Posted on 06/19/2010 7:30:12 PM PDT by MitchellC
People waved American and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags during a Tea Party in Burlington on Saturday.
Speakers quoted historic figures such as Patrick Henry, while calling for more individual freedom and less government spending and control. Alamance County Commissioner Tim Sutton, a Republican running for re-election this year, referred to the nearby, pre-Revolutionary War Battle of Alamance. He said Americans who fought for a new nation “would be proud of the attitude of the Tea Party movement.”
Numbers went down significantly before it ended in the early afternoon, but a few hundred people were there at the peak of the rally, which began Saturday morning outside Holly Hill Mall in Burlington. Organizers estimated 500 people showed up for at least part of the event.
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Rep. Howard Coble, a Greensboro Republican who represents most of Alamance County in the U.S. House of Representatives, warned against overconfidence based on polls showing many Americans are concerned about Obama and the national Democratic Party’s positions on health care, government spending, the immigration enforcement law approved by Arizona voters, and other issues.
“Political winds are fickle,” he said. “They can change a dozen times between now and November.”
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Not a good comparison. According to John Hyde Preston in Revolution 1776, the people who fought at the Alamance in 1771 later united to fight for King George during the Revolution.
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