Tax-Day Tea Parties are coming to a location near you

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Tax-Day Tea Parties are coming to a location near you
From the mountains to the coast





	Recent Raleigh Tea Party photo by Elizabeth Sauls.

April 06, 2009
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From Franklin to Wilmington. From Elizabeth City to Southern Pines. Burke County. Catawba County. Orange County. Maybe even Beaufort County. Tea Parties are popping up all across America.

There are three Parties scheduled for Alaska and four in Hawaii. One can protest the Obama administration's spending in a parka down at Wasila Lake or in shorts around the King Kamehameha Statue in Hilo.





	photo by Elizabeth Sauls.

There is a Tea Party planned for in front of the US Treasury Building, as well as one at Lafayette Park, across from The White House.

As of this writing, 26 Tea Party protests have been organized for North Carolina. All but one are scheduled for Tax Day, April 15. According to taxdayteaparty.com/ Organizer Curtis Howard said, "Wilmington is having our Tea Party on Tuesday the 7th of April. The date is important because it coincides with the city council's hearing on forced annexation. Please join us downtown at 5:30 p.m. to send a message to all levels of government that accountability is coming."





	photo by Elizabeth Sauls.

Outer Banks residents are invited to join the Tea Party scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Wright Brothers Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Organizers are asking patriots to bring along IRS 1040's for shredding during the event. (This writer feels certain that the coordinators of the event are not encouraging a tax revolt, rather a symbolic shredding of blank documents. The writer also thinks that it's a pretty cool idea.)





	photo by Elizabeth Sauls.

Greenville's Party is being organized by Katie Evans and will be at 3:00 p.m. on the 15th at the Town Commons, 1st St., downtown Greenville. (www.taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/north-carolina/) Ms Evans says she is counting on about 200 attending the event which features a jazz singer rendering the National Anthem. She told the Observer, "This is not a "fancy" event by any stretch of the imagination. This is a cause that I believe in personally. We have no funding nor have we asked for money. We simply want the right, granted us in our constitution, to assemble." She quoted Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

There are at least 2 Tea Party jingles out amongst the patriots. "The American Tea Party Anthem" by Lloyd Marcus is touted as "the National Rallying Cry of the movement against president Obama's outrageous government over reaching stimulus package." YouTube video

"We're having a Tea Party across this land.

If you love this country, come on and join our band.

We're standing up for freedom and liberty.

Cause patriots have shown us 'Freedom Ain't Free.'"

"The Tea Party Song" by Bing Richard YouTube video has a heavier beat and is more of a production than a jingle. Along with a stinging guitar solo, it exhorts listeners to :

"Stand up! (this ain't right)

Stand up! (deception and lies)

Stand up! They takin' us all for a ride.

Stand up, People, for what you believe.

Stand up, People, stop all the greed."

Both songs have excellent videos and both have images from recent Tea Party events across America.

Wear your most patriotic t-shirt, bring a sign or two, sing a jingle with your fellow patriots. As Jeff Mixon said in Raleigh, "Show up!" and let your voice be heard.

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