Posted on 02/27/2009 3:16:02 AM PST by Askwhy5times
Iowa DNR refusing to allow real "Tea Party." Our founding fathers would have been outraged. Imagine if they had gone to Boston Harbor to dump tea in protest only to be thwarted by environmentalists who think tea would pollute the harbor? This is exactly what is happening in Grand Rapids Iowa. A group of citizens want to have a "Tea Party" tax protest. However, State officials will not allow them to dump real tea into the Cedar River. The Cedar Rapids group will only be allowed to dump dechlorinated tap water or river water from buckets labeled “tea.” If this had happened to our founding fathers, I suspect the Revolutionary War may have started a little earlier.
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This isn't about protecting the river. This is about shutting down the protest. Get out there and toss the tea. If they don't have the guts for this, they should shut up about everything else.
Any water washed through leafy matter will form a tea-like substance. They’d better cut down all those trees along the banks to save the River.
I say, dump the tea, (fake tea, just water so they have no real legal basis) get arrested on purpose, challenge the arrest, on 1st Amendment grounds, and WIN!
Be sure to bring up all the Flag Burning POTUS cases, in Court.
SCOTUS not POTUS, of course,, this one has me upset.
I will be totally shocked if one permit is issued... I am not so sure they would ignore any organic tea dumping in any body of water on private lands, (even a pot hole) most especially if there is any kind of media attention.
Screw the permits. Balking now just shows how gutless and cowed we’ve become.
If you ask for a permit to have a revolution, you’re still not really grasping the concept.
BREAK THE DAMN LAW you gutless cowards!
OUR rulers have lost any moral authority.
Umm, your protesting authority.....just dump the damn tea.
All I am saying is make sure you can afford the fines.
Hey go for it if you can afford it. I do not have extra cash laying around. Nothing to do with being gutless or a coward.
Tea party = empty symbolism.
"The crisis occurred when the customhouse officers attempted to seize a cargo of wine which John Hancock was trying to smuggle into Boston. It was said that Hancock had sworn not 'to sell or to drink wine polluted by the payments of unconstitutional duties.'
But rather than become a teetotaler, John Hancock took the easier course and became a smuggler.
In June 1768, the customhouse got wind of his activities, boarded his ship Liberty and demanded to see its cargo. Hancock and his men showed scant respect for these officials of His Royal Majesty. They locked them up in the cabin, landed the cargo, and when the work was done heaved the customhouse officers overboard.
Meanwhile the mob had learned what was going on at Hancock's wharf; and to punish the customhouse officers for their presumption seized the Collector and the Controller, drove them through the streets, and dragged the Collector's son along by the hair of his head.
The Commissioners of the Customs did not wait for their turns to come: they fled to Castle William and thus put three miles of blue water between themselves and the Boston Sons of Liberty.
When one of the commissioners was reported to have taken refuge in Newport, the Sons of Liberty searched 'Out-houses, Bales, Barrels, Meal Tubs, Trunks, Boxes, Packs, and Packages...in short every Hole and Corner sufficient to conceal a Ram Cat, or a Commissioner,' but they found neither.'
Origins of the American Revolution by John C. Miller
WOW I am really surprised how this news has spread. I am Tim Pugh the founder of the CR Tea Party. Yes the DNR says NO, which I figured. So I did not really plan on it, but we do have other things up our sleeves right now.
we do have a website crteaparty.org
post your support on our message boards!!
I am planning on the National Chicago Tea Dump also, and am hoping to spread to several other areas of Iowa, Tax increases the whole way around is the goal in Iowa.
We would love any support from anyone living in Iowa or close by!!
We are scheduled for Sat Feb 28, at 2:00 on the First Ave Bridge in Downtown Cedar Rapids. Bring buckets marked TEA or GOVERNMENT WASTE or the like, and lets have some fun.
BTW I will post more information later, to better explain.
Sorry to be a disappointment
OK, then throw the state officials into the River after you Tar and Feather them!
same here buddy same here
So people can collect dead leaves from trees that line the river banks - fallen leaves this time of year - and dump THEM in the river, from buckets labeled “tea”. Those kinds of leaves already fell in the river in the fall, anyway.
We conducted the Tea Dump as planned, police or anyone else did not show up. It went off without a hitch, with good media coverage.
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