Sign Sign Everywhere A Sign
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:36PM The 10am crowd was so thick at 17th and E we couldn’t see a way towards the statue at which we were supposed to meet the “NH Division” of 9/11 marchers, let alone claw our way through to them.
Then we saw the New Hampshire flag, just in time, the marchers were so backed up in Freedom Plaza the event took off early like a great big snake of humanity uncoiling from its confines.
Even I was set back whit the view of the Capitol way off in the distance and a solid sea of marchers before and behind me.
You would walk past small groups singing patriotic songs.
Chants would start up spontaneously, work through the crowd and disappear.
There were many, many, baby carriages and wheel chairs.
A constant as men with military style decorated black hats from the ship they served on in the military.
Small groups from towns or regions across the country marched together as we did with NH marchers.
I talked to some people from the Lehigh Valley of Pa. They came in four buses just from that area alone and said 80 buses left Pa. they knew of.
I stopped to take a photo of one of four Grim Reapers I saw. I told him to look grim for the camera. He said, “Its hard not to smile, my time has almost come.” There was even a Mrs. Grim Reaper wandering around.
The hand made signs were the best.
Figure there were well over a million marchers, which means at least a half millions signs banners, puppets, posters, etc. All of these were hand made not paid for with union or Acorn tax dollars.
Talk about original.
My favorites are the simple ones:
Liar, Liar, Your All fired!
Who’s Czary Now?
Obama Scares Me
Communism = Socialism in a hurry
Some people had puppets with moving parts.
One guy was giving pretty girls plastic star necklaces.
People dressed their walkers for the event.
Interestingly there was almost NOTHING for sale. I bought a button from a lady who hand made them.
There were MAYBE two pretzel venders and a smattering of small push cart drink venders I saw. We even went on a vender run to buy souvenirs but all we found were some small flags.
All in all, people were so friendly it was striking. No trash, not arrests, no incidents I know of but one man I saw who was being helped by several others after falling in the grass.
It was an amazing and an historical experience. I hope everyone who attended writes about it.
And this brings me to:
In November of 2010 after the race-baiting haters of the Left lose their progressive agenda for a generation will they then do some navel gazing as to when in time they lost their last best chance at destroying America.
Will the question be, did we lose it after the 9/12 March or did the April 15 Tea Parties do us in?
Is it time to admit it was a disastrous election in November 2008 that ruined the Democrat Party?
Reader Comments (6)
Here's one for you Chaz... scroll down to see the photos of the woman on the page.
Think Chaz would get a tingle out of that? Bwahahahahaha!
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2009/09/12/bigger-than-woodstock/
We'll get our vote out on November, 2010, and you'll get yours. I tend to think that it will be a tough election -- as 2008 was -- but that the sanity of the American people will reward those candidates who have had the courage to do good things, attempted to save our economy from the greed of Wall Street, and who will bring health insurance reform to our nation.
Screw you guys, we have our 50% + 1 needed to win elections so we will continue force you to live under whatever rules we desire!
I agree to this: tens of thousands of people showing up last week for a Washington demonistration should be listened to. Regardless of the numbers, even if it's just one lone voice in our form of government you should have a voice. But that doesn't mean that you should create mythis -- whether it's saying there were 1.5-2 million at the demonstration, or that there are "death panels" to kill off grandma, or that the intention of health insurance reform is to destroy all health insurance companies or provide health care for all immigrants, or that the federal government wants to "take over" health care.
There should be a level of honesty in this debate from those opposed. Instead of creating myths, there is plenty to discuss on the issue itself. But I suppose it won't happen, especially considering the debate we recently had in New Hampshire on marriage equality, where it was presented by the opponents that such equality would devastate "traditional marriage."
By the way, Massachusetts has had marriage equality for over 5 years now, and we've adopted it in New Hampshire --and marriage between differently gendered couples hasn't been affected one bit.
The left continue to dismiss "death panels" yet those who oppose them can even site the page number that creates them (page 425 for the record). You can call them whatever you want but what they are comes down to the same thing. Heck, if you don't like death panels and instead choose to go with Obama's term "Advanced Care Planning Consultation" I'm fine with that, heck call it a hamburger for all I care. But don't claim it isn't in the bill because that's a lie. It IS in the bill and it's on page 425!
And I love how you twist to fall back to same sex marriage which has NOTHING to do with my arguments and if you recall I supported but pointed out the flaws in having government define marriage. That argument is over, the left did what they wanted and now two men and two women can call themselves married in NH. That doesn't fix the growing budget holes though or the out of control spending or the fact that to get your "right" to healthcare you must take away from me what I earn. Falling back to the same sex argument, you were correct in that it does me no harm for you and another man to call yourselves married (unless you sue my church because they refuse to recognize two men as a married couple and perform a marriage for them). It cost me nothing for you and another man to say your married. For you to over eat and create medical problems for yourself and then turn around and stick me with the bill DOES cause me harm. That takes away MY right to what I work hard to earn.
The fact that you refuse to accept this and simply say that since you got a majority in the last election it's ok for you to rob me for what you want makes it even worse. So spin all you want but majority does not give you the authority to take from the minority, that is thievery!
Tens of thousands showed up. Big deal. I was there. It wasn't impressive. The crowd was overwhelmingly white, elderly though evenly split between extremely wealthy country-club set and extremely poor looking hicks. Many of those that were not smoking fancy cigars in their country club polos and sneering tended to be elderly over-weight and struggling to walk - you know, looking like they might be able to make use of some better health care. But if they want to rally against comprehensive coverage that would improve the lives of their families, friends and neighbors, that's their perogative.
Overall, there was something deeply disingenous about the event - the middle-class looking white guy holding the sign screaming, "SILENT NO MORE!" was my favorite. Yes, because historically, the white middle to upper-class male has been silent - and now that a black man is in the White House things have surely changed. Oh wait, just about every Congressional Rep and member of the cabinet is a white man of above-average means.
It's really hard to feel sympathy with this group.