Infiltrating Moonbats in Madison, WI
The following is from a left-winger rally in Madison, Wisconsin, where President Bush, in effigy, got wet:
One of the joys of living in Madison, WI is the variety and vigor of our hippies. The Mad city is truly one of the most progressive cities in the world and I mean that as a compliment. Most live here by choice because of the quality of life.
That means we get excellent street theater from our thriving Bush haters and general moonbattery. Today we got a July 3rd Tea Party and reading of a revised Declaration of Independence for our entertainment. My son and I attended to ensure there was more than one viewpoint on display. I was resplendent in my Peace sign T-shirt and my SF hat with all my badges and tabs and crap on it.
The game was to march to the park while beating drums and chanting the usual boilerplate hey hey ho ho Bush and Cheney got to go and I was afraid the whole thing might just suck. But once they got to the park things livened up. First lets get a look at the usual suspects.
There were the obligatory apocalyptic puppetry; The UN, Skeleton Sam, and Justice-Lady Liberty.
The next event was a reading of the Declaration of Independence 2004 which could have been lifted from the web site of MoveOn.org or the Democratic Underground.
?Please set us free from the tyrannical reign of King George and his hordes of rapacious contractors. Please return control of the US to we liberal smarty pants who are so morally superior to BusHitler and his jack-booted thugs. (ETC ad nauseum)"
Now honestly Madison?s hippies are not nearly as rabid as San Fran?s or DC?s so it really was pretty muted in comparison to the worst but they took plenty of shots. And just to stay true to form they did most of it in sing song ?I say you repeat? so it took way to long and I felt obligated to heckle, which they took fairly well.
Next came the fun part, the Madison Tea Party was to include an actual tossing of the axis of evil, W, Cheney and Rummy into Madison Harbor to protest ?Globalization Without Representation?, although none of them had a slogan that catchy. First they charged them with ?Blood for Oil? and ?Bombing of Children? and ?Failure to Adhere to a French World View? and the they Frog-Marched them in chains (No Joe Wilson or Rove in sight though) down to the waters edge.
They wore Revolutionary garb. The theme ran toward a Let?s have a Revolution to Take Back Our Country. The hippies have had enough and they?re not gonna? take it. They didn?t have much of an answer when I asked how that Revolution was going to happen with no guns. Especially since the other side, Us, has plenty.
Next came the criminal tossings and a request for beefy hippy volunteers to conduct them. Unfortunately beefy and hippy form an oxymoron and they were very underpowered and quite nearly bounced each villain off the concrete wall.
W barely makes the Harbor under Granola Power.
The Villains met Their Watery Fate Looking Very Chipper.
I have to say it was all quite enjoyable and entertaining and I left with a smile on my face and joy in my heart. This is going to be a wicked fun election season.
The following is from a left-winger rally in Madison, Wisconsin, where President Bush, in effigy, got wet:
One of the joys of living in Madison, WI is the variety and vigor of our hippies. The Mad city is truly one of the most progressive cities in the world and I mean that as a compliment. Most live here by choice because of the quality of life.
That means we get excellent street theater from our thriving Bush haters and general moonbattery. Today we got a July 3rd Tea Party and reading of a revised Declaration of Independence for our entertainment. My son and I attended to ensure there was more than one viewpoint on display. I was resplendent in my Peace sign T-shirt and my SF hat with all my badges and tabs and crap on it.
The game was to march to the park while beating drums and chanting the usual boilerplate hey hey ho ho Bush and Cheney got to go and I was afraid the whole thing might just suck. But once they got to the park things livened up. First lets get a look at the usual suspects.
There were the obligatory apocalyptic puppetry; The UN, Skeleton Sam, and Justice-Lady Liberty.
The next event was a reading of the Declaration of Independence 2004 which could have been lifted from the web site of MoveOn.org or the Democratic Underground.
?Please set us free from the tyrannical reign of King George and his hordes of rapacious contractors. Please return control of the US to we liberal smarty pants who are so morally superior to BusHitler and his jack-booted thugs. (ETC ad nauseum)"
Now honestly Madison?s hippies are not nearly as rabid as San Fran?s or DC?s so it really was pretty muted in comparison to the worst but they took plenty of shots. And just to stay true to form they did most of it in sing song ?I say you repeat? so it took way to long and I felt obligated to heckle, which they took fairly well.
Next came the fun part, the Madison Tea Party was to include an actual tossing of the axis of evil, W, Cheney and Rummy into Madison Harbor to protest ?Globalization Without Representation?, although none of them had a slogan that catchy. First they charged them with ?Blood for Oil? and ?Bombing of Children? and ?Failure to Adhere to a French World View? and the they Frog-Marched them in chains (No Joe Wilson or Rove in sight though) down to the waters edge.
They wore Revolutionary garb. The theme ran toward a Let?s have a Revolution to Take Back Our Country. The hippies have had enough and they?re not gonna? take it. They didn?t have much of an answer when I asked how that Revolution was going to happen with no guns. Especially since the other side, Us, has plenty.
Next came the criminal tossings and a request for beefy hippy volunteers to conduct them. Unfortunately beefy and hippy form an oxymoron and they were very underpowered and quite nearly bounced each villain off the concrete wall.
W barely makes the Harbor under Granola Power.
The Villains met Their Watery Fate Looking Very Chipper.
I have to say it was all quite enjoyable and entertaining and I left with a smile on my face and joy in my heart. This is going to be a wicked fun election season.
