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Occasional Reader4/15/2009 1:35:11 pm PDT

re: #217 Charles

as long as the main organizer is someone like Eric Odom

But what does “main organizer” mean to something like this? This seems to be more or less genuine “grass roots”… 800 cities? Something like that?

I have to say, I went to check out the Lafayette Park rally with very low expectations, thinking it would be Paulian/Nirther/Stormfront City. But the vast majority of the protesters looked like very “regular” people, and the vast majority of the slogans heard and seen were simply about lower taxes and smaller government.

Something to think about; even if Odom was heavily responsible for starting this phenomenon, isn’t it possible that’s it’s grown so large that it’s gotten away from him?