I'm guessing you're going to feel silly when you watch the video. http://washingtonexaminer.com/union-protesters-at-michigan-capitol-tear-down-slash-apart-conservative-groups-tent/article/2515641
. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > 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. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:359209 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
