The Camomile Revolution
Some people just don’t get it:
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.
It’s an act of civil disobedience, you nincompoop, it’s supposed to be a violation. But if it will make you happy, maybe they can dump green tea. The fish will live longer, and it’s a nice color.
How fitting that an act of protest against government overreaching is curtailed by government overreaching.
George III is laughing his tail off.
Tom Beveridge said,
February 27, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Kinda what I was asking myself when I read the thing. What good is a protest without a protesting act?