Posted on 02/27/2009 8:58:36 AM PST by tcrlaf
Via Snapped Shot and STACLU comes news that Iowa state officials have banned the use of tea by Tea Party protesters holding an event tomorrow in Cedar Rapids.
The tea violates environmental standards because it will discolor the water:
A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping into the Cedar River on Saturday because state officials won’t let them use the real thing.
An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea taxes.
Tea, although natural and quite tasty, is considered a pollutant that can’t go into a body of water without a permit, said Mike Wade, a senior environmental specialist at the DNR’s Manchester field office.
“Discoloration is considered a violation,” Wade said. What would our Founding Fathers say?
Let the dumping begin.
Use herbal tea most aren’t strong enough to change the color of the water and since it is a natural herb completely harmless.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen this before. “Coming soon to a town square near you!”
“Tea, although natural and quite tasty, is considered a pollutant that can’t go into a body of water without a permit...”
Just like that idiot mayor in Seattle wouldn’t let them salt the roads during the big snowfall because it would eventually end up in the bay...which is, of course, salt water.
Don’t they dye the Chicago River green every St. Patrick’s Day? Well, I guess that’s Ohio.
The Iowa EPA is probably designing a program at this very minute to fine copse owners who allow their leaves to discolor the water.
Yes, they do. Hizzahnah Da Mare gets a permit from the MWRD to do so.
NOT made from the water they just rendered undrinkable! Just the thought make me gag!
A useful word for the tea party participants?
Word of the Day
Gardyloo - A warning cry about dirty water thrown from window to the streets.
Alexander Warrack’s Scot’s Dialect Dictionary, 1911
The above is from the article. Note the word "symbolic."
They can't let the dumping begin, and they can't engage in Civil Disobedience, because they aren't going to follow through.
They're going to have a "symbolic" tea party. I 'spose with symbolic tea, symbolic cupsies, and symbolic little raised pinkies.
And Obama and his band of merry commies is going to do a symbolic rape of the taxpayers and the future generations of this once great nation.
What the heck is the fine for dumping tea (nothing but leaves) into a lake or river? Are we not willing to engage in even this little act of civil disobedience when the future of the Republic is at stake?
I guess not.
I guess we can all symbolically bend over and grab you symbolic knees.
At some point something has to go beyond symbolic and actually cost something real.
The Boston Tea Party was not symbolic. Both merchant and crown were financially injured.
Back then vandalism against the Crown was a capital offense.
I suspect that dumping tea into a river in Iowa is not a capital offense unless you scream some racial epithet or dress-up like an American Indian while you are doing it.
HORRORS!!
They'll certainly Sioux over something like that.
I feel a Neener Hijack coming on.
What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroids.
Is getting a tan a violation also?
~ Michael Jackson should be arrested. He's discolored
What is tea made of?
~Till today I thought it was a natural product. Must not be
Is iron in water also a violation?
Every spring, when the snow melts off the mountains here, the creek is brown due to stirring up the dirt etc. My town must be in violation.
Everyone throw white rice instead of tea!
or, after throwing in tea bags, toss in a cup of bleach.
or toss beet juice. That should be interesting.
Lemonade anyone?
Let’s just teabag the EPA guy then throw him in the river.
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