Friday, April 17, 2009

Tax Day Tea Party... I attended..... by Mark

I attended the Tax Day Tea Party with over 3000 bitter clingers onto their own money. The Skin Heads, Neo-Nazi's and Right Wing Radicals, that I am sure you may have heard ridiculed by the press, are pictured in the link below.

http://charlotteteaparty.webs.com/apps/photos/

I didn't know what to expect and several times I was in fear. It was so crowded one lady trying to push a stroller nearly ran over my toe. You all know I wear flip flops. Another frightful experience was a man dressed like a Pirate there to steal my money.... I thought. I made it through the day unharmed but shaken.

I was interested to see what Janet Napolitano, Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security was warning us about on April 14th. Right Wing Extremest? Maybe she should re-direct her attention to the borders.

I wanted to see what an estimated 800 grass root events with an estimated 2+ million attendees would feel like. Would it feel like a Tea Party, a Revolution?

Actually it was a blast. People of all stripes, white, black, mixed, Asian old and young and a lot of Veterans. Didn't notice any Muslims.

There were songs and speeches and the Pledge of Allegiance. There were signs, flags and costumes.

Jim Morrill, 91, a liberal reporter at the liberal Charlotte Observer, attended with his walker and wrote a fairly evenhanded column on his blog. You can read that here. Also you can vote whether you agree with the anti-tax anti-big-spending position of the tea party.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/664694.html


Nationwide coverage was interesting also. Check out this CNN reporter. Now watch this and tell me if they should change her title from reporter to agitator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3fvNhdoc0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emediabistro%2Ecom%2Ftvnewser%2Fcnn%2Fcnn%5Freporter%5Fat%5Fchicago%5Ftea%5Fparty%5Fits%5Fanticnn%5Fsince%5Fthis%5Fis%5Fhighly%5Fpromoted%5Fby%5Fthe%5Frig&feature=player_embedded

Not fit for family viewing? I would say so if you want your kids to learn how to have a civil conversation.

Now watch that reporter learn a lesson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNbWtl4wgM&feature=related

A video from Knoxville.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yijYnYndoHQ&feature=related

Many thanks to Bob Austin who contributed to this post.

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