Tea for 2 ? million?

brucefan · Apr 19, 2009

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Well, they tried. The mainstream media honestly tried to ignore the April 15 tea parties around the country. When the sheer quantity became irrefutable, the media joined government spokesmen in dismissing rallyers as pathetic cigarette smokers upset because, geez, just a little extra taxes on ciggies, what's yer problem?
Talk about scared.
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I went to a tea party on April 15 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. At least a thousand people attended.
Coeur d'Alene, let it be known, is a charming small city of 35,000 and is not particularly conservative. Many people were with us in spirit but couldn't attend because they were working (a trucker passing by honked enthusiastically and raised a cheer from the crowd). If a town the size of Coeur d'Alene can cough up at least a thousand frustrated, disgruntled protesters, how big were the tea parties in larger cities?
Remember, there were at least a thousand tea parties being held. I'm guessing over a million people gathered around the country. Picking some random cities, Houston had about 10,000 attendees, Kansas City had at least 4,000, Concord, N.H., had 500, Cincinnati had around 4,500, Sacramento had at least 10,000, Indianapolis had more than 12,000, Tulsa had 7,000, Olympia had 5,000. Even terminally liberal Seattle mustered 1,200. (Here are some tallies.)
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But the best the Associated Press could admit to is "tens of thousands" attended across the whole country. Tens of thousands. That's it. C'mon, AP ? Nashville alone had around 10,000 people. Atlanta had about 20,000. See how the media is downplaying the sheer number as vehemently as possible?
Of course, the reason the media claim to be unaware of how many people attended is because they weren't there. Sure, some local TV stations had their rigs, but the big guys? No way. I guess they think if they don't cover tea parties, it means they don't exist or something.
That seems to be the government's best defense right now. Marginalize. Trivialize. Aww, isn't it cute that the peasants are having tea. Now that the big day is over, everyone should toddle home like good little sheeple and be quiet.
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You see, the media, and by extension the government, is in full panic mode. That's why they're making absurd remarks. They're calling tea parties "despicable and shameful." They claim tea parties are sponsored by corporations rather than being grass-roots efforts. They claim we're just disgruntled because we lost the election. My husband even heard a CNN reporter on the radio who said ? I kid you not ? "A surprising number of children were being forced to hold propaganda." Oh great, now parents are abusing their children by involving them in politics. And the media claim they aren't biased?
This has apparently become the new liberal tactic to deal with the intense frustration being expressed around the country by citizens: Downplay. Belittle. Disparage. Name-call. The liberals are frightened by the anger and frustration unleashed in Flyover Country.
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I interviewed a lot of people at the tea party and asked why they came. Standard answers included:

"I'm sick and tired of working my tail off, then having my money given away to a bunch of crooks. If you think taxation without representation was bad, well look at it with representation."
"I'm mad as hell. I don't like this administration. They're not reading bills, they're lying ? but hey, it's OK because they 'misspoke.'"
"I'm here to show support for the Constitution the way it was written, and move away from the socialist direction this nation is going. It's not even socialism; it's fascism when the government takes over private enterprise and gives the appearance of a free market while they have the ability to control that market. Those are exactly the tactics taken in Nazi Germany in 1928."
"I'm here because my husband grew up in a country that headed toward socialism [Germany]. I want to make sure we stay a republic and stay a free country."
"I'm here to protest spending money we don't have to purchase things we don't want."
"I'm here because I'm paying for so much in taxes. I would like somebody to listen to us. I'm originally from Spain. I'm an American citizen now, but I know what socialism does to a country because Spain is a socialist country, and it's somewhere I wouldn't want America to go ? where people get penalized for success."
"I'm tired of being lied to and being overtaxed, of promises made and not kept. I'm worried that capitalism is being taken away from us, and I don't want to live in a socialist society."

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Remember, these are people who have never protested before. They've been too busy working and providing for their families to have the time or interest to protest. Until now.
It remains to be seen whether tea party attendees ? having done their "duty" ? will go home and forget everything they saw and heard and felt. Will they continue to agitate, or will they grow apathetic? Will they be vigilant, or will they come home after work and slump down in front of the TV?
The government is watching us. Closely. And this is exactly, precisely what the government hopes we'll do ? that we'll forget all about these cute little tea parties and let them get on with the business of ruining our country.
It's been said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We let our vigilance slip and look where it's gotten us.
So what do we do? We continue to protest. We monitor. We stay vigilant. We contact our representatives (consistently and frequently, some might say annoyingly) and let them know we're watching them. Senators and representatives get daily updates on how many people contact their offices and where those people stand on the issues. Let's let them know where we stand.
In the words of one of our tea party speakers, the weight of a million individual fingers can add up to tremendous pressure. Let's add some more weight

Doc Mercer · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

"Tens of thousands"

:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO:LMAO

tank · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

These guys need to get their stories straight.First atlanta was 7k and now it's 20k:LMAO:LMAOBy the end of the week it will be 2 million:LMAO:LMAO
This just proves it was a failure when they have to lie about the numbers and try saying it wasn't a republican thing when everyone knows it was.

