Which Are The Moonbats?

[Annie]

Hard to tell in NYC right now. Now of course, perhaps it's just a way for all of us watching to know that the City tried to offer incentives for the protestors to be civil, when they clash with the police? (rope a dope?)

NYTimes

EXCERPT:

Just Keep It Peaceful, Protesters; New York Is Offering Discounts
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Published: August 18, 2004

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
With these buttons, visitors will be able to enjoy savings at participating NYC & Co. member hotels, restaurants, retailers, cultural offerings and other attractions.

Thinking about smashing windows or overturning cars during the Republican National Convention? Think again: that will cost you a discounted buffalo chicken salad from Applebee's or a cheaper ticket to see "Tony n' Tina's Wedding."

In a transparently mercantile bid to keep protesters from disrupting the Republican National Convention later this month, the Bloomberg administration will offer "peaceful political activists" discounts at select hotels, museums, stores and restaurants around town during convention week, which begins Aug. 29.

Law-abiding protesters will be given buttons that bear a fetching rendition of the Statue of Liberty holding a sign that reads, "peaceful political activists." Protesters can present the buttons at places like the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Sex, the Pokémon Center store and such restaurants as Miss Mamie's Spoonbread Too and Applebee's to save some cash during their stay.

 

[popefumanchu]

I think this is absolutely brilliant! It encourages these freaks to spend money in NYC and totally mocks them at the same time.