Carrboro alderman: You gotta love those ‘congenial’ anarchists …

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Until a few days ago, I thought the only good thing about Chapel Hill was the basketball team.  Now, after that beatdown the other day of those flea-infested hippies (and the N&O chick), I HAVE to expand my list to include The Chapel Hill Police Department. (Well done, gentlemen!)  

The idea proposed by the late Senator Jesse Helms — to build a fence around the whole town — is sounding better every day. 

Now, the hippies are demanding an apology from the Town of Chapel Hill for that police raid.  That police action the other day was more than I EVER thought to expect from Chapel Hill leaders.  I hope the government of our state’s Hippie Heaven maintains a stiff spine and keeps standing up for law & order.

Now, in the midst of this drama, an alderman from neighboring Carrboro — aka The Kingdom of Kookville — is trying to mediate the rift between the Occupiers and Chapel Hill. The N&O has the details:

Carrboro Alderman Dan Coleman has sent a letter to Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt offering his insight into the Chapel Hill-Carrboro anarchist community, and his willingness to  be a liason between the group and local officials.

In an e-mail Thursday, Coleman says he has worked with the anarchist group who sponsors the Really Really Free Market in Carrboro and provide weekly coffee for day laborers, in the past and has found them, “congenial and idealistic, giving considerable thought to how social structures might allow for a more just and democratic society.”

“Nonetheless, nothing that I know of in their history or demeanor suggests that they would initiate any violence against any person and I want to stress that I have found these individuals to be quite approachable,” Coleman writes.

Read the full e-mail below.

Dear Mark,
I write, in the spirit of cooperation between our towns, to offer my assistance should the Chapel Hill police again find themselves in a situation where they feel unable to communicate with our local anarchist community. I make this offer sincerely with the assumption that these are among the same people who have peacefully “occupied” the Carrboro Town Commons one Saturday afternoon a month in recent years for the Really Really Free Market, an event for the free sharing of goods and food. I worked as interface between the town and RRFM at one time and had no problem working with the group and coming to a mutually respectful solution.

In that context I have met some of the individuals in question and have found them to be congenial and idealistic, giving considerable thought to how social structures might allow for a more just and democratic society, a critically important topic too often neglected by the rest of us. As well as the RRFM, their work in the community has included a weekly coffee service at the Carrboro day labor corner and a project to provide books to prison inmates around the southeast.

Of course, CHPD has seen a different, more confrontational, and less law-abiding face of this group particularly in their recent actions at Greenbridge. Unquestionably, some of their actions bring to bear the legal necessity for local government to protect private property. Nonetheless, nothing that I know of in their history or demeanor suggests that they would initiate any violence against any person and I want to stress that I have found these individuals to be quite approachable. Like most of us interested in politics, they do spend much of their time talking about it.

Obviously, I have no official standing to make this offer but sometimes one is just in a position to help out. Nor am I suggesting that you could not open lines of communication to Chapel Hill’s anarchist community yourself. They are, after all, your constituents. Please let me know if I can ever be of assistance in this regard.

Best,
Dan

 Let’s see: Why would the police be worried about the anarchists in the Occupy movement?
1)  President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.
2) An anarchist shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, providing the spark for World War I.
3) Anarchists favor anarchy. According to Wikipedia, the definition of anarchy is:
a society which lacks publicly recognized government or violently enforced political authority.[1][2] When used in this sense, anarchy may[3] or may not[4] be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society.

Hmmm.  Lawlessness.  That’s NOT good, is it?

4)  The OWS monkeys in Chapel Hill broke into and “occupied” private property that did not belong to them.  A perfect example of “lawlessness.”

5) The Occupy folks hung a sign in the window of the crime scene (visible in the photo accompanying this post) which read: “Stop Taking Orders. Start Taking Over.”

6)  For hours prior to the Chapel Hill raid, a rowdy mob gathered around the crime scene, obstructing traffic and throwing things.

7) Prior to the raid, police had intelligence that the crime scene property was being booby-trapped, and that the occupiers were stockpiling weapons and explosives.

To the few remaining SANE residents of Carrboro:  It has GOT to make you all warm inside to know you have an alderman who passionately advocates for the “anarchist community.”