Cedar Rapids Tea Party, Minus That Polluting Tea
Posted on February 27, 2009
Call tea a pollutant down South, that would be a butt woopin’
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.
Maybe they should dump Wade in the river, which is none too clean to start with. But, if the politicians get the idea….
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Let us hope that they have the intestinal fortitude to do as they originally planned. A permit is just another form of taxation. If they truly beleive in their principals, they will not be afraid of the repercussion.
What would the people of 1776 do???
I’ve seen the Cedar River at Cedar Rapids. It’s already discolored.
Well, duh, of course it’s against the law. So was the first Boston Tea Party. That’s kind of the point of civil disobedience… you don’t put the actual tea-dumping in your application for a permit.
The tea dump went on as planned, the story was designed to sabotage the efforts of the group