there will be a large right wing demonstration on Aug 28: what's our response?

[cap]

Here's one busload from Cherry Hill NJ organized by Glenn Beck ... there will be lots more.

http://www.meetup.com/912-Project-Cherry-Hill-Collingswood-Area/calendar/11929254/

I think we need to come up with something ourselves... otherwise, they will roll scare the politicians into thinking that this country is a lot more RW than what it is.

[mzteris]

1. 47 signed up...

How many will actually go?

However, I wonder if we can find more groups with buses (& listed numbers) going?

[blaze]

2. It doesn't matter

The media will only report the :puke: Beck supporters.

[peace13]

3. 500,000 people boycotted the 'surge' on the Mall in DC.

Cspan was there for one hour. The rest of the media ignored us. Media will write the story , regardless of what we plan or do. Sad but true. Buy a TV station and a paper before heading east.

[lunatica]

4. My response? Yawn...

So far they're zero for zero. Getting nowhere fast with their idiocratic marches and demonstrations. They're even getting boring in their predicability. Bad Grammar, can't spell worth squat and racists. How many times do we need to see the same play before we realize the only thing close to a plot is a bad case of generalized rage?

[mzteris]

5. here's a few - scattered responses, looks like

West chester, PA - a whopping 8! http://www.meetup.com/West-Chester-Tea-Party/calendar/13679517/

Chattanooga Tennessee - Two "full" buses. http://eventful.com/chattanooga/events/glenn-beck-washington-dc-restoring-honor-rally-/E0-001-026971710-0 :

Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association: 9 http://www.meetup.com/Mansfield-North-Central-Ohio-Tea-Party/calendar/12645423/

Rochester, NY : 96 Yes · 4 Maybe · 31 Waiting http://www.wesurroundrochester.com/calendar/12143259/?eventId=12143259&action=detail

Frederick, MD: 1 http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/events/restore-honor-glenn-beck-828

Knox County, OH: 7 http://www.knox912.com/calendar/14131125/?eventId=14131125&action=detail

Charleston, SC : DAY TRIP BUSES 4 buses - FULL – SOLD OUT!, one almost full "extended stay" bus. http://charlestonteaparty.org/?p=4133

[cap]

15. I wonder if we are not looking in the right places...

I wonder if the evangelical churches are going to be busing them in. These people live in an alternative universe.

The DC police will be really pissed off if they have been given estimates of 300K for planning purposes and barely 1000 show up. That's a lot of police overtime, porta potties, lining up of emergency vehicles and so on that get committed for the large rallies.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Have fun seeing so many losers in one small area.

[jwirr]

7. If I lived in DC I would be waiting for them on the Capital steps. In the

millions. Who do they think they are? Civil rights activists?

[TheKentuckian]

8. Have to be pretty damned dramatic to get any press

Our protests are ignored and memory holed (even by Democrats who claim we never get out in the streets) and their's are hyped, financed, and blown up.

[cap]

9. they'll get press, Fox News will be carrying them

and so will, by default, CNN and MSNBC

[TheKentuckian]

14. I was talking about a speculative counter-protest, sorry. Should have fleshed that out more

[mzteris]

16. They should all wear a particular color

- I was going to say red - because it stands out, but . . .


at any rate - a way to distinguish the counterprotesters from the the idiots at a glance.

[stevedeshazer]

10. Ignore them. They ignored us by the millions in 2002-3. It worked.

A few hundred Glenn Beck/Dick Armey/Teabagger nuts won't change anything.

Did Glenn get his permits yet?

Will they be guarding the porta-potties again?

[Brickbat]

11. Snore.

[HughBeaumont]

12. We could have a million people on that fucking mall and the M$M would be "ALL EYEZ ON TEA"!

Corporations (who own pretty much all of the media) hate and will dismiss anyone to the left of Max Baucus in mindset. We're dryer lint to these dicks. Our numbers don't matter. If we're not pro-war, pro-Trickle Down and don't think Pope Abaddon Reagan IV was the greatest leader the United States or any other country has ever seen, we don't get air time.

They loves their useful idiots. They loves it when their foot-shooting message is lapped up lovingly by the working/middle/poor who refuse to accept they're peasants. They loves having the lapdogs continually chase that carrot and be concerned about meaningless wedge issues and shiny objects.

[mzteris]

17. get enough youtube postings by citizens

showing it and then posted to FB and they wouldn't be able to ignore it.

[EC]

13. Al Sharpton will already be there

for the MLK memorial...

[LibertyLover]

18. That photo on their web page of Beck in what looks to be an

SS uniform is scary. One piece of advice to all the Glenn Beck fans coming to DC - remember to 'stand right, walk left' on Metro escalators, because if you don't you will be mocked and jeered unmercifully by the regular users of Metro.

[UTUSN]

19. Our response? Let them expose themselves,won't be good for them & who said it's LARGE?!1 n/t