Posted on 02/24/2017 10:25:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MUSCLE SHOALS -- Groups opposing the agenda of President Donald Trump are springing up all over the nation and the Shoals is no different.
Members of the organization claim when the Indivisible Guide was released as a Google document file in December, it was downloaded more than 1 million times. It contained ways to keep up with what's going on in Congress, and how to influence your member of Congress through grassroots activism.
Today, there are roughly 7,000 Indivisible groups across the country, including at least 25 in Alabama.
Indivisible Northwest Alabama came together in late January, and a recent visit to Northwest-Shoals Community College has been mentioned on the Left in Alabama website, the left leaning news site Daily Kos, and the Thom Hartmann radio show.
Group spokesman Charles Rose said about 10 members planned to take a letter to the office of U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, which is located in the Bevil Center on the Northwest Shoals campus. The congressman was not in his office, but his field representative, Kreg Kennedy, said they could slip the letter under the office door.
After meeting at the Bevill Center, nine members of the group went inside to finish writing messages on Post-It notes they were going to leave on the office door. Once inside the lobby, they attracted the attention of security.
Campus police arrived before they could get to the congressman's office and asked them to leave the building. Rose said he accompanied a campus police officer, who slid the letters under the office door. In all, Rose said there were a total of five law enforcement vehicles that responded, including an unmarked patrol car and a Tuscumbia police cruiser. The Bevill Center is located in Tuscumbia.
Northwest-Shoals Community College spokesman Trent Randolph said once Assistant Dean of Recruitment, Admissions and Financial Aid Tom Carter was notified, he went to the Bevill Center. Randolph said Rose's group had already been informed the office was closed, and were asked to go outside because of the classes being held in that building. He said the group was allowed to stay on the property outside.
Rose said once outside, the group posed for a few photos and videos.
"Individuals are always allowed to schedule meetings and meet with Rep. Aderholt's office representatives," Randolph said. "However, groups that desire to protest must follow college policy published in the NWSCC catalog."
Rose said the group had no desire to protest.
"We had an array of signs to hold for our photo," Rose said. "We never intended to picket, protest or disrupt in any way."
Randolph said the college's catalog states that groups that want to protest must first obtain permission from Carter's office.
"The college is happy to work with any group as long as they follow this policy," Randoph said.
Rose said there are Indivisible groups based in Cullman, Decatur and Huntsville. The group based in Alabama's Fifth Congressional District drew 400 people to a recent meeting when they had anticipated about 50.
Rose said the Shoals group's guiding principles are: "Donald Trump’s agenda will take America backwards and it must be stopped," and "to work together to achieve this goal, we must model the values of inclusion, tolerance and fairness."
He said Indivisible emphasizes action at the federal level, primarily by lobbying members of Congress.
While the group has several older members, there are younger, college-aged members and minorities in the group.
The University of North Alabama has a similar policy for speakers and protests.
Lawful and peaceful demonstrations as an expression is premitted and protected, but the university will not tolerate "substantial disruption to its educational mission," the policy states.
Substantial disruption is defined in part to include activies that deny the rights of other students, the faculty or the university staff; restricts the movement of persons on the campus; or substantially disrupts or obstructs educational and other essential activities and operations of the university; or interferes with the right of peaceful dissent of others.
Take their health care? Obamacare already did that. These plodders are late.
Instead of “Don’t take my healthcare” their signs should read “don’t expect me to pay for my own healthcare”.
What freeloading looks like.
These old deadbeats think YOU should pay for THEIR healthcare. Let Soros and his ilk pick up the tab.
This is the typical BS. Like now when close to a majority pay zero income taxes and some even get back more than the amount they pay in to begin with as in earned credits et al, there will be no change in this fiasco because the majority want free stuff.
Some before did not have health care PAID FOR. Everyone had some form of health care if they could or wanted to pay for it. So, what we do is give everyone a promise of paid for health insurance. Those with moderate or no income, get subsidies aka known as “free”. Meanwhile, others pay through the nose to support those who get “free insurance” through subsidies. No one considers the the huge deductables and copays and a narrow choice of physicians except those paying for the total cost of their own insurance and they are in the minority.
IMO, the only way out of this trap is to have a national based system of major medical health insurance, say costs exceeding $25K. Before that, you are on your own. There should be available companies who will provide a basic benefit for those who wish to pay for it up to the point where major medical kicks in. That and doing in the medical malpractice industry by limiting awards would go far to lower overall costs. Unfortunately, the stupid voters have been swindled to believe that “free” insurance is the only way out. The stupid GOP will go along with the charade put forth by the dems and the media.
Pretty sure the same group was in Decatur 2 days ago when Mo Brooks was in town. He actually met with them for a few minutes (which was immediately deemed ‘not enough’).
Never mind that many/most of these ne’er-do-wells either don’t have obamacare or are otherwise already on Medicare.
Not to worry in this state.
- Roll Tide -
Hi Jemian!
Yes they are, there were plenty in Hoover this morning protesting Rep Palmer.
I see pre-printed signs here, that usually means democrats.
They are all fortune-tellers and mind readers. Even though the new policy is still in development, they are positive they are not going to like it.
Democrats are loony. Women Democrats are a particular kind of loony.
Meh. When they change the spelling of “muscle” to “mussel” I might listen to their opinions.
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