Linky:There was plenty of flag waving and shouts opposing the federal government and health care at a lunchtime rally Thursday on the south steps of the Capitol in Austin. One woman held an anti-tax sign that said, "Even my God only asks for 10 percent." Others held flags showing a picture of a cannon and the slogan "Come and Take It."
Before any speakers addressed the rally, a man who identified himself as a former Baptist minister gave a fiery prayer that said the nation is under siege "by enemies abroad and domestic." Republican state representatives Leo Berman of Tyler and Wayne Christian of Center were also in the crowd.
One man at the rally, Jim Dillon, walked through the crowd carrying an AK-47 on his shoulder that he said was unloaded and legal. A state trooper stopped the man, examined the weapon and let him continue walking.
"Our rights are hanging by a thread already as it is," Dillon said, referencing the constitutional right to bear arms. "If we don't exercise our rights frequently, we'll lose them."
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