The 2010 9/12 March On Washington

Information HERE on the upcoming march on Washington.

I plan to attend.

If you are a trusted friend and want to meet up with me, please contact me via my email address, which appears toward the top of the right sidebar.

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The 9/12 Rally's Winning Sign

Thanks to Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

I saw the above sign and one similar to it, but didn't have time to snap the photo.

I do wonder how many Americans are quietly and silently sick and tired of the race card as BHO's teflon coating. And at what point will the race card become the losing card to play?

Note to readers: Several more posts below on the 9/12 March on Washington. Please scroll down.

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Let's Compare The 9/12 March To BHO's Inauguration

Thanks to Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

Comparing Tea Party 9/12/09 To Obama Inauguration Crowds

From AJ Strata:

Updates Below

I have been doing some research analyzing photos and crowd data to try and ascertain the crowd size of the 9/12/09 Tea Party protests (which I blogged on here). It seems the best, most recent reference point is President Obama’s inauguration, which was estimated at 1.8-2.0 million people. If you look at the pictures from last January’s Inauguration it looks at first glance like the Obama crowds dwarfed the Tea Party crowds.

The Tea Party Crowds did not extend back the Washington Monument (there were other events on the Mall yesterday). On the flip side, the inauguration is a controlled, seated event. It has a uniform density of people sitting in chairs spread out on the mall. Here is a map showing the areas and capacity of people for inaugurations using an aerial view of the Mall:

(H/T Moderate Middle) What is clear in the inauguration model is that people are restricted in their movements and are assigned locations with specific capacity numbers. Now look at the Tea Party Pics, especially around the reflecting pool which shows a capacity of 240,000 in the inauguration model.

These two great shots (from someone willing and able to climb a light pole) show how there is no consistent density as with the laid out seating of an inauguration. Moreover, if you look at the inauguration model, the crowd does not spill out into the streets on the side, up the hill on the sides, etc. It also doesn’t go under the trees on each side of the Mall. The Tea Party crowds were thick through all these areas.

In my opinion the crowd was over 1 million. Maybe well over 1 million. But it is hard to compare a crowd in evenly spaced seats in a much more restricted lay out to a crowd of varying density spilling out into every crevice and corner in front of the Capitol. Given the high density and greater extent of taking over the open ground I think it is very possible the unadvertised Tea Party without any big name draws competed well with the largest inauguration crowd in recent memory.

It easily surpassed the inauguration crowds of all the other Presidents in recent memory. And that is saying something.

Update: Hopefully this answers Allah Pundit’s queries.

Update: Another good picture showing how the crowds are much more compact than during inaugurations:

Note how far people expanded left and right into the trees up to the Capitol building itself. I walked this part of the crowd and it was packed.

Update: This is a great collection of photos, and notice how dense the crowd is out into the distance of each and every one. It was a huge crowd. It was a respectful crowd. It was an intense crowd. The media and liberals can only down play this by denying the gathering storm is coming.

Note: Several posts today, including my photo essays. Please scroll down.

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How Big Was The 9/12 March On Washington?

From Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

ABC News is denying they said there were 1.5 million.

Ok.

The Washington Post is saying there were about 60-70,000.

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From Michelle Malkin:

Yes, the picture is real, nutroots

By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2009 10:51 PM

I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here— is somehow “fake.”

The claim is that the shot came from the Kennedy procession or a previous left-wing protest and that the flag at half-mast proves that it was “fake.”

Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in honor of the murder victims of the 9/11 jihadi attacks.

Guess the 9/11-was-an-inside jobbers are still that much in denial.

Unbelievable.

Yes, this is real:

And so is this:

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Shut your eyes at your own peril.

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More “fake” photos via El Marco:

And from reader Hardtorn:

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Let’s go back to the screenshot:

Reader Rosemary e-mailed a link to USAToday’s National Mall/crowd estimate schematic, which it published in January to show how the Park Service estimated inaugural crowd attendance. It’s a helpful guide:

Note from AOW: Scroll down for my photo essays.

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The 9/12 March On Washington

(Please scroll down for my two 9/11 posts)
Tomorrow I'll be participating in the Tea Party Movement.

For only the second time in my life, I'll be taking to the streets.

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I plan to meet up for breakfast with personal friends and some fellow bloggers, including The Beak.

If any of my readers will be attending and have my cell phone number, you can contact me in downtown D.C. See you there!

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