City sponsors right-wing rally

The fascist Tea Party today in Cincinnati professed to be outraged at government spending. But the event got its own boost courtesy of city taxpayers.

After I arrived, I noticed the city had closed Vine Street between 5th and 6th, on the west side of Fountain Square - so protesters from the square could spill into the street if they needed to.

During the march, I discovered Vine was closed north of there all the way to 9th, and that 9th was closed all the way to City Hall. The block of Plum Street in front of City Hall was also closed.

The city deeded out 8 blocks of roadway to these morons?

When you hold a political event on Fountain Square, Fountain Square is supposed to be all you get. You're not supposed to get any roadways as a bonus. If you're going to hold a march, you're supposed to use the sidewalk like everyone else. But the city of Cincinnati just gave the supposedly public roads to the BTPers to use as they saw fit.

If it was a festival instead of a political event, there might have been a reason to close streets. But it wasn't.

The BTPers complain about welfare for poor families and stimulus money for public projects - yet they had public streets deeded out to them for much of the day! How hypocritical can you get?

At the end of the City Hall portion of the event, a voice came across a loudspeaker or microphone telling the crowd to clear the roadways. Apparently, the city finally decided time was up, and the police told the Tea Party's organizers to make their followers get out of the street.

Did they get out of the street? No. Ten minutes later, they hadn't budged.

When they finally got moving, they kept standing out in intersections holding their idiotic signs and blocking traffic.

It takes real gall to complain about others getting tax money while you receive city sponsorship for a political event.