“Shake Your Money Maker”

by T.L. James | 11:14 pm, August 25, 2008 | Comments Off

Another R68 signature event craps out.

Closed? Huh…I wonder why…

Lots of police at the ready. Outnumbering the protestors. Again. Looking bored. Again.

A few LEOs watched from the roof:

And what were they watching? Not a whole heck of a lot. Here’s about a quarter of the protest gathering, which R’68 pledged would surround the Mint but which barely managed to be longer than the queue for tours on an ordinary weekday:

Guy on Right: “Wait…what? Levitating? A building? With our minds?  Dammit, Kevin, you led us to the wrong f*ing protest again!”

One of the organizers attempts to generate some excitement by getting the crowd to chant (that would be the woman in the tutu…what is it with protestors and tutus?):

Meanwhile, another organizer (Mark Cohen, a co-founder of Recreate ’68) waved his magic wand to help the process, er, “get off the ground”:

The guard behind the gate may have been sweltering and miserable with all that gear on, but at least he didn’t have to listen to the godawful, interminable chanting of “Love! Peace! Justice!” like the rest of us:

Naturally, the Original Yippie was there, caped but sans spliffage:

…as was the other fixture of protests this week, the woman we call the Roller Derby Queen:

For some, it was a romantic occasion:

For others, it was a terrifying incident — specifically, Michelle Malkin, who got harangued by 9/11 Troofer Alex Jones and a mob of thugs chanting “Kill Michelle Malkin” while the omnipresent police ignored pleas for intervention:

I had no idea until later what the commotion was about. Bored with the goings on, I was easily distracted by an opportunity for a nice shot of the tower of the City-County Building…

…and evidently missed the Mint actually being lifted up and shaken empty by the psychic power of the Love! Peace! Justice! emanating from the groupmind of the assembled second-hand egalitarians. When I turned around, the crowd was already dispersing and the sidewalk was covered with…hey! MONEY!

Hmmmmmm…wait a second now…is that plastic?

Now there’s some Change You Can Recycle!

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