It has come to our attention that the merchants of Old Town Manassas are being asked by the anti-KK zealots to close up shop for 1 hour during the middle of Fall Festival, between 12:00 and 1:00 pm. Are they nuts?
Fall Festival and the other events held in the City are to promote fun, highlight the city, and bring in folks to spend money in the City of Manassas. Localities all over America do this and each place tries to add its own unique touch to an event; something that makes the festival special.
What kind of a self-serving, narcissistic, selfish person would ask merchants in this economic crunch to turn away potential business for an hour? Why? Are they going to pay each merchant their lost revenue? Are they going to replace the BPOL tax loss for the City? Are they going to replace the sales tax to the state? Are they going to pay the salaries of the worker bees who might get put on unpaid ‘break’ for an hour?
Do these people think that the average shopper coming from outside Old Town Manassas gives a fig about KK Temptations, which by the way, isn’t even open for business yet? The Moonhowlings roving reporters will be taking note of which businesses were bullied into closing. We will publish those names. Our readers and contributors may handle the situation as they feel best.
[Clarification: People may chose to spend their money in establishments opposing KK Temptations or instead they may choose to withhold their money from said establishments.]
One has to ask what on earth these people are trying to do to the City. This proposed behavior is illogical. What people boycott themselves? The object of the boycott won’t even be open for business.
Knowledge is power. This boycott is all about bullying and power. Some of us will not allow ourselves to be bullied.
Elena
Moon-howler
I agree that the businesses in Old Town are in a bind – damned and boycotted if they’re seen either with or without a sign. That’s why the prudent response would be a simple “I don’t mix politics with business” and refuse to get involved. Someone from the OTBA should have worked to nip this sign crapola in the bud. I know that I’ll have a chat with any merchant whose shop I regularly visit if I see a sign.
Between the abortion clinic resolution and the panties brouhaha, I think I’d better take my money elsewhere. If I wanted to support All Saints, I’d join their church. It appears that by shopping in Old Town that I’m supporting them anyway. Enough already. I’ve got both money and time to travel and intend to do it outside the City. (I might make a couple exceptions for two immigrant businesses – unless I see signs in their windows.) I’ll discuss my boycot with the merchants whose shops I frequent so that they understand why they won’t see me in the future. Perhaps with a change in the make-up of City Council in the future, I’ll bring my bucks back. A few days ago, I thought that my family usually spent a few thousand dollars in the City – which is the nearest shopping area to us – but we sat down and did a quick calculation and determined it was much higher.
I’ll attend the festival and hope it’s just like any other – signless,fun, and appealing to a variety of people.
I think you were right on BVR, seems like someone over there wants to see Elena play “dress up” for him. Hmmm, maybe this explains the over the top reaction to KK’s….fighting those pesky inner demons!
[ed. note: @CatScratch- these kind of remarks being made are unacceptable and are examples are the very thing some folks are trying to fight. Allowing these comments to stay up is an example of bullying.]
Actually, this is not material to joke about. What is happening on BVBL demonstrates a clear contradiction of words vs deeds. On one hand Greg bemoans the objectification of women and how posters over on moonhowling must be pro porn. And yet, he allows comments, directed specifially at three women (me being one of them) that are just down right mean and vulgar, to go unremarked on his blog. Not a surprise, not a surprise at all. By allowing that kind of language to be directed towards women, IS what Greg supposedly finds so offensive along with the very posters that are writing the words. What they are doing proves our point more than what any thread we could write would achieve.
http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/09/29/is-this-what-they-call-truthiness/
There really is very little difference in the meanness directed at the Hispanic community and the meanness being directed at us. Different day, different victims. The politics of personal destruction are being played exactly as the Puppet Master has always played them.
I wonder if the ‘ Rich’ person who he was trying to reinvent history for has combed through the archives of the dark side to see what was encouraged and what was allowed to stand?
Elena is correct. Greg and the minions are making our case for us far better than we could make it for ourselves. Some of those comments show who the real experts in porno are.
The Manassas adult boutique is not the only store selling adult material in the City. MVC and The Fantasy Dress place have both been there for a long time. Yet no one has said a word about those places. Either something is morally suitable or it is not. Location should not have one damn thing to do with it.
City attempts to move their percieved smut to the outter edges of the City is just blind hypocrasy. The Religious folks need to reexamine their motives also and ask themselves why one shop with unknown contents is worse than 2 existing shops. They need to ask themselves if the Lord frown on ‘porn shops’ only in the City.
And Greg L. is just making a fool of himself attacking the moonhowlers. You all have done nada to him that I can tell. Maybe he thinks you set him up in that film that was shown Sunday. I hope he doesn’t think his blog is an example of Christian behavior.
Oh, I think all the religious folks, city merchants, and anyone else interested in hanging signs in their windows should definitely read Greg’s blog. In fact, maybe copies of the pertinent thread could be delivered to the participants – handed out like flyers in the street to all the green balloon heads. It’s a tribute to Greg’s Christianity in action.
I wonder what the priests and ministers would think?
That’s a good plan, Censored by Bvbl. Need some help? I can come from cross county. There is a magic shop over my way. It fits in fine with Old Town Occoquan. It has been there for years. I think there might even be a ghost walk business still there.
Apparently there was not enough interest in a shop owners protest–probably because of the economic folly of doing something like that. I believe just those who want to demonstrate at City Hall are involved now.
I am not sure what the object of the demonstration is. Who knows…who cares.
DV Ant- that shop in Occoquan is 13 Magick Moons, I think. It is a delightful shop and has essential oils, sages, art work etc. I don’t know if they have been hassled by the RR or not. Occoquan is a rather avante garde little business community. Perhaps there is more tolerance there than on this end of the county.
I believe Manassas is more of the Old Guard that the Occoquan area.