Protesters throw apparent tea bags at White House (prompting SS to lockdown the compound)

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service says a suspicious package thrown over the fence and onto the White House's North Lawn was not dangerous.

Tax protesters threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the White House on Wednesday, prompting officials to lockdown the compound. The Secret Service also used a robot to inspect the package thrown in an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.


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[appleannie1]

1. Weren't they the same people that griped about shoes being thrown there?

[Adsos Letter]

2. "...an apparent act of defiance meant to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party"

We have way undervalued the study of History in this nation, and it is to our peril.

"Boston Tea Party;"...somewhere a Founding Father is weeping in his grave... :(

[hugo_from_TN]

3. What?

What is wrong with "Boston Tea Party"?

[Adsos Letter]

5. Nothing...

except this whole scenario has zero equivalence to the actual Boston Tea Party...

[No Elephants]

18. Thank you. About time someone pointed that out. D.C. is the only place able to claim taxation

without representation. Everyone else in this country is represented in Congress.

[Stellabella]

7. The Boston Tea party was a reaction against huge corporate tax CUTS.

That action by Britain put American businesses out of business.

This insane 'teabagging' protest is nothing but a bunch of old white, usually male whiners. Where the hell were they when Bush and Cheney were spending us into oblivion?

[thereismore]

8. You got that exactly right! nt

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Those tea baggers are too stupid to understand that...

they just do what Limbaugh the hutt tells them to do.

[ninety lives]

15. They also don't seem to understand

....that real conservatives might be offended at the implications of the word "tea bagging".

Once again, are these people really Republicans? Or do they just hate living in America?

[and-justice-for-all]

17. I wll go with, they would be happier living in Iran or Saudi Arabia..

yes, they most certainly do hate living in America.

[Iowa]

13. Yep, it had nothing to do with high taxes...

It was about such things as government officials not answering to the people, business monopoly, and defending constitutional rights (albeit the British constitution). And they were driven to it by (among other things) a rather dim-witted, wealthy, ultra-conservative governor who had elevated his good-for-nothing offspring into positions that put them into the cross-hairs (yes, they had Shrubs in those days too). Bottom line: it was a group of very smart liberals defending liberal ideals vs. a conservative government, a conservative governor, and the governor's feckless offspring.

So it was almost hilarious to watch these ignorant rubes protesting today. In 1773 they would not have touched the Boston Tea Party with a 10 foot pole because the men who pulled off the Tea Party were a bunch of liberals.

Completely f*cking clueless.

[No Elephants]

19. They were way beyond liberal. They were radical revolutionaries. The conservatives went to Canada.

[ninety lives]

14. These people are hypocrites

The tax type of political isn't really political about anything but taxes and the federal government.

I mean, come ON - we know these people, they are in every middle-class suburban community.

They contribute nothing except when they want to complain about government and taxes.

[No Elephants]

21. This is not even about taxes. If it were, where were they last year and

the years before, when their taxes were higher than they are this year?

This is strictly Republicans, trying to make Obama look bad by pretending the TARP and the rest of this mess is his fault.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. LOL - they shut down their own rain-soaked protest - 'give 'em enough rope and...'

[Somawas]

6. What?

They let a little rain shut down a protest? What a bunch of wusses!

It may rain during the revolution.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Terrorists. Is Gitmo still accepting residents?

[question everything]

10. Presumably, the ones who threw the bag support keeping Guantanamo

for "enemies of the state." So let's send them over.

[thincaboutit]

12. The tragic tale of a Tea Bagger...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Groi6Ziio

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Send FUX News a bill for the cleanup

[No Elephants]

20. If the protestors had been Democrats, with a Pub in the Oval Office, the demonstrators would have

been arrested. Is there any doubt of that whatever?