Scenes from a Tea Party

[jinxmchue]

Yahoo News slideshow:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100415/480/urn_publicid_ap_org70667386dbaa4a3381275e7546984a11/#photoViewer=/100415/480/urn_publicid_ap_org0599f747ee7e49399c0d1f14312b97bf

Try to find all that racism Slobberman, Madcow and other libs talk about.  I haven't found any, but I did find this:



Yep.  Typical liberal.

This one is terribly cute:

[Full-Auto]

My little (relatively little that is) town had it's now annual tax protest yesterday.  They hold them on the 14th locally so people can head to Indianapolis on the 15th for the larger rally at the state capitol.

Of course I was there, camera in hand.  I thought I would share some of my pictures.















Now the interesting part. This year we had 3 people carrying openly with two of them sporting AR15 rifles.  Local police didn't challenge them but they stayed close to them for about an hour, then left (the police).







The presence of the protesters carrying firearms actually drew the ire of one of the event organizers.  There was a slight confrontation when I showed up and started shooting pictures of the people with firearms.  The organizer approached me and with an assertive tone asked what news media outlet I was with.  I responded that I am an independent local photographer and asked why she was inquiring.  She said something to the effect of, "I just knew you media types would focus on the firearms.  That's not what we're about, these people don't belong here".

No one else seemed to care that these people were there (the armed people) nor that most of the news folks were focusing on them.

[The Village Idiot]

Great to see some young people in those pics!

[littlelamb]

Those are great pictures thank you for sharing

[Ptarmigan]

Cool. 

[seabelle]

Great photos, thanks for sharing !

Yep, the media's only interested in the gunslingers to prove how violent we are.  I blame the media for that 

Here in colonial virginny, we get a lot of Revolutionary War re-enactors, with their muskets and other cool stuff, like role playing.....they'll talk to you in character in that funny English we used to speakith.  :D  They know their history too!