Pro-Casino People Join Heckling Fun

It was way back in Sept. 2006 when Foxwoods protesters attempted to overturn a car that was labeled “abandoned” even though it had an anti-casino sign inside of it (at right). Since then, the anti-casino people have been telling us how the casinos will enter our city and deflower our children. Conversely, there have been a few pro-casino rallies, but where is the yelling when somebody you don’t agree with is talking? Where are the people paying with pennies? Where is the annoying?

Oh, here we go: A Nutter aid was heckled by pro-casino people in Fishtown! A man named “Moon” Mullen attempted to calm the crowd down, but the heckling continued. If Moon Mullen can’t get people to pay attention, who can?

But while fans of a certain presidential candidate (it rhymes with “Pron Haul”) have a near-monopoly on angry comments on the Internet, it appears the casino foes are content to fight in real life. For example, the best this post calling casino opponents racist can do is four comments, one a joke from me, one from the writer himself. Come on, people! If I can’t get to throw away my money yet, I at least want to get to see hilarious arguments on the Internet. (Update: God, it took so long to get this to update with the correct version — see comments — and that’s all I had written? And I missed the double the. Yeesh.)

Oh, and if you’re wondering, National Review (founded by William F. Buckley), has come out against the casinos.