Florida Gov’t Cancels Tea Party Fearing ‘Too Many Attendees’
-By Warner Todd Huston
Remember this report from our nation’s history?
CNN (Continental News Network) Boston, 1773: The city of Boston canceled a proposed protest over tea taxes today, citing the fear that too many people dressed as Indians would be gathered near the wharves. Organizers expressed sadness over the cancellation, but meekly returned to their homes fearful of upsetting the officers of the Crown. Taxmen breathed a sigh of relief as the tar and feathers were put away not to be used this day.
You don’t remember that pre-revolutionary history? I should say you shouldn’t, because it didn’t happen. But flash forward a few hundred years and you’ll find it is happening today in Cape Coral, Florida where city officials canceled a tax day tea party gathering because they “feel too many people could show-up.”
That’s right, folks, the God-given, long-held American right to assemble and protest the actions of our government has been canceled due to too much popularity of the protest.
And what does it come down to? Money. You see, the city officials want an insurance policy taken out so that organizers can cover any loss that might occur as a result of the rally. And those insurance policies cost hundreds of dollars.
The tea party organizers of Cape Coral, though, aren’t the only ones to find this restriction of their free speech and rights to assemble. Tea party organizers all across the country have begun to find out just how difficult, if not impossible, it is to be “allowed” to exercise their God-given right to speak their minds against government excess and criminality. City governments all across the country are charging fees for “permits,” forcing organizers to pay out huge sums for “insurance policies,” and binding tea party organizers in all sorts of government red tape.
In many instances, organizers are being told that they aren’t “allowed” to hold rallies on government property. Imagine that? We, the taxpayers of the city/state/federal government aren’t “allowed” to gather on property that our own taxes paid for.
And then there are the “permits” required to reserve the day, arrange the police protection, and clean up afterward. Often those “permits” can only be applied for at certain times a year, precluding any spontaneous assembly. Also, these “permits” can be denied with no reason stated quashing at birth any plan to exercise the right of assembly.
Here one might wonder how it is that we so often see those lefties appearing on our TV sets engaging in their many organized protests? Don’t the flotsam and jetsam of the far left seem to have large protests all the time? One might be drawn to imagine that the government is involved in some sort of grand conspiracy to allow those with anti-American sentiment, the moonbats of the left, to march with impunity. But, hold the tinfoil hats, won’t you? Because the wackjobs of anti-war ilk and the shrill, circus acts of the Code Pinkos are expected to cut through the same red tape the tea party organizers have been confronted with. The lefties are just better at it.
You see, contrary to popular conception, the far left has some deep-pocketed backers (your George Soros types, unions and even government funds) and a raft of organizations that do “protests” as a full time job. Their protest marches and rallies are far from spontaneously organized. These groups are thoroughly knowledgeable about the red tape and governmental hoops through which they must jump to carry off a successful protest assembly. After all, the hatemongers of the left are intimately intertwined with city governments all across the country. They understand what needs to be done because, by and large, city officials used to belong to, or belong still to the sorts of groups that plan lefty protests. Your new president is one of them. Being part of government, these leftie protest marchers help write the rules, being intimately associated with government they are quite well informed about what is required and how to get around or satisfy those rules.
But the obstacles are coming as a shock to the average citizens that love this country. For their whole lives peace-loving, work-a-day Americans have taken for granted that there exists the freedom to assemble completely unaware that those rights have been eliminated by stealth regulation by governments all across the land.
And now the folks in Cape Coral, Florida have learned their lesson.
Americans do not have the rights they always thought they did. There is no right to protest government. There is no right to assemble. The people have no rights at all to voice their displeasure. Shut up people. Go home. Nothing to see here. Go quietly back to your IPods and DVDs. Big daddy government will take care of you. The Obemmessiah will decide what’s best for you. Don’t worry your little heads. Oh, and thank you for your payments on April 15th.
Put away the tar and feathers, won’t you? There’s a nice fella.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on March 29, 2009 7:55 am
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And we know that the ACLU will not bother getting involved with something like this.
So why don’t they just show up anyway? Or move the protest to private property.
This sounds like the old ‘Jim Crow’ days when government would use laws and rules to keep black people from voting, etc. I guess we have come full circle, I hope this results in the generation of a new civil rights cause, the old civil rights cause has degenerated into a racket. If we can get to our young people with this message they just may save the nation, they have the time and energy for it.
If you are ileagle here yiou can demonstrate anytime you want to though. Go Figure!!!!
Something tells me they might need to get someone else to organize the event. I’d be willing contribute something for the insurance myself. Couldn’t you just bypass all the formalities? Groups could just agree to meet up at a particular place, you know, “a spontaneous event.” Who would know?
