Posted on 02/28/2009 7:31:52 AM PST by genetic homophobe
“These are not the liberal 40 something imps who blog threats all of the time, living in their mom’s basement with a laptop and a stack of pornos, these will be people who lose everything, their hopes and dreams.”
RIGHT ON 100%!!!
OH DO I AGREE WITH YOU!!!!
I think they look at us and just plain laugh their asses off!
Elections in 2010 are like saying, “You just wait you, you, you...you just wait until I tell my mother on you. You just wait.”
How pathetic we are.
I beg to differ. Rick Santelli performed what can only be described as a "hysterical rant" on live television, and look what happened. Tea parties sprang up overnight across the nation.
Hysteria is precisely the appropriate response to what the Socialists are doing to us, and the very foundations of our republic. When on earth are we supposed to get agitated? When the Obot storm troopers are breaking our doors down?
Like it or not, to be perceived as a threat you need LARGE NUMBERS of people to line up behind you.
On that, we agree. Don't worry. They will come.
I drove 70 miles one way last night in a driving rain storm to attend a Tea Party planning session. That is nowhere near enough effort and we have just begun.
I appreciate your commitment to doing what's needed to get the ball rolling. As you say, "we have just begun." This is only the beginning. This movement will grow, as the pain of Obama's SwindleUs bill arrives in our homes.
The "righteous anger" I spoke of before will materialize amongst the people, without any rabble-rousing. Direct action and resistance will become commonplace and spontaneous, all without the need of major organizational effort.
There is "Stimulus", and there is "Response".
Pelosi, Reid, and Obama have provided the stimulus, and we will provide the response.
I’ve been knocking around most of the world for the last 30+ years and otherwise for more than a half-century and some more.
I’ve learned something that a few “learned” contributors to this post apparently have not, you need to listen carefully to others, how they say may be covering up what they say that you should be very interested in.
Paragraphs would be best, yes. The apparent frustration and bias to action is apparent though. The guts to get up and do instead of talk is commendable. The writer made a decision and acted on it, he made his voice against WRONG heard.
I reject diversity training but I celebrate all people who have the guts and gumption to do things and respect all who respect others.
This kind of ridicule isn’t needed here, we all hang or we hang together.
You wrote:
“This will not be solved by tea parties or ballots. I don’t know how we’re going to stop it, and I’m not saying don’t have Tea Parties, but realistically folks, that’ll never do it.”
You post this “rant”, which is “against” everything, but offers not the first solution. Come back when you have a constructive idea or three, and clean it up a bit. It is difficult to take someone seriously when they present with such limited word usage and writing skills.
The writer owes an apology.
The only way to make any kind of impact is to do this on a large-scale level. (One big one in Chicago or DC. Planned WELL in advance so people can make arrangements.) That said, I don’t have great hope that the government will listen. It’s not sad or irrelevant to speak out about what is absolutely reprehensible “governing”. It’s sad and irrelevant to sit on our buts and let it happen, with no fight at all.
Good luck, my friend, for all our sakes. We are brothers at heart for what we are trying to do. It is a just cause.
Add to this the possibility of China having Eminent Domain Rights securing our debt to them.
Absolutely. I'm "puttin' 'er there", partner.
They can have my plywood when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
“Signs made of Plywood will mostly be taken away from you as they could be used as weapons.”
Other good points to remember at these tea parties:
No actual dumping of tea into rivers or ponds which would be against the law as per RCW 70.231.
Tea bags or other signs of protest left on a public property (such as the Capitol steps) will be construed as littering and subject to a fine.
Spray paint should be water based with no solvents.
Noise ordinances must be strictly adheared to or all participants are subject to fines.
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Actually - I thought the same thing about the plywood sign (isn’t that illegal?), and then thought of all these other lame things that they will use against us. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed.
And I love the plywood sign WITH the story. I can just see GH getting mad at the guys on the radio, rummaging around for that plywood muttering “Oh yeah? I’ll show them those *^&%$# *&*(&65.” The writing on the wood shows the rage and the hurried passion.
Our little grass roots efforts will never come close to the massive, well funded ACORN movement. Conservatives are just different. They have carreers, obligations, and family to tend to, which enables the ACORNers to ride on their backs like the rest of the country. Now that ACORN is in the White House, we’re in trouble.
We don’t act like liberals, so we can’t beat them at their own game. They knew how to beat us using our rule book. They know how to overload a system and collapse it using the rules of the system. We can’t just flip it around an beat them that way. They don’t abide by any rules. I hope we can make it out of this as one country, but I fear that’s impossible. When they finish fully exploiting this crisis, and things are at their worst (REAL hunger, TOTAL economy collapse), at some point it’ll be marshall law. If you haven’t implemented your family plan by then, may God have mercy. I’m afraid when this whole thing goes, it’ll happen fast.
I get it that you’re a political expert, and we can’t quite understand the way this should be done politically, and no offense...we’re not in your way. Knock yourself out. If you thing there’s a grass roots political solution to this, I’m on your team. I’ll help any way I can. But I think you’re delusional. You don’t get how bad this is. You think the socialists are politically winning for the time being. My friend, we’ve been voting for socialist Republicans while gagging for years. The socialists aren’t winning. The socialists just handed the whole thing to radical communists. They are firmly in power right now, and will never allow you to vote them out.
Your brand of “activism” will never be a freckle on the ass of ACORN activism. The Marxist/Lenenist/radical communists who’ve finally gained total power have forgotten far more than you’ll ever know about political activism. Try this. Go into a public school and sit in on a kindergarden class. Watch how the leftists do it. They’ll be laughing at your grassroots activism for a long time.
I went there... Afterwords I scrubbed and I scrubbed, but...they just don't make water hot enough!
1: Allow plenty of lead time , 2 mo. minimum.
2. Schedar the event for a weekend.
3. Dont rely on the internet alone, use off mainstreet methods to get the word out as well ie. Word of mouth, phone trees, local newsletters, flyers, posters, sings
4. try to schedule speakers, and entertainment well ahead of time.
5.Don't depend on others to get the word out. when you hear about an event call everyone you know often, call local talk shows, talk to people in the supermarket, spend some of your own time and money to print and place flyers and signs.
I am not an expert but I have some small experience with promotions. I think if we used some of these suggestions that the next events might surprise them.
Humbly standing man (long time lurker)
Only in the movies and 19th century dime novels.
In the real world people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Obama fool the masses long enough to get control of the military and then the game is over. The difference in the US will be that the large majority of military personnel below the rank of politically obligated generals and admirals probably won't be on the tyrant's side when push comes to shove, and if he can't keep the military under his thumb we should have a fair chance of eventually correcting the near-fatal mistake made last November by 54% of the American voters
I still maintain that Obama is not a native born American as required by the Constitution, and is therefore not a legitimate President. If the Supremes would stop foisting unconstitutional laws off on the people long enough to try doing their job of protecting Constitutional government for once they would have this insolent imposter thrown out of the Oval Office before sunup tomorrow.
I was there. I found myself in more danger from the flag wavers than his plywood sign.
For anyone reading this, I witnessed his passion for this country. When (not if) the crap hits the fan, I'd be proud to stand beside him.
Here here,
He was an inspiration and I applaud him!!!
As the crowds get large there will be a police presence, and police are not going to allow people with any heavy signs.
The crowds will get larger, this program will spread a little more each day as more and more people awake to the screwing this clown is laying on us.
I agree, and while I was hit with 3 flags and 0 plywood signs, I worry more about how they will take the right to wave a flag away then carry a plywood sign.
How soon do the "police" control what can be displayed ?
The point I was trying to make was, it's not the symbol, but who is carrying it, and how respectful of others they are,even if they are on your side.
One national or international crisis and at will definitely be too late.
Do you think they are above this?
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