What I Saw at the Revolution

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, I attended the San Antonio Tea Party downtown at the Alamo. In attendance were such luminaries as Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent and Janine Turner. Among the highlights of the event was Ted Nugent starting things off with an electric-guitar version of "The Star-Spangled Banner":



But what was probably the most thrilling moment came while Beck was taping an interview with Greta Van Susteren, when she said: "It almost seems like Texas is looking to secede from the rest of the nation."

The crowd erupted in cheers, and the camera panned over to this sign:


Beck then added: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but these people love America. They just think Texas does America best."

And he's right, we do love America. And we know Texas does America best.

What has been amusing during the two days following the Alamo Tea Party has been the reaction of the newsmedia here in Texas. Our own local Obama-worshipping rag, the San Antonio Express-News, has quoted liberal Democrat after liberal Democrat saying that the secessionist sentiments expressed by the Alamo tea-partiers and Gov. Rick Perry are "anti-American." Richly ironic, considering that so many Democrats reveled in committing seditious acts against their own country during the eight years that George W. Bush was president.

But I digress.

If such pseudo-intellectual "enlightened" liberals would ever bother to study our country's history, they would learn that secession is a quintessentially American act. Consider the very first line of the Declaration of Independence:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Rather interesting how so much seems to come down to that single document, signed nearly 233 years ago.

And as for a certain conservative who expressed shock and horror at such secessionist sentiments, I am very tempted to say "It's a Texas thing, you wouldn't understand." But it's not just a Texas thing, it's an American thing. And he should understand.

In closing, here are some photos I took while I was down at the Alamo on Wednesday. Enjoy!

Glenn Beck addressing the tea-partiers.

Ted Nugent getting us all fired up.

Local talk-radio host Joe Pagliarulo.

A sea of flags.

The Alamo as seen from the stage.

What would Jefferson do?

Reagan remembered.