Illinois Patriots

Encouraging Every Citizen to Stand Up & Be Heard!!

Welcome

Thank you for visiting our website.

Our name has changed from Land of Lincoln Freedom Group to Illinois Patriots. Our web address has changed to http://illinoispatriots.com

We also have a new e-mail illinoispatriots@usa.com.

This site is intended to be a central location for like minded people to stay in touch and informed on future local events. If you are interested in keeping the momentum started by the Tea Parties going please register. This web site will be updated soon and more information is forthcoming!

Contact list from Tea Party

Good News! I am finally done loading all emails into a spreadsheet and sent a welcome email to everyone. I sent out 466 emails, but unfortunately received 70+ emails back. Either I couldn't read them or something was wrong with the email. If you know anyone who came, gave their email, but didn't receive a welcome email please pass this website on. After counting all signatures on our guest registry we had 626 names! Of course we can guess not every signed the sheet. I am still going to estimate we had 1000+ in attendance!

Let's keep the momentum going!!!

Ideas For Future Event

Please read the email below from a fellow tea party organizer. There are some great ideas out there. We need to get together and decide what our next event will be and when.

All,

With all the discussions around next steps, I’d like to offer a suggestion. The local organizers in Ohio (Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Marysville, Ashland, Medina and more) have joined forced in favor of a single statewide rally in Columbus on July 4th. The theme of the event will be state sovereignty. We drew over 30k across Ohio on a cold, rainy work day, and I think 50k+ in Columbus is a reasonable number to expect on a holiday weekend. We’re looking at venues now and we’re considering either the Ohio Fairgrounds, the Ohio Expo Center, or Ohio Stadium (OSU Buckeyes).

Our goal is to make it a family friendly event because of the holiday and something lasting a good chunk of the day so people can come and go. The working title is Ohio Tea Fest 2009.

Please let me know your thoughts. I think the spectacle of 50 states congregating in their capitals on Independence Day will be a powerful message that cannot be ignored. It would also be a prelude for us if we continue building towards a potential march on Washington DC (Sept 12?).

Best Regards,
Mike Wilson
Founder/President
Cincinnati Tea Party

We the People National Movement

Hello! The Springfield Tea Party was a great success! I think around 1000 people showed up and we had great speakers. I am currently working diligently to enter the emails of all the people that signed up! Please stay tuned, there will be more to come.

*** NOTE- I have been slowly working to get emails out to everyone that signed up. I am unable to read quite a few of the addresses people wrote down. If you know someone that was at the rally and they have not yet received an email from me please pass this website on to them!

Check out:

http://www.americanuprisinginc.com/

The 912 Project

Please support Glenn Beck and your local 912 Project. If you are not familiar with the 912 Project please go to the links below and read up on it. It is a great project and we have a local affiliates that are planning local events. So far almost 600,000 people have signed up with the national 912 Project movement. The local 912 group is hosting regular meetings so we can all stay in touch.

http://www.the912project.com/

http://www.meetup.com/CentralIL912Project/

More States Look to Raise Taxes

10 states are considering an increase in sales or income taxes: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.

California and New York already have a multibillion-dollar tax increases that went into effect earlier this year.

Full WSJ Story: More States Look to Raise Taxes

Congressman John Shimkus 19th Dist. Rep. of Illinois

Tea Party in Sprinfield

On April 15, I attended the Tax Day Tea Party in Springfield, giving encouragement to citizens rallying against out of control federal spending.

In 1773, Samuel Adams, a leading organizer of the Boston Tea Party said, “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.” Outraged Americans today are doing just that. All across the country, citizens like you are standing up and speaking out in opposition to the new administration’s corporate bailouts, unbridled spending, and unending debt.

The same spirit that drove patriots to hurl tea into Boston Harbor two centuries ago lives on in modern day Tea Parties. I was pleased to attend one of these rallies in Springfield on April 15. Like many in attendance, my fiscal philosophy has always been one of less spending, lower taxes, and more personal freedom. That’s why I have voted against tax increases, against the bailouts, against the so-called stimulus, and will continue to say no.

Today's Tea Parties exemplify what's great about the United States: citizens gathering peacefully to express their dissatisfaction with their government. I join them in saying no to outrageous spending and never ending debt.

Historic Day

What a wild week! Not only did we (meaning ALL of us) succeed in pulling off a successful nationwide protest... we actually succeeded in creating a HISTORIC day for America!

We're still waiting on the folks at PJTV to give us a final official tally, but right now the numbers show that well over 650,000 Americans hit the streets on April 15th, in protest of out-of-control government.

Here in Chicago, where I had the opportunity to address a crowd of 5,000 in the city center, folks involved in politics told me they had never in their lives seen anything like this. People from ALL walks of life joined us downtown, and regardless of political affiliation on... they were steaming mad.

I believe this is the beginning of an entirely new movement. This movement represents something new in the political realm. This movement isn't made up of DC usuals and beltway professionals. No, this movement is made up of hundreds of thousands of Americans who are ready for REAL change in the political system.

We've got a couple things up our sleeve here at the DontGo Movement, and we're glad to have you fighting alongside us. Please stay tuned and watch our website for upcoming calls to action.

We've got a lot of work to do... so let's get ready to get it done.

-Eric Odom

Was CNN's bit offensive to you?

If you missed the video we posted last week about CNN's hate speech, go watch it here.

The response to that post, as well as an e-mail blast we did, has been tremendous. In fact, the response to the CNN hate speech has been second in scale to only the Tea Party Event itself.

With this in mind, we're strongly considering a national campaign to demand the Chicago reporter be fired. We will also consider a demand for apology from CNN for its clear hate speech against the Tea Party Movement.

We want to know what you think before we do this, though. Please visit the new Tea Party homepage and vote in the poll.