Tea Party Rage — Rage Against The Dying Of The Right

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North Carolina Tea Party Revolution has posted videos from their big protest outside Rep. Brad Miller’s (D-NC) office on Friday, which they claim had 695 attendees — and the videos sure to tell you a lot about the nature of right-wing anger right now.

Miller has not been holding town halls, but instead scheduled a meeting at his Raleigh office with a small group of constituents who were also conservative activists. The Tea Party then gathered outside:

These people really do see America as a place that has now been taken over by an illegitimate regime — note the signs like “Liberal Government + Liberal Media = Tyranny,” and “United Socialist States of America.” Plus there’s a defiance of the home-made shirts of a cracked ACORN logo, with the name spelled backwards to make a new acronym: “Not Really 4 Obama’s Communist America.” If the government isn’t conservative, it’s tyrannical.

And just look at this example, of a man saying that our children have been “enslaved” by a $115 trillion debt — complete with baby dolls in striped prisoner outfits and chains:

“And we’re tired of the government’s saying that we’re paid and that we’re organized. We are not. We’re everyday citizens,” the man explained “We get together on Internet Web sites to figure out where things are going on, and what’s going on — just like the other side does. And we’re sick and tired of this, we gotta take back America now.”

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