Andrew Langer Speech at FreedomWorks 912DC March and Rally

IFL President Andrew Langer speaking at the FreedomWorks 912DC March and Rally (also known as the 912DC Tea Party). West Lawn of the US Capitol, September 12, 2009. Langer gets the crowd to chant "Don't Tread On Me", talks about the Let Freedom Ring "Pledge to Read" and asks attendees to text their support.

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News & Politics

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• Liberty
• Tea Party
• FreedomWorks
• Pledge to Read
• Cap and Trade
• ObamaCare
• Don't Tread On Me

[wheelofmasks]

Not to mention the intensely amusing fact that both the speed and the tone of your reply only lends credence to the idea that this is a hobby operation that's suddenly come into a lot of shady money. You want to debate the merits, buddy? Tell us exactly who funds you and give us evidence.

[InstituteForLiberty]

@wheelofmasks The great thing about the internet is that when some troll posts these comments, we get a little alert emailed to us.

Asking where we get our money is precisely the kind of "ad hominem", logically fallacious argument that ISN'T a debate on the merits. Besides the fact that our liberal counterparts at places like the Center for American Progress and the Tides Center don't disclose their funding, again it doesn't get to debating the substance of what we're saying.

[wheelofmasks]

Wow, I just found out about your organization while researching an INCREDIBLY scummy political spam I got from Langer and your buddies at the CAGP. I think Langer committed every *single* classic sleazy, intellectually insulting propaganda technique in that letter, and now that I know who he is and who he's connected to, I understand precisely why.

Get the fuck out of my country.

[InstituteForLiberty]

@wheelofmasks Just like you committing every *single* classic sleazy, intellectually insulting trolling technique, not just here, but all over the internet?

You want to debate the merits of the issue, then feel free to debate them. You want to debate the merits of a CAGP piece you received, we can debate that, too. 

But this response is nothing more than your usual trolling, pure and simple.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a nice day.

[wheelofmasks]

@InstituteForLiberty I can see you apply the same tactics on a small scale as you do on a large one. All you really know about me is that I get a lot of crap from OTHER people who don't like hearing opinions contrary to their own. And having seen that ambiguous information, you interpret it in the most self-serving, and if necessary, abusive way possible to suit your own ends. In other words, you're doing to me exactly what you do to America every single day of your life. Sorry, not feeling it.

[InstituteForLiberty]

@wheelofmasks By tactics, you must mean, "calling you out for precisely what you are doing." I'm sorry if that bothers you. You came here, made an off-topic accusation characterizing some email you claim to have received without any substantiation, essentially doing precisely what you have accused Langer, IFL, and CAGP of. It's the same kind of trolling you've done elsewhere.

IFL does nothing "to America" save working to protect individual rights. We're pro-freedom here.

[InstituteForLiberty]

@pointpoint10 Actually, the article said nothing of the sort. While it tried to paint an unflattering picture of the Institute for Liberty (while at the same time saying that IFL President Andrew Langer was "disarmingly candid" - hardly the attitude of a "fraud" or someone "scamming" anything), it really didn't succeed. IFL predates the Tea Party movement. IFL has long-engaged in issues that deal with federal executive branch policy, free trade, and global trade and development issues.

[pointpoint10]

@InstituteForLiberty

Why not debate this New York Times article:

nytimes (dot) com/2011/03/31/us/politics/31l­iberty (dot) html

It says that you're scamming the Tea Party and supporting business that send jobs to Indonesia and China. It says that you're a fraud, a lobbyist, and a corporate pig. Can you give any "constitutional" defense for that? I think the founding fathers would have thrown you into the Boston Bay.

[InstituteForLiberty]

@tooyjfwn Thank you for your trolling attempt. Only, we don't feed the trolls here. If you'd like to actually debate something constructively, whether it be the relative merits of comparative economic systems, or the constitutionality of various aspects of the Health Care Reform bill, please let me know.

[tooyjfwn]

You do know that the so called 'free market' is nothing more than a religious myth right? ...No, you don't. I'm afraid that neo cons / tea-baggers are nothing more than the economic version of the Taliban.