Posted on 08/02/2012 5:37:12 AM PDT by radioone
“It’s been like this since 6:00 AM.”
It was 8:15 PM. The employee had a tired but sincere smile on his face as he went from car to car, already a block from his restaurant, thanking customers for both their patience and their support.
Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day has apparently taken on a life far greater than anyone could have envisioned, and according to reports pouring in from around the country, the Bible-respecting chicken franchise has had to call in off-duty staff in an attempt to keep up with the hordes of people flocking to the store.
Out of curiosity I swung by the closest franchise just after 6:00 PM, and was floored by what I witnessed.
Cars lined up for the drive-thru stretched out of the parking lot, down the access road, and up the street to the main highway. I tried to get a quick count of the cars, but had to be content with an estimate of 40-60 as they stretched out of sight behind Applebee’s. A solitary driver laid on his horn as he went by the traffic jam, middle finger extended defiantly from the window of his CR-V, his “coexist” bumper sticker mocking those he left in presumably smug satisfaction.
There were at least 100 people standing outside to get into the building to order from the counter, and no telling how many more were queued up inside. People were parking a block away in the Kohl’s parking lot and walking to the Chick fil-A, the parking lots of the stores directly surrounding the chicken joint being completely packed.
As the sun fell, the line to go inside had shortened to the point employees could start to think about letting the doors close and having the air conditioning take effect. As for the line of cars…
… it showed no signs of letting up.
Clearly, this is more than a “buycott” over gay marriage. If the smattered of people I’ve talked to are representative, homosexuality is a side issue.
This strikes a much deeper, more foundational chord.
The massive crowd reaction locally and nationwide are driven by a loathing of arrogant politicians like those in Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco who feel they have the power and the authority to tell a businessman like Dan Cathy what personal opinions he can and cannot hold if he wants to do business in “their” towns.
They trampled on his religious beliefs. They trampled on his freedom of speech. They attempted to deny him and his franchisees the rights to start small businesses, merely because a free American dared to share what he believed.
When Gage’s columns of Regulars marched out of Boston after midnight on April 19, 1775, neither they nor the tens of thousands of colonists in the surrounding community thought of themselves as anything other than Englishmen. After shots rang out at Lexington Green, then the North Bridge, and Meriam’s Corner, and skirmishes turned into a rolling gunbattle, there was a tectonic shift. They were no longer Englishmen, but Patriots and Regulars. History records the rest.
Presumably not a man that mustered that morning on either side that April morning wanted war, but a series of events unfolded in such a way as to trigger a war out of a series of powder alarms (British attempts at gun control) that had been bloodless to that point.
Students of history know that there are rarely singular triggers to world-changing events.
We have over the past decades been slouching towards a crisis point in this nation. I’ll leave it for future historians to find fault and place the blame, but the momentum towards disintegration has been apparent and accelerating for some time.
I smirk, thinking about those that are reading this incredulously, thinking, “is this rube trying to tell us that we’re going to launch a civil war over chicken?!?! What a dunce!”
They are capable of only seeing isolated events and individual threads, not the tapestry of tyranny that has turned a simple protest buying of chicken sandwiches and waffle fries into a fed-up Republic’s sudden self-awareness.
The greatest trick that Hollywood, the lying liberal media and the Democrat Party was able to conjure was the illusion of their power and our isolation. As tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans are realizing in a simple act of conscious commerce today and this evening, we are legion. There are far more of us than there are of them, and in that realization, our power grows, and our desire to give up even a fraction more of our rights, shrinks.
Those who would be tyrants have failed to heed Yamato Yamamoto’s warning, and have woken a sleeping giant with an appetite for liberty not easily sated.
The power of the ‘consumer’!
It’s the appropriate answer to a ‘President’ who has an agenda including the most aggressive assault on American culture in the history of our country.
NOW...if these same consumers would WITHOLD their dollars from Hollwierd idiots who ALSO conduct an ongoing cultural broadside against America.!!!
Yes, hopefully the lines are backed up like this at the polling places with people showing up to kick out the democrats.
Indeed!
Once again life imitates art:
2006: The Chautauqua Rising by Jack Cashill
Written in 2000, here is the synopsis:
This novel is both a murder mystery and a political thriller set against the rugged beauty and fiery political past of western New York. The agents of an ever intrusive government have quietly altered the American political landscape. Freedoms slip away, unnoticed by an apathetic and neglectful nation. In the tradition of our founding fathers, a disparate group of civil disobedients unite to spark the greatest grassroots insurrection since the Whiskey Rebellion, an event CNN comes to call “The Chautauqua Rising.”
I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.
It's a fundamental principle and people are sick and tied of these asswipes trying to spifflicate our way of life!
If Obama wants a rebellion I have a feeling America is ready to “roll”.
We are mad AT Hell, and NOT going to take it any more!
Yep, it's a shot across the bow of the fascists that want to force their radical liberal agenda on us...and a warning, "Today we our peacefully protesting by reaching for the chicken box, but if you keep pushing next time it might be the ammo box..."
Let us all remember that the victors write the history. We need to ensure that we not allow the Liberal propagandists in charge of America's media frame this discussion by their rules.
Yesterday was a very poignant battle. It was a sign that America is not asleep. It was a sign that America is not going to remain still while evil people wish to do us harm and take our Liberty.
Let's watch on Friday to see how many gays show up at CFAs to kiss, as they're being asked to do. The media would cover that before they'd cover what happened yesterday, but like the "Million Mom March" and other Liberal organizational travesties, I'd bet the numbers are paltry compared to the very exclamatory showing from Americans yesterday.
That is exactly right!
These paragraphs are worth repeating!:
“They are capable of only seeing isolated events and individual threads, not the tapestry of tyranny that has turned a simple protest buying of chicken sandwiches and waffle fries into a fed-up Republic’s sudden self-awareness.
The greatest trick that Hollywood, the lying liberal media and the Democrat Party was able to conjure was the illusion of their power and our isolation. As tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans are realizing in a simple act of conscious commerce today and this evening, we are legion. There are far more of us than there are of them, and in that realization, our power grows, and our desire to give up even a fraction more of our rights, shrinks.
Those who would be tyrants have failed to heed Yamato Yamamoto’s warning, and have woken a sleeping giant with an appetite for liberty not easily sated.”
I’m waiting for someone to see the Virgin Mary in a chicken sandwich...
I'd love to get the opportunity to ask him, and all the other people slamming CFA, to do a little reality-check. Look in the mirror and ask themselves how they are doing with memes like "tolerance" and "be accepting of others" and "celebrating diversity" ??? As an aside, do you think they'd recognize their own hypocrisy?
These so-called "liberals" want everyone to see their viewpoints, accept them, even promote them. But the moment you confront your average "liberal" with an opinion/belief that runs counter to theirs... You often see/hear some of the most intolerant, unaccepting, ugly, vilest attacks you've ever seen.
(Dan Cathy, the CEO of Chick-fil-A, is no doubt pleased and very grateful for the nations support.)
What a GREAT line...Love it!!!!
Chick-Fil-A has released a statement that as a privately held company their sales figures are proprietary and will not be released.
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