Doc Mercer · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

What a bunch of assclowns:

"I'm here to show support for the Constitution the way it was written,

REALLY?

From Capitol Hill Blue
The Rant
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 10, 2005, 06:02

[FONT=&quot]Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.

Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell-shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
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Doc Mercer · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

More proof these are some of the most dense MFers this planet has
ever produced:

"I'm here because my husband grew up in a country that headed toward socialism [Germany]

Reagan: The Great American Socialist

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Ravi Batra comments that if Democratic President Barack Obama is a "small" socialist, then Reagan was the "Great American Socialist." (Photo: University of Texas)

tank · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

This pisses me off more than anything since these dumbfucks did not say shit for 8 years and now all of a sudden they want to cry and moan???You voted that idiot in to do this and now you want to blame someone else???

Doc Mercer · Apr 19, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

it's fascism ....

REALLY FUCKASSES?

YOU SHOULD KNOW ...

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="31">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]9.) Corporate Power is Protected:[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] The I.R.S.?s scrutiny of the nation?s biggest companies is at a 20-year low [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush continues to abuse his power and issues a signing statement to avoid pesky things like a "commission to probe contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan"[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]4,000 Mine Safety Violations Ignored On Bush Administration Watch[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush Reappoints Mine Safety Chief Who Bungled Crandall Canyon Disaster [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]GAO report: The White House ?pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken requirements that companies annually disclose releases of toxic chemicals<o

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> [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The K Street Project is a project by the Republican party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]American Conservative Magazine: One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a duffel bag... and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning days of the CPA and told to spend it ?before the Iraqis take over.? [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in Iraq[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush money network rooted in Florida, Texas: Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts to the President's elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and lobbying clients[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="20">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="31">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]10.) Labor Power is Suppressed:[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush vows to veto anti-terror security bill if it allows airport screeners to unionize.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] President Bush Attacks Organized Labor: Bush attacked organized labor Saturday, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can spend for political activities and opening up government contracts to non-union bidding.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]March 2001: President Bush signed his name to four executive orders on organized labor last month, including one that cuts the money unions will have for political campaign spending.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Congress and the Department of Labor are trying to change the rules on overtime pay, eliminating the 40 hour work week, taking eligibility for overtime pay away from millions of workers, and replacing time and a half pay with comp days.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="20">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="31">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The A to Z guide to political interference in science[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds.[/FONT][/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="50">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="20">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="20">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="31">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Citizens who have done no more than criticize the president are being banned from airline flights, harassed at airports?, strip searched, roughed up and even imprisoned[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'"[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole. [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="50">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits. [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="20">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="31">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="3" width="6%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]

[/FONT]</td> <td width="94%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush Cronyism: Foxes Guarding the henhouse[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="94%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]An illustrated guide to Republican scandals[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="94%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Who's been indicted, named as a co-conspirator or convicted? The Grand Ole Docket tracks trial dates, court appearances and sentencing hearings for players in the current array of national political scandals. [/FONT]</td> </tr> </tbody></table>[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="9">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The Great List of Scandalized Administration Officials[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="9">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]FEMA official who coordinated the fake news conference resigns, lands a new gig heading public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="9">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) was forced to give up his seat on the powerful committee after the FBI raided his home as part of the Abramoff scandal. To replace him, the GOP leadership tapped Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), who was himself recently named one of Congress? most corrupt lawmakers. [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="9">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]In preparation for upcoming Congressional hearings, Bush Administration firing federal attorneys and appointing ringers without Senate confirmation via the patriot act.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]If Bush's pick is confirmed, that will mean the five top appointees at Justice have zero prosecutorial experience among them.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Iran-Contra Felons Get Good Jobs from Bush[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="18">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Big Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Went To Big Donors[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="50">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Bush Wars -- Crooks Get Contracts : The main companies that were awarded billions of dollars worth of contracts in Iraq have paid more than $300 million in fines since 2000, to resolve allegations of fraud, bid rigging, delivery of faulty military equipment, and environmental damage.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="5">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) lost track of $9 billion [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="4">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]"Contracting in the aftermath of the hurricanes has been marked by waste, corruption and cronyism"[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#eaeaea" width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]14. Fraudulent Elections: [/FONT]Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Secure elections bill defeated in House after Whitehouse intervenes.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]A couple of election workers have been convicted of rigging a recount in Ohio following the 2004 election[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Rolling Stone does some investigative and rather exhaustive digging into public documents and says we?re almost guaranteed the 2004 election results were massively rigged [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings [/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Conyers hearing in which Clinton Curtis testifies that he was hired to create hackable voting machines (.wmv)[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="34">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="17">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]The Conyers Report (.pdf)[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="9">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in Hocking County[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international observers.[/FONT]</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="89%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]This picture is what stopped the ballot recounts in Florida shortly after it seemed that legitimate President Gore had a lead. The "citizens" started what was later called "the preppy riot". Screaming, yelling, pounding on the walls, these "outraged citizens" intimidated the polling officials to halt the court mandated recount. A closer look reveals who they really were. They were bussed and flown in at Republican lawmakers expense. Some even flew in on Tom Delay's private plane.[/FONT]</td> <td width="11%">[FONT=Arial, Arial, Helvetica]

