9/12 Protests

I recently attended a rally organized by the Cincinnati Tea Party here in Northern Kentucky. After listening for an hour to two presentations on the real case behind global warming and the healthcare scare the president of the Tea Party began talking about the NEED for a new Constitutional Convention. He mentioned some good points but when I questioned him about the possibility of a rogue bunch of Liberals throwing out The Bill of Rights and trying to rewrite the entire Constitution he showed me how misinformed he was. He said that even if such an attempt was made the rewritten Constitution would have to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures. WRONG. A Constitutional Convention does not function under the same rules that applies to an amendment to the Constitution. The delegates to the convention are appointed by the state legislatures to act in their place and with full autonomous authority. Their work needs only to be approved by the majority of the other delegates before it becomes our new Constitution.

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I would like to go to Washington for the Tea Party. I sorry, I can't. I have a handcapped relative I have to take care of.I was going to hire some to do it while I was gone, but I could not afford it. 24 hour private health care is expensive.

I will not be able to attend due to health issues at this time. But I will be there in spirit and praying for those who standing up and taking their country back from those who thought their radical time had come!

My mother-in-law was going to come with me from New Jersey but she has pneumonia. I am still going by myself with my sign, my camera, my cell phone and a 36 mile range radio in case of any problems with outside communication during the protest.

I am hoping it will be a peaceful demonstration but if the union thugs show up and police, I'm sure who will be there to preserve the peace, probably nervous from a lot of people crowding into DC, if anything goes wrong I want to be prepared.

Anyone else going please make sure you have an exit plan to get out of DC, just in case. A meetup point planned with someone outside DC, probably no more than a 10 mile walk. Make sure you wear sneakers and not sandals. In worst case scenarios, public transportation of any kind will be unavailable within the DC vicinity. Carry a printout of a map with your exit route(s) planned in your pocket. Again, I am a paranoid safety nut (raised by a dad who has worked 30 years in corrections now) and believe all should expect the best but prepare for the worst.

Yes Chris, I was there today.

I just posted a short blog, I'll have more monday when I'm back home.

Right now my dogs is barking pretty loud :op

I bet ya weren't alone for long :o)

I was actually planning to go alone because the wife couldn't get the time off.

A week before, my son wrangled some time off (his boss is a conservative)so I had company.

A bunch of TH bloggers tried to meet up, but the crowd was so massive most of 'em never found us. we had a small TH contingent in the mosh pit though :) I did get to meet 3 THers :)

It felt like a great big family reunion.

I was not able to attend the DC protests, mostly due to my own financial situation. I now work for about 60% of what I earned last year and will soon take on a 2nd job. Atleast I'm able to find work! But the prospect of 7 day work weeks does not make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Yesterday I attended a gathering in Worcester Massachusetts at the very busy intersection at Lincoln Square. At the peak of the event there were about 100 of us holding homemade signs and waving at drivers, many of whom honked in support of our cause. We got the bird from two drivers and the "your crazy" sign from a couple more. But it was largely a positive 90 minutes of waving and chatting with people who I deem as normal Americans. The highlight for me was a woman who was taking oxygen and sitting in a wheelchair with a sign that read, "leave my health care alone!" Several of us went over to meet this true patriot. I made the comment several times how this was not an angry "mob" or "astroturf", but a peaceful group of very concerned citizens. When I got back home I was able to catch the last hour or so of Glenn Beck and the DC Tea Parties. There were estimates of well over a million people, and this could be the largest gathering ever on the mall. This is about freedom, lower taxes, less government, and a restored sense of who's in charge. We are. We're in charge. And this wave won't crest until 2010.

I was there and it was great. My blog is It's all relative. The people there were from all over and from all walks of life. We have settled on 1.5 million. I traveled 12 hours on a bus Friday to get there. I have photos and I can tell you we filled the whole area in front of the congress and about half way down the mall along with neigboring streets. Pennsyvania Avenue was still full at 2PM.

http://cincyconservative.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/13/i_went _to_a_party,_and_america_showed_up.thtml

PHENOMENAL........

