I've yet to see any type of Diary or News story dealing with a source, hence the breaking. If you feel it is unnecessary I will remove it.
I've been doing some internet sleuthing. Basically just asking around where to go if I wanted to go protest at my local town hall meeting. I hadn't seen any potential sources to where these people were organizing to protest the town halls, and I wanted to know.
The responses I received were as follows:
Freedomworks.org
Americansforprosperity.org
ResistNet.com
The first two were fairly harmless, I signed up for Freedomworks to see what they send their members but have yet to receive any news.
Resistnet on the other hand seems to be THE spot to go if you are a nutjob. Follow me below the fold.
I have the privilege of being a part of John Murtha's district. So from Resistnet's main page I chose -> State Groups -> Pennsylvania -> 12th District.
Viola, wing nuttery heaven. I have the name and contact of a district organizer, a discussion board, a comment section, a list of members of this district who have signed up to protest. The mother load.
I did a quick search on the Pennsylvania main page ("http://www.resistnet.com/group/pennsylvaniapatriots") for Town Hall and find the first comment below:
Comment by Margie 3 hours ago
Connie, It was so empowering being at the Spector Town Hall Meeting in Philly. There were lots of ACORN/SEIU people there but our passion far outweighed theirs. I met so many people like myself who had never attended a town hall meeting in their life. They were average people who were extremely knowledgeable, asked intelligent questions, and were very angry. We did not fall for any of their blatant LIES! We made alot of noise! It was clear that we knew more about the healthcare bill than they did. Sebelious was obviously getting very angry that we dared to oppose them. Some of the SEIU people were standing next to me and looked completely confused as to why we were all so angry. I think Spector/Sebelius were both shocked to have such passionate opposition in such a liberal city. It was a wonderful experience and I met alot of great patriotic Amercians!
Apparently the prereq for patriotism is shouting down the other person. I don't think this will surprise any of us. Apparently they've also gained the ability to identify SEIU/Acorn workers . . . perhaps by sense of smell?
The trail didn't end there.
I ran a whois on the site to find the register. ("www.whois.net")
My Results are as follows: ("http://www.whois.net/whois/resistnet.com") Editted for space.
Registrant:
Grassfire.org
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: RESISTNET.COM
And a quick whois on Grassfire.org returns:
Domain ID:D34547252-LROR
Domain Name:GRASSFIRE.ORG
Created On:13-Sep-2000 09:19:49 UTC
Last Updated On:26-Mar-2008 15:42:40 UTC
Expiration Date:13-Sep-2011 09:19:49 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Register.com Inc. (R71-LROR)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:4006128c15a84326
Registrant Name:Steve Elliott
Registrant Organization:The Elliott Group
Registrant Street1:2449 Broadnax Circle
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Chesapeake
Registrant State/Province:VA
Registrant Postal Code:23323
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.7574877900
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:steve@grassfire.org
Admin ID:C23718876-RCOM
Admin Name:S M
Admin Organization:grassfire.net
Admin Street1:po box 6852
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Chesapeake
Admin State/Province:VA
Admin Postal Code:23323
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.7572345678
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:randy@grassfire.net
Tech ID:C23718878-RCOM
Tech Name:S M
Tech Organization:grassfire.net
Tech Street1:po box 6852
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Chesapeake
Tech State/Province:VA
Tech Postal Code:23323
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.7572345678
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:randy@grassfire.net
Name Server:DNS238.A.REGISTER.COM
Name Server:DNS124.B.REGISTER.COM
Name Server:DNS014.C.REGISTER.COM
Name Server:DNS010.D.REGISTER.COM
http://grassfire.net/
http://grassfire.org/
http://www.grassfire.org/...
Here is one source behind the protestors. These people are in the business of mobilizing groups to protest against liberal/democratic values. If you have any plans of attending any town halls I suggest you check your district against this site to see what you're going to be up against.
From what I've seen so far most of the action seems to be on the state's main page (PA has over 140 pages of comments).
UPDATE: liberal shopper shared this about Elliot http://www.absolutewrite.com/...