Tea Party is planning a 'Day of Resistance' on Feb. 23

[proud2BlibKansan]

From the website:

On January 16, 2013, President Barack Obama issued 23 executive actions against your 2nd amendment Constitutional right to bear arms. He did this without the consent of Congress which in itself, violates the foundation of the Constitution and the co-equal branches of government.

In response to these unconstitutional actions by the President, on .223, February 23, 2013 the American people will stand together in defiance to protect the right that protects ALL of our rights, the 2nd Amendment! They will organize locally so that they may band together neighbor to neighbor and reassert their community's right to determine their own destiny! Join today by selecting an option below:
Yes! I want to resist. Please connect me with others near me!
Yes! I want to help organize a rally near me!
Yes! I have begun organizing a rally and would like to register it for promotion and would like to be provided with a list of people who sign up close to me!

http://www.dayofresistance.com/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DayOfResistanceVolunteerPage

Here you can check for an event in your area: http://dustinstockton.com/2013/01/official-list-day-of-resistance-rallies/

[Wounded Bear]

1. So, their options are "Yes", "yes", or "yes"?

It's great to have choices, I guess. Freedom at work.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Just a bunch of YES men I guess

Unless there's a black man living in the White House. They they resist.

[Snarkoleptic]

3. I do so enjoy the misspelled signs, teabags attached to hats w/ clothespins

and medicare scooter riders railing against Socialism.
I sincerely hope none of them decides to invest in a dictionary.

[russspeakeasy]

4. Prior to attending any of these events, make sure your face

is flushed, your jaws are clenched, your gun is visible and your hood has eye holes in it .

[pinboy3niner]

5. Oh noes! Are there even enough Port-A-Potties in existence to handle this?!!

[ZombieHorde]

6. Hahahahahahaha! nt

[JaneyVee]

7. Guaranteed 40 people shot at events across the country.

These folks can't even make it through a gun show.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. Maybe we should promote Teabagger rallies that require open carry in order to attend.

Might be a way to thin the herd and the median IQ would tick up a bit as well.

[RZM]

8. Feb. 23 was 'Red Army Day' in the Soviet Union

It's still celebrated in Russia today, though know it's known as 'Defender of the Fatherland Day.' Apparently over the years it's evolved into more of a celebration of men in general and not just those in the armed forces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Day

I doubt any of these folks made the connection.

[Coyotl]

11. This could be a secret communist plot to overthrow the RNC

Let's not warn them

[starroute]

15. It's also National Banana Bread Day

Now that's something worth celebrating!

[ReRe]

32. Oh yes...

I have a great banana bread recipe! I will bake up a bunch of mini loaves of banana bread and donate them to the local food pantry in honor of the dual historic date.

[go west young man]

23. Irony seems to love tea baggers.

[Whovian]

10. If you have a FB account please let them know how stupid they are.

[yourout]

12. Great......on my 50th birthday.

[HarveyDarkey]

13. Update: last minute change

The weather forecast is bad for the 23rd
They've postponed it to the 30th

[pinboy3niner]

14. :)

Is moving it to tooth-hurty also a tribute to Orly Taitz?

[starroute]

16. The guy running this is Dustin Stockman of Western Representation PAC

Checking around, it seems like he's been a pretty consistent Tea Party presence over the last few years. My guess is that with the Tea Party kind of falling apart, he's looking for some way to stay relevant.

[starroute]

19. Look who else is involved with WRPAC - Joe Miller

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51852.html

Alaska Republican Joe Miller, the tea party-backed candidate who fell short in his bid for a Senate seat last year, isn’t backing away from politics, saying today that he has signed on to run a PAC with strong ties to the tea party movement.

Miller — who rose to fame last year after defeating Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary, only to lose to a Murkowski write-in bid in the general election — will become the chairman of the Nevada-based Western Representation PAC, which describes itself as working to “tak[e] back our country from the control of special interest groups” and fighting against the growth of government.

“We are trying to be a significant influence in 2012 and simply an extension of what we saw in 2010,” Miller told ABC News on Wednesday. The tea party movement is “going to be bigger — not much question about that – [and] more of a political force to be reckoned with” in 2012, he said.

Miller’s hope is that the PAC will become an important factor in endorsing tea party candidates nationwide. In the 2010 cycle, the PAC reported raising $401,020. Miller, by comparison, raised more than $3.3 million for his failed Senate bid.

[Coyotl]

40. These groups are trying to break up the USA and make off with the minerals on public lands

Don't be fooled by the patriotism or all the fools they capture into their orbits, their purpose is actually covert and private, destroy the USA and take over the 50% of land that is federally owned. This effort is underway in legislatures already and has passed in Mormon Utah, where the state now claims back all federal lands except parks and monuments. Remember your history, the Mormons started a new Nation State in the unexplored world before the USA conquered/claimed their territory.

1847 - First party of Mormon pioneers arrive in the Salt Lake Valley.
1848 - US wins Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo is signed which cedes Utah to the United States.

This destabalizing effort also plays into the hands of Dominionists who see the USA as a religious creation and oppose the secular Constitution.

Make no mistake about it, there are insurrectionists at work in the Republican Party, not just in Mormon Utah.

[starroute]

20. Oh bloody hell -- they're involved with Dan Backer

I've posted about Dan Backer here a few times. He's a lawyer who's set up a number of conservative PACS that target Tea Partiers for donations while spending very little on actual conservative candidates. He's also been involved with a couple of Supreme Court cases seeking to loosen campaign finance restrictions.

