Posted on 02/26/2009 7:04:22 AM PST by Jenny Hatch
Yes, absolutely. Not a doubt in my mind. Even half of “everybody” would scare the L.S. out of the looters who govern us.
Where in Pittsburgh will it actually be? Is it Point State Park or Market Square? Both?
Can’t wait for the Nazis to show up and fine us for littering in the river.
You makes your choices, based upon information at the time.
Although if only a handful of people show up for these parties, posting photos of that may do more harm than good... shots of two or three dozen people throwing tea bags into a river will just be used as evidence that the attempt to start a “revolutionary” movement is a general bust.
If this was a real crisis, a real revolution, folks would be there whether it was a workday or not. Real revolutions don’t wait on whether the boss will give the revolutionaries the time off.
You are right. This will go on deft ears.
hey can we throe those $1000.00 garbage cans in the river??
Excellent!
It was meant to hit tax proceeds. Today's equivalent might be tobacco or liquor.
"falling on deft ears?" Is that correct? I googled it and got lots of people using the same spelling. Google also asked, "Did you mean: "falling on deaf ears" Top 2 results shown"
So, educate me. I've always just taken it for granite (LOL) that it was "deaf ears."
Thanks for the replies and the links! I’ll pass them along to friends and co-workers.
It seemed a bit weird because Point State and Market Square are totally different areas of the city and with something of this potential magnitude, organization is key.
We all need to do it April 15 (Wednesday), 2009. But working people can’t take off work this needs to this on holiday or weekend.
If Obama keep taxing the rich we will all be able come anytime because our jobs will be gone. Leave my RICH BOSS alone he give me a job so I can fed my family. Old saying did you ever ask poor man for job?????
It's too long until the next election for casual protests to make a bit of difference. The assumption will be that everyone will forget a few people standing outside with signs . . . and they'll be right.
Either a) you've got to literally fill the Mall from corner to corner with protesters, which isn't going to happen, or b) you've got to come up with the right meme and the right symbolic packaging for the initial protest to send ripples through society at large.
Since b) is the only real option, instead of focusing on a description that sounds like just another boring press release, we need to concentrate on having a few good soundbites (ala, "No taxation without representation," from a bygone era) combined with some powerful imagery which could catch on. And we need to keep it up until the meme does sink in.
I like the idea of protesters throwing dollar bills onto bonfires, personally. Like burning bras and flags, it's a repeatable demonstration that is technically illegal but unlikely to bring about any serious prosecution--and if it did, the resulting court case would just give us more visibility. Further, someone could maintain a website that kept track of every dollar burned vs. every dollar burned by Congress. If we started getting up into tens of thousands of dollars but the site still showed that this was only .00001% of what Congress has wasted, that might actually click with people.
Another idea would be to dress up and mask as Congressmen and dump a boatload of Monopoly money, or fliers disguised as bills, into Boston Harbor. That one's not repeatable, however, and is a lot riskier in terms of legal repercussions.
No matter what is done, it has to be repeatable and it has to be catchy . . . something that would make for great videos on YouTube and YTMND.
Further, we need to forget about simply changing Congress' mind, and concentrate on pulling state governments into the anti-Washington sentiment which is already catching on. Enable the governors and state legislatures to tell the fed what to go do with itself by getting the voters behind the idea.
But please, people, forget the one-time, forgettable and boring "standing around with signs" routine. I put in my time doing that during the Clinton era. He still served out two terms.
Shalom.
Then make a sign that says something like “There’d be more here, but they are at work, to pay their taxes to support the deadbeats.”
There we differ. Most can. It's a sacrifice; they'd go without a day's pay; but they can. I say to them, you work until April 23 (Tax Freedom Day) for the govt already, just give up one more day for the effort to regain freedom.
(Tax Freedom Day: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/)
I agree with you. This is the first step. This is typical of an American response, a symbolic action. I see no problem with that at all. We are a peace-loving nation. We only get violent when that’s the last option. So we’re now showing our displeasure. It’s a good place to begin.
“Although if only a handful of people show up for these parties, posting photos of that may do more harm than good... shots of two or three dozen people throwing tea bags into a river will just be used as evidence that the attempt to start a “revolutionary” movement is a general bust.”
I am attending the protest in Tulsa, OK at Veterans Park 11-1pm tomorrow! We have a list of signs to be carried agreed by all over the country:
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