got to love those chickenshit libs. On Apr 15, 6:32 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > From: *Travis* > Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 > Subject: Teabag Protests Causing Terror, Evacuations At Congressional > Offices > >ue http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tea-bag-terror-protests-c_n_... > > Protests Causing Scares, Evacuations At Congressional Offices > <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/syndication/> > > April 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM > > 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<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/the-corporate-lobbyists-b_...>by > corporate-funded "astroturf" organizations like > FreedomWorks<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/lobbyists-planning-teaparties/>. > 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<http://www.sltrib.com/utahpolitics/ci_12100982>. > ... They could pose a problem if the tea bag is mailed in a regular envelope > instead of a padded bag." > > The Chicago Tribune > reports<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-tea-partyapr1...> > : > > In Boulder, Colo., the district office of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis recently > called for help after a lumpy white envelope with no return address arrived > in the mail. The Boulder County Hazardous Materials Response Team found a > tea bag and a note reading "We the People, 1773." > > Earlier this month in Manchester, N.H., a hazmat team descended on the > office of U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter after employees opened an envelope > marked "tax protest" and found a bunch of tea leaves. > > And two days later, the office of Rep. George Radanovich in Modesto, > Calif., was evacuated "after an intern in the mailroom came upon a > suspicious package <http://www.modbee.com/featured/story/654520.html> that > was later found to contain tea." A haz-mat team and the FBI were were called > in. > > About 20 people from the building, including those in the congressman's > office and two mortgage firms, were evacuated as a precaution. > > Modesto Fire Battalion Chief Rich Sasser said the envelope held a granular > substance. It did not have a return address. > > About 3 p.m., the Stanislaus County Hazardous Materials Response Team went > into the office. Sasser said their monitors showed there was nothing > dangerous, so the hazmat team double-bagged the sealed envelope and turned > it over to the FBI. > > "We can't control who mails what to wherever," Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a > Capitol Police spokeswoman, told the Salt Lake > Tribune<http://www.morningsun.net/news/x1579127448/Tea-Party-location-irks-ve...>. > "At all times, [United States Capitol Police] will investigate and take the > appropriate police action in response to any calls to us for any suspicious > items that congressional staff might be concerned about." > > Maybe the whole "send a tea bag to Washington" idea was cooked up as a way > to give terrorists cover while they mailed terrorist materials to > Washington. I could see them laughing as they took advantage of 'patriotic' > Americans to do so. > > It would be a good idea to investigate the people pushing this as a thing to > do, they might be tied to overseas organizations.REPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA'S > ENEMY WITHIN > > Republicans ARE practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and insurrectionary > OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political > exploitation. > > Republicans AREN'T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR > incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they're using > conflicting economic theories as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive > agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can > blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement. > > Republicans ARE preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political > WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and > employment catastrophes that resulted. > > Republicans ARE trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from exposing > the damage caused during a Republican presidency. > > Republicans ARE offering controversial arguments they know no one can agree > on to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They'd rather divide America > and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of > effective Democratic governance. That's how they gained power and that's how > they're trying to retain it. > > Republicans AREN'T the LOYAL OPPOSITION. They ARE the ENEMY WITHIN whose > personal priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the > point that treachery and betrayal are their preferred modus operandi. > > It's one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it's another thing > entirely to willfully sabotage America's government because a successful > Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the greed, fears and > hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican corporatism > and extremism that have poisoned and crippled America. > > “Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral > doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up > the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them > debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has > settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary > opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. 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