Movement brings people together to protest

On Sept. 12, as many as 2 million people bussed, flew in or drove to our nation's capital. Most of the media has been amazingly quiet about the protest. Perhaps because they don't understand it.

A movement that doesn't have a central motivating figure is the very essence of a “grass-roots” movement.

No single group put this protest together, although many groups made it happen: the TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) Movement, Glen Beck's 9-12 group, Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, and the Libertarian Party, to name a few. All of these groups, and many people unaffiliated with any group, arrived to let the government know of their dissatisfaction with the current administration's policies. Policies that include huge government giveaways, massive debts, a Congress of both Democrats and Republicans that can't seem to get its spending problems under control, and a loss of our constitutional rights.

There was little or no disorderly or violent conduct, participants cleaned up after themselves and placards carried by the participants were almost all handmade - not commercially printed like those in liberal protest marches.

I hope all our elected officials were watching because this is one group of people that just might jump up and bite them in the future. It's time to vote all the tyrants out.

Greg Johnston

Marion