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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DebDoes
November 5th, 2012
10:02 pm
I’ve bought a supply of white shirts and black pants while I ride my bike around town and my husband is looking for a few more wives……if Romney wins. Now will someone tell me how many grandmothers did Romney really have? I heard it was a lot. Go Vote!
Question Man
November 5th, 2012
10:05 pm
Isn’t it reasonable to worry that Republicans in Woodstock will riot on Tuesday after Mitt loses?
Glen
November 5th, 2012
10:07 pm
Since a Romney victory is all but assured, we’ll soon find out if obama supporters are sore losers or not. I hope not, but based on the left’s rhetoric, I don’t blame anyone for being prepared.
And the comment from safe is right on target. If something does happen, the same folks in the media that are making fun of the folks in Woodstock will lambast the HOAs for not taking prudent steps. Monday morning quarterback suck!
bigdawg1
November 5th, 2012
10:11 pm
“Stupid is as stupid does!”
-Forrest Gump
Renard
November 5th, 2012
10:12 pm
I believe that’s called “sitting ducks”. LOL
Renard
November 5th, 2012
10:12 pm
Enter your comments here
B. Thenet
November 5th, 2012
10:24 pm
I suspect the President of that HOA is a regular commenter at InfoWars or Free Republic. What a joke.
MAXXA
November 5th, 2012
10:24 pm
It’s fun to read all the snarky comments from libs mocking people who would dare take steps to protect themselves from potential threats …all while we are seeing their (lib) brothers and sisters in NJ/NY whining heavily about how little good ole uncle sam has done for their liberal asses a week into the hurricane aftermath.
Snark on oh good, tolerant and all knowing libs. Snark on. Da Gummit will be there to save you. Trust me.
Kris
November 5th, 2012
10:24 pm
It’s a sure bet that with Barrack Obama as commander and chief we will not be fighting (god forbid) any future wars with bayonets and the finest show horses.
Now the HOA in Woodstock that’s a horse of a different color.
Re-elect President OBAMA
MacGirl
November 5th, 2012
10:26 pm
Entrance gates being closed doesn’t mean they are “locked”, preventing cars/residents from driving in. It means you have to have your access card to open the gates. They live in a gated community. Why is it such a big deal? It’s their right to not allow non-residents to roam around. (Gated communities also have to pay to maintain their streets, since the city doesn’t maintain roads once it becomes a private road).
MacGirl
November 5th, 2012
10:26 pm
Entrance gates being closed doesn’t mean they are “locked”, preventing cars/residents from driving in. It means you have to have your access card to open the gates. They live in a gated community. Why is it such a big deal? It’s their right to not allow non-residents to roam around. (Gated communities also have to pay to maintain their streets, since the city doesn’t maintain roads once it becomes a private road).
MacGirl
November 5th, 2012
10:26 pm
Entrance gates being closed doesn’t mean they are “locked”, preventing cars/residents from driving in. It means you have to have your access card to open the gates. They live in a gated community. Why is it such a big deal? It’s their right to not allow non-residents to roam around. (Gated communities also have to pay to maintain their streets, since the city doesn’t maintain roads once it becomes a private road).
tom
November 5th, 2012
10:28 pm
Jim galloway, what a true joke you have become. Apologize some for joe hellfire lowery. Pretend like their will not be civil unrest if obama does not win tomorrow. Who am I kidding, your fatass has always been a complete farcical joke. Your ignorant, pathetic ass would not know journalistic objectivity if it bit you on the nose. Go back to masturbating about obama, you partisan loser.
Fun Size
November 5th, 2012
10:34 pm
OMG!!!!!! I would NEVER want to live anywhere with a HOA, let alone an idiotic one led by Chicken Little himself. I’m over 55 myself but these folks give our demograpic a bad rap….if there is anarchy, nobody is gonna be targeting the Villages of Woodstock LMAO!!!!
bali high
November 5th, 2012
10:35 pm
Scotty! Please beam me up!, No intelligent life here in woodstock, And HURRY!
bali high
November 5th, 2012
10:44 pm
Another liar, Must be Mitts cousin.
Kris
November 5th, 2012
10:55 pm
Sorry Captain I can only beam bali 47% of the way to the planet Kolob….
TechRon
November 5th, 2012
11:10 pm
Silliest nonsense I ever heard of.
TunaMan
November 5th, 2012
11:10 pm
this guy is a Nut !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bull Connor
November 5th, 2012
11:16 pm
Wow…..do we really have to vote, or can we just install Mitt Romney as our next President and Lester Maddux as Vice President They have all the answers……. I think, just ask my best friends Neal Bortz and “Fox & Friends” . I love Woodstock…..Sincerely, Bull Connor & Lester Maddux
Levi
November 5th, 2012
11:30 pm
As long as everyone’s lawn is cut to the proper length………I don’t see a problem.
