Some of you may have heard about the nation wide protests that happened on April 15 (tax day) called "Tea Parties." If you didn't hear about them, watch them on TV, or read about them in the news, let me enlighten you. In fact, even if you did hear, let me enlighten you anyway since the media came down hard on the protest, if they even covered it at all! This protest was against creeping socialism, a government OBSESSED with spending money they don't have, a government that doesn't listen to its citizens. (Thus the Tea Party theme--remember the original tea party was a protest against taxes without representation.) It was a protest promoting traditional values, fiscal responsibility, government transparency and true freedom. This protest was a true
grassroots movement, one that was not promoted or organized by any one organization (TRUE, no matter what you read!). The protest was one in which the long silent majority showed they were fed up and finally decided to speak up. In fact,
623,000 Americans spoke up in cities all across the nation, because remember: we surround them!
So you KNOW I went to the tea party here in town! Of course I did! And you know I painted signs and held them up. So did my sister Natalie. It had been snowing all day and it was considerably cold, but there were still about 1000 people that showed up. We had awesome speakers and I had such a great time yelling and booing and clapping! Awesome! My first protest!
Nat and I also had a fun time reading everyone's signs. This one was particularly hilarious and we had a good time crackin up at that. (If you're not quite getting it, remember the "Don't taze me bro!" incident?)
(This is completely frivolous, but we also thought these pics of us were funny. We said "Look at us! We're so proud to be practicing our American constitutional rights!")
I have to say, however, that my favorite part of the day was right before we had to leave. We spent our last 10 minutes standing by the street and waved our signs, yelled, and got lots of honks and thumbs-up. (I have to say it is nice living where most people agree with me!) Look how excited we look! GO AMERICA!
As I said, these protests were all over the nation. Anyone who knows my family knows we are all out spoken and opinionated; we were raised to fight for what's right. (You should have heard how proud my mom and dad were of us all going out and protesting! It's so great to have awesome parents.) So of course there were members of my family across the nation protesting in their states. Here is a picture of my sister Melanie and her daughter protesting in Illinois. Even in a liberal town in Obama's home state 300 people came out to protest. (And how cute is her daughter? She is surely my sister's daughter, a real firecracker in the making. She LOVED holding up her sign and clapping and yelling, like she were made to protest!) Afterall, don't we ultimately fight for right like we do for our children and their future? (Oh, and P.S., my sister's sign has the number the United States is in debt:
$11,169,978,555,115. Yes, you should be shocked and disgusted. And it's a bonified number straight from the treasury department, look
here.)
My other sister Heidi went out to protest in Washington D.C. It was pouring rain and still 2000 people gathered in front of the White House. Too bad President Obama was "unaware" of these protests--too bad he couldn't look out his window! Too bad he didn't know over half a million of the citizens of the country he is president of were banding together. What a lie!
I want to share something: at the protest I attended, a speaker asked how many of us were first time protestors. Almost everyone raised their hand!! These are people who used to be the silent majority and have decided not to be silent anymore. Here is the deal, too many of us want to stay the silent majority but if we don't speak up, we won't be the majority anymore! You'll wake up and wonder where your nation, the real United States, has gone! What is going on in our nation now is real cause for concern and "we, the people" are smart enough to see the truth, to figure out what is really going on no matter how well they try and disguise it or distract us! It's time to be involved,
even if it is uncomfortable. People all over the nation are uniting and it is the perfect time to add your voice!
As per an email I received from the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization to promote the advancement of pro-life politicians and to save babies! PLEASE do your duty and spread the word!:
