We saw this coming and have been advising local party officials (who continue to seem clueless), so hope the organizers of these Tea Party events are more aware. The other side will be sending along plants whose mission it will be to attract media attention by yelling profanities, racist (stereotyping) comments, or any incendiary words, trying to indicate there is a skin-head mentality actually driving these protests. Never under-estimate the willingness of a continuing dumbed-down public to buy the spin, or the ability of the Left and the media to spin it. The Nazis were masters at this in the 1930s and the Communists were no slouches either, so pick your poison.
    These are not push mobs, but rather troops called out for a specific event in a specific place, with specific assignments they receive from (usually) internet handlers.  The Left has millions of soldiers, and tens of thousands of these able to carry out more specific assignments. In the Left's army these would be corporals, not rank-and-file mob-to-the-barricade grunts.
    Here, their purpose isn't to pick fights, as you may see at a gay parade in Boston on March 17th, nor is it to blend in while gathering intell. It is to try to portray the most absurd fringe of this movement as being really it's center, with racist catcalls, anything that will call attention to themselves...and the media...so as to create a photo op for the news at 6 and 11, and a lasting impression for all those swing-citizens at home who sat this protest out, but might consider the next one if taxes get any higher, and the bill-paying tougher.
    If you were paying attention, they did a lot of practice drills during the M'Cain-Palin campaign, especially when Gov Palin was on the stump. Remember that reporter, David Singleton, from Scranton who wrote that he'd heard the "kill"word yelled during a rally, while everyone around him said no such comment was made? He lied.
    This will be a team effort and they have their bases covered...well, almost.

    The conventional wisdom is that these goon squads should just be ignored. Just act like the good citizens you are and they will eventually go away. 
    We think otherwise, since the major impact these protests are designed to have is that the next and the next will be even larger, and these groups from California to Maine will eventually join hands. We know from experience that the Left has all the tools, and the will to use them, to cause rain on every single one of these parades, to turn them into a one-day event, from which everyone strolls home with a happy memory, an anger at least temporarily assuaged (sort of like going home after church on Sunday), complete with a T-shirt or cap. (Note, we're seeing 29.95 Tea Party hats and T-shirts being sold. If you want to grow the movement with advertising, try giving them away, at at least get them down to cost...about $2-$3. Damn!)
     These Leftie plants go to these events believing that the Right has it's own snot-eyed inbred wing, who will be there, and all they have to do in fall into type. They also know no one's going to kick their behinds if they act up. They may try to pick a fight, but we doubt it. Wrong venue. They are props for a photo news story to be told by someone else. They know their parts...and they are the perfect actors. for most of these are not true believers, just plain gullible stupid...of the never-changing sort. They were handpicked because they will be totally oblivious to the quality of people they will be surrounded by. (For some sense of just how stupid they are, imagine plants sent out by Nero to walk among the throngs of Christian in the dens below the Coliseum, before they are dragged upstairs to be devoured by lions. While they pray and console one another about the coming tribulation, all the plants "hear" are whispers of conspiracy and then duly report these "facts" back to the Throne Room.) This is a total credulity and total detachment from the real, sensory world. The Left did not get these children to this point of suspended animation overnight, but that is another tale for another time. That they are there, and they are real is what is important now.
    Their designated purpose is to turn a political victory by the anti-tax Tea Party movement into not just a defeat but a political victory for the Left, if the opportunity arises. They are better at this than we are, or at least have proven themselves so far. (So far we have been unable to convince anyone in the GOP that if they don't learn how to fight this kind of dirty...oh well.) If they can take the starch out of the Tea Party movement and reduce it to the public image of an unruly mob, fewer people will show up next time...and next.
    Can this be turned around? We think so.
    First, ID everyone you can at every event. Share intell. (This will require hand-picked spotters and taggers, with cameras and immediate communications.) After spotting the person "tag" them with photos, follow them at the end of the event, home if possible. Get a license plate, even an address. 7 will get you 10 they'll be on FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube or their own website, advertising their true agenda. Their vanity is an enduring weakness...and least at this level of mobbery. (Here you have to be creative, and a little covert, er, sneaky, as we've suggested to others, e.g, when that person wakes up the next day he/she may find ten people with placards at their front door, doing the same things they did to AIG employees, or church members in California who gave money to the anti-gay marriage movement. Payback.) Once ID'd you will have several options as to how to play your cards, depending on whether you have one good reporter or local talk show host who will broadcast your findings.
    We continue to work on this at the organizational level, but it ain't rocket science. Your mission is to turn the story back to your advantage. Moreover, you can, over time, compile an evidence and photo file that can be used in future political campaigns, to prove to ordinary people that this sort of jack-booted thuggery has always marked the behavior of the Left. (Most people now won't believe it...even old Acorn members from the 80s I know.) Your first job is to get the evidence. The next is to "chill" whatever thoughts they have of trying it again in the same way.
    Good hunting.
VB