More Chicago Tea Party Photos - Including Roesgen Setting Up Amid Families

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CNN "reporter" Susan Roesgen setting up amid families before choosing to interview some guy with a photo of President Obama as Hitler. Pure propaganda from CNN.


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The above is a photo of Anti-Scientology protesters, Chicago Says No. Here is their web site. Considering that Scientology, an alleged "religion" is allowed to set up shop in that very Federal Plaza to troll for suckers I think that it was great that these folks were there.

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Chicago's Chicago Tea Party - part VI - Part of the Problem

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I call this photo, No Such Thing. And that is part of the problem here in Chicago, there really is no opposition party.

Chicago Chicago Tea Party - part V

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Pioneer Court, North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago's Chicago Tea Party - part IV - Chicago Bloggers

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Anne Leary of the Backyard Conservative shown here in red up on a platform with the very cold colonist. The original Tea Party was both more dangerous politically and warmer, December in Boston.

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John Ruberry, the Marathon Pundit shown appropriately dressed in funeral black, black hat and the checked scarf standing in front of Chicago's eternal flame erected "in memory of the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces from the Revolutionary War to the present. Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard Reserves."

Chicago's Chicago Tea Party - part III - Pioneer Court Art

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Pioneer Court contains public art including the front and rear ends of John Kearney's moose and J. Seward Johnson's God Bless America, a giant 3-D version of Grant Wood's American Gothic. The Chicago Picasso from the the protest kick off in Daley Plaza can be seen in this post. That pitch fork was needed for the Stimulus Bill.

Chicago's Chicago Tea Party - part II - This Family Brought a Tea Service!

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Initially off on their own in Pioneer Court this family served tea.

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This family came prepared.

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Tea Is Served! This family brought their own tea service to Chicago's Pioneer Court, on the Chicago River in front of the Chicago Tribune Building, inspiring the woman on the left to dump the tea. The property once held a nearly windowless warehouse that contained Chicago's Main Library.

As speeches were being made I looked around Pioneer Court and saw this family with a tea service, serving tea to passerby. Brilliant. I had to talk to those folks, they went to a protest for the same reasons the rest of went, they are concerned, alarmed may be more like it. The father is the one who commented on the difficulty even getting people who are basically "lone wolves" to publicly protest. I think he was speaking politically, as there are no survivalists left in Chicago, they headed for the hills years ago.

More thoughts and photos to follow.

Chicago's Chicago Tea Party

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The rally started near the famous Chicago Picasso.

The crowd of maybe 500 turned out at Daley Plaza on this cold and windy Chicago morning. The Chicago Police then escorted the crowd on a march out of the loop, down Wacker Drive and across the Michigan Avenue Bridge to Pioneer Court next to the Chicago Tribune Building. One guy said to me, "well here you have it, a protest by lone wolves." This protest was put together in less than a week by people who clearly are not professional grievance mongers, it was more "grass roots" than almost any other Chicago protests that I've witnessed. The only politician I noticed was Republican Cook County Board member Tony Peraica, but I'm sure that I missed at least one, I think he spoke while I was talking to the family that brought a tea service. More on their great move when I post their photo.

It was nice to meet Anne of the Backyard Conservative, John from the Marathon Pundit and the Econopundit.