Apr 12 Tea Party Pooper: Rochester Public School Teacher

The call to crash Tea Parties has hit home in Minnesota. Via FreeRepublic, the Rochester Post Bulletin reports an email sent by a Rochester teacher encouraging counter-protests at Thursday's Tea Party rally has been called out by a Tea Party Patriot activist:

The e-mail was sent out to all teachers in the school district and states that "if you are interested in combating the lies and ignorance of the Tea Party movement" to meet for a counter-rally at 5:30 p.m. at Soldiers Field. The teacher who sent out the e-mail says he will have an air horn and some signs. Rochester Tea Party Patriot Chairwoman Cindy Maves contacted School Board Chairman Jim Pittenger to protest the teacher's use of district e-mail for the political message.

Michelle Malkin has an excellent roundup of other party pooper plans around the country. FreeRepublicans have done some great investigating to expose one loony from Oregon, and urge all tea party activists to bring a camera, and keep an eye out for infiltrators. Moe at RedState highlights counter-infiltrator ideas, including holding a "Not one of us" sign with an arrow pointed at the infiltrator:

Plants have already happened, just not organized ones. Regardless, perhaps organizers (or attendees) need to have a few signs that say “Liberal Plant, not a REAL TeaPartier” and be on the lookout for these double-secret spies. When one is found, then pull out your signs and stand next to the plant. No violence or physical actions, just isolate and embarrass.

And make sure that you get it on the record that you’ve done this. I will keep harping on this until the end of time: a camera is an indispensable tool for these things. Without cameras they would have been able to get away with lying about Congressmen being spit on and called racial epithets*. So get one.

Shine the light on cockroaches, and they will scatter. Some are looking for any way to make us look bad. Let's turn the tables around on them with creative non-violent methods. For a list of Minnesota Tea Party rallies, visit Tea Party Patriots. As always, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so we can share your stories and signs!

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