by Jack Lee
The Silent Majority were not silent this day! By a number of estimates the Tea Party Protest in Sacramento probably exceeded a total 22,000 people, with anywhere from 4,000-7,000 actually at protest site at any given time.
The Chico Tea Party group rented a bus and many others from this area went by car and met up on the Capital steps where they marched and carried signs throughout the day. The Tea Party group across America has no party affiliation, they are just people fed with the big growth in government that has been edging us towards socialism. They want to hold the line on taxes and dump Obama's massive Health Care Plan.
The blistering heat caused many people to come and go, so it was hard to get an accurate estimate of just how large the crowd was for the entire day. But, what was not hard to see was the crowds enthusiasm! They were very vocal and they drove the point home, this is where the people make a stand against big government.
The speeches and entertainment were non-stop from 10 a.m. on to well after 3:30 p.m. On scene were at least a dozen petitioning booths that included the Howard Jarvis Tax reform folks, Sacramento County Taxpayers Assoc. Among the booths that had my particular interest was petition to turn California's legislature into a part time legislature...less time they have in office the less time they have to govern poorly and spend money. Makes sense to me! Another petition seeking to be on the 2010 ballot was the "Baby Anchor" opposition. This bill says people who come here illegally and have a child are not automatically granted citizenship. This is in keeping with most western nations. It is also in keeping with a fundamental rule of American law that is called, "The fruits of the poisonus tree". Normally, you can't produce something legal when its foundation was illegal. Example, a police officer can't execture an illegal warrant and then produce legal evidence, no more than an illegal alien can sneak into the USA and produce a baby and say it is an American. Eept they can under current law because of a loop hole! This is a big loop hole in the law and the initiative would close it.
The gathering was remarkably civil and friendly. And one telling part was this crowd picked up after themselves, there wasn't a scrap of paper left on the ground anywhere. Remember the Obama Innauguration? It looked like a gargage dump once his people cleared out. Tonns of trash everywhere and this was from the people who love the earth so much. What a crock.
No doubt the event would have been much larger if it were not for two things, the heat and the fact that most people work on Friday.
Now just a few more pictures, look at how thick the crowd. They acctually took up 75% of the front lawn and sidewalk area between the Capital steps from 10th and L to 10th and K. One of readers reported the media said there was about 1500 people there! lol Actually one of the speakers called it, he said wait until the media reports they'll probably give us about 100! He was joking of course, but turns out the joke wasn't too far off the mark
jack. GREAT POST. SO DIFFERENT THAN THE SACTO BEE. KEEP UP THE GOOD REPORTING. THANKS, JANET
Thank you for the comprehensive report on the Sacramento march on Aug. 28.
Astroturf, unAmerican, Republican plants, hate mongerers, racists: We will round you up and place you in re-education camps until you get your minds straight.
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The news said 1500 . . . .
"This is a big loop hole [sic] in the law and the initiative would close it. "
I think that "loophole" is the 14th amendment to The Constitution. and you aren't going to close it that way.
The news said 1500? lol Maybe I shouldn't laugh, it's really sad if that's the kind of reporting we get.
This is true Quentin and my congratulations for knowing your Constitution. The 14th Ammendment does say that, but what it also says is that the illegal parents are not entitled to citizenship. Very few people would have been able to poise that argument, so tahts very sharp of you!
Take a look at Section 5 of the 14th Ammendment. There is a better than plausible argument that Congress has authority under this section to end birthright citizenship through legislation. "Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
"Remember the Obama Innauguration? It looked like a gargage dump once his people cleared out. Tonns of trash everywhere and this was from the people who love the earth so much. What a crock."
Well, you figure, charitably, 10 percent of any gathering of human beings are pigs ... 10% of 20,000 ... nothing egregious, but 10% of 8 million! ... that's a mess. And I can't really see where a pig's political affiliation comes into it.
Libby, the official estimated crowd size at the Obama innauguration was somewhere between 1.5 and 1.8 million. National Park Service does the best estimates, but many others came up with similar results. Nobody was saying 8 mil. Granted 1.8 mil is still a lot, but why should even 10% of them feel it's okay to litter? Yes, that's a cultural indictment. I think there were far more littering. I say this because the trash was found on almost every square foot of capital ground. These are the people who wear the mantle of being earth friendly and they were pigs. You want corrective behavior, then hold them accountable for what they do, don't excuse the.
By comparison not one of the Capitol tea protestors littered. The ground was absolutely clean and this shows one difference between these political opposites and that is a very valid point to make and speaks so much better of the tea people than liberals. (Jack Lee)