After crying about us alerting the Occupy National Gathering to their little rally and appealing for more money to pay for “extra security”, Pamela Geller and the teabaggers decided to hold the thing indoors. We said they shouldn’t have the day and they didn’t, a perfect 12th birthday present for One People’s Project!
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The “Celebrate American Exceptionalism” rally that was organized by the so-called “Independence Hall Tea Party” that was originally to be held at the Independence Hall park across from the Occupy National Gathering on July 4 and featuring rabid Islamphobe Pamela Geller, was moved indoors to the nearby Constitution Center where you had to pay to get in, after concerns rose that participants in the Occupy National Gathering would protest their event.
In a blog entry on her website on July 3, Geller cited the One People’s Project alert as “urging occupiers to disrupt (and who knows what else) my appearance at the Independence Hall Tea Party on July 4th.” Both the entry and the flyer distributed at the Occupu National Gathering urged readers to handle the situation responsibly.
Geller said that because of the OPP alert, she had to hire extra security for her appearance and to that end appealed to her readers to donate to the effort to do so. Despite the move to an indoor facility, some Occupy participants did indeed attempt to enter the tea party event in order to videotape it, but was turned away. The attempt was shown on the Occupy National Gathering Livestream.
Occupy participants were seen amongst the crowd during the day, particulary during the July 4th parade down Market St, which was also when the tea party rally was to take place. No apparent tea partiers were seen.
Ironically, if the tea party rally was held at it’s original location, it would have been across from the National Jewish Museum of History, which is promoting a campaign against religious intolerance with the slogan “To Bigotry, No Sanction.” Instead, they ended up in the same building where then-presidential candidate Barack Obama gave his famous speech on race in 2008.
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