So I went out to join the Nashville Tax Day Tea Party protest yesterday at the State Capitol. As expected, the turnout was quite large but civilized. The few police that I saw in the area were mostly relaxing or chatting casually to people, a sign to me that they weren’t expecting trouble. The two speakers I “heard” were Phil Valentine and Rep. Marsha Blackburn. I put “heard” in quotation marks because they speakers weren’t nearly loud enough for the crowd size. I see this not as a failure but a success in that the crowd was so large. In addition the “horn honkers” were out in force, some holding signs out of their car.
My favorite sign of the day:
