My friend Dr. Mo, aka David Moyar, is a postal carrier. On Saturday, he was attempting to retrieve the mail from the mailbox in front of the old courthouse when he encountered the Tea Party people, or 9/12 Patriots, or whatever they're calling themselves.
Here is his part of his report:
"As I attempted to get through the crowd, saying 'excuse me' and 'I'm just trying to do my job,' I noticed many of the people would see me and immediately look away and refuse to move or acknowledge my presence. I again tried to get to the mailbox saying, 'I've got a job to do here' when one lady screeched at me 'Nobody's stopping you.' I replied, 'Oh yes you are.' At that point a man who was blocking my access to the mailbox shouted in my face 'You don't have a job, you work for the government.' At this point I'd had enough and asked, 'What is your problem?' He replied 'I don't have a problem, you're the problem, The Government.' This was greeted with a chorus of others pointing at me and chanting 'You're the Problem The Government.'"
The postal service? Seriously?
I was at the Tea Party as well and I don't recall seeing anything of the sort happen. The crowd was relatively quiet during the event with the exception of a few cheers at various points during the speeches. The crowd gradually grew from about 10 AM until noon, and the crowd dissipated quickly at the culmination of the event around 1:30 or 2 in the afternoon.
But oh well, you know those Tea Partiers. They're a bunch of racist, spitting, mail-carrier hating bigots, aren't they?
This sounds like one of those things that I was warned would likely be made up about those hateful Tea Partiers! I don't believe a word of it! You need to learn like the rest of the media that the truth is always more powerful than a lie! I'm a letter carrier with 26 years experience and would say that this sounds more like you ate some bad pizza and had a bad dream or something, get real!