Openmind
Well-Known Member
If you apply for a permit to hold a rally, then yes, you are required to organize necessities such as food, water, and sanitary facilities for the people who attend your rally. That's is exactly what the Tea Party had to do in order to hold legal protest rallies.
What you're saying is that in order to be considered a "REAL" grassroots movement, the protestors must break the law.
If only your penchant for conspiracy theories worked both ways... Then you would question whether or not the Wall Street protests were also being manipulated from the very beginning....
I do not think that for a movement to be grassroot or real, one cannot request permits. . .but it is unlikely that "beginners" and true grassroots movement would START by asking a permit.
Now, as they get organized, it is more likely that they would request permits. . .however, would they be granted, once the "cat is out of the bag?
I do not believe that the tea party as we knew it in 2009 was truly grassroot. Precisely, it was TOO organized. It was already being "used" for GOP purposes.
Obviously we can both hold on to our opinions without the whole world coming to an end.