Tea Party SALEM, ILLINOIS - TEA'd off on Tax Day April 15, 2009

Earlier in the day, the Salem Ralley sported large crowds with public speakers. As the hours passed, remnants of citizens stood post at the downtown Main street and Broadway intersection.

Protestors primarily gathered in the public areas in front of Marion County Courthouse, across from Salem City Hall, and in front of the Courtyard Coffehouse, a privately owned small business.

This video was shot in the afternoon, showing that the movement to raise awareness and the motorist support continued throughout the day. (Sorry I didn't think to shoot video until later in the day... and sorry about the shaky quality. I'm a terrible cameraman, but you can at least get an idea of the event.)

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[txsonshine]

where were the protesters when Obama continues to drain our economy....?

[XtremeRealityCheck]

No doubt! All the libs cried like babies when our nation had to spend a few billion under the Bush administration... and that was for NATIONAL SECURITY... but they say nothing while OBAMA drains our ENTIRE national treasury and spends TRILLIONS in just a few months... Obama and his cronies just just spend, spend, spend... buying everything they ever wanted with our money... passing every liberal earmark rejected in the past decade

[XtremeRealityCheck]

... and leave that DEBT on the backs of our children as an inheritance. SHAMEFUL, shallow and selfish!

[XtremeRealityCheck]

Not to mention the "dictatorship" the Obama regime has set up in just a few months. The Obama regime decided it would be best for our country if they took over the auto industry, the banking industry, the housing industry, the medical industry, the energy industry... that's TYRANNY, my friend.

Oh, and let's not forget there are no checks and balances in govt because they controll all 3 branches now...

[kitten1g]

WHERE were the protestors when Bush started spending 10 BILLION per month in Iraq, for several consecutive years?

Where were these protestors when Halliburton ripped the taxpayers off BILLIONS and put it into their personal accounts and claimed the billions could not be found?

Where were the protestors when Bush started a war that killed more americans than Bin Laden?

[XtremeRealityCheck]

kitten1g - Are you blind, or just brainwashed?

There were American protests continually throughout the last administration...

Anti-war protests, funeral crashers, WTO bashes, 9-11 truthers with bullhorns, liberals laying down in the streets and breaking windows... leftists carrying giant Bush Hitler/Satan dolls...

So seriously, your question is "Where?"

Wake up.

Obviously you don't care about protests, you're just intolerant of Americans who protest things besides Bush.

[ParadigmShifting1]

It is so clear. The liberal socialist propaganda machine wants to silence and persecute all disenting voices.

Can you believe Obama publicly told Americans NOT to listen to conservative radio hosts, and even named names?

His speeches repeatedly mock conservatives and anyone who has a different oppinion.

And he even mocked small towns as "clinging to their guns and religion."

Democracy? Not in Obamanation. Just total intolerance.

[TruthTides]

Why is Obama so understanding and forgiving, reaching out to the wacko killers and dictators, like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

Yet he openly mocks the AMERICANS he was elected to represent.

He publicly mocks these Americans as "waving their teabags" at him, after he announces overseas that America is arrogant... just a few weeks after his administration anounces publicly that we are "a nation of cowards."

With friends like this representing us, who needs enemies?

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

This is why I moved the fuck out of Salem.

[coolestdude80]

Thank you! Too many spendthrifts in government.*****

[MOTHCOTW]

@ParadigmShifting1 that was regarding what is commonly mislabeled as "news," which is opinion and should clearly be stated as such. Rhetorical boondoggling is bad no matter who says it, it is lazy rhetoric and cheap persuasion. As for the guns and religion comment there is no defense for that... he just said something that should have remained his head as a passing thought.

[MOTHCOTW]

This has nothing to do with "extrme reality" or any fact past that some people are more conservative than Obama and Washington Democrats. That is all over the news, the government does not censure it and it is not denied or labled as "the myth of conservative Americans." This was a disappointment after seeing the Niphilim video. I assumed this channel would be about actual secrets and or debatable things like UFOs and God and History, but no, it's honking.

[monkdwalleydehonk]

Huge protest. I'm glad to see so many Americans care. Give up already too many brain dead zombies engrossed in You tube and reality tv. I hate to say it but the bankers WIN.

[stvns1]

I give up.....where were the dem-wits. why didn't THEY protest???? WHY?