Emails between myself and the RTP Coordinator

Now that I've had time to establish my blog I have decided to take my correspondence with the the Rockford Tea Party coordinator and organize it into one post. My emails are in blue. His emails are in red. I cut and past the emails as they were received. One email is from the neighborhood watch leader, the person who initially sent me notice of the protest. Her email is shown in green.

I got an email back from the Rockford Tea Party organizer.
It simply reads

"Do you work for the city of Rockford?"

I will respond no, which is the truth, tomorrow when my laptop battery is not dying.

This is a copy of the email sent to me by the neighborhood watch leader in response to the email I sent her regarding the littering ordinance and my request to be removed from her mailing list.

The tea party email out as an FYI.

Tea Party's are happening all over the United States as a protest to the much higher taxes we, our children and our children's children, will be having to pay because of the passage of recent spending Bills in Congress and the planned tax increases here in Illinois by our new Governor Pat Quinn. The Rockford tea party is symbolic and referencing the history of the first tea party in 1773.

I have emailed David Hale at rockfordteaparty@gmail.com to be sure he has the proper permits for the Rockford TeaParty. He did request in his email and on the blog that the tea be loose and not in bags. There is also a bus going to Chicago on April 15th for that tea party.

This is a copy of the email I sent in response to her response. I also wonder this... if we are allowed to dump loose leaf tea in the river, as long as there are no bags, should coffee grounds be dumped in the river? Maybe coffee houses could pay less in sanitation costs by saving their grounds and dumping them in the river. According to this "there's no bag- there's no litter" mentality we could dump oil, paint, old food, coffee grounds... anything loose into the river. This seems unacceptable to me. Once again, I understand they are doing this to recall the Boston Tea Party protest but the economic and political climates were just a little different and the reference is a stretch at best.

There are no permits for littering. The ordinance is clear about dumping and discarding any garbage... unused food... waste item improperly. Tea is not native to the Rock River ecosystem.

Also, tea parties are being held around the country. Did you read that people are being ticketed at such parties when the police are able to do so?

Thanks for passing the info on to Mr. Hale. I also did so but it probably never hurts to reinforce our laws, right?

Please see my new blog regarding the topic. I'm also including a few links regarding the Boston Tea Party FYI.

http://noteaparty.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation. We have representation. There are many legal ways to protest taxes and government involvement... without dirtying a city that already needs to be cleaned up.

This is my response to the Rockford Tea Party coordinator's email asking me if I work for the city of Rockford.

I am not an employee of the city of Rockford, but I am always working for the city of Rockford in an effort to make it a better place to live.

Here is the response to my emailing telling the RTP coordinator that I am not a city employee:

Then I won't take your threats to fine the Rockford tea party $100,000 seriously despite your brazen attempt to frighten us out of exercising our constitutional rights to free speech and we will continue to speak out constitutionally about what we belive as American citizens. You are welcome to join us in that effort to make the city of Rockford a better place to live.

This is what I wrote back:

Sir I make no threat to fine you. I was simply attempting to bring your attention to the city ordinance regarding littering. The $100,000 comes from the fine listed in the ordinance multiplied by 1000. (protesters)