Posted on 01/26/2009 2:09:19 PM PST by Orange1998
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/732-TEA-PARTY-February-1st.html
So long as we have an inauguration drawing this sort of crowd and not a protest about our government blowing $700 billion of our dollars so that The Pigmen of Wall Street can continue to rob our nation blind, then saddle us with the bill when their bets go bad, we will see no solution.
I cannot take credit for the idea floated on the forum, but I do like it.
It is time for We The People to send a strong message to Washington DC - no more. No more loading our children and grandchildren with debt. No more bailing out speculators and bankers who made bets they knew were unsafe at the time. No more bailing out people who came to Congress to demand the removal of leverage limits, got what they asked for, then blew themselves up with the very leverage they demanded to be able to use.
No more.
Therefore, on February 1st, which is more than enough time for Barack Obama to be seated in his chair in the West Wing, I am recommending an act of peaceful, lawful and yet unmistakable protest.
That is, to mail President Obama one teabag. Nothing dangerous, nothing illegal - just one teabag.
Send one to your Congressman and one to each Senator.
Later, when the weather is a bit warmer and fountains are running water (rather than frozen!) this sort of protest can be repeated with LOOSE tea in select cities.
But for now, let's start with the symbolism, to be repeated each and every time our government votes or intends to do something similarly stupid - which I presume will include Obama's "stimulus" package.
If we all mail our teabags on February 1st, it will send a strong message to Washington. Include a copy of this Ticker, another Ticker related to the many bailouts (pick one!) or write your own letter condemning the fraud and abuse in our banking and financial system - with the teabag being your symbolic refusal to quietly pay for it.
Pass it around the blogs and email lists - its a bag of tea folks, and the obvious parallel to the Boston Tea Party of old should be instantly obvious to everyone who receives it.
I agree. Voting on Nov 2 is more practical.
I guess you guys missed the movie “V”.
No, I saw it, complete liberal trash, and yes, the guy was a terrorist. Either way, promoting a terrorist (or an Internet joke) isn’t going to help our side in any way.
Perfect!!!
Thanks for the picture, I love it! LOL....
Please pardon me.
I humbly apologize for any attempt I may have made to inject humor into the thread.
(Mustering stern demeanor (;^(
Look, I live in a town of less than 600 people. We have had DSL for 8-9 years. I had wireless high speed internet for a couple of years before that.
There is no News left in print. AP is pure propaganda, not news. The networks are worse.
Some of the sheeple do not know the difference, but most thinking people know.
Even in the middle of the “Big Nothing” in central Texas IT technology is well established.
“It is not Medium, but Content that defines News!”
Donate as much as possible to non-profit, tax deductible organizations that support your causes as possible. Also, maximize every pre-tax savings option as possible, such as 401k programs. This way, your money goes to your own causes or to your own savings. They are short term ways to legally tax protest. Also, give to candidates who support your sides on the issues and let candidates or congressmen who don't support your side know what donations they have lost (same to the RNC or other political parties.)
In addition, you can also hit the companies that beg for bailouts. Let them know (GM, Ford, Chrysler for example) that you will not purchase any products from them if they continue to ask for bailouts. Change your bank to one that has not been bailed out (many local banks, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Unions all for example) have not begged for bailouts.
I wouldn’t even pee on them if their pants were on fire, much less waste good tea and the price of postage.
No prob... Unfortunately, some actually are serious about using his image (thus my reaction), they just don’t get it.. some don’t get that Fawkes is an Internet joke for an ‘epic fail’.
From Wiki:
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, the name in which he was indicted, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England that planned the Gunpowder Plot.
The plot’s aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside.
“Look, I live in a town of less than 600 people. We have had DSL for 8-9 years. I had wireless high speed internet for a couple of years before that.”
So? How many are watching porn, utube, and the usual nonsense. They’re sure as heck not reading FR, are they?
You’re singing to a choir....and the choir isn’t electing the likes of Obama. If you don’t get this yet you never will.
Take care.
Look him up in 4Chan’s encyclopedia dramatica if you want to know how he has become a joke.
You don’t have to read FR to know when you are being lied to by the MSM.
Even some of the sheeple know.
Best regards,
Texas Fossil
Was 4Chan’s where Sarah Palin’s e-mail (sort of) hacker posted his stuff?
That kid, David Kernell.
I thought it was a hackers forum.
It is, but they are a different kind of hacker, they call themselves performance artists.. they don’t hack to steal money for example, they hack to mock people or just cause chaos. That was the main reason folks knew the Palin hacker who was mouthing off over there wasn’t an actual 4channer but tried to blame them, wasn’t their style.
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