Tea Party and FreedomWorks plan demonstration against mandatory trash collection.

By Zaid Jilani

The tea party movement and their corporate-funded astroturf backers at FreedomWorks often claim to be fighting "big government." For instance, FreedomWorks 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 and FreedomWorks are collaborating to plan a protest in Gwinnet County, Georgia, to voice their latest grievance against government powers — mandatory home trash collection:

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."

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/11/tea-freedomworks-demonstration-trash/

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