Catherina Wojtowicz of the Chicago Tea Patriots was kind enough to invite us to a rally outside the offices of Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL) this past Saturday. Apparently the Congressman had committed to being on hand from 1100-1300, but he never showed up.

Draw your own conclusions.

Anyway, there was no real opposition expected, so Shara and I just threw on our Black Jacks, picked up a couple of flags, and joined the crowd. It was great to see over a hundred American Citizens out on the street taking their Government to task—even if their official Government representative couldn't be bothered to attend—and the honks of support from the folks driving by on Archer Avenue were often loud and frequent enough to drown the protesters out completely. Nothing wrong with that!

There were a couple of odd ducks at one end of the formation, kids who apparently thought that their lives ought to be subsidized by "rich people" who aren't their parents. I thought it was a little tasteless that they were carrying signs obviously intended to leave the impression that they were on our side, but then again the messages on their signs were so thoroughly ignorant that only a fool would have seen them as anything but stooges for the Statists. Here's a video of a very well-informed lady taking their insipid arguments apart:

Incidentally, I can't say enough good things about Catherina, who is one of the primary Tea Party rally organizers in Chicago. She has been working night and day—entirely on her own nickel, I might add—to get all of us out here pulling in the same direction, and all her hard work is really beginning to pay off.

The only thing that failed Catherina Saturday was her voice. If there's anything an old squid knows, though, it's how to yell... so I picked up the bullhorn and rallied the crowd for a while:

Apparently Americans love liberty, hate tyranny, and really want the hand of Government off their bodies and out of their pockets. Who knew?