Teabagging in Charlottesville - Part III

Having posted my first set of videos from the Charlottesville Tea Party -- featuring former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, Tertium Quids president John Taylor, WCHV-AM radio talk show host Joe Thomas (in the persona of Thomas Paine), and Karin Agness of the Network of Independent Women -- late on Wednesday night (or was it early on Thursday morning), followed by a collection of photos from the same event, I am now able to post the last few video segments. I would have had more but my camera's battery died before the end of the Tea Party.

The first video features Delegate Rob Bell (R-58), who represents parts of Albemarle and Orange counties, as well as Greene County, in the Virginia General Assembly. He is one of the legislators whose districts cover part of the territory that was once represented by Thomas Jefferson, in his early public service career. (As a member of the Virginia legislature, Jefferson introduced the Statute of Religious Freedom, one of the three achievements he chose to note on his tombstone. The others were being the author of the Declaration of Independence and founding the University of Virginia.)

Delegate Bell was the only elected official invited to speak to the 1,500 or so people gathered under the canopy of the Charlottesville Pavilion for the April 15 Tea Party. According to emcee Joe Thomas, it was Bell's connection to Mr. Jefferson that led to the invitation. Here are Rob Bell's remarks, preceded by Thomas' introduction:

The chairman of the Jefferson Area Libertarians, John Munchmeyer, followed Delegate Bell to the microphone. He gave a wide-ranging address, framed by the analogy of the frog in the pot as illustrative of what expanding government is doing to its citizens. (As the story goes, if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will immediately jump out. If, however, you put him in a pot of cold water and then turn up the heat slowly, the frog will remain in the water until he is fully cooked -- and, therefore, dead.)

Munchmeyer spoke for about 20 minutes and I have divided his speech into three smaller segments. (The text of his speech is available at the Jefferson Area Libertarians web site: www.jalibertarians.org.)

Part I:

Part II:

Part III:

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