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Tea Party and FreedomWorks plan demonstration against mandatory trash collection

Memo to Tea Partiers: The point of the original Boston tea party wasn’t actually to pollute Boston Harbor.

The tea party movement and their corporate-funded astroturf backers at FreedomWorks often claim to be fighting “big government.” For instance, FW complained that the individual mandate in the new health care law was an “unacceptable, unconscionable, “¦ complete perversion of the liberties our founders fought and died to protect.”

Now, local chapters of the tea party andFW are collaborating to plan a protest in Gwinnet County, Georgia, to voice their latest grievance against government powers “” mandatory home trash collection. TP has the story:

Three political activist groups are joining together Saturday to protest Gwinnett County’s new trash plan, which begins July 1. The Four Corners Tea Party, FreedomWorks Gwinnett and Gwinnett Citizens for Responsible Government have organized the protest, which will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at the gazebo next to the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse on the Lawrenceville square. […]

“It’s our way of letting the commissioners know we remember their vote and we’re not going to forget it,” said Debbie Dooley, a Dacula resident and the Georgia grassroots coordinator for FreedomWorks. “We want to make sure they are held accountable for their vote.”

The county’s new solid waste program will make trash collection mandatory for all homeowners in unincorporated Gwinnett County. City residents are not affected by the plan.

The Four Corners Tea Party says on its Facebook page that the group is concerned with “REQUIRING people who live in the unincorporated parts of the county to pay for trash pick-up “¦ whether they like it or not.”

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JR: Looks like the wholesale destruction of the environment is high on the Tea Party agenda since, after all, it is only government that can make reign in the big corporate polluters and keep our air and water clean for our children.