Posted on 06/10/2013 6:13:39 PM PDT by Libloather
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During this week's protest, Congressman G.K. Butterfield showed up to support the effort.
"We are here today to express our views," Butterfield said. "This is the way we petition our government and we're going to so it very forcefully, not only today but every Monday going forward until we are heard."
Asked directly about a newspaper column from a state senator Thom Goolsby, who called the effort "Moron Monday," Butterfield said, "That's a poor choice of words. We have the same thing in Washington with congressmen making statements that are mean spirited. I would hope that this representative would not do that in the future."
Former congressman and state Superintendent Bob Etheridge is expected to be among those joining the schoolchildren in the petitions delivery.
The NAACP and primarily left-leaning groups have been protesting cuts to social programs, changes to voting laws and other issues championed by the GOP and the McCrory administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at wncn.com ...
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Monday was the first time Skinner participated and she helped mobilize other people in Winston-Salem on behalf of the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity. Her job, plus her teenage kids, held her back from joining the civil disobedience.
Total wuss.
More like Moocher Monday
Last week it was 150.
Rules for Radicals number 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
"Apparently our governor and speaker and Senate leader have decided they want to be George Wallaces of the 21st century," N.C. NAACP President Rev. William Barber said before the event. "They want to run a fresh, southern strategy right here in North Carolina that excludes rather than includes."
A local radio morning show (Love you KC, Carmen, & Ross!) has nicknamed the Right Reverund Barber: "Revered SoulBlow, the Buffet-Slayer!", and describes how this is his job, this is how he gets paid: By protesting and keeping things riled up in the community! They are busing in people from other states to try to grind the business of running the state government to a halt, while at the same time (when the shoe is on the other foot) tell us that "We won! You Lost! Get over it!"
Protest all you want, but stop purposely disrupting the normal activities in the capital by purposely making a pest of yourselves!
Reverend, my backside!
“Moocher Monday”
Folowed by EBTuesday, UNWEDnesday.............
"or the right of the people peaceably to assemble"
There is no right to civil disobedience, or obstructing other people rights, or the nation's (or the state's) official business.
I don’t want to support people who can but aren’t willing to work. But right now the job environment is horrible. 23% of Americans are out of work and it’s getting worse (shadowstats.com).
We continue to have policies that encourage the offshoring of our industries to communist China and other low wage countries. And if the wage differential distruction of our unprotected industries wasn’t enough, we even have higher taxes on internal producers than our tariffs on foreign producers.
I don’t want to support people who can but aren’t willing to work. But right now the job environment is horrible. 23% of Americans are out of work and it’s getting worse (shadowstats.com).
We continue to have policies that encourage the offshoring of our industries to communist China and other low wage countries. And if the wage differential distruction of our unprotected industries wasn’t enough, we even have higher taxes on internal producers than our tariffs on foreign producers.
It is increasingly annoying that repeat offender protestors, who don’t just protest, but intentionally break the law with intent to be arrested, know that they will just get a slap on the wrist and be let go, not just here but nationwide.
I would like to see a judicial action, perhaps an injunction, that if they keep breaking the law, they start getting more serious punishments. Injunctions are good, because if you violate one, you have committed “contempt of court” and can get several months in jail, directly from the judge who filed the injunction. No arguments.
This does not in any way inhibit their ability to protest, just to repeatedly break the law.
The NAACP and primarily left-leaning groups have been protesting cuts to social programs, changes to voting laws and other issues championed by the GOP and the McCrory administration.
Wake and surrounding counties have a reinforced Hummer paddy wagon to haul Barber’s enormous frame around in. He should be charged for fuel, salary for officers involved, room and board on every arrest.
I remember a saying from long ago: "No matter what you believe in and hold dear, there are others in the world who are diametrically opposed to that belief and are willing to fight (kill) you over it..."
The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, a vice president of state NAACP, led crowd in singing, “Woke This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Free Government Money,” a popular song among civil-rights protesters in the 1960s.
You are so correct. I don’t know where you live, but one only needs to look closely at Durham County to see how liberal majority minority has worked out.
Close enough to be planning to move away asap to someplace with people of like and sound mind...
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