Posted on 08/02/2012 5:37:12 AM PDT by radioone
“It’s been like this since 6:00 AM.”
It was 8:15 PM. The employee had a tired but sincere smile on his face as he went from car to car, already a block from his restaurant, thanking customers for both their patience and their support.
Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day has apparently taken on a life far greater than anyone could have envisioned, and according to reports pouring in from around the country, the Bible-respecting chicken franchise has had to call in off-duty staff in an attempt to keep up with the hordes of people flocking to the store.
Out of curiosity I swung by the closest franchise just after 6:00 PM, and was floored by what I witnessed.
Cars lined up for the drive-thru stretched out of the parking lot, down the access road, and up the street to the main highway. I tried to get a quick count of the cars, but had to be content with an estimate of 40-60 as they stretched out of sight behind Applebee’s. A solitary driver laid on his horn as he went by the traffic jam, middle finger extended defiantly from the window of his CR-V, his “coexist” bumper sticker mocking those he left in presumably smug satisfaction.
There were at least 100 people standing outside to get into the building to order from the counter, and no telling how many more were queued up inside. People were parking a block away in the Kohl’s parking lot and walking to the Chick fil-A, the parking lots of the stores directly surrounding the chicken joint being completely packed.
As the sun fell, the line to go inside had shortened to the point employees could start to think about letting the doors close and having the air conditioning take effect. As for the line of cars…
… it showed no signs of letting up.
Clearly, this is more than a “buycott” over gay marriage. If the smattered of people I’ve talked to are representative, homosexuality is a side issue.
This strikes a much deeper, more foundational chord.
The massive crowd reaction locally and nationwide are driven by a loathing of arrogant politicians like those in Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco who feel they have the power and the authority to tell a businessman like Dan Cathy what personal opinions he can and cannot hold if he wants to do business in “their” towns.
They trampled on his religious beliefs. They trampled on his freedom of speech. They attempted to deny him and his franchisees the rights to start small businesses, merely because a free American dared to share what he believed.
When Gage’s columns of Regulars marched out of Boston after midnight on April 19, 1775, neither they nor the tens of thousands of colonists in the surrounding community thought of themselves as anything other than Englishmen. After shots rang out at Lexington Green, then the North Bridge, and Meriam’s Corner, and skirmishes turned into a rolling gunbattle, there was a tectonic shift. They were no longer Englishmen, but Patriots and Regulars. History records the rest.
Presumably not a man that mustered that morning on either side that April morning wanted war, but a series of events unfolded in such a way as to trigger a war out of a series of powder alarms (British attempts at gun control) that had been bloodless to that point.
Students of history know that there are rarely singular triggers to world-changing events.
We have over the past decades been slouching towards a crisis point in this nation. I’ll leave it for future historians to find fault and place the blame, but the momentum towards disintegration has been apparent and accelerating for some time.
I smirk, thinking about those that are reading this incredulously, thinking, “is this rube trying to tell us that we’re going to launch a civil war over chicken?!?! What a dunce!”
They are capable of only seeing isolated events and individual threads, not the tapestry of tyranny that has turned a simple protest buying of chicken sandwiches and waffle fries into a fed-up Republic’s sudden self-awareness.
The greatest trick that Hollywood, the lying liberal media and the Democrat Party was able to conjure was the illusion of their power and our isolation. As tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans are realizing in a simple act of conscious commerce today and this evening, we are legion. There are far more of us than there are of them, and in that realization, our power grows, and our desire to give up even a fraction more of our rights, shrinks.
Those who would be tyrants have failed to heed Yamato Yamamoto’s warning, and have woken a sleeping giant with an appetite for liberty not easily sated.
Evil has no reflection.
(Which is why vampires are always get backed over in parking lots)
Starting today I will start using two lines to the people on the left.
STICKS AND STONES &
GEORGE BUSH ISN’T PRESIDENT
Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard Clinton isn’t President when GW became POTUS. Let’s give it back to them.
“his is NOT about gay marriage!”
Absolutely true. This is about telling the Jack Booted Thugs (in this case the respective Mayors of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, etc) that we will no longer tolerate their evil, their attempts to rule by fear, their attempts to stomp anything and anyone they do not agree with, or who do not agree with them, into the ground.
Let this continue! Not just in this instance, but in all their other attempts to subdue the masses. It is time to take our STAND!
It is time to let this ‘cluck’ be heard loud and clear in November. And it is time to make the ‘moderates’ (spell that RHINO’s) in politics to fear us even as we stomp the evil left.
Wow. It must have turned out so well, they don't want to poke the bear. (Liberals will be trying to demand their "fair share" of it.)
Smart business move. God PR as well. Humbleness is a virtue.
Don’t waste your breath. These people have been willingly duped. It takes years to get them out of their own stupor. They cannot and will not understand anything from any other perspective until they, personally, have suffered enough from the government’s rough-riding over them that they finally come to their senses.
“These so-called “liberals” want everyone to see their viewpoints, accept them, even promote them. But the moment you confront your average “liberal” with an opinion/belief that runs counter to theirs... You often see/hear some of the most intolerant, unaccepting, ugly, vilest attacks you’ve ever seen.”
In other words: Liberals Yell and Scream, Sneer and Demean.
They trampled on his freedom of speech.
This is 100 percent what this is all about!!!! I still can’t believe it has gotten this far. Seriously the guy was asked a question. That is it!!! I am glad though because it is a pleasure to eat at Chick-Fil-A....I absolutely LOVE IT!!!!
(Which is why vampires are always get backed over in parking lots)
Too funny. It would make a good tagline.
But in this politically correct world of ours, you can’t just answer a question. You are expected to give the politically correct answer. In this case, he was expected to betray his values and beliefs, and say that he favors homosexual marriage.
Since he didn’t kowtow to political correctness, he was picked as a target, to be made an example of.
Not unlike what happened with the girl in the Miss USA pageant a few years ago, who said she believes marriage is a man and a woman. Liberal activist pageant judge Perez Hilton was so pissed off that he lauched a media blitz to try to destroy her.
Perhaps the liberals, and gay liberal activists in particular, will find that people are not responding to their hissy fits in the manner they expect.
I hope this marks the rise of the normal majority and the end of rule for the dysfunctional minority.
That's a great tagline if ever I saw one.
That's a great tagline if ever I saw one.
Now it is, thanks for the suggestion, feel free to use it too.
I am so stealing that pic...excellent work!
A solitary driver laid on his horn as he went by the traffic jam, middle finger extended defiantly from the window of his CR-V, his “coexist” bumper sticker mocking those he left in presumably smug satisfaction.
The tolerance demonstrated by the liberals should be a shining example to us all.
I’m waiting for someone to see the Virgin Mary in a chicken sandwich...
How about Mohamad on a pork chop?
“Chick-Fil-A has released a statement that as a privately held company their sales figures are proprietary and will not be released.”
I certainly respect their privacy, as a private company, to keep their sales numbers to themselves. I would, however, be interested in knowing the total number of customers that they sold to yesterday and how much that number differs from their normal totals. It would be nice of them to at least let all of us know the impact we had nationwide. It has to be a staggering number!
I don’t think they serve those, but that would certainly be a first.
I can see it too!
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