When John and Ken call, the masses answer.

Shouting “Off with their heads!” and “Heads on a stick!” over 15,000 people from all over California descended on downtown Fullerton for the Revolt, Recall, Repeal rally to protest over $50 billion in tax increases in the state of California and to begin a recall effort against the governor and many state legislators. Freeway off ramps heading into Fullerton had to be shut down because so many people were heading to the event and police services were stretched thin, according to a sergeant handling traffic duty at the event.

The crowd came as far away as San Diego, where 50 people chartered a bus to come and a caravan also came down from Palmdale.

Russell Beare of San Dimas was among many who traveled a distance to attend the rally.

“I don’t care how far I had to come, I’d be here,” he said, “Truthfully, I hope this wakes up everybody in the United States. This has got to stop!”

John and Ken, radio hosts on KFI 640AM and hosts of the rally, came up on the platform where they hosted their show for the day with a sword and a mask of Gov. Schwarzenegger stuck through it. A chant of “Heads on a stick!” began then and was heard many more times during the three hour rally/radio show.

John and Ken had rally participants bring DVDs and VHS tapes of Schwarzenegger’s movies which were enthusiastically pummeled by various members of the crowd. They also had a shredder, which they dubbed “The Shredinator,” which shredded other Schwarzenegger memorabilia.

The radio hosts also reminded the crowd that Gov. Schwarzenegger promised when running for governor that he would never raise taxes. They played tapes of him repeating this, which got a loud boo from the crowd.

“This has been a complete disaster and it’s time to do something about it,” they said. “He should be apologizing to you and he should be resigning!”

Many in the crowd were business owners who spoke of how the increased business taxes would harm their business. Bill Franklin of Huntington Beach said he is moving his engineering consulting business to Texas because the increased taxes are too much for him. A woman who came to the rally from Rancho Cucamonga co-owns a construction business with her husband said that the new taxes will probably be a huge burden with simply registering the business vehicles alone. The business has 35 employees.

Linda P. of Costa Mesa wore a sticker that showed her increased taxes would be $1,076. In addition to her $4,000 a month house payment, she has an RV that she specifically uses to take her handicapped son places and will not be able to pay the $1,600 registration fees for it once that goes into effect.

John and Ken also reminded the crowd to start organizing to defeat Proposition 1A to be voted on during the next election. They reminded the crowd that the proposition includes many new taxes and an extension of old taxes.