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Title: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 15, 2009, 08:28:59 PM
Some pics from our Tea Party in Austin, TX.  Note worthy moments, a speaker at the mic quoted Thomas Jefferson about the Tree of Liberty, and the people clapped, shouted, and some yelled, "Bring forth the tyrants so we can shed there blood."  The various speakers called for the fed to stay out of the state's business.  After leaving the capitol we walked down Congress Ave to Lady Bird Lake and carried on our rally and a couple of boats in the river threw out the tea boxes of corruption.  Went with one of my little brothers, great time.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 15, 2009, 08:29:53 PM
Some more.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: m25operator on April 16, 2009, 12:30:54 AM
Gamedev Brian, we are only a few hundred miles apart, we need to get together, at least for the oncoming fray, people, not from here don't understand what I just said. Thanks for the review and pics.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 16, 2009, 04:35:54 AM
Gamedev Brian, we are only a few hundred miles apart, we need to get together, at least for the oncoming fray, people, not from here don't understand what I just said. Thanks for the review and pics.

I can feel it, brother.  And only in Texas can some one say a few hundred miles away and make it sound like your down the street.  ;D  I used to regret moving from Dallas to Austin but know I know I'm where all the actions going to happen.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 17, 2009, 03:51:30 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbWz1RYGE3Q&feature=related

Not shot by me, but this is the Governor's speech at Austin City Hall.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: philw on April 20, 2009, 02:25:12 AM
what is this all about  never heard of a tea party

except from what I seen on here that it looks like I needed to go as the Anti's say I would be raciest by going to one
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 20, 2009, 08:43:25 AM
Replay of a Pre revolution event when Sam Adams (who's original brew allegedly sucked) and a bunch of other Bostonians  boarded 3 ships and tossed the cargo of tea into the harbor to protest taxes and other British offenses against their rights.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: runstowin on April 20, 2009, 02:03:35 PM
From Austin. TX tea party: The various speakers called for the fed to stay out of the state's business.

Did they call for Texas to stop taking federal money? When ever a state, municipality, or county accept largess from the feds, they cede some of their rights to them, they can't have it both ways. Governor Rick Perry needs to put up or shut up.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 20, 2009, 02:14:20 PM
From Austin. TX tea party: The various speakers called for the fed to stay out of the state's business.

Did they call for Texas to stop taking federal money? When ever a state, municipality, or county accept largess from the feds, they cede some of their rights to them, they can't have it both ways. Governor Rick Perry needs to put up or shut up.

Unfortunantly, even the money that we weren't taking is now be force upon us, the less loyal members of congress over took Gov. Perry's rejection of some of the money.  And no, none of the speakers mentioned Texas' participation in the stimulus plan, although all did condemn the stimulus as wrong and recognized the stimulus as the fed trying to oppress the states.  Also discussed were the bailouts and the future nationalization of businesses by the fed.  But hey, you can't get everything I suppose.  Everyone there understood that the stimulus is the feds way of attaching chains to local governments.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: runstowin on April 20, 2009, 04:53:53 PM
Unfortunantly, even the money that we weren't taking is now be force upon us, the less loyal members of congress over took Gov. Perry's rejection of some of the money.  And no, none of the speakers mentioned Texas' participation in the stimulus plan, although all did condemn the stimulus as wrong and recognized the stimulus as the fed trying to oppress the states.  Also discussed were the bailouts and the future nationalization of businesses by the fed.  But hey, you can't get everything I suppose.  Everyone there understood that the stimulus is the feds way of attaching chains to local governments.
The fed can only force states to do what they have already agreed to do. States out of greed have gotten themselves into this mess. When they took advantage of the federal benefits, they agreed to the disadvantages.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 20, 2009, 05:33:35 PM
The fed can only force states to do what they have already agreed to do. States out of greed have gotten themselves into this mess. When they took advantage of the federal benefits, they agreed to the disadvantages.

You are wrong on this. I forget what state it was, might have been several, but the Feds skipped over the Gov. (who refused the money) and went directly to the Legislature (who of course took it ).
I don't recall the details but I'm pretty sure it was a news story posted in one of the threads here.
Title: Re: Post Your Tea Party
Post by: jzzr83 on April 22, 2009, 11:12:17 PM
Thanks for posting pics of that!  I had to go to school for a meeting so I missed the one in St. Paul, MN.  There is another on on May 2nd so I may take vacation time that saturday so I can get to at least one of them. 

If I laughed at, "Bring forth the tyrants so we can shed their blood,"  does that make me an extremist?