had inspired me to put together this trip to DC in the first place. Like most tea-partiers, I am only loosely affiliated with any of the organizers. I was anxious about restrooms, too,...

It was the biggest friendliest mob I've ever seen. A fantastic parade of smiling faces. People went out of the way to be nice to each other, police, an occasional opposition. And clean up after themselves and others.We came in late and were standing first opposite the National Archives, then crossed to the other side of the Pennsylvania Avenue. It was a non-stop 2 hours movement of people. Very impressive. See the slide show of my album at the link:  http://s648.photobucket.com/albums/uu207/tolik001/2009-09-12-DC-TeaParty/?albumview=slideshow