Terrible Tsunami Expected for Democrats Today, 9/12: Glenn Beck/Tea Party Protest in Washington, DC, Conservatives Inspired by Joe Wilson, 1 Million Anticipated
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 12, 2009
Today’s the big day, 9/12. An über-huge turnout of angry, frustrated Americans (and a few scabby liberal trolls who have been implored by the miscreant statist Daily Kos site to disrupt the rally and take video interviews so as to create “embarrassing” montages of conservatives) is anticipated to hit Washington, DC. with a patriotic vengeance.
Democrats have been warned to brace themselves for this tsunami protest on the Capitol.
I’ve been monitoring the traffic flow in DC at the protest area, via Traffic Land and it looks like a tremendously swelling crowd is forming.
Live cam photo of growing DC crowd taken just a bit ago, courtesy of Instapundit:
Additionally, last night, there was a bomb threat in the DC building where tea party planners were: h/t to our beloved Gateway Pundit…
DC Tea Party Planners Forced Out of Meeting After Bomb Threat …Update: Massive Turnout Expected… Leftist Caller Tells Receptionist: “I put a bomb in your building b*tch!”
Many other tea party protests are surging today across the country. Gateway Pundit just now announced these numbers: 12,000 PATRIOTS IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS!
Crowd numbers in DC updated by Vodkapundit: They Will Be Heard [UPDATED PRETTY CONSTANTLY]:
It’s ABC (TV, radio? Not sure.) that pegged the crowd at two million, not CNN. Official estimate is 1.5 — but those numbers always sound inflated. Settle for a million and call it a damn fine day.
From yesterday:
Greg Sargent, The Plum Line: House Dems Bracing For Huge Turnout At Glenn Beck/Tea Party Gathering
Looks like there’s serious concern among Dems about the big 9/12 rally that’s being heavily promoted by Glenn Beck, Fox, and the tea partiers for tomorrow.
A top House Dem leadership aide has emailed a memo to Dem aides on the Hill and outside liberal groups warning they should brace for a turnout of up to two million people, suggesting Dems worry that if enough conservatives descend on the Mall it will amount to a major PR victory for the right.
The aide, Doug Thornell, warned in the memo that the dust-up over Joe “you lie” Wilson has been invigorating conservatives. “It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Thornell wrote in the memo, which was forwarded by a source.
For more info on “grassroots hero” Rep. Joe Wilson:
Mark Levin Supports Rep. Joe Wilson: “So What if He Called Obama a Liar? HE IS… Pelosi Called Conservatives Nazis, Reid Called Conservatives Evil” (video)
When Yelling “You Lie” Is So Much Worse Than Booing (video)
The Plum Line article continues…
In another sign of concern, the memo painstakingly detailed a range of turnout predictions from the event’s organizers, such as this one from tea party leaders promising a crowd of up to 1,000,000.
Adding to Dem concern is the fact that Beck recently claimed a major victory in the ouster of former green jobs adviser Van Jones.
The House leadership memo predicting huge turnout could have been written in hopes that it would leak and inflate expectations for turnout, anticipating that it will fall far short. But Dems on the Hill insist they’re genuinely worried about what tomorrow will bring.
From DefendGlenn.com: 9/12 TROLL ALERT: Do Not Talk to this Filmmaker in DC – Kos diarist, former ACORN staffer Joe Lyles trying to “Expose Teabaggers”–Just Say No
Let freedom ring!
Additional reading:
Free Republic: The TEA PARTY Movement: How We Got Here
Michelle Malkin: Celebrating the 9/12 rallies
Big Hollywood: Tea Parties: Protesting Government Excess
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: CNBC Rick Santelli Didn’t Get the Memo
Weasel Zippers: Bomb Threat Called Into FreedomWorks’ DC Offices Friday…’I Put A Bomb In Your Building, Bitch’ – Oh please ObamaMedia, remind me again who the thugs are.
