How quickly they forget, the next demonstration in Washington D.C. there might be “torches and pitch forks”!!!
Torches and pitchforks might be excellent symbolism. I was thinking during Beck’s affair that it might be very helpful to march. March without permits from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol, then surround the capitol with a few hundred thousand people, demand change, and refuse to leave until change is enacted.
Tell people to bring food. I don’t know what would be done about bathrooms. Plan to stay a week, a month. Operate the demonstration in shifts - go to your hotel or home to shower and shave and then come back. Screw work. Easy for me to say.
Yes, it would be illegal, and it could be bloody. It would definitely be a “leave the kids at home” sort of event. But, do you think they would hear us THEN?