George Rebane

Well, our signs are made (manila folders on yardsticks) and we’ve also made a list of stuff to take (backpack chairs, water bottles, camera, chapstick, …) on the bus to our first demonstration tomorrow at the State Capitol in Sacramento.  These anti-tax increase demonstrations are being held across the land according to reports that are now even being picked up by the MSM.

And in response, our big government’s Department of Homeland Security has already identified Jo Ann and me as “right wing extremists” without being too specific about it, and notified all the police and sheriff’s departments across the land.  (More here and here)  Talk about asymmetrical propaganda warfare.

We may not look too ‘professional’ when compared to your typical left-wing demonstrator, but we’re going to show up with our Nevada County neighbors on the state house lawn, and listen to some barnburner speeches from our representatives who are scheduled to whip us into a frenzy – God only knows what we might do after that.  I may even wave my yardstick with the manila folder back and forth energetically, I don’t know.

Here’s a good YouTube video that sums up a lot of what the Peters across the country are feeling – the Pauls are staying home (except possibly the folks from Acorn).  This will be our first protest, but given the way things are going, it won’t be our last.  And now we’re formally under a DHS blanket suspicion of being ‘enemies of the people’ with law enforcement agencies warned to keep an extra eye peeled when we gather.  I started my days with my parents as designated ‘enemies of the people’ hiding in an Estonian forest evading Soviet patrols who summarily executed people like us.  Now after all these years, who’d a thought?