Talk about shitty planning by the Tea Party thought guardians!
The BTPers thought that by holding a Tea Party in Lafayette Park, right across the street from the White House, they'd finally have the Tea Party to top all Tea Parties.
They collected 1,000,000 teabags from followers and planned to dump them in the park.
But it turns out they needed a permit from the National Park Service, which oversees Lafayette Park. They didn't bother to find this out until they got to the event.
So they were forced to pack up all their teabags in the cold and rain! Ha ha!
A Washington think tank gave the LOSEianne crowd permission to instead dump the teabags in its 12th floor conference room. But then it wasn't really a public protest anymore, was it?
At the same time, there was supposed to be yet another protest in Washington - this one at the Treasury Department. But that was canceled - again because the BTPers didn't bother to get the right permits first.
At least in Cincinnati, it doesn't seem to matter how poor their planning is, because the city will just give them whatever they want.
(Source: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1-Million-Tea-Bags-but-No-Place-to-Dump.html)
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Look before you leap, BTPers
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I don't recall any requirement of a "permit" to protest on public land in the Constitution. Check on that for us, will you Tim? I know you are a firm believer in the first amendment and I'm surprised you went along with this "permit" red tape.
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps since the federal government has indebted this country so much to Chinese banks, it should do like China does and ban protests against it.