On: Patriot Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Libertie...

[guelo]

After TARP passed in the midst of one of the largest protests of a congressional action that I've witnessed in my life

I guess you weren't alive in 2003 for the Guiness world record largest protest in human history against the Iraq war, including 400,000 in New York, 200,000 in SF, etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_prot...

EDIT: took out the London and Rome references

[guelo → guelo]

Of course the difference is that tea partiers are upstanding Real Americans while the Iraq war protesters were dirty fucking hippies so they don't count.

[Eliezer → guelo]

> including 2 million people in London, 3 million in Rome

Is that outside the US? I don't recognize these cities.

[JshWright → Eliezer]

Maybe guelo meant London, Arkansas and Rome, New York.

[guelo → Eliezer]

> 400,000 in New York, 200,000 in SF

[jswinghammer → guelo]

Those are large numbers but few people in those cities vote in U.S. elections :)