San Francisco? Are you kidding me? Nope – there really was such an event. Happened on October 15th. Zomblog has the pictures. One of the groups present was Bay Area Patriots:
Bay Area Patriots are citizens who participated or expressed an interest in participating in one of the Tea Parties that took place in the Bay Area on April 15, 2009. The nationwide Tea Party protests were born out of grassroots frustration about excessive government spending in the form of bailouts and stimulus packages and the exponential growth in the size of government occurring in the short time the Obama Administration has been in place.
Bay Area Patriots come in all shapes and sizes, colors, religions, party affiliations, genders and income levels. We are united by the core principles of limited government; controlled government spending at the local, state and federal levels; and lower taxes–all of which are necessary to ensure true liberty and future prosperity for this country.
Bay Area Patriots have members predominantly in the greater Bay Area, including San Francisco, the North Bay, the East Bay, the Peninsula and the South Bay…
I’m telling you, fellow GOPers and conservatives, we have a fantastic opportunity to move in to the liberal strongholds. No, we’re not going to get a lot of traction by opening up branch offices of Focus on the Family or Knights of Columbus (though both organizations are not unknown in the Bay Area) – but we can have an effect with a strongly libertarian program. Not, perhaps, as the GOP but certainly as an alternative to the dreadful, stultifying conformism of the left which rules such areas. An alliance, as it were, with those people of the Bay Area who are not with us on all issues, but are with us in the defense of liberty.
Now is the time for all good men (and women…and, given this is San Francisco, “other”) to come to the aid of their country. We daren’t let this opportunity pass – we can entirely reform our government and make it what our Founders intended. That done, we can have all the arguments we want over gay marriage – but if we don’t defend our freedom, then all our arguments are moot.
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