Dunwoody
November 5th, 2012
11:41 pm
This is stupid. Clearly, the president of the homeowners’ association is just trying to keep his folks from going out and getting into some sort of trouble should the election not go their way. If he can keep the people in this area fenced in, they won’t be about to go out and cause trouble.
rlm
November 5th, 2012
11:43 pm
How funny. This man is wigged out. He needs to watch the movie, ” The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Coming.” Somebody get him a helmet and a riding crop.
Kris
November 5th, 2012
11:58 pm
Woodstock would be a good place for shady deal to hold his dirty deal meetings after all it behind closed locked doors…Ever wonder why deal always does the dirty Dealing late Friday and over the weekend? Where there is political arsonists there is a shady deal happening.
BlueX2
November 6th, 2012
12:03 am
@ Tom – That should be “there” not “their.”
Don Coyote
November 6th, 2012
12:18 am
Whatever you do, make sure you don’t wear your hoodie in Woodstock tomorrow night.
PuddleStank Jankins
November 6th, 2012
1:06 am
Well this is about as ignorant a thing as I’ve come to expect out of Woodstock.
“Better lock yours doors I think there might be some angry black ’round here somewhere Oh’ Lord Jesus save me from the minorities!”
No, yeah, but seriously. I’m going to post flyers of this neighborhood around low-income housing in Atlanta tomorrow morning so all of the peasant folk know where the Obama “My President is Black” Gucci Mane ElectionFest AfterParty is going to go down. It’s gonna be off the hizzle for shizzle am I right?! Regardless of outcome there’ll be free food (I suggest slow cooked pork with a bit of fried chicken and mashed potatoes… That sounds delicious, I can’t wait) and free alcohol. I’ve got the flyers printed already, purple and gold baby.
Ya’ll are going to learn to love your fellow man. Interracial tolerance party!
John
November 6th, 2012
1:17 am
Kinda funny how this gets press yet when blacks threaten violence if Obama loses, the media ignores it. Just like Benghazi.
ga dawg
November 6th, 2012
1:24 am
this is nothing more than moronic paranoia by some tea party nut
Sunny Day
November 6th, 2012
2:05 am
Speaking of voting, you folks up there best vote Mr. Bill Stanley out as president of the HOA asap! NY or some major loony liberal bastion may have trouble but a retirement community in Woodstock puhleeeese!
David
November 6th, 2012
5:53 am
There will only be riots if the DARK age comes to an end. There will definitely be unrest if that happens…how else will those people get their new TV’s and stereos?
Tiredoffools
November 6th, 2012
5:59 am
Well, most HOA presidents are looking for ways to exert their authority, but even if there IS civil unrest, the outlying areas of Atlanta should be safe – that’s why people move to suburbia – to get away from the trash element in the cities. And all of you laughing at the possibility of unrest, I bet YOU won’t be going to downtown Atlanta – or any other big city – when Obama loses tonight.
Michael B
November 6th, 2012
6:04 am
We’ll wake up tomorrow and it’ll still be America, and most likely the world will not end. Angry and frightened old white people will still exist, and moronic rants will continue. Ben Gazzara was a heckuva actor, although Fox seems to want to mislead us about that – and pretty much everythig else. Stay away from the Kool-Aid.
Trouble Solver
November 6th, 2012
6:10 am
I’ll be sitting on my porch with a shot gun…waiting for this unrest.
Julia
November 6th, 2012
6:16 am
Oh for the love of God. this is what happens when people watch Fox News. it has created a nation of idiots. anyone who has something to say about that can just bite me.
Trayvon Hunter
November 6th, 2012
6:18 am
Expect the Trayvons to riot. The good news is they will riot in their own pot.
catlady
November 6th, 2012
6:32 am
Well, now we know where to go to raise h3ll!
Mongo
November 6th, 2012
6:35 am
Smart move.
Michael Marr
November 6th, 2012
6:45 am
Four years of crazy culminates with this. Four years of angry rhetoric will no doubt lead to some crazy shooting up some politically related person or entity that offends them.
On the other hand, I don’t think the gangbangers, drug dealers, killers, robbers and disgruntled teenagers care about who represents us when they shoot up the place. That’s our true day to day problem, not which political party we want to steal from us.
nancy
November 6th, 2012
6:50 am
The Man that is Mitt ROMNEY THE JOB “CREATOR’s” SOLUTION IS
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
By MITT ROMNEY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=1&
nancy
November 6th, 2012
6:50 am
Romney on “Women’s Rights And Choices Based On Religious Conscience”
http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/womenspolitics/a/Where-Does-Mitt-Romney-Stand-On-Womens-Issues_2.htm
In the thick of the race to seek the Republican presidential race nomination, the GOP stands accused of engaging in a “war on women,” something the GOP loudly protests at every turn.
