No permit to have tea..

[BeFranklin]

Reposted from CFL.

What about not following soldiers orders and regulations but throwing the tea overboard. They just stole trillions in broad daylight. This is a lukewarm response.


Tax Day Tea Party in Washington, DC: "No Permit for Tea!"

Posted by stretch on 04/15/09 4:42 PM
Last updated 04/15/09 6:06 PM

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I just finished my full write-up of the Washington, DC tea party for those interested:

According to national tax day event organizers, a donation of one million tea bags didn't make it in time to be included on the event's permit. So after the tea was delivered police officers made organizers load the tea bags back onto a delivery truck and take them away.

Is this not a perfect example what the people were protesting?! No permission to hold tea? How over-regulated is our society that one needs permission to have tea?

Despite these two setbacks, 3700 people attended the event. All of them were crowded around the small ancillary stage in Lafayette Park which was originally intended to be an open mic. It wasn't as crude as a bullhorn and a soap box, but it seemed that way among the large crowd of umbrellas and signs. The grassy park became deep mud as the heavy rain began right on queue with the first speaker. From a distance, all one could see is umbrellas and posters, and you would never know there was a stage in its center if not for the crowd quieting to listen between cheers.

Laura Ingraham drew a lot of applause, while some less famous speakers got the crowd thinking. Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), Rachell Hoff (Young Republicans), and Tom Shatz (Citizens Against Government Waste) all made good points. My favorite speaker may have been Ed Hudgins of the Atlas Society, who talked about the different types of failed socialism the world has already seen. A portion of his speech on what "Going Galt" means- and yes, there were lots of signs referring to John Galt- can be found online here.

The full article can be found here: http://jgalt.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/tax-day-tea-party-no-permission-to-protest-in-dc/

[BeFranklin]

Oh, give me my LiberTEA back..

[He Who Pawns]

for LIBERTY!!

[BeFranklin]

A box of tea forces White House into lockdown
Posted: 08:23 PM ET

From CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry


Uniformed members of the Secret Service are seen outside the White House after a suspicious package was tossed over the fence onto the White House grounds.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Secret Service officers were scurrying to close the North Lawn of the White House Wednesday afternoon because of a suspicious package and it appeared that trouble was brewing.

But it turned out that nothing more was brewing than an innocent little box of, yes, tea bags.

The security alert started around 2 p.m. ET, when an unidentified person tossed the box over the gate of the White House and it landed on President Obama's lawn with a thud.

Journalists were quickly banned from moving outside of the press briefing room, and hundreds of protesters gathered for a "Tax Day Tea Party" were quickly shooed out of Lafayette Park as a security robot inspected the package closely.
After about a half hour of high alert, a Secret Service official told CNN the "suspicious package" was merely some tea bags.

There is a distinct odor of royality in all of this lately from the government.


Just give me back my LiberTEA!

[muzzled dogg]

yeah i heard about this

[UtahApocalypse]

very disappointed. Not that they did not get the permit, not that the Government wants a permit.... My disappointment is that they even thought to ask!! Seriously the thought that ANY of these Tea Parties seek to ask the Government for Permits (Permission) absolutely makes me sick. Do we not know what it is we are fighting for? Do we not understand the true Tea Party and what it should mean today? One person tell me that the Sons of Liberty asked England if they could dump their Tea!

For all future events my first question will be this "Have you asked the Government Permission via Permit to Assemble in our Constitutional Right to Protest?" Any one of these events that answers yes will not see me there. If we ASK the permission to protest the Government it completely goes against all I stand for and the point of what we are doing now.

[BeFranklin]

After about a half hour of high alert, a Secret Service official told CNN the "suspicious package" was merely some tea bags.

The show is almost like a royal dandy swiping his nose with a hankerchief and complaining the commoners stink.

[RSLudlum]

it landed on President Obama's lawn with a thud.

WTF?? It's not Obama's lawn.

[BeFranklin]

WTF?? It's not Obama's lawn.

Royality I'm telling you. Read it that way by just skimming over sentences. Good point.