Attending A Tea Party For A Little Tea

My brother and I will be headed to the University Of Georgia Tea Party (starts at 4:30pm EST) within the hour to see the lay of the land, so to speak. I’m going to try and live blog the event but if I’m not successful, I’m going to write a summary of the experience later today or early tomorrow. My brother’s manning the camera since he’s skilled in that department. So I guess your wondering (or not) why this center-left, Big Two Party hater is going to a mostly conservative tea party?

Because I love and respect a good protest!

Being a guy that used to subscribe to “far left extremist” and black nationalist viewpoints, I have participated in many a protest. Sometimes there were three of us and sometimes thirty. But I always had a bit of the rebel in me and loved the atmosphere of a protest. Regardless of what is said about the tea party protests across the nation today, the fact that Americans are organizing peacefully to voice their concerns about our country is a damn fine thing. I know there will be many anti-Obama signs along with assorted nastiness in general but that’s the way it goes. It is our right to peaceful and public assembly. And should be exercised when we feel the need to.

So away I go, a bit early so my bro and I can get a bite to eat, to the UGA Tea Party protest for a little tea. But will there be crumpets?