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-----Original Message----- From: Travis <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:32:06 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Teabag Protests Causing Terror, Evacuations At Congressional Offices From: *Travis* Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 Subject: Teabag Protests Causing Terror, Evacuations At Congressional Offices http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tea-bag-terror-protests-c_n_186596.html 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_b_186367.html>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-partyapr14,0,7631345.story> : 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-veterans>. "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. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.” --Robert A. 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