Yesterday in Mohave County, Arizona, approximately one dozen Tea Party members and members of the Western States Constitutionalists Alliance (well, in truth the WSCA seems to have only one member that I can find, its founder Val H. Starr) protested in front of the Mohave County Administration Building for their right to wear hats at county supervisors' meetings. In a policy established one year ago, hats were banned from the meetings as part of an ordinance establishing a dress code, and apparently that gets Tea Partiers really angry. Angry enough, in fact, for one TPer, Jim Canelos of Golden Valley, to be arrested for trespassing during a meeting, after his refusal to comply with the regulation (he donned an American flag hat while speaking at the podium during the meeting) and then a request to leave the premises.
The Tea Partiers are also upset over this particular county's passage last year of an ordinance prohibiting weapons on county property. In March 2010 Mervin Fried of Kingman, Arizona, was arrested after violating this ordinance by bringing a pitchfork into the county administration building.
I am always gratified to see Tea Party members devoting their energy to this sort of protest.