**SNIP**
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!
"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 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.