George’s Bottom Line, ABC News: Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of DC TEA Party Planners
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Bomb threat by left-wing loons against Tea Party organizers for the 9/12 project and Freedomworks
Gateway Pundit: 12,000 PATRIOTS IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS! and Quincy Pre-Party Before the Tea Party
R.J. Thomas, Big Hollywood: Los Angeles Tea Party Video
Publius, Big Government: Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Reynolds, Dana Loesch Headline Quincy, Il. Tea Party; FoxNews to Air
Sister Toldjah: 9/12 Tea Party rallies in DC
The Powers That Be: 9/12 March on Washington Live Video Link
Hot Air: Open Thread: 9/12 Tea Parties
Smart Girl Politics: Tea Party
Dana Loesch, Big Government: The Tea Party Movement: How We Got Here
WorldNetDaily: Tea party protesters march on U.S. Capitol
Nice Deb: 9/12 March On Washington
09.12.09 March on Washington
Tim Graham, NewsBusters: WaPo Presents 9-12 Event as GOP Danger, Full of ‘Right-Wing Nutballs’ and ‘Freaks’
Mark Epstein: Is Michelle Obama “proud” to be an American today? Cause I sure as hell am!
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Obama – the egomaniac – won’t be upstaged
Eventful, Statesville, NC: 9/12 Protest
Palm Beach County Post: 1,000 Palm Beach County, Treasure Coast activists march to U.S. Capitol as conservatives protest ‘Obamacare’
Right Voices: Alert: Celebrating the 9/12 Rallies
Pat Dollard: What Great Big Crowds You Have
The Hill: Loud 9/12 protest reaches the Capitol
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LET FREEDOM RING !!!
Amen to that, AFVET! BTW, have you had a chance to listen to the YouTube of Mark Levin about his anger at what the Left is doing to Rep. Joe Wilson? It’s breathtaking… I thought of you when I first listened to it. You’ll LOVE it. It gave me goose bumps.
Saw Mark Levin’s video.
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Fibbs said today that Bambam knew nothing about the march on DC today, I’m sure he knows about it now.
Can you hear us now Obama?
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
2 MILLION MARCH ON WASHINGTON
GOD BLESS AMERICA
“Fibbs” – ROFL… had not ever heard Bobby Gibbs called that one before. Touche’, Deborah! That’s a keeper.
On my local news CBS affiliate, it was said there was a “couple of hundred thousand” in the DC march, whereas ABC said over a million. CBS must be employing Katie Couric’s paltry math skills again.
CBS News Anchor Flunked Math? Katie Couric & Her Idiotic ‘Jelly Bean Economy’ Analogy
The DNC New Math: When 1 Equals 3… Must Be Taking Math Pointers from Math-Deficient Katie Couric
As I recall, Obama also said on April 15 that he was unaware of the national tea parties sweeping the nation. For being the “smart guy” so many leftist MSM drones say he is, he sure isn’t aware. If a group of people were stuck on a desert island with The One, he’d be the first to be picked off by some shark in the water because he “wasn’t aware” that sharks were nearby, and dammit, he wanted to go swimming. Or he’d fall clumsily to his death in a gorge because he “wasn’t aware” that he was unable to defy gravity. Poor clueless guy.
Frankly and all kidding aside, I DO think he was aware of it and is saying he wasn’t to appear cool and above it all. To which we all would be justified to shout, “You lie!”
LOL
This has been a very, very good day for America, I think.
I attended the Springfield, Missouri, Tea Party event and was excited to see so many people out and actively voicing their opinions on taxes, reform and the role of government. The ACORN story was still all the rage, a la “Advance the Cause of Child Prostitution? YES! WE! CAN!” at
http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/advance-the-cause-of-child-prostitution-yes-we-can/
The videos posted at BigGovernment.com have made quite an impact. Many in the crowd had seen them and were intensely interested in the whole ACORN story.
Scott, sounds like you had a blast at the Springfield Tea Party… high fives!
And yes, this unraveling of the criminal organization ACORN has only just begun. There is FAR more than has been made public on this (you can do a search for ACORN and see the myriad posts I have regarding Michelle Malkin’s investigation into ACORN for months). I applaud the efforts of James O’Keefe for his tenacity and principles… Maryland officials are saying they may investigate HIM and prosecute HIM and the young woman who helped in the sting operation. I have a feeling that is a red herring, as there are many conservative attorneys across the nation would likely be willing to defend him for free. And I trust in Andrew Breitbart in having this thing totally buttoned up before releasing it on his new site Big Government.
