DC this weekend

[SheBantam]

My Cabin A is at Greenbelt NP, I am home working until tomorrow.

On Friday I will be part of the team who hand delivers petitions to our elected Officials on Capital Hill.

The electronic petition is at

http://www.grassfire.org/122/petition.asp?pid=21407071

incase anyone wants to give us more work to do.  Actually they are about 50,000 short of their goal as of this morning. The goal is 500,000 signatures. This is anti Obama Care.
On Saturday I will be in the march and rally on the mall.  If anyone is interested in joining me camping, there were plenty of sites at Greenbelt as of Monday afternoon when we took the camper down.  Or join me at the march.  
I will be marching with the Team Sarah (as in Sarah Palin) people.  teamsarah.org there is a link about Dinner at the Omni Hotel (by the Zoo) on Friday night and Breakfast near where the march will begin.
There is also a reception on Friday Evening at the Marriott Rennaisance Hotel, free but people have to register. THere will be appetizers (can't spell the french word) and they will provide poster board and pens for making posters.

[HersheyGirl]

Paula, wish that I could go with you, but I have other plans...going to the Penn State game.  Thought about going to Washington, but Andy just about flipped out when I mentioned it.  I will be there in spirit tho.  Go team Sarah...love that woman.

[SheBantam]

Raymond is flipping.  Especially when I told him I was delivering petitions...he just knows I am going to get arrested.

[HersheyGirl]

So what if you do get arrested?  At our age, it will be a very good story to tell the children.     Grandma gets arrested...what a hoot!   At least it is an experience that you haven't had yet. (at least I think that is the case...)

[dthurk]

Make sure you take pictures.

I've been in prison, but never arrested.  Great campfire story.

[SheBantam]

I have been VERY polite to officers when I did something wrong (traffic wise) so I have never been to jail...been to court with jeffrey any number of times...

Dave will they let me take my camera in jail??? I have a little one that is on a key ring that I am taking to the march.

leaving in a coouple of hours for DC...as a Lady in GA with a TT said last night...DC or Bust...

[dthurk]

I said I was in prison, not jail.  And I have never been arrested, let alone convicted of anything.  Had a traffic ticket or two along the way, but that's it.  I don't know if they'd allow a camera in jail.  Probably not.  I would suspect they'd empty your pockets of anything you possessed and hold it for you.  Others on this board might know better.

[tlhdoc]

Gee was that directed at me???:U  Not only would they not let you have a camera in prison, you would not have any of your clothes or personal belongings.  They would provide you with a nice jumpsuit or shirt and pants.  They would give you those after you were strip searched, and took a shower with somedelousing soap.  A mini-medical check and a nice group of roommates.  It is not an "exciting" story to tell.  In fact it is degrading.

[dthurk]

I wasn't looking to make light of a serious issue.  I was in prison, but not as an inmate.  I had a job to do, over a span of several days.  Actually, I've been inside two facilities, a prison and a shock incarceration camp.  You're right Tracy, it wasn't pretty.  I was subject to search, but kept my clothes, possessions and tools.  Inmates looked at me with suspicion, I was glad to be escorted by a guard at all times.  Paula, maybe I've gotten a little over the top.  I truly hope that you do not have to experience arrest and jail time.  I seriously doubt that participating in a march will find you there.  I commend you for your commitment and dedication to a cause that is so important to you.

[SheBantam]

This was a totaly awesome experience.  Many, if not most of the people camping at Greenbelt were "protesters" as the media were calling us.

//www.resistnet.com has the timelapsed Utube video from the traffic cam on the home page.

Friday was busy busy...pickingup and delivering petitions, my Metro Card got a real workout. Then to lunch in Chinatown, I chose Ruby Tuesdays because I knew what the food was there.  Then off to The Marriott Reniacance to  a class and got a tee shirt, and then a reception there...then off to the Zoo area, have Metro card will travel...to the steepest escalators I have ever been on...just glad they were working.  And dinner and another meet and greet with members of team palin...ummmm dinner was expensive, and the people there were ummmm scary...Sarah worshipers...literally.  So I had dinner and hopped the Metro and back to the truck and camper...

THe next moring I liked to never got up...the Fantastic fan would not work...so I was clogged up my feet hurt, my shins were splinting...and I was still tired...but I got up and went to Denneys, compared to the Omni, that was roughing in. then boarded the metro again and headed back to town with my Tort reform sign...camera, water, PB&J sandwich, and rice crispy treats...oh yes my ultra light bag chair...had on my good tennies and socks...should NOT have worn the socks...

On the metro I met a family with 4 small children, girls 2, 3 ,4 and a a boy 6 or 7 (missing 2 front teeth), so I helped them with their sign on a stick.  On the way to Freedom Square, we saw the marchers ahead of us, seems they ran out of room at Freedom Square and they started the march early.  We got in the march and marched about 7 blocks from where we got in...The reflecting pond area was already filled up and me being so afraid of crowds, I put my chair in the back with a group from Hampton Roads VA. near the street.

Then they started going over the barrier into the "grassy knoll" and filled that up, then overflowed onto the Mall.  The crowd was huge.

Inspite of reports that there was Anger, I saw none, it was more almost festive.  The signs were creative. Some were in costume and there was grim reaper.  It was a multitude of people who had stopped being silent. The reasons were differing, there were "birthers", anti abortion, tax, healthcare and a even multiple signs showing support for Joe Wilson.  There was NO racism, there were blacks, orientals and the family with the 4 children I was walking with was a Mexican AMerican mother, caucasian father and bilingual children...There was a black man with the Hampton Roads group who was blowing something that was like the "elf horns" in LotRs.  Granted the super majority were caucasian.  All ages were there, and all states, even the Virgin Islands made their way to DC to show displeasure and/or concern about the direction our country is going.

And I did not see the inside of a jail or police car.  There were NO counter protests.  Everyone behaved and we are proud of each other for the peaceful way we used our Constitutional rights to assemble and freedom of Speach...btw, I agree with Joe Wilson.

[SheBantam]

The reason my fantastic vent would not work??? I figured it out when I got home...I had the thermostat set to the red...it should have been in the blue as it was not super warm...it is running now.

If they have another one next year, any gals that want to go with me, my Bantam will hold up to 7...means 3 beds have 2 people...