Massive crowd marches against Obama's agenda

[Peer Fischer]

(I have to acknowledge the writer for not using the phrase "mostly-white crowd." )

Massive crowd marches against Obama's agenda

Tens of thousands of protesters marched on the U.S. Capitol today, airing a wide range of grievances rooted in a shared sentiment: seething anger at President Obama and his far-reaching agenda.

Led by a fife and drum corps in period costumes, the demonstrators filled Pennsylvania Avenue and swarmed the Capitol grounds with a sea of bobbing placards and hand-lettered signs that spelled out a catalog of dissent.

There were antiabortion protesters and term-limit advocates. Critics of financial bailouts and the federal investigation into CIA interrogation techniques. Marchers worried about rekindling inflation and upset about the soaring national debt. Pickets opposed to Obama's healthcare reform plan and challenging the legitimacy of his election.

"Is This Russia?" one sign said. "Traitors Terrorists Run Our Government," read another. "Don't blame me. I voted for The 'American,' " a third stated.

The protest -- touted by organizers as the largest-ever outpouring of political conservatives -- was organized by a loose-knit coalition of anti-tax, small-government proponents, and widely promoted by sympathetic voices in the blogosphere and on TV and talk radio. Park police declined to provide an official crowd estimate.

The rally was embraced, after some hesitation, by congressional Republicans, some of whom were leery of associating with the more incendiary elements of Obama's opposition.

"The coming weeks and months may well set the course for this nation for a generation," said Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, the No. 3 GOP House leader, voicing the apocalyptic tone that rang through much of the day's rhetoric. "How we as conservatives respond to these challenges could determine whether America retains her place in the world as a beacon of freedom, or whether we slip into the abyss that has swallowed much of Europe in an avalanche of socialism."

If there was a unifying theme, it was the notion that the federal government, starting with the financial bailout last fall and continuing with Obama's vast economic stimulus plan, has grown too big, too costly and too intrusive.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,5742055.story

[Peer Fischer]

Anti-Government Protests Draws Tens of Thousands to D.C.

Tens of thousands of conservative protesters crowded outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a massive demonstration aimed at stopping what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obama administration.

"Hell hath no fury like a taxpayer ignored," declared Andrew Moylan, head of government affairs for the National Taxpayer Union, urging protesters to call their representatives. "You're being ignored today by the media and some politicians."

The crowd -- loud, rambunctious and sprawling -- gathered at the foot of the Capitol after a march along Pennsyvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza. Invocations of God and former President Reagan by an array of speakers drew loud cheers, echoing across the Mall. On a windy, overcast afternoon, hundreds of yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags flapped in the breeze, mingled with U.S. and Texas state flags.

"We own the dome," the crowd chanted loudly, pointing at the Capitol.

About 30,000 people registered online for the march, according to one of the rally's sponsors, FreedomWorks, a Washington-based group headed by former House majority leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.). FreedomWorks and other sponsors, including Tea Party Patriots and ResistNet, comprise a loose coalition of conservative groups that helped organize several health-care and anti-tax rallies during the spring and summer.

The crowd surrounded the Capitol Reflecting Pool, spilling across Third Street and onto the Mall. The sound system was inadequate to the throng; speakers on stage, at the Capitol's West Front, were too distant to be intelligible to anyone near the edges of the rally.

"You will not spend the money of our children and our grandchildren to feed an overstuffed government," Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) said of the Obama administration, drawing loud cheers from the throng. "Our history is decorated by those who endured the burden of defending freedom," Price said. "Now a new generation of patriots has emerged. You are those patriots."

The protesters descended on Washington with a long list of grievances against a government that many complained is racing toward socialism. "Health care is not listed anywhere in the Constitution," said Brian Burnell, 45, who owns an insurance company on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

"How Is That Hopey Changey Thing Workin' Out For Ya?" his placard read. "You want socialism?" said Susan Clark, a District resident marching with a bullhorn. "Go to Russa!"

Participants in the demonstration spanned the spectrum of conservative anger at Obama, including opponents of his tax, spending and health-care plans and protesters who question Obama's U.S. citizenship and liken his administration to the Nazi regime. By 11 a.m., the route between Freedom Plaza and the Capitol was a sea of demonstrators chanting "USA!" and carrying signs such as, "Taxed enough already," "The audacity of dope" and, "Czars belong in Russia."

