Stoned in Montgomery

If I were in Montgomery right now, I'd head to a monument shop, load up on scrap granite, and head for downtown. Think of the fun you'd generate showing up with fistfulls of granite chunks. Might even be profitable.

As someone who grew up there, I'm struck by this paradox:
The organizers of the sideshow going on outside the judicial building, fighting for face time on the cable news channels, are NOT from Alabama! The accents are a dead givaway. During the civil rights battles in that state decades earlier, a popular cry was "Yankee agitators go home"

Funny, huh?

your mind works a lot like mine.

I'd say just load up a pickup bed with scrap granite and drive from around the the back of the courthouse to where the protestors are and see what they do. I guarantee they'd freak out if they thought the idol had been destroyed.

And the "Stoned Again" title was pretty clever too.

A guy from there wrote a report on Orcinus on who is actually involved with the thing and they know the different characters, being based there and being familiar with who's who.

Very interesting too, the cast of characters. You watch TV and you think all the locals are so behind the judge, but this guy says he is not popular there, it's all about him wanting to run for governor, but he won't have a chance. They say there are a lot of the out-of-state abortion protesters, racists, Christian reconstructionists and all kinds of other extremist nuts involved.

Read it here, under "Behind the Tablets" about a third of the way down the page.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

crashed mine twice. Can you post more details CJ?

My favorite quotes to come out of this circus-


"But then we realized, the problem isn't the monument, it's the wackos around the monument," said Republican Justice Patrick O'Hurlihy.



"If only the the separation of church and state meant that we could separate these people from the entire State . . .," said an Alabama judge, Anthony Torantelli, who wished to remain nameless.

i have no problem with those people protesting. i could really care less about either side. if they want to leave the monument there, then okay, whatever. the main thing is those peoples right to protest.

But this yahoo stinks like Wallace, Barnett, Maddox. His crowd seems to crawl from under the same rocks.

Free speech and protest can be used to win the power to stifle speech and protest.