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(Iowa) State Officials Ban Tea From Tea Party-(Violates Clean Water Act!)
Malkin ^ | 27 Feb, 2009 | Michelle Malkin

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?


TOPICS: US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: bho44; cedarrapids; econonsense; envirowhackos; leftists; malkin; obamunism; protest; teaparty
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To: tcrlaf

Where would we be today as a country if the EPA was alive back in the 1700’s?


61 posted on 02/27/2009 9:34:36 AM PST by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: tcrlaf

I guess this means that the redcoats will be out in force. Dump away, patriots! The troops of our new king wouldn’t dare start another Boston(esque) Massacre. Or would they?


62 posted on 02/27/2009 9:34:59 AM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice in these troubled times.)
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To: sam_paine

Good points!!

I do think many are serious. AND much more serious about the 2nd Amendment and the need to resist these socialists.


63 posted on 02/27/2009 9:35:26 AM PST by dusttoyou (HNIC Prime Minister Hitlery)
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To: nufsed

Tea P? And with that, we’re back to the Indians again.


64 posted on 02/27/2009 9:35:29 AM PST by BykrBayb (May God have mercy on our souls. ~ Þ)
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To: tcrlaf

I don’t think the colonists got permission from regulators.


65 posted on 02/27/2009 9:35:58 AM PST by B Knotts (Worst economy since the Third Punic War)
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To: tcrlaf

Putting tea into water creates a “pollutant”. Can you think of anything more symbolic of our over-regulated society than this absurdity? Do these geniuses realize that they’re saying pouring tea down the drain is pollution? Or maybe they do believe that.


66 posted on 02/27/2009 9:36:07 AM PST by popdonnelly (Olbermann and Matthews remind one of zoo monkeys throwing excrement)
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To: JewishRighter
I am sure that buring the American flag violates Clean Air Act standards but I do not recall anyone ever being prosecuted. Matter of fact the ACLU claims to do so would violate first amendment guarantees. Same should apply here...dump away!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

67 posted on 02/27/2009 9:37:11 AM PST by JrsyJack (Oh dem golden slippers!!)
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To: tcrlaf

Many things can be accomplished at night...


68 posted on 02/27/2009 9:37:52 AM PST by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: Sir Gawain

guns would work. Maybe pitchforks? tar and feather and run em outa town on a rail? Gee. Makes tea sound not so
bad. Tell em to kiss our butts. creeps. I get so everlovin tired of these enviromental tree hugger whackos.


69 posted on 02/27/2009 9:37:54 AM PST by murrie (For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son..........)
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To: tcrlaf
Liberal anarchists can smash cars and windows and it's called free expression. These nice folks just want to dump some tea, and the oppressors are all over them!

It's like the ATF going after the American citizen militias without a second thought, and leaving the Islamic terrorist cells alone because they have Constitutional rights.

70 posted on 02/27/2009 9:38:04 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: tcrlaf
NOTE: No permits were requested for the following:

"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

71 posted on 02/27/2009 9:39:14 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: BykrBayb

LOL! Now I know where that word comes from.


72 posted on 02/27/2009 9:40:37 AM PST by nufsed
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To: wastedyears

I’m seriously considering walking down to the dam and dumping a whole box of tea into the river near my home.


73 posted on 02/27/2009 9:41:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: tcrlaf

It’s the Iowa State officials that need to be “tea bagged”.


74 posted on 02/27/2009 9:41:31 AM PST by DogBarkTree (Sometimes you have to let it go in order to get a Grip.)
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To: Madame Dufarge
It'd work here in a heartbeat too.

Against Conservatives as well.

75 posted on 02/27/2009 9:42:10 AM PST by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: tcrlaf

Why can’t they just do it anyway? If Rahm Emanuel can thumb his nose at us on inauguration day, we ought to be able to do the same. Nothing is going to change until people quit being so afraid!


76 posted on 02/27/2009 9:42:36 AM PST by nanetteclaret (I REFUSE TO PANIC. "In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion" Psalm 71:1)
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To: tcrlaf; P-Marlowe

Obeying such foolishness is what makes these “parties” an exercise in politically correct “protests.”

Dump the tea in the lake. Sheesh.


77 posted on 02/27/2009 9:43:44 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: ProfoundBabe

Oh are you in trouble now!
What the hell, they can get us both. I AGREE WITH YOU!
The discoloration ain’t as bad as them peeing on our backs and telling us its raining.


78 posted on 02/27/2009 9:43:57 AM PST by dusttoyou (HNIC Prime Minister Hitlery)
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To: Madame Dufarge
But rather than become a teetotaler, John Hancock took the easier course and became a smuggler.

My new hero...

79 posted on 02/27/2009 9:44:55 AM PST by JrsyJack (Oh dem golden slippers!!)
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To: tcrlaf

Threat of law suit is the standard op for liberals.

This will be a test for the protesters. Will they submit to this threat or not. There must be some creative response to this threat.


80 posted on 02/27/2009 9:45:06 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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