Bring popcorn… this should be a doozy.
“1. The 4 principal reasons why a federal government was formed: “(1) The common defense (national security); (2) the preservation of public peace, as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; (3) the regulation of commerce with other nations and between states; (4) the superintendent of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries (foreign affairs).” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No.23, 1787 – a founding father with most important interpretation of the Constitution.
2. Above in more detail: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.” – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 25, 1788 – considered the ‘father of the Constitution’
3. “With respect to the words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” – James Madison
4. Thomas Jefferson’s prediction: “The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.”
5. “There is in the nature of government an impatience of control that disposes those invested with power to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. This has its origin in the love of power. Representatives of the people are not superior to the people themselves.” – Alexander Hamilton – Federalist Paper No.15, 1787.
6. “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison – 1788
7. “I place economy among the first and most important of republic virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” -Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 1816 (See 2 powerful Debt Reports > of the Federal Government and of The Total Nation)
8. “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” – Thomas Jefferson
9. “Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrants.” – James Madison
10. “Judge the future by the past.” – Patrick Henry – 1736-1799
11. “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1801 inaugural address.
12. “America… well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force… She might become dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.” – John Quincy Adams; Address, 4 July 1821
13. “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all… The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest … Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 Sept. 1796.
14. “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
15. “No legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representative of the people is superior to the people.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 78.
16. “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of USA.
17. “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.” Alexander Tyler (When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Scottish Historian/Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time. NOTE > some have questioned the source of this quote, and that the last name was ‘Tytler’, not Tyler)
18. “On every question of construction (of The Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when The Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” – Thomas Jefferson
19. “A small leak can sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
20. “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke 1729-1797
21. “Aided by a little sophistry on the words ‘general welfare’, [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare.” — Thomas Jefferson 1825 to W. Giles.
22. “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world but lose his own soul.” – Mark 8:36
23. “No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” – George Washington to James Madison 1789.
24. “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
” Thomas Jefferson – letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802).
25. “…There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.” – Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837
26. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
27. “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” –Thomas Jefferson
28. “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.” Frederic Bastiat’s famous economics book The Law, published in 1850
29. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mohandas K. Ghandi
30. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time.” – Abraham Lincoln ??
31. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” – Plato 429-347 B.C.
32. “He who goes borrowing, goes sorrowing.” – Benjamin Franklin
33. “The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.” – Charles Lamb
34. “He who borrows sells his freedom.” – German Proverb
35. “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt (1759-1806)”
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/cur-year-deficit-trusts.htm
Bravo, these are great! Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes it laws”
Amschel Rothschilld Found of the Rothschild Banking Dynasty
“If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay off the cost of your own slavery..let them continue to create money and control the nation’s credit”
Sir Josiah Stamp
END THE FED
RESTORE THE REPUBLIC
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I have done my own study base on a devised stationary methodology and calculation which you can find here:
http://deathbymedia.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/912-washington-dc-tea-party-rally-crowd-estimation/
It’s backed by visual evidence (pictures and clips) all available in the same entry, plus determining the boundaries of the rally and calculation of the final tally derived from the density of the crowd at each given block. My calculus puts the figures around 130k up to 160k.
Ah, but the REAL question we want answered is… how many people attended Hempfest last weekend?
FAR fewer people attended that event from what I saw of videos and photos than those who attended the March on Washington, yet the media say that at least 300k last year attended the marijuana event, and it was expected to have the same or greater amount of attendees this year.
So, I find it extremely difficult to swallow that an under-advertised, barely heard-of Hempfest event had a reported 300,000 people attend while you claim that you’ve determined that the 9/12 March on Washington, with significantly far greater crowds, was tracked by your study base (not sure how non-biased/non-partisan it is, since I’ve not ever heard of you before) to be only HALF that of an assembly of pot-smoking rebels.
How is that even remotely possible? I’m just askin’…
“The REAL question we want answered is… how many people attended Hempfest last weekend?”
