[DJ Frisat]

I also share the frustration that you express.

I attended a tea party, despite my feeling that it allowed the media, in what scant coverage they deigned give to them, to mischaracterize them as as tax protests, ala the original Boston tea party. This trivialized the issues, as the enormous taxes that are the inevitable outcome of Obamatization have not yet hit us. Therefore, it was easy to just fob us off as greedy 'rich folk' who wanted to hang onto our money.

My feeling was that something huge was needed, not a series of small, localized protests that the media could ignore.

They could not ignore our shutting down Washington. We need to converge on there en masse and literally clog the Beltway, effectively paralyzing the city for a day.

Then, we follow up with a demonstration.

[erkyl]

Shutting down Washington’s streets with masses of humanity in much the same way Iranians shut down Tehran would work. We just don’t have the committed humanity willing to do it. It’s like that old story of the frog in the pot of boiling water — most of America is asleep and won’t realize that we’re ‘cooked’ until it’s too late.