Seeding the Grass Roots
…Old Glory… …and related friends.
The most substantive signs of the day came from a pair of nurses who turned out to protest the recent tax increase on medical expenses… One of the protesting nurses was kind enough to provide some additional detail…I work at Toll Gate radiology, I schedule all the exams. There’s a 2% tax increase for all…
The extended entry contains the last of my pictures from today’s tea party. What an event! Several of Matt Allen’s callers made an excellent point: No security was necessary. There will be no trash-pick-up crew needed. These were regular Americans, regular Rhode Islanders, gathering together to make their presence felt. And moreover, they were folks…
Honorable mention… Runner-up… And, for all of the ideas that it packs into a concise statement, the winner is…
The runaway winner in the best metaphorical costume division was the American patriot drowning in taxes…
One nice thing about Rhode Island Statehouse protests is that they provide some aesthetically pleasing backgrounds… On the other hand, the reverse angle gives a better sense of the size of the crowd…
I’ve moved the pictures into the extended entry for ease of loading. Another learning curve: I’ve been using a much better camera than usual, and it keeps reverting to large file sizes. When I get home to my main computer, I’ll shrink the images down.
I’m hearing rumors that this tea party is actually bigger than Boston’s. I don’t know about that, but it is definitely a large (and diverse) crowd. I’ll say this, too: I was embarrassed when Helen Glover introduced me as needing no introduction, but I’ve been finding that I’m not quite as anonymous in a crowd…
Sorry for the lag; nerves made posting even more difficult than the bright sun. Here are pictures from the past hour or so. There have got to be 2,000 to 3,000 people here.
It’s not three yet, and I’d wager that the crowd’s on its way to a thousand (although I’m terrible at estimating). The most recent of these pictures was taken about ten minutes ago (before I sought a location in which it would be possible to see my screen), and people have continued to pour in.
