I remember when they were hooded...Helen & Margaret...old ladies in power-chairs

[ribrepin]

Margaret, I haven’t laughed so hard since Katie Couric interviewed Sarah Palin. A few thousand white folks called in sick to work last week so they could parade around the nation’s capital on Saturday and Fox News declares a revolution is underway. My goodness. I don’t know which is more sad – the fact that they couldn't’t spell half the words written on their illegible signs or that they all left their white hoods at home. Bring the hippies back. Their protests were much more entertaining.

Just to give you some perspective:

1925 - Ku Klux Klan – 35,000 KKK members marched on Washington
1963 – March for Freedom with Martin Luther King – 250,000 marched
1969 – March to end the Vietnam War – 600,000 marched
1993 – Gay and Lesbian Rights – 800,000 marched
1995 – Million Man March – 600,000 marched
2004 – March for Women’s Lives (Pro-Choice) – over 1 million marched
2009 – Obama Inauguration – over 1 million celebrate
September 12, 2009 – Tea Party Hillbilly Rally - 78,000 marched but only 3 seemed to know what they were marching about.
I’ll tell you what Margaret. You would never know by watching Fox News that 78,000 racists marching on the nation’s capital was cause for concern. You would think we were finally winning the war against the British. Of course, according to Harold’s television set, larger crowds gathered at dozens of football games that day so what the hell do I care.

Let me just say something about the 9-12 Project. On September 12, 2001 everyone was an American. There were no Blue States and no Red States. There were no Black Americans and no White Americans. There were no Europeans, no Asians, no Hispanics, no Africans… The world was standing with America against the evil that is terrorism. The globe was united like never before. And what did our President do when given that moment? He told us all to go shopping while he and his buddies planned a war. And 8 years later the 9-12 project has been reduced to a movement of no Blacks, no Hispanics, no Asians… just 78,000 white people who can’t spell.

[Libertas1776]

1. At least back then

you didn't have to look at their ugly mugs. Why don't they all do us a favor and put back on the hoods and remind us who they really are.

[ribrepin]

2. Are you an old lady in a power-chair?

Much like Helen & Margaret you tell it like it is.

[Libertas1776]

4. Sorry

I am not. But believe it or not, there are plenty of us out there who believe and respect the great wisdom of the "old ladies in power chairs." They truly a brave and noble band. May they move across the country (albeit rather slowly;)) and spread the word of truth to all:patriot: God knows we need to hear it right now

[ribrepin]

6. I do my best to get their posts out there

I really admire them. I see this post has 4 recommendations.

[Libertas1776]

7. make that 5 now

;-)
and please, keep the Helen & Margaret coming.

[ribrepin]

8. Thank you

Off to the greatest for this one.

[CC]

3. Aren't they the best.

For any that might like to read more their blog is here http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

[ribrepin]

5. I love Helen & Margaret

Too old to care about being nice. I even have a google reader feed so I can read their stuff hot off the press.

[DCKit]

9. I notice that Helen, like the rest of us, has no data on the hundreds of thousands...

who marched against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan or any of the other outrages of BushCo*.

[ribrepin]

10. I don't think they ever mentioned that nationally

The local news around here showed the crowds and they were big, but I don't remember any estimates.

[DCKit]

11. Those estimates were forbidden.

I live in DC and they consistently downplayed marches that didn't reflect well on BushCo* policies. Thanks to M$M collusion, they were able to keep many of them out of the news all together, despite crowds in the hundreds of thousands.

BushCo* also encouraged the police in each city where an anti-*, anti-war or RNC protest took place to release their most militant, fascist cops and policies on the crowds. I'd very much like to believe that's been left behind for good, but those RNC protesters are still facing each and every one of the illegal, bogus charges brought against them. On a brighter note, the many arrested in DC on their way to work in one of these fascist exercises all got a big payday. On the back of the taxpayers, of course.

[ribrepin]

12. Kick for the day crew