Fearful of Election Day aftermath, a Woodstock community will lock its gates
Updated at 5:15 p.m. to included comments from Calvin Moss, the Woodstock police chief.
Original: This embarrassing item just appeared on The Caucus, a New York Times blog:
In Woodstock, Ga., about 30 miles north of Atlanta, the president of a homeowners’ association sent an e-mail on Sunday informing residents that the entrance gates would be closed 24 hours a day beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, out of concern over possible civil unrest after the election.
“I feel it is better to take a position of caution to enhance controlled access to the community until we see what (if any) negative repercussions may occur because of the results of the election,” wrote Bill Stanley, the president of the homeowners’ association at the Cottages of Woodstock, a residential community for people 55 and over.
Here you thought zombies weren’t real. On the other hand, it does send an interesting message to the grandkids: “You’re on your own.”
The NYT quotes Stanley as saying that he was ordering enhanced controlled access to the community on the recommendation of the Woodstock police department.
Added: But we just fielded a call from Calvin Moss, the Woodstock police chief, who said that he has had a conversation with Stanley this afternoon — and Stanley denied getting any such information from the Woodstock police force.
“We have no reason to believe that the election and its aftermath will be anything but peaceful,” Moss said. “Certainly we would give no one that kind of information.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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chris
November 5th, 2012
4:06 pm
And if Romney loses, all the NRA nuts, Klan members, Neo-Nazis, and militia men will declare open season on all minorities. Lock down all the trailer parks, while you’re at it.
muddy waters
November 5th, 2012
4:09 pm
Hope the HOA President made sure they laid in a big enough supply of Depends to last for the duration of the riots.
LookingforaridetoWoodstock
November 5th, 2012
4:09 pm
Aquagirl – you finish your MRE and you’ll have a lot of time to get that RPG loaded…because you won’t be going to the bathroom for 3-4 days…..
Carz
November 5th, 2012
4:09 pm
Sounds smart to me. i was considering keeping my middle schooler home on wednesday if Romney wins.
rock in my shoe
November 5th, 2012
4:10 pm
civil unrest after the election if ( fill in the blank) wins. which candidate is he talking about?
doesn’t everyone in there have a pass code to leave or enter the compound?
FM Fats
November 5th, 2012
4:10 pm
Street intel and Loganville is the funniest juxtaposition I have seen in a week.
Aquagirl
November 5th, 2012
4:10 pm
In response to someone’s post … the gates are locked to keep the crazies in!
Clearly this strategy has failed.
Garsua
November 5th, 2012
4:10 pm
I lived in GA during Bush V Gore..don’t remember any riots..Why now?? Oops, This racists folks are out there actively engaging in race bating.
Georgia Voter
November 5th, 2012
4:12 pm
Seriously? This kind of thing, as well as some of the comments here, truly make Georgia look seem like a backward, ignorant state. I try to defend Georgia, and tell my friends that we’re not cousin-kissing, racist hillbillies, but nobody believes me.
FM Fats
November 5th, 2012
4:12 pm
There must be some bad brown acid in Woodstock.
WTF?
November 5th, 2012
4:13 pm
Wow I didn’t realize that Woodstock has become such a dangerous ghetto and I live less than 10 miles sout of there! I guess I will lock my car doors even though my car is in a garage, double make sure the garage door is closed, then I gotta make sure my door to get to the garage is locked, Gonna be a lot of nothing going on after the election.
cc
November 5th, 2012
4:13 pm
Tom@3:48 pm:
Dims used the New Black Panther group to suppress votes during the ‘08 election. I believe they have abandoned that in favor of merely voting several times. They also vote dead folks for good measure.
Bernie Matt
November 5th, 2012
4:15 pm
Get off my land!!!
Good call
November 5th, 2012
4:15 pm
You all must not ever go on Twitter. Try searching “riot” and see what comes up. There are plenty of people threatening to do that (and worse) if Obama loses.
