It seems some of the upcoming tea party tax protesters are being deterred by a government requirement for permits to protest. The fact that they’re even filing for permits to protest government abuses pretty much demonstrates why they completely failed to inspire me to participate and if we have to rely on folks like this to save us from an over-reaching government, we’re doomed. A few samples from the pathetic pussy list follow.
Rutland Vermont Board of Aldermen Denies Tax Day Tea Party Permit
“I was told several times that I might not even need a permit to organize the tea party,” Wallace said in an interview for Associated Content, “but I wanted to make sure and go through all the protocol to dot the I’s and cross the T’s.”
and then the permit was denied.
Well ya know Dale stuff like that
can on your permanent record.
The horror.
Rather than failing to participate, why don’t we go protest someplace where a permit was denied. I was planning on protesting in Manchester, but if you want to go someplace where no permit was issued (I don’t even know if one was required in Manch) I’d be happy to join you.
We can set an example, rather than staying home.
I talked about why on Free Talk Live. The permit thing is really just icing. These tea parties aren’t really tax protests. They’re protesting Democrat taxes, i.e. they feel like Republican rallies.
A similar law has been in place here in the UK since the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 came into force. It prohibits any protest (defined as, last time I checked, 1 or more person doing whatever the police feel like is a protest) in ANY area designated as protected by the Home Secretary, most famously the 1 kilometre area around Parliament.
It’s been a 100% absolute DISASTER.
So, what has this law been used for? Here’s a few examples:
-A man reading a newspaper with an anti-war headline was regarded as “a protest”
-A group of people having a picnic in a nearby park ate a cake with anti-war icing on it. A protest!
-What WASN’T covered, amazingly, was good ol’ Brian Haw. He’d been camping outside Parliament ever since the war in Iraq started, non stop. Since his protest started before the act passed, it was ruled, in every court, to not be covered by the SOCPA Act. Hah!
I’ve been hunting and hunting, but I can’t find a single person convicted (of up to a year imprisonment) for breaching this law. What does happen is protesters who didn’t register their protest at least a week in advance (that picnic party later submitted to the police a cake… iced with a replica of the form that needed to be filled out) get arrested, their DNA taken (and kept), held in a cell for a few hours before being released without charge.
It’s obvious this law is not about “public protection”- it’s about supressing views the goverment dislike.
Yeah.. I think that many of the Tea Parties started as protests and then they turned into GOP protests….Although I heard that Michael Steele (National GOP) was denied the chance to speak at the rally in Chicago..He is mad but they said he is part of the problem not the solution.
I am still going to one of them.(and handing out FSP bookmarks)
Ah, but it looks like the P’cola rally is doing the right thing. That was like pulling teeth though.
Oh, just to elaborate, the tea party in p’cola was almost canceled because of permit issues. And then, instead of protesting in the downtown square, in front of the federal court house and 9/11 monument, they wanted to move it to a shopping center (?!!?). Thankfully, they were convinced otherwise…
So… no permit, and unless there are too many people to fit downtown, thats where it will be held… a compromise, but a good chance it’ll happen semi-properly.
Stuff like this, HCR6, &c., is just going through the same early motions that the colonists did. People aren’t angry enough—yet. They will be eventually…
Well, if the rallies don’t feel non-partisan enough to you, perhaps we should show up with signs which say things like:
Obama: Carrying on the Bush’s Policy Verbatim.
That’s my main message to pissed off Republicans these days, anyway. Trying to get them to see that Obama is carrying on Bush policy, and that the danger of the Obama administration is much enhanced by his being armed with things like the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, etc.
The important thing, to me, is that this is energy. It is largely energy without focus at this point. To the extent that we can help people focus their energy, and realize that the GOP *is* part of the problem, not the solution, we may be able to Radicalize some of the participants into allies.
That, to me, is worth some effort.
I guess that’s the reason why I went to the HCR6 rally, as an outreach opportunity. I do want to do SOMETHING on April 15th, though I will likely want to do it here in Keene.
Good cartoon. It reminds me an apology i saw issued that shamed those who yelled from the gallery at their representatives after HCR-6 failed. Getting the chance to yell at your state rep is something we all deserve and are entitled to do when the situation warrants it. I think that the size and motives of the United States Government call for less compliance with the social niceties and bureaucratic obstacle course that is meant to slow down political movements. If you agree that the current situation is serious, you must agree that we should start acting more like revolutionaries and less like politically correct, yuppy douche bags. If only the kids on campus would riot in protest to a bailout or stimulus package with the same fury as the riots they have when the red sox win the series…
Good toon, Dale. The revolution will not be permitted. You could pass it off as an aversion to teargas, but I think the main problem is the “law abiding” fetish running through these phonies.
However, I plan to give out anarchist literature at both the Philly and NYC Tea Parties. Just because the rallies are organized by republicans doesn’t mean that anarchists can’t seize them for our purposes. These pamphlets are top of the list: http://www.agorism.info/_media/wiki/american_traditions.pdf and http://nj.libertarianleft.org/downloads/freedominchains.pdf
Next year, 365 short days from now, the mobocracy looter minions will be burning the metropolises and using pitchforks, tar, and torches on any bureaucrat and/or enforcer within their reach and grasp.
History will repeat because the mobocracy looter minions will have it no other way.
[...] Everett from AnarchyInYourHead.com illustrates the point [...]
it really iisn’t that funny and it was just a act to protest about high taxes and after the king made the declaratory act the colonist were really mad..!
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