Tea Bag Terror: Protests Causing Scares, Evacuations At Congressional Offices

[RamboLiberal]

A recent email to hundreds of thousands of conservatives exhorted them to "Send a Tea Bag to Washington, D.C. for $1." Other activists have organized local efforts to mail tea bags to the offices of their members of Congress.

It's all part of the anti-Obama, anti-tax "tea party" movement, backed aggressively by corporate-funded "astroturf" organizations like FreedomWorks. But now one of their symbolic protests is drawing attention for the wrong reasons.

Local reports indicate that the practice of mailing actual tea bags to legislators has repeatedly raised security concerns, and sometimes forced the evacuation of congressional offices in anthrax-like scares.

Brian Sperry, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, told the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune that tea bags in the mail "cause us some concern. ... They could pose a problem if the tea bag is mailed in a regular envelope instead of a padded bag."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tea-bag-terror-protests-c_n_186596.html

[graywarrior]

1. Teabag Terrorsts

[xchrom]

4. the whole notion of being Teabagged by a republick party man

is Terrorizing.

they always have a way of taking the fun out of everything.

[HillbillyBob]

2. Maybe the senders should be charges as terrorists

like some of us who dared to question the legitimacy of ( * ) election, or the legitimacy of invading Afghanistan and Iraq, or the warrentless spying and searches or the capture and torture of American citizens or other peaceful citizens of other countries that were snatched and tortured at abu Graib or Gitmo.

[texastoast]

3. Those teabaggers are hypocrites

Too bad they didn't bitch soon enough during the Bush regime. We wouldn't be having near the problems now.

Fucks.

[jazzjunkysue]

5. LIke Obama's gonna hide under his desk, or something.

Truly rich people ignore this trifle. They're busy counting their money.

[arcadian]

6. Did the whole Tea Bag thing start off as supposed to being non-partisan?

My friend who is a self described Libertarian told me that, he also said that's why he isn't participating because it's been co-opted by Anti-Obama people.

[solinvictus]

7. Here's the thing...

Congress needs to be scared of us. Too many career politicians on both sides of the aisle treat us as their servants when they are supposed to work on our behalf.

[Bucky]

8. I think you sat through "V for Vendetta" a few too many times.

Politicians should be scared of being unelected by the people, not scared because some nutjob takes this ginned up teabag malarkey too seriously and starts doing something dangerous. I mean, you do see the difference, don't you?

[Ocracoker16]

9. Scared of us?

Being scared of us is not the same thing as being held accountable for their actions. I might add that not a lot gets done if they have evacuate the office buildings.