Rally On The Mall, Latest Fad

By Semperpapa

It was brought to my attention that on Saturday, 2 October 2010, another rally took place on the Washington Mall.
Just as on August 28, when the rally organized by Fox News Glenn Beck, drew hundred of thousands of Americans, a large crowd gathered to make their voices heard.

So this appears to be the latest fad for American political discourse.
But there is a very profound difference between the 9-28 rallies and the one that took place on 10-2.
While the literal hundreds of thousands that responded to Beck’s call to re-unite and rejuvenate American spiritual essence made the trip to Washington on their own dime, taking their own time and on their own initiative, the crowd of “thousands” that gathered for Saturday event was composed mostly by people who had been hired, for lack of better term, by the associations they belong to.
After all it is a common practice for Liberals to make use of their resources to fake their way into the News. Nancy Pelosi and, just few days ago, Barbara Boxer, hired day laborers to stand with signs against their opposition, just for the purpose to show some bodies at their events. It will be interesting if someone will show up with footage of people at the Saturday rally who had just been paid to make up the crowd.

The NY Times has an article in which the wording comes across the readers as almost giddy in describing the gathering at the Lincoln Memorial. So I am just going to analyze some of the lines written by NY Times Steven Greenhouse.

The writer points out, from the first sentence that thousands of union workers, environmentalists and peace activists showed up for the rally.
The article boasts of hundreds of groups participating and enumerates some of them, like the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club and, one of my favorite, the National Council of La Raza.

But the organizers of the rally did not publicized some of the other groups that sponsored and supported the effort, whose names were brought up by Glenn Beck last week, like the Communist Party USA, the National Urban League, People for the American Way and one that the article nor Mr. Beck mentioned, Code Pink. All ultra-liberal progressive organizations pursuing the agenda of a Marxist America.

The article continues by describing the sea of purple and red and yellow shirts that could be seen across the venue during the gathering.
Such scene was not observed during Mr. Beck’s rally, mostly because those who participated to that gathering did so out of their own personal interest, as American people, as individuals, in direct contrast with this Saturday’s crowd who came as members of their organizations. The colored shirts so admired by Greenhouse were those of SEIU union members and UAW union members and AFL-CIO union members and probably few pink strugglers of the anti-American phenomenon, Code Pink.
Well, the Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s also had uniformed participants, maybe not as colorful but certainly as significant.

Last week, the unhinged radio commentator Ed Schultz interviewed Gregory Foster, president of a Teamster local union in New York that represents 20,000 union workers in the service industry, and Mr. Foster stated that the members of his local had to participate in the rally. When asked if his members “wanted or had to” make the trip to Washington, he responded with an enlightening “both.”

The political agenda of the gathering was one that emphasizes the mentality that has brought our country to have someone like Obama as President and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as Congressional leaders.
Greenhouse points out that the rhetoric at the rally was political, but that no partisanship was expressed, because the American people know all too well what the true party allegiance is for those who wanted or were forced to make the trip to Washington.

Greenhouse reports some interesting statements made by some of the participants, like the retired airline worker who says that she wants less defense spending and more green jobs.
Or the Chrysler worker that wants more jobs, a sentiment shared by millions of Americans and ignored by the man’s party, while standing next to his friend who has been unemployed for two years (well, who has been in charge for close to two years in the White House and four in Congress? What happened to the man’s hope and change?)

Finally, the writer mentions a statement from Leah Daughtry, a reverend organizer of the rally, who stated: “We want to help make sure there is an energized and educated electorate” and I must say that personally, reading the reports on this “voluntary” rally I feel that my understanding of the agenda of the American Left is greatly enhanced.
So from my point of view, and my own personal experience, Rev. Daughtry has succeeded.
I have witnessed first hand what syndicalism does to a country, as I was born and raised in Italy, and I can surely state that I will do all I can to insure that the new wave of union take over of our society does not materialize.

The union leadership is well known for its intimidation tactics they like to apply against their opponents and against their own members who may stray from the reservation and, as the prospect of a humiliating defeat looms at the November 2nd horizon, they are mobilizing in all the glory of their thuggish past.

As I wrote in my rant of October 1, 2010, Progressive Plan For November 2010, I am convinced that the American people are in a struggle that will task all our resoluteness to overcome, but by the look of things, we may be on the right path.

The “Rally on the Mall” fad will continue for a while, in the attempt to diminish the accomplishments that Glenn Beck achieved by bringing people together in the name of American consciousness, without the need to coerce them into doing so.
Who knows, maybe I will organize a rally in Washington too.

Just my thoughts!