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Boston Tea Party 2009 - Pictures from the Boston Common, Boston Harbor, Hyannis!
- Thread starter mikem317
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I love the last pic, I wish I could have been there.
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Thanks for posting, Mike!
I participated in the later event at Christopher Columbus Park. Though I'm not a very good judge of crowd size, it looked to me as though there were at least 1000 "radicalized right-wing extremists" there.
We had one ACORN agitator show up, but everybody laughed at her and some of us began calling her HateCORN. She babbled incoherently as she quickly sliced a path through the crowd and got her sorry ass out of there quickly. It was all over in less than 5 minutes.
Standing on a bench by the water's edge, a stone cold biatch from CNN was there. Her cameraman was having technical difficulties trying and he couldn't get his camera to run. She just stood there like a petrified rock, never moving, never even blinking. She avoided all contact with the crowd. She refused to engage us or even look at us. H'ok.
When her cameraman finally got the camera running, she began to make her "report." The first sentence out of her lips was that there were a "couple of hundred disgruntled Republicans" there. That was as far as she got when the crowd around her loudly began to protest her assessment, not only of the crowd size, but they also took issue with her party reference.
Some shouted that they were not disgruntled Republicans, they were disgruntled Americans! Wanting to be helpful I shouted that I was an Independent, and others began to shout that they were Independents too.
The best part was that a speaker at the podium said something that caused the crowd to cheer and then a Mass Transit ferry boat pulled in at the same time and blew it's horn in solidarity. It sounded more like an ocean liner, and that's when the crowd roared even louder. By the time I turned back around, the CNN twit was gone.
A guy from the local Fox News channel was there and everybody seemed to like him. I tried to get my sign up behind him when I knew the camera was rolling.
Cameras and talking heads from other news sources were also there and of course Michael Graham from WTTK.
In the end, two wooden boxes of tea were thrown into the harbor and the crowd roared. Many others, including myself threw our own tea bags in as well. I could see guests from the Marriott hotel hanging out of their windows watching the protest rally below them. All were smiling.
The rally ended with everyone singing the National Anthem and when we had finished, I looked at the man on my right and he was blowing his nose and wiping tears from his eyes.
Here are some of the pictures I took.
These people came in by boat for the rally and stayed for the entire event.
This is the guy from Fox News
We had one ACORN agitator show up, but everybody laughed at her and some of us began calling her HateCORN. She babbled incoherently as she quickly sliced a path through the crowd and got her sorry ass out of there quickly. It was all over in less than 5 minutes.
Standing on a bench by the water's edge, a stone cold biatch from CNN was there. Her cameraman was having technical difficulties trying and he couldn't get his camera to run. She just stood there like a petrified rock, never moving, never even blinking. She avoided all contact with the crowd. She refused to engage us or even look at us. H'ok.
When her cameraman finally got the camera running, she began to make her "report." The first sentence out of her lips was that there were a "couple of hundred disgruntled Republicans" there. That was as far as she got when the crowd around her loudly began to protest her assessment, not only of the crowd size, but they also took issue with her party reference.
Some shouted that they were not disgruntled Republicans, they were disgruntled Americans! Wanting to be helpful I shouted that I was an Independent, and others began to shout that they were Independents too.
The best part was that a speaker at the podium said something that caused the crowd to cheer and then a Mass Transit ferry boat pulled in at the same time and blew it's horn in solidarity. It sounded more like an ocean liner, and that's when the crowd roared even louder. By the time I turned back around, the CNN twit was gone.
A guy from the local Fox News channel was there and everybody seemed to like him. I tried to get my sign up behind him when I knew the camera was rolling.
Cameras and talking heads from other news sources were also there and of course Michael Graham from WTTK.
In the end, two wooden boxes of tea were thrown into the harbor and the crowd roared. Many others, including myself threw our own tea bags in as well. I could see guests from the Marriott hotel hanging out of their windows watching the protest rally below them. All were smiling.
The rally ended with everyone singing the National Anthem and when we had finished, I looked at the man on my right and he was blowing his nose and wiping tears from his eyes.
Here are some of the pictures I took.
These people came in by boat for the rally and stayed for the entire event.
This is the guy from Fox News
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Great pics from the harbor! I wish I took the entire day off. Alas, I had to work so I could surrender the fruits of my labor to the collective. ![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
The guy from Fox News is Cody Willard. He's usually on Judge Napolitano's new internet show, Freedom Watch.
The guy from Fox News is Cody Willard. He's usually on Judge Napolitano's new internet show, Freedom Watch.
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Excellent thread and pics! Wish I was there. NEXT YEAR, I'm taking off the whole day to participate. Already blocked off the date.
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" Howard Beale, Network (the movie).
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" Howard Beale, Network (the movie).
Great pictures. Thanks for posting them.![[cheers]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/018.gif "Cheers [cheers]")
