Local teabbaggers are "outraged"...

[GrantDem]

Outraged I tell you.

Tea Party told not to wave flags over I-69
Group says it has the right to assemble

By Maribeth Holtz


Published: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:09 AM EDT

Members of the Grant County Tea Party are questioning why they are not allowed to wave flags on a bridge over Interstate 69.

Five members came to the Grant County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, after they were asked by a county sheriff’s deputy to leave their weekly demonstration Friday. They were also asked to leave Sept. 18, and last week commissioners said they should be allowed to wave flags.

“We thought we had the right in the constitution if the United States and the State of Indiana to assemble…,” said Dan Love. “We come to you complaining because they once again asked us to leave.”

Commissioner Mark Bardsley said commissioners told them last week that they should be able to assemble on a 38th Street bridge because they misunderstood the tea party members; Bardsley thought they were gathering on the bridge at Stone Road, not the bridge over the interstate.

Commissioners said bridges over interstates are state jurisdiction, so they can’t tell the group one way or another whether they can gather.

“We’re not a state entity, so we don’t have authority,” Commissioner Jeremy Diller said.

Love said he talked with officials from the Indiana Department of Transportation, who said waving flags over an interstate poses safety issues.

The group asked what the ramifications would be if they continue to wave flags every Friday regardless of being asked to leave.

“It’s wrong, and we’re going to fight it,” said Amy Love.

Bill Jones said they have been waving flags for weeks, but only the last two weeks have they had roadblocks. He said they would continue to talk with INDOT and other state officials.

“I’m not going away,” he said.

Bardsley said he wished he could do more to help, and there are probably more people who agree with the tea party’s patriotic stand than those that are against them.

Idiot doesn't understand that his chosen method to exercise his Constitutional right poses a risk to public safety and he is free to assemble elsewhere. Moreover, local repuke thinks teabaggers are mainstream.

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/articles/2009/09/30/news/doc4ac2cb80efb26815267090.prt

[tanyev]

1. You sure they're not outragged?

:)

[EmilyAnne]

4. Or outbagged?

[gratuitous]

2. Reminds me of that Coke Zero spoof commercial

The Coke Zero guys are talking with NASCAR drivers, trying to convince them to put Coke Zero ads on the most underutilized advertising space on their cars: The windshield! The drivers try to explain how that's not a very good idea. Waving flags on an Interstate overpass isn't a very good idea, either.

[mwb970]

3. Sheesh. They are *literally* flag wavers!

Are they going to thump their Bibles while they're up there as well?