In fact our group joined at the Ronal Reagan Building. We joined an already massive procession that came from the west Penn. Ave. area in front of the Whitehouse and was shoulder-to shoulder as far as the eye could see. Looking east-southeast the procession seemed to be a solid mass all the way to the capital. This was a little past 11:00AM.. Though the march was not supposed to begin until 11:30, the momentum of the sheer numbers of people and the fact that the permit was for the street, not the sidewalk only, meant that the whole parade was forced by sheer numbers to proceed at the earlier time.

Though we arrived at the capital about 45 minutes later, the crowd kept coming well into 1:00PM and even as late as 2:30 the last stragglers in the Tea Party Parade were showing up at the capital having take that route.

I have been to football games at the University of Michigan (stadium seats 110,000) and I know what 100,000 peopl looks like. I can tell you it looked like 100,000 people as far as the eye could see. Problem was you couldn’t see it all at the same time.

Obama was out of town. In my view, the lack of coverage of the actual number, some estimate to be as high as 1.2 to 1.5 million, is convenient for this congress and administration. Unfortunately even FOX news and Glenn Beck were all asleep at the wheel, his coverage on Saturday night was positively ignorant of the actual numbers..

Had a great time...met a lot of very nice folk from across the US. Was called a fascist by one drive by. Pleasantly surprised by how nice the folk in DC were, too.

I have only one post on my blog indirectly about the march. When I have more time, I will try to link some pictures I took.

participated in the rally. It was excellently conducted, and the attendees were outstanding, thoughtful and knowledgeable.

The Metro operated on a weekend schedule as if nothing was going on. They had even scheduled track maintenance. DC was clueless and overwhelmed.

No U.S. "news" media reporting that I have seen has been anything but gross intentional fabrication.

http://gumballs.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/14/the_912_rally.t html

Read about it in my blog at:

http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com

"9/12/09, I was on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building" by RME KRNL 9/13/09

No shock that the press distorted the protest on 9-12, discounting the number of protesters and labeling those who attended "racist." This is what we've come to expect from the elist left and their minions in the media.

http://rebelfox.blogtownhall.com/

A request went out from Freedom Works for people to email their stories to the email below. Also asked to provide name,(first names only to be used)age, where you are from...I added the number of people that attended. This will be forwarded to our Congressman.
Please post this on the blogs who have Tea Party AARs!!


912dc.org@gmail.com

"Capitol Police Conspiracy?" by RME KRNL, 9/18/09, at: http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com

http://www.redstatejd.blogtownhall.com - I just put it up, hope you all enjoy!!

It was AWESOME! Approximately 2000 attended. You can watch the video here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/homer-lockport-tea-party

My speech occurs ~45 minutes into the stream, but of course, I recommend you watch the whole thing and recapture that 9/12 feeling all over again!

Teri O'Brien, America's Original Conservative Warrior Princess
http://www.teriobrien.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Teri-OBrien

My husband, younger daughter (age 24) and I began planning the last of June. It was incredible! There is no way those over 1 million voices can be ignored. Some politician and press comments since show that it shook them! What has to happen now, is for all who attended (either in person or in spirit) to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! Get out those emails, letters and phonecalls. Get local groups up and going. My daughter has gained a newly found understanding and love of our country as a result of the trip. We followed it up the next day with a trip to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. We had been before, but she had not. She is "fired-up" with patriotism! Let's all get that way!

http://smalltownconservativevoice.blogtownhall.com/

Alice Lammonds
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Yes, "grandmasshoes" attended. We most certainly have a voice and it is heard, but is it taken seriously?

Initially, I could not help but be awed by the solidarity and the sacrifices people made in order to attend.

The message? Powerful,compelling and unfortunately,completely lost on the growing population of conservative thinking liberals. There are plenty - enough, I believe, to swing the vote. But when the loudest conservative voices continue to blatantly stereotype liberals as "leftist un-American heathens," can we really expect to turn them? It's a bit like approaching someone on the street and asking, "Hey creep face, gotta' smoke you can spare?"

Conservatives need a unified plan of action to turn disenchanted liberals. When national healthcare fails to deliver, the window of opportunity will be enormous. Heck, the window is wide open now. I'm talking about persuasion, which means MARKETING CONSERVATISM. And that means a comprehensive make-over. The face we show must be hate-free and welcoming.