Posted by
Kevin Condon on Saturday, July 04, 2009 11:23:01 PM
Between 70 and 100 folks came to 23rd & Dexter's "Turtle Park" with signs and hopes of change in the disastrous spending and power grab of the administration of President Obama. We started at 9 and ended at 10, incurring the ire of one Park Hill resident who believed that we were interlopers in a childrens playground because we used the stone "turtle" in the sandy area of the playground of the park as a soap box. She also claimed that one of the speakers used foul language. He did not.
This was a wonderful event, really. Free Speech in Action by ordinary citizens. People came from as far away as Loveland and Morrison. One man, visiting his liberal children in Denver, came from Michigan. The night before the event I took a phone call from a woman whose son in Albuquerque had called her to tell her about the event planned in Denver. As promised, I brought along the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and one of the other men in the group read the Declaration of Independence.
Action is next for those who attended. One woman said she intended to start picketing Channel 9 and three other women said they would join her. One speaker suggested that we have to start educating our children about what the Constitution actually says, having kids read it. What a concept!