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Marked in Pgh on Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:03:47 PM
I was at the Tea Party in Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh on Tax Day. Contrary to the propaganda from the News Media, there were several thousand people there. I estimated about three thousand at any one time. But is was a fluid gathering, with people coming in and leaving during their lunch breaks, because they have jobs in order to pay taxes. So there were probably over a thousand more to add to the total. This is in contrast to small groups of professional liberal protestors from Rent-a-Mob demanding the world owes them a living we see on TV.
Several people in front of me finally had to leave, even as one of them said, "This is great, but now we have to go back to our jobs." Yes, we work, while the Democrat politicians tax us and waste our money. One of the speakers even asked the audience how many owned a home and a mortgage. Most of the people present raised their hands. "And how many of you pay the mortgage on time every month?" The hands stayed up.
The gathering was diverse, with people from every walk of life and no counter-demonstrators. There were executives, office workers and blue collar workers. There were young and old, white and black. Many of the people were carrying hand made signs expressing their political and economic beliefs. Almost every sign expressed sentiments against more taxes and more over reaching excesses of the Federal government. Everyone was civil and respectful to each other at the same time. It was just a meeting of like minded citizens fed up with over taxation. The people were clearly angry about the new onerous taxes and debt they knew they would have to pay for to support those who don't work or pay taxes and the politicians in Wahsington who are not listening to the responsible citizens of America.
We were there to participate in an historic event happening across the country. Hundreds of these Tea Parties had been organized by different groups and individuals as a grass roots response to tyranny and the News Media's active support of the abomination they had helped to elect by keeping the People in ignorance. Even the local conservative FM talk show station, 104.7, under reported the numbers attending that day by a scale of ten to one. And this was only one of three Tea Parties in the Pittsburgh area that day, in the midst of a Democrat state like Pennsylvania.
What I saw was a popular uprising against excessive taxation similar to the one that swept the American Colonies just before the Revolutionary War and included the original Tea Party. It is a genuine movement, but not a budding third party. It is also similar to the one that propelled the "Contract with America" back in 1994 to take back the Senate and even the House from the Democrats the last time they controlled all three houses of the Federal government. But first, it took over the Republican Party, and that is what this movement neeeds to do now. Third parties only help to split the Conservative Majority of America and perpetuate Democrat control of the government. So, no thanks, we don't need another Ross Perot to help deliver the next national election to the Demagogues. We need more Tea Parties on the 4th of July and a gathering in Washington, D.C. on September 12, 2009 to keep the movement going and take the Republican Party back for the Real Working People of America. Then we will be ready for the 2010 Elections. We, as taxpayers, are tired of supporting sociolist utopia dreams.
Some of the signs at the Tea Party had the phrase TEA=Taxed Enough Already. That is a great rallying cry. Again, there were many individuals and several groups present and a large number of people remained after the speeches to talk and network. There were even some Ron Paul supporters there in his native city, but they were few and no one group dominated the meeting. It was a meeting of individual citizens, of Americans.
One sign bore a quote I had to write down. It shows how far the Democrat Party has diverged from the principles of its founder. It stated, "The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give it to those who will not."
-Thomas Jefferson.
I agree with Jefferson, but I want to make clear this is a representative Republic, a Republic we will take back. So substitute "Republic" for "Democracy" in the phrase and you know where I stand. A Republic protects the individual citizen's right to private property and individual rights, where a Democracy does not. The Revolution continues.