Also from Illinois Review, "Over 10,000 Overwhelm Will County Tea Party." Updates with photos are forthcoming.
And from the Tea Party Express home page:
Breaking news from New Lenox/Joliet… the sheriff’s office is reporting to us that the crowd estimate for the rally here is 10,000+ and they are shutting down a portion of Interstate 80 for traffic control do to the massive influx of people.
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Also Blogging: Blue Crab Boulevard, "Real People, Real Problem":
This is in Obama’s home state.
It’s bigger than you realize, folks. It’s bigger than you feared.
Plus, Don Surber, "A Tea Party in Illinois Drew 10,000?" (via Memeorandum).
8 comments:
It is a beautiful sight to behold - Americans exercising the right of free speech.
Great post Donald! Hope all of the folks can keep it up!
I was there and it was incredible! like the OP said, we had a lot of very peaceful yet very angry people attending (OVER 10,000 According to the officer I asked there!).
This was my first tea party/protest that I've ever been to at age 26 and I now plan on attending any others I can find in my area!
Thanks Tea Party Express! Good Luck in Washington DC!
I'm hoping the Sept 12th DC Event will approximate the so-called "Million Man March" of whom one was the won way back when.
There weren't a million or even close back then, despite Farrakhan's cohorts & Jesse's Rainbow dudes. Glenn is already evil in the eyes of Overbite and the [P]MSNBC crowd. Might as well scare the s**t out of 'em and diminish them down to just a dozen pounds or so! They are so full of it!
I'm so moved I could cry.
Wonder how many of these folks don't have health coverage, and how many of 'em don't think Medicare is a government program. Probably lots!
Well, billyjoe, I would just take an educated guess and say, in answer to your poorly-thought-out question, that most likely MOST of these people have health care and WANT TO KEEP IT, and this is probably because they KNOW that Medicare IS a government program. Oh, by the way, so is Social Security a government program, billyjoe, just in case you need further enlightenment. It is a government program in which MY money (and maybe some of yours if you've ever per chance worked) was put into a "retirement savings account" of sorts for us. However, in the 60's, during the Johnson (Democratic) Administration, it was shifted into a general fund so the liberals could have at it. Now, I hope you're smart enough to know where it is today ... or should I say, "where it ISN'T today?" By the way, and this is VERY important, billyjoe, BOTH Medicare and Social Security are, for all intents and purposes, bankrupt. So, kudos to the tea-party goers whose passion intimidates the likes of billyjoes around the country. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, my fellow, free-thinking, free-speaking and proud Americans who fight for the right to stay free of government oppression!
Oh, just one more thing, billyjoe: I hope you're merely ignorant in making such a dumb-arse comment; because ignorance can be temporary ... but stupid, well, stupid is forever.
billybob (or was it billyjoe), tsk, tsk. there is so much I could say BUT anonymous said it all. I have yet to see any of this on TV. hmmm, wonder why?
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