Just wanted to let you know that your short essay was the final nudge I needed to attend my local tea party in NYC. I’ve never, ever done anything like this in my life, and from the looks of the crowd in attendance, most of them never had either. I don’t remember seeing such an awkward-yet-polite group milling about since my first junior high school dance!

The NYC T.P. was fortunate in that it was somewhat more organized than the average T.P. Newt G. gave the final address. Nevertheless, this is a “movement” that’s all over the map, and will almost certainly die stillborn. Even Newt was hard-pressed (I thought) to come up with constructive ideas on how to move forward.

In any case, “from small acorns do mighty oaks grow” and all that. It’s a start, I suppose.

But when Conservatives, who are almost unanimous in not demonstrating, finally do, the Media is all over it as if it were an outbreak of the plague.

These demonstrations may help show that not everyone is walking blissfully into that bright light, but nothing’s going to happen until the people in power are replaced.

Some say fine, we’ll do that in the 2012 elections.

That will be too late. Look what’s happened in only 4 months.

Start recall petitions, start them now, everywhere.

Otherwise, the Tea Parties will be little more than a ripple on the pond.

There is something to be said about the caliber of people who attend the Tea Parties. They are courteous, polite and civilized.

I am protesting for the first time in my life also. It’s not only about California’s taxes. For me it’s about this socialist administration, the tyranny and injustice of this same administration, the witch hunt for people who saved Los Angeles et. al. from major destruction, Obama actually apologizing to Europe and Latin America for what the horrible US has done to them, this horrible stimulus bill that has so many things wrong with it I can’t even begin to list them, being called a Right-wing unpatriotic, radicalized, subversive terrorist for simply protesting (funny how Code Pink destroying recruiting offices is patriotic and I’m the terrorist), the constant attempts to trample the Second Amendment, the arrogance, evil stupidity/insanity and treason of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Napolitano, Rahm Emanuel and a huge list of others who are trying there best to overthrow the United States in the biggest power grab we have ever seen.

Oh yeah. I am a veteran. Homeland Security thinks I am a danger. I am just sickened by all this and more horror comes every day.

The Tea Parties are a great start, but the momentum needs to keep going, and that requires funding. I couldn’t make it to any of the parties yesterday, but I understand the one in Binghamton, NY (my area) had a pretty impressive turnout of around 500 people. Which is about 485 more people than usually turn out for leftist protests. But I would be willing to donate money to “the” movement, I’m very big with charity, but I insist it be a worthy, respectable organizations that will effectivly and efficiently put it to good work.

But there is no organization that I know of, since this was such a grass roots movement. Those, like me, who are willing to put their money where the mouth is, need to have an organization that will put it to uses we approve of.

Can you get together with the other trusted bloggers of this movement and compile a list or organizations that can help funnel funding to the right groups? With all your reputations, fairly well established (at least in my opinion), I would feel quite safe relying on your opinion, as to who to donate.

Can you and your cyber patriots help direct we, the great unwashed masses, to help out the best way we can?