When I saw this report this morning, I was somewhat taken aback.

There will be no tea-dumping in the Potomac River -- that's illegal -- but organizers of today's national tea party tax protest found out this morning that so is their plan to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square to demonstrate displeasure at government spending and tax policies.

Protesters, using a rented truck to haul the million tea bags, began unloading their cargo at the park this morning but were told by officials that they didn't have proper permits and must move the tea. They complied with the order but are still considering what to do with the load.

SO what we have here is a case of government denying permits for speech that challenges the government. I guess this is a part of the hope and change we can believe in – and can’t help but note that if this same thing had happened with left-wing protests during the Bush years there would have been massive rioting and complaints of the quashing of political dissent.

And I wonder, too – what would Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty have done?

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