I can’t tell if there was any protest or push back directed at the City Council after their decision or not. If not, we are in trouble.
It is time to show these pathetic “representatives, who most likely purchased their seats, the door. We Americans, though, are doing OUR job by sending out warnings. What will happen when the REAL DEAL happens? The revolution is here,,,let’s rid ourselves of the fleas we have collected.
So now you need insurance to have a protest. What next is the insurance industry going to come up with. I will probably need insurance to play my own piano in my home pretty soon.
The Cape Coral Tea Party is ON!!
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/bstein80/cape-coral-tea-party-is-on
Mary Rakovich is a hero and a patriot.
Cancel the large ,planned Tea Parties and meet at a certain time in the parking lots of the many Food Pantires around your area.
Meet and leave bags and boxes of tea bags for the food pantry to give away to the poor which they service.
Meet and greet each other and then disperse.
Call them Tea Party Service Meetings.
Cancel the large ,planned Tea Parties and meet at a certain time in the parking lots of the many Food Pantires around your area.
Meet and leave bags and boxes of tea bags for the food pantry to give away to the poor which they service.
Meet and greet each other and then disperse.
Call them Tea Party Service Meetings.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
I called the city councils office and was informed that they didn’t do this. It was the parks and recreactions department. You need insurance for a “planned event” of over 500 people. If individuals show up on their own accord and demonstrate independent of each other, then which person will they attempt to charge with not getting a permit?
Say, isn’t this what CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS FOR?
They going to jail thousands of moms and dads peacefully dumping tea who just happen to be all walking towards the sea with tea?
And signs?
Peacefully ENRAGED?
Go for it Florida Moms, I’m a long way away or I would be there for you. Maybe we will have a tea party somewhere in Wyoming.
I say meet and protest anyway. F-the permit, F-the insurance. As American citizens we can assemble and protest on public land anytime we want. How are they going to stop us from marching and waving our banners?
Let me get this straight….500 thousand latinos (both legal and illegal) can demonstrate in the streets of Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and other cities across the U.S…..but the rightful citizens of these United States cannot……It’s time for that Second Constitutional Convention.
On MAY 1st MILLiONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are going to be marching across this nation for AMNESTY and the right to take back the land “STOLEN” from them by European whites.
The march across America will be in every major city… and DEPPLY funded and organizes
by the Communist Party of AMERICA
WHY THE HELL should “WE” BACK DOWN
when Illegals are going to do the same
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS ! and WE SHOULD GATHER AS WAS PLANNED….
Ft Lauderdale florida
April 15th
BE THERE !
I’m in with everyone who is going anyway. If they move it or cancel it (in my location) I will still stand outside somewhere….
Meet, protest….take this country back! If we keep backing up from the socialist people in America..they gonna bury us.
The govenor of florida should get ousted and then tarred and feathered
I can’t believe that Americans won’t stand up and fight. Maybe we should vote our governor out.
Since when did Americans with any just cause need permission from a bunch of government weenies and their insurance in-laws (with the big bonuses stolen from some freakin’ stimulus package) to assemble, shout, or carry signs? Anyone intimidated by that kind of lame attempt to express legitimate dissention regarding tax laws deserves what they get – more taxes, more stilmulus packages, and more CEOs leaving their sinking ships and taking your millions out the door as they head for the Cayman Islands. What the hell is the matter with you people? Get MAD…!!
Face it folks, it long past the time for a tea party – it’s time for a revolution.
That’s the only way we’ll ever get rid of the bastards running this place.
The Goverment OWNS nothing, all is built and payed for by american tax payers, they are put into job posistions by and to serve American tax payers. These are civil servent jobs from the president down. ” The goverment does not own anything, we do! Hold the rally on your own property and what comes about from it confront it.
P.S.
Ms Joyce Kaufman (not Calfman) should be aired across the nation not just Fl. The only talk host who walks the walk”
I say we march on WASHINGTON. MILLIONS of us. just run th bastards out of their offices and occupy the white house. take our country back NOW!
AMAZING THAT THEY HAD THE “MILLION MAN MARCH” AND YET “WE THE PEOPLE IN FLORIDA CANNOT GET A PERMIT AND THEREFORE,WE CANNOT HAVE OUR TEA PARTY”. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST AGAINST OUR GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY ARE SPENING OUR MONEY.
WE WILL HAVE OUR OWN TEA PARTY IN OUR DISTRICTS AND PROTEST. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE THE PEOPLE MUST LET GOVERNMENT KNOW IT NOW!
Quit whinning about the government red tape and do NOT bother getting the permits. Apply for a permit?? Come on people, you are waiting for the government to turn you down. Get the word out and just “SHOW UP” at a predetermined location and time. You should know better then to ask permission, wise up!!