On Tax Day, You Ruled the Country **UPDATE**
Hundreds of Thousands
The latest count of nationwide Tea Party attendance is 315,000 and growing. Not sure if our 10,000 is in that number or not. Everyone who attended shares equally in the accolades and the pride. Here are two representative congratulatory messages:
* Congressman Roy Blunt: ”Congratulations and thank you. My friend Todd Akin told me that it was an amazing event.”
* KTVI Fox 2 News Director: ”You deserve major kudos! That’s the most people I’ve ever seen in Kiener Plaza, except, maybe, before a Cardinal’s World Series game.”
Congratulations to each of you. Those who want to substitute their judgment for yours and your money for their IOUs noticed; they’re breaking their necks trying so hard to look the other way!
More on KTVI
That news director explained that the Jaco piece contained factual errors. They apologized on the 10:00 news last night. His tone was sincere. He also apologized to all of you for bumping the Tea Party story at 9:00. He explained that the director was faced with a terrible fire story that included a fatality. He said that bumping our story was a mistake, and apologized.
When challenged that his station committed two major errors that hurt our Tea Party in 3 days, he acknowledged that the appearance was bad. ”I have told my people that. We made a series of bad decisions, and the people responsible are paying consequences. Mr. Jaco is aware of the seriousness of his mistake.”
KTVI has aired (or will have after tonight) 22 stories on this tea party. While one of those stories was terribly inaccurate and defamatory, the manager’s apology seems sincere. Let’s thank him for his honesty and move on.
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I will post more later. In the meantime, don’t forget to tell 2 people and to write, write, write.
(image stolen from Gateway Pundit. I hope he’ll forgive me)
Tonight St. Louis was a craddle of democracy as 10,000 patriots reasserted their Creator-given rights.
If you were there–in person or spirit–you owe yourself a pat on the back.
We’ll wake those who remain in slumber.
We’ll meet again July 4.
Between, we’ll shout our voices every day, in every corner of the country.
And KTVI will get new management.
True Patriot Love,
Bill Hennessy
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My son and I were standing on the northwest quadrant of the plaza.
I can say that at my age, I need to move around a little so the legs don’t lock up. I couldn’t move more than 12 inches in any direction without bumping into somebody else. I have never seen that many people in Kiener plaza since Kiener Plaza was built! It’s unfortunate that You can only take a picture of one half of the crowd the way Kiener plaza is built. My rough head count put the number close to 10000. When we were leaving, something occurred to me to tell my son. We Missourians, when we go to the primary elections to help choose our leaders, go into a booth alone, make a selection, and leave. In Ohio, and New Hampshire, You have to get up, go to the townhall, discuss your beliefs with your neighbors, and then You have to stand up and be counted. We in Missouri are sort of cheated out of that experience. But today, on tax day, 10000 of us got at taste of what it feels like to get up, and stand up and be counted. It felt real good, to experience real life democracy in action. I have a much better understanding of what Thomas Payne, and Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington felt when they stood up against King George. You just had to be there folks, and I hope next time you will. I know I will. This used to be a great country. If we want to save tomorrow for our kids and grandkids, we better be willing to stand up and be counted, again.
Thanks Bill and everyone else for a great event. I brought down some food for the agency trucks. Friends of mine weren’t aware of the food drive. I think it should be a major part of future rallies. It might help to get more favorable coverage and promote real volunteerism and charity rather than “paid government volunteerism”.
All in all, a great event , great speakers and great vibes.
You know people claim that they are patriotic and they want to be kept safe while keeping their freedom. Unfortunately that freedom comes at a price. This tea party BS is nothing more then a mockery of an important historical event. Furthermore the only people protecting freedom are the soldiers of this country. The men and women who come back and find that they can’t find a job. This country has forgotten about customer service. Companies and entrepreneurs have decided to produce lesser products and services while charging ridiculous prices in order to get rich quick. That is the real reason we are all in this mess. This is not patriotism or the American dream that some people claim it is. This is nothing more then greed. You want to be free? then this country has to pay for it on a whole and if lower class and the poor can not pay( which any moron would know that if they can get jobs then they can’t pay, and don’t give me that “they are just lazy crap”) then the rest of the country either has to step up and do it. It is either that or just let the U.S.A. be come another third world country. Funny though I see many people protesting this now when they should have been protesting years ago to prevent this.
Truth & Justice,
I’m sorry you feel that way. I agree that service members stand heads and shoulders above the rest of us. I take issue, though, with your characterizations of both the Tea Party protesters and business people.
Most business owners I know want to provide fair value to their customers. They are entitled to a profit, and they have no obligation to provide more quality or service than the market expects based on the seller’s characterizations. I know a lot of these people, and they are anything but “greedy.”
Additionally, everyone who attends a Tea Party, who follows up with action, who participates in the process of forming a more perfect country advances the cause of freedom. Eight thousand people came to Kiener Plaza on Wednesday despite Janet Napolitano’s assertion that doing so was a symptom of terrorism. It takes courage to do what’s right despite government objection. It takes patriotism to give up the comforts of home to sit in a park for 3 hours.
Finally, we do have an obligation to help each other voluntarily; we collected over a ton of food and $600 cash to help those most in need. But no one, including government, has a right steal what is mine in order to give to someone else. Americans are not greedy, mean, people. We are the most generous people on earth. We give more to charity than any other nation. And despite trillions and trillions in money stolen by the government for redistribution schemes, poverty persists. The taxes we paid on Wednesday will help someone in need in about 18 months. The food we collected on Wednesday, voluntarily, fed families on Thursday. You tell me: which plan works better?
Cordially,
Bill Hennessy