WASHINGTON D.C. HEALTH-CARE PROTEST 3/20-21/2010

3/20/10 ~ PM: I attended a tremendous (and peaceful) rally at The Capitol today! Preliminary reports suggest that about 25,000 demonstrators were present, which was awesome considering the time-frame. Folks, this was a  POWERFUL demonstration of our resistance! (Keep your fingers crossed & pray real hard).

NOTE: The president didn't have the guts to come on over to The Congress for his final sales-pitch ... until after most of us had left! (I also note later allegations of crude behavior inside the Congress by some 'protestors'. But I sure didn't see any of that. Take it from me - The crowd I was with was a well-behaved, disciplined army of patriots! I wonder if these scabs could nave been a bunch of plants used in an attempt to discredit our movement?)

<Click here to see more pics. of the event.>

3/20/10 ~ 9:30 AM in D.C. The baggage arrived overnight. So I've got all my stuff. I don't know how I'm gonna carry the rather large sign AND the boom-box; plus some literature. But we'll make it work. My wife phoned and said there might be a fight on the mall (The SEIU's coming?). Bring it on Bubba! Those John Philip Sousa/ Marine Band Marches sounds like great fighting music to me!

More later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill.

3/19/10 ~ Marriott Hotel, D.C., 11PM: Well folks, Here I am. As promised in my e-mail this morning I set out ("God Willing") for our protest demonstration in D.C. against passage of ObamaCare. Delta lost my baggage as usual, but I finally made it with my briefcase, camera, stethoscope, suit, tie & debit card! What more does a guy need for a protest?

And I discovered the protest signs safely delivered to the hotel when I arrived. THERE THEY ARE!! As you can see above, the sign maker didn't fail us!

More tomorrow: I'm planning to meet-up with the Tea-Party protest on Capitol Hill - West of The Capitol at noon - and we'll go from there! (Internet not currently working so I'll contact you later).

3/19/10 AM ~ While reviewing the news headlines late Thursday, 3/18/10, I began to understand that the Health-Care Vote would probably happen Sunday, 3/21/10. I went to sleep troubled by vague notions of heading to D.C., and slept poorly. Early next morning I began to check Orbitz, (and my wife to see if she was awake; because we had other important plans for the week-end). By the time she returned to Earth, I had the data. But I must confess that at first I didn't really want to go. It seemed so hopeless. Then I thought of Washington's Men - They probably didn't want to go either. And they didn't even have shoes! I guess that's what duty's all about. Finally I thought of our Military, and the un-rewarded sacrifices they routinely make for us.

I had to be there!

I checked the price. It was $1775.16 total for the return flight plus hotel. That's an unusual number I thought. Something familiar there ... but what was it?

My goodness, just shy of 1776 ... The date of The Revolution. Well actually it was 1775 AND CHANGE. I bet you the people in 1775 were feeling about the same as you and I are right now ... just before THE CHANGE in 1776. SPOOKY! This was waay too coincidental. There's a message here, I thought. I've gotta go!

At that point my wife cleared me for 'take-off', I bought the tickets and it became one mad rush!

So many things to pack, plus I had to record my John Philip Sousa patriotic music for my boom box; and make arrangements for a rental car and some other stuff for my wife on her trip. And what about a sign?  The last time I took a couple of those to D.C. it was in the back of my SUV and Clinton was impeached 3 days later! (Those signs read: "In America The Law is King!" ... Thomas Paine; and: "Save The Constitution; Impeach the President!"). But I couldn't take this one by car. A thousand miles was too far in the timeframe. So, on-line one more time, I ordered the signs from a D.C. sign maker ... and "Jake" promised faithfully to deliver to the hotel. On my wife's advice I called him back and changed a possibly threatening-sounding message. (I guess I shouldn't say: "GOODBYE TRAITOR!" Gotta be careful here: a few weeks ago, while calling Harry Reid to object to the Health-Care bill, I suggested that - considering the piece of manure that he really was - we should "Wipe him off the backside of America." Next thing I know, the FBI calls my office and threatens to come on over and "handcuff" me if I phone him again! This is not America folks).

God Bless,

Bill