In recent days there has been a great deal of fuss over crowd estimates at the 9-12 DC March on September 12, 2009. Some reports downplayed the crowd, ABC News reports 60,000-70,000 protestors, to play to their liberal socialist agendas and add more nails to their ridiculous reporting coffin.

Yet, others like Matt Welch, reported a healthy six figures. After viewing numerous reports, photos, and a DC time lapse traffic cam, I would consider it safe to say that Matt is pretty close with his open six figure estimate. Michelle Malkin has put out a few of her own articles discussing the crowd estimates, with her latest, “Yes, the picture is real, nutroots“.

In a phone conversation with Brad Rees, who attended the event, I recall Brad joking about the ABC estimates and he said something to the tune of, the 60-70K downplayed estimates were probably in the 12th Streets and 14th Streets alone. If the USA Today crowd estimate schematic, shown below, is true, it’s safe to say that Mr. Rees’ conservative estimate comment to me, could easily be on the far low end.

To add to that we have this time lapse traffic cam video.

So, the big question here is, why all the fuss over these 9-12 DC March crowd estimates?

The answer is actually an easy one. If the numbers were on the low end, such as the ABC reports would like to show, it would mean that there is little support for those opposing the current administrations socialistic agendas. On the other hand, if the numbers are indeed in the millions, this means the opposition is winning the fight to save America.

Quite simply, the numbers that actually showed up in DC for the 9-12 march are a sampling of the massive numbers who would have liked to have made it to the event. For every one person that showed up there are several who support the movement and would have liked to have been at the event, but were unable to attend because of a variety of factors that kept them from doing so.

Patriots are the people who take great pride in their jobs because they were taught by their families to take pride in being able to support your family without holding out your hand for handouts. They take great pride in taking care of their families and find that family commitments override their desire to go to an event, even one of such great historical value. And then, you have the many patriots who have lost their jobs or had their hours cut back because of the failure of this administration to stop with their agenda and actually do something that will stimulate the economy. (Enough of the blame Bush game. It’s time to take responsibility, Mr. President.) I know I would have loved to have been able to attend the 9-12 DC March and I actually had plans of attending until a mishap put me on crutches and I decided that I would much rather deal with the smaller crowd at the well organized Quincy, IL 912 Tea Party event rather than hopping around the much larger DC event.

There is yet one more point to make here. When an accurate crowd estimate finally hits the media, it will NEVER show the large crowds of Tea Party participants that attended the Tea Party Express stops along their sixteen day journey across the United States. Nor, will the numbers show the large numbers that attended various Tea Parties that were held simultaneously all across America. The true numbers of proud patriotic Americans that participated in this historic reclaiming of America event, will never be known and those on the far left will continue to fight off any and all official crowd estimates no matter how reliable the source might be.

This sign has very few words but says so much. “Silence is Consent – Can you Hear us now?” Proud patriots stepping outside their comfort zone.

Silence is Consent

Dare we say, “Hell NO!”? Express yourself and be heard!

Phil Russo, from “Tea Party Patriots LIVE“, displays his crazy personality and a t-shirt he got from United T-Shirts while Marching on Washington. He was thrilled to be a part of this historic patriotic event while sharing the time with so many great friends he has met over the past several months.

And then we have this video of highlights taken from the 9-12 DC March itself provided by Frank Strategies.