One of those cases, which was successful, resulted in the creation of the so-called "hybrid" PAC, of which WRPAC is an example. And I see that WRPAC was also involved in requesting an FEC advisory opinion which would have allowed them to skirt normal reporting requirements for their Facebook ads on behalf of candidates. (http://www.fec.gov/pages/fecrecord/2012/march/ao2011-28.shtml)

I also found this -- http://saos.nictusa.com/aodocs/1191456.pdf -- which indicates that Backer represented WRPAC in that FEC request.

The short version is that Backer is bad news wherever he turns up. Almost everything he's been involved in is a scam of one sort or another. And the OpenSecrets report on WRPAC -- which shows them spending almost a million dollars in the 2012 election cycle but donating only $68,500 to federal candidates -- suggests this could be more of the same. (http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00461772)

Here's the link to their monthly FEC filings -- http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00461772. I've just spent a little time glancing through their last two yearly summaries -- and it does seem they spend more on payroll, travel, and fundraising than on anything else.

[ReRe]

35. You are on this!

Hitting on all cylinders! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and links!!!

[starroute]

41. Here are links to the two previous threads where I posted about Backer

This, from October 13:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1534476

And this from September 1:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1014215800#post26

Backer is starting to remind me of Jack Abramoff back in 2004-05 -- where at first he was somebody you'd never heard of and then you started to run into his name in every story about questionable right-wing operations.

But Backer is still flying under the radar. Mostly you run into a story about a PAC founded by some allegedly idealistic 23-year-old young conservative -- and it turns out that Backer is really the brains behind it. Many of Backer's groups also have some connection to the Tea Party Express, which is the most astroturf of the tea party groups.

And if he was just a scam artist, you could sit back and laugh at the people he's fleecing -- but his consistent efforts to chip away at what's left of campaign finance regulations makes him a real danger.

[ReRe]

50. This country is awash....

...with sleazy corrupt individuals working in the background. But all you have to do is peel back the layers of the onion to find the critters. Yip, we're a rogue nation. And Backer looks like the next Jack Abramoff. Thanks for these links...

[dballance]

24. "Stay Relevant?" By That You Mean Continue to Fleece the Rubes of Their Money

and also get big donations from the Koch Brothers types?

[truebluegreen]

37. Yup. 'Zactly.

Wingnut welfare.

[Initech]

17. $10 says more portable toilets show up than protestors.

[Posteritatis]

21. I'd take that bet, but telling them apart would be too difficult. (nt)

[Initech]

22. Well hey they're both full of the same thing!

[Aerows]

47. That made me nearly take out my keyboard

Hilarious

[truebluegreen]

38. Maybe not.

Gunz are the only right that needs to be defended from tyranny.

Speech, religion, assembly, search and seizure, privacy--not so much.

[freshwest]

18. Let me know when 2A goonies will protect the right of women to healthcare.

In fact, I want them to use their 2A to find and arrest clinic bombers. Also, to aid the Secret Service in tracking down the WJs who threaten the lives of elected officials. Oh, I got a long list for them to show how many of our Constitutional rights they can defend - but I won't hold my breath!

[tomm2thumbs]

25. A PREVIEW OF WHAT TO EXPECT....

Bwhahahahahaha

These dolts

too bad he didn't issue 29 executive actions... they'd have to wait till Feb 29, 2016

[NBachers]

29. Isn't that Clint Eastwood in drag?

[truebluegreen]

39. Feb 29!

[SunSeeker]

26. "on .223, February 23, 2013 the American people will stand together in defiance..."

.223 being the caliber of an AR-15. Very clever.

[bluedigger]

27. The weather is likely to be poor.

Their weapons will require much cleaning, oiling, and polishing after the event.

Win-win.

[JDPriestly]

28. I think I will stay inside that day -- and out of the range of guns.

[AAO]

30. F-ing buffoons !

[arely staircase]

31. .223?

as in a .223 round used in the likes of the bushmaster?

[Paladin]

46. Yup. (nt)

[Deep13]

54. Maybe they sound ask for $30 donations...

...to reflect the magazine capacity of a Bushmaster or one of the many other AR15s on the marget.

[bowens43]

33. What a sad pathetic bunch of losers...

These are your typical gun lovers

[Turbineguy]

34. Please sign up

That way they know how many porta-potties to rent

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. Already did.

Twice.

[Buns_of_Fire]

36. Yes! I want to spend the night before oiling and polishing Precious for the True Patriot Parade and

probably wind up shooting off something I need because I'm too damned stupid to check and see if she's loaded first!

[randome]

42. Hey. Keep your buns out of this!

[randome]

43. "Yes! I will hold my breath until the government relents!"

[NightWatcher]

44. Who's starting the pool where we bet how many shoot themselves?

Just like Gun Appreciation Day had 5 accidental discharges, I'll bet 5 get hurt on .223 Day

[FSogol]

48. Are they selling "Day of Resistance" shirts yet? Grifters gotta grift!

[tanyev]

49. Boy, if Obama had issued 29 executive orders that would have stumped them.

[annabanana]

51. I sure hope someone takes plenty of pictures...n/t

[spanone]

52. and how will that day be any different?

[Deep13]

53. No! I live in reality and have actually read the President's orders. nt