Another great Raleigh Tea Party video with Fernie in a tricorne hat

One of the interviewees in the video below is Wake LP Chair Fernie Williams, pictured below in his tricorne hat. This video includes several mini-interviews that show a wide variety of perspectives from a few of the thousands of people that showed up for this Raleigh Tea Party.



This video was created by Dean Garris, producer of LibertyTube TV, a local TV program currently broadcast in Raleigh on RTN-10 on Tuesdays at 9 pm and Thursdays at 6:30 pm. This program also airs on The People's Channel in Chapel Hill, currently Mondays at 11:30am and 6:30pm. You can find an archive of past episodes of LibertyTube TV on blip.tv.

Videos from North Carolina Tax Day Tea Parties

YouTube users uploaded some of the most informative and interesting videos from the recent tea parties in North Carolina:

Dr. Michael Munger: "Deficits are future taxes." (The introduction is cut off, but as seen elsewhere, Bill LuMaye mentioned that Dr. Munger was the Libertarian candidate for NC governor in 2008.)


BJ Lawson talking about transcending party lines, taking control of the local economy with the Piedmont Plenty, and the difference between the profits that corporations pay taxes on and the income that individuals pay taxes on. (Salaries are exchanges of time for money, not profits.)


Dr. John Lewis speaking for the Ayn Rand Institute at the Charlotte Tea Party. He talks about the inalienable rights of man and the ruling elite.

Thousands at Tea Party

There were thousands of people at the Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party at the Capitol April 15, and not all of them were "rednecks" or white, despite what you may have read in the News & Observer.

As noted here, the original organizer of the Tea Party is a simple housewife, Melody Aben. who's fed up with out-of-control government. It's a sad fact of political life that whenever a grass roots movement picks up steam, the old, established advocacy groups will inevitably co-opt it. That does not diminish the fact that many, if not most, of the folks who turned out were people like Melody.

Inevitably, there were also some "partisan" and anti-Obama slogans, some over the top in my view. But they were vastly outnumbered by the Gadsden Flag and signs that indicated the bearer "got it," who recognized the problem was not caused by the Democrats, but by both of the duopoly parties.

Another sign that the majority of the protesters got it was that we gave away all the literature from the Libertarian Party table, and 10 people offered donations for a copy of the Declaration of Independence/U.S. Constitution pocket edition published by the Cato Institute. Some were even wearing GOP stickers.

Mike Munger and B.J. Lawson gave rousing speeches. Check out the video shot by Jeff Paul here.

Tea Party

Several Libertarians joined the more than 200 people gathered on the Capitol lawn Saturday in a new American Tea Party demonstration.  Fernie Williams carried this sign, and Brian Irving debuted the Liberty Penguin Flag and was interviewed by WTVD TV-11.

The grassroots group NC New American Tea Party will hold another Tea Party April 15. There will be two demonsrations that day, from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at the Federal Courthouse on New Bern Ave. and from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at State Capitol (east side).

Here's a sampling of the slogans from the many hand-made signs:

Socialism
Trickle Up Poverty

Give Me Liberty
Not Debt"

Free People
for
Free Enterprise"

Yes
Free Markets
No
Free Loading

Honk if I'm Paying Your Mortgage

The Cary Tea Party

VICTORY! The Town Council has "abandoned" its plan for forced annexation ... at least for now.

Show your support join the Cary Tea Party Rally, February 12, 2009 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in front of the Cary Town Hall (corner of Academy and Wilkerson)

It's time to Stop Cary -- again!

On November 20, 2008 the Cary Town Council approved resolutions of intent to begin forced (they call it "town-initiated") annexation of 10 neighborhoods included in the first phase of the town’s comprehensive annexation plan. Council's action only begins the State-required process.

The next step in the process is a public hearing on the annexations. This will be held during a Town Council meeting on Feb. 12, 2009 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Residents and property owners of the annexed areas can address the council (5 minutes each). The council will not be responding at this time.

Final action by the Cary Town Council on whether to actually annex these properties may be taken in either March or April. Should the council approve the measure, the first-phase annexations would take effect June 30.

From StopCary.com.