Back then - Bachmann was encouraging protestors (9 arrested)

[The Straight Story]

Tea Party Activists Hit Capitol Hill, 9 Arrested

Capitol Police arrested nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate office building as thousands of Tea Party activists descended on the Capitol building to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending.

The gathering was organized by local Tea Party groups around the country, who are arriving in Washington this morning by the busload. Conservative leaders in Congress, led by Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), have taken to the airwaves to encourage the activists to show up on the Capitol steps and demand meetings with members of Congress...

Within an hour, activists were lined up down Independence Avenue to go through the magnetometers in the lobby of the Rayburn Office Building so they could confront members and staff. Bachman told them to each take a page – or a piece of a page – from one of two copies of the bill at the podium and ask a member to explain the text to them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/tea-party-activists-hit-c_n_347016.html

Funny how they are all for massive protests one day and calling them un-american the next and those people that supported the tea party are now posting pics with military folks/etc holding signs that say 'get a job'

[The Genealogist]

1. The AM radio tells them so

When the teabaggers do it, it is "stamping out tyranny" the way the "real patriots and Founding Fathers" did it. When someone left of the John Birch society does it, it is "filthy hippies who hate Murica and want everything given to them in life." That's what the radio and FAUX news says all day and night, thus it is so. Remember, in their world, the more something is repeated, the truer it is.