Apr 15 2009
Power to the People
We’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it any more!
Was yesterday’s headlines about the report from Homeland Security and the radical right a PREEMPTIVE STRIKE against regular Americans? A way of diminishing and marginalizing the cause by making it appear radical? Is this another technique right out of Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky? What is the reason some news people are calling it Tea-bagging other than to marginalize it?
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Tax Day Becomes Protest Day. How the tea parties could change American politics. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed “Smart Mobs” by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don’t know each other.
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
Reuters
A rally and march in protest of higher taxes in Santa Barbara, Calif., April 4.
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A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started By Michelle Malkin
For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by
their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day
Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to
get you up to speed.It’s here!
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The Lee’s Summit Tax Day Tea Party
April, 15, 2009 — nicedeb I’m in between tea parties, right now, so I’m going to have to make this quick.
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Unreal: CNN reporter openly contemptuous of tea parties Apr 15, 2009 3:25 PM by Allahpundit “This is not really family viewing.”
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Tax Day and Tea Parties: The writing on the wall April 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Scott Allan’s World: Today is the day, Americans April 15, 2009 –
If you’re like me you watch the news in shock wondering what is happening to our country and why isn’t anyone stopping it? You feel as though you have no representation even though you vote. You are positive that most of the country feels like you but are helpless against an ever expanding government run by people who feel they know what is best for you.
Find your local tea party. http://www.taxdayteaparty.com
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