Red herring. Call me a boy scout but I’ve never done any drug of sort however juxtaposing an irrelevant event with the one I discussed is entirely absurd. If you have questions regarding whoever’s methodology resulted in head count for that particular festival, then you are free to be sturdily inquisitive about it.
“I find it extremely difficult to swallow that an under-advertised, barely heard-of Hempfest event had a reported 300,000 people attend while you claim that you’ve determined that the 9/12 March on Washington, with significantly far greater crowds, was tracked by your study base (not sure how non-biased/non-partisan it is, since I’ve not ever heard of you before) to be only HALF that of an assembly of pot-smoking rebels.”
My entry is not about Hempfest or someone’s runaway emotions. I presented my case and if one wishes to express his/her constructive counsel, then I’m all ears. You are simply being dismissive of my work because you have anecdotal demurral about some non-germane score! I don’t know how that pertains to me.
LOL. Not a red herring, but a valid rebuttal. Your “proof” with your own self-proclaimed method of crowd-size deduction is attempting to claim as valid an attendance number at the huge 9/12 March on Washington that is well below that which several media sources have cited for a local pot festival in Seattle. That was my point. The validity of the results of your method are what is in question. Your indignation that I’d dare question it and not accept your claim as undeniable fact (using Hempfest, which was held last week in Seattle, just as a cheeky example of how your calculations appear to be sorely flawed and don’t measure up when compared to other crowd-counting methods and results, not putting into question your morals in smoking illegal substances) is amusing and quite pompous. Have you have any kind of peer review of your method? Have you had any authoritative consensus on your method? If yes, then excellent. If not, then questioning your methodology would not only be warranted, but expected.
You are aware that you are citing a crowd number that falls significantly below what many other sources have determined for the 9/12 event, adding even further to suggest you have potential flaws and omissions in your variables, leading to erroneous conclusions. Your assumptions appear extremely low end in your calculation (i.e., only 5,000 going “in and out for food and other necessities”),” but did not, from what I could determine, adequately account for later arrivals who struggled to be able to be in the Mall area and had to wait until other people left the event. Your methodology did not appear to account for, by what I could determine, people spilling out of the ascribed 13 areas you used for your calculations. Your determination of square footage of comfort did not appear to adjust/accommodate for smaller statured people nor children. Your calculations for a “snapshot” of the event based on available square footage has merit, but then appears to crumble when extended over the course of the entire day with other variables.
As I’ve written before, methodologies for crowd counting are capricious and cannot be precise nor duplicated because of fluctuating parameters and extended time frames for attendance. This was an all-day event in DC – I attended a Phoenix tea party in April that was a minuscule fraction of the size of the crowds in DC. Media sources said there was 7,000 to 10,000 in attendance for the Phoenix event, which makes your determination for the DC event appear even more flawed and/or erroneous – I did not attend the entire event, and huge crowds of people were arriving late as we were leaving early – there was a line of cars waiting for me to vacate my parking space several blocks away from the event. These people, arriving hours after the “peak” of the event, should also be included in the crowd count. I’m sure that there were thousands of people through out the day attempting to gain access to the area.
If you had cited that you had determined the DC crowd for the full day’s event to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000 to 600,000, which is the ballpark median of all the news sources I’ve read (almost 2 million being the high end), your crowd number would have had a ring of plausibility. But since it didn’t come anywhere close, it’s reasonable for me to question the completeness of your methodology and your conclusions. And poke a little fun at the same time… I was trying to be humorous in my previous response, and obviously tread rather harshly on your feelings, to which I apologize. I sometimes do that.
Crowd numbers are fun to play with, but as I’ve written before, really don’t mean a whole lot. I wanted to be at the March on Washington, but living in Arizona with an unemployed spouse made that impossible. I think I should be counted in attendance “in spirit,” though… did you include spiritual attendance in your equations? LOL (OK, that was meant to be a joke, so don’t get wacky on me).
deathbymedia, you sure have a high and mighty opinion of yourself. Lighten up, life’s too short to be so fixated on trivialities. Thinking you’re the smartest kid in the world doesn’t make it so. Discounting every other source and assuming you’re the only one who is right is sad and delusional.