As usual, Jerry picks up whatever sounds most hateful from the right wing blogs and posts it without question. Brilliant stuff, Jerry.
So, according to actual news reports and interviews with the guy, here's what seems to have happened. The food vendor in question, Mr. Tarver, was not attacked, nor was his food cart attacked. Rather, his catering set up was in the tent that collapsed. Obviously, when a tent collapses, the stuff underneath it get's squashed. That is what happened in this case. The cause of the collapse is disputed with AFP claiming it was either union protestors or occupy/anarchist folks. People on the outside claim that the tent came down from inside. No complaint has been filed with the police yet, so no investigation has been done. AFP acknowledged that some of people that helped them out when the tent collapsed were union members. There is also a complaint from Mr. Tarver's wife (who is an AFP supporter) that some people in the crowd said racially abusive things to Mr. Tarver. This seems to have been backed up by witnesses. So there is a dispute about why the tent collapsed. When it did collapse, some members in the crowd jumped in to help out. Others, it seems, were really jerks about the whole thing and were horrible to Mr. Tarver, calling him an Uncle Tom for having the temerity to be black and do catering work for AFP. So no one was attacked, it isn't clear who (if anyone) is responsible for the tent coming down and there was some horrible people who verbally abused Mr. Tarver. That's obviously unacceptable and needs to be condemned. As far as I know, all the organizers have condemned it. Now I'd love to see the crap about "union thuggery" stop and instead focus on what did happen and how to make sure that future group gatherings can prevent such incidents but of course that would be entirely too optimistic to be real. Ah well. Judah On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It gets better. After tearing the tent down, the peaceful and tolerant > union members destroyed the hot dog cart of Clint Tarver while dropping > "Uncle Tom" and the N-Bomb on him. Poor guy. He should have known better > than to accept a catering job from Americans for Prosperity. > > J > > - > > The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot > be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide > who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not > originate them.. - Mark Twain > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359195 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