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brucefan · Jun 7, 2009

Re: Tea for 2 ? million?

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Well, they tried. The mainstream media honestly tried to ignore the April 15 tea parties around the country. When the sheer quantity became irrefutable, the media joined government spokesmen in dismissing rallyers as pathetic cigarette smokers upset because, geez, just a little extra taxes on ciggies, what's yer problem?
Talk about scared.
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I went to a tea party on April 15 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. At least a thousand people attended.
Coeur d'Alene, let it be known, is a charming small city of 35,000 and is not particularly conservative. Many people were with us in spirit but couldn't attend because they were working (a trucker passing by honked enthusiastically and raised a cheer from the crowd). If a town the size of Coeur d'Alene can cough up at least a thousand frustrated, disgruntled protesters, how big were the tea parties in larger cities?
Remember, there were at least a thousand tea parties being held. I'm guessing over a million people gathered around the country. Picking some random cities, Houston had about 10,000 attendees, Kansas City had at least 4,000, Concord, N.H., had 500, Cincinnati had around 4,500, Sacramento had at least 10,000, Indianapolis had more than 12,000, Tulsa had 7,000, Olympia had 5,000. Even terminally liberal Seattle mustered 1,200. (Here are some tallies.)
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But the best the Associated Press could admit to is "tens of thousands" attended across the whole country. Tens of thousands. That's it. C'mon, AP ? Nashville alone had around 10,000 people. Atlanta had about 20,000. See how the media is downplaying the sheer number as vehemently as possible?
Of course, the reason the media claim to be unaware of how many people attended is because they weren't there. Sure, some local TV stations had their rigs, but the big guys? No way. I guess they think if they don't cover tea parties, it means they don't exist or something.
That seems to be the government's best defense right now. Marginalize. Trivialize. Aww, isn't it cute that the peasants are having tea. Now that the big day is over, everyone should toddle home like good little sheeple and be quiet.
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You see, the media, and by extension the government, is in full panic mode. That's why they're making absurd remarks. They're calling tea parties "despicable and shameful." They claim tea parties are sponsored by corporations rather than being grass-roots efforts. They claim we're just disgruntled because we lost the election. My husband even heard a CNN reporter on the radio who said ? I kid you not ? "A surprising number of children were being forced to hold propaganda." Oh great, now parents are abusing their children by involving them in politics. And the media claim they aren't biased?
This has apparently become the new liberal tactic to deal with the intense frustration being expressed around the country by citizens: Downplay. Belittle. Disparage. Name-call. The liberals are frightened by the anger and frustration unleashed in Flyover Country.
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I interviewed a lot of people at the tea party and asked why they came. Standard answers included:

"I'm sick and tired of working my tail off, then having my money given away to a bunch of crooks. If you think taxation without representation was bad, well look at it with representation."

"I'm mad as hell. I don't like this administration. They're not reading bills, they're lying ? but hey, it's OK because they 'misspoke.'"

"I'm here to show support for the Constitution the way it was written, and move away from the socialist direction this nation is going. It's not even socialism; it's fascism when the government takes over private enterprise and gives the appearance of a free market while they have the ability to control that market. Those are exactly the tactics taken in Nazi Germany in 1928."

"I'm here because my husband grew up in a country that headed toward socialism [Germany]. I want to make sure we stay a republic and stay a free country."

