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2009-10: Recession, Revolution and Bikers Rights (Bikers' Rights)

Rather than answer the call of a shallow party-line hack like Utah State Representative Curtis Oda to “proudly” run
Ole Glory up a pole and celebrate 9-11 … a date which should more appropriately “live in infamy” like December 7
… I chose instea…

Rather than answer the call of a shallow party-line hack like Utah State Representative Curtis Oda to “proudly” run
Ole Glory up a pole and celebrate 9-11 … a date which should more appropriately “live in infamy” like December 7
… I chose instead to mark the 8th anniversary of our 2nd Pearl Harbor by riding 1100 miles from South Florida to
the Washington DC Beltway suburb of Silver Spring MD. In so doing, I logged my 43rd Iron Butt ride and not
coincidentally my “11th” SaddleSore 1000.
I had a mixed agenda for my three-day stay in our nation’s capital, not the least of which would be gazing at the
gaggle of true believers in Glenn Beck’s 9-12 Project gathered on the National Mall for an Astroturf Tea Party.
What I saw was life imitating art, with Beck playing the role of deranged “Network” TV anchor Howard Beale while
his staged, sign-waving and media-seeking followers vied to broadcast their prepared sound bytes and declare with
Twitter-compliant brevity why they were “mad as Hell” and “not going to take it anymore”…