Stimulus Protests Are Happening

[angelatc]

Pictures from Seattle's protest yesterday.

http://www.americantypo.com/2009/02/seattles-stimulus-bill-protest.html (note that the newspaper report said 50-60 people attended, but the group photo clearly shows twice that number.)

Denver is having a protest today: http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/02/focus-on-new-energy-as-denver-braces.html

Nashville and NYC are allegedly trying to get something together but I do not have links.

I am surprised the Campaign For Liberty isn't encouraging people to at least join protests in their local regions.

[cradle2graveconservative]

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[angelatc]

I think it's been established that the majority of Americans are against the stimulus. I think it's also been established that Congress couldn't care less what we think. I'm happy to see people out protesting the atrocious actions of our government, I just wish it meant something anymore.

It means a chance to meet new people, create mailing lists, and above all - it means people are getting off their couches.

50-60 people was nothing for us back in the peak, but the first sign waving event I went to had 8 people.

Do you think the revolution will start big? This might be nothing, but we don't know.

[cradle2graveconservative]

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[ihsv]

More and more people are getting fed up.

[speciallyblend]

More and more people are getting fed up.

snare drum;)

[Bontemps]

More and more people are getting fed up.

i see what you did there

[Bruno]

More and more people are getting fed up.

"I'll be here the whole week. Tip your waitress. Try the veal. You've been a great audience goodnight everybody...." :)

[micahnelson]

It means a chance to meet new people, create mailing lists, and above all - it means people are getting off their couches.


yes yes yes

[Athan]

Yeah we need to support these protesters.

[haaaylee]

i bet there were some ron paul supporters in there. . . . based on some of those signs.

[angelatc]

Pictures from Denver. Looks like a couple hundred were there: http://www.i2i.org/main/page.php?page_id=241 It was billed as a $30,000 per head pig roast. :)

Signage spotted: "Atlas will shrug" and "Galt's Gulch Or Bust!" :)

This is weird - it looks like it is photoshopped?

http://www.i2i.org/main/photo_view.php?photo_id=239

[angelatc]

Wednesday's protest to watch is in Mesa, AZ.

http://www.kfyi.com/pages/bruce.html

[Lucille]

I'd go down to PHX today to ask 0 when the government, including him, is going to take responsibility for this mess and why we should trust them to fix what they broke with the same policies that caused it, but people have been lined up for days like a bunch of tweenage girls waiting for a Jonas Bros. concert.

Obama is far more dangerous with this cult (http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/obama/future.html) surrounding him than he would be without it.

[RevolutionSD]

I think it's been established that the majority of Americans are against the stimulus. I think it's also been established that Congress couldn't care less what we think. I'm happy to see people out protesting the atrocious actions of our government, I just wish it meant something anymore.

Protests are meaningless to the controlling government.
We need to reject the very idea of government.

Who do you want ruling your life? Yourself, or some so-called elected official?

[Bontemps]

Protests are meaningless to the controlling government.
We need to reject the very idea of government.

Who do you want ruling your life? Yourself, or some so-called elected official?


the protest was a little late, scheduling is key..

[angelatc]

Protests are meaningless to the controlling government.
We need to reject the very idea of government.

Who do you want ruling your life? Yourself, or some so-called elected official?

Sorry, I am Republican, not an anarchist. If you want to discuss the merits of attending a protest...please start your own thread.

In other news: News from the Mesa protest. Looks like each one is larger than the last despite the fact that they didn't plan it far enough ahead to suit Bontemps: The media reports this one at 500.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/135640

[Lucille]

Sorry, I am Republican, not an anarchist. If you want to discuss the merits of attending a protest...please start your own thread.

In other news: News from the Mesa protest. Looks like each one is larger than the last despite the fact that they didn't plan it far enough ahead to suit Bontemps: The media reports this one at 500.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/135640

Bwahaahaaha! Thanks for the link!

"Spend all you want, I'll pick up the tab"
"I'll keep my freedom! You keep the change"
"Free fertility drugs now"
"B.O. smells and so does Socialism"
"Fund bikini wax now"

And...


"I'm out here to excercise my First Amendment rights while I still have them," said Tim Guine, 52, a Phoenix sales manager. "Everything that man stands for is the antithesis of what this country was founded on. He's a Marxist, fascist."

THIS

[lynnf]

ha,ha, ha, I like this one

http://www.i2i.org/main/photo_thumb.php?photo_id=235


lynn

[Lucille]

More coverage here (http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2009/02/18/20090218prez-protest0218.html).


"We can't borrow and spend our way out of a crisis that that got us into," Crause said."Free markets work."Crause said he wasn't there to see Obama, but to register a protest, saying, "I can see him on TV, and I can shut it off."

Jack Clark, 50, Gilbert, held a sign taller than he is that protested the stimulus. It read: "Personal Responsibility: RIP 2009."

Wearing a T-shirt with a picture of the late President Ronald Reagan that said "Right," Clark said he wanted to give the president a piece of his mind.

"I'm somewhat disgusted by the reaction of the country," he said of economic stimulus efforts. "A lot of what's happening here is people being irresponsible."

[Feenix566]

Where do you find out about this stuff? I wanna go join a protest!

[angelatc]

Where do you find out about this stuff? I wanna go join a protest!

I have been posting every one I hear about here and also on the CFL site.

Also, you might want to check Craig's List.

They chose Colorado and Arizona to coincide with Obama's visits to those states.

[mediahasyou]

Looks like a meetup?

[Cowlesy]

Absolutely great thread!

[angelatc]

Next protest is Kansas:

“A protest has been scheduled for Rep. Dennis Moore’s office (D-KS) in Overland Park, KS on Sat. the 21st at 10 am in response to his support of the Stimulus Package.”

I know personally that actually showing up at their offices seems to scare them to freaking death.