"I'm here to protest spending money we don't have to purchase things we don't want."

"I'm here because I'm paying for so much in taxes. I would like somebody to listen to us. I'm originally from Spain. I'm an American citizen now, but I know what socialism does to a country because Spain is a socialist country, and it's somewhere I wouldn't want America to go ? where people get penalized for success."

"I'm tired of being lied to and being overtaxed, of promises made and not kept. I'm worried that capitalism is being taken away from us, and I don't want to live in a socialist society."

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Remember, these are people who have never protested before. They've been too busy working and providing for their families to have the time or interest to protest. Until now.
It remains to be seen whether tea party attendees ? having done their "duty" ? will go home and forget everything they saw and heard and felt. Will they continue to agitate, or will they grow apathetic? Will they be vigilant, or will they come home after work and slump down in front of the TV?
The government is watching us. Closely. And this is exactly, precisely what the government hopes we'll do ? that we'll forget all about these cute little tea parties and let them get on with the business of ruining our country.
It's been said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We let our vigilance slip and look where it's gotten us.
So what do we do? We continue to protest. We monitor. We stay vigilant. We contact our representatives (consistently and frequently, some might say annoyingly) and let them know we're watching them. Senators and representatives get daily updates on how many people contact their offices and where those people stand on the issues. Let's let them know where we stand.
In the words of one of our tea party speakers, the weight of a million individual fingers can add up to tremendous pressure. Let's add some more weight

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It?s the end of the world as the Greater Depression hits after 2010?s failed ?W-recovery?

Human Events had the opportunity to interview forecaster extraordinaire Gerald Celente, President of Trends Research Institute, several days ago -- and the future he predicts looks bleak indeed. In fact, as Mr. Celente sees it, the Great Depression will seem like a mild recession as what waits for us in 2011 hits with the force of a Katrina financial hurricane.

In case you?re wondering who Mr. Celente is (if this is still possible), he?s appeared -- along with his predictions -- on Oprah, CNBC, Reuters, NBC, PBS, BBC, the Glenn Beck Show -- the list goes on an on. His Trends Report has been successfully predicting the major future trends impacting our lives for 3 decades, including calling the dot com crash back in the 1990's.

Mr. Celente's forecast on our impending future is based on his study of history. He says we are bent on destroying our currency, bankrupting our government, and unleashing a violent citizen-against-citizen eruption as the economy collapses into chaos and marshal law fascism.

Quite a claim. And God help us if he is right -- again.

?We?re sounding the alarm about the ongoing downward economic cycle?, Gerald told Human Events. ?In 2002, we predicted that the collapse of the American empire would fall like the World Trade Center in a thunderous crash -- in slow motion before our eyes. And now it?s happening.?

Mr. Celente follows over 300 trends: family, crime, war, education, consumer & business patterns which TRI synthesizes to predict the future.

?The US is becoming a shadow of what it used to be. Take education for example. The OECD group of developed countries ranks quality of life, education, health care of its member nations. The US is now falling down the table as one piece of data after another shows America is in decline. We?re no longer Win, Place or Show in quality of life, education, longevity? all the essentials where we used to be #1. And our economic underpinnings are failing.?

Mr. Celente puts part of the blame squarely on the federal government, and especially FED Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geithner, and warns us not to believe a word they say ?They?re the same people who didn't see it coming - are now telling us the worst is over, that ?green shoots are spouting upwards?. But they were wrong before. They?re wrong on this too?.

?When you pump out tons of money manure into this system based on nothing ? printing press paper, it?s like giving a patient with a chronic disease a pain killer -- it won?t cure the patient.?

?But let?s go beyond the economics. Our whole Constitution has been abrogated. The president simply writes an Executive Order to do whatever he wants. Nationalize the banks, take over the insurance industry, automobile industry, health care industry?
None of it is constitutional.?

When did the problem begin?

?After Dwight Eisenhower -- our last great president -- the Allied Supreme Commander in WWII ? who warned us of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. We've become completely corrupted.?

?We became enmeshed in foreign entanglements. We forgot the lesson of England - and how their global imperial overreach destroyed their empire.?

Of course, the average American doesn?t think that we?re an empire. We?re not like the classical empires of old - raping, pillaging and stealing the wealth of invaded peoples. What does Mr. Celente have to say about this?

?What we?re doing is squandering our wealth, our resources, the genius of our scientists and the future of our children. We?re over-consuming in every way -- but under consuming our education and focusing on the quantity, not the quality, of what we?ve built. So much of today?s culture is counter-productive to what American built it?s foundation on -- a high-quality producing nation building things, not pushing paper.

"And we?ve become not only a consumer society but a low-quality consumer, as well as the most obese society in the world, eating low-quality high-carb, high-fat processed foods.?

?We?re now focused on the lowest cost, the lowest common denominator. Not the best and highest quality. We advertise buying cheapest as the most important thing.?

Mr. Celente argues that we?ve socially destroyed our productivity and have abandoned it to other countries.

?And we have fallen into a moral vacuum. Look at how people used to dress. Smartly. Not like the cheap hoods of today. Fashion now copies the lowest common denominator. Our children wear clothes without belts, and shoes without shoelaces, to copy the styles of the violent criminals -- who have these items removed by the police in prison so they can?t be used as weapons. That?s become the fashion statement of today?s youth. Like rap music from the ghetto. We?ve become an underdeveloped nation.?

Mr. Celente observes that "people used to think of America as that shining beacon on the hill with 'liberty and justice for all?' ." So what happened?

"Morality is missing from our American public consciousness. Start with Wall Street. It?s run by a criminal gang. The only question is ?how much can you make, how much can you steal?? At the bottom, the welfare recipient says ?how much can I take?? And the government is in on the take."

?Morality is absolutely the issue. We had a government where we were taught all our lives that we are a free enterprise system -- so we depend on our own strength, our entrepreneurial ideas. The world used to look to us for our innovative spirit.?

?This is being destroyed before our eyes. And our government has become more interventionist than any of the old empires could imagine.?

"Our society is now based on consumption -- 70% of the GDP. This is more than we produce. So to pay our bills, we use funny money invented in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the fiat dollar based on credit (debt) -- the fractional reserve system. In 1930's you bought what you could afford. You saved up to buy your home. The easy credit of the 90's has destroyed the country. Now you borrow what you can?t afford - and the nation?s done the same."

Mr. Celente predicts the use of printing press money will cause the "greater depression".

"I predict continuing deflation of real estate, followed by extreme currency inflation -- ultimately becoming worthless. This is why gold is the only honest money -- the government can't counterfeit it. Look for it to top at least $2000 an ounce"

"Our unemployment numbers are also bogus. For example, the construction industry is really above 20% , and the government is creating low-level jobs, not real jobs. The US total real unemployment is more like 16%. Before the crisis is over, it will reach 25% - great depression numbers."

"When people have lost everything they have nothing to lose. Violence and crime will explode. Look at the OECD figures. The number of people not graduating from high school is exploding -- they're wacked out on drugs. New York City will look like Mexico City in a few years. The collapse of morality from top down -- and especially in the government -- makes it inevitable."

"What can we expect in the coming future", we asked.

"Washington has declared 'Economic Martial Law'. Wall Street is putting Main Street out of business. The key to watch is Christmas sales. They?ll fail. Christmas will be when reality sets in."

"Another trend we wrote about over 2 years ago was the tax revolt. What?s happened? Tax revenues have collapsed by 33%. And the wealthy people are leaving."

"We predict state secessionist movements will rival the breakup of the Soviet Union."

"The only way we can ever recover is to return to individual community, personal responsibility, local government. Next, average will disappear, Quality will return. Look at GM. Junk cars financed by junk bonds. Now owned by a junk government. As a consumer, don?t consume quantity -- consume quality."

"How will it all end?", we queried. Will the dollar survive?

"The dot com bubble should have burst and gone away in a short sharp recession. But the boys at the Fed re-inflated the economy by lowering interest rates to a 46 year low -- and in turn created the real estate bubble -- much bigger than the dot com bubble. "

"Now they?re creating the bailout bubble -- which will ultimately dwarf the real estate bubble. It will cause the implosion of the global economy world wide -- which will not be able to be repaired by creating yet another bubble. Every time the government fails, it tells a bigger lie and then a still bigger lie."

"These previous bubbles were not allowed to pop -- but they didn?t destroy the infrastructure of the country. This bailout bubble will."

"But this bubble will be the last one. After the final blowout of the bailout bubble, we are concerned that the government will take the nation into war. This is a historical precedent that?s been done over and over again."

"So, it?s not that the dollar that will survive. We may not even survive. Look at the German mess after WWI. It gave rise to Fascism and WWII. The next war will be fought with weapons of mass destruction."

American 'Liberal Fascism' ? Is it possible? Jonah Goldberg's bestseller raised the alarm two years ago.

<HR>Mr. Easton teaches University economics and is passionate about technology and
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