"Hey Rahm! Nice work. That was easy. Now shut them the rest of them down. Soros says he doesn't want to hear about any more f**king tea parties!"
Posted on 03/28/2009 6:03:30 AM PDT by shove_it
CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government.
Why? They feel too many people could show-up.
Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media.
With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party.
Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she's not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, "I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st."
WINK News spoke to the director of parks for Cape Coral. He says that even now if Rosko is willing to get insurance for the event he'll likely re-authorize it.
For now Rosko's event is canceled, she's encouraging people to attend the April 15th Tax Payer Tea Party in Centennial Park in Fort Myers.
so much for the RIGHT of assembly...
hope the good people of Cape Coral FIND A WAY
How about a “spontaneous gathering”?
FL ping
How about a boycott of all businesses on that day to protest the mayor’s move against the Constitutional right to freedom of assembly? If it costs the city thousands of dollars in sales taxes, perhaps he wouldn’t think his strategy was so clever.
If the right to freely assemble can be “canceled by the government! What other Constitutional rights will soon be “canceled by the government”.
All Hail Comrade Zero!
Exactly, show up anyway!
"Hey Rahm! Nice work. That was easy. Now shut them the rest of them down. Soros says he doesn't want to hear about any more f**king tea parties!"
Is this the one that Hannity was supposed to be at??
I never read anything about insurance in the Constitution...
In fact, I don't see these words - insurance, education, marriage, bailout, healthcare, etc., etc., enumerated as any kind of a right...
Don’t take it out on businesses. Take it out on the city where it belongs.
To borrow from the old Nike commercial:
Just do it!
Print up some "We will be heard" signs to sprinkle in with the others.
Do you really think the original tea party was sanctioned by the government? Isn't that the point? How else will the government start taking these things seriously?
No violence. Lots of serious citizens. That's the way.
in FL most county or city commissioners have a real job on top of their municipal posts.
Therefore arget the law firm or real estate company or business of those commissioners.
Please look favorably on our permit to assemble at the public pier. We have engaged Lloyd's of London to underwrite our event.
Do it anyway.
Looks like the Democrats are pretty active in Cape Coral:
http://www.capecoraldemocrats.com/news.html
I wonder if they have this problem for their events?
Exactly right! The powers of the government are delegated to them from US.
The governments job is NOT to tell us that our constitutionally-guaranteed rights are too expensive to support, their job is to support our constitutionally-guaranteed rights REGARDLESS. If the people require expensive insurance (they don't, actually) then BUY IT.
This creeping "your rights are too expensive" is behind a lot of so-called safety and health authoritarianism, too. You have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, unless it costs somebody some money. Then you lose your rights. All of them.
Who the blazes cares what the city government says?
Where in the Constitution does it say that the right to assemble requires insurance?
Did Bostonians wait for an EPA permit to dump the tea?
Maybe Eric Holder is right - we ARE a nation of cowards!
Flashmob Tea Party?
As I said on the duplicate thread, screw the city - protest anyway. They can't arrest everybody.
If the skanky sodomites can march freely, then the productive citizens that carry their weight can march as well.
This is unconstitutional! People, wake up out of your apathy! Stop this. Don’t let these fascists take away your freedoms! Day after day they are doing this, here a little, there a little. We must put a stop to it!
I am going to call and email the Mayor of the city and the director of parks and recreation of Cape Coral, FL.
I noticed that they never included the mayor’s name or the director of the parks in the article, so I am giving them here.
I wonder if a large number of people calling and emailing would “persuade” them to change their mind?
Jim Burch, Mayor 239-574-0436 jburch@capecoral.net
Stephen H. Pohlman, CPRP Director (239) 573-3110 spohlman@capecoral.net
Michael J. Kalvort, CPRP Operations Mgr/Deputy Director (239) 573-3133 mkalvort@capecoral.net
Robert J. Burns, CPRP Parks Superintendent (239) 573-3115 rburns@capecoral.net
Keith Locklin, CPRP Recreation Superintendent (239) 573-3119 klocklin@capecoral.net
If a group was in charge then I think they would need 1 Mil.insurance.Never did an outside thing but insurance is standard.
Yup, First Amendment rights here. The people must find a way to ensure their rights. Which I thot I remembered was why we elect a government, is it not??
“Did Bostonians wait for an EPA permit to dump the tea?”
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
I say “Show up anyway.” Don’t use a PA system. Just show up with signs, etc.
I wonder how much insurance was required for the police killer celebration in Oakland.
“Nobody goes there no more; it’s too crowded!” - Yogi Berra
Are you of the opinion that our rights must be enumerated to exist?
PERMITS? We don’ need no steenkin’ permits!
Gee...it’s a good thing the actual Americans who held that little tea party a couple hundred years ago got their permit, huh? What courage, what patriotism, what determination those Cape Coral folks are showing, huh? They’ll hold their little show, just as long as it’s not going to offend or upset anyone. Anybody who wonders why the left wins all the time, maybe it has something to do with the spinelessness of the right!!
What a great opportunity for an insurance company to grab great PR by donating the days coverage.
Of course it will NOT be Progressive...
If everybody refuses to file a tax return what can they do? NOTHING!!!
It's time to tell these we are sick and tired of being pushed around!!!
WTF?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
This is an unacceptable move by the local government. The people should show up anyway and ASK to be arrested. I would. And will if presented with this type of response from my local government.
FreedomWorks can cover the Cape Coral event. Just email me the details. We can attach the event as a rider to our insurance.
Cape Coral can have its rally, if it wants to.
Is there a right to everything?
This leftist lunacy that there is a never ending cascade of some imagined Constitutional rights just because they say so, is exactly why we have the troubles we do...
There is no right to education. There is no right to health care. There is no right to join to a union. There is no right for two homosexuals to sodomize each other and call it a marriage. There is no right to (place leftist idiocy here)...
Oh, and flag burning is not free speech... it is lighting a fire... it has nothing to do with speech...
Fire and speech have never been the same, and never will be...
Keep the faith.
YES WE CAN!
I’m saying that rights exist without the Constitution. You seem to be insisting that they must be enumerated in the Constitution to exist.
Amendments Nine and Ten do not support what seems to be your position.
This idea that we have all these so-called “rights” is exactly what has corrupted our courts.
I see no reason to continue feeding that leftist hydra headed beast.
There you go, Simple idea and would work. The time now is for “To Hell you say, and do it anyway”, who they gonna jail? all of them. HA.
I wonder if those huge rallies for Obama were insured...
[This is an unacceptable move by the local government. The people should show up anyway and ASK to be arrested.]
Yep. And when arrested sue the pants off the city for violating their civil rights.
Those of us old enough to remember the Civil Rights marches of the 60’s can remember how this was a favorite tactic of the authorities to prevent the marches. “Parading without a permit” was one of the most creative, iirc.
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