Well it's About Time - South Carolina Senator Calls for a Street Revolution

I cannot agree more with Senator Jim DeMint. Regarding the recent Stimulus Bill, DeMint was quoted in the Augusta Chronicle as saying:

"I would think it's time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations," he told us last week.

Seriously?

"Seriously.

"The power of the people is there. Freedom is in the people's hands right now, and it's about to slip through."

"People don't need to look to Washington. It's the people's government. And the people are going to have to take it back. They can do it with their voices and with their votes -- and they may have to do it with their legs. People are going to have to show that they're not going to take it anymore."

Well bravo Senator DeMint. And just for you...



h/t Gateway Pundit

UPDATE: Found this very timely article from Legal Insurrection. Here's an excerpt:

The beginning of a protest movement against Barack Obama's redistributive policies is underway. Though still small, every movement starts somewhere. While called the "Tea Party" after the Boston Tea Party, this movement is similar to movements throughout history where the producers of society refuse to have their property and income confiscated.

This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior. Obama's redistributive plans require higher taxation, but higher tax plans (to be announced this week by Obama) are based on the fallacy that the "rich" will not change their economic behavior in reaction to higher tax rates.

History tells us, however, that economic redistribution plans fail because the producers of society would rather not produce, than have the fruits of their production taken away and given to others. Obama can raise the tax rates on income, but he cannot force people to generate income to be taxed. People may just say "no." This resistance will not come from evading taxes, but from evading taxable income. In the end, as must all economic redistributors, Obama either will have to resort to repressive measures, or he will have to abandon his redistributive plans.

Read the rest here.

INDIANA STORE OWNER ENDS HIS OBAMA PROTEST BY TURNING THE FLAG RIGHT SIDE UP

A correct sentiment. He shouldn't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities for distress signals during the next 4 years.

A tire store owner has removed the American flag he flew upside down in protest of Barack Obama's election as president after complaints from his employees.

Greg Townsend said he had planned to keep the flag outside his business inverted until Obama left office but took it down Friday morning.

"My employees were all upset with me, and I can't replace my crew right now, I'm going on vacation," he said. "About six applicants came in and said they'd go to work for me, but it's pretty difficult to replace a crew when you're leaving on vacation."

Townsend said he is a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam in 1969-70, at the time John McCain was a prisoner of war in Hanoi.

"My feelings will never change," he said of Obama. "I've had all kinds of veterans call me and come in personally and thank me for flying it upside down. I'm amazed."

Townsend pointed to the U.S. flag code, which says flying the flag upside down is acceptable "as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."

Tonya Miller, a worker at Townsend's Tire Service, wasn't bothered by the flag protest in the city of about 10,000 people some 20 miles southeast of Fort Wayne.

"I think it makes a statement, and I wish more people would have before Tuesday, because now I feel we'll probably have him for eight years," she said.

MUSLIMS PUNK WIMPY EUROPEAN MEN IN THEIR OWN HOME

European men are such pussies. Mega-pussies!

CHINA TO KEEP PROTESTORS IN PENS DURING OLYMPICS

Here's your new superpower:

China will create three "protest pens" in the capital's parks to allow people to demonstrate during the Olympics, an official said yesterday.

The move follows speculation as to whether the government, which strictly limits protests, would allow public displays of dissent, especially given that the games have already been the target of campaigns on issues ranging from media freedom to Darfur and Tibet.

"This will allow people to protest without disrupting the Olympics," said Ni Jianping, the director of the Shanghai Institute of American Studies, who had lobbied for the creation of the zones.

But Human Rights Watch attacked the decision, arguing that the restrictions undermined the right to demonstrate under international law.

Can we do this with Democrats?

CODE PINK IDIOTS TRY WITCHCRAFT AT ANTI-MARINE RALLIES

Oh yay! They've managed to combine two of the biggest groups of fools on the planet - Code Pink and people who practice witchcraft. Like a reterded Reese's Cup.

Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting a controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, Calif.

The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "witches, crones and sirens" day, the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.

The group's week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers.

These people are giving insane pink witches a bad name.

CHINESE ANTI-FRENCH BOYCOTT FALLS FLAT

It looks like China's protests are as crappy as the products they export.

They came. They expressed patriotic fervor. Then they shopped.

On Thursday, the first day of a planned boycott against Carrefour, a French retail chain here, there were a few low-key protests around the country, but many Carrefour outlets did a healthy business in peanut oil, petit fours and family packs of litchi juice.

MICHIGAN STATE PRO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WHACKJOBS SEIZE CAMPUS BRIDGE

From The Spartan Spectator...Some video that shows La Raza, Mecha and Chicanos Y Latinos members being complete asswipes as law abiding students try to attend class...


Do they have a point?...do they ever?

HEY L. LI-CHING WANG! TELL YOUR PEOPLE TO CHILL OUT

Chinese consumers have been urged to boycott French goods in response to the raucous protests that accompanied the Olympic torch through Paris.

The appeal, circulated on internet chatrooms and bulletin boards, indicates the protests earlier this week have not only embarrassed the Beijing government, but also ignited a strong nationalist reaction among sections of the Chinese public.

Chinese Urged to Boycott French Goods

Tell em that "humility and compassion, not hypocrisy and self-righteousness, is what is needed." You tell em' Wang. That is if the Chinese government will let you.

And while you're at it, maybe you want to remind these "Chinese-Americans" they're actually Americans and that maybe they might not want to be waving Communist China flags on the streets of an American city. Tell them the buzz words..."humility and compassion"...and teach em' about "assimilation" while you're at it.