This meeting can do nothing more to save the country. — Samuel Adams – December 16, 1773
What did you do to preserve the Republic today?
I went to the local Tea Party. I’d reckon there were more than 150 citizens, standing together in the cold rain to positively protest the very bizarre turn our affairs have taken.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson – 1800
I will admit to being terribly disappointed that the only speakers the organizers could drum up were a wordy preacher and two state delegates. The entire thing threatened to become precisely what its opponents claim it is: a front for Republican Party propaganda. Happily, some in the audience were – as their signs pointed out – as disgusted with those politicians as they were with those who actually voted us into this mess.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. — First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States – 1789
I don’t know how all this will turn out. I’m sure we’re all on some list now as right wing hatemongers. I fully expect to be lumped in with all the whackadoos (like the guy passing out Ron Paul literature). Regardless, it did my heart good to see that Citizens can still stand up and peaceably assemble to petition their Government for a redress of grievances.
A very positive experience. There’s hope for us yet.