For decades since the advent of the 16th Amendment, April 15th has been a day dreaded by America's productive class. A day that comes once each year reminding workers of the toil they bequeath to the members of the government class. For the past two years, that date has been claimed as a date of martyrdom by America's taxpayers, now just 50 percent of America's population. The American Tea Party now owns April 15th, and has seized it from the government as a day that used to be marked as a day of "responsibility" and "obligation."
An estimated crowd of 25,000 turned out at the foot of the Washington Monument to protest out-of-control deficit spending, out-of-control Congress, and a government regime that seems to many Americans to have gone rogue on the American People.
Much anxiety preceded this protest from internet web sites that actively recruited progressives to show up at the protest posing as supporters of the Tea Party movement with the intent to discredit it with placards spewing bigotry, hate, ignorance, and calls for violence. these infiltrators, called by a group called crashtheTeaParty.org failed to show up.