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“Turner then has the audacity to claim phone calls, emails and faxes don't count as active when those methods are one of many important methods to let Congress critters know we are becoming active.”
Congress doesn't seem to care one whit about phone calls, letters and emails. The outcry against every one of the “Obama” actions has been overwhelmingly against, and they have ignored the will of the people. Congress considers itself “above the people” and they are out of control. They have control of the money, media and apparently have bought and paid for the judiciary. Nothing less could explain how Obama can Unconstitutionally seize assets of private citizens and not one single lawsuit or legal action sees light of day. With the manipulation of Acorn of the census and the voter fraud we will never again see an honest election result in this country. So yes, Red Dawn has come and went without any shots fired. It's Red Afternoon now and I'm not seeing anything but apathy. While Congress conspires to take control of every aspect of our lives, the media's non stop focus is on “Michael Jackson”. The U.S. has been raped and pillaged during the last 6 months, and the majority does not even know it. But they probably know every detail of “American Idol” or the details of every other stupid “reality” show. They won't care until the utilities are shut off either due to the tremendous rise in costs or because they no longer have jobs.
Tea parties are going to continue to be ignored, no matter how loud and large they become. They will be infiltrated, they will be dismissed as the underhanded “organized” tricks of (fill in the blank) right wing extremists. And we will be ignored until we surround Washington with tens of millions.

Congress doesn't seem to care one whit about phone calls, letters and emails.

I couldn't disagree more. The vote was close precisely because of phone calls, emails and faxes. It would have been far worse had not people flooded Congress with various form of communication. Their only shortcoming is it that Congress critters weren't overwhelmed for a long enough period of time. It came primarily only 24 hours before the day of the vote. People should have been flooding Congress with these forms of communication for several days straight. The tea parties and other form of protests are also effective. All methods to express our outrage need to be conducted simultaneously for a long period of time to be effective. Summarily dismissing anyone form of expression only weakens the cause.

Tea parties are going to continue to be ignored, no matter how loud and large they become.

So we shouldn't make phone calls, send faxes or emails or conduct tea parties. That practically eliminates any method to convey our outrage. It's tantamount to silence. That's exactly what socialists desire. Every time an idea is posted on FR there is always people who shoot it down by falsely claiming it won't work because it will be ignored.

And we will be ignored until we surround Washington with tens of millions.
I agree with a massive march as it is one of many methods that can be used. You are describing a tea party. That can be accomplished with the tea party scheduled for September 9-12.

Every time an idea is posted to move against socialism on FR there are always people who shoot it down by falsely claiming it won't work because it will be ignored. Doing so is self defeating. No one method by itself will work but the totally of implementing all methods together for a protracted period of time will be effective.