The usual suspects held a rally in Ottawa on Parliament Hill on February 14 suggesting that as many as 100,000 will show up.

And as per usual, they were a bit off the mark... 99,850 off the mark that is. 1/12
Among those that kept up on what was happening was Dan Collen (@SpinelessL) who provided this play by play. 2/12

Rick Boswick also appeared to document the event. Yesterday he was very excited in his videos prior to seeing the turnout. It is telling he doesn't appear to have shared any of his videos of the event on FB yet. 3/12
He did post a video today though.

He seems a bit downtrodden.

He also starts calling out people, and by people I mean Norm Traversy. 4/12
A bit of background who Norm is if you are new to all of this. 5/12

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In any case and to sum up the video, Rick is upset that Norm doesn't call him any longer and that Pat King best be careful that he isn't used as well. 6/12
And that he has been shunned! 7/12
8/12
He finishes up by telling newbies that they should know their place by comparing the movement to the military and the ranks within.

Yeah Rick. You're certainly a general. /sarc 9/12
The comments were fun to read. 10/12
Pat also offers his views. 11/12
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