Posted on 03/15/2006 7:23:36 AM PST by wolfpat
Once again, antiwar protesters rallying in Rowan Park on Saturday will be met by a smaller but fervent group of pickets who support the war.
Yet if the pickets had gotten their way, it would be them — not the antiwar crowd — filling the park on the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion.
A member of Free Republic, a support-the-war group, reserved Rowan Park for this weekend immediately after last year’s large antiwar rally at the park. The reservation was described as for a two-day picnic and required an $800 check covering fees and a deposit.
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This only tells me that city halls loyaty lies with the terrorists.
It's unfair ... the moonbats get the bathrooms and the playground!
The reporter could easily get her on the phone for an interview, but the govt 'official' could not reach her by mail or phone.
I bet if she owed them money the govt could find her.
Contact Prof Mike Adams adams_mike@hotmail.com and he can refer you to one of his pro bono attorneys in his network.
This is BS.
Seriously, you need to ping adams_mike@hotmail.com and see if he can refer you guys to a local atty interested in helping you out on this.
Six months later, the city returned the check, documents show.
A Sept. 27 letter from the city explained the cancelation “due to a greater programming need and security accommodations for a large public event.” The letter, by Parks and Recreations Director Robert Barefoot, said the park’s sheltered stage is “generally not used or rented for picnics.” Barefoot offered other picnic shelters or indoor “air-conditioned multipurpose rooms” to accommodate their event.
Antiwar protesters had used Rowan Park on the same weekend in 2004 and 2005. Counter-demonstrators, many of them with ties to the military, picketed across the street both times.
Lynn Huber, a co-chairman of Free Republic’s chapter in North Carolina, said the group didn’t intend to prevent another antiwar protest by reserving the park. She said the park was reserved with the intention of staging an upbeat festival for military families to take their minds off a grim anniversary.
“Some elected official somewhere, or some hired parks and recreation official, thought it was more important to have an antiwar protest than a support-the-troops family picnic,” Huber said from her home in Charlotte. “I think it’s a shame.”
Smart move by NC Freepers, to put in application a year in advance for the park.Really trashy move by someone in the permit office to deny the application.
Road trip PING!
THis story is so easy to follow up. Imagine if the outcome was reversed? Or the orginal permit filers had been feminists, gays, blacks, [insert protected group of choice].
PErhaps I am missing something here, but why is there no outrage from our side?
I have been known to overlook facts in the past.
Bump
Because that is not what we do, donchaknow?
What a crock!
The people that did this are no better than worms.
I'm so pissed off right now I can't see straight.
Something smells.
jw
Y'all do whatever you must to show up on Saturday, and bring everyone you can so we'll show them we ought to have the park.
This is the kind of story that can grow legs if someone like Taranto, or Rush, or even Drudge discusses it. I think all these "UNITED" for peace and justice rallies are going to fizzle this weekend. But if they do get publicity, the story about this refusal of permit should be publicized as well.
I just sent a quick note to Drudge and copied the link.
I agree! Let's see what we can do and who bites.
It would be wrong, he said, to suggest that the city played favorites.
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