Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is holding a Town Hall event TONIGHT in Niles, IL, just outside of Chicago. If you are in the area and can attend, please see the message quoted below:

Dear Patriots,

 

There will be a town hall held tomorrow by Congressman Jan Schakowsky.

 

It has been said that the young lass might be a no-show, so don't be surprised.

 

This will be a big town hall, packed with many of her sheep, don't even bother with them. They are absolute idiots; we need to concentrate on recruiting strong minded Americans to join our tea party.

 

Attached is the flier for the 9/12 march and a shortened version of HC 3200 -- do not argue with the ObamaFans -- it is like herding cats -- completely impossible.

 

Go to those with protest signs and say to them, "Hey are you with a tea party?  Come join us."  Give them a flier and tell them that we need all Americans.

 

Approach the man or woman who looks like a deer with headlights coming at them -- they are members of the public who actually believed that young Jan would be holding a town hall meeting where WE THE PEOPLE would be able to ask questions, be given information about how the bill will effect us and our families and, in general, just be able to participate.

 

That is not what this is about. This is sham. This is total astro-turf support. This is Hollywood.

 

And most of all, talk about the bill. Show them, don't tell them how congress are a big bunch of bully liars. Give them the tools -- www.IllinoisTea.com -- where they can read the bill for themselves.

 

Impress upon them how this legislation will forever alter the landscape of this great country. They may be confused and protective, understand where they are coming from.  For years, many were comfortable believing, even if we didn't totally agree with what was going on in DC, that those in Congress were so unAmerican that they would want to destroy the exact fabric which this great country is made from.

 

Make sure they know that the Congressional Budget Office has given the thumbs down to this bill. Talk about the facts of the bill... Talk about small business, talk about special needs, talk about how Acorn and other community groups and the power they would wield, talk about how medical care would be rationed, make them question the information they have received that Barack Obama and his people.

 

And do yourself the biggest favor, stay away from the idiots. The SEIU thugs willl be there as well as Acorn and rent-a-protestors.  They are absolute idiots -- remember the days of Jim Jones and those who walked behind him -- that is who we are against at these rallies.

 

Remember, when you talk facts to "The Innocents" they will recognize the sincerity and appreciate the genuineness.  When you start spinning, regardless of how cathartic it is, we lose credibility.

 

Get interested parties names, phone numbers and emails. Give them our fliers.

 

Contact me with any questions or concerns and let me know how everything went afterwards. I will not be attending.

 

Take this to the mattress and TALK ABOUT THE BILL.

 

Schakowsky Town Hall
Time:6:30PM (Doors open at 5:00pm)
Monday, August 31st
Niles West High School - Auditorium
5701 Oakton St
Skokie, IL

Catherina Wojtowicz
ChicagoTeaPatriots@Gmail.com
(312) 662-8666
Chicago Tea Patriots
www.IllinoisTea.com

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There are those who will inevitably suggest that the Navy Jacks are the well-financed brain child of some shadowy Right-Wing consortium of insurance companies, oil corporations (the worst kind of company, apparently), and other assorted fat cats.

If only.

Of course, we're actually out there on our own nickel, as is everybody else I've ever met out there carrying a Hands Off My Body sign to your local Town Hall rally. Apparently our Capitalist Overlords are cheapskates.

The other side? Not so much. See below as PJTV's Steven Crowder dons a secret camera and goes looking for a protesting gig with one of Nancy Pelosi's "grass-roots organizations."

Fair warning: Steve's new compensation package may be better than yours.

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To read the captions in the footer of this MSNBC report, you'd think that the anti-Socialism protesters at this Florida Town Hall meeting were scuffling with themselves, and that any injuries were self-inflicted.

Not so, of course... at around the 45-second mark you'll see an interview with a gentleman in a ripped shirt that really makes the point. "I'm not a protester," he says. "I'm a businessman.... I just came to listen and see what I'm missing about this health-care thing, because it doesn't make sense to me."

Amen, shipmate. Next time, call the Navy Jacks and we'll help you keep your shirt on!

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American Majority just published a great guide to using Twitter as a communication tool to support political activism at the grass roots.

BHO and his merry band used Twitter and similar tools to great effect in the recent elections. Now that we other Americans—you know, the ones with jobs—are getting sucked into the political arena, we ought to become familar with the enemy's arsenal so that we can co-opt it and negate his tactical advantages.

You can download the Twittivism Guide here. NOTE: You can view the document online right away, but you'll have to register for a free Scribd account in order to download the PDF.

8/27/2009 Update

The Twittivism guide has been temporarily deleted, pending updates. We'll let you know when it's available again.

9/1/2009 Update

The Twittivism Guide is back! Download it here.

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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?

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