Coverage of the NYC tea party by Pamela at Atlas Shrugs
Monday, April 20, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tea Party at Charlotte From Dr. John Lewis
On April 15 I had the pleasure of addressing a tea party at Charlotte, North Carolina. Attendance was probably 3,000 people, and they were well equipped with signs, placards and tee shirts bearing messages of outrage against the present state of government. Every individual came not by some orchestrated plan, but by a desire to support liberty.
The event was non-partisan. There were lots of anti-Obama signs, but not a one pro-Bush that I saw. Nor did I hear any religious right propaganda; the only mention of abortion was the assertion that a doctor who does not want to do an abortion should not be forced to do it. The overriding message was outrage against the growth of government power.
My own talk focused on the moral aspects of the crisis. I contrasted the elevated view of man and his rights that is enshrined in the American founding documents, versus the cancerous view of man and the phony rights that dominate today. I noted that those who think that such events must be financed by billionaires have no conception of autonomous individuals with independent minds, and thus cannot understand people who come together out of love for liberty.
The video of my talk is here:
My mention of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" brought cheers. Afterward, at least two dozen people told me that Atlas was their favorite book. The crowd was hungry for ideas; I passed out hundreds of pieces of literature, and talked to dozens of people about the nature of this crisis.
These tea parties are expressions of an emotion, outrage, that is directed against a rising tide of taxation and increasing government coercion. But emotions are not guides to life, and will not tell a person either how to oppose a motivated socialist movement, or how to formulate a rational alternative. Unless some intellectual focus is brought to these events, they are likely to fade into irrelevance.
Thanks go to Andy Clarkson for the video, to Matthew Ridenhour for organizing the event, and to Lin Zinser and Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.
Dr. John David Lewis
Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science,
Duke University
Author, Solon the Thinker and Early Greek Lawgivers
http://www.classicalideals.com/
esse quam videri
The event was non-partisan. There were lots of anti-Obama signs, but not a one pro-Bush that I saw. Nor did I hear any religious right propaganda; the only mention of abortion was the assertion that a doctor who does not want to do an abortion should not be forced to do it. The overriding message was outrage against the growth of government power.
My own talk focused on the moral aspects of the crisis. I contrasted the elevated view of man and his rights that is enshrined in the American founding documents, versus the cancerous view of man and the phony rights that dominate today. I noted that those who think that such events must be financed by billionaires have no conception of autonomous individuals with independent minds, and thus cannot understand people who come together out of love for liberty.
The video of my talk is here:
My mention of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" brought cheers. Afterward, at least two dozen people told me that Atlas was their favorite book. The crowd was hungry for ideas; I passed out hundreds of pieces of literature, and talked to dozens of people about the nature of this crisis.
These tea parties are expressions of an emotion, outrage, that is directed against a rising tide of taxation and increasing government coercion. But emotions are not guides to life, and will not tell a person either how to oppose a motivated socialist movement, or how to formulate a rational alternative. Unless some intellectual focus is brought to these events, they are likely to fade into irrelevance.
Thanks go to Andy Clarkson for the video, to Matthew Ridenhour for organizing the event, and to Lin Zinser and Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.
Dr. John David Lewis
Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science,
Duke University
Author, Solon the Thinker and Early Greek Lawgivers
http://www.classicalideals.com/
esse quam videri
Penn Jillette's recommendation of Atlas Shrugged at the Alamo Tea Party
The video from Glenn Beck's broadcast of the tea party at the Alamo.
The part about Ayn Rand is about five minutes in, quote:
You have to remember that all of this is laid out in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand—what is it?—number 7 on Amazon or something.
People are really noticing that some of the stuff about the glory and the power and the morality of capitalism has to be thought about again.
People are noticing this, and people are noticing that it is important to say at the Alamo that all of this can be done with non-violence.
It can be done with people deciding in their hearts what is right and voting and working together....
And it is very important to stress that this is a movement of morality and freedom, and not of some nuts who are going to get violent. (Thanks to TIA)
The part about Ayn Rand is about five minutes in, quote:
You have to remember that all of this is laid out in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand—what is it?—number 7 on Amazon or something.
People are really noticing that some of the stuff about the glory and the power and the morality of capitalism has to be thought about again.
People are noticing this, and people are noticing that it is important to say at the Alamo that all of this can be done with non-violence.
It can be done with people deciding in their hearts what is right and voting and working together....
And it is very important to stress that this is a movement of morality and freedom, and not of some nuts who are going to get violent. (Thanks to TIA)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
CNN visit to a Tea Party
Susan Roesgen (alleged reporter for alleged news channel CNN) visit to a Chicago Tea Party -The news that the news doesnt take the news seriously is not news. Susan and the CNN Just can't (UNDER)stand it...
From hot air Blog:
A seamless conclusion to the smear job heard ’round the world, thanks to some amazingly fortuitous timing by Founding Bloggers. On a day when the grassroots came out to protest the establishment, it’s fitting that a small indie outfit like FB would end up putting the screws to CNN this way. What’s most striking is how savvy the protesters are about the game Roesgen’s playing: They know exactly why she zeroed in on the guy with the Obama/Hitler sign, and it ain’t because of his grasp of economics. Stick with it until the end or else you’ll miss the astounding nerve of this disingenuous moron, who just spent three minutes on national television sneering at the people around her, to say to the woman who’s yelling at her, “You know, you really don’t need to be so antagonistic.”
See also: Mark Levin Interviews Man Interviewed by Hostile CNN Reporter
and: (UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Exclusive! Our Footage Of The CNN Chicago Tea Party Throwdown
EL Rider wrote: (16, 2009 8:46 am) "I was standing in that crowd taking photographs, Susan from TASS, er CNN was a joke. She clearly had an agenda to make people attending that event look bad so she found the guy with a picture of Obama made up as Hitler and then interupted an interviewee with tax advice. What the? Taking tax advice from a journalist could lead to prison. Ms. Roesgen is also clearly not bright enough to understand either the link between taxation and freedom or the reality of the current fiscal situation.
I posted some thoughts and photos of the incident yesterday but I will embed your video and link to this page, thanks for the great follow-up video!"
From hot air Blog:
A seamless conclusion to the smear job heard ’round the world, thanks to some amazingly fortuitous timing by Founding Bloggers. On a day when the grassroots came out to protest the establishment, it’s fitting that a small indie outfit like FB would end up putting the screws to CNN this way. What’s most striking is how savvy the protesters are about the game Roesgen’s playing: They know exactly why she zeroed in on the guy with the Obama/Hitler sign, and it ain’t because of his grasp of economics. Stick with it until the end or else you’ll miss the astounding nerve of this disingenuous moron, who just spent three minutes on national television sneering at the people around her, to say to the woman who’s yelling at her, “You know, you really don’t need to be so antagonistic.”
See also: Mark Levin Interviews Man Interviewed by Hostile CNN Reporter
and: (UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Exclusive! Our Footage Of The CNN Chicago Tea Party Throwdown
EL Rider wrote: (16, 2009 8:46 am) "I was standing in that crowd taking photographs, Susan from TASS, er CNN was a joke. She clearly had an agenda to make people attending that event look bad so she found the guy with a picture of Obama made up as Hitler and then interupted an interviewee with tax advice. What the? Taking tax advice from a journalist could lead to prison. Ms. Roesgen is also clearly not bright enough to understand either the link between taxation and freedom or the reality of the current fiscal situation.
I posted some thoughts and photos of the incident yesterday but I will embed your video and link to this page, thanks for the great follow-up video!"
Ayn Rand books at Houston Tea Party
An estimated 10,000 people attended the Houston Tea Party. 150 of them got a free copy of Atlas Shrugged, courtesy of members of the Houston Objectivism Society. We also gave away 150 copies of several pamphlets. All of this was in less than 90 minutes, and we weren't well organized at the start due to the logistics of the tea party site. My goal is to hand out 500 copies of Atlas at the July 4th tea party.
Brian P.
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