[P-Marlowe]

Actually this is a good thing. It will give everyone who dumps tea into the lake the satisfaction of having engaged in Civil Disobedience.

Let the dumping begin.

[xzins]

A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping

The above is from the article. Note the word "symbolic."

They can't let the dumping begin, and they can't engage in Civil Disobedience, because they aren't going to follow through.

They're going to have a "symbolic" tea party. I 'spose with symbolic tea, symbolic cupsies, and symbolic little raised pinkies.