February 21st 2009
Anti-Stimulus Grassroots At Work
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leeting tweets are flying in defiance of the ponderous, lumbering doom of Porkasaurus, as Top Conservatives on Twitter (#TCOT) uses its network of Twitter-ing conservatives to create a nationwide network of Tea Party USA protests against Porkasaurus next Friday.
Here’s the bare formative steps taking place in California - so far the protest is just in “your town” at “the Pacific Ocean” at 9 a.m. But people are starting to log in, and expect it to grow. SoCal folks, watch here for updates as future tweets result in specific protest rallies being formed.
The events look like they’ll all be similar in structure – people gather with some good signage, someone will present a shredded copy of Porkasaurus, and with great ceremony it will be thrown, Tea Party-like, into a handy body of water. Native American dress optional.
On this page, you can find updates for your city or a city near you – including Obama’s home town. And Biden’s. And Harry’s. How about you folks in Pelosiville? Michele Malkin has a running update of activities – complete with a suggested play list for the rallies. Investors Business Daily has a history of the movement including:
To be sure, the protest sizes so far are a far cry from the left’s anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations of the past decade. But they appear to have grass-roots origins. The organizer of the Kansas protest, Amanda Grosserode, calls herself a home-schooling mom who is “fed up” with the spending in Washington. She has been a member of Fair Tax Kansas City since last fall.
“My husband and I were feeling frustrated that the stimulus had passed with very little debate and no one had read it,” she told IBD. “I said, ‘We need to do something.’ ”
She began contacting family and friends, and eventually received attention via Fair Tax Kansas City and local talk radio.
Grosserode received considerably more publicity after e-mailing popular conservative commentator and blogger Michelle Malkin.
“I think the taxpayer revolt is the new counterculture,” said Malkin, who has been publicizing the protests on her blog. “People want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, I’m paying for that, I do not support that.’ “
Remember Amanda Grosserode – she may be the Rosa Parks of this new civil rights movement, demanding freedom from stupid, overbearing government overspending on the road to socialism.
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February 21st, 2009 at 11:43 am
<Quote> The events look like they’ll all be similar in structure – people gather with some good signage, someone will present a shredded copy of Porkasaurus, and with great ceremony it will be thrown, Tea Party-like, into a handy body of water. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HA! At which point that unfortunate “someone” will be promptly arrested and charged with a violation of “the Clean Waters Act”, a Federal offense no doubt.And, unlike Leftist protestors and “Civil Disobedients”, there will be NO free legal representation from the fine folks at the ACLU…Jim