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Tea Party Reports Open Thread

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johnnyreb4/15/2009 1:20:07 pm PDT

re: #140 Occasional Reader

Charles, what do mean by that, practically?

I went to check out the DC tea party; I saw a couple of people there wearing Ron Paul t-shirts. How do I “keep them out”?

Lets face it. There is no way short of physical violence that you are going to keep people away from public protests of any kind. It all well and good to say lets distance ourselves from them, but when there is any sort of public event going on, the nuts will be there.

As far as other things go, I guess each organizer could put disclaimers on their web sites and the like. Not sure what this will do. We have all seen the CNN interview upthread. That woman went in there with an agenda and not amount of disclaimers were going to stop her.

If anyone has any practical way to distance the tea party movement away from the Ron Paul guys, I have not seen it yet.