A Tea Party Without Tea

It's hard to have a decent protest these days:

A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping into the Cedar River on Saturday because state officials won’t let them use the real thing.

An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea taxes.

Tea, although natural and quite tasty, is considered a pollutant that can’t go into a body of water without a permit, said Mike Wade, a senior environmental specialist at the DNR’s Manchester field office.

“Discoloration is considered a violation,” Wade said.

I hope there are at least a few real teabags tossed in. Those guys in Boston way back when would be embarrassed to hear that modern day protesters were afraid to get the water a little dirty.