John Jowers
November 5th, 2012
4:16 pm
Unlikely there will be riots in Woodstock, but they are fairly common after something as simple as a championship sporting event.
http://www.bet.com/news/sports/photos/2012/04/foul-play-riots-after-sporting-events.html#!040412-sports-riots-disco-demolition-night
slk
November 5th, 2012
4:16 pm
and peolpe wonder why companies won’t move to Ga.?????? Go figure..
Patrick
November 5th, 2012
4:17 pm
@LoganvilleGuy
Civil unrest??? Let’s cut the political correctness. Just like illegal immigration, policies are put in place to keep the good folk safe from all those unlike them. Ya wonder why the South still has problems?
Scott Fresno
November 5th, 2012
4:18 pm
I’m locking my gates, too. When Obama wins, there is no telling what those mad tea partiers will do!
Denise
November 5th, 2012
4:19 pm
This is the NUMBER ONE reason why I am leaving next year…TOO MUCH IGNORANCE. You can lock your gate all day but wait until you get to hell…there won’t be anywhere to run. So sad.
Road Scholar
November 5th, 2012
4:19 pm
Enter your comments here
BigAintheBigA
November 5th, 2012
4:19 pm
This is really a dumb article. My parents live in that community and it’s a nice little place. Minorities are welcome. The head honcho of the HOA sends out group emails all the time to the residents and one of the issues they’ve been debating for several months is whether or not to keep the gate closed. They’re usually open during the day and closed at 6pm This is really a trumped up non story and possibly draws attention to a harmless and vulnerable community of senior citizens. Please get a grip people.
chris
November 5th, 2012
4:20 pm
Will be so glad when the election is over. So tired of people showing there true colors, so to speak. What a bunch of hateful, lousy, southern, bigoted, morons.
Skitty Fritty
November 5th, 2012
4:22 pm
chris:
I love your comment because it shows your true colors. There are no hateful, lousy, bigoted, morons up north?
BS
November 5th, 2012
4:22 pm
Carlton your just another liberal idiot that cant except the truth..! FOX is the only news outlet anymore that I can get the truth. After NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN chose to coverup the Benghazi murders I have no faith in them to report the truth, they are all in bed with Nobama same as you…!Why would you vote for a man that has twenty three million out of work,eight percent unemployment,added six trillion in new debt and ignored the plees for help of the four Americans that were killed in Libya, and has ties to a terrorist “Bill Ayers”.The only people that will vote for him are the blacks,gays,hispanics,unions,food stamp moochers and the stupid,which are you….The only reason there should be rioting is if you idiots put nobama back in office……!
Auntie Christ
November 5th, 2012
4:22 pm
BlueX2
November 5th, 2012
3:47 pm
@LoganvilleGuy – really? That ‘intel’ didn’t come to other police departments, at least not to those of us in the larger agencies.
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You must not be on the mailing list of any wing nut relatives who feel they have to keep you informed of the socialsit/muslim/fascist revolution just around the corner. Look for the emails that say Fwd Fwd Fwd Fwd Fwd “You gotta read this!” or “WARNING! Please read and pass along! “
Road Scholar
November 5th, 2012
4:23 pm
Lock the gates. Load your guns. Sit in the dark.
Oh, and don’t let the hum of the drone over your shoulder alarm you.
I’m more fearful and entertained by the idiot right and their paranoia.
Me
November 5th, 2012
4:25 pm
Yes, please keep blaming the South. This absolutely does not happen anywhere else.
Skitty Fritty
November 5th, 2012
4:26 pm
I wish I lived up North again where everyone hated each other over their last name and not their skin color. An Italian has to hate an Irish man and so forth.
Road Scholar
November 5th, 2012
4:27 pm
BS: Because your man Bush (shrub) left this country in shambles. Remember that? Now try real hard…..
And your moniker befits you and your beliefs!
Bernie Matt
November 5th, 2012
4:27 pm
AJC your lack of moderation is ruining this site for everyone.
Bernie Matt
November 5th, 2012
4:28 pm
You are pathetic.
