"Hey Rahm! Nice work. That was easy. Now shut them the rest of them down. Soros says he doesn't want to hear about any more f**king tea parties!"
Posted on 03/28/2009 6:03:30 AM PDT by shove_it
CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government.
Why? They feel too many people could show-up.
Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media.
With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party.
Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she's not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, "I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st."
WINK News spoke to the director of parks for Cape Coral. He says that even now if Rosko is willing to get insurance for the event he'll likely re-authorize it.
For now Rosko's event is canceled, she's encouraging people to attend the April 15th Tax Payer Tea Party in Centennial Park in Fort Myers.
so much for the RIGHT of assembly...
hope the good people of Cape Coral FIND A WAY
How about a “spontaneous gathering”?
FL ping
How about a boycott of all businesses on that day to protest the mayor’s move against the Constitutional right to freedom of assembly? If it costs the city thousands of dollars in sales taxes, perhaps he wouldn’t think his strategy was so clever.
If the right to freely assemble can be “canceled by the government! What other Constitutional rights will soon be “canceled by the government”.
All Hail Comrade Zero!
Exactly, show up anyway!
"Hey Rahm! Nice work. That was easy. Now shut them the rest of them down. Soros says he doesn't want to hear about any more f**king tea parties!"
Is this the one that Hannity was supposed to be at??
I never read anything about insurance in the Constitution...
In fact, I don't see these words - insurance, education, marriage, bailout, healthcare, etc., etc., enumerated as any kind of a right...
Don’t take it out on businesses. Take it out on the city where it belongs.
To borrow from the old Nike commercial:
Just do it!
Print up some "We will be heard" signs to sprinkle in with the others.
Do you really think the original tea party was sanctioned by the government? Isn't that the point? How else will the government start taking these things seriously?
No violence. Lots of serious citizens. That's the way.
in FL most county or city commissioners have a real job on top of their municipal posts.
Therefore arget the law firm or real estate company or business of those commissioners.
Please look favorably on our permit to assemble at the public pier. We have engaged Lloyd's of London to underwrite our event.
Do it anyway.
Looks like the Democrats are pretty active in Cape Coral:
http://www.capecoraldemocrats.com/news.html
I wonder if they have this problem for their events?
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