This is the first of two parts, with part two coming along sometime this weekend. In this part, which will mostly be pictorial, I’ll try to give a flavor to the protest outside the Guerrieri Center at Salisbury University yesterday. Over the weekend I’ll report and observe on the actual presentation by Senator Cardin as I was inside the room.
I actually arrived onscene about an hour before the event and there was nothing going on yet. I was, however, greeted by this sign:
Finally about 10:00 or so the first protestors started to trickle in. They were promptly greeted by the gentleman in the nice suit with the folder.
Undaunted, the protestors set to waving their signs. All told, there were about 40 at the peak of festivities.
A couple pictures up I noted in the caption that the signs were generally hand-lettered. While I was inside some new signs arrived but they didn’t have a lot of takers.
There were also flyers being passed out with a similar message and a nice bit of Photoshop.
To me, the signage sometimes makes my day. Here’s one good example of a guy who doesn’t mind being blogged.
And this lady has some solutions which need to be tried before any further government interference in the health care market.
It’s not a sign but something tells me there’s someone making a small fortune off this image (and/or going to court soon on copyright infringement grounds.)
It was also good to see our protest getting its share of coverage from the two local TV stations.
Not only that, the protestors were making videos of themselves.
If there was one message to be had from the protest, it’s in the photo I’ll close with today.
Next time I go inside the GraySHORE meeting. So no Friday Night Videos tonight, it’ll be back next week.
I try to stay out of politics but I remember when people were drawing Hitler mustaches on Bush and the news media beat them down. Fox News kept calling those people unpatriotic and said they should support the president no matter what their views. They said it was disrespectful.
Also, if anyone even thought about speaking out loud at a meeting they would have been surrounded by 50 men in black who would have shuttled them out of the building.
And when the masses gathered to protest Bush in their assigned parameters, the news either played it down or did not cover it.
And what bothers me most is if anyone would have showed up during Bush’s administration, no matter where their parameters were, with a loaded gun they would have been in jail.
And does anyone really think the government is going to kill old people?
In my opinion, we should throw everyone out of Washington and start anew. Politicians, and the corporations who run them are corrupt to the point we should call this the United States of Corporate America.