But as Shaw Kenawe points out, the GOP’s “determination to make a legal medical procedure more and more difficult for women, and for the presumptive nominee, Willard [Mitt] Romney, to say that one of the first things he would do as president is withdraw all government funding from Planned Parenthood, an organization that serves the health needs of poor women who are under insured or who have no insurance at all.”
Jennifer Epstein (Politico.com) reminds us of Romney’s public position on women’s rights. ” Romney’s statement that he would ‘get rid’ of Planned Parenthood and his support for a congressional measure to give any employer the chance to opt out of covering any health expense for “moral reasons.”
Marie Diamond also shared insights about Romney’s ambiguity on choice issues, “Although he claimed, ‘I would like to see the Supreme Court return this right to the states,’ he has recently pledged to push for federal abortion restrictions … Romney said he would expand a Bush-era rule that allows doctors to deny women access to contraceptives.”
Igor Volsky wrote an article (2011) about Romney’s intentions if he became president. “In the final days of the Bush administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted a “conscience rule” permitting federally funded health care providers to opt out of health care services they found objectionable.” President Obama reversed the rule that, “could allow practitioners to deny women access to commonly used methods of birth control like ‘oral contraceptives, emergency contraception, and the IUD.’”
Mitt Romney has pledged to restore and strengthen the conscience protection. “We have to allow people to practice their faith and when they have a matter of conscience that they can’t participate in some form of activity which violates their faith, then they should be able to abide by their faith, particularly when there are plenty of opportunities for people to have a service provided.”
nancy
November 6th, 2012
6:51 am
Paul Ryan says RAPE IS ANOTHER FORM OF CONCEPTION!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cat5SyMBSpk
nancy
November 6th, 2012
6:51 am
8 years of mismanagement of the US economy requires 8 years of fixing. The people criticizing Obama for not fixing the economy in 4 years need to stop drinking the Kool-aid and use their common sense. When Obama took office, we were losing 600,000 jobs a MONTH! When Obama took office, banks were going BANKRUPT. When Obama took office, we were spending BILLIONS on a war in IRAQ. When Obama took office, Wall Street was losing BILLIONS of dollars. When Obama took office, the value of our houses were under the prices we BOUGHT them. When Obama took office, BIN LADEN was still threatening the US with MORE terrorism. And when OBAMA took office, the American CAR industry was going BANKRUPT.
What did Obama achieve in 4 years?
We are NO LONGER LOSING 600,000 jobs, but NOW we have growth in JOB CREATION bringing the UNEMPLOYMENT f
rom 10 percent to 8 percent. He added FOUR MILLION JOBS during the 4 years which is a HUGE CHANGE from the 600,000 jobs we were LOSING in 2008.
The Banks are PROFITABLE under his presidency. The AMERICAN CAR industry was SAVED by OBAMA , although ROMNEY said LET THE AMERICAN CAR INDUSTRY GO BANKRUPT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=0
Obama ended the WAR IN IRAQ, AND KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN. The Housing Market is going back to the way it was because of the OBAMA’s presidency. And finally, the HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN NO LONGER REFUSE YOU INSURANCE FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.
And this is only in 4 YEARS. AS I SAID, 8 YEARS OF DAMAGE REQUIRES 8 YEARS OF FIXING.
Willis
November 6th, 2012
6:53 am
With all the guns won’t they be able to defend themselves? Just set up vigilantes at the gates with their assault rifles and prepare for war!
Willis
November 6th, 2012
6:56 am
Why does Romney get a tax deduction for his show horse?
Victor Gagne
November 6th, 2012
7:10 am
This is why “Friends don’t let friends buy a condo”. You have got to be nuts
to ever buy one.
Victor Gagne
November 6th, 2012
7:10 am
This is why “Friends don’t let friends buy a condo”. You have got to be nuts
to ever buy one.
cc
November 6th, 2012
7:15 am
This thread has deteriorated to the point of sheer stupidity with posts from the brainwashed, brain-dead Obama worshippers. Most of you are so programmed (or blindly prejudiced?) that you wouldn’t recognize an original thought if it hit you squarely in the backside. Why not take your mindless drivel and attempt to sell it to people dumber than you are, if you can find any such people?
BigAintheBigA
November 6th, 2012
7:17 am
Repeating myself here but this is a completely bogus and actually irresponsible story. I have relatives that live in that community and it’s nothing like it’s being portrayed. The leaving the gates closed issue has been a popular topic for the community of SENIORS for some months now. Nothing to do with the election. Rummy yellow journalism at it’s finest and quite probably more trouble than it’s worth. Just scare the devil out of a bunch of harmless old folks why don’t you.
Ga Oldtimer
November 6th, 2012
7:17 am
…Unfortunately, all of you should direct your animosity towards the AJC, for irresponsibly running this story to begin with…….. SHAME ON YOU AJC, and your TWO-BIT editorial crew….