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Tea Party Video: Right-Wing Tax Protests Caught On Tape

The Huffington Post | April 15, 2009 at 08:23 PM

Anti-tax activists are assembling around the country today for Tax Day Tea Parties. HuffPost is following these protests with the help of citizen journalists. Check back here throughout the day for new video.

Citizen reporter Jenny Hatch surveys the Tea Party crowd in in Denver, Colorado. One participant tells her, "It's better to be an American than a hyphenated American...":

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Media Matters has put together a mash-up of the Tea Party media coverage today:

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Judd Legum describes the scene [ http://www.juddlegum.com/blog/2009/04/annapolis-tea-party-us-government-creating-crisis-100-times-as-grim-as-911/ ] in Annapolis, Maryland:

The audience, which was quite large despite a heavy rain, was told that Obama was leading the country toward "dictatorship." The government, we were told, was creating a crisis "100 times as grim as 9/11," the people were being "brainwashed" into complacency by the media and soon "the face of big brother will be exposed and the slogans of a classless one party system are revealed to us."

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At a protest in Concord, New Hampshire, one protester held a sign depicting "Obamanism" as a gun robbery, and another sign said "B.O. Stinks And So Does His Big Government Agenda":

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Demonstrators in Nebraska [sic - Nashville] sign a petition to send to the state legislature:

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In Louisville, Kentucky, protesters sing the national anthem, which segues into a country-music anti-bailout song:

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[article then goes on to include the videos of/commentary re earlier 'tea party' events posted here at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=37040756 ]

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