Most signs were handmade: "Socialism is UnAmerican," "King George Didn't Listen Either!" "Terrorists Won't Destroy America, Congress Will!" "The American Dream R.I.P."

Many protesters carried the now-familiar poster of Obama made up to look like the Joker, captioned "Socialism." One man's sign read, "Having government manage your health care is like having Michael Vick watch your dog." Another sentiment: "Cash for Clunkers! Trade in your congressman!"

"We're all endangered!" shouted a passerby, Dave Rue, 67, a retired Mobil Oil employee who had traveled from New Jersey. "We're endangered because they're pushing socialism on us."

Some came to protest what they see as government interference with gun ownership. Shaun Bryant, 40, a leadership trainer, was among eight people who flew in from Salt Lake City. They fashioned a sign with a drawing of an AR-15 assault rifle and the words "We came unarmed from Montana and Utah . . . this time!"

At the Federal Triangle Metro stop, demonstrators emerged from packed trains and broke into a rendition of "God Bless America" as they rode escalators to the street.

"Nobody's standing up for us, so we have to stand up for ourselves," said Phil Chancey, 66, who drove to the District from Clinton, Tenn., for the rally. The sign he carried, deriding the president's health-care reform plan, read, "Obamacare Makes Me Sick."

Debbie Wilson, 51, of Apollo Beach, Fla., flew to Washington last Sunday to make a week out of the protest. She drove to colonial Williamsburg in a rented car. "We want our country to go back to the roots of doing what our Founding Fathers wanted us to do -- less government in every aspect of my life," she said. "We walked the streets of Williamsburg, and it felt like we were learning how to be a patriot."

Dozens of signs mentioned Rep. Joe Wilson, (R-S.C.), who jeered at Obama during his health-care speech to Congress on Wednesday night. Dee Meredith, 62 of Callao, Va., said she had never heard of Wilson before he shouted at the president, "You lie!" At the rally, Meredith waved a placard: "Thank You Joe Wilson." "We're the forgotten people, and he's given us a voice," she said.

When Armey, in his address to the crowd, referred to Obama having pledged to uphold the Constitution, the protesters shouted at the president in absentia: "Liar! Liar!"

Jeff Mapps, 29, a stagehand and labor union member from South Philadelphia, left home about 6 a.m. to come to the protest. He said he hadn't been involved in previous Tea Party demonstrations, but he watches Fox News host Glenn Beck "all the time" and he wanted to be a part of something he thinks will be historic. Beck has been drumming up support for the march.

Holding a sign that said "Preserve, Protect, Defend" on a Red Line Metro train packed with conservative activists, Mapps fretted over a "blatant disregard for the Constitution." "We've been watching it for six to eight months," he said. "It was finally an opportunity to get involved. It's been boiling over . . . It's not just about health care. It's about so much more than that."

Anna Hayes, 58, a nurse from Fairfax County, stood on the Mall in 1981 for Reagan's inauguration. "The same people were celebrating freedom," she said. "The president was fighting for the people then. I remember those years very well and fondly." Saying she was worried about "Obamacare," Hayes said: "This is the first rally I've been to that demonstrates against something, the first in my life. I just couldn't stay home anymore."

Like countless others at the rally, Joan Wright, 78, of Ocean Pines, Md., sounded angry. "I'm not taking this crap anymore," said Wright, who came by bus to Washington with 150 like-minded residents of Maryland's Eastern Shore. "I don't like the health-care [plan]. I don't like the czars. And I don't like the elitists telling us what we should do or eat."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009091201255

[Mike in Denver]

The estimates of the size of this crowd ranged from tens of thousands to two million. I only found one overhead shot and in it were something over 150,000 people. It was only a partial view of the crowd.

I'm guessing there were fewer than a million, but still several hundred thousand people. I'm hoping that they weren't just "god bless the republican" shills. Actually, I kind of doubt most were.

I hope it's a good sign.

Mike

[Mike in Denver]

This is the picture I mentioned:



I'm out of practice, and it is not a very dense crown, so there might be fewer people than I wrote above. An aerospace company once spent a year or so training me to be a photo-interpreter. I wasn't very good at it. Still a lot of folks, for sure.

Mike

[Peer Fischer]

Some Paulistas at the march, from huffingtonpost.com ... standing out among the usual gaggle of neocons:

[Eilert]

Originally Posted by Peer Fischer

Nice punctuation, honey. Ever hear of the apostrophe and the question mark? This is why no one takes us seriously. Who can blame them?

Incidentally, I find it ironic and amusing that most of the people pictured at this march are overweight.

[Peer Fischer]

Some good ...

Some not so good ...

Tin-foil hat



Jokbamhitler

[richyrichard]

Its amazing that an entire herd of sheep will allow one shepherd and some barking dogs to drive them from one pasture to another when they could easily turn and trample the shepherd and his dogs to death in an instant.

A nation of 300 million people allow less than 600 people under the dome to tax and regulate them into slavery, debauch their currency, and sponsor policies that lead to their extinction.

Amazing but true.

[richyrichard]

Originally Posted by Peer Fischer

Some Paulistas at the march, from huffingtonpost.com ... standing out among the usual gaggle of neocons:

Sleaveless shirts and blouses should be outlawed.

The Jews probably designed them just to gross everyone out.

[Douglas]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/09/12/spellman.tea.party.wrap.cnn

[John Cassidy]

The crowds were made up of whites. This is important. Most whites believe in conservative principles. Most non whites want free shit.

[Johnny James]

Originally Posted by Douglas

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/pol...party.wrap.cnn

What fucking fly-ridden part of the shitskinned world did that subhuman pudge mulatto flatface come from? Who the FUCK sold him a gun, too? Either way, if he's a "militiaman" I'm sure as all God not fighting at his side.

[Johnny James]

All I see here are a bunch of bored Amerikwans looking for something to do on their day off aside from fucking their oriental whore wives and playing xbox with their college buddy that probably looks like the above featured mystery meat, who in turn has some whore White wife. Tell me I'm wrong. I've seen it. God, fuck this country, I'm moving to Serbia.

How do we channel all this pseudo-outrage into embracing heritage and National Socialism?

[OTPTT]

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakes

What fucking fly-ridden part of the shitskinned world did that subhuman pudge mulatto flatface come from? Who the FUCK sold him a gun, too? Either way, if he's a "militiaman" I'm sure as all God not fighting at his side.

Where was that video recorded? Surely not Washington.

Looks like a CNN producer. Doesn't even appear to know how to operate his rifle.

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by OTPTT

Where was that video recorded? Surely not Washington.

Looks like a CNN producer. Doesn't even appear to know how to operate his rifle.

Possibly Jackson, Michigan

In Jackson, Michigan, a young man didn't need a sign. He was carrying the real thing: A loaded AK-47 assault rifle and two loaded handguns.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/...ess/index.html


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[Douglas]

[AntonF]

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA



A million or more rock Washington
Taxpayer march could be biggest rally ever in capital--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: September 12, 2009
9:57 pm Eastern


Chelsea Schilling and Alyssa Farah
© 2009 WorldNetDaily



Hundreds of thousands descend on Capitol


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.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109628

I'M TOTALLY STUNNED!!!!! LOOK AT THEM ALL!!!!! AND ALL WHITE!!!!! They could have trashed the capital today and taken DC over if they brought weapons. ZOG would have been totally taken by surprise!!!!!

The Jewsmedia is freaked also. THEY ARE LYING THEIR TEETH OUT ON THE #'s that showed up today.

COULD YOU IMAGINE IF A GROUP LIKE THIS SHOWED for a demonstration against JEW CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND AGAINST ISRAEL with Traficant leading charge and on stage????? Maybe something like that could actually be in the cards someday, now that this thing came down?????

AGAIN, I'M TOTALLY STUNNED!!!!! White people last year were showing up by the ten's of thousands to listen to our new Jew controlled Negro President speak, BUT NOW THIS?????

HAS WHITE AMERICA ACTUALLY AWOKEN????? Could we be 1 short step away from our dreams?????!!!!!

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by Douglas

Possibly Jackson, Michigan

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/...ess/index.html


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Notice the subtitle of the video the pic was captured from.

Protesters angry with the Obama administration hit the streets of Washington, D.C., on Friday to make their voices heard.
Source: CNN | Added September 12, 2009

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[Eric Blair]

They wouldn't even need guns to take over DC with that number.

[Dale VanderMeer]

YouTube - Raw Video: Tea Party Protesters Converge on D.C.

YouTube - Raw Video: Tea Party Protesters Converge on D.C.