There's another big Glenn Beck-tea party rally in Washington this weekend. On the same date as the great 1963 civil rights march. These people are incomprehensibly self-regarding and delusional.
Anyway. Via TPM, we read of a Maine tea party activist who offers a few kindly tips for people who may be visiting Washington for the first time:
But D.C. is a scary place, Maine tea partier Bruce Majors writes, full of "immigrants, frequently from east Africa or Arab countries." (They are most often found driving cabs and working in restaurants, Majors says, and "do not like for you to assume they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions."...
...Many parts of DC are safe beyond the areas I will list here, but why chance it if you don't know where you are?
If you are on the subway stay on the Red line between Union Station and Shady Grove, Maryland. If you are on the Blue or Orange line do not go past Eastern Market (Capitol Hill) toward the Potomac Avenue stop and beyond; stay in NW DC and points in Virginia. Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line. These rules are even more important at night. There is of course nothing wrong with many other areas; but you don't know where you are, so you should not explore them.
Then, there's this piece of advice from one DC blogger about an area that runs roughly from the heart of Georgetown to Capitol Hill, inclusive of downtown and the national mall:
You can travel safely in this area without encountering immigrants, Africans, homosexuals, automatic weapons, or homosexuals with automatic weapons. If you avoid the Green and Yellow Metro lines. And buses. And coffee shops. And restaurants. And taxis.
Why just last week, when I was on the Green Line, I was shocked by the number of Uzi-toting homosexuals on board.
These are the people who actually think they are behaving in the civil-rights tradition.
