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You can’t make this up. Sometimes reporting the news can be too much fun. Across the Internet, on Facebook, Twitter, and other groups, there is a collective movement to protest the government. The protests are unique to say the least, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains; the protestors plan to hold tea parties and “proverbially teabag the White House.”
Conservative activists plan to teabag Washington on a massive scale. (IMG: TaxDayTeaParty)
The Tech Herald learned about the protests via an email invitation to cover the online protests that were taking place.
“Taxpayers everywhere are revolting against the unending growth in government spending, funded at their expense. Taxpayer Tea Parties are springing up across the country as citizens come together to protest the audacity, inefficiency and arrogance of our elected officials. Just as the citizens of a young republic came together in Boston in 1773 to reject excessive taxation by the Crown, so too do we come together now to reject oppressive taxation by our own government,” reads part of the email.
A few Google searches and the video below, which comes from MSNBC, resulted in unexpected comedy gold.
The merger of technology and politics is something that has grown over the years, but should come as no surprise to anyone who follows both topics. Americans have a unique ability to speak their minds when they are unhappy. It’s a wonderful rule of law. However, sometimes the collective gets ahead of itself. When protestors start organizing campaigns so that people can “Teabag the Liberal Dems before they teabag you” someone needs to take a step back.
All jokes aside, it is an awesome thing to see so many people use technology to demonstrate against the President. While some would call their protests comical and pointless, uneducated and biased, you still have to admit that it is a useful thing to have the ability to speak out.
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