Bush at Monticello: Tickets and Protests
To get in you must pick up free tickets at 7 a.m. on Wednesday at the Monticello Visitors Center. Bring as many people as you can, and each request the maximum of four tickets. Go early!
To protest outside meet at 8 a.m. on Friday at Quarry Park. Please bring posters, signs, costumes, banners, props.
Here's a map that includes Monticello, the visitors center, and Quarry Park: Map.
Here's a new flyer: PDF Flyer.
Keep phoning Monticello! The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, a private nonprofit, owns and operates Monticello with a professed mission of preservation and education. Call Monticello right now and ask them to uninvite Bush: (434) 984-9822. Then let the Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville know that you've done that: enewstips@dailyprogress.com
The Unitary Executive is scheduled to disgrace the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va. During a July 4 naturalization ceremony, immigrants will swear to "support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic" at an event besmirched by the presence of the Constitution's leading domestic enemy. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence from King George faulted him for harassment by his troops, elevating the military above civilian power, denying people a fair trial by jury by transporting them overseas to be tried on false accusations, and other abuses that have been matched by our current King George. He has claimed the power to ignore laws, to rewrite laws, to adhere to secret laws, to discard habeas corpus, to spy without warrant, to detain without charge, to torture, to murder, and to lie the nation into wars of conquest. All citizens, old and new, have a duty to support and defend the Constitution, a document that requires the impeachment of a president as criminal and abusive as the current one.
Learn more about impeaching Bush: http://afterdowningstreet.org/bush
For information on the protest, including housing if coming from out of town, call 434-961-6278.
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Prohibited items: t-shirts with text?
"The following items will be prohibited at the July 4 event at Monticello: duffel bags, suitcases, and backpacks; umbrellas; lawn furniture; coolers; bottled and canned beverages; animals (except service animals); aerosols of any kind; fireworks and firecrackers; real or simulated weapons and ammunition; knives of any size; tobacco products; mace; radio or other noisemakers; flags, banners, and signs of any type."
Will t-shirts be prohibited as "signs"?
http://www.thomasjeffersonfoundation.org/pressroom/showArticle.php?id=22...
Shirts said to be allowed.
Political ones, that is. Having trouble pasting the url. but you can go to www.dailyprogress.com and read article on first page. More troublesome is unknown status of road closures.
Sounds encouraging except for the parking lot
Thanks for the link.
It sounds encouraging except for the parking lot.
Daniel P. Jordan it says is president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
""Jordan shrugged when asked about the planned protests.
“It’s a free country,” he said.
Past visits to Monticello by Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher all drew vitriolic protests, Jordan said.
“Every major head of state has brought a lot of resistance,” he said. “It always happens. But Monticello is above politics.” "
"Signs will also be banned, though visitors can wear political T-shirts or buttons, Monticello officials said."
"Swanson was organizing a protest for 8:30 a.m. Friday at the first parking lot on the right side of Route 53 off Route 20. However, Monti-cello officials said Monday that the parking lot would be closed. ""
That was plan A
Above is plan B - different parking lot. Hence the new post.