Posted by
The Crawfish on Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:44:33 PM
Tea Party Week was quite eventful throughout the nation. Hundreds of rallies were held on Wednesday, to the general dislike of the media and liberal politicians. Many more were held on Saturday, mainly because most actual TAXPAYERS had to WORK on Wednesday, something that never seems to affect liberal protests. This is The Crawfish’s report on the Philadelphia protest from Wednesday and the Bucks County (PA) rally on Saturday.
Tax Day was quite gloomy in Philly. The weather started out cold (low 40s) and windy, with an occasional bit of light rain. As Diana and Andrew were starting to set things up, those of us who volunteered to help arrived. The local FOX and ABC affiliates were already there, ready to go. The FOX reporter interviewed Diana and Andrew, then noticed the volunteers, some of us with our signs, and talked to us as well, which is how The Crawfish ended up on camera.
Who's this guy?
Oh...that answers the question.
By noon, the crowd had swelled to a few hundred and the event kicked off. We had a nice rendition of the National Anthem, and an enthusiastic stating of our Pledge of Allegiance. Our first speaker was 16-year old Jesse Civello, of the Constitutional Scholars’ Organization. Parts of his speech even showed up on video at hotair.com. Jesse definitely got the crowd going, and it was only because of that energy that the folks kept going, for it was as he spoke that the rain really started taking over the afternoon.
Our other speakers during the day were financial professional Paul Karcher, anesthesiologist Dr. James Allen, and network engineer Adam Lang. I know, the readers are asking “who are those guys?” and that was part of the problem that the organizers faced. How do you find a pro-taxpayer speaker for a mid-day rally in Philly? The only local radio personalities who would work were not available, as Michael Smerconish does some mid-day work in addition to his travels between Philly and Noo Yawk, and Dom Girdano was scheduled for the Saturday Philly event. None of the local and state politicians would work for this crowd, since they are mostly big government, big taxes, big union types, or they had some kind of connection with former Mayor John Street, who was quite corrupt and was only elected because of his party designation and his history as a race agitator (think of a less sophisticated, more thuggish Al Sharpton without the “Rev” designation).
Dr. Lang was definitely fired up, and his main target was the Federal Reserve, which has wrecked our currency value. He spoke many times of HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 which would change the way the Fed does business and would cause the Fed to be AUDITED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER! The bill’s sponsor is Dr. Ron Paul, who may be out to lunch on foreign policy but is outstanding on domestic policy, monetary policy, and Constitutionality.
Some other scenes from the Philly event:
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” -James Madison