One week until the April 15th Tax Day Tea Parties.

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Wednesday, April 8th at 8:40AM EST

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If you haven’t picked one yet, pick one. I’ll be at the DC affair. Erick and Jeff Eare helping set up Macon’s. [We're not the only front-pagers here doing these, and I'll put up the others as they sing out.] Take a couple of hours off, find a gathering that’s close, and go. If you never go to these things – but you’re also kind of mad at the way the government is throwing away your money – well, that’s sort of the point of you going.

And remember:

“First they ignore you…
…then they ridicule you…
…then they fight you…
…then you win.”
- M . Gandhi

We’re just getting into the third line now. This is where it starts getting serious, so if you were hoping for one big gesture let that hope die now so you’ll get over it not being around any more. The activist Left doesn’t like competition, and they think that they’re old hands at hijacking movements. So they will try to co-opt. They will try to disrupt. They will certainly try to incite. When they try, politely put a camera in their face and politely ask them what the hell they think that they’re doing. Ask them loudly, from the diaphragm*: it carries better that way, and the only thing that these people hate more than sunlight is sunlight and the interested gaze of a lot of people not inclined to humor them.

Always remember: you are what they want to be, and cannot be. Do not indulge their inferiority.

Moe Lane

*You can practice that by putting one hand on your chest and talking in a way that you feel the vibrations.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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My family is attending the Fishkill, NY Tea Party

peg_c (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 9:36AM EST (link)

at Duchess Stadium. My step-daughter is involved in the planning (Mark Levin, then Atlas Shrugged, and now Friedrich Hayek have turned her into a huge conservative activist) . If anyone on RS is in Hudson Valley and plans to attend, it would be super to meet up.

Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.

Got one in Altoona, PA

Raven (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 10:31AM EST (link)

1200-1400 on the steps of City Hall on April 15th.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

Uncle Steve Foley and I will be at Santa Ana Ca..

speciallist (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 10:55AM EST (link)

So Cal peeps email me special@pacbell.net

Will be in DC (afternoon) then in Merrifield, VA (eve)

ddstrain (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 11:07AM EST (link)

Bringing a nice big Canon digital SLR with a telephoto lens. I plan to write a brief diary on th day’s events and include lots of photos.

Any trouble making by lefties will be photographed, documented and widely distributed.

Will be at the Cincinnati Rally

Bob_Frazier (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 11:41AM EST (link)

I’ll be at the Cincinnati rally. On March 15, we had at least 5,000 people for our first rally.

I'll be here

djemi (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 11:58AM EST (link)

High Noon
Michigan State Capitol
100 N. Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI

Glad to see that at least some in DC are paying attension

“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy

Any one see this one

djemi (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 2:07PM EST (link)

http://blogs.mcall.com/allentown/2009/04/allentown-to-protestors-that-tea-party-will-cost-you.html

I'll be in Lansing with you. I'll be disquised as myself.

gekster (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 2:57PM EST (link)

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

Chicago will have an ACTUAL Tea Party on tall ship at Navy Pier

chiguy76 Wednesday, April 8th at 12:15PM EST (link)

Chicago has two Tea Parties, one organized during the day with Dan Proft, a local political commentator who is going to announce his run for governor at the protest on Daley Plaza, and then at 430pm the real Tea Party starts on Lake Michigan at Navy Pier — where they will have a real tall ship in the harbor from 430pm – 9pm at Navy Pier by the Billy Goat Tavern. They’re going to recreate the Boston Tea Party in Chicago.

I haven’t heard of another city having an ACTUAL Tea Party on a body of water in an old fashioned ship before.

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chiguy76 Wednesday, April 8th at 12:17PM EST (link)

Correct link

Gonna be in DC

red4ever (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 4:47PM EST (link)

Looking forward to my first DC protest.

Cavuto just had some bimbo on who declared the Tea Parties are not worthy of coverage because we are protesting acts of our legally elected government. Apparently, the protests of the last 8 years were not worthy of coverage then either.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante

I'll be at the Ft. Lauderdale get together.......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 4:58PM EST (link)

Anybody in South Flori-duh, let me know if you’ll be there and we’ll meet up.

I promise to leave the tin-foil hat at home that day.

What did I do!!

1stRichard (Diary) Wednesday, April 8th at 10:12PM EST (link)

I am helping organize a tea party in W Mass for those that can’t get to Boston and now I am reading rules for radicals and such to fight off any attacks. This is getting big time now, OMG what did I get my self in to this time…

W Mass Tea Party
Springfield MA
April 15, 4:00pm – 6:00pm?
Post Office, corner of Main and Liberty Streets
1883 Main Street