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Regulators shut down 7-year old girl's lemonade stand for failing to get a temporary restaurant license. Local anarchist is organizing a "Lemonade Revolt".

Seven children selling lemonade were told by police they had to close up shop -- because they didn't have a permit.

Cops went sour on a group of kids after a resident in the Haverford Township, Pa., neighborhood sicced police on the youngsters for selling lemonade on a residential street.

When three girls in Midway, Georgia set up their lemonade stand, they intended to raise enough money to go to the water park. But the ever-vigilant local police quickly identified the girls’ effort as criminal enterprise and shut them down.

An embarrassed Oregon country Chairman named Jeff Cogen apologized recently, and reminisced briefly about how he used to have a lemonade stand. He also said that the mighty foot of government would not trample upon a child’s lemonade stand again.

Dear God in Heaven, how did America come to this?

On August 20, 2011, we are suggesting that everyone who has children, who believes in this message, go outside and set up lemonade stands all across the country. Even if you don’t have children, go out and buy some lemonade from a local child’s lemonade stand.
We need to stand up for our kids. We need to send a message to the world. Selling lemonade is not a crime!

YET ANOTHER LEMONADE STAND SHUT DOWN BY THE NAZI PIGS. DON'T THESE FOOLS HAVE ANY REAL CRIMINALS TO ARREST? IS THIS COUNTRY SO FREE OF CRIME THAT THEY NEED TO HARASS OUR CHILDREN NOW? DISGUSTING. I'm sorry for the caps but I am yelling. I'm just sick of this crap!

You can make a fortune selling parking spots outside the US Open, but don't even dream of setting up a lemonade stand. A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd, right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500.

Bureaucrats fine little children for selling lemonade without proper government permission.

Protesting the shameful closings of children's lemonade stands around the USA, Robert Fernandes organized Lemonade Freedom Day. Protests took place in several cities. In Philadelphia Mr. Fernandes and his family were part of setting up a lemonade stand in Rittenhouse Square in center city.