Overrun in Atlanta

Posted on January 15, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Censorship Journalists & Pundits

The week following Howard Dean’s “sit down” remark which had the media screaming about his “meanness” to a hypocritical old geezer, a crowd broke through the Secret Service barricades around the Free Speech Zone in Atlanta and sent George W. Bush running. An Atlanta resident told me and other Undernet #political chatters:

Bush spent 7 minutes there. He couldn’t get away fast enough from the MLK crypt. He had this HUGE yellow stripe up his back as he was running for the limo….didn’t look like his knees hurt at all. The police called the situation “Chaos”. They were thinking of not even stopping [the furious demonstrators].

Doubtless, media pinionists will be all over the crowd for disturbing this “solemn ceremony”. Few will point to the fact that Bush invited himself to Atlanta and stood up Corretta Scott King. Even fewer will fume over the presence of Zell Miller and 12 other Dixiecrats at the all white fundraiser for Bush that followed. Yes, you read me right: Vichy Democrat Senator Zell Miller introduced the pResident to those who came for the $2000 a plate dinner to which no people of color were invited, not even Dr. King’s widow. (Miller’s not planning to run for reelection, so he can afford to show his Dixiecrat stripes.) It’s truly one Grand Old Party around the Beltway. We need to think about who we send there.

For the record, the crowd merely pushed past the barricades, banged on the sides of some buses, and chanted pro-reform slogans. America’s angry at George W. Bush. The Vichy Democrats better get it through their heads that this is so and start being an opposition that is loyal to the People, not the pocketbooks of the rich.

Again the messsge is “America’s a Free Speech Zone, George. And a lot of us don’t like what you are doing to her. Get used to it!”

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Thanks to Pame, a regular visitor to Undernet #political, for her contributions to this report.