screwballs on parade - downtown Atlanta

[ulysses]

Leaving class today, I thought I heard bagpipes - sure enough, there was a gaggle of people in white shirts and ties, carrying huge flags, lead by a piper. On closer inspection, they turned out to be anti-choice nutbags, one kid (17? 18?) carrying a small white coffin behind the pipes. The flags, of course, all bore pictures of a fetus and the legend, "Justice for the Unborn!"

I decided to leave them alone, lest I reinforce the behavior by giving them attention, but the old fart in the "Homosexuality is sin! Muslim (sic) is a lie! Abortion is murder!" tshirt indeed tested that resolve.

GSU send out an email last weekend to the effect that Operation Save America would be in the vicinity this week, so that was probably them. Only time I've wished I had a camera phone.

[patrice]

1. Some Wrong-to-Life - ers are Racist sock-puppets. You're right to leave them alone. nt

[NC_Nurse]

2. Gee, I can't wait to get there.

We are moving to Atlanta in 2 weeks.

Chapel Hill is so progressive. Atlanta seems to have a LOT of wingnuts...including my dad. :(

I'm starting to get really apprehensive about it. If my mom didn't need me, I think I'd be backing out about now...

[conscious evolution]

3. The wingnuts are mostly OTP.

[Greyhound]

6. Stay inside the perimeter, the sanity quotient is higher, though you will

still have to deal the damn Yankees. :hi:

[NC_Nurse]

8. Oh, we'll be inside it, barely. My folks near the intersection of Johnson Ferry

Ashford Dunwoody...not far from Perimeter Mall, actually. Too bad their neighborhood seems decidedly Repub.

I'm hoping not to get into too many arguments with my dad over Fox News and such. :eyes:

[KamaAina]

4. Were there any counterdemonstrators?

It is just possible that I might know a couple of them from back in the day.

[ulysses]

5. not that I saw.

They looked like they were wrapping up, though. I was behind them going to the parking lot.

[ulysses]

7. hell, they're here into the weekend

if anyone wants to go down and say hi. :evilgrin:

http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/

[Rambis]

9. Bastards!

using the pipes in a protest like that- they should be beaten!