First it was the liberals and the talk show hosts, with their "yallqueda" jokes and USPS packages stuffed with dildos. Then the birders made their threats. Now, the grannies are here to tell the Bundys and their brethren to get out.
By: Tim Neville
Armed with assault hand mixers, tactical rolling pins, and signs with all the words spelled correctly, the old broads gathered outside the bike shop with a message that could tuck the tail of even the most camo’d up militiaman.
“Mama is angry!” boomed a so-called
“training broad” named Gena, who read a letter on behalf of her
91-year-old grandmother, Sue, before a bank of cameras. “Any smart man
knows that an angry mother is the most dangerous creature alive!”
The crowd hooted in support.
“Enough is enough!” a woman in a brown jacket shouted, strands of white hair spilling from under a knitted beanie.
“It’s time for the bullies to go home!” shouted another, holding a wooden spoon.
“Don’t go home,” a third corrected. “Go to jail!”
It was Friday afternoon in the heart of downtown Bend, Oregon, the sky an ultimate blue, and the local chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness were holding a rally to protest the militant January 2 takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, 150 miles southeast of town. Founded in 1989, the group’s “wrinkled ranks” fight to protect the country’s public lands on behalf of the elderly and not-so-able.
The crowd hooted in support.
“Enough is enough!” a woman in a brown jacket shouted, strands of white hair spilling from under a knitted beanie.
“It’s time for the bullies to go home!” shouted another, holding a wooden spoon.
“Don’t go home,” a third corrected. “Go to jail!”
It was Friday afternoon in the heart of downtown Bend, Oregon, the sky an ultimate blue, and the local chapter of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness were holding a rally to protest the militant January 2 takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, 150 miles southeast of town. Founded in 1989, the group’s “wrinkled ranks” fight to protect the country’s public lands on behalf of the elderly and not-so-able.
On
Monday, Martin Luther King Day, wildlife refuges around the country will
waive their fees to allow the public in for free. But not Malheur,
which remains closed. On Tuesday pro-public lands rallies organized by
the Great Old Broads, the Audubon Society, and other advocacy groups are
slated to unfold across the Pacific Northwest, from Eugene to Seattle
and beyond, in protest of the occupation. But the Bend chapter of the
broads, called the Bitterbrush Broadband, held their own rally earlier in the day to get ahead of a town hall meeting that Ammon Bundy and his hate-mail wary
band of bandits planned to hold that evening in Burns, the ranching
community 30 miles north of the refuge. Too much attention has been paid
to those hooligans, the broads said. Time for the people to push back.
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