Highlights of The Broward Tax Day Tea Party - 4/15/09 OR Broward Boulevard Becomes Galt's Gulch Part of ConservativeWebRadio.com | RepublicanWebRadio.com | LibertarianWebRadio.com,
YOU MUST BE A DANGEROUS EXTREMIST if you (1) read and believe in the Constitution (2) hate pork & earmarks (3) watch Fox News (4) want immigration laws enforced (5) have some religious and/or ethical beliefs, rather than believing in the state (6) want to throw out all the greedy, irresponsible bums (practically everyone) in congress (7) are libertarian, conservative, capitalist, Republican, objectivist (8) understand free market economics (9) read Ayn Rand & Frederic Bastiat (10) say “Impeach Obama” daily (11) hate marxism & fascism (12) listen to Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck, Todd Schnitt, Joyce Kaufman, Free Talk Live (13) oppose TARP and the bailouts (14) are inspired by Ronald Reagan, John Galt, Barry Goldwater, Howard Roark, Benjamin Netanyahu (15) have bumper stickers (16) are a Palin fan (17) go to tea parties. (Inspired by comedian Jeff Foxworthy and misanthrope Janet "Reno" Napolitano, this is a slightly longer version of one of the signs I brought.)
When we arrived at the Broward Tax Day Tea Party just before 5 PM, reasonable facsimiles of Barack Hussein Obama and Joe "the dumber" Biden were supervising the festivities along blocked-off NE 3rd Avenue Some signs at the tea party appropriately used the term "Commander In Thief."
"Who Is John Galt?" was a question seen on a number of signs. Here's one I saw near the SW corner of SE 3rd Avenue and Broward Blvd, across from the Federal Building. If you've read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, you know how relevant John Galt is to today's crisis.
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Here's WFTL's Joyce Kaufman, immediately after she spoke to the crowd, wearing her I Attended Broward Tax Day Tea Party With Joyce T-shirt. Order Joyce's Shirt Listen to Joyce weekdays from 2 'til 5 PM. Since 1946: WFTL (History and trivia)
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Here are a few pictures of the crowd that covered every inch of the sidewalk, driveways, and grass for most of the distance between NE/SE 3rd Avenue and Andrews, plus the 3rd Avenue side of the federal building, and even the NE and SE corners of the intersection. Note all the flags and original signs.	Why Is School Board Station WLRN Pimping For Obama?
I saw a guy named Casey holding a sign that referred to "legalized plunder," a term Frederic Bastiat used in his 1849 book, The Law, to refer to the work of the socialists. So I exclaimed "Bastiat fans!" Surprisingly, Casey said I was the first person who recognized the phrase. (I highly recommend The Law... It's even more relevant to our corrupt government today than it was in France 160 years ago.) Here are a few quotes from Bastiat: "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." "Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism." I also suggested that he'd like Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics about free market economics.
Many signs at the Broward Tax Day Tea Party had the "TEA" theme, because this was to be a modern re-enactment of the Boston tea party. Some black and yellow printed signs said TEA Taxed Enough Already. So I made a COFFEE sign on bright pink paper: CRAM OBAMA'S F***ING FASCIST ENTITLEMENT ECONOMY
Pianist Gary Lawrence (formerly WFTL bandleader, back in the adult music days) meets voiceover artist Neil Grant (formerly WFTL morning announcer, before hurricane Wilma). The partially missing words on Gary's sign say Tax Congress 90% Of Their Ill-Gotten Money. GLP Music
Along the sidewalk directly in front of the Federal Building there were tables set up to promote a local photographer and some candidates. There was also a table to promote the Fair Tax (FairTax.org), popularized by libertarian talker Neal Boortz. See Listen to Neal Boortz Any Time, Day or Night.
This one is my choice of the best, most creative sign I saw at the Broward Tax Day Tea Party in Fort Lauderdale, obviously inspired by the latest GEICO insurance TV commercials.
Some people had Lipton tea bags in their little envelopes pinned to their shirts. Me, I'd been saving my used teabags for weeks: green tea, black tea, herbal tea. So I decorated my signs with used teabags, like this one. (Like I told someone who asked, I wouldn't waste a perfectly good teabag on a crook like Barack Hussein Obama.)	Note the used teabags attached at top right and lower left.
Here's the Broward Tax Day Tea Party crowd on NE 3rd Avenue, on the east side of the Federal Building, just before sunset, about 7 PM.
Most signs I saw at the Broward Tax Day Tea Party were hand-lettered, with paint or permanent marker or even cut & paste. Some were beautiful works of art. One couple had large professionally made signs, very slick, with bright red and blue lettering on corrugated plastic (maybe 17x22?), die cut from a sign shop. They said they had paid $25 each. I thought I had the best budget solution: signs from a computer printer, mounted on heavy cardboard. Last year I bought this Brother MFC-5890CN Professional Series Color Inkjet All-in-One with Networking and Large-Size Printing multifunction inkjet printer. Unlike most such machines, it prints on 11x17 paper... great for signs (or copies of some of my newspaper articles, of course)! Printing geeks: Some of my signs were printed on index and some on 67-lb paper. I got many compliments for them. If you want to buy this great printer (or anything else), please consider buying through the links on this site, to help promote and support conservative radio.
There were plenty of Tea Party participants across from the Federal Building, in front of Florida National Bank.
A couple of years ago, I bought a copy of William Shirer's Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich at a garage sale. It's a book that everyone should read, but I had never gotten around to it. Then in October, when it seemed that an Obama presidency was inevitable, I started reading it. I knew there would be parallels, but much more so than I expected. In January, I stopped reading after Hitler took over the Sudetenland without firing a shot. English and French leaders aquiesced, because they knew their people didn't want war and who cared about Czechoslovakia anyway? Sound familiar? The parallels between these people and the Obama constituency are very scary. And that's just one small part. I recommend that you read it. Now. I have put it aside for now. I need to read Atlas Shrugged again!

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