Not an April Fool's joke: who's available on April 14th?

[xiphias]

On April 14th, the "Tea Party" right-wing movement is going to be holding a rally on Boston Common, and Sarah Palin is rumored to be planning to attend.

kpht has suggested the perfect response.

Hold a tea party.

Let's make this happen. On April 14th, when the Tea Party Bus arrives at Boston Common, let's greet them with people having tea and cookies and little finger sandwiches, beautiful china, and frilly hats. Can we get hundreds of people on the common to drink tea in a deeply civilized and refined manner?

I want this to happen.

Who's with me? Who can take some time on April 14th? Who has access to nice china, good tea, and beautiful clothing and is willing to wear it in a good cause?

The suggestion has been made that we're going to need battery-powered boom boxes playing classical music, but I'd rather have real string quartets there.

Let's make this happen.

Comments

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

Wednesday is usually my busiest day, but if I can reschedule people then I will try to be there.

One thought: coffee instead of tea? I actually prefer drinking tea, but one thing that's been amusing me about the Teabaggers all along is that (as you know, Bob) the Americans drank coffee to be patriotic at the time of the Revolution. The Tea Party people claim to be harking back to the Boston Tea Party--but (unless my recollection of US history is entirely off) that was about throwing tea-as-symbol-of-Britain into the harbor. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

(And yes, I've seen a little about the Coffee Party that's been forming recently. I'm not connected with that in any way, and haven't decided whether I want to be.)

[aelf.livejournal.com]

I think you may be misunderstanding The Tea Party movement. It's not about drinking tea. Initially they were mailing in tea bags to their representatives to, yes, call forth the memories of the Boston Tea Party. They were arguing against bigger government and more taxation & attempting to link it to one of our memorable historical moments.