Socialized healthcare protest #2
News, Political ·Thursday July 23, 2009 @ 21:13 EDT (link)
Parking FAIL: a silver Mercedes E430, license WA 639 VQJ, pulled about two feet into the opposite parking space in the Microsoft building 36 garage.
This one was on somewhat short notice, held 1700-1800 today outside GroupHealth's Bellevue offices at NE 8th Street and 116th Avenue NE. We took the side of the road opposite the "gimmes" (thieves, handout-seekers, call them what you will, they want hard-working people to work to support them and give them "free" stuff, which sounds like seizure and slavery all rolled into one, but I digress). I had no meetings scheduled, so I headed over for a while, parking at the side of an out of the way strip mall without any tow-away threats posted, behind a camper, next to a row of empty spaces (in short, not infringing on any business parking).
First a wide shot to show both sides of the street, with GroupHealth and the gimmes on the left; then some costumed nurses and the rest of our side (Liberty Belle was one of the nurses, I believe):
Some of our signs (I held the "No National Healthcare" sign for a while):
It was good to meet Don, also from Microsoft (red shirt, holding up the "No National Healthcare" sign that I held for a while); I introduced him to CLAMS, the Conservatives and Libertarians at Microsoft discussion list; I expect to see his introduction there shortly. It was good to also see Alan and Allison from Dan's 7000 Year Leap book club, and meet Bruce, Deba and Jeff, and all the other freedom-loving patriots that took time away from jobs and family to show up.
Observe the gimmes' last lonely sign left when they fled the field around 1800; presumably they'd only been paid to shill for an hour—with their professionally printed signs—whereas while we had hand-made signs, those I talked to on the "anti-theft" liberty side all had jobs, but several said they'd planned to outlast the enemy, and we did. If only we had the votes: it's always easy to get people to vote for someone that promises to take other people's money and give it to them, so I fear that while our cause is just, I lack Mandorallen's faith that "We must needs prevail." Time will tell whether the American people love liberty and independence, or robbery and oppression.
Books finished: The Forgotten Man.
