Another TEA party!

Because the Tea Party movement is a grass-roots enterprise, whose organizers didn't set out to profit from establishing a "brand name" in a commercial sense, practically anyone can organize a "Tea Party" event.

But the common understanding is that if you attend a "Tea Party" event, you aim to make it known -- in memory of the tea-tax protesters who dumped those bales into Boston Harbor 200 years ago -- that you believe the central government should reduce spending, reduce taxes and particularly stop setting up vastly expensive new bureaucracies as we charge full-speed off the cliff and into bankruptcy.

For instance, legitimate Tea Party activists of the Citizens Awareness Network held a barbecue from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday -- Tax Day -- in Las Vegas' Sunset Park. Agree with them, disagree with them, ignore them, at least they're pretty forthright about their goals.

Not so the outfit called ProgressNow Nevada, a group of collectivists that announced it would attempt to thinly man the sidewalk in front of the main post office down the street at 1001 E. Sunset Road at noontime Thursday.

This demonstration -- which drew all of seven people -- was in favor of higher taxes on the productive in order to discourage investment and innovation, instead shifting power and resources to Washington in order to transform this country into something more closely resembling Albania in the 1950s. Backers billed the event as a "Progressive TEA Party Protest," explaining in the fine print that "TEA," in this case, stood for "Tax Equity Action."

How desperate for attention are you when you try to co-opt the popular opposition's lingo?

Does said group have a right to gather in public and espouse any cause they like? Of course.

And we have the right to respond the same way we would if someone wired together a bunch of rusty car parts from the salvage yard, slapped on a shiny new coat of paint, and tried to sell us "this brand new, high-performance Furd 250!"

Try it on someone else, brother.

That truck won't run.