Will wonders never cease? The Bibleburg bureaucracy has granted the Occupy crowd encamped at Acacia Park a 30-day permit that will allow them to set up two more 10-by-10 pop-up tents and a portable toilet. The police department’s Homeless Outreach Team even walked the protesters through the permitting process — you may recall that Bibleburg has a no-camping ordinance after an eruption of creekside tent sites a couple of years back made the town look like a sound stage for a remake of “The Grapes of Wrath.”
Surprised? So am I. It wasn’t that long ago that Bibleburg had an American Opinion bookstore about a block from where the Occupy folks are parked plus a Ku Klux Klan chapter (the David Duke flavor). More recently the cops were tear-gassing local antiwar rallies and beating the snot out of old ladies during the annual St. Patrick’s Day march.
The professional cynic in me suspects that this has less to do with an official embrace of alternative viewpoints than with a burning desire to show potential employers and investment capitalists — the latter a group that is ostentatiously ignoring our fair city — that Bibleburg is more than a sinkhole for One World Gummint fantasists and bush-league Elmer Gantrys.
What do we want? Jobs! When do we want them? Now! Hmm … maybe there is some harmonic right-left convergence going on here. Whaddaya think?
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At least your lot are getting a permit! Over here in NC, they are being “disallowed” because the state can’t afford to pay for the “security” cost that would entail allowing protestors to camp on the state lawn.
Hows that for a kick in the ass?
Good news for the citizenry of Bibleburg – hope it goes well for everyone.
Coincidentally, I just learned that a Bibleburger took over as a museum director in Albany, NY. Today’s “Daily Gazette” (Schenectady, NY) contained a lengthy Q&A with the now ex-Director of the Western Museum of Mines & Industry. Under his tenure, membership and attendance increased and donor relations improved and educational programming increased.