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Shelby County AL Tea Party

I just attended the Shelby County, AL Tea Party inspired by Rick Santelli of CNBC. I found out about it from Michelle Malkin’s site about 15 minutes before it started and it was being held right in my neighborhood!  I figured our forefathers would not be deterred by the rain so neither would I.

It was organized by @ZanP (Twitter). It was raining. There was lightning. And a tornado touched down in Chelsea, AL just one mile down the road less then an hour before the event started. Now that’s dedication!

Let the revolution begin.

Update: One of my pictures and an email I sent made it on Michelle Malkin’s site. :) She has tons of pictures from all over the country. Go check them out.

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  1. I saw your pics at MM!  And your emai!  Great job!!!  I went to the Atlanta Tea Party.  It was a super busy (hectic) week for me at work and I didn’t know if I would be able to participate at all so I didn’t follow up with the Shelby County plans.   I’m so glad you were there to capture it and wish I had “stayed home”.  Way to go!

    1. Julie on February 27th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

  2.  A ^5 to you and all the other patriots all across the country who took part in Tea Parties, but especially everyone who braved inclement weather as you did in order to express your concern.

    3. Don on February 28th, 2009 at 8:06 am

  3. 20 people standing on the side of the road in the rain to protest something that is not going to change.  Good job!

    4. dandy on February 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am

  4. Well Dandy, since you are going to respond like an arrogant, ignorant simpleton, allow me to educate you.   The original Boston Tea Party was led by the Sons of Liberty to protest taxation without representation.   There were just a few participants and at the time that it happened, idiots like you probably said the same thing and laughed about their protesting something that was not going to change.   However, it was the beginning of the very movement that led to the freedom you now enjoy (or take for granted).  I suppose you probably wish that our forefathers had just laid down and accepted their oppression instead of being so foolish.

    Our government is going to bankrupt our country.  Congress passed the largest spending bill in the history of the world without even reading it. They just spent more money in one day than Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina combined. If that is not a good enough reason to stand up and protest, then nothing is.

    5. Scott Allan on February 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

  5. Julie, I’m so glad that you went!   I’m sure the Atlanta Tea Party was probably a lot more fun and hopefully drier.

    Don, we protested for people like you who defended our nation and we protested for our children who will bear the burden of this error.

    6. Scott Allan on February 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

  6. Great job! I live in Northern Alabama and I am trying to find people who are organizing protests.  I really wish we could aim for 1 million or more to march on Washington DC in the near future.  I am so afraid of the way the country has headed in just the short amount of time OBama has been in the White House.  I am even more mad that all the Republicans haven’t realized to get control of Congress they have to show they are not wasteful spenders of our money.

    7. JANICE on March 1st, 2009 at 12:41 am

  7. Friday was definitely a miserable day. Kudos too you folks that stood in the rain. I’ll keep and eye on your site to find out about the next tea party.

    8. Kay on March 1st, 2009 at 1:31 pm

  8. Dandy,
    This first event where 25 rainy patriots attended inspired others to attend the second party where 7000 attended….which in turn will inspire……… you get the picture.

    9. Marcelo Munoz on April 17th, 2009 at 2:10 am

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