Posted on 01/21/2009 1:29:53 PM PST by JRochelle
WASHINGTON D.C. - After waiting for up to eight hours packed together outside in below freezing temperatures, thousands of ticketholders were turned away from the inauguration Tuesday.
People began waiting hours before sunrise, their bodies squished against strangers in a massive mob.
Its unclear why so many ticketholders were denied access to the inauguration. Tickets were color-coded and thousands of people with purple tickets gathered at their appointed gate early Tuesday morning. By 6 a.m., mobs of people had taken over several blocks around the gate. There was no line and no one directing traffic or keeping order.
Ticket-holders, including several Cascade High School students, stood in the same spot for hours without moving a foot. People were packed in so tightly they couldnt move their arms. Several children and elderly people were caught in the middle of the crowd. Some people called 911, but were apparently told nothing could be done.
Overwhelmed, many tried to leave, but couldnt get free of the throng. While thousands of port-a-potties lined the National Mall, there were no toilets in the mob zone. Some people urinated anyway.
Bettye Boone waited near the designated entrance gate from 5:30 a.m. until noon, when Obama was sworn in and she finally gave up hope of seeing him.
She flew from Memphis for the inauguration, spending considerable money to watch the nations first African American president be inaugurated. I missed my moment in history and that really bothers me, she said, crying by the fence shed spent hours waiting beside. When youre almost 60 years old and youve been through some things with segregation, this is important.
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Good observation. Like crabs in a basket, they don’t let any others escape.
And when you're in your mid 40's, and have been the victim of some "reverse discrimination" things because you're a white male, it is friggin' hilarious!
“A purple helmet, on the other hand....”
When I saw the picture of the Mall yesterday, I was reminded of Mecca. Replace the Reflecting Pool with the Kaaba, and the sea of red with a sea of white, and you’ve got the Hajj. Lots of similarities between the two groups of people.
A call for reparations already?
A friend of mine, who happens to be a liberal in college, was down for the inauguration. He said that the people there were very obnoxious and there was line-cutting all over the place.
He just got a lesson in what liberalism is all about.
This is something everyone must recognize about the left.
While we would gladly let them extricate themselves and attempt to live their liberal socialist utopia away from us and outside of our influence,
it would be antithetical to their ideology to allow us to go and live unmolested.
Although I see this as about the only option to save human freedom at this point in history, we must recognize that the left will use all means necessary to keep us under their control.
At 5:30, I stood in line doing the right thing with tickets, she said. This has been ridiculous.
Welcome to the liberal world my friend.
Might we assume you were ‘on duty’ ????
I don’t FOX NEWS any more and I’ve been wondering if Shep and Whorealdo have been on air crying and demanding to know why the government left these folks in such a state.
The president should do something to compensate all the purple ticket holders, she said. Its historic, but this put a real damper on it for all of us who came here and failed to get in.”
Honey, hurry up and get in the Obama mooching line. Maybe they will give you another hunk of gubmint cheese for your purple ticket.
They are fortunate no one was trampled to death.
You can not make this up, this is funny LOL.
Gov. health care? what line do I get in. Some people urinated anyway in the mob zone.
Hey, world . . . get a clue:
in the OThuga dictionary
“little people” = “useless eaters” to be exterminated.
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