Skitty Fritty
November 5th, 2012
4:28 pm
Road Scholar:
How long will it take to bring our country back? 10 years, 20 years? Why can’t our President just lead and quit blaming everyone else including Bush?
Skitty Fritty
November 5th, 2012
4:29 pm
By the way, it is Rhode not Road
Optimistic Voter
November 5th, 2012
4:32 pm
This is absolutely too funny! And a complete disconnect from reality.
Bernie Matt
November 5th, 2012
4:32 pm
I will find you you stupid imposter.
RUKiddingMe
November 5th, 2012
4:34 pm
Probably trying to avoid another Trayvon Martin…
southgate
November 5th, 2012
4:34 pm
Loganville Guy, night security at the Waffle House does not actually constitute working in law enforcement.
Falcon Chuck
November 5th, 2012
4:35 pm
Hey Kenneth Smith, exactly what are you “working on?” You referred to Georgia as having not changed. What freedoms do you not have? Do you want jobs for minorities that they are not qualified for? Reparations? Property seizures of non-minorities? Or just jobs? Please explain, there are so many agendas out there nowadays for helping the so-called disadvantaged.
Lynn
November 5th, 2012
4:36 pm
Because everybody is just dying to get into Woodstock. Please.
woody
November 5th, 2012
4:40 pm
Behaving like colonists in the Belgian Congo! Why don’t they just… move somewhere else? Like: Finland.
loretta
November 5th, 2012
4:41 pm
I live near those gates and the community is modest and full of much older adults who have worked hard and are trying to hold on to their way of life. I’m betting most drive very economical cars, save their ziplock bags, watch every penny so they don’t have to burden their children or ask the government for any more than they feel they have earned over their years in the work force. I don’t get it at this point but I would imagine that when I am in their shoes, I might feel a threatened by the ways of the big sprawling, disposable world…cut them some slack and don’t be so judgmental till you have walked a mile in their orthopedic shoes.
deegee
November 5th, 2012
4:42 pm
If Obama is re-elected I won’t be able to come near my 87 year old Fox News loving mother for at least a month.
markie mark
November 5th, 2012
4:44 pm
I think you guys are missing the point here….in most HOA’s the gates are not normally closed for homeowners in the ‘burbs. They are not locking people out, just closing the gates so you have to use your pass key or code to get in…..jeeze people, think before blogging
Tmck01
November 5th, 2012
4:47 pm
Everyone talks about riots if President Obama loses…as if only democrats, minorities or blacks will be the ones causing the havoc. What about if he wins? I’ve heard conversations, read online comments and threats from those of the “whiter” presuasion wage war and violence if he gets back in the White House…KKK cowardly boys have ironed their sheets in preparation for it. Are you kidding me? Look at history and tell me which race is the one more prone to violence against another race all in the name of civil rights…that’s what I thought.
If it walks like a duck........
November 5th, 2012
4:49 pm
Can’t fix stupid
KH
November 5th, 2012
4:49 pm
I am one of the few I suppose that is a little cautious of violence tomorrow night, I have lived here long enough to remember the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict and there WERE shootings and there WAS violence. My dad unfortunately was there at the time where and when the shootings took place and actually had to hole himself up in a locked room at the Marta station during the chaos, he was absolutely terrified. Hopefully it is just being over cautious but how quickly we forget!
GA Voter
November 5th, 2012
4:50 pm
This simply means the access gates will be closed. Only to be opened by residents as they come and go. They won’t be locked out. They are still free to come and go as they please.
ohforfour
November 5th, 2012
4:50 pm
Some of our local folks just aren’t too bright…
Bernie Matt
November 5th, 2012
4:54 pm
HA- HA looks like I win punk! They just yanked your fake a$$ because they traced your IP address. The 99% will always win! OBAMA 4-EVER!
ohforfour
November 5th, 2012
4:54 pm
That’s right….. Rodney King Trial – 2012 Presidential election. Roughly the same thing….
Duh