Waffle House Executive Pushes Georgia Anti-Picketing Law That Would Put Founding Fathers In Jail

[unhappycamper]

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/waffle-house-executive-pushes-georgia-anti-picketing-law-that-would-put-founding-fathers-in-jail/




Waffle House Executive Pushes Georgia Anti-Picketing Law That Would Put Founding Fathers In Jail
Zaid Jilani 3.8.2012 at 9:51 AM

To many in the South, Waffle House is a family-friendly restaurant that serves up some of the best grits and hashbrowns around. But behind that iconic sunny yellow sign is a corporate agenda aimed at stripping Americans of their rights.

State Senator Don Balfour of Snellville, Georgia — a Waffle House vice president who serves on the board of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce — is pushing a bill in his state’s legislature that would effectively outlaw picketing outside of private homes. Although the bill is aimed at suppressing union protests at the “private residences” of business executives, its scope is actually much further reaching.

The bill is written to make it illegal for picketers to take part in actions that would be “interfering with the resident’s right to quiet enjoyment.” But historically, one group of activists took part in protests aimed at private residences intended exactly to disrupt the peace to make their point: the Founding Fathers.

Prior to the Revolutionary War, Sam Adams and other Founding Fathers formed a group called the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act and similar oppressive legislation. The Sons of Liberty regularly protested outside of the homes of British colonial officials, including the homes of tax collectors. If Balfour and Georgia’s Big Business titans have their way, these protests would be illegal, and Adams and many of the other Founding Fathers would’ve been arrested.

[bitchkitty]

1. Not to be picky or anything...

but Waffle House has never served grits, to my knowledge. If they do now, they started in the last 12 years...

[Aerows]

3. I looked for my Waffle House menu

because I order take out from there - their patty melt cannot be beaten - to see if they are serving grits. I'm almost CERTAIN they serve grits, and always have. They have a bunch of stuff on the menu that aren't included with meals and you can get them a la carte. I'm pretty sure grits are there.

I can't find my Waffle House menu, unfortunately, though I volunteer to check on that the next time I go there.

[bitchkitty]

7. You're right -

just downloaded their menu and they do have grits. I could have sworn...

But to be fair, the only time I went into a Waffle House was around 3:00 a.m., after the bars closed, so my faulty memory is understandable.

[Aerows]

11. Oh my

Drunk in Waffle House at 3am. That's a hoot. I ended up drunk in one after a bunch of people stopped by after a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show. They were all dressed. I thought I'd landed in the Twilight Zone.

[bitchkitty]

12. Laughing my ass OFF!

That is a scene that I would like to see!

[Aerows]

13. I'll never forget it

It was hilarious.

[aquart]

2. I'm convinced. CEOs do NOT belong in government.

[hughee99]

8. I think this guy is a VP, not CEO. n/t

[denverbill]

4. Maybe he should consider moving to Syria. They don't allow protests there. n/t

[asjr]

5. Waffle House serves the worst coffee

ever grown from beans.

[Loudmxr]

6. I have a parlor game I play with my friends "Royalist or Patriot"

Where would you be in 1776?

There is the third option of "fence sitter" because that is how it was back then.

Prager-Royalist

Hannity and Rush-fence sitters because they are only in it for the money

Ann Coulter ... now wait.. Patriot. She confirmed my guess when she refused to watch the Royal wedding because we fought two wars against the bloody British. She perhaps would have different opinions about why we now are a nation.. but I don't care.

So Patriot, Royalist or fence sitter??? Which are you?

With my two nationalities I know I am historically designed to kill Brits.

They do good music however.

[Lint Head]

9. Georgia is screwy.

[steve2470]

10. k&r nt