Hundreds Line Randall Road in Conservative Demonstration

I’m still have trouble realizing that conservatives can carry picket signs.  Obviously, they have overcome their inhibitions, as this first view in Lake in the Hills coming from Crystal Lake shows. (Click to enlarge any photo.)

 I grew up in the time of sit-ins and actually helped stimulate the teach-in movement by my newspaper editorial and front page article in the University of Michigan’s Michigan Daily.

Then, conservatives just stood around and watched the radicals wave their signs.

Not anymore.

Patriots United’s spear-headed the biggest political demonstration I’ve ever heard of in McHenry County on Route 14 at the 4th of July. It was the second TEA Party.

Not that the first ones were any slouch. There were held in Crystal Lake, Algonquin and Cary.

Saturday in Lake in the Hills and Algonquin hundreds lined Randall Road. Both Lake in the Hills and Algonquin Police were called by merchants about which I shall write a separate article so those who oppose the First Amendment can know who to patronize.

The lines of demonstrators stretched from north of the intersection where one turns to get to Lowe’s to Algonquin Road on the west side of Randall Road.

Lots of American and Don’t Tread on Me flags.
Must be a lot of Fox News watchers, because there were multiple signs referring to Acorn.  I watched some of the undercover investigation that ran on Fox about the two Acorn housing counselors advising a couple how to get Federal financing for a house of ill repute staffed by 13-year old illegal immigrant girls.
As of Friday afternoon, ABC, NBS, CBS and MSNBC had run no stories.  Wouldn’t want to embarrass community organizers, I guess.
Lots of horns were honking.  
The blasting gravel truck’s horn heading east on Algonquin Road across Randall Road really caught my attention.
There were a number of signs opposing President Barack Obama’s health care reform.  Click on the photo above and you can read one.  It refers to Congress being in a separate health care system.  “Animal Farm” came to mind.

Here’s another sign referring to Congressional Democrats not wanting to be in the same health care plan as other citizens.
On the other south side of Algonquin Road tomorrow.

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Hundreds Line Randall Road in Conservative Demonstration — 1 Comment

  1. Thank you, Cal, for posting this and for the wonderful comments and pictures. It brought chills to my skin as I had not been able to get up to the north end to see what was happening. This was just awesome, and my deepest thanks to those groups and folks who participated…and especially to those who just stopped and jumped in. This is what America is all about now as we try so desperately to change the nasty direction in which we are heading thanks to thoughtless politicians. Remember 2010!!!!!

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