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From: bentway	4/15/2009 8:39:44 PM
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Fox News: 'A few hundred' at DC tea party rawstory.com Fox News' Griff Jenkins reports that a 'few hundred' protesters showed up at the Washington D.C. tea party in Lafayette Park. "One million teabags were delivered this morning, and they did not have a permit for that, so that had to be taken away," reported Jenkins. The video follows at the end of this post. Later estimates put the number in Washington at about 1,000, with organizers saying no more than 1,500. Organizers had planned the protests in some 800 cities, but its unknown how many actually took place. One protester dangled teabags from his glasses to show his support for the tea party. "I think any President of the United States' first prerequisite should be a business owner. If he doesn't know how to run a business how can he run our country?" asked the protester. Update: A tea party protest outside the White House in Washington, D.C. was shut down by police after a demonstrator threw a package over the fence onto the White House lawn. The package was removed after being approached by -- a robot. Part of the White House was in temporary lockdown, according to MSNBC. A video from the network follows. The Secret Service put the White House on lockdown after protesters threw what appeared to be a box of teabags over the fence. The North Lawn was evacuated while a robot determined the package wasn't a threat. This video is from MSNBC's News Live, broadcast